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How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald's House

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I had to look up the Clark Griswald reference ( National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation ), but you might be scratching your head wondering what the heck is a back channel? 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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Optimizing Your Site for Social Media Visitors

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Take a moment to investigate the following data: Analytics : Configure and then analyze reports from your web analytics to see which page on your site is the first stop for folks referred from social networking sites. Tags: jeff patrick Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media Web Sites Communications. advocacy action or donation)?

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Facebook User Names: On Your Marks, Get Set.

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In what's being referred to as a modern land grab, Facebook will start allowing it's 200 million users to pick user names for their profiles (and Pages) beginning at Midnight (Eastern Time) this Saturday, June 13th, on a first-come, first-served basis. Mashable addressed these concerns and posted a poll to gauge opinions.).

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Free Webinar: Sharing Trainer's Social Media Bag of Tricks and Secrets

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It was almost five years ago to the day, that I did a webinar for NTEN on the topic and have been integrating social media into teaching and learning experiences ever since. If I'm doing a Webinar, I might use the poll feature and do my research in real time. It's the equivalent of asking the audience to raise their hands if.

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So you want a Facebook Fan Page for Your Nonprofit? Here's the Scoop!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

. NTEN offered a fantastic Webinar today featuring Randi Zuckerberg, Director of Marketing at Facebook and Adam (didn't get his last name) from the DC Office on the emerging best practices for nonprofits who want to set up Facebook Fan Pages. Some Good References. Here's the description. Red Cross Fan Page is a great example.

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How to Engage Your Supporters and Find Super Fans

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Maddie Grant, founding partner at Culture That Works and NTEN board member. She posts challenges, free popup classes, badges of pride, games, recipes, and polls asking what her audience wants. Engagement — Generally, we're referring to involving supporters through an interactive two-way strategy. Definitions.

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Twitter Is 2nd After Google in Referrals To My Blog, But They Stay Longer.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I wanted to see if Avinash Kaushik had written in depth about analyzing Twitter in Google Analytics - I found his reference in his blogging tips that Twitter was golden in terms of referral. She later wrote more about this in a expanded post on the NTEN blog. Maybe he'll get on Twitter. Does Twitter Work Better As A Listening Tool.

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