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MAY 19, 2011

Giving them the tools they need to be successful fundraisers is important, but beyond that there’s so much more that can be done. This is true both of fundraisers culminating towards an offline event, such as walks, rides and runs, and those of a more virtual nature. 4) Activate.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. Here’s a run through of the Tools Galore session. More than 3.5

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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Each solution discussed in this guide is known as a leader in the CRM sphere, featuring robust functionality and a positive reputation for improving nonprofit operations. But, before we discuss these specifics, let’s first review the essential features of constituent relationship management for nonprofits.

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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

JANUARY 12, 2009

When I talk with organizations about how they are using social media tools to engage online, whether they’ve already started or not, I find that the most common approach is to set up that Facebook group, add a blog to the website, or even set up a wiki for an event. Social media spaces can be supported and grown on and offline.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 24, 2020

Use your association management tools to maintain this balance for your members by: Creating a dedicated association website. As your association gets larger, active online member engagement ensures that your membership stays unified. Format your questions based on specific activities and eliminate any unnecessary information. .

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AccelEvents

JUNE 4, 2020

It is likely that the questions and responses will prompt conversations between participants that can continue offline or in another session. Set up virtual meeting rooms, for example, so the audience can continue discussions after a session is done. An active social media presence will set the tone for the event overall.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Through the discovery process, we discussed how some staff members had to go to remote villages that were a month’s walk through the mountains to conduct interviews. They needed a mobile app that worked offline. It’s not just useful for offline situations like interviewing people in rural India. TP: It’s the flexibility of use.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In general, offline fundraising activities refer to phone calls, mailing solicitations, events, and other similar donation generating practices. Your nonprofit will almost certainly need to be registered in the state you perform these activities in. For example, the IRS has special rules just for bingo fundraisers.

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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. We are not actually engaging with every member of our service area, we don’t know who they all are or what they all do. Engaging Community. Start Joining.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

The chat was a prelude to a convening on April 25th at the Robert Wood Johnston Foundation of 40 thinkers and practitioners, bringing diverse perspectives and expertise into discussions to develop measures for evaluating the impact of social media on philanthropic outcomes. Community Foundation of Monterey County.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Powered by John Haydon – John Haydon has an excellent post today to get you thinking more strategically about your use of social media, and not just what tools to use but what to say once you're using them! "When They want to see what could happen if we serious commit to working together, on an offline. "It's

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I had a lot of fun yesterday giving a webinar for the Nonprofit Webinar series ; it was a whole hour discussing community engagement! There are two sets of goals to be discussed here: the first are the goals of that group – what do they want from you, why do they want to come to you, what do they get out of it? Do-It-Yourself.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2011

They are integrating social media tactics to their online advocacy tool box with this Twitter tool. Its Stand Up For Health Care , a project of Families USA, has created a Twitter tool that easily lets your identify Twitter names for your US Representatives, Senators and Governor by typing your zip code.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2011

This week I attended Center for Effective Philanthropy’s conference “ Better Philanthropy: From Data to Impact &# where I participated on a discussion panel about social media, foundations, and grantees. There were questions about social media policies as well as content and engagement strategies and handling mistakes.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2016

Join Caravan Studios CEO Marnie Webb ( @webb ) and a panel of other app development experts for a highly interactive discussion in which you can learn their app development secrets. Bridging the Divide: Online and Offline Community Managers — Thursday, March 24 — 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

This data does confirm many thing we already knew: that most young people are using social networking platforms of one kind or another, that females are more likely to use networking tools than males, etc. It also shows that those young people who are engaged or involved with charities are also those using social networking tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

What kind of resources do managers commit and how active are orchestras in social media? In short, social media activities, familiarity and usage seem to be widespread among orchestras. I am doing this to provide the opportunity for feedback and discussion. I invited him to write a guest post summarizing the findings. .

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2015

Activism That Drives Supporters How is it possible to establish meaningful relationships to create and mobilize for change in this noisy digital age? Throughout the conference, Amy and I wrote articles on a select group of sessions highlighting innovations at the intersection of nonprofit technology and social change. In the U.S.

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

But, before we dive into the five features that you should seek in your next CME LMS, let’s discuss why you’re seeking a new solution to begin with. Your association needs to report to PARS for all accreditation activities. Offline use with automatic sync. The Biggest Challenges With Healthcare Learning Management Systems.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Analytics tools. how to integrate tools without reinventing the wheel. use monitoring tools. Discussion: How/why does listening provide value? Listening tools: Netvibes. Discussion: What is your learning process from social media? Are there ways of catching offline datapoints? The right metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

This was designed as a peer learning activity – so it was the participants who were mostly the presenters. So, for these organizations, their content pyramid also includes integrating offline w/online channels. On the Ground Engagement: What will you ask people to do offline? and storify. Integrated Social Media Strategy.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

Especially with the increased use of social media tools to help community building activity around causes or specific organizations. Where are they: which platforms or tools do they use and when do they use them? Don’t ever go for a new, shiny, cool social media platform or tool simply because you’ve heard others talking about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

He discusses a way of seeing both the big strategic picture and the smaller immediate tactics. This concept can be applied to effective social media — having social media be both strategic, laddering up to your program or communication goals as well as using the tools effectively. Effective Social Media. Example: Red Cross.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 9, 2010

Let’s discuss! 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. First, let’s talk about permission. Now, what about peer influence?

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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. Flickr Photo by Lululemon. This advice still holds true.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

At the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference I attended a group discussion breakfast about personal vs. professional branding. Kara Carrell (aka @Karitas ) pointed out that she has a "How I Roll" post that she links to and updates as her on and offline world evolves. I'll accept if we've had a conversation I can remember, on or offline.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

At the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference I attended a group discussion breakfast about personal vs. professional branding. Kara Carrell (aka @Karitas ) pointed out that she has a "How I Roll" post that she links to and updates as her on and offline world evolves. I loved that idea. Check us out. Connect on LinkedIn.

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NTEN

JANUARY 10, 2011

Staff led on-the-ground efforts in just a handful of key cities, while the majority of actions were organized online and offline by activists and other citizens -– volunteers, by and large. Discussions about green jobs and green economy policies occurred from local to national levels. In fact, the bar for activism is higher.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Peer discussion on use of online tools for collaboration for bounded networks, exploring some of the concepts in Digital Habits (each participant got a copy). We are also learning in public when we engage in in-depth conversation whether it is offline or online, for example in the comments of a blog post or asking questions on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2008

I heard about it because it turned up in one of my friends activity feeds on Facebook. It focuses on relationship building -- very important to any fundraising success -- both online and offline - and regardless of tools. When will relationship begin online and enhance offline activism on Facebook? to the Susan G.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2009

The article ignited a discussion on nonprofit blogs prompted by some astute observations by colleague Allison Fine. I'll boil it down to " Causes is A Friending Tool, Not A Fundraising Tool." His recommendations are directed at the folks at Facebook Causes who created the application and nonprofits using the tool.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Actions and messages were contextualized based on the issues and discussions taking place at both the global and local level. Instead of fundraising separately, activating communities separately, connecting with legislators separately, the organizations recognized a unique opportunity they had to come together. 1Sky and 350 merged.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

Once you’ve applied to the program, you’ll need to set up your account, create your ads, and actively monitor performance. The program is most helpful for organizations that have discussion-worthy causes and content centered around related topics that people are actively searching for online.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

I just sat through an informal brownbag lunch discussion with the founder of the Genocide Intervention Network (GI-Net) , social entrepreneur Mark Hanis. Also use political fundraising reporting tools to learn who donated to particular politicians.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore View more presentations from Amy Sample ward.

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