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Technology to Help You Vote

NTEN

Here's what they sent over: Finding the right polling place The 2012 Google Poll Finder tool uses official information from state elections offices and Secretaries of State to provide voters with their polling location, directions, and a summary of what's on the ballot.

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Relationships That Raise Funds: 5 Tips for Creating Successful Peer-to-Peer Fundraisers

NetWits

Such resources should include sample solicitation letters for mail and email, quick stats and impact statements for social media, sample scripts for phone calls, and thank you letters for follow-up communications. Provide peer-to-peer fundraisers with easy access to information and resources they can use to fundraiser for your event.

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Crowdsource This… and That: Getting Creative with Crowdsourcing Strategy (Internet Advocacy Roundtable, April 2013)

Care2

From micro-fundraising on Kickstarter.com to mapping craters on the Moon , people are coming up with creative ways to harness large groups of online volunteers. Every time you read the results of a scientifically rigorous opinion poll, you are learning from the crowd. Crowdsourcing is all the rage.

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Cool App Roundup: Election Edition

Tech Soup

app offers polling location information, sample ballots, and election. polling place, review voting rules, and contact Election Protection if. Philly Votes is an Ushahidi -powered poll monitoring initiative that gathers and maps voting incident reports, such as voter intimidation and long lines. The VoterHub.

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Cheap and Cheerful Audience Analysis for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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NCVO and TAG Conference Presentations and Reflections

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I had the honor of presenting with Laura Whitehead and Amy Sample Ward who were on site. The idea: The online social graph is the map being constructed by social networks of every person on the Internet and how they are connected. Using the clickers, they go instant polling results.

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How to structure your nonprofit social media plan

Get Fully Funded

An editorial calendar is basically just a content map or a guide that helps you map out your nonprofit’s content (including social media) for the year. Engagement through thank-yous, polls, contests, or highlighting a volunteer or project. I’ve got more tips on creating great videos along with some samples here.