Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

When Maddie Grant at Social Fish invited me to do a FREE webinar over at the 365 Engage Community, I was thrilled to have an opportunity to reflect the practice of incorporating social media into instruction. If I'm doing a Webinar, I might use the poll feature and do my research in real time.

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Bloomerang

JULY 26, 2021

Is your site well organized and easy to navigate? . If you haven’t navigated through your site for a while, you may be amazed at how unfriendly the experience is. Consider Twitter polls or Q&A sessions or surveys. Your website’s homepage presents an opportunity to make a first impression. .

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 17, 2017

The basic signup is free, but if you use their images, you may have to pay a small fee of $1 for each. There are templates for specific social media sites — such as Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest — as well as a general template. All these free tools are available through Google Docs. WordPress Themes.

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AccelEvents

JULY 13, 2020

Pricing: 20% of total ticket sales for paid events, $3/attendee/day for free events, free trial available. Surveys and polls. month, with a free trial available. Top Features: Virtual lobby. Real-time chat. Live streaming. Customized branding. Branded event website. Attendee management. Lead generation. 2) Boomset.

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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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AccelEvents

JUNE 3, 2021

These comprehensive platforms are more than just a live stream and live chat; they can provide your conference with interactive tools, features for attendee engagement, polls, chats, signature branding, and augmented reality rooms. . You may direct them to your ticketing site, but even that will need to be housed somewhere. .

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AccelEvents

JUNE 3, 2021

These comprehensive platforms are more than just a live stream and live chat; they can provide your conference with interactive tools, features for attendee engagement, polls, chats, signature branding, and augmented reality rooms. . You may direct them to your ticketing site, but even that will need to be housed somewhere. .

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2011

Finding out could be as simple as conducting a survey through your newsletter or website (try free tools at SurveyMonkey.com ). If your audience is accessing your site with limited bandwidth, you may want to keep your content basic with no unnecessary bulk. Once you have that research, you can begin engaging people online.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 16, 2014

Citrix Podio is a new, free web-based tool, here to help you sweep away teamwork frustrations so you have more time to focus on the work that really has an impact. free Cloud online collaboration nonprofits libraries cloud computing' But it doesn’t have to be this way. What Does It Mean to Be Sponsored by Podio?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 28, 2016

His informal poll helped guide the list, and the comments below the article are worth reading. If your site is running on WordPress, WP Touch is a great free plugin to make your site more mobile-friendly (ChurchTechToday uses this plugin, FYI). Back in April 2013, Thom S. Option 2: Create a Mobile-Friendly Church Website.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

A great tool to see how different companies make their product the hero is by looking through swipe files curated by sites like [link]. Test digital engagement tactics like emoji reactions, quick polls and unfortunate consequences of inaction. Research urgencies and offers that prompt action like matching gifts within 24 hours.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

Over the holidays, I finally visited Quora , a social learning site focused around asking and answering questions founded by an ex-Facebook employee. It is less structured and more free form than browsing traditional hierarchies. Flickr Photo by Lee Haywood. Note from Beth: Geoff Livingston contributed to this post. Thanks Geoff! ).

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 6, 2011

It's an especially valuable tool for nonprofits, since it's free and offers a large, accessible audience. Some options include videos, podcasts, interviews, polls, insightful status updates, and more. Social networking is a powerful tool for nonprofit organizations, and Facebook is one of the leading sites.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

For example, if you are hosting a hybrid meeting and you will have a live audience on-site, be sure to inform your virtual audience that this is happening. Some hybrid conferences require that attendees attend at least one session or presenter in order to reap some type of benefit (like a free eBook or the recorded content).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

For nonprofits, crowdsourcing work can be a cost-effective way of taking care of repetitive tasks through sites like Crowdflower, Castingwords, and Clickworker. Nonprofits can use answer sites such as Quora.com or Vark.com that use variations of crowdsourcing principles to tap into many people for input.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The AFP blog points to a press release from Firstgiving about the launch of a social networking site. observes, "Thus you need a strategy that combines email lists pushing your message, vision, and resources out into communities residing on sites and networks other than your own." " I agree. There's a nonprofit track.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Note: This is an excerpt from our free e-book, The Noble Arsonist. Give them a name, find a photo of them on a stock photography site and flesh out their biographical details. You could simply ask one question each month in a poll widget in your monthly email newsletter. Imagining Supporters with User Stories. How old are they?

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AccelEvents

JUNE 16, 2021

Event analytics will tell you details about your attendees, the number of sessions they attended, popular sessions, and things raised in polls, Q&As, live chats, and more. . Therefore, there needs to be an easy way to get these leads synced up through the event registration site onto the CRM or email marketing software. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

On Tuesday, I had the opportunity to do a Webinar called " Social Media for Trainers: A Bag of Tricks " over at the Engage 365 Online Community site. In fact, we gave away a couple of free copies. However, some webinar platforms have a real-time polling feature, the virtual equivalent of asking people to raise their hands if.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2015

On this 10th anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, we polled a variety of smart NPtech cognoscenti on the single most important thing charities need to do to prepare for a disaster. Kevin Lo — TechSoup Senior Program Manager and Author of TechSoup's Free Safer Online for Nonprofits Guide. Here's what they said.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

For example, if you are hosting a hybrid meeting and you will have a live audience on-site, be sure to inform your virtual audience that this is happening. Some hybrid conferences require that attendees attend at least one session or presenter in order to reap some type of benefit (like a free eBook or the recorded content).

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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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AccelEvents

JULY 20, 2020

Live polling for recording engagement. From sponsorship spaces to a virtual exhibit hall, session spaces, lobbies, registration, and other dedicated sites, you want your platform to easily and clearly separate out these areas so that attendees can navigate the digital event more easily. Q&A feature for after a presentation.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 15, 2011

With support from Google, we were able to launch this new resource and provide it for free to the nonprofit community: [link] But What’s New About This Publication? please send them to [link] to take advantage of this free resource from NTEN! The content?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Knowledge: Subject matter expertise, research, polling, case studies. Lots of research shows that donors don’t want the organization to spend money on free merchandise. Design them free on Canva. Observe your community research as it happens (polling, focus groups, town halls). Offer better seating at free events.

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Tech Soup

JULY 7, 2015

(Please visit the site to view this video). It was at a time when President Obama's poll numbers were very low, and his chances of re-election very slim. Public Good invites charities to join a cause on its site, and to be listed along with other nonprofits working on that same cause. They work in combination.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2012

Play a game: “Adam has donated 2,173 grains of rice to the UN to date via Free Rice”. Nonprofits, especially smaller ones, stand to benefit from these changes because they will reap the equivalent of free advertising as people engage with them online. Donate: “Kylie has started a virtual food drive with Feeding America”.

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AccelEvents

JULY 13, 2020

Surveys and polls. The service, which is entirely web-based (SaaS), offers features like an integrated online/on-site registration, on-demand badge printing, facial recognition, and other comprehensive services for event check-in. month, with a free trial available. Record, playback and download. 2) Boomset. Pricing: $79.00/month,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

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. “For example, we haven’t been raising money with the Internet for very long,” I said.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Create Free Polls. I tried one for audience polls and one for messages. However, 85% of the really small sample of folks (10 people) who took the poll think that widgets could be useful to building community if used strategically. Can help you easily link to other sites, content, or individuals or republish your feeds.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

Consumption will be invisible if not tracked, so you’ll want to use your analytics software, such as Google Analytics, to measure the following: The amount of time spent on the site and the page. Use polls to ask a question. Polls are a win-win concept. Feel free to connect with me if you’d like to discuss any of these ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

During the Webinar, I polled the group’s general approach. What struck me most about the conversation is that consultants, early adopter nonprofits, and free agents all agree that the platform is evolving fast and there is still too much uncertainty for nonprofits to invest a lot of time and resources in Google +.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Many blogs, like the Razoo blog , went red on Thursday as part of Free Burma: International Bloggers Day. 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. re enjoying this blog, please consider subscribing for free.

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AccelEvents

JULY 20, 2020

Live polling for recording engagement. From sponsorship spaces to a virtual exhibit hall, session spaces, lobbies, registration, and other dedicated sites, you want your platform to easily and clearly separate out these areas so that attendees can navigate the digital event more easily. Q&A feature for after a presentation.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

You can also invite your current supporters and constituents by linking to your LinkedIn Group on your site or in an email. Think Q&A topics, poll your group for feedback on an issue, or share special updates or information with this group. The group manager can approve or reject requests to join the group.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

Almost free. So, we utilized YouTube’s “video response” feature, which was great because not only was it free, but it gave all the videos more exposure. The HSUS winner (we picked) was featured on our website and social networking sites. The price of hosting the competition?

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2008

Almost free. So, we utilized YouTube’s “video response” feature, which was great because not only was it free, but it gave all the videos more exposure. The HSUS winner (we picked) was featured on our website and social networking sites. The price of hosting the competition?

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