Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Consider these two sample audiences: “Canadian women” or “18 to 30-year-old women in BC or Alberta who live in cities with more than 100,000 people” Of course, most NGOs can’t afford to hire the kind of market researchers you’d need to produce a sophisticated work-up of who your core audience is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2006

This is the results of a recent poll that N-TEN published in its March Newsletter. The respondents would be nonprofit techies, although it doesn't indicate the sample size.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Ask them to be ready to share and challenge their friends and give them some sample social media posts they can use. Poll your supporters so you can identify and segment personas, allowing you to better target your messaging on #GivingTuesday and all year long. Make sure all your employees know your #GivingTuesday strategy.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Polls close midnight, Wednesday, September 30th. The 60 tagline finalists have been culled from over 1,700 entries in 13 categories, including grantmaking. Now it’s *your* turn to select the best. Please share this invitation with your grantees! They’ll benefit in the same ways you do. About the Nonprofit Tagline Awards.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 1, 2021

Notice the low goal and the small, solvable problem: Here’s another sample $5 Friday from Beautiful Feet Ministries of Tanzania. Host polls and contests to engage your audience. A gift of $5 today could lead to a gift of $100 or $1,000 next time. Here’s a first-time $5 Friday from Roanchar Ranch.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

You might need to plan some polls or interactivity about every 10 minutes to help keep people engaged. Online, you can play solitaire on your screen, and no one will ever know! For online meetings, it’s even more important to set and meet expectations about start/end time, agenda, tangent conversations and so forth.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2009

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. I’d love to hear the blogs you recommend get added to the Alltop page, so it can function as the ultimate blogroll for this community. Why am I using Alltop?

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 7, 2009

Maybe this means those polled were in positions to have a buffer from the downturn; maybe it means that the real impact will show up in the 2010 surveys; or maybe it means that the effects of the downturn aren’t playing out the way speculators thought. We realize this is a one-time deal, but it has put us back on our feet.&#.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 23, 2008

A webinar can be collaborative [ 1 ] and include polling and question & answer sessions to allow full participation between the audience and the presenter. Wikipedia says: A webinar is a neologism to describe a specific type of web conference.

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

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

is that there is a wiki and polls feature that isn’t available on ning. Yes, although grou.ps can be a little clunkier. For example, I find that changes that I make don’t appear straight away which is a little frustrating. The added advantage of grou.ps What was the work load like to switch? Very easy.

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Care2

JANUARY 14, 2009

Get Interactive: Ask people to take a poll or share a story. Experiment with A/B Testing: Try sending out two different versions of your e-newsletter to small samples of your list -- either with different subject lines, different copy or both. by age, interest, activism level).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2008

I had the honor of presenting with Laura Whitehead and Amy Sample Ward who were on site. technologies using an audience poll comparing the TAG audience to an earlier study by conducted by Eric Matteson and Nora Barnes covering web 2.0 Using the clickers, they go instant polling results.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Moderated by NTEN membership director, former NetSquared organizer, and friend of TechSoup Amy Sample Ward , "Rethinking Movement Buildling" brought together three luminaries from organizations whose stock-in-trade are movements to promote social change. The difficult part is keeping it going.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Knowledge: Subject matter expertise, research, polling, case studies. Observe your community research as it happens (polling, focus groups, town halls). Access to password-protected content like checklists for camping with kids or sample lesson plans for outdoor educators. Be careful with how much access you promise donors.

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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. I am working on a screencast about nonprofit blogs and widgets.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

Get Interactive: Ask people to take a poll or share a story. Experiment with A/B Testing: Try sending out two different versions of your e-newsletter to small samples of your list -- either with different subject lines, different copy or both. by age, interest, activism level).

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Engagement through thank-yous, polls, contests, or highlighting a volunteer or project. I’ve got more tips on creating great videos along with some samples here. JUST for fun! Memes, stories, photos – anything that causes a laugh or a smile. Call to Action. Donate, join, volunteer, help. And that’s fine.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Recently, I polled Blackbaud employees, and while not the largest sample set (44 respondents), it yielded some interesting results. While this poll spanned all age groups, it doesn’t take a poll to look around and see some of the heaviest users of phones and technology are m illennials , those born between 1980 and 2000.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

But first what I want to do is just ask Steven to launch a poll to gauge where you are right now with regard to feelings about promoting legacy giving in your nonprofit. So the poll is just sticking up here. Here’s something on Alex’s Lemonade Stand where they share sample language that donors can share with their attorney.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

We’ve got some polls for you. ” I don’t know if these questions sound familiar to you, but we’ll just do a little poll to see which of these questions you have about grants. Most of you have answered, so we’re going to just end the poll. So I’m actually going to launch my second poll.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

Poll your constituency to see what they are already listening to to find themes that are appealing etc. Maybe you just target your board members to keep them informed, etc.; maybe one just for employees as an internal stream for updates on work and projects. Mabye just for your volunteers to update them on volunteer opportunities.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

– Very interesting new infographic helping dissect data from a national poll examining whether or not Americans trust the media during political peaks. "The They consume media, socialize and share experiences through devices more than other age groups." " Infographic: Do people still trust the news during election season?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Andy: So we’ll see if the poll works. So if the poll is launchable, launch it. And like you heard a couple times, I’m going to be sending out all those resources that Andy mentioned, that handout, the checklist, the sample questions. So this could be cultivation, this could be asking, this could be thanking.

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Achieve

JANUARY 1, 2018

Though Achieve’s sample was relatively small, Asian Americans made up 5.5 percent of the research sample, close to the 5.7 1 and 2 for not voting – would they have gone to the polls and cast a vote? of the 2017 Millennial Impact Report, The Power of Voice: A New Era of Cause Activation and Social Issue Adoption.

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M+R

DECEMBER 23, 2021

For example, Mother Jones ’ investigative story on Kentucky’s drastic reduction of polling places in predominantly Black neighborhoods was shared widely on Facebook (320,000+ shares). Stories that honed in on a state’s efforts to block our freedom to vote had people paying attention, driving up engagement on social channels.

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Forum One

MAY 4, 2009

I am increasingly finding that, given the right audience sample and organizer experience, it is pretty easy for a barcamp to be valuable. Based on a limited sample size, there were indications that this reporting helped the results "stick" and tone down opposition disputes.

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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. I’m going to show you some sample social media posts. Maybe it will change this summer. We’re all going outside more. Things are opening up. adults were using social media more since the outbreak began.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Given Frogloop’s recent presentation on tactics to drive elections using social media I thought the poll would. The data we had for other demographics such as Asian and Native American were such a small sample size that all answers for these subgroups are not considered statistically significant. be of interest to the community.

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