Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2009

As Jordan Viator explains on the Connection Café blog: It’s no surprise that every other blog post you read these days talks about how to raise money, stretch funds and build supporters in the current economic climate. That’s right. Give to the Scholarship Fund. Spread the Word. Check out the widget!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

I’ve always been an advocate of open data and open standards, and Facebook is a great example of a one-way street. Want to show somebody a video or a picture you posted to your profile? Truth be told, there is nothing on my LinkedIn or Facebook profiles that isn’t public knowledge, except who my contacts are.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

This post originally written September 8, 2009. Posted on Stanford Social Innovation Review’s Opinion blog. does it give your contact information outside of the social network (website, email, blog, or address)? What lessons or examples do you want to share? Visit the original post here. Going to Johnny’s party?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

While there have been different surveys on nonprofit adoption, for example, these two recent studies I profiled last month, I wish there was a benchmarking study. This week, I will kick off the Orchestras and Social Media Survey 2009 series on my blog. How much are nonprofit organizations spending on social media?

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 10, 2009

This is a cardigan I plan on making soon, as an example of an active pattern page: I made my first pair of socks ever based on a free pattern and what I learned about sock knitting technique in Ravelry’s forums: Everyone uses their project page differently, but I like creating a running mini-blog as my project is going along.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

You could possibly accept a friend request from a business partner who would raise an eyebrow at the religious beliefs or political views displayed on your profile. In August of 2009, the following exchange occurred between an employee known only as "Lindsay" and her boss, "Brian": [Lindsay]. Public profile.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

They have heavily promoted Facebook on their websites and blogs, at events and conferences. The answers are always the same: 1) From this blog. I track my blog traffic and very little comes from Facebook. Event invitations are tied to personal profiles, not Pages. asking their supporters to “Become a Fan!&#

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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. He gave context of social network analysis, explained the value proposition for using it to help you make social media strategy improvements, and walked us through some examples in the software. Have some examples?

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

2009 eNonprofit Benchmark Study. “I Can you give an example of how a voluntary organization has used Social media effectively to engage with their supporters to generate income for their campaign/cause?&# -Claire. For more: What Will Online Giving Look Like Next Year. I work in a small organisation and have heard a lot about web 2.0

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NTEN

JUNE 9, 2011

New Facebook users are barraged by emails alerting them to activities taking place in and around their profile. Offer help via yourself or other active community members with email addresses and links to their profiles. Message 2 : One week after joining: "Add a photo to your profile.". Just look at Facebook. daily or weekly).

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APRIL 6, 2009

As part of a workshop on social media that I gave with Susan Mernit at the 2009 Women, Action & the Media conference, I pointed out Wellstone Action as an example of an organization that's doing great work on Twitter. Deanna Zandt (DZ): How long have you been on Twitter? What inspired you to join?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

From a blog post in my archives, June, 2005 I took that photo of myself with a sign to illustrate a post that talked about the professionalization of blogging. It was the first mainstream article that I saw that described people being paid to blog. Here's a few examples. Innovative Giving: Leverage Your Twitter Network.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Here are just two examples from organizations that I found to be most successful and effective. Proposed solution: CC developed Red House 2009, which had three event components: Traditional cocktail party for its major donors, Nonevent called Stay@Home, and. In 2009, Red House 2009 generated $23,000 in donations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2016

For example, one of the best places to start is to create a simple list of keywords, then work towards narrowing your terms that describe your programs, campaigns or issue area. They knew that was the time to strike and and responded by creating a page on their website ( [link] ) and Yemen-related blog posts.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

Elana Wolowitz, the Communications Director and voice behind the @wellstoneaction profile, took some time out of her hectic schedule to answer a few questions. I said, "I dont know if this will be valuable, but it cant hurt," and any tactic that could help raise our profile was received well. What inspired you to join?

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. An example would be getting your high-fidelity medical simulator to talk to your LMS and LRS. If implemented, that will make a big difference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

I always enjoy the opportunity to present on social fundraising because while the tools come and go, the principles for success don’t change. I illustrated each principle with examples of nonprofit social fundraising campaigns that highlight a particular practice. Enter online fundraising contests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

For example, they recently set up an Amazon wish list for their Food Pantry and posted to their FB page. Within minutes, a fan commented that they had just placed an order for them. They have successfully used Facebook to identify and cultivate donors.

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2011

million gifts 1.879 million unique donors 66,470 different nonprofits Seven-year time span (2003-2009) Donations from a wide range of nonprofit sizes and types About the Study The purpose of this data mining wasn’t to create another study about the rapid growth of online giving (though it is skyrocketing). We looked at: 3.6

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Also posted on the Frogloop blog for nonprofits here. A couple of examples: GreenPeace didn’t have everything they needed to conduct an email campaign so they set up a Myspace profile. Twitter still has a small user base compared to all those who are generally “online&# - compared to those with email, for example.

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MAY 15, 2009

billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day (worldwide) More than 20 million users update their statuses at least once each day More than 4 million users become fans of Pages each day A couple of examples: GreenPeace didnt have everything they needed to conduct an email campaign so they set up a Myspace profile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Even better, she agreed to share a blog post about what she learned on this blog. You could easily refuse a telephone in 1949 and not be too crazy, but this is not true by 2009. To stay updated on how the legal landscape develops, follow the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic blog at UC Berkeley Law.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Submitted by Alan Levine, publisher of CogDogBlog Since it is already a week in the rear view mirror, this ought to be my last post about the 2009 NMC Summer Conference. A dream would be to know for sure there was one or more persons in each session blogging and sharing it so we had a record or artifact of all sessions.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Tuesday, November 9, 2010 How To Produce An Effective Company Blog If you lead a business and aren’t part of the 34% of U.S. Make your blog as non-promotional as possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2010

Right before the holidays, eBay released 2009 figures for Giving Works , its fundraising program and marked a historic record for total funds raised for non-profits through ebay.com. A great example of this is a woman named Elizabeth Bennet, who runs an eBay store called AfricaDirect. Does your nonprofit have a profile on eBay?

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APRIL 14, 2022

For example, grocery store chains are usually more likely to partner with food banks in the community. For example, in 2009, the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) struck a deal with Coca-Cola and received backlash because soft drinks and sweetened beverages are often pointed at as large contributing factors to the obesity epidemic.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

He was recently named 2009 Young Professional of the Year by the Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. For example, if you are a food company, you would get someone like Jim Harris who is a board member of ICA. He is the example of the American dream. He is a former COO of Scharffen Berger Chocolate. It's a big challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Note from Beth: I met Madeleine Taylor back in 2009 while I was Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. I captured it in this blog post. Real network examples. This was fairly early in the Foundation’s exploration of networks and Madeleine came in to discuss her approach to evaluating networks.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking What is Jumo? They have also been very active on Facebook and Twitter along with a few entries on the Jumo blog. Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on November 30th, 2010 Jumo means “together in concert” in Yoruba, a West African language.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. An example of positive feedback is : “Bob, your communications skills have dramatically improved over the past couple of months. How To Write An Employee Satisfaction And Engageme.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 15, 2011

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Much of what you read on my Blog may not be new to you, but hopefully, it’ll serve as a good reminder of things to consider when you lead your next employee, team or group.I’m

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 1, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Sunday, August 1, 2010 Always Follow Through Set a good example for your employees and follow through on everything you say you are going to do. If you say youll send a team member a report, do so.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Much of what you read on my Blog may not be new to you, but hopefully, it’ll serve as a good reminder of things to consider when you lead your next employee, team or group.I’m

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

What about the families who show up on your free days religiously or the ones blogging about your new artifacts? For example, on February 7, we had a free 1stfans behind-the-scenes event with conservator Lisa Bruno talking about animal mummies. Could you create a membership that speaks specifically to them?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. For example, a presentation on LeaderLab explains: Management is made up of activities needed to run a business, unit or organization to help achieve its goals.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Much of what you read on my Blog may not be new to you, but hopefully, it’ll serve as a good reminder of things to consider when you lead your next employee, team or group.I’m

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Much of what you read on my Blog may not be new to you, but hopefully, it’ll serve as a good reminder of things to consider when you lead your next employee, team or group.I’m

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