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Top 21 Virtual Event Ideas for Your Next Online Event

AccelEvents

Just like games, contests are virtual event ideas that can get people talking. Maybe the cutest pet contest or something event/topic-focused that does not require attendees to be on site. . Maybe the cutest pet contest or something event/topic-focused that does not require attendees to be on site. . In fact, 81.8%

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How to Use Social Media to Cultivate Donor Relationships

Achieve

Create connections between your site and social profiles. Incentivize engagement by hosting a giveaway or other fun contest just for new followers on your platform of choice. Make sure to mention the contest in your regular emails and newsletters so your entire mailing list will know about it. to start polls or Q&As.

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Book Giveaway: Facebook Marketing for Dummies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are third-party developers who sell apps for business purposes, some offer freebies: Wildfire , Parachure , Involver , Buddy Media , and Tab Site. Survey Apps: Doing polls and quick surveys are great ways to engage your audience and there are apps for that. Poll Daddy Polls does simple polls (yes / no, three choices).

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When Words Get in the Way (Like "Virtual Volunteering")

Tech Soup

The term "virtual volunteering" is a contested term. Some people define oh-so-strictly: remote volunteers who never come on-site at an organization, and all of their service is conducted online. So I went through the workshop and then, at the end, asked the question again. This time: Yes: 58% No: 42%.

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Measuring Your Crowdsourcing Efforts by Aliza Sherman

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some creative work is crowdsourced in the form of creative or design contests while others are produced by interactive agencies that gather and vet online communities of designers, artists and producers to be part of a creative development process. Measuring Input. Measuring Input can be a little more nebulous.

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How to Win the Game of Facebook Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

Facebook fundraising tools are designed to keep people on the site rather than send them to a crowdfunding platform or other website. Host polls and contests to engage your audience. And they’re scrolling through Facebook every day anyway. To sweeten the incentive, Facebook charges no fees. So what’s the catch?

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6 Fundraising Platforms That Have Disrupted Charitable Giving Forever

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Eager to make my point, I polled my fellow Gen-Xers on which fundraising platforms have had the most disruptive impact on charitable giving since 2000. Today, DonorsChoose.org is the go-to site for alternative sources of funding for the classroom. Disruptive Model: Contest Crowdfunding. Disruptive Model: Project Crowdfunding.