Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

NTEN has recently published the “ Equity Guide for Nonprofit Technology ,” that describes in detail how your organization can dismantle inequity due to more intentional technology choices. This way, people can comment on or start a discussion about a certain item directly within the document – both asynchronously or in real-time.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

note: This article is part of NTEN's Member Appreciation Month spectacular. note: This article is part of NTEN's Member Appreciation Month spectacular. Consider setting up a weekly yes-or-no poll question that you send out every Thursday, or leave it open-ended and invite followers to message you with their replies.

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NTEN

AUGUST 19, 2011

One of the most prominent attributes of NTEN members is the willingness to share: ideas, tips, lessons learned. Drop us a line or include your links in the comments! This week at NTEN , we’re listening to find out how data-driven our community has become. Please take a second to take our poll. Have more news to share?

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

On day 2, I was part of the Visual Communications panel with four panelists (some you might recognize from the NTEN Community!): We also asked the audience what tools they would recommend through Poll Everywhere. Here''s what they said. Special thanks to the mighty team at the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training!

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

It may be a marketing and communications team; it may include an Executive Director’s personal blog; it may be rotating news from program staff; it may be volunteer commentators from the board, key activists, and allies. Tags: CMS Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN Planning steve backman Web Sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

Are widgets useless foo foo or can they be used strategically to generate comments/discussion or attract new readers? For example, linking a poll to a post on the topic. The examples so far: Audience Feedback/Organizational Listening - Message/Comments - as seen on Life Kludger - A survey/Poll as seen on the Bamboo Project.

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NTEN

JUNE 30, 2010

This was followed by each of the evaluation questions (pre-recorded by NTEN's own Holly Ross) and a prompt for their answers. Online: On the backend, this system was nearly identical to the Call-In option, as the two were just different input options for the same Precision Polling system.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

This can be as simple as a poll or having participants type a reflective question in the chat at the beginning. There is limited air time for everyone to speak, but you can get input from everyone quickly using a chat or polling feature to stimulate and focus the discussion. Tailor the Interaction to the Size of the Group.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Comment Notification. Subscribe to this posts comments using RSS. Leave a Comment. Comments (required). Please feel free to contribute non-profit technology tips and ideas by commenting on blog entries. Reader Polls. Rebecca Muller. said: I think this spans across many industries, not just nonprofits.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Turn on commenting to stimulate group dialog around your posts. . Tags: jeff patrick Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media Web Sites Communications. Remember, you can switch “Like” to “Recommend” if appropriate -- and because folks can’t “Not Like” your content, you don’t have to worry about managing unflattering ratings. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Help bring back Ranger Rick's profile Email: appeals-comment@facebook.com and ask them to let Ranger Rick exist on Facebook! According to the NTEN Blog , Blackbaud , a provider of services designed for nonprofits, has launched Blackbaud Labs , a sandbox for projects in the pipeline. Peter Gulka had plenty to say about the lab.

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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. Someone on the 501 Tech Club NY list ( NTEN Affinity Group ) suggested a name change might be needed. There is now a poll to vote on names suggested by people. applications have changed the rules of online community.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

Get Interactive: Ask people to take a poll or share a story. Receive monthly updates 3 Comments | by Share Article in E-newsletters , Email Marketing Reader Comments (3) One thing Ive found that works extraordinarily well for large, national NGOs is mailing on local issues. by age, interest, activism level).

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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. Most of my friends rarely follow through on their resolutions (never me, of course!)

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Maddie Grant, founding partner at Culture That Works and NTEN board member. Not only should the members of your audience be able to share your content with the click of a button, they should also be able to add their own comments to what they share. The panelists included. Dale Pfeifer, CEO of GoodWorld. Make Sharing Your Content Easy.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

These site subscribers are the hubs of their own social networks -- a population un-polled by traditional pollsters but known to the campaigns. Mash-Ups: Twitter gives you 140 characters to make your point ("tweet") to an international community of people interested in following your comments. and aggregates them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2012

The complicated design involved the use of text or online flash polls that could be shared on the screen and have the audience take the poll. This works well your discussion is going to be linear and ours ended up as a non-linear format, so I decided to ditch the live polling. Knowledge Capture and Reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2018

The bot, available via Twitter and Facebook Messenger, polls its followers (called ‘U-Reporters’) on a range of topics and uses the data to help influence public policy. Automating the FAQ function 24/7 for stakeholders with questions comments, or requests without increasing staff workloads. Unicef’s bot has had some early successes.

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