Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

What kind of content should they be sharing over Twitter and Facebook? So why would anyone on a “social” platform like Facebook or Twitter want to read boring tweets or updates? Communications should be Multi-Channel. For example, in 1995 the New York Times had over 1.1 Engaging Content is King. Probably not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

The first part of the problem is that India still has low literacy rates - the 2009 Annual Status of Education Report shows that between classes 1 to 8 only around 40% of children can read a class 2 level text in their own language and an even lower 23% of children can ready easy sentences in English - sentences of the kind "What is your name?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2016

Social media listening (or social media monitoring) is the practice of paying close attention to digital channels when conversations relevant to your cause are being discussed. When influencers and supporters talk about your work online, you’ll respond quickly on the right channel with the right call to action!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2011

Note from Beth: I’ve been looking for good examples of nonprofit mobile strategies. I wanted to find out more about how Seafood Watch integrates its mobile strategy across its communications channel, including social media. The original Seafood Watch iPhone app was released in January 2009. What were some of the results?

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Take the Share a Coke campaign, for example. Coca-Cola used Twitter hashtags, Facebook pages, interactive kiosks, TV ads, email marketing, YouTube videos—you name it. In a 2009 campaign, the American Red Cross achieved an 11:1 ROI and increased the average donor gifts by 43 percent with an integrated campaign. Get Started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Since 2009, we’ve posted a weekly first-person success story and podcast on our My Story blog. Because of the project’s scale, we opted to use Twitter as our communications channel instead of Facebook. For example, after re-tweeting one of our stories, one supporter wrote: “@GoodwillIntl: THANK YOU for the amazing work you do.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

Here is a short list of innovations that happened after online giving began in 1999: Airbnb, Android, Bitcoin, Chrome, Dropbox, Etsy, Facebook, Github, Hashtags, iPod, iPhone, iPad, jQuery, Kindle, LinkedIn, MySpace, Netflix, Oculus Rift, Pinterest, Reddit, Slack, Tesla, Twitter, USB Flash Drive, Venmo, Wii, Xbox, YouTube, and the Zettabyte.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Email is a critical channel. Facebook General Growth data: More than 200 million active users. billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day (worldwide). A couple of examples: GreenPeace didn’t have everything they needed to conduct an email campaign so they set up a Myspace profile. More than 3.5

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

» Tuesday Feb 17 2009 Reaching Baby Boomers: The Next Big Demographic in Nonprofit Online Fundraising Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 03:50PM | by Allyson Kapin By: Allyson Kapin , Blogger-In-Chief Direct Mail acquisition is one of the most expensive ways to raise money these days. LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace).

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

» Tuesday Feb 17 2009 Reaching Baby Boomers: The Next Big Demographic in Nonprofit Online Fundraising Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 03:50PM | by Allyson Kapin By: Allyson Kapin , Blogger-In-Chief Direct Mail acquisition is one of the most expensive ways to raise money these days. LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009, there were more nonprofit focused panels and happily the trend continued at SXSW 2010. Turning Facebook Followers Into Change Agents 100,000 followers, and you still want more.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Here are a few examples: The " FaceTime " feature of the new iPhone 4.0 As the popularity and use of social media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter continue to grow at staggering rates, we can expect these tools to become more and more a part of everyday business for employees. You "tweeted" on my LinkedIn!

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

TechSoup's NetSquared Initiative partnered with the HRC in the first conference The Soul of the New Machine in 2009 to help select a winner in their Mobile Challenge. Lyman gives the example of the user interface of a website, which we often. take for granted even in our home markets, and how it must be made.

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Care2

JUNE 5, 2009

Websites like Facebook, MySpace and YouTube are among the top 10 most trafficked sites in the US. For now, direct mail fundraising -- especially when used in a multi-channel strategy -- continues to bring in the most revenue. Maximize email signup opportunities across your websites and social media channels.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2012

I secretly hoped that at least those other 95% recycled… And I couldn't help but draw parallels in my mind about marketing channel mix and energy. How do countries (and organizations) approach energy (channel) mix in an environment that seems more in flux than ever? In the energy marketplace, coal and gas are still king.

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See3

OCTOBER 25, 2007

What this means is that if you are in the program, viewers will see a “Donate&# button both on your channel page and when your video is playing in a standard page. The viewers/donors might look similar to what we see on Facebook causes but we will wait until we have some real data before speculating further. Can anyone help me.

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See3

OCTOBER 25, 2007

What this means is that if you are in the program, viewers will see a “Donate&# button both on your channel page and when your video is playing in a standard page. The viewers/donors might look similar to what we see on Facebook causes but we will wait until we have some real data before speculating further. Can anyone help me.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

Email is a critical channel. Facebook General Growth data: More than 200 million active users The fastest growing demographic is those 35 years old and older More than 3.5 Facebook General Growth data: More than 200 million active users The fastest growing demographic is those 35 years old and older More than 3.5

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

But it’s also the latest online creation of Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. They have also been very active on Facebook and Twitter along with a few entries on the Jumo blog. This is also where the connection to your Facebook account comes into play.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

You’re not Angry Birds or Facebook. If there's anyone I know who has passionately argued for multi-channel fundraising strategies, it's the guy who writes this blog. Mobile is going to be a huge channel. Even the most downloaded iPhone applications reach a small percentage of users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

There have also been some good critiques of the article that I’d like to highlight here: Article Isn’t Well Researched: There Are Good Examples Out There of Folks Using Social Media for Activism. The examples are there, too. I am reminded of the PDF 2009 keynote from Mark Pesce about the Tower VS Cloud.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

» Sunday May 31 2009 Is Direct Mail Dying or Dead? Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 02:22PM | by Mal Warwick My, my. I love my 800 friends on Facebook. The most successful organizations are going to be those that use a multi-channel approach based on what your donors are telling you they want. I tweet from time to time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

In September 2009, we launched mycharitywater.org , a website where anyone could give up a birthday, or run any type of fundraising campaign, for clean water any time of the year. Is this a multi channel campaign? In 2007, 92 people gave up their September birthdays to bring water to a hospital in Kenya.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

According to Emarketer, the proportion of companies using dedicated blogs as a marketing channel—excluding blogs on social networks and microblogs such as Twitter—will rise to 39% in 2011 and to 43% by 2012. Post your blog on Facebook. Source: Entrepreneur, March 2009 Be A Visible Leader Walk around.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2009

We have a hashtag and many of us tweet to one another, leave comments on blogs or Facebook profiles regularly. Social network platforms are an example. The NpTech Community has been early adopters of social media and social networks like Twitter. He doesn't have the secret recipe. There is no secret sauce. Failure for free.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2011

Facebook: facebook.com/witness. In February 2006, WITNESS first social media tool was the launch of its YouTube Channel. WITNESS currently utilizes the following social media tools: YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and “Video for Change” (blog). A good example is witness.org/spring2010. Organization: WITNESS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

The example I talk about in the poem covers the initial use of NWF's twitter accounts and then continues to how we actually starting using it to improve and grow one of our programs- "wildlife watch". is a great example of this. With Twitter, Facebook, Digg and Stumbleupon gone are the days forgotten lore. link] wildlife_watch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

So for this post, I'd like to share 5 fundraising trends that we saw emerging in 2009 related to fundraising and social media and that will most definitely continue to have impact in 2010. Social Media Fundraising As Part of A Multi-Channel Strategy. More than $550,000 was raised last March. .

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

Facebook As the fifth-most trafficked site in the United States, Facebook is a great social network for nonprofits to build a community and brand their campaigns. For example, when Joe Trippi is not able to be on Twitter, he asks his staff to tweet timely news on his behalf and sign their own name at the end of the tweet.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

We have certainly seen some examples of maps or charts that the user can interact with, but with the over saturation of static infographic images, 2014 and the plethora of tools emerging that make these options really easy, we will see more organizations using data for storytelling that users can watch, click on, and really explore.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2009

Email: Email is a critical channel, not talked about enough! Facebook being the major player here with general growth at this point including: > 200 million active users. A few key examples she gave on advocacy and nonprofit success in social networks included: MyBarackObama.com , a good example of this in action.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2015

Keyes notes some early examples of how the Movements.org crowdsourcing model is working: Activists in Russia connecting with a songwriter in New York to compose a catchy song for their cause. It is for people who are already posting on Facebook and Twitter and for whom more attention is only good." Images 1 and 3 : Movements.org.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Nor does it require that we leave our human faculties at the on switch – the internet democratizes the channels. When it comes to the internet, you can of course find lots of examples where twitter or facebook or email have been used by governments or corporations or regimes. Facebook is increasingly hard to excavate.

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APRIL 24, 2021

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