Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

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. Britt Bravo looks back on a poll from last year about recommending social networking software and points to recent spoofs about Facebook and Social Networking. mean for you?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

Branding your water bottle design with your organization’s logo and colors will also help raise awareness of your nonprofit. Make things exciting by asking your volunteers to submit their own mask designs and send out a poll to decide the winning design. Ensure your water bottle is durable.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 1, 2021

It’s a great way to raise money, raise awareness, and gain new supporters. Share the campaign to your personal Facebook profile and tag a few friends to make sure they see the posts. Host polls and contests to engage your audience. . $5 Friday Fundraiser Anyone who knows me knows how much I love the $5 Friday fundraiser!

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2011

Online Polling Tools. Poll Function on Hubpages - "I have also found the poll function on. The polls on. For Facebook : Edgerank for measuring the efficacy of your Facebook page , although, frankly, I've never had any luck raising serious money with. " Tip from Christopher Nicholas on Linkedin.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 13, 2014

" If few or no people raise their hands, I ask the question again at the end of my workshop. At the start of any workshop I lead related to virtual volunteering, I ask the audience, "How many of you are engaging with volunteers virtually?" And the numbers always change.

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MAY 7, 2009

Some ways for users to participate are: raising their ?hands?, using the chat window, responding to a poll, writing names on a whiteboard, and of course speaking via a teleconference or VOIP. Use the technology available to vary activity with video or slides, interactive polling, application sharing or whiteboard.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Microtasks could be tagging hundreds of images or cleaning up hundreds of database entries. In terms of feedback, this is much more subjective, and there is a fuzzy line between surveying, polling and questioning a lot of people or your constituents and actual crowdsourcing for input. You are looking to raise $10,000.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2009

No more waiting for the Pony Express to deliver a parcel cross-country, no more waiting for web services to communicate from one polling instance to another. Tags: realtimeweb. This is information being available to you at nearly the moment it's produced, whether you're watching for it or not. He "cartoon blogged" the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2012

Hanna shared a wonderful story about the evolution of grist.org’s use of Twitter chats, including #hipsterfarmerbands tag which started as tweets about a story about young farmers and sustainable agricultural practices. ” She also uses Google Alerts to monitor the conversation and will address important conversations promptly.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Most directors are not accustomed to attaching a firm price tag to their organization's activities, preferring to adopt an attitude of "donate what you can." What competing organizations are doing to raise funds. Determine your "pricing" strategy. What you need to do in order to induce them to donate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

In your status updates, use the news feed to raise awareness. Promote cross-platform: FB, LI, Twitter, email>blog>online poll/petition >offline events. Tags: network effectiveness. Ironically, one of my Twitter followers suggested asking them nicely and giving them schwag. See example of EQCA No on Prop8 [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

The survey polled 978 nonprofit professionals about their organizations’ use of commercial social networking sites (e.g. of respondents have raised money via fundraising, but 29.1% have raised $500 or less over the past 12 months. Tags: online communities social media research snippets. On Facebook, about 39.9%

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

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. Tags: training materials. The big questions I want to know are related to the learning goals: What is the audience's level of experience?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2015

To quote an overly used advertising tag line: know the gaps. 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. Nonprofit Technology Funding for Democracy: The Problem.

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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. Tags: online communities technology training training materials. I had sooo much fun creating.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

Facebook empowers non-profits by enabling them to mobilize communities, organize events, increase fundraising, reduce costs with free online tools, and raise awareness through viral networks. Also, I had major brain blip and forgot the name of the polling app that they mentioned. Tags: facebook. Facebook FAQ on Pages.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Hopefully, if your nonprofit is getting started on Twitter, you’ve identified some goals you’re hoping to reach: raising awareness of your issue, connecting with current constituents, gaining followers and encouraging them to take action or donate, etc. Reaching your goals online: a balancing act. Retweet others. A primer on Twitter lingo.

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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. Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. or more like web 1.0?)

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Greater Giving

MARCH 2, 2023

Inspire Instagram Followers to Become Fundraisers Although it might seem like a daunting task, raising $1,000 + in one day is very possible utilizing social media, specifically Instagram. on every single post, so those feeling generous can donate more than you are asking for and even share the tag. This can be done in multiple ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Raymond raised some good reflective questions about backchannels that are still very relevant four years later as back channels goe more mainstream and search for best practices on how to incorporate them into our conferencing experience. Tags: backchannel. Warning she says the F-word on the clip.) One of the reflections.

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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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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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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

I have a poll question for you. I’m going to end the poll, if that’s all right. So I help organizations tell powerful stories that have raised collectively around a half billion dollars. They call me their lifesaver because when they first met me, they were raising $23,000 a year from individuals. Here we go.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

We see this a lot in event fundraising, where FB badges and other tools are deployed for event participants (to help them raise more $$ for the charity), but all peer-to-peer giving actually takes place BACK on the organization’s website. . 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. and raises an interesting point: After 9/11, groups I worked with saw an increasing interest in close-to-home programs. Tags: nptech , fundraising One person may not be able to control the weather or stop terrorists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

It is always interesting to feel the a little bit of nervousness in the room, but then the leaders raise their hands! When they are lined up by comfort level, I have been doing a quick poll to see where generations appear along the line. Tags: training materials. Photo by James Leventhal.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

Like I said, I’m really passionate about helping fundraisers save time and raise more money and delight their donors. I’m going to be kicking things off in a couple minutes with some awesome polls to get to know you better. Take my poll, fundraising friends. And I’ll pop those in there again. So humor me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

For example, linking a poll to a post on the topic. One of the most used widgets by nonprofits are the audience poll widgets. Polls are a great way to get reader feedback too. I used the Vidzu poll to get feedback on a blog post here. The Flickr widget lets you select all your photos, a particular tag or group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2009

The video above is the result of a brilliant online fundraising campaign that NTEN's executive director, Holly Ross, launched back in February to help raise $10,000 in matching scholarship money to Convio's scholarship sponsorship. The deal was if she raised the $10,000, the community could vote on her public humiliation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

Supporting these visionary leaders, raising the profile of their work and facilitating collaborations and sharing has allowed many to pursue a life of changemaking, scaling their impact and, in many instances, affecting national policy and changing the lives of thousands in their communities. Tags: twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

" Here's a few widget/badgets that I ended up installing and keeping: Flickr Widget/Badge : If your organization is using flickr to say run a photo content or a community tagging project, it makes sense to add a flickr badge to your web site. The Flickr widget lets you select all your photos, a particular tag or group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

According to a recent national poll , when price and quality are equal, 77 percent will choose a brand that supports a cause. Child's Play Charity targets gamers as a donor community, by Penny Arcade , raising millions mostly to provide games and equipment to child life programs at leading hospitals around the world.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

But The Harris Poll that was conducted between late March and early May found that between 46% and 51% of U.S. And it’s a huge driver of online fundraising, and also just awareness raising. Maybe it will change this summer. We’re all going outside more. Things are opening up. it’s not just games, by the way.

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