Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

We began the session by polling the audience on training experiences. In the first portion of the training, Jeanne and Cindy modeled four great practices for designing training content, including: Spend a little time researching adult learning theory, or. This post was originally published on the NTEN Blog.

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AUGUST 5, 2014

The last time I was in Baltimore was in 2007, with Amnesty International at their regional conference, attending as a bright-eyed student organizer trying to learn how to more effectively spread the good word of social justice and human rights (the story of how I got involved in nonprofit marketing!). Here''s what they said.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

note: This article is part of NTEN's Member Appreciation Month spectacular. note: This article is part of NTEN's Member Appreciation Month spectacular. 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.

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OCTOBER 24, 2007

I’m not going to embark on the 31 days to a better blog challenge , it’s a bit too much for me to plunge into, but I will be doing bits and pieces of it over time, as well as delving deeply into search engine optimization (SEO), which is a topic that I have pretty much only watched from a distance for far too long.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

However, some webinar platforms have a real-time polling feature, the virtual equivalent of asking people to raise their hands if. The poll revealed that revealed 40% were beginners/novices and 60% intermediate or experts. Live in a tool for a month, and experiment with only one tool at time.

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JUNE 30, 2010

This was followed by each of the evaluation questions (pre-recorded by NTEN's own Holly Ross) and a prompt for their answers. 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.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2008

We decided to pick today's Member Appreciation Month winner from the NTEN LinkedIn Group (a group exclusively for NTEN members). We often get requests from folks wanting to join the NTEN group who have never interacted with our organization before. Creating a group on LinkedIn is easy. Creating a group on LinkedIn is easy.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Nope, that's not a typo: it's time for us to start thinking about where we will host the 2015 Nonprofit Technology Conference. Share your opinion to help us decide where to head in 2015: Replace audience response hardware with Poll Everywhere. We want to know where you would like to go! March 13-15, 2014: Washington, DC.

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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. Amy Sample Ward — CEO, NTEN. Image 1: NTEN. Here's what they said. Have a plan, of course! I recommend good walking shoes.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

Freedom Fone was officially launched in late February of this year and has since been downloaded about 200 times, said Amy Saunderson-Meyer of Freedom Fone. At the most crucial moment, Sullivan said, the hard drive didn’t work and the group lost several days of up-time because of the crash. . But he wouldn’t do this again.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Shirkey also said, “Now is the time for experiments, lots and lots of experiments.” Knight Foundation ; Sharon Pian Chan, Director of Journalist Initiatives, the Seattle Times ; and Joe Neel, Deputy Supervising Editor, NPR. Fast forward to 2014, and this prediction still holds true. and James L.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

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. I also think about what I'm not going to cover due to time constraints and communicate that upfront.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Now that you have your "pricing" set correctly, it's time to present incentives to your donors. 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. Motivate via incentives.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

At the same time, the scandals that resulted in the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley (including more than a few within the ranks of nonprofits) had a ripple effect on the sector. Tags: NPTech NTEN transparency Fundraising. Organizations of all kinds came under new scrutiny regarding their management, spending decisions, and ethical behavior.

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JULY 28, 2010

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. . Should you be considering this important demographic when you redesign your site next time around? Definitely. First Step – Analytics. Still not convinced.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

This past month, for the first time, Twitter is now the #2 referral of visits to my blog, but only 1/3 of those referrals are from my own tweets. It takes time for Twitter to be a golden referral -- a year ago , Twitter did not make my top ten referrers. She later wrote more about this in a expanded post on the NTEN blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

During the NTC, ThePort Network, Inc , NTEN , and Common Knowledge released results of a survey that examines the use of social networking as a marketing and fundraising tool. The survey polled 978 nonprofit professionals about their organizations’ use of commercial social networking sites (e.g. That takes time and skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

NTEN has recently published the “ Equity Guide for Nonprofit Technology ,” that describes in detail how your organization can dismantle inequity due to more intentional technology choices. Keep in mind: People in the same context will usually have an easier time communicating and connecting with others in the same context.

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JUNE 11, 2009

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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SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Since that time, other disaster relief efforts such as the Gulf oil spill, Japan disaster, and tornado relief in the Southeast U.S. Research firm Quorus Consulting Group polled 2,003 teens and adults in April 2011. have further validated the effectiveness of text-to-give fundraising.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2008

If you watch Colbert , you've probably already been to FiveThirtyEight , an in-depth poll aggregation site. The New York Times has a cool visualization of how people around the world spend their money. Good thing the Twitter Vote Report didn't: tweet your voting experience to help others avoid problems. Pumpkin cookies !

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MARCH 15, 2011

Start with the basics, then move on to the big time. Make sure you're providing timely, valuable information, and using tried and true tools like newsletters and e-mail to remind people of the value you provide. Polling widgets are a fun and simple way to interact with visitors on your site. Think Old School.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2012

I was reflecting back to those days and I realized that part of my work included content curation, although at the time I didn’t call it that. I also taught many workshops where I included techniques on how to deal with information overload caused by using the Internet to get our work done. The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Someone on the 501 Tech Club NY list ( NTEN Affinity Group ) suggested a name change might be needed. There is now a poll to vote on names suggested by people. Who has time for Video? A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

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. The panelists included. Dale Pfeifer, CEO of GoodWorld. Andrew Nachison, founder and CEO, We Media. Connect with Millennials. Engage Offline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Here's a nice collection of links from the NTEN blog with good footnotes that includes a pointer to the ChicagoTechnology Cooperative , a group comprised of consultants, technicians, developers, and designers, with extensive experience serving the unique needs of nonprofit and community-based organizations.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

It’s a time suck, yet we are addicted to our in-boxes -- even if it’s just to quickly scan emails to stay up to date. Get Interactive: Ask people to take a poll or share a story. I had just been rereading Nick Allens "Landing Page Optimization 101" on NTEN,* and was struck by how A/B testing came up in both.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2009

I have not been blogging because I've been at the NTEN NTC Conference , the premier event for nonprofit techies taking place in San Francisco. I treasure the opportunity to spend some "face" time with treasured and respected colleagues who I only get to see here at this conference each year. Poll your members where are they?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. My screencast on widgets is featured in this month's NTEN newsletter in a section pointing to " How To Build Online Community." I'm so excited!

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JUNE 6, 2011

By Annaliese Hoehling, Publications Director, NTEN. I also informally polled the NTEN community. Sometimes that works; other times it doesn't.". Starting in 2011, Annaliese is working to develop NTEN's research and publications documenting the transformational power of technology in the nonprofit sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2018

The bot unlocks all of the artwork of the museum for virtual viewing by anyone, anywhere and at any time. The bot, available via Twitter and Facebook Messenger, polls its followers (called ‘U-Reporters’) on a range of topics and uses the data to help influence public policy. Innovations like these don’t have to break the bank.

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JULY 28, 2010

But the overall success of a CMS-based web project will depend less on them and more on ensuring that the broadest possible team is ready to contribute content in a timely way. Be realistic about time from organizational staff. Tags: CMS Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN Planning steve backman Web Sites.

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OCTOBER 28, 2008

For the first time in U.S. These site subscribers are the hubs of their own social networks -- a population un-polled by traditional pollsters but known to the campaigns. Widgets: These small pieces of computer code let you to download polling, and candidate news and information directly to your web site, desktop or mobile device.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

I have been doing the social media thing for almost 4 years and I took granted that most nonprofits are doing the basics in terms of measuring ROI, but recent polls I presented on Twitter speak otherwise. Are you building community on Twitter or just pushing out press releases and blog posts [that in time people start to ignore]?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2012

With questions formulated, it is now time to think about who should answer them. I usually set up a google document for the panel that includes the script, online interaction design, timings, and logistics (when to arrive for the AV check, etc). This gives me ideas and areas to improve the next time around.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Provided you set aside the time to explore and experiment, your nonprofit can use the tools listed below to significantly improve your web and email communications and your social media campaigns. The analytics tools will also evaluate your posts to deduce the best possible times to share your content. Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Holly Ross at NTEN writes about a new ring tone, " Why don't you just shut up? According to a recent national poll , when price and quality are equal, 77 percent will choose a brand that supports a cause. " and that it's "time to comeup with some new rules of engagement - ones that work for us as well as them."

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