Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Take a look at the examples on the G-team page and let your imagination run wild." Check it out! "So

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2010

This is cross-posted from the #4Change blog here. Are there examples of specific events that really did the social media piece well? How can the continuation of conversations held at live events best be continued online? Jump in to the conversation by adding #4Change to your Twitter message. Date: March, 18th 2010.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 3, 2010

Campaigning can mean many different things and we want to keep the definition of the topic fairly open for this chat, in order to keep insights, resources and conversation in the Q/A format as open to valuable input as possible. by leaving a comment on this blog post. Date : January, 14th 2010. About the Topic. Feeling brave?

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. February 12, 2010, and promises to be "more than just a conference on the next generation web." NonProfit 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of May 17th).

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are four things it’s done that serve as examples for any traditional company, including advertising agencies."

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 12, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of April 12th).

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. They are hoping to start conversations and hear feedback about the competitions, the fundraising techniques and more.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. The YMCA of Metro Chicago faced just this challenge in the summer of 2010. Women Rule the Philanthropic Roost!

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

I was interviewed recently by Petra Kroon , a blogger focused on social media and entrepreneurship in The Netherlands, in which she asked some really great questions, including what I thought the trend would be for social entrepreneurship in 2010 as well as where we may be in 25 years. There are so many examples we could include.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2010

We will publish a number of these stories as “Conversational&# case studies over the next few weeks on both Kami’s blog Communication Overtones and here on Beth’s Blog. on November 5, 2010. Source: Fit Sugar Blog. Take for example, “Buckets for the Cure” fund-raising campaign where Susan G.

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

Let’s take Salesforce, for example. Client success story: We’ve seen plenty of examples of organizations that have switched from free fundraising solutions to Bloomerang and experienced a boost to their fundraising and donor management strategies. This keeps all conversations focused.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources across the web ever day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. nitions and examples for ten trends that we believe are shaping the use of social media in the public interest.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Let’s start at the most fundamental place for this conversation. For this conversation, and those to have over the course of the next two days together at least, let’s work from the place that a movement is larger than coalitions. A year later, in 2010, it was even bigger. What is a movement? Or engagement? org before?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

I’m honored to have a guest post up on Care2′s Frogloop blog today! Read the post and join the conversation on the Frogloop blog (or read the post below). —– Over on the NetSquared platform right now we are in the midst of the 2010 FACT Social Justice Challenge. We’re all learning as we go!

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Media Cause

MARCH 15, 2021

There are so many big things, scary, unexpected things that changed us as individuals, families, communities, and a collective human race in 2020, that as I was trying to write this blog post, it was hard to know where to start. But frankly, I’m not sure we really need another blog post talking about all those things right now.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Compelling stats can be great conversation starters, especially if you frame them around a question like – Did you know that on average, women make 75 cents to every 1$ a man earns? For example, in 1995 the New York Times had over 1.1 By 2010, the NYT circulation went down to 950,000 papers in circulation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

There was an interesting mini-conversation, which, in retrospect, I really wish I’d had a chance to explore more, about the supposed "egalitarian" nature of free and open source software development. This was the most diverse crowd I’ve ever talked with or been in for an open source conversation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

They do a good job of using examples for each of these things (like why Southwest Airlines is so successful, and why the Kidney Heist urban legend sticks so well, among other stories. It uses examples and such, but it is not anywhere near as engaging and readable as “Made to Stick.&# I’ll have to look for it.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! What are your thoughts on this issue? What has your organization experienced?

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? How #CommBuild works Each week whoever wants to participate comes to Twitter, searches for the hashtag #CommBuild, and finds a conversation about topics tied to community management. Ways to plug in Intrigued?

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See3

AUGUST 6, 2007

I have been writing a long time about how advertising is changing, how you the fundraiser or the marketer must adopt the new paradigm that entertains, shows instead of tells, and meets people in their communities with content that interests them — and allows them to contribute to the conversation. And that is for a different post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

The American Jewish World Service (AJWS) , for example, shot amazing video of their work in India, Uganda and El Salvador a few years ago. In 2010 much of their focus was on responding to the earthquake in Haiti. In this example, the video would be used to get Beth’s friends to donate to support her participation in the event.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. Another example of indirect content is that of social networks. Examples from Haiti. Direct Content. Indirect Content.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Dan Hicks suggested: Build #PositiveAction training—as defined in the 2010 Equality Act—to make a 'pipeline' to begin to address under-representation. Read Fierce Conversations. Book group, conversation, whatever. And set the right example by not doing it yourself, either. And here are a few suggestions from commenters.

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See3

MAY 25, 2007

So for example, you can look up a bill, see which groups supported it and which groups opposed it, then see which of those groups gave money to which politicians and then connect the dots to how those politicians voted. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today!

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See3

JANUARY 30, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman JAN 30, 2008 Identity 2.0

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Givinga

MARCH 19, 2019

As recently as 2010, a Fast Company journalist posited that it’s impossible to prove whether CSR helps or not 1. Employee advocacy programs drive 16 percent better conversion rates and 48 percent bigger deals 4 ; the kind of boost that can make a major difference for SMBs who need to be competitive. The answer isn’t immediately clear.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Last week, I parachuted into BlogWorld 2010 in Las Vegas for less than 24 hours. I presented on two panels (How Nonprofits Use Twitter and CrowdSourced Philanthropy) in the Cause Track curated by Chris Noble and the good folks at WhatGives. How networked nonprofits use twitter. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

My colleague, NMC's VP Alan Levine (aka Cogdog Blog ) invited to give one of the keynotes in their 3D virtual space. . Some of the future has already arrived, so may be talk about those examples. In a recent post by Scott Henderson offers up charity:water as an example. The Stars Our Destination by Gardner Campbell.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? How #CommBuild works Each week whoever wants to participate comes to Twitter, searches for the hashtag #CommBuild, and finds a conversation about topics tied to community management. Ways to plug in Intrigued?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Besides, the sole mission of this blog is … well, a blog. :-) As far as NOSI is concerned, NOSI might indeed be one of those small minority of nonprofits where the web site metrics do in fact have some measure of relationship to our mission. So, my blog has three times as many monthly visitors than Allans (hmm.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

A whopping 86% of nonprofits say they have a presence on Facebook or another social media site according to the 2010 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report. . Scrutinize these reports: how much of your conversion traffic is coming from social media sites? . Jeff Patrick, Common Knowledge. For transaction pages (e.g.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

Starting off 2010, the monthly #4change Twitter chat focused on the topic of campaigning with social media. There were quite a few participants and some really great conversation. I’ve tried to pull out some of the relevant tweets from the Twitter stream to help follow the flow of the conversation in case you missed it.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yesterday was the 3rd annual Women Who Tech Telesummit , bringing together over 600 women (and men) from for-profit and nonprofit organizations and technology start, connecting developers and techies with those new to the field, igniting conversations and long-term collaborations. WWT 2010: Apps and Tools to Energize Your Base.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

6: Social Media Can and Should be Measured: This principle is about incorporating the discipline of measurement into your approach and to go beyond just measuring “coverage&# but also measure conversation and communities. Geoff Livingston has a good post about the problems with this – using influence as the metric.

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2010

Since the release of the 2010 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , we know many of you have been hard at work looking at how your programs measure up against industry benchmarks. And if you know in advance that the blog is going to link to your donation page, clone the page and give them their own page so you can see how much they helped!

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