3rd Sector Labs

JULY 22, 2014

For months, Third Sector Labs has been polling webinar attendees at the opening of each event, asking how many different fundraising systems attendees use to execute fundraising appeals and campaigns. Almost everyone is using 3 or more systems, with nearly 50% using 6 or more. What they don’t tell us.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Pundits and bloggers in the nonprofit sector often lament the inability of social media to raise money for nonprofits. It’s true that Web 2.0 widgets and apps have yet to raise large amounts in online dollars for most nonprofits, but that doesn’t mean that social media is not resulting in large amounts of dollars raised online.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 6, 2011

Maria Rainier , Freelance Writer & Blogger. Some options include videos, podcasts, interviews, polls, insightful status updates, and more. First in Education. Facebook is a leader in social media, with approximately 500 million users across various demographics. Need help improving your social media skills?

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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. You can also participate vicariously through bloggers by encouraging them to write about your organization. (10 Tools to help you participate are Twitter and Co-Comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

I knew some of the participants on the thread, well-known bloggers, authors, librarians, educators, and thinkers. This conversation thread was rich, witty, and thoughtful. The site is also becoming popular with technology insiders in Silicon Valley.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

I referenced Liza Sabater's Brown Bloggers meetups, but could not point to any studies or stats. Blog is Beautiful Latino, Asian/Pacific Islander-American, and black bloggers. often these bloggers discard the handcuffs of their ethnic origins to tackle subjects affecting a range of racial or ethnic groups. Twitter Poll - ???Which

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2006

The article points out some recent articles and polls that suggest a cooling off in the hype around blogs. It talks about the disparity of audiences between the so called A-List and other bloggers. These include: New York Magazine: Blogs to Riches - The Haves and Have-Nots of the Blogging Boom by Clive Thompson. February, 2006.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

s experience (good and bad), the NTEN Affinity Groups , particularly Emerging Technology, Nonprofit Bloggers, or Nonprofit Webmasters, are good lists to connect with your peers on these topics. For example, linking a poll to a post on the topic. One of the most used widgets by nonprofits are the audience poll widgets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

A while back, I was obsessing about this and read through this report: Pew Internet and American Life Project Report titled "Bloggers: The Internet's Storytellers" from July, 2006. So, here's another poll designed to learn about RSS subscription behavior. A pdf version can be found here. ) Cherrypicking certain posts/feeds?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

Each tweet is hand-crafted and relevant to our audience, something we checked by asking our followers want sort of information they wanted from us in a poll. Being proactive rules out using RSS feeds to populate our Twitter feed. Conversations focus on next steps and areas for further exploration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

I've been asking nonprofit bloggers to tell me what they think, point me to examples on their blogs, and of course, I took a look at all the widgets in the various widget directories like Widgetbox (see Marshall's review here ). -The For example, linking a poll to a post on the topic. What problem does a widget solve?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. TwtPoll enables nonprofits to create polls that can be shared on Twitter or any any other social network. Even if you are set in your browsing ways with IE or Firefox, Google Chrome only takes of few minutes of your time to download and experience. intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

TwtPoll enables nonprofits to create polls that can be shared on Twitter or any any other social network. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. TwtPoll :: twtpoll.com. You can also view statistics about what time people voted and from what country. Twitter Mosaic :: sxoop.com/twitter. It is a must download!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Many blogs, like the Razoo blog , went red on Thursday as part of Free Burma: International Bloggers Day. 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. and color schemes for your blog. Early detection is important.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Some aspects of content creation could be outsourced to experts and guest bloggers. Using interactive content, such as polls, surveys, and quizzes, could enrich the perspective of your nonprofit and help to fuel more relevant content. The issues nonprofits are trying to solve are conducive to engaging content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2017

Nonprofit blogger Vu Lee has some tips on what types of openers to avoid. This works for a small group of 12 or less. (If you have a larger group, you can use an online polling app like Slido that allows participants to use their cells to share their answers and automatically generates a word cloud.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The Cambodia Bloggers Summit and the Boliva Blogosphere will have their first ever bloggers conferences on Blog Day ! Some say it is impossible and a poll by wikimedians here. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

important with higher-engagement leveled UGC campaigns PROCESS - marketing Email Website Social networks Web badges Blogger outreach OUTCOMES Both tangible & intangible Increase list members (we don???t to quantify exposure Time spent on page & Vote count from poll program ??? google syntax to show you who???s Youtube UGC ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

There are also other platform-specific widget directories: wordpress ( here and here ) and blogger If you're on another platform, try the Squidoo Widget Finder Lens. " Widgetbox For bloggers like me, Widgetbox offers a Widget panel. It's one click! There is a widget gallery where you can go shopping for widgets.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

With a tangible call to action, ColorOfChange recruited more than 285,000 members during the course of the campaign -- gathering together the rightfully angry tweeters and bloggers into one cohesive voice -- and managed to convince nearly 300 advertisers to stop supporting the show. The difficult part is keeping it going.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2011

Here are the results of one of the live polls conducted during the webinar: Facebook. Blogs are usually quite easy to create through blog hosting sites like Blogger and WordPress , and can look very professional with not too much work. As we can see, the most widely used social media site is Facebook, and in last, blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

I'm too shy to do an online poll. It is good to have some experienced bloggers around who can help you out with simple questions you may have. I would be interested to know if this is what readers think. Communities of practice theory. Practical examples. Technology. The art of advising communities of practice. t do it for an audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Allan Benamer of the Nonprofit Technology Blog continues his coverage of the software vendors with a poll to debrief the Convio merger teleconference and a hug. Now " The Giving Carnival " over at the Tactical Philthanthropy Blog provides a roundup of several bloggers opinions. Michael Hoffman from See3 is worried.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2009

And to help capture all the great insight the nonprofit community has in store with its resolutions, we’ve also created a poll to capture your ideas on how to make technology work for you and your organization in 2009. And don't forget to check out these great nonprofit bloggers’ resolutions for 2009.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

Strategies include cutting down on content clutter, developing an intuitive navigation structure that makes information easy to find and engaging your audiences through surveys, polls and commenting features. This article was written by Grace Yi, Frogloop blogger. What are your top nonprofit resolutions for 2009?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 20, 2012

Author: Guest Blogger. And Chrissy Faessen of Rock the Vote shared that they found attendance at the polls on election day increases 3 to 4 percent when their constituents receive a text message the day before, reminding them to vote. So at the very least, be ready to do some testing to figure out what works for you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Eager to make my point, I polled my fellow Gen-Xers on which fundraising platforms have had the most disruptive impact on charitable giving since 2000. “For example, we haven’t been raising money with the Internet for very long,” I said. But it’s impact has been huge since you were in the…well…second grade.”. Disruptor: Facebook.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

Strategies include cutting down on content clutter, developing an intuitive navigation structure that makes information easy to find and engaging your audiences through surveys, polls and commenting features. This article was written by Grace Yi, Frogloop blogger. What are your top nonprofit resolutions for 2009?

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Socialbrite

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

You want engagement,” advises Linda Ferrinho, a nonprofit blogger at Draftbeyond.com and Lastminutewriting.com. “As Another handy feature you may want to use is a poll, which is great for getting people involved while hearing about their opinions on your NPO topic. Make your tweets engaging. You want to inspire and educate them.”.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 13, 2011

She goes on to cite a poll by Harris Interactive which found "only one in 10 Americans strongly believes charities are honest and ethical in their use of donated funds." What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger. Thats a pretty disturbing statistic!

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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. There was lots of advice plus pointers to blogger relations guide, like this one from e-politics and a word of a soon-to-be-released guide from free range studios. And if you???re

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

I have a different poll that I wanted to do which builds on some of the wise words that Alli put out. When Sophia contacted me and asked if I would talk here, my first thought was, "You know, I could talk here, but I just know so many amazing women who have stories that I want to share." Ilyse Hogue: Hi.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2005

In doing a little research for this post, I came across the East Side Bloggers 2008 , a blog by 10th graders at East Side Community High School. As the technology for making podcasts becomes increasingly user friendly with Web sites like Odeo and Gcast , they are a tool not only to reach adults, but young people too.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. We were in the middle of a recession, Governor Patrick was at a historic low in the polls, and Senator Scott Brown had just been elected in a huge upset, energizing the Republican party and deflating Democrats. The following post is by Joshua Gee. heart liberal and a son of the American Revolution.

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