Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2012

I recently talked with a group of folks who work in education as part of our School's Out for Summer series. Our focus was Facebook. With more than 900 million users, Facebook is the top social media site on the planet. That said, simply creating a Facebook page isn't enough. How do you do that?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 30, 2009

Below are the 11 TwtPoll results that I think are the most telling: 1) Is your nonprofit planning on utilizing mobile technology in 2010 (live Tweeting, group texting, iPhone Apps, launching a mobile site)? [ [link] ]. 39% Yes… it’s in the works. 5% A social networking site (like Facebook). 25% Facebook.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

A whopping 86% of nonprofits say they have a presence on Facebook or another social media site according to the 2010 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report. . This socially-sourced crowd spends upwards of 15 minutes per day, every day , on social media sites, 3 to 7 times more than on any other major web property. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 24, 2010

This will change quickly as you build your communities on social media sites. At the beginning of each of my webinars, I poll my attendees: “Where did you first find out about this webinar?&# Every so often a supporter will testify to your good work via a wall or blog comment. e-Newsletter Subscribers. Volunteers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

While it’s impossible to track these donations unless you poll your online donors, the more your nonprofit utilizes social media to build your online brand and your e-newsletter list, the more likely potential online donors are to discover your nonprofit—and your nonprofit’s “Donate Now” landing page. Monitor Your Charity Ratings and Reviews.

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Care2

JULY 12, 2013

Facebook, Twitter, and icons for other social networks show up on packages in the grocery store, on store windows, and on billboards everywhere. Here are some tips for Facebook that could make your life a little bit easier. Tip # 5) Share Poll Quesitons. You can ask your audience questions and add response options to the poll.

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Care2

AUGUST 3, 2012

As political campaigns and nonprofits gear up for the election cycle, I thought I would share this infographic that attempts to map the politics of social media properties like Facebook and websites like Wikipedia. The most conservative sites were Farmville, Ebay, and Paypal However, Angry Birds users have low political engagement.

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AccelEvents

JULY 23, 2021

Be sure to start your event marketing plan well ahead of time so that you can implement all of your event promotion tactics and work through potential contingencies. . A webpage can also help you start planting seeds and increasing value as soon as visitors land on the site. Map Out Event Marketing Goals and Event Plan.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 8, 2022

When used intentionally, social media can work well as an avenue for increasing. Create connections between your site and social profiles. Create connections between your site and social profiles. Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok (for younger supporters) are all platforms that are designed for sharing photos and videos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Consider these two sample audiences: “Canadian women” or “18 to 30-year-old women in BC or Alberta who live in cities with more than 100,000 people” Of course, most NGOs can’t afford to hire the kind of market researchers you’d need to produce a sophisticated work-up of who your core audience is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

I've also added the pink ribbon to my Facebook profile. From last week's Web2.04Dev Conference is a snap poll " What does Web2.0 " -- the poll was done with mp3 files and so you can hear their voices. The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. mean for you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2012

Roots of Change is a fairly small nonprofit, while Danielle’s job is full time, she estimates that only 15% of her time is allocated for social media. She juggles tweeting and Facebook with other communications tasks such as managing the web site and other communications channels. Ag Grantees Twitter Webinar.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Repeat what works – Run successful ads repeatedly until they stop selling. Repeat what works – Keep using effective stories, calls to action, and emotional appeals. A great tool to see how different companies make their product the hero is by looking through swipe files curated by sites like [link].

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Tech Soup

MARCH 13, 2014

Some people define oh-so-strictly: remote volunteers who never come on-site at an organization, and all of their service is conducted online. They cause people who are working with volunteers online in some way to say, "Oh, I'm not engaged in virtual volunteering - the volunteers I work with are real!"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2012

Remember last September when Facebook announced all those changes to individual profiles, including the timeline? One of the changes was that your friends and fans can do more than “Like” or “Comment” on Facebook. ” You can read more about how it works from the Facebook developer notes.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2011

Here are the results of one of the live polls conducted during the webinar: Facebook. As we can see, the most widely used social media site is Facebook, and in last, blogs. Although smaller than Facebook, how information spreads through the site allows a very large and diverse group of people to see your message.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 17, 2017

There are templates for specific social media sites — such as Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest — as well as a general template. They have a basic template that allows you to upload an image, add some text and choose which social media sites you want the post to appear on and when. WordPress Themes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Two grantees that work on Children’s Healthcare at the national level and have experience using social media as part of an integrated campaign were co-presenters. During the Webinar, I polled the group’s general approach. The focus is how to effectively integrate social media channels and measure and learn.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2011

By Carrie Spates, Design Manager, Siteworx Nonprofit clients I work with generally have mastered the art of engaging members and supporters once they are in the door. If your audience is accessing your site with limited bandwidth, you may want to keep your content basic with no unnecessary bulk. Start a Conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

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. A veterans in the room were in the middle because "we have grandchildren who have helped us understand Facebook."

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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. Facebook), as well as their own hosted social networking communities. Where do branded social networks like Ning sites fall? On Facebook, about 39.9% I was quoted as saying that USAToday.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 15, 2011

It's that time of year when many of us reflect on the work we've accomplished over the year. On our Facebook page , our community is reflecting on their technology accomplishments. But we also understand that these leaders want to know what other organizations are doing, how they’re doing it, and what the impact is on their work.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

I have been mulling this post over for months, and with some recent changes made by Facebook, the time has come. Some of the opinions I express below I have had for a while and speak to them in my webinars and trainings, but some are so recent that I am still in the stage of “Seriously Facebook? That said, people love Facebook.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Knowledge: Subject matter expertise, research, polling, case studies. Does your organization stream live on Instagram, YouTube, Vimeo, or Facebook? Text or attractively designed images on Twitter, Linkedin, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Clubhouse, etc. Plug donor skills into the work. Program-Related Perks.

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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. By Bob Alves, President and CEO, Advanced Solutions International. Why Internal Tools?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

I usually do this in a room with a quick poll, but I wanted to push myself to create the content based on their questions. It has nothing to do with the tools, have you avoided getting distracted from your to do list or work flow or too much multi-tasking-- social media can be ADD producing. So, here's a stab with lots of caveats.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

However, most organizations make the mistake of focusing their resources on the top of ladder, when the hard work and investment is needed at the bottom. Consider starting with your long-form blog post on your website, then slice it up into shorter forms on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Use polls to ask a question.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

The movement notably used grassroots tactics to drive voters (and previous non-voters) to the polls in support of Obama. It didn't really work (according to Flower). The group brought together more than 100 nonprofits (in the Midwest, no less) working toward solutions for climate change. The moment of opportunity had passed.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 26, 2016

While I’m touting statistics, here’s one more: A Gallup poll found that more than eight in 10 Americans gave money to charity in the last year (or at least said they did). A Facebook page does not equal an engaged community. It takes work to differentiate and to make that difference meaningful to your audience. Your Web site.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

It watches for emerging trends on the site and when something is becoming a hot topic of conversation - Evri uses that as a trigger to prompt a query to other sources for information on the topic. There would be no reason for Google to poll websites for changes over and over again. Twitter as Trigger. Real-Time Publishing.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The key is to work smarter, not harder. Here’s how to create it: Make note of ALL national holidays , especially days that most people are off work, and fill those holidays in on your calendar. Find the ones that mean something to your organization or that tie into the work you are doing and those you are serving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Ranger Rick, the persona of the National Wildlife Federation , has been banished from Facebook! They need your help to bring back Ranger Rick's profile that was recently taken down by Facebook Staff. Help bring back Ranger Rick's profile Email: appeals-comment@facebook.com and ask them to let Ranger Rick exist on Facebook!

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Forum One

OCTOBER 31, 2006

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2007

Why, Mary asked, were there no posts about children's museums on this site? Take it to the next level, and museums could network these personal sites to create an internal, safe visitor social space where kids could view each other's work. For the adult museum audience, creating a parallel Facebook or similar makes little sense.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 31, 2022

All of these capabilities, all in the same platform will streamline your workflow, saving you hours of work while providing you with the data you need to track your event budget and your revenues. It will let you know through which channels attendees arrived at your site. Live polling results.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Despite the more recent shift of attention to Facebook in the past six months by the nonprofit community, there are still remnants of a goldrush by nonprofits over the last year to build a presence on the uber-popular site. There are few concrete numbers to look at like there are for the Facebook Causes App.

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