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UK Charities needed for Virtual Promise

amysampleward — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:10:45 -0400

NFPSynergy, the only specialist research consultantcy for nonprofit organizations in the UK, wants to hear from your organization for the next Virtual Promise report. Over the last seven years, Virtual Promise has provided a unique insight into the use of the internet by charities in the UK.

With growing numbers of participants every year and readers from around the globe, we're told it's the only way charity professionals can compare and benchmark their new media activity, priorities and investment.
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6-Question Nonprofit Social Media Survey: Let Us Know What You Need to Know

Britt Bravo — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:51:00 -0400

Thanks to a grant from the Packard Foundation, NetSquared is in the process of developing curriculum to help nonprofits use social media effectively.

Before we can create the curriculum, we need to know what you need to know so we're not developing the curriculum blindly, or making assumptions about what you want to learn.

We've put together a brief, 6-question Nonprofit Social Media Survey that will take about 5 minutes to complete. We'd really appreciate it if you took a few minutes to take the survey, and to pass it on to other interested folks.

Thanks, and have a great weekend!

What are Your Favorite Online Polling and Survey Tools?

Britt Bravo — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:26:05 -0400

Looking for recommendations for web-based polling and survey tools. What are you favorites?

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Rate Your CMS Provider for NTEN

Britt Bravo — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:57:40 -0400

Brett Meyer, NTEN's Communications and Web Manager, asked me to ask all of you to take a moment to fill out their CMS Satisfaction Survey. The survey has 14 questions and will take about 5-10 minutes to complete.

Wondering what CMS is, or if the one you are using is on the survey? Here's what NTEN says:

" CMS Defined
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The Civil Society Project Looking for Survey Participants

thecivilsociety — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:04:30 -0500

Over the next year (or so), the Civil Society Project will be studying the culture of online communities. We are seeking participants willing to take a short survey and contribute their thoughts and experiences with online communities. We are looking for participants from every age group and from a wide cross-section of the metaverse. If you are willing to take a few minutes and help contribute to this study, please visit: http://www.civilsocietyproject.blogspot.com.

Healthcare Blogosphere Survey

eweinb04 — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:11:10 -0500

In July 2006, Envision Solutions and The Medical Blog Network launched the first global survey of healthcare bloggers. They launched the survey because the healthcare blogosphere is rapidly growing in size and importance.

The results of the survey are now available and you can view the full report at http://www.envisionsolutionsnow.com/survey.html.

Here are the findings of the survey that I thought were interesting:

3.3% of the respondents classified their blog as an advocacy org/nonprofit
When asked about the most important reason they started blogging, 19.2% of the respondents stated that they blog to educate others and 8.5% of the respondents blog to advocate for a cause
When asked about the second most important reason they started blogging, 24.9% of the respondents (the majority of the respondents) said they blog to educate others and 11.9% blog to advocate for a cause
55.7% blog about health news, 60.9% blog about personal experiences, and
47.1% blog about disease information

Since not many of the bloggers that participated in this survey blog for a nonprofit, I started thinking about the blogs I have come across that are for health related organizations and the content health organizations could blog about.

One of the best analyses of the Social Web - now accessible to everybody!!

fmarks — Tue, 02 May 2006 14:18:44 -0400

Thanks to a tip from Tim (thank you, Tim!) who went back and tried the links, we all know now the articles were finally made public. Andreas Kluth, the writer, told me that he pushed for changing the rules as well. Glad we all succeeded! Now go and read!

Congrats to the First Winner in our iPod Nano Giveaway!

Gina Cardazone — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:11:14 -0400

Congratulations to Amanda Atkins, who answered our Social Web Survey and won an iPod Nano! Amanda works for Metropolitan Affordable Housing , an entrepreneurial non-profit organization committed to improving the quality of life for people living on limited incomes.

Like many of our 700+ survey respondents, she came to the survey through TechSoup.org, the technology portal for nonprofits that is the home of the NetSquared project.

Amanda uses social networking sites as one stop shops to blog and share photos. Though she enjoys using them personally, she doesn't use them at work, and sees her main challenge as being public perception of the professionalism of these tools.

Net2Builders Call to Action: Online Event & Social Web Tools Survey

Britt Bravo — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 17:08:54 -0400

Every Wednesday I post a Call to Action on our Net2Builders group and to the Net2 blog so check it out, and answer the call!

Tech Soup is going to be hosting a free, two-day online event called,"Using Social Networking Applications" April 19th and 20th at http://www.techsoup.org/fb/index.cfm?fuseaction=forums.showSingleForum&forum=2033&cid=117 . I've posted more info. below.