Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

You could simply ask one question each month in a poll widget in your monthly email newsletter. You don’t need a team of crack market researchers to question your supporters about who they are and what they value. You can use a simple online survey tool like Google Drive or SurveyMonkey to collect information about your audience.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Then, encourage them to have a question and answer period or live polling where the virtual audience is asked to contribute. This will leave your virtual audience feeling like they are part of the conference or hybrid meeting rather than a widget on a laptop. . Networking opportunities.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

My favorite feature that Twitter has finally released to all of its users is the Twitter Polls. The revamped notifications tab will feature many different widgets and show more personalized content and news, current weather, trending haps on Facebook and more. You can now ask your followers a question and give them two choices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2006

So, I decided to use his scale and create a widget poll. This prompted me to wonder about nonprofit flickr contact behavior and create the above poll. Answer the poll and drop a comment about the other questions. Think museum curator versus pawn shop. Ahh, that makes my ego feel niiiiice, ooooh, more please???

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2011

Polling widgets are a fun and simple way to interact with visitors on your site. Visitors are directed to the server nearest them, which increases the speed of delivery of your website and decreases the load on your originating web server. Start a Conversation. On the Web, the best way to engage people is to ask a question.

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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. Good article from the New York Times about widgets, " Some Bling for Your Blog " and a post on the Yahoo Blog about social media meets fundraising.

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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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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

Use social widgets to allow easy interactions such as like, share, comment, etc. Use polls to ask a question. Polls are a win-win concept. Present further engagement opportunities. Even something as trivial as a like can act as a bind between your audience and your organization.

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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. Britt Bravo looks back on a poll from last year about recommending social networking software and points to recent spoofs about Facebook and Social Networking. mean for you?

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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

OCTOBER 20, 2007

The ever popular widgets seen on blogs, for example, take advantage of APIs. Some nonprofits have begun to utilize widgets and other light-weight Internet applications to leverage social networks. To the extent that APIs make widgets possible, these nonprofits benefited from the use of open platform technology.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Reader Polls. NPC Carnival. online community. online storage. open source. podcasting. project management. Social networking. spreadsheets. text to speech. Volunteers. Wild Apricot. June 2008 (9). May 2008 (9). April 2008 (14).

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

And what is the optimum combination of videos, pictures, text, friends, and other widgets? Does their profile include a donation widget or a link to click for donations? If it does, how much money has been raised and which widget are they using? The most popular widget was Change.orgs , with Sixdegrees.org also being used.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

And what is the optimum combination of videos, pictures, text, friends, and other widgets? Does their profile include a donation widget or a link to click for donations? If it does, how much money has been raised and which widget are they using? The most popular widget was Change.orgs , with Sixdegrees.org also being used.

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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. Hear her talk about widgets here ).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2011

Many nonprofits have concluded prematurely that social media does not directly contribute to online dollars raised because amounts given through Facebook, Twitter or MySpace apps and widgets have been relatively low. But that conclusion misses the bigger picture of what’s really happening.

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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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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Place the website URL in every description available in your accounts and enable a widget on your website main page to have social sharing buttons towards your social media accounts. Use the information you collected through polls or surveys to put together a blog post.

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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. Podcast Pickle & Podcast Alley & Odeo - good directory, has a good community forum, as well as embedable widget players for your website. Maybe you just target your board members to keep them informed, etc.;

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2024

Robust reporting with interactive chats, live polling, and hybrid audience Q&A capabilities. Interactive audience experiences, including Q&As, polls, and chats. Collect waivers in multiple formats, including a kiosk, email link, QR code, or embedded waiver widget. Price: Contact for pricing.

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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. And of course, the campaigns themselves are using network centric tools to activate a grass roots base.

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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. Poll your donors. Donate to your own Cause and widgets to get the ball rolling!]. 81% answered no.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 6, 2006

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." " Basically how it works, is that the VoterStory widget can be placed on any Web site. Youth with access to video phones can document their voting experience and have it posted online.

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