Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 13, 2008

Social Actions is a nonprofit initiative that helps you find and share opportunities to change the world. Peter Deitz is the man behind Social Actions and here’s is how the $20.09 Peter Deitz is the man behind Social Actions and here’s is how the $20.09 Go Social Actions!&#. So, I gave $20.09

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 3, 2011

From famine in Africa to war in the Middle East to global economic collapse, people are increasingly becoming overwhelmed by all the tweets, status updates, photos, and videos of gloom, doom, and despair. If it continues as it has, then I fear that many people will begin to check-out and become numb to our calls to action.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 4, 2009

All 10 finalists will be invited to present their ideas at an international conference, “The Soul of the New Machine: Human Rights, Technology, and New Media,” at UC Berkeley, May 4 and 5, 2009. Social Actions’ Change the Web. We want you to dream up a new tool to help people find and share actions. Learn more.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

UNICEF Haiti365 – Be Their Voice – I'm really excited to see this new campaign from UNICEF – focused on the children in Haiti, and building on a multimedia effort to move people into engagement. "Haiti "Haiti 365 will continue to evolve as more people create videos and sign-up to show their support.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

According to the American Red Cross , A recent Red Cross survey asked 1,058 adults about their use of social media sites in emergency situations. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people. In 2009, for example, 2 trapped girls in Australia chose to post to facebook for help rather than dialing directly.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

Continuing the theme of "busy mom" from last month , I wanted to take a moment to talk about the need for organizations to optimize their sites for use with mobile devices. Nielsen reports that as of Q1 2010 , 23% of people with mobile devices now have a smartphone instead of a regular old boring/dumb cell phone. First - some stats.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 29, 2010

Here is the graph of donations on Causes since it launched in May 2007: Some of the additional data provided from Causes in their announcement , includes: 400,000 people have made at least one donation. $25 million raised by 2009 America’s Giving Challenge participants. Context : That’s a lot of people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

The winner will get to attend the Inaugural Ceremony and Hawaii Inaugural Ball! Here's the description from the Case Foundation Web Site: It’s easy to enter – just 2 simple steps: Think about what you can do to help your community. It won't help if people "over-think" this or make too much of this, but we are asking for real commitments.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

That said, people love Facebook. I have been in trainings where if I even hint that perhaps Facebook is a little over-rated, then eyes glare, people shift in their seats, and I have recollections of a few people even walking out. Those sites let users know in advance when changes are coming. I don’t think so.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

I recently had the opportunity to connect with John Brennan , the driving force behind OpenAction.org , which empowers individuals and organizations by helping them tell the world about the positive impact their actions have. In June 2009, John decided to sell nearly everything he owned and set out for New York City (via San Diego).

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

This week - September 14-21, 2009 - we’ve asked individuals to step up and make a difference by using the Web to better their community. If you are looking for inspiration, search for opportunities on Idealist , the partner site for Mozilla Serive Week. Now’s your chance to take action! What is Mozilla Service Week?

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NTEN

APRIL 3, 2009

was created to allow people to share pictures of cute cats." IdealistNews.org aims to be the Digg , er, Reddit of social news sites, while Academic Earth wants to be the Hulu of education. Social actions wants you to tap their API. Ethan Zuckerman's " Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism ": "Web 1.0

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

The winner, Critical Exposure, learned a lot about engaging people via social media tools, so it might be worth it to check out their story. Check out the presentation slide-deck referenced in the post for detailed information about considerations and steps for making it easier to get your supporters to sign up and take action!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2010

The week is a signature event created by the Points of Light Institute , to celebrate ordinary people doing extraordinary things to improve communities across the nation. OK then, for the rest of you, here are 10 sites you can use to find the volunteer opportunity that suit you best. Still here? The Extraodinaries Got a minute?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

:: Vinspired Voicebox :: Our robot - I'm excited to see the Voicebox in action! "This is a data visualisation project, curating young people’s views on issues that matter, visualising the findings, and then setting the data free for you to do the same." Where we are, how we got here, and where we are going.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Way back in 2009, when I first Peter and Madeline, we brainstormed some questions about the strategic use of social media to build a network. A generative social impact network links people together through relationships. They have joined forces and along with John Cleveland, have written “ Connecting to Change the World.”

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Sounds crazy, I know, but Joel Bartlett and his team did just that when they created Super Chick Sisters – a game focused on educating people about the cruel treatment of chickens. The game was released in the fall of 2009 and has had more than 20 million plays. I’m Joel Bartlett, the director of marketing at PETA.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

This map shows some of the sites where Oxfam is providing water and sanitation, as well as employment through the cash-for-work program. Oxfam has reached 100,000 people across multiple sites and is aiming to reach 500,000 total over the next six months." The future of the nonprofit sector depends on it."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

2009 - Connected Action - Marc Smith - Social Media Network Analysis View more presentations from Marc Smith. In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine, we provide an overview of mapping your social network in Twitter and other sites using some of the social network analysis tools available. .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

For organizations, web stats are useful indicators of how many people are being reached by their message, the geographical spread of the visitors and whether or not a specific campaign was successful in driving traffic or creating actions (like donations, or letters, etc.) Why bother having a web site at all?

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

Email: While more than 35 percent of American adults now have a profile on at least one social networking site – the best way to reach supporters is still email. Emails sent to activists who had recently taken action on a given issue received 3x the response rate of regular full-list actions. Here are the highlights.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Mozilla is reaching out to geeks far and wide to give a helping hand to nonprofit organizations and people all over the world to experience the joy of using the Web! Here's an update from Mike Everett-Lane on the Social Actions blog about how the nonprofit tech community is supporting the event. Here's some ways to participate: 1.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

The organization and challenge: After years of traditional fund-raising events, Catholic Charities CYO (CC) in San Francisco decided its approach was getting stale and that it needed to broaden its audience to include opportunities for young people. It was to serve as the kickoff for Red House 2009 and was hosted by a board member.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Last year, I couldn't decide and ended up writing the look back as a lessons learned, a personal New Year's resolution post, and a round up of what nonprofit folks had on their minds as they entered 2008: Four Lessons Learned: Social Media and Nonprofits Meme: I listed four lessons learned and tagged four other people.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

Email: While more than 35 percent of American adults now have a profile on at least one social networking site – the best way to reach supporters is still email. Emails sent to activists who had recently taken action on a given issue received 3x the response rate of regular full-list actions. Here are the highlights.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

In November 2009, Oregon was identified as one of the 10 states in most fiscal peril by the Pew Center on the States. In response to the economic crisis, during 2009 MMT expanded its grantmaking strategies to help nonprofit organizations survive the economic downturn by helping with core and general operating expenses.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

One purpose is to allow users to modify their own information (if the site allows logins.) This is when actual code is written in the CMS (via module or customization) which calls APIs on the CRM side to perform specific actions, such as adding records, syncing records, grabbing data, etc. Integration. at 2:34 pm @Lobo: exactly!

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2011

Much of our strategy is to engage with people online—whether they are already PETA supporters or people who have never even considered animal rights—and games are a vehicle for engagement. The game was released in the fall of 2009 and has had more than 20 million plays. I'm Joel Bartlett, the director of marketing at PETA.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

You can follow the story at www.fatcyclist.com , or you can just go join the people making it happen by donating here or here. By this time (12/11/2009 2:23 pm pst) he's raised over $135K. Create a challenge or competition that inspires people to compete. It's only been 8 days ! 5 Takeaways. what else can we learn?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

As people adopt technology and broadband and wireless access becomes commonplace, nonprofits are buoyed by the ability to use the Internet and technology to communicate quickly and effectively. It's a relationship driven by their experiences with their bank, their airline or travel site, and yes, Google, Apple, YouTube and eBay. .

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 20, 2009

I was recently awarded a scholarship to attend the NTEN (Non Profit Technology Network) Conference in San Franciscio, which is going to be held from April 26th-28th, 2009. The 2009 Nonprofit Technology conference is taking place from April 26th to April 28th at the San Franciscio, Hilton. I need your help. When is the NTEN Conference?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2015

With crowdfunding sites taking the business, art, and nonprofit world by storm with exponential growth since 2009, it's easy to overlook peer-to-peer fundraising. People often organize into teams to participate and raise funds, and physical action is required. Make a clear call to action for the audience to do.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

During the course of the 2009 fundraising campaign, the task ahead of me often felt like Medusa : if I stared directly into any of those serpentine eyes, I was frozen. In 2009, we didn't put an end date on our campaign. Are we delivering quality content to the people who follow us? well, you get the idea. . What's up Samantha?).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

I could tell they were passionate, fired-up people who had great ideas for strategies and projects to help kids learn better,” said Best in a 2014 interview in Fast Company. Today, DonorsChoose.org is the go-to site for alternative sources of funding for the classroom. “I’d listened to my colleagues in the teachers’ lunchroom.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

For many people who find you online, your website is the organization. Your website should tell people who you and what you do. Use email to reach out to your constituents to let them know what you’re up to or to ask them to take action. take action: are your calls to action clear and immediately stand out.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Last week, the world’s population reached a staggering 7 billion people. Now, it only takes about 13 years to add a billion people! People are living longer and more children are surviving to become adults. Please visit the site to view this video). Please visit the site to view this video).

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NTEN

MARCH 12, 2010

People are comfortable watching short videos online, and even full-length TV shows and movies. There is an expectation that people have that they can easily SEE the issue, and not just read about it. That there is no reason not to do a lot more video in 2010 than they did in 2009. Which Muppet do you most identify with and why?

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