The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 25, 2022

However, just because your nonprofit has an active Facebook doesn’t mean you can automatically utilize Twitter or LinkedIn effectively. Get People Talking on: Twitter. Twitter is an opportunity for continuous and open conversation with your supporters. Twitter’s demographics are commonly under 50 and college-educated.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 22, 2010

In 2008, many of the friends of the Nonprofit Organizations MySpace migrated over to Facebook, then in 2009 and 2010 a good number of the new fans came from @NonprofitOrgs on Twitter. Number of Comments and Likes per Impression. Comments + Likes)/Impressions. and in the News Feed of your Fans.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 24, 2010

At the beginning of each of my webinars, I poll my attendees: “Where did you first find out about this webinar?&# Every so often a supporter will testify to your good work via a wall or blog comment. Facebook/YouTube/MySpace Comments and Twitter Mentions. If your nonprofit is already blogging, plot your stats.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 5, 2018

TED Twitter polls. TED , a nonprofit that spreads ideas through short, motivational talks, has been using Twitter polls to their advantage this year by asking their audience which topics and speakers they’d like to hear from next. Tell us about it in the comments! Read it here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 12, 2010

I do occasionally give thumbs up, and sometimes I’ll even comment. Compared to Twitter and MySpace, it’s been a much more difficult community to grow and engage. I get little to no website or blog traffic from Facebook (most comes from Twitter and LinkedIn). Thumbs up and comments are difficult to inspire.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

A little while ago, we got a question from a client about Twitter. It’s a good question, and it got me thinking about the kind of content nonprofits might want to share on Twitter on a day-to-day basis, and how an organization can get the most out of microblogging. The most popular pieces will be featured in our newsletter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2012

Twitter: There are two different apps to integrate Twitter. Twitter App automatically re-posts your tweets in your Facebook Page status. Selective Tweets allows to you to selectively post a status update on your Facebook Page from Twitter simply by adding the hashtag “#fb”. Mari Smith, The Big List of Apps.

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Facebook Marketing Poll YouTube 101

Bloomerang

JUNE 15, 2021

According to a 2019 study by the Harris Poll, 55% of fundraisers reported feeling “unappreciated” in their work. Drop them in the comments below! . Twitter | LinkedIn | The post How to Overcome Meddling Nonprofit Management and Boards appeared first on Bloomerang. 3: Support your fundraising staff and respect their autonomy.

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NetWits

JUNE 20, 2012

Facebook has 901 million active users; 500 million people use Twitter; 8 years worth of content is uploaded to YouTube every day; Pinterest has 4 million unique views daily. They have 1500 Twitter followers and tweet daily. Their Facebook page features images, events, videos, polls, a map and even their gift shop.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 20, 2021

Using social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, you can prime the audience and get them excited about what they are about to experience. Create an event hashtag, run live polling, share videos from past events and blog posts from your branded event website. Competing requires investment, and investment requires engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2008

Yesterday, Marnie Webb asked an interesting question about choice of tools - specifically the choice the question of "Twitter or Blog?" It would be hard to answer this as a comment of a blog post too or if someone was doing a quick poll. Twitter is easy to use because of its simplicity. " Great question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2012

A blog carnival is a series of blog posts related to one theme, in this case, the promotion of USDA-proposed nutritional standards for snacks in schools, which coincided with a Kids’ Safe and Healthful Foods Project poll showing that most Americans support the guidelines.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Facebook is a “picture economy” (whereas Twitter is a “link economy” ); pics are the most engaged content, the most in-demand. Questions and polling. Think about allowing others to add their own options to the poll – when is it appropriate, and when is it unnecessary or confusing. Pictures are great conversation starters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2011

The use of mobile and social media enhanced the experience beyond having the standard back channel via a hashtag on Twitter, but the substance of his comments resonated. There is also Twitter integration. It is fairly simple to use and while not free, it is relatively inexpensive. Moving from A Problem to Solution Frame.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 20, 2021

Using social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, you can prime the audience and get them excited about what they are about to experience. Create an event hashtag, run live polling, share videos from past events and blog posts from your branded event website. Competing requires investment, and investment requires engagement.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 31, 2019

With some platforms, like Twitter , you can post a bit more?usually Simple things like polls and surveys or Q&A sessions can go a long way to increase social media engagement with your brand. If people have questions or comments, respond and make them feel personally recognized. It also matters how much you post.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 10, 2020

Run interesting Twitter polls. You can easily make it feel like a community by engaging in the conversations happening in the comments on your posts. Using this content type doesn’t take much of your time. You can do simple things like: Host a Q&A session . Ask the audience to share their story . Post a Facebook survey.

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NTEN

AUGUST 19, 2011

Drop us a line or include your links in the comments! Among his suggestions: check out your click-throughs on twitter. It’s time everyone understands why just tracking how many people “Like” you on Facebook or follow you on Twitter isn’t enough. Please take a second to take our poll. Share your links in the comments!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 24, 2007

As a first start, I have a new poll. poll=2] { 1 trackback } Roundup for November 2007 « Nonprofit Blog Exchange 07.09.10 at 12:09 pm { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 11.10.07 I’ll be blogging on that as I go through it, for sure. I hope you’ll take it!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

While it’s impossible to track these donations unless you poll your online donors, the more your nonprofit utilizes social media to build your online brand and your e-newsletter list, the more likely potential online donors are to discover your nonprofit—and your nonprofit’s “Donate Now” landing page. Inspire first; ask later.

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" The polls close at midnight on Halloween. To create a new comment, use the form below.

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Qgiv

JULY 27, 2021

Do a survey, do a poll, do a Facebook Live, call people on the phone, do a focus group. The third main responsibility of a social media manager is community management–answering questions, DMs, comments, maybe creating policies if you work in a controversial or polarizing issue and need to make sure your community is safe.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

We also asked the audience what tools they would recommend through Poll Everywhere. To learn more about the 2014 MFOM Conference visit the conference website , and check out the conference hashtag on Twitter: #MFOM14. Here''s what they said. Special thanks to the mighty team at the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

There’s a poll on mashable.com , where the sentiment is most certainly heavily in favor of Facebook opening up the social graph. at 2:16 pm { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Eugene Chan 01.04.08 at 2:16 pm { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Eugene Chan 01.04.08 2 admin 01.04.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2008

One of the reflections to come out of this week SXSW Conference was for moderators of panels to use Twitter (or back channel tool) to poll the audience upfront and monitor it real time. Adding Twitter as a listening tool will really demand a new level of moderation skills. How do we negotiate what we have the capacity to do?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

The final tip Leroux Miller shared acknowledges the reality that online audiences are inclined to multitask during webinars so presenters should keep their tone conversational to keep their audience engaged and consider using a webcam or live polling for interactivity. Make Presentations Social. How to Design a Bad Presentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I've been thinking about how to best incorporate the back channel or in this case Twitter. Two recent blogs, " How To Present While People Are Twittering " and " Trends in Leadership Conferences " are the most recent blog posts packed with advice. The tool of choice has changed from IRC or Meebo to Twitter and the use of hashtags.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

This caused an angry uproar on nonprofit blogs and Twitter from nonprofits saying there were plenty examples of nonprofits using social media effectively! The back-channel had a poll feature and one of the questions about change agents inside of nonprofits. One point that Seth made that really stuck with me was about leadership.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

You can find her work at www.initlive.com or on Linkedin and Twitter. Keep track of the followers who comment, share, and mention your page the most. You can incorporate fun polls and surveys to engage potential participants and appeal to your advocates.

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Volunteer Tips Fundraising Social Media 52

Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2011

Here are the results of one of the live polls conducted during the webinar: Facebook. Twitter is a great tool for getting your message out in a method that spreads quickly. LinkedIn is a social media site, but unlike Facebook and Twitter, it is much more professional in its usage. Jayne Cravens: Coyote Communications.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 13, 2014

That's why, at the start of any workshop, after the first poll of the room or the webinar attendees, I offer my definition of virtual volunteering: Volunteers completing tasks, in whole or in part, off-site from the organization being assisted, using any Internet-connected device (computer, smart phone, etc.). Is it Facebook?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2008

m now adding a section suggesting that the moderator first poll his community using some of these tools, and to also monitor the back channel in real time, while not all conferences will embrace a back channel, it???s Recently, I wrote a post that has been passed around many conferences on how to successfully moderate a panel.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 6, 2011

Some options include videos, podcasts, interviews, polls, insightful status updates, and more. Promote community interaction by inviting reader feedback through questions, and then be sure to respond to comments. Click here to read "Twitter Dashboards and the Dark Side of Tweeting" — where ASU Lodestar Center's Kayla L.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

How do we activate the online activists to take action offline?" I was not presenting, but decided to use Twitter crowd source some suggestions, screencapture them, and put those into my presentation later in the day. Ironically, one of my Twitter followers suggested asking them nicely and giving them schwag. Please leave a comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

I usually do this in a room with a quick poll, but I wanted to push myself to create the content based on their questions. For example, you can use Twitter as both a listening tool and for participation. You can listen with google alerts, technorati, twitter, and RSS readers. Also, the categories have overlap in terms of tools.

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Achieve

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Make your online content more interactive and engaging using these content ideas: Blog posts with comments sections. Social media polls. Social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook and X (formerly known as Twitter) allow you to send out polls and questions to your followers. Online contests or challenges.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

That’s astounding really, but equally astounding, if a whole lot less obvious: your site visitors are increasingly getting to your site from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other social media sites. Source Coding : If you’re not doing it now, set up source coding for the links posted in your interactions on FB, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

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