Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2010

I have been thinking a lot about actionable social media measurement strategies that are fit and trim and light on their feet! Inspired by the Measure Everything: Is Your Nonprofit Facebook Page Worth It? , It much easier to collect, analyze and take action with your data when you do a little bit each month or every other week.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 10, 2010

.&# There is enormous opportunity and potential for creating real, lasting impact in our world by operating in a movement-oriented way with our programs, events, campaigns, and calls to action. Tags: case studies wiki best practices communities of practice global international launch learning scale.

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Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 8, 2010

By partnering with other nonprofits that share your cause, instead of competing with them, you can pool those limited resources for greater impact and give your supporters a clear call to action.( read more ).

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

When visiting the Greenpeace International facebook page, visitors see the Take Action tab as default, instead of the typical facebook wall or information pages. Action : It’s not just about getting email addresses, but also cutting straight to chase: take action! That example? Greenpeace International on facebook.

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Wild Apricot

MAY 12, 2009

But it can be time-consuming to search out those that are up-to-date, actionable, and appropriate to nonprofits. Best practices online community Social networking case studies Non-profit Communications social media. Tags: Non-profit technology Fundraising nptech Web 2.0 read more ).

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 3, 2010

The power of social media in a global context is two-fold: There’s huge potential with these news tools for real movement building, bringing organizations, campaigns and people together behind a movement and not just one brand or one call to action. Does your organization or local area have a case study to share?

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OCTOBER 17, 2022

This means including clear content on your site and helpful resources like blogs, case studies, and whitepapers to inform your supporters. Use the Keyword or a Variation in the Title and Header Tags. Utilize Heading Tags Properly. Try to include a call to action at the end, i.e., check out our other related resources.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 9, 2010

As I recently announced , I’m collaborating with Matt Chevy on a redesign of this website to freshen up the design, make presentations, resources and case studies all easier to find, and surface the rich conversations taking place in the comments. Tags: blogging blog redesign redesign round up strategy website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2006

Particularly the tagging discussion which included an action learning exercise as well as lot of sharing of resources and information about tagging. What I liked about the experience was the combination of people who were somewhat new to tagging and others who have been doing it for a while. In your my del.icio.us

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 3, 2010

political action. tying communications, partners, and actions together via social media. Share your ideas now: You can share your ideas about the topic as well as any resources, case studies, examples, research etc. Tags: events socialmedia 4change campaign building campaigning chat ecampaigning twitter.

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

As a case study in how nonprofits can use "viral" content - to gain attention, to promote a cause, and to call for action - SpaysNotStrays.org is a winner.( Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Social networking case studies Non-profit Communications websites Accessibility media social media. read more ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

Case Study. I invited Heather McLeod Grant to write a reflection base the case study of KaBOOM! Just last week we published a new case study of KaBOOM! 5. Create incentives for action. In order to encourage more action, KaBOOM! Case Study View more documents from Noah Flower.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

I'm tagging information related to discussion, examples, and comments about nonprofits using tagging (or not using tagging) to prep for upcoming session at netsquared.org with the tag del.icio.us/nptag. What would this visual look like if it was translated into a graphic of nonprofit tagging use? Emily's post ).

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Robert Weiner

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

From September 30 to October 21, TechSoup will host a free Digital Storytelling online event including expert roundtable discussions, nonprofit case studies, online discussions, live chat, and a community challenge with a final screening awards ceremony in the virtual world of Second Life. Follow the action on Twitter #tsdigs.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

the action of changing something. Please feel free to leave question and comments on this subject and if you have open case studies or links to resources on the topic. Please feel free to leave question and comments on this subject and if you have open case studies or links to resources on the topic.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

The power of social media and the authentic storytelling that takes place is in the opportunity for people to inspire other people to take action, which leads to lesson #2. Lesson #2: Action. Her question spurred some interesting comments that targeting the idea of taking action. Lesson #3: Local vs Global.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2009

Additionally, UniversalGiving is a member of Social Actions , ensuring that their opportunities to make a difference are heard and seen in even more places around the Web. It’s a marketplace, really, of opportunities to take actions for social benefit in various topics you may be after—want to donate money and leave it at that?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

We’ll be facilitating a conversation, more than doing a formal presentation, and will focus on the power of crowdsourcing (using our own case study from conducting the Social Media for Social Good case study competition) and the application of social media in nonprofit program delivery. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

A short case study about the Nature Conservancy uses e-metrics. Jason at DIA tagged it with this note: "The most universal piece of advice about using social networks for fundraising and friendraising is to start small." This week was Blog Action Day for the Environment. Ruby shares her 10 Questions video.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Calls to Action : What may seem simple, is often very difficult to achieve, and in this case it’s the calls to action. The Totally Baldacious campaign, though, does an excellent job making the calls to action clear, consistent, and do-able. Is it to raise money? Is it to raise awareness?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 28, 2012

The simple call to action also lends itself to participation by many, including government officials. obviously tied to the campaign, and reflective of the call to action means it is likely people will use it and engage. Sharing across platforms – Facebook. Sharing across platforms – Instagram and Foursquare.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Submitted by Alexandra Samuel, CEO of Social Signal How can you use the web to engage your members, supporters or the public, and move them towards a specific action? It's hard enough to get visitors to your site or social media presence, let alone drive them effectively towards action. Tags: engagement guest blogging n2y4.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 16, 2010

The software also helps conservation teams prioritize environmental threats, develop objectives and actions, and select monitoring indicators to assess the effectiveness of their strategies. You can check out a very cool case study that includes more details about these projects here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 10, 2010

If you want to be able to add “Donate Now&# buttons, e-Newsletter and text alert sign-up boxes, and/or call-to-action images to your social media profiles, you need to know HTML. Your nonprofit might then get the attention of the media and the blogosphere, or become the subject of case studies, webinars, and conference sessions.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

." 10 must-read Facebook resources for non-profits – Ross McCulloch – Ross has a great collection of resources about using Facebook, including Pages vs Groups, adding paypal, examples and case studies. org to achieve the most widespread day of political action in history back on October 24th. org campaign. "A

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 17, 2009

The report was commissioned by the Vodafone Foundation and is packed with useful case studies and supporting data. " Share Actions | Social Actions - Check out all of the great Social Actions Change the Web Challenge applications! Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2010

JD Lasica took detailed notes on the case studies we looked at to ponder that question. The four case studies that JD transcribed included: Molson/Coors , Tyson Foods , Haagan Dasz , and Greenopolis He's not sure the term "lethal generosity" will catch on. Tags: lethalgenerosity.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Action: The action or connection that ties it together. Yes, there are a couple case studies included in the report of organizations using mGive. The best place to look for information on prices and options and even case studies is MobileActive. Your goal: why do you engage with them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Ethan Zuckerman gives a summary of Pros/Cons of facebook Activism , a presentation by Imran Jamal and the Burma Global Action Network. No problem, I dug into the NpTech + Digg tag archives and pulled out this terrific Beginner's Guide To Digg. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

(You can review the page edits here: [link] ) Links to news stories were included as they emerged and the occasional personal edit of sentiments like “no one knows what’s going on” contributed to the live action growth of the page. Response : studies show that people expect a response on social media.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 5, 2009

But that doesn’t mean they can’t be spreading their message and mobilizing people into action both on and offline. It would be a big mistake to let all those supporters trail off, their energy wain, and have the only action provided be to wait for that website to go up with more information…later. 20 world leaders.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Seeing it in action: For an example of all 5 of these tips in action, I posted on the NetSquared Community Blog earlier this week with a list of some of the feedback (mostly bad) that we had received from users taking part in the Community Vote phase of the FACT Challenge. We’re all learning as we go!

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Connecting conversations and people means cross-pollinating or jumping across platforms to share messages or actions from one to the next. The more aligned our actions and messages are with the other members of the network means we are truly another member – and not an admin, or manager, or eavesdropper.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. Just A Few Good Resources Plucked from the NpTech Tag Stream and Kikino. Ruby on Rails Case Study; ChangingThePresent.org. Her call to action: "If we want good nonprofit content in the world, we can???t

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Some of the most successful online campaigns in the past few years — such as Tweetsgiving, opposition to mountaintop removal, government transparency activism in Canada, and the campaign for the Jena Six in Louisiana — have employed principles of community organizing to create effective online actions that helped activists win.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 19, 2017

To add this code you’ll need access to place the script in the header or footer tags of your website. Here are a few guides for popular sites to get your tracking codes set up: Google Remarketing Tag. Pinterest Tag. Make Calls To Action Relevant, Visible And Accessible. Facebook Pixel. Twitter Conversion Tracking.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Use email to reach out to your constituents to let them know what you’re up to or to ask them to take action. With email newsletters and emails as part of your campaigns you can move your supporters up the ladder of engagement to take more actions and help you more and more. Read the full case study here.

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