Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

How do we activate the online activists to take action offline?" I was not presenting, but decided to use Twitter crowd source some suggestions, screencapture them, and put those into my presentation later in the day. jeffshuck @ kanter I'm biased, but events are a powerful way to move online advocates offline.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Instead, interactive tools, customization, and smart strategy allow nonprofits to go far beyond this to involve supporters in meaningful actions online that accomplish their mission. All these audiences have unique interests, which may be served online or offline, and may overlap. Removing barriers to community engagement.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

On & Offline Engagement. Whether you’re using social networks, or other shared spaces online, the social web is where you can find others, figure out the actions you want to take, spread news and information, promote the actions, and even stream media/data while taking the action. Online is great for organizing.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

It enables: Offline relationship building with donors and the community Creative materials that leave a lasting impression on donors Highly targeted and personalized messaging (when done well—more on that below!) People often—and understandably—assume that older donors are the only audience to engage with direct mail.

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sgEngage

MARCH 30, 2021

million people combined to raise over $1.3 It also points to the accelerated shift in funds from offline to online. For walks and 5Ks with and without fees, the organization’s mission tends to outweigh the interest in the activity, so when the activity was taken away, the drive to fundraise for those participants was not.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2013

While beautiful charity galas and creative offline campaigns still gather support for nonprofits’ causes, they slowly slip away from donors’ focus. And, having them set accurately, can determine the outcome of any further actions. Having people which do not read your emails is not constructive.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2011

First, identify what your community wants to do – what it is coming together around, whether it’s an event, an action, or a movement. That’s the sweet spot where you can focusing your calls to action and community engagement. Go Where the People Are. Lastly, be active in sharing your toolbox. Transparency. Case Studies.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

How Big Tech Harms Social Justice and Equity For many nonprofits, social media platforms are vital communication tools with which to organize people and provide them with services and information. These barriers and disruptions to visibility, access, privacy, and safety impact people’s online experiences—and have offline consequences.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

Keep doing the offline stuff for the offline people! ’ In other words, if a large number of people in an area haven’t the access or the skills to use the internet – what are local public services doing to get this fixed? " ' There are two responses I usually give here.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Instead, interactive tools, customization, and smart strategy allow nonprofits to go far beyond this to involve supporters in meaningful actions online that accomplish their mission. All these audiences have unique interests, which may be served online or offline, and may overlap. Removing barriers to community engagement.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Donor engagement is what your organization does to build and strengthen donor relationships and the methods you use to keep donors active and involved. As the intimidation factor ratchets up, you stop talking to your donors like human beings; instead, you end up addressing them like they’re a mass of nameless, faceless people.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

October 15th was Blog Action Day , a day for bloggers, podcasters and vloggers to write about and raise awareness about an issue. Blog Action Day is a wonderful idea, but it feels too short to make a real impact. In addition to making an impact online, I'd like to see changebloggers meeting offline as well.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 16, 2024

Fun Team Events | Best software for entertainment activities Fun Team Events blends entertainment and philanthropy by offering a distinctive and enjoyable avenue for your donors to support your cause. What we love about Mailchimp Mailchimp excels in collecting donor data and transforming insights into actionable strategies.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Group Tickets: These tickets are designed for groups of people attending together, offering discounts for purchasing multiple tickets. If your event doesn’t have a home anywhere online, you’re almost certainly missing out on people who would like to attend but can’t figure out where to buy a ticket.

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NetWits

JUNE 23, 2011

Donor” is a very loose term that describes an enormous group of people. As of now we have four active generations (Traditionalists, Boomers, Gen-X, Millenials) making contributions. The majority of gifts are still received offline and with an integrated approach the average donor value is shown to be higher.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

NGOs, activists, and even governments have used bots to automate positive social change activities: Pregnancy and newborn care education. The potential for an army of bot trolls to disrupt an activism campaign. Bots needs to be designed increase engagement, support and inspire offline action. Grassroots organizing.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Whether you are working on a campaign, a program or a service; whether it is online or offline (though I would argue it should probably touch both!); And engagement requires people. People are networked. My level of activity will certainly impact the network, but so does how I act when I connect.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

But to many people active in online social action communities, these events had deeper meaning. There are many who approach the online landscape with very different views than their offline business decisions. to which New York Times reporter Stephanie Strom tweeted back “No kidding.”.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 30, 2021

million people combined to raise over $1.3 It also points to the accelerated shift in funds from offline to online. For walks and 5Ks with and without fees, the organization’s mission tends to outweigh the interest in the activity, so when the activity was taken away, the drive to fundraise for those participants was not.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

GivingTuesday is an opportunity for people to give back to their communities by donating money, volunteering their time, or advocating for causes that they believe in. A common misconception about GivingTuesday is that it’s a day focused only on extracting money out of people. Who Is Giving?

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Everyaction

APRIL 23, 2018

As a result of this phenomenon, however, people are feeling more and more overwhelmed by the amount of marketing emails in their inboxes, meaning that more and more emails are going straight to the trash folder, unopened and unread. If you want to talk to your most active, die-hard supporters, which of your members would you call?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

It is intended to inspire actions like contributing to charities, educating one’s children about giving, volunteering for a nonprofit, or to encourage people in their networks to do the same. This campaign provides resources, a theme, and asking all who participate to unleash their creativity to spread generosity.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

How many people hear that word and think it is just as generic as the word community? We have community groups, schools, local leaders and people at every age, interest, and skill level. All those people and groups have just as many different goals, small and large. Have people heard of 350.org What is a movement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The discussion about the recent changes on Facebook has focused mostly around what it means for individuals, particularly the tension between openness and privacy. Many people are wondering what it means for nonprofit brands using Facebook as one of their marketing channels. Focus on Engagement That Leads To Action.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

For the social web to come alive and really spark change, users need to be given other actions to take beyond standard sharing. We’re constantly exploring new and improved ways to mobilize communities; here are three sites that ask users to do more than simply hit share, but instead to take an action and to be part of something real.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2009

We all know from offline life experience that you don’t just schedule a meeting, but you have to show up and contribute for the meeting to be successful; you probably also have action items that come out of the meeting that people work on individually and that also draw them back together for another meeting.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

Let me also suggest that we need to stop placing a wall between offline and online giving strategies and tactics. And donors that are 55-years and older have the highest retention rates for both online and offline giving. This online versus offline wall is mostly in our own heads. of total sales. It’s in our org charts.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

The people who donate, listen in, connect with our programs by calling in, reading or commenting online, and coming to our offline events are our community. Their friends, colleagues, coworkers and family are the network – the people we reach through our community. Slacktivism: Turning a Like Into Action.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

With the majority of daily activities taking place over the web, it’s no surprise that we’ve also observed a rise in virtual fundraising. You could even give it a cute name to draw people in. The emails should include an emotional story , appropriate imagery, and a call to action that expresses urgency. Virtual Gala Fundraiser.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

It’s a case of letting technology lead (or, rather, the people behind the technology) instead of the communities on the other end. Do to the lack of activity on MySpace, we’ve decided to focus our efforts on the Causes Application on Facebook.&# (To read the full message, click here.) What it Means to Individuals.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

It’s a case of letting technology lead (or, rather, the people behind the technology) instead of the communities on the other end. Do to the lack of activity on MySpace, we’ve decided to focus our efforts on the Causes Application on Facebook.&# (To read the full message, click here.) What it Means to Individuals.

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NTEN

JANUARY 10, 2011

Ted Fickes, Electronic Communications Manager, The Wilderness Society (Central Rockies Regional Office) In September, 2008, Green for All , 1Sky and the We Campaign organized a national day of action -- Green Jobs Now -- to demand progress on green jobs and a green economy. Many are connected only randomly.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

I have always been proud to support WWT both during the telesummit and during the rest of the year with other offline meetups, online content, and more. You need two key ingredients – people and tools to connect and engage with them. Use different links on different sites to see what really gets people clicking through.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Those that have opened themselves up to using these tools and connecting with passionate people in their networks find abundance. Here’s one story about how one free agent, a social media savvy volunteer for a local food bank, saw a problem, reached out to her network, and helped solved in collaboration with the local nonprofit.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

A day of on and offline events spanning the globe celebrating the Web. The theme this year of digital inclusion is especially important now as the speed of iteration and advancement is faster than ever and yet there are huge numbers of people without access at all. Today is OneWebDay ! This year’s theme is One Web.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 9, 2010

As organizations or community builders active online, working to practice and create quality engagement, we are often trying to guide, collect or herd conversations and interactions into spaces that we have created or monitor closely. Let’s discuss! First, let’s talk about permission. Now, what about peer influence?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Baker presented an engaging and dynamic presentation which emphasized the symbiotic relationship of both online and offline engagement, the power of both to create community, encourage activism, develop branding, and unify those with common goals, both locally and globally. Following are highlights of the presentation: 1.

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