Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2011

That high-profile celebrity 35% or influential leader endorsement? Online fundraising revenue grew overall by 14% between 2009 and 2010. How are you working to build trust with your community? Slightly more than a third (34%) gave as a result of a workplace fundraising 52% drive.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.) But the path to truly portable (with adequate privacy controls) profile, social graph and activity data is still not entirely clear.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2011

From 2009 to 2010, the open rate for organizations of all sizes and sectors declined by 12% on average. Meanwhile, unsubscribe rates held steady from 2009 to 2010. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Highlights. The fundraising response rate fell by 19%, while the advocacy response rate fell by 7%.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

Fundraising and building a robust and active email list is critical to nonprofits who want to thrive in a multi-channel world. 3) Email appeals are not dead: although according to M&R Strategies, email open rates declined by over 48% between 2005 and 2009, it does not mean the email channel should be ignored.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

There’s More to a Millennial than Updating Your Profile « - Here is a great response to a recent PRSA blog post that, in my opinion, took the premise that Millennial staffers are great as tools for social media but, gasp, heaven forbit they represent your organization! ." Find me on Delicious for more!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Signing up for new ones, making profiles, adding friends, adding applications, etc. They own my profile, and whatever time I spend adding content. It means lock-in that they don’t have to build. My curmugeonly thoughts fall into three basic categories of sucks: time suck, content suck, privacy suck. at 9:46 am Web 2.0

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

Fundraising and building a robust and active email list is critical to nonprofits who want to thrive in a multi-channel world. 3) Email appeals are not dead: although according to M&R Strategies, email open rates declined by over 48% between 2005 and 2009, it does not mean the email channel should be ignored.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 13, 2010

When you add in everything else they do, from being an ambassador of the event to raising your organization’s profile in the community, it’s easy to see why these are relationships worth developing. As donor acquisition declined from 2005-2009, peer-to-peer fundraising was one way to find new donors. Don’t stop there, though.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2009

Today is Blog for Choice Day 2009 , an event organized by NARAL Pro-Choice America. This is the fourth annual such event and is meant to organize pro-choice bloggers to write about choice, raise the profile of reproductive rights, and educate their readers about the issue. And that I'm able to help them do it!

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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. Spread the Word. Put this great little widget made by NTEN to good use! Check out the widget!

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2009

Alliance for Tompotika Conservation , Cacapon Institute , Project Kindle , and Project ABE take away the highest honors in the Adobe Show Your Impact 2009 Design Contest , co-sponsored by software company Adobe Systems Incorporated and TechSoup. We'll be profiling each of the winning orgs here on the TechSoup Blog over the coming weeks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

Pick a campaign and platform to experiment with integrating social fundraising , but build your network and get organized first. The grandfather of all Giving Days – Give the Max Day in Minnesota has helped raise $46 million for nonprofit organizations across the state of Minnesota since launching in November 2009.

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

IOT Physical Simulators: The idea here is to build physical training devices that connect to online learning technology. This profile will promote standardization in how simulators report over the Internet to databases. The data is there, and the demand is there; it’s just a matter of doing the work.

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Care2

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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

We’re building nonprofits, businesses, and brands around our Facebook communities, and yet every couple of months we wake up to new changes (made primarily to benefit Facebook’s revenue model) that we have to figure out for ourselves and scramble around. Event invitations are tied to personal profiles, not Pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Some tips to build capacity and benefiting from a fundraising contest: Get organized both online and offline. I’ve had a lot of experience with online contests, both as a participant (winner) and working two reflection papers for the Case Foundation ‘s America’s Giving Challenge. Image by Codilicious from Flickr.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

. “For the following report, we interviewed 50 companies, developers and executives building or leveraging real-time Web technology. We combined that research with insights gained from more than 300 industry leaders that participated in our Real-Time Web Summit in October 2009. I was surprised to learn how broad this field is.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The errors of a few, but well-known nonprofit organizations have hurt the nonprofit sector in public opinion as well as capacity- and infrastructure-building ability. They reference an article from the fall 2009 Stanford Social Innovation Review , The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle. Attempting to Combat the Overhead Myth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

In January, 2009, the Pew and American Life project released a report on Adults and Social Networking Use mentioning that more older adults have set up profiles on social networking sites, but that younger people more likely to be using social networking sites regularly. Boomers are sharing links to their favorite causes,” says Reece.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2016

What we’ll show you is how to build on your engagement opportunities and take action. To fully build out and optimize your list of search terms will take time. We profile three different types of influencers in the guide and how to best to approach them. Get it here: https://attentive.ly/listen.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

60) Search « The ROI of Social Media | Main | Advocacy Online Launches in the US » Thursday May 21 2009 Earned Media: How to Stay Relevant and Track It Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 01:20PM | by Allyson Kapin “If you dont brand yourself, Google will brand you,” says branding expert Sherry Beck Paprocki.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

2009 eNonprofit Benchmark Study. “I for supporting us; and make sure your real one is prominent to begin with, like on your profiles in social media platforms and so on). Online Fundraising: Harnessing Technology to Build and Maintain Relationships. For more: What Will Online Giving Look Like Next Year.

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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

This is a good way to avoid application fatique and a great way to build interest in the application. The email directed me to a set up page where I selected a Cause from the too many I've installed on my profile There was also a recommendation from Causes which was for CharityWater. It matches real world philanthropic behavior.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 24, 2009

On the heels of the NTEN webinar on Community Building and Management showing nonprofit organizations how to socially enable their missions, Carie Lewis of the Humane Society of the United States has launched the TAFA Online Community for the 2009 Taking Action for Animals conference. Author: Jordan Viator.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2009

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. We're raising money, and matching funds up to $10,000 , to help make sure we get as many great, deserving people to this year's conference as possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Here is what I found to be the most relevant and interesting to the nonprofit sector: Collecting Evidence Online Is it ethical for a prosecutor to “friend” a defendant (with a real or fake profile) to find out potentially incriminating evidence about their whereabouts, friends, or behaviors?

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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. So we signed up with Pathable and started in April building out the site with them which is at [link] (it is hosted on their site- that’s just a redirect URL).

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 6, 2010

Friday, August 6, 2010 Lets Build A List Lets build a list of the most important attributes of a good leader, and lets only use one word (or a hyphenated word) at a time to describe each attribute. Source: Entrepreneur, March 2009 Be A Visible Leader Walk around. Make conversation with your team.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 12, 2010

Monday, April 12, 2010 Build These Leadership Skills I had the pleasure of interviewing Overland Park, KS-based author Leigh Branham recently. Source: Entrepreneur, March 2009 Be A Visible Leader Walk around. GEN X Employees -- Like having their professionalism and growing knowledge valued. Make conversation with your team.

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See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

They have also made it easy to build. My assumption is that you could custom build a Facebook application using the API, but if you wanted to use their Facebook connector, you would have to only have one. With the Convio toolkit, to the person adding the application to their profile, it has nothing to with Convio. Interactivity.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 25, 2010

Tuesday, May 25, 2010 Play Team Sports To Build Leadership Skills Todays high school and college team sport athletes are learning leadership skills that will serve them well when they enter the workforce. Source: Entrepreneur, March 2009 Be A Visible Leader Walk around. Be An Effective Team Member. Make conversation with your team.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 17, 2010

Monday, May 17, 2010 Build A Strong Team. Youll learn as a manager how to build a strong team. Be An Effective Team Member. Its somewhat difficult to find a copy of Price Pritchetts 1992 handbook called, The Team Member Handbook For Teamwork, but if you do locate a copy, it provides you good, practical, useful information.

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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. All of this activity is yielding new knowledge about how to build and support effective networks as practitioners and funders report on their insights and struggles. I captured it in this blog post.

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Qgiv

APRIL 14, 2022

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. When you make a sponsorship ask, it’s important to build a personal connection.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

The more successful you are, the more you have to give back." -- Jose Corona, Inner City Advisors Jose Corona is the Executive Director of Inner City Advisors , a nonprofit that helps build sustainable and responsible inner city businesses that create quality jobs, reinvest in the community, and contribute to the local economy.

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