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. How will these trends impact nptech? Found via this post tagged nptech by Meghan. Global NpTech. Some say it is impossible and a poll by wikimedians here.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2009

I’ve combined some of my favorite RSS feeds from the NPTech community, Social Entrepreneurship sector, and Philanthropy news. I think it’s a great way to poll together the most recent posts from blogs and new sources around the web in a customizeable and shareable way. Visit my Alltop page here! Why am I using Alltop?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

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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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

The lack of greater public outcry regarding the volume of data breaches is perplexing when you consider recent poll data from Gallup and Unisys. According to an October 2009 Gallup poll , 66% of all U.S. The issue of identity theft ranks higher among poll participants than the issues of terrorism, burglary, sexual assault and murder.

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NTEN

APRIL 30, 2010

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . Tags: community buzz NPTech nten members. Members are in bold.

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) The polls close at midnight on Halloween.

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NetWits

JANUARY 31, 2011

Provide them with a place they can give feedback, such as a survey or poll. Think forward to a friend, social media sharing, etc. 3) Get Feedback: The constituents receiving these emails are clearly invested in your organization. Consider giving them a place to leave testimonials that get featured on your website.

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NTEN

JUNE 11, 2009

Mashable addressed these concerns and posted a poll to gauge opinions.). Tags: facebook NPTech online branding online community. There's already quite a bit of hub-bub about this move, with criticism over the process -- and even the decision to provide this feature at all. Here are some helpful facts: Each user will get one user name.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Share your opinion to help us decide where to head in 2015: Replace audience response hardware with Poll Everywhere. March 13-15, 2014: Washington, DC. 2015: Wildcard! March 22-24, 2016: San Francisco, CA.

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Wild Apricot

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

Websites that engage them in some active way, even if it's simply to leave a comment on a news item, subscribe to get updates or a newsletter, or speak up in a quick opinion poll. Websites, ideally, that give users a way to connect and interact with each other online. Can a small nonprofit.( read more )

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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. Here's what they said. Amy Sample Ward — CEO, NTEN. Have a plan, of course!

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

At Radio Maria, the group also used the IVR system to establish an SMS poll, asking listeners what they wanted to hear more about on the program. The radio station would broadcast the poll and the number and explain the process, such as “press 1 for maize,” “press 2 for chickens,” and “push 3 for other garden crops,” and so on. .

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Only Six Foundations Provide the Majority of NPTech Grants. Digital Service, the creation of online digital movements engaging millions of active participants, and the provision of timely voter registration and polling place information to tens of millions of people.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

And now, because I can insert a poll here, I’m going to. __. Sharing responsibility for building the relationship. Speaking with each other on a regular basis. Studying (and implementing) community-based participatory research methods. __. And now, because I can insert a contact form here, I’m going to.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Now, you can shine your rays on the voting process , highlighting any issues you encounter at the polls: Allison Fine and Nancy Scola have developed TwitterVoteReport , a site that collects "tweets" from Twitter users with news from their polling places. . So, bring your phone or mobile device with you to the polls tomorrow.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Consider setting up a weekly yes-or-no poll question that you send out every Thursday, or leave it open-ended and invite followers to message you with their replies. Tags: Elizabeth Ricca NPTech NTEN NTEN Connect Social Media twitter Communications. Ask thought-provoking questions , ideally ones that relate to your issue.

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NTEN

JUNE 30, 2010

Online: On the backend, this system was nearly identical to the Call-In option, as the two were just different input options for the same Precision Polling system. Tags: 10NTC Data Mobile NPTech NTEN IT Staff. Either leave a comment here or you can send an email to karl@nten.org.

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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. We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. They are using RSS to stream content, including resources tagged with NpTech tag in del.icio.us.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 15, 2009

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." Step two is that the wikimaster takes active responsibility for getting the first fifty articles on the site.

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NTEN

AUGUST 19, 2011

Please take a second to take our poll. It’s time everyone understands why just tracking how many people “Like” you on Facebook or follow you on Twitter isn’t enough. This week at NTEN , we’re listening to find out how data-driven our community has become. We’d also love to hear your organization's data story also.

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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. What's cool is that I have s from nptech field from US, UK, Austraila, and Holland!

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NTEN

JANUARY 28, 2011

Memorizing it may even help you get a job, because: CareerBuilder's IT hiring poll reports that 44% of IT employers will place greater emphasis on social media in 2011. There's only one thing we can say about this chart tracking the " History of Social Media " from 550 BC to the present: fantastic! Better brush up on the Twitter.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Filed under: General non-profit interest , nptech , Best practices , Non-profit Communications , training , publicity. Reader Polls. Toronto : Imagine Canada , 2007. Published Friday, June 06, 2008 8:13 PM by Rebecca. Comment Notification. If you would like to receive an email when updates are made to this post, please register here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Public opinion polls provide some types of insight, but take time and money. Note from Beth: Last month during one of our book talks for “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , ” at TechSoup Global, Rachel Weidinger from Upwell came up to say hello. Big listening is fast, and shows changes over time.

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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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NetWits

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Preference and Opinion – this is something that you can survey or poll your donors on, and collecting this information via an online portal is a great idea. Most segmentation efforts are based upon three key factors: Demographics and Lifestyle – these are observable and traceable metrics such as location, age, region, marital status, etc.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

As evidence of this belief, we present the following: prior to launching the transparency and accountability dimension of our rating tool this year, we polled our donors to ascertain their level of interest and support for such information. Tags: NPTech NTEN transparency Fundraising. July 4, 2010 [link] ; and Golding, Bruce.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

There would be no reason for Google to poll websites for changes over and over again. Tags: Data marshall kirkpatrick Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications. If all webpages were PubSubHubbub enabled, for example, they could simply tell a Hub about any changes they had published and Google could find out via that Hub.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Polling your supporters and constituents can provide invaluable information to discover the unmet or insufficiently satisfied needs which your organization can help fulfill in order to boost donations. In many ways, the fundraising response acts as a vote on the credibility and image of your entire organization.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Care2

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) For more details, check out the full survey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

1) Audience Stand Up Poll: Whenever I talk about social media and nonprofits, we talk about audience. tags: nptech youth ). We did mostly full room discussion, but I broke it up with some moving around exercises. Note to self: Need to have a back-up small group exercise that I could do when the game won't work).

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

If you watch Colbert , you've probably already been to FiveThirtyEight , an in-depth poll aggregation site. Good thing the Twitter Vote Report didn't: tweet your voting experience to help others avoid problems. Along with RealClearPolitics , it keeps political junkies better fed than a zombie in WalMart's brains aisle. Pumpkin cookies !

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Tags: jeff patrick Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media Web Sites Communications.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2005

But just two months after the terrorist attacks, nearly half of charities polled reported a decrease in funding. Tags: nptech , fundraising -based Association of Fundraising Professionals, half of the charities had experienced an increase in revenue through August 2001.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Research firm Quorus Consulting Group polled 2,003 teens and adults in April 2011. For this reason, the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) commissioned primary research to survey consumers about text-to-give fundraising for the benefit of the Mobile Giving Foundation Canada and charities that use mobile giving.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 15, 2011

We’re currently polling our readers about this, and this is what they’re telling us so far: Impact This new resource is already helping us meet our mission: we’re reaching out to and serving a new constituency and delivering the information and resources they need to lead their organizations strategically with the help of technology.

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