Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2009

Our pals at NTEN have put together a survey to poll how nonprofits are using social networking sites to increase their reach. Questions cover both external social networking efforts using sites like Twitter and Facebook to internal social networks that your organization may have created yourself (like a community forum).

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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. Tag your post with "net2thinktank." mean for you?

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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! NpTech Tag Skypecast Anyone? Marnie Webb puts out a call for a call next wed, thurs, or friday to discuss in real time the issues that have surfaced around the NpTech Tag. Danah Boyd analyzes the recent Pew data on Social Network Site use.

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2011

interest to you and your cause on the web: Social Media Monitoring Tools. Online Polling Tools. Poll Function on Hubpages - "I have also found the poll function on. The polls on. " For Twitter : Sprout Social , which helps to measure the return and reach you're getting with your. customers are."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. The AFP blog points to a press release from Firstgiving about the launch of a social networking site. Found via this post tagged nptech by Meghan.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

A whopping 86% of nonprofits say they have a presence on Facebook or another social media site according to the 2010 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report. . 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. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

jaygoldman @ kanter Rewarding verified offline actions with online social credit. Promote cross-platform: FB, LI, Twitter, email>blog>online poll/petition >offline events. Tags: network effectiveness. I suggest a tweetup. chloevdc @ kanter. remind them that the tools they use can only go so far.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2010

Be one of the first to experience how you can engage audiences with robust polling features, see how quickly participants are able to join meeting with no downloads, and check out the slick new interface. Tags: Online Seminar Social Networking Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 Register today to secure your place!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2009

Submitted by Ivan Boothe, publisher of the Rootwork Blog Over at the NetSquared blog, Joe Solomon provided a great roundup of reasons people might be "jaded about social media for change" and ways they overcome it. Joe runs through some great responses from a whole bevy of social-media-for-change folks, including me.

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Care2

DECEMBER 13, 2009

In the four decades since the development of Election Day exit polling, this is the largest gap ever seen in a presidential election between the votes of those under and over age 30. Tags: Marketing Research Online Marketing Online Organizing Social Networking Trends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Earlier this week, Leslie Poston invited me to participate on her podcast on Race and Social Media along with Shireen Mitchell , Liza Sabiter , and Rahsheen Porter. When I've do social media and nonprofit trainings, the audience consists of staff, board members, or volunteers from nonprofit organizations. It was eye opening.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Whether your grassroots organization relies on social networks or thrives on face to face (F2F) contact, these five basic tips will help you achieve your fundraising goals more successfully. Fundraising through dependence on email and social network marketing can be tremendously successful for grassroots organizations.

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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. I think there are some definite social implications that interest me: Speed and quality of information. How does this change our connectedness on online social networks ?

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

These are some essential sources for information: social networks, blogs, interviews, surveys, polls, and in-depth interviews. Tags: Online Advocacy Online Organizing Technology. We might have even anticipated their needs and given them something they didn’t even know they wanted, but liked.

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2012

With more than 900 million users, Facebook is the top social media site on the planet. Before you can engage alumni on the world's most popular social media site, you’ve got to build a relationship with them there. Polls: Ask poll questions using the poll features. Our focus was Facebook. With classmates.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

The Real-Time Web: it's more than just immediate delivery of Twitter messages to an always-on mobile device, disrupting the concentration that civilization is based on and bringing a rush to crazed social media addicts obsessed with the hottest new buzzwords. Real-Time Publishing. has jumped substantially.

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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 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

OCTOBER 12, 2006

Joitske Hulsebosch, who lives and works in Netherlands, writes a blog called " Communities of practice for development " where she writes about topics related to her work of facilitating processes at different levels; teams, groups, organizations, networks, and communities of practice. I'm too shy to do an online poll.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2007

Children don't have the same social hang-ups as adults and are likely to share their experience with strangers while in the museum. Take it to the next level, and museums could network these personal sites to create an internal, safe visitor social space where kids could view each other's work. But there are others as well.

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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. You matter, if you matter.

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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. It’s time for them to give back. To think about again.

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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? 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.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

Then, we’ll look at various ways to market your podcast via your own website, the social web, and the iTunes Music Store. Poll your constituency to see what they are already listening to to find themes that are appealing etc. ID3 tags - can use itunes for this, drag album art and file over. Consider your story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

Social Networking Tool or Service. social networking tools like del.icio.us, flickr, blip.tv, Technorati, etc. The Flickr widget lets you select all your photos, a particular tag or group. There are three general types of sources to find widgets to install on your organization's blog or web site: 1.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

Last week a study came out that said small to medium sized nonprofits were not gaining much from using social media. When they should be integrating their social media campaigns into their primary communications and development plans, they still tend separate social media from traditional media and marketing.

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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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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. Social Media Nedra Weinreich's tip jar , tipped me off to newly published study from Nora Barnes and Eric Mattson from U Mass Dartmouth about nonprofit adoption of social media tools.

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