Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Give them a name, find a photo of them on a stock photography site and flesh out their biographical details. You could simply ask one question each month in a poll widget in your monthly email newsletter. Here are three ways to get a clearer sense of your audience. Imagining Supporters with User Stories. How old are they?

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Ensuring optimal video quality will require that event planners have the right video equipment, the right streaming services set up, have high-quality wifi on-site, and have properly coordinated videographers with the physical and online schedules. . Networking opportunities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

Screenshot of a poll from Philanthropy 2173 Still time to register your opinion! " Lucy Bernholz offers some commentary here and is taking a poll on the topic here. Comment, Blog it, tag it NpTech, and/or start a blog over at the Netsquared site. tools in their web sites. Five Hot Conversations. Change the World!

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

Consumption will be invisible if not tracked, so you’ll want to use your analytics software, such as Google Analytics, to measure the following: The amount of time spent on the site and the page. Use social widgets to allow easy interactions such as like, share, comment, etc. Use polls to ask a question.

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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. The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. mean for you? Allison Fine asks, " Do most people really fine web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2006

Create Free Polls. I'm working on a piece about widgets and nonprofit blogs (some context here and here ). If you haven't had a chance to take the poll, please click through your reader and vote now! The poll is being used to gather feedback from audience about how they read the blog (RSS vs Browser) and frequency.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Despite the more recent shift of attention to Facebook in the past six months by the nonprofit community, there are still remnants of a goldrush by nonprofits over the last year to build a presence on the uber-popular site. And what is the optimum combination of videos, pictures, text, friends, and other widgets? And is there any left?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

My screencast on widgets is featured in this month's NTEN newsletter in a section pointing to " How To Build Online Community." If you have questions about widgets or want to share your organization???s Other terms used to describe a Web Widget include Gadget, Badge, Module, Capsule, Snippet, Mini and Flake.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Despite the more recent shift of attention to Facebook in the past six months by the nonprofit community, there are still remnants of a goldrush by nonprofits over the last year to build a presence on the uber-popular site. And what is the optimum combination of videos, pictures, text, friends, and other widgets? And is there any left?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

This weekend I went widget shopping! I installed (and unstalled) lots of widgets until I found a few good ones that might be appropriate for nonprofits. Where to find widgets. There are three general types of sources to find widgets to install on your organization's blog or web site: 1. The particular Web2.0

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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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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

Poll your constituency to see what they are already listening to to find themes that are appealing etc. Audacity - open source and free, lots of community resources, have to download a separate mp3 encoder but they have links on their site. Maybe you just target your board members to keep them informed, etc.; Consider your story.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

The successful campaigns are using e-commerce, video, photos, blogging, mobile action, widgets, event management and more to augment the traditional (and extremely effective) precinct organizing model. Social Network Sites: In an effort to court the younger voter, candidates have built presences on My Space and Facebook.

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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. What websites were your visitors on right before they visited your site [Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace]?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 6, 2006

» Monday Nov 06 2006 Crowd-sourcing to Clean up Elections and Foil Chad Monday, November 6, 2006 at 04:58PM | by Jordan Wait Source: VoterStory Web site Voters, listen up. The site is intended to "make sure that any voter who experiences a problem at the polls has a way to tell their story and get help."

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