Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

So I installed this app and set up a poll “Do you think polls increase engagement? Yes or No?&# Of the 43 people who took the poll, 89% said yes. Tags: Experimentation Tips Tools and Tactics Training Design Facebook. This is a fairly small staff, with limited resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. Tagged with a footnote Marnie Webb notes "What do you think of the survey O'Reilly points to? Found via this post tagged nptech by Meghan. " I agree.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

At level three, the visitor is polled about the issue and sees her result compared to the cumulative aggregate. At level five, the visitors start discussing the issue together. When you take a poll alone, there’s no suspense about how you voted. Tags: exhibition design participatory museum interactives. with the issue.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Earlier this week on Frogloop we discussed how four grassroots campaigns (1Sky, Clean Energy Works, the Energy Action Coalition and Focus the Nation) tried to build the Climate Network an unprecedented online community platform. We discussed our vision, our plan of action, what went wrong and how we tried to correct it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2017

Icebreakers are discussion questions or activities used to help participants relax. This works for a small group of 12 or less. (If you have a larger group, you can use an online polling app like Slido that allows participants to use their cells to share their answers and automatically generates a word cloud.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2012

Hanna shared a wonderful story about the evolution of grist.org’s use of Twitter chats, including #hipsterfarmerbands tag which started as tweets about a story about young farmers and sustainable agricultural practices. Sign up here to receive a notification when it is published). 3. An opportunity to Process and Apply.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

The back-channel had a poll feature and one of the questions about change agents inside of nonprofits. We discussed the findings of some recent studies about nonprofits and social media adoption. Tags: nten. She recommended a book from the HR perspective called Brand Inside Essentials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

We had an interesting discussion between those who had comfort and those who did not. Since the morning keynote was a session on nonprofit leadership by two of the co-authors of Working Across Generations , Frances Kunreuther and Helen Kim , while they were lined up, I did a quick poll by generation.

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Forum One

MAY 7, 2009

using the chat window, responding to a poll, writing names on a whiteboard, and of course speaking via a teleconference or VOIP. Use the technology available to vary activity with video or slides, interactive polling, application sharing or whiteboard. Tags: Collaboration. Some ways for users to participate are: raising their ?hands?,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2005

There's a poll on the nptech community site to vote for a name based on the discussions so far. If you'd like to cast a vote, here's the link to the poll. Tag: nptech If you're scratching your head and asking, nptech community? what's that. read Marnie Webb's description for context. I like two out of the five.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Most directors are not accustomed to attaching a firm price tag to their organization's activities, preferring to adopt an attitude of "donate what you can." Determine your "pricing" strategy. In many ways, the fundraising response acts as a vote on the credibility and image of your entire organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

When people verbally discuss a topic in a meeting room together without being mediated through a video platform like zoom which has a delay are at an advantage compared to people using a video platform. We think of meeting facilitation as a real-time or synchronous activity where a group of people exchange ideas or discuss topics.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 15, 2009

The example Russ and I discussed related to the use of a wiki to capture organizational knowledge. He can poll users frequently to get them to send him any material that would be apporpriate for inclusion. Tags: nptech socialmedia training. This barrier can be reduced by "priming the pump."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

It integrates online community discussion forums, structured learning like webinars, content, with participants' social profiles. However, some webinar platforms have a real-time polling feature, the virtual equivalent of asking people to raise their hands if. However, the platform offers some excellent social features.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

One of the questions that came up during a discussion of concerns at the beginning of the day, was "We have 5,000 friends on Facebook, now what? Promote cross-platform: FB, LI, Twitter, email>blog>online poll/petition >offline events. Tags: network effectiveness. I suggest a tweetup. chloevdc @ kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

In workshops, it is important to have a full group discussion about people's concerns about social media and a discussion about organizational readiness. When they are lined up by comfort level, I have been doing a quick poll to see where generations appear along the line. Tags: training materials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

We did mostly full room discussion, but I broke it up with some moving around exercises. 1) Audience Stand Up Poll: Whenever I talk about social media and nonprofits, we talk about audience. This breaks up the full room discussion format a bit. Then have full room discussion and have them share "Three Things About Us".

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Discussion Groups : Consider adding a discussion board to your site. House Network : Bite off the whole enchilada an socially-enable your site fully by supporting visitor profiles, friending, activity feeds, discussion, ratings and reviews, etc. Turn on commenting to stimulate group dialog around your posts. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I didn't know anything about UNIX, discussion forums, email, or any of the technology used. If I'm doing a Webinar, I might use the poll feature and do my research in real time. Tags: training materials. My job was the network weaver. And, many of our community members were just learning too. .

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Discovering that a topic has been discussed online isn't difficult, but in the business world these discussions happen often enough that the real-time search has to be combined with rapid text, sentiment or conceptual analysis. There would be no reason for Google to poll websites for changes over and over again.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

Nonprofits vanity urls are coming, they're discussing. Also, I had major brain blip and forgot the name of the polling app that they mentioned. Tags: facebook. It is useful to have a group for more intimate conversations, where a page is more public You can have both. Groups are good for small scale organizing.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

According to a recent poll by the Association of Fundraising Professionals, two-thirds of nonprofits are using social media, and 39% of respondents said they feel these tools are important for reaching the greatest number of donors. Tags: NPTech NTEN. By Bob Alves, President and CEO, Advanced Solutions International.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2009

Sometimes that's all you need - making a donation, sending petitions, affecting website ratings, flooding online polls, etc. I entirely share the author's frustration with "tech for social change" discussions that fawn over the technology and don't engage on the level of strategic change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

The survey polled 978 nonprofit professionals about their organizations’ use of commercial social networking sites (e.g. What isn't being discussed or described, except in self-organized pockets of the social web is the overlap between communities and networks. Tags: online communities social media research snippets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. I think the NpTech tag helps provides a needle and thread to sew these patches together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

tags: arts ). The morning agenda was the full group - presentation and demonstration with lots of opportunity for discussion. In between sections, I asked people to do a standing poll. Crash Course: Social Media for Arts People View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. The topics covered included: ???

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

I’ll be moderating today’s discussion, as always. . I have a poll question for you. I’m going to end the poll, if that’s all right. So I’m going to ask you a couple of questions, and, Steven, it’s time to bring the other poll up. I’m so glad all of you are here. . Here we go.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

First, my preferred method of instruction is to be more interactive and facilitate discussion. Note to self, look for a 2-3 minute video about one of the steps) The poll feature was great way to engage people and I wish I had thought though some more of those to incorporate along the way. These are shorter sessions focused on tagging.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 25, 2010

You might think that would be sufficient effort to engage the students, but a quick informal poll suggests otherwise. There's an energy in that space that invites a bit more discussion of the artwork, even if it might sometimes be a discussion about how difficult it is to get a good look at the top paintings.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Right now, your team is having to adhere to social distancing regulations, interrupting your ability to meet in-person on a regular basis to discuss your initiatives. Meetings are when your board members collaborate to discuss your organization’s strategic moves. Discuss important topics and make timely decisions using polling tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

What is your sense of how these social networking tools, tagging, blogs and the like ??? I blogged a discussion on web2.0 I'm too shy to do an online poll. " Later, her work brought her to Mali, where she advised on participatory methods. are they relevant to the people you work with in developing countries? Technology.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 21, 2008

They start by discussing the ROI of word-of-mouth recommendations. While many museums are still far from seamless technology-based ways to allow visitors to rate exhibits real-time while in the museum, there are some no-tech ways to do this using post-its or penny polls. In other words, find your fans, and empower them to sell for you.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

I’m Steven over at Bloomerang, and I’ll be moderating today’s discussion as always. . I’m going to be kicking things off in a couple minutes with some awesome polls to get to know you better. And I’m going to start off by doing some polls, and I’m going to launch this poll right now.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

We’ll discuss how to produce a podcasts using free tools and from scratch, including pre-production, recording, editing, processing, and rendering. Poll your constituency to see what they are already listening to to find themes that are appealing etc. ID3 tags - can use itunes for this, drag album art and file over.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

Each tweet is hand-crafted and relevant to our audience, something we checked by asking our followers want sort of information they wanted from us in a poll. Tags: twitter. Being proactive rules out using RSS feeds to populate our Twitter feed.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Interactive tools for donations, event registration, email sign-up, polls and surveys, contacting your legislator, commenting on blogs, linking to social media -- these have all been around for a while. Tags: CMS Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN Planning steve backman Web Sites.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2022

Along the way, people can receive updates, give feedback, share information beyond the platforms, and integrate offline and online discussions. They make decision-making more transparent by documenting and sharing key information and discussions online, in usable formats. After sinking hours into this work, staff decided not to bother.

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