Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Checking in at a place. My first reaction was – what does that stupid number mean? How is it calculated? The next action was an uncontrollable desire to compare my “People Talking About” with my peers, realizing that benchmarking of meaningless data is well, meaningless.

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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. On Facebook, about 39.9%

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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. Of course, I could save a huge amount of time and information overload and just order Read/Write Web's Report on Real Time Web, print a hard copy, and read it. just saying.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Yesterday, I presented a workshop called " A Crash Course in Social Media for Arts People " hosted by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. I also got a chance to spend some time with Thomas Taylor , the Alliance's nonprofit technology in-house guru and social media whiz who turned me to twitpic. tags: arts ).

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Polling capabilities enable quick decision-making between and leading up to meetings. Chapter officers can use OmegaOne to send out mass messages to all members and the “wall” allows everyone to post announcements or ideas in a social media-inspired manner. Social media. Plus, pay your chapter’s bills from the same app.

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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. Measuring Work. Is different better?

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 1, 2021

Post the campaign first thing on Friday on Facebook and any other social media channels you have, linking back to the fundraiser page. 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.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

They have since published a report on The Real-Time Web and Its Future. You can pre-order the report here.]. Ted Roden, the founder of artsy social sharing site Enjoysthin.gs , says that ever since he started pushing new shared items live to the browsers of people on his site - the time people have spent on Enjoysthin.gs

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 15, 2009

We're usually expecting to hear things like "Our staff will spend significantly less time putting together monthly reports" or "We will finally have agreement between the membership lists on the website and in the AMS." He can poll users frequently to get them to send him any material that would be apporpriate for inclusion.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

As calls increase for charities to be more open and accountable in their management and reporting, it is natural for many of them to ask, considering the extra work involved, "What’s in it for us? Ken Berger & Robert M. Penna, Ph.D., Charity Navigator. Is there a connection between more transparency and more successful fundraising?"

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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. I think the NpTech tag helps provides a needle and thread to sew these patches together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2006

The article points out some recent articles and polls that suggest a cooling off in the hype around blogs. " Gallop Poll on Blog Readership "Gallup's latest examination of Americans' online habits finds that one in five Web users read Web-logs, or "blogs," either frequently or occasionally. February, 2006.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 There are two sets of social roles here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

In hybrid meetings, power dynamics play out in typical ways – reporting relationships, employee status, privilege, etc. Employees work out schedules with their team or reporting manager. In some cases, you may also need to have people in the room wear name tags. There are also options as discussed in this video.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Give us the weather report. I have a poll question for you. I’m going to end the poll, if that’s all right. So emails, social media, your website. We’re going to save a little bit of time at the end for Q&A, but we’d love to hear from you. Introduce yourself now if you haven’t already.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

I’m going to be kicking things off in a couple minutes with some awesome polls to get to know you better. And I’m going to start off by doing some polls, and I’m going to launch this poll right now. Take my poll, fundraising friends. I’m going to be using the chat to chat you up. So humor me.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Right now, your team is having to adhere to social distancing regulations, interrupting your ability to meet in-person on a regular basis to discuss your initiatives. Polling tools will allow you to gauge opinions on everything from serious strategic decisions to more lighthearted decisions like the theme for your annual gala.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

Essentially, nonprofits have been advertising Facebook to untold millions for free helping it become the powerhouse that it is today – the largest, most active social networking website on the Web. Tags: Facebook ROI (Return on Investment) Social Media. Facebook has been around six years now and is extremely profitable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2009

The NpTech Community has been early adopters of social media and social networks like Twitter. The relative value has changed because of social media. In a social environment and it is mysterious why one thing works or does not. Social network platforms are an example. Poll your members where are they?

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This could include: Games Quizzes Polls Maps Petitions Ensure your interactive content is directly related to your nonprofit’s mission. However, keep in mind that a user-friendly CMS like WordPress makes it simple to add engaging content like quizzes and polls to your blog content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Do you employ a social networking or online outreach strategy that engages your regular readers and enables new readers to discover you? You can read a more detailed report of what folks thought here. For example, linking a poll to a post on the topic. One of the most used widgets by nonprofits are the audience poll widgets.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

They don’t have to be, and not surprisingly, "interactive" runs a continuum, but essentially, this means more staff or volunteers with wider skills can report, write, edit, and publish news and other articles; it doesn’t just have to be a technically trained communications specialist.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2022

They generally have several core functions that work well: collecting, reviewing, and revising ideas and proposals; voting on proposals; and reporting outcomes. The platform has also enabled clear and transparent voting, reporting of vote results, and subsequent project implementation. . Technology Isn’t a Short-Cut to Equity.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

Julia Campbell will provide a framework for evaluating the best platforms for your unique organization, as well as ideas for creating great social media content your audience will love. We are here to talk about the next wave, what are those emerging trends in nonprofit social media marketing. Julia: around social media disinformation.

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Forum One

MAY 4, 2009

I had the great fortune last week to get to Mobile Tech 4 Social Change barcamp here in DC. In the keynote address, Ian Schuler of the National Democratic Institute , gave an overview of his work in election monitoring, where he had monitors armed with mobile tools to report on far-flung polling places.

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