Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2011

Text Poll App from MobileCause. Here’s a summary of the highlights of the conversation: Before I dive into the content, I had the pleasure of experimenting with a text polling app to find out the composition of the audience and their experience with the panel topic. I’m at the Innogive 2011 Conference today.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Plan Impact-Driven End-of-Year Giving Campaigns You’ve raised money all year long using different techniques from direct mail to email marketing. Otherwise, try a traditional thermometer or post a funky impact-inspired infographic on your site. Most of the time, you’ve asked for money to create change.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

NameCheckr easily allows social media manager to search nearly 50 of the most popular social media sites to see whether their first choice of usernames are still available. SlideShare is the largest PowerPoint sharing site in the world. Postable allows users to easily send Thank You cards through snail mail. Sejda :: sejda.com.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

What happens when you poll crypto traders about whether liking crypto was an “attractive feature”? Still, Jacquelyn ’s well-timed Valentine’s reporting based on a Binance poll is good news for those among you who like to keep things immutable. PST, subscribe here. Happy V-Day! Want a free Disrupt pass?

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Bloomerang

JULY 26, 2021

Is your site well organized and easy to navigate? . If you haven’t navigated through your site for a while, you may be amazed at how unfriendly the experience is. Is it easy to join your mailing list? Consider Twitter polls or Q&A sessions or surveys. Do donors receive a mailed thank you card? If so, how?

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Content management systems (CMS) have transformed standard expectations -- about posting news and updates without web design skills, managing donors and other constituents, opening up sections of your site to your community, tracking results, and more. Matching Planning to Site Goals. For some projects, that may still make sense.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2011

Make sure you're providing timely, valuable information, and using tried and true tools like newsletters and e-mail to remind people of the value you provide. If your audience is accessing your site with limited bandwidth, you may want to keep your content basic with no unnecessary bulk. Think Old School. Start a Conversation.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 6, 2011

Some options include videos, podcasts, interviews, polls, insightful status updates, and more. Add a link to your newsletter or other mailings, let your donors know about the page at events, and include share buttons on all your electronic communications, your blog, and other networking sites. Click here to learn more.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 30, 2021

So let me start right away with a poll here. So I’m just going to launch our first poll here. I have a couple of polls today. I’m going to end the polls and see what it looks like. They can do it on their, you know, desktop, on their phone, mail, tablet, wherever you are. All right.

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M+R

DECEMBER 23, 2021

From absurdly long voting lines , to the USPS removing mail collection boxes for mail-in ballots, voter suppression was rampant in 2020. For example, Mother Jones ’ investigative story on Kentucky’s drastic reduction of polling places in predominantly Black neighborhoods was shared widely on Facebook (320,000+ shares).

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Care2

JUNE 8, 2010

They send you shorter, more frequent updates through phone calls, email messages, the occasional greeting card, and updates on social networking sites where you’ve connected. They ask you questions about how you are doing too (think online surveying and polling).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

A few important questions to ask before your consider adding a widget to your blog or web site. Does your web site or blog publish excellent content on a regular basis? Since widgets were fairly new, I installed a mail widget on my blog and asked nonprofit techies what they thought. Act 2: Why. Act 3: A Few Good Examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Create Free Polls. I tried one for audience polls and one for messages. However, 85% of the really small sample of folks (10 people) who took the poll think that widgets could be useful to building community if used strategically. Can help you easily link to other sites, content, or individuals or republish your feeds.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

If you watch Colbert , you've probably already been to FiveThirtyEight , an in-depth poll aggregation site. Now your entire org can benefit from tools like "Mail Goggles", which promises to stop you from sending regrettable e-mails after a couple of drinks. Pumpkin cookies ! The We Are Media Wiki.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2005

The editing will be done in the browser, on your site, so there will be no need to up- and download pages. A CMS also ought to manage the menu structure of your site automatically. You may even be able to set the date you want the item to appear or vanish from the site. Give us a holler if you'd like to take a look at it!

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

We’ve had a pretty busy day on the site today, with a veritable cornucopia of news spilling all over the internet. The new discussion group enables more people to be included and features voice and video calls for up to 32 people, as well as emojis galore, polls and large file sharing, Sarah reports. PDT, subscribe here.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Polling capabilities enable quick decision-making between and leading up to meetings. With templates for presentations, posters, social media posts, direct mail letters, and more, your organization can easily brand marketing collateral to help spread the word about your campaign.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 22, 2012

Whether it is a polling site locator, candidate guide or any other type of resource that is good to reference on election day, do your best to make it mobile friendly. People will be waiting in line at the polls, checking facebook or twitter on the bus or train and you want your information to be quick and easy to read.

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Achieve

MARCH 17, 2023

Instead of focusing your communication efforts on one platform—like email or direct mail—multichannel marketing helps you expand your reach and keep your existing supporters engaged across multiple channels. You can also create CTAs that invite site visitors to sign up for your volunteer email list or your monthly newsletter.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Create connections between your site and social profiles. You can even add a QR code to direct mail that leads to your organization’s account. Make sure to mention the contest in your regular emails and newsletters so your entire mailing list will know about it. Create connections between your site and social profiles.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 1, 2021

Facebook fundraising tools are designed to keep people on the site rather than send them to a crowdfunding platform or other website. Your organization will get a check in the mail from Network for Good, a third-party that serves as Facebook’s partner. Host polls and contests to engage your audience. So what’s the catch?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 23, 2007

Do you want an online community to have more site hits to show potential donors, or so you can gather emails for your mailing list? Whether it is through a poll, survey, focus group or informal chats, find out if an online community is something that interests them, and if it is, find out what need it fills.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 24, 2024

Once you obtain this data, you can activate it across online and offline channels , including direct mail, email, and social media. One of the key elements of a cohesive SEO strategy is choosing relevant keywords your audience may search for and incorporating them throughout your site. Polls and quizzes.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 6, 2006

» Monday Nov 06 2006 Crowd-sourcing to Clean up Elections and Foil Chad Monday, November 6, 2006 at 04:58PM | by Jordan Wait Source: VoterStory Web site Voters, listen up. 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."

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Kindful

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Here’s how to test your idea out and gain initial feedback: Go to any networking event to test your idea with professionals you don’t know (no polling friends, family or co-workers!) Following the directions at the site, you may be able to submit your application online. You can apply for an EIN online, by mail, or by fax.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

to quantify exposure Time spent on page & Vote count from poll program ??? s choice award Number of youtube video views of winning submission MEASUREMENT TOOLS - tangible Sourced links for new list names from marketing ??? to quantify ROI Page views from our stats program & Video view count from youtube ???

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

You can check any particular site with the Heartbleed test to see if they're vulnerable. Thankfully, the TechSoup site is unaffected. In a recent Gallup Poll Social Series survey , Americans have chosen environment as a priority over economic growth by a 50% to 41% margin. We don’t use OpenSSL on our servers.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

A great tool to see how different companies make their product the hero is by looking through swipe files curated by sites like [link]. For example, if a mailed appeal with a matching gift incentive consistently outperforms others, keep using that format. Sending a recurring newsletter or print mailing to engage supporters.

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2008

The HSUS winner (we picked) was featured on our website and social networking sites. The people’s choice winner (chosen by an online poll) was also featured on our website and social networking profiles. It was also turned into a TV PSA in the winner’s hometown of Chicago.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

The HSUS winner (we picked) was featured on our website and social networking sites. The people’s choice winner (chosen by an online poll) was also featured on our website and social networking profiles. It was also turned into a TV PSA in the winner’s hometown of Chicago.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

60) Search « A Procrastinators Guide to Year-End Fundraising | Main | Five Tips for Online Fundraisers from a Direct Mail Dinosaur » Thursday Nov 08 2007 MySpace.com: A Place for Donors? Does their profile have an e-mail capture box on it? But was there ever any gold? And is there any left? And is it even worth it ?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

60) Search « A Procrastinators Guide to Year-End Fundraising | Main | Five Tips for Online Fundraisers from a Direct Mail Dinosaur » Thursday Nov 08 2007 MySpace.com: A Place for Donors? Does their profile have an e-mail capture box on it? But was there ever any gold? And is there any left? And is it even worth it ?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

Resolution Four: "I resolve to make our web site easier to use and more informative." 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.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 17, 2020

By using features like event gamification, interactive polls, quizzes, Q&A sessions, and live chats can help you increase engagement. This site is a place where you can direct online marketing and sell tickets or registrations. . But, more often than not, you will have to work it into your programming. . Website Visits.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 17, 2020

By using features like event gamification, interactive polls, quizzes, Q&A sessions, and live chats can help you increase engagement. This site is a place where you can direct online marketing and sell tickets or registrations. . But, more often than not, you will have to work it into your programming. . Website Visits.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 16, 2024

Elevate your nonprofit’s email presence and cut through the junk mail with the help of this versatile marketing software. What we love about Smartwaiver With an offline mode, Smartwaiver provides flexibility in collecting waivers, even if you don’t have an internet connection on-site of your event.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

They promoted the campaign through social media sites and raised $300k online within two months. They have multiple, creative opporunities to engage through online quizzes, polls and games.

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