Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 29, 2010

Earlier this week, an announcement on the Causes Application blog broke the news that over $20 Million has been donated since May 2007 via donors using the social networking application. You can read more about the MySpace/Facebook move here , here , and here.). million raised by 2009 America’s Giving Challenge participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

Note from Beth: Last Spring, Allison Fine and I did an evaluation report for the Case Foundation on the America’s Giving Challenge 2009. It’s time to view the lessons learned as a way to stretch the dollars invested and make change more scalable. Money is tight, but information is elastic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Note from Beth: Last month I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel at Association of California Orchestras with Marc van Bree , an arts and social media blogger I met in 2007. All communications were strictly limited to my blog, Twitter and Facebook. The lessons for arts organizations. But consider the following: Networking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The afternoon featured six mini-workshops that drilled down in the use of the tools such as Facebook , Blogging , Storytelling , Listening , Twitter , and Social Media 101. (The The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections. Balancing Learning Through Content Delivery and Sharing Experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Barely a week goes by that I don’t see at least one status update or tweet from a nonprofit colleague lamenting a hacked personal account, including email, Twitter and Facebook. You could easily refuse a telephone in 1949 and not be too crazy, but this is not true by 2009.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Ironically, this story broke right before I was going to hit the publish button on a guest post by Katherine Hutt who shared the details of their strategy for a small nonprofit, Generations of Hope, also competing for the $250,000 Pepsi prize, approximately 1/3 its operating budget in 2009.

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Care2

AUGUST 14, 2009

[This article is adapted from excerpts from the new e-book, " Learning from Obama: Lessons for Online Communicators in 2009 and Beyond ," by Colin Delaney, Editor of Epolitics.com. In his run for the presidency, Barack Obama raised more money than any candidate -- ever. The main tool his campaign used to solicit money?

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