Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 24, 2010

“A survey of 200 charity and foundation professionals revealed that nonprofits are finding it difficult to determine how valuable social media tools are for their organizations. If you are using social media correctly, then your numbers should rise from month-to-month. Blogging was the missing piece in my social media strategy.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Use Social Media to Create an Online Community The average internet user spends roughly 151 minutes (that’s over two and a half hours) online every day. Thanks to social media, spending quality time with your members doesn’t always have to happen face to face. A simple interest poll can provide a considerable boost in attendees.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 31, 2019

By changing how you approach your social media presence, you can create ways to ramp up your social media engagement. Simple things like polls and surveys or Q&A sessions can go a long way to increase social media engagement with your brand. You post online, but not many people are interacting and responding to it.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 23, 2008

NTEN & TechSoup have teamed up to deliver a series of webinars on storytelling and social media - and I’m the presenter for the first one! A webinar can be collaborative [ 1 ] and include polling and question & answer sessions to allow full participation between the audience and the presenter. Is sharing really caring?

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sgEngage

JULY 18, 2023

With all the hype growing around this new social media platform, you’re probably asking how it might be useful in your fundraising strategy and whether you should jump on the bandwagon. Threads is a social media platform where users can post their thoughts, opinions, and reactions in 500 words or less.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

This year my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation includes training, coaching, and facilitating peer learning sessions for grantees on using social media effectively, becoming a Networked Nonprofit. It has been incredible laboratory to put the big ideas in the book in practice. Creating a Custom Landing Tab.

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AccelEvents

JULY 28, 2021

Share that information on social media as well. This idea works best on social media. We’ve all seen the contests: “share this post, like this page, and tag a friend for your chance to win [insert prize].”. Polls: Polls can provide event managers, planners, and organizers with valuable information.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 14, 2022

For arts and culture organizations, brand purpose is often about facilitating learning and engaging visitors in unforgettable experiences that provide educational and social value. Merge tags are another great tool to improve email customization and add purposeful friendly touches to your communications. How engaged are they?

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NetWits

JULY 11, 2012

With over 900 Million users Facebook is the top social media site on the planet. The other 12 are in the slides - Social Media for Schools: 22+ Ways to Stay Connected with Your Alumni on Facebook - located at the very bottom of this post. Pictures (the key is to have them tag friends/family): Of them selves in their school apparel.

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AccelEvents

JULY 9, 2020

Share that information on social media as well. This idea works best on social media. We’ve all seen the contests: “share this post, like this page, and tag a friend for your chance to win [insert prize].”. Polls: Polls can provide event managers, planners, and organizers with valuable information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2008

tags: information socialmedia ). On November 24th, I got up at 5:00 AM to skype into the NCVO Information Conference , focused on how organizations can make best use of recent developments in social media to meet the changing needs and expectations of their audiences. tags: km laurawhitehead ). tags: nonprofits socialmedia ).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 22, 2010

Social networking communities are migrant communities, but that’s another blog post. I ran an online poll that revealed about 75-80% of Admins receive these updates, but I took it offline because folks emailed that the poll wasn't correctly registering their votes.]. Tags: Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2012

The main part of the call featured case studies by peer grantees who shared their strategies for social media integration, measurable objectives, measurement, and social media techniques, particularly use of Twitter. Next up was Hanna Welch, Social Media Producer, from grist.org. Peer Case Studies.

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Classy

JUNE 1, 2021

Notice that social media didn’t even make the list. When you host an event in a virtual environment, you’re getting access to data and content you can repurpose to steward relationships, grow your social presence, and create new touchpoints to engage, educate, and retain donors. follow on social media, attend our next event, etc.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

Over the holidays, I finally visited Quora , a social learning site focused around asking and answering questions founded by an ex-Facebook employee. It does heavily rely on Twitter and Facebook for promotion, adding it to the increasing amount of social middleware platforms that are being developed. Flickr Photo by Lee Haywood.

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AccelEvents

JULY 9, 2020

Share that information on social media as well. This idea works best on social media. We’ve all seen the contests: “share this post, like this page, and tag a friend for your chance to win [insert prize].”. Polls: Polls can provide event managers, planners, and organizers with valuable information.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 30, 2009

5% A social networking site (like Facebook). 5) Does your nonprofit poll your online donors about what communication tool inspired them most to donate on your Website? [ [link] ]. Which social networking sites does your organization have an “official&# presence/profile on? Warning: Poll has been spammed: [link] ].

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Do you need a social media strategy for homecoming? Your alumni post on Facebook, addictively scroll through Instagram and celebrate their marriages with custom hashtags; having a social strategy for homecoming helps you find them where they are. Are there alumni who are particularly engaged with your social media accounts already?

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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? hard to use ?"

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2012

Survey Apps: Doing polls and quick surveys are great ways to engage your audience and there are apps for that. Poll Daddy Polls does simple polls (yes / no, three choices). And, of course, nonprofits will want to consider adding a social fundraising app like Causes. Additional Reading About Apps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

I do agree/disagree to statements like "Social media is a waste of time" or I do a spectra gram based on personal comfort level and whether or not they feel social media is valuable for their agency. Not surprising, generations somewhat correlated with social media experience/comfort level with one exception.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

He is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum , and an expert in using social media in a museum setting. One thing led to another and I designed a social media lab for arts organizations. Both organizations have demonstrated leadership in embracing social media. I said yes.

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Forum One

APRIL 8, 2021

You can reimagine old footage or images by giving them new life on your social media channels. During our most recent webinar, we took a quick poll to find out which physical service or program was most affected by last year’s move to fully remote work. Flip the physical to digital.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Early in the life of this blog, I stumbled into a taxonomy of how social platforms work that I call the hierarchy of participation. The hierarchy comprises five levels, shown above, from passive consumption of content (level one) to collective social engagement (level five). Free2choose is powerful because it introduces social tension.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2010

Social Media Trainer's Bag of Tricks View more presentations from Beth Kanter. It was almost five years ago to the day, that I did a webinar for NTEN on the topic and have been integrating social media into teaching and learning experiences ever since. Not unlike where you start for a communications or social media strategy, eh?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Here are some helpful hints to make your Facebook group a truly vibrant platform: Maximizing group features for networking and engagement: Tagging individuals in posts. Tagging folks in pictures and asking them to tag themselves also increases engagement, puts a face to a name, and humanizes the process by bridging online and on-land worlds.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Nonprofit organizations are increasingly adopting social networking tools to create a sense of community among members and donors. Although these statistics reinforce nonprofit's acceptance of social media, the numbers do not show whether organizations have adopted internal or external tools. .

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2009

I’ve combined some of my favorite RSS feeds from the NPTech community, Social Entrepreneurship sector, and Philanthropy news. 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. Visit my Alltop page here! Why am I using Alltop?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 12, 2010

And when I poll my webinar attendees about where they first heard about the webinar… the results are always the same: 1) Referral from friend 2) My Blog 3) My e-mail newsletter 4) Twitter 5) Other 6) Facebook. Tags: Facebook ROI (Return on Investment) Uncategorized. Very few new e-mail newsletter subscribers. And thank you.

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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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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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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

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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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. carlainsf @ kanter.

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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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