Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2006

Create Free Polls. 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. I'm working on a piece about widgets and nonprofit blogs (some context here and here ).

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Political campaigns use text banking for various strategic efforts, including voter outreach, fundraising, volunteer communication, polls and surveys, and event marketing. Add an on-page text opt-in form to the footer of your website. And best of all, eligible nonprofits can access this opportunity for free.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

” The company’s service allows anyone to add Stories to their app, or even their website, with little coding and setup required. Through Storyteller, the clients gain access to a backend where they can create Stories by uploading and previewing images, videos, and polls.

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VisionLink

OCTOBER 5, 2015

5, 2015— VisionLink , a community inspired software and consulting company, has developed a free, shareable, real-time, geo-tagged map depicting actual damage reports produced by Hurricane Joaquin. VisionLink is partnering with local churches and community groups to poll between 2,000-3,000 people throughout North Carolina.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2024

It’s easier to manage small-scale events with more basic, free software solutions. Your event software should have a support portal , free resources, and chat or email support to answer any questions. Price: Asana offers a free plan, and paid plans start at $10.99 Stand-out features: Registration pages for free and paid events.

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Bloomerang

JULY 26, 2021

Your website serves as the central hub for your digital strategy, followed closely by the ways you drive folks to your website, including email, blog posts, newsletters, social media, text messaging, QR codes in print media, and advertising. Commit to refreshing your website homepage, ensuring it’s both dynamic and user friendly.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

We’ll discuss how to produce a podcasts using free tools and from scratch, including pre-production, recording, editing, processing, and rendering. Then, we’ll look at various ways to market your podcast via your own website, the social web, and the iTunes Music Store. Consider your story. Can import other sources well.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Included in this article you’ll find: The results of our flash polls we conducted on year-end fundraising. Let’s dive into the poll data. “What do you think of not having a reply slip and just having a QR code that goes directly to the donation page and the website link on the appeal?” Want help that is 100% free?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2012

Play a game: “Adam has donated 2,173 grains of rice to the UN to date via Free Rice”. Open Graph is a way of connecting any website to Facebook so that people using that website can opt-in to automatically share what they are doing in real time—listening to music, reading articles, shopping, supporting nonprofits, etc.—with

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The Verge

JANUARY 26, 2021

The new app makes the change to Twitter’s new API that the company introduced last summer, enabling some long-missing features in the premium Twitter app like Twitter cards and polls. That change does come with some trade-offs, though, including the removal of user-selected options for URL shortening, image uploads, and video uploads.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

Download this free recording from Blackbauds webinar about setting your goals for #GivingTuesday. 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.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

But listen up — the Audience Choice poll closes tonight, Friday July 15 at 11:59 pm (PT). So start stuffing the ballot boxes and feel free to share your thoughts or offer feedback in the comment box. . Today is the last day you can make your voices heard and your votes count. . Here’s how Audience Choice works.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The company will now repair drifting Joy-Con controllers for free , even if your controllers are outside the regular warranty. Following the outrage over the issue in July 2019, Nintendo has begun to fix impacted controllers free of charge. Although, there are reports of users experiencing it on both joysticks.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 2, 2024

Short, impactful videos are a fantastic fundraising tool to use across social media, your website, and your fundraising pages. In interactive posts, use fun features like polls or quizzes to encourage participation and gather feedback. Ally Global Instagram stories featuring polls to gain donor/user feedback 5.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

Facebook empowers non-profits by enabling them to mobilize communities, organize events, increase fundraising, reduce costs with free online tools, and raise awareness through viral networks. Let's be honest, takes an effort to build a community Just because Facebook is free doesn't mean it is easier to get a million fans.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2011

The days of "reaching out" via a static website and hoping people come to you are over. Finding out could be as simple as conducting a survey through your newsletter or website (try free tools at SurveyMonkey.com ). Polling widgets are a fun and simple way to interact with visitors on your site. Diversify Your Content.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 6, 2011

It's an especially valuable tool for nonprofits, since it's free and offers a large, accessible audience. Don't use your Facebook page to simply reprint information that's already available on your website. Some options include videos, podcasts, interviews, polls, insightful status updates, and more. Help foster that.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

If you’re an event planner and need to market your event, you might want to take advantage of some free marketing techniques that can really help promote your event. . Consider ‘free’ ways of promoting your event through content marketing , like writing a blog post, going on a podcast, or self-promotion on social media.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

On the app, students can publish text posts, polls and photos without a username or identifying information attached. Subsequently, we notified all of our users of the fix and published the changes on our website,” Ashton Cofer, Fizz’s co-founder and CTO, told TechCrunch. Fizz told users about the issues via a blog post.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

A/B testing helps identify the most impactful strategies for website optimization, ensuring efficient use of time and money. Increase donor engagement and contributions: Testing different website elements can reveal what resonates most with the target audience. Choosing the right A/B testing tool is equally important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Note: This is an excerpt from our free e-book, The Noble Arsonist. What websites and blogs do they read? You could simply ask one question each month in a poll widget in your monthly email newsletter. So, was delighted when Darren Barefoot asked if he share a guest post about how to do audience analysis. How old are they?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

They provide a direct, owned line of communication with your audience; nearly 40x return on investment (~$40 generated per every dollar spent), are infinitely scalable and virtually free. Open your website’s analytics and see what the average time spent on that page is. Referrals are a free way to grow your newsletter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Please let it be well-designed, functional, bug-free, and fun to use because donating to 32 nonprofits through 32 different donation forms (some of which were downright nonsensical) is not an enjoyable experience. Not at all. . Zero featured a visually compelling call-to-follow on social networks. Greenpeace. World Wildlife Fund.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

The same poll shows that 68% of customer service managers have seen an increase in customer expectations. Plans range from free for two users to $332.50 A Freshworks survey found that companies experienced a 71% increase in overall contact volume between February 2020 and January 2021, and expect it to increase further.

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Classy

JUNE 8, 2021

Be sure to build anticipation by posting content to the event feed—like polls, updates about speakers, and behind-the-scenes videos. . To learn more about hosting successful events on LinkedIn, explore our free resource, Events and Groups on LinkedIn: A guide for nonprofits. Meet and Measure Key Objectives.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 15, 2017

Chatbots often live on websites, on Facebook, and inside mobile apps. Text4baby , a free nonprofit service from Wellpass in cooperation with CTIA Wireless Foundation , uses a chatbot to provide critical health and safety information for pregnant women and moms with infants. Text4baby: Health Information for Infants and Their Mothers.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 9, 2021

You’ll want to create: the event logo (as mentioned above), your Virtual Summit Registration Page, a thank you page, event website design, and sales page. You can add session pages to your event website so that visitors will see the speakers and maybe the agenda. Spots for branded elements in the event and on the event website.

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Achieve

JANUARY 18, 2023

including free platforms like Zoom. Your nonprofit will likely already have many of these tools, but if you don’t, there are several free or cost-friendly options available so you don’t have to break the bank. Your nonprofit’s website. your website. CharityBids’ guide to virtual charity events. , Live-streaming tools.

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fusionSpan

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The data speaks for itself—on the functional side, 88% of website visitors are less likely to return to a site after having a poor user experience. As for aesthetics, 94% of first impressions are driven by a website’s design. Incorporate the same brand elements, such as fonts, colors, and button styles, across all website pages.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 27, 2023

Build a Following Signing up and setting up an account is easy, and most importantly, free! Launch Polls & Surveys Start generating data by asking questions! Not only will this help boost website traffic, but it can also increase brand visibility as well as build credibility through content.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 30, 2021

But most importantly, please feel free to chat in any questions or comments along the way. And if you are interested or just kind of want to see what we got going on, there’s all kinds of videos and stuff you can watch on our website. So let me start right away with a poll here. I have a couple of polls today.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Polling capabilities enable quick decision-making between and leading up to meetings. They offer a 14-day free trial, so you can get a feel for how their software will work for your team. Some of the features offered by Promo include: Free video templates. Text and video manipulation.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 17, 2017

Whether you want to quickly create professional images or design an entire website, there’s a template for that. The basic signup is free, but if you use their images, you may have to pay a small fee of $1 for each. Meanwhile, Slides offers templates for slideshows, and Forms is home to templates such as polls, pop quizzes and lists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Other work might be creative such as coming up with a name for a new product or company or designing a logo, website or brochure or producing a 30-second video spot. If speed is a goal, crowdsourcing may not be your best option, however, saving money and freeing up staff time can be reasonable outcomes. Measuring Input.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 27, 2011

If you have a SlideRocket account, the free app lets you import and play your SlideRocket presentations on the iPad. You can add flash animation, audio narration, YouTube videos, and polls to your presentations. SlideRocket's website provides a nifty interactive tour of their functionality. Cloud-Based and Offline Access.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

You can hold Q&As with key members, volunteers, and thought leaders — use the Q&A sticker or insert a poll to create an interactive environment for followers, as the Innocent Project did. Pair Ephemeral Content With CTAs. Ephemeral content can’t just entertain — it needs to be actionable.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

Recruitment: You can recruit volunteers by reaching out to past volunteers, connecting with corporate volunteers, and advertising your open roles on social media and your website. POINT POINT offers free volunteer management tools to nonprofits, allowing up-and-coming organizations on a budget to connect with volunteers.

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