Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

One response on twitter from my great friend and colleague, Joe Solomon, has stuck with me and kept me thinking: “You can’t create new game-changing start-ups for social change anymore. On & Offline Engagement. But the action, the real social change, is offline. Online is great for organizing.

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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. Donors can feel comfortable in using such platforms, where they can be supporters of various causes and be as active as they want to be. You can reach her out on Twitter or Google+.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

A few days ago, I asked for some stories " What is the value of listening through social media channels for your organization? " I wanted to see examples from nonprofit organizations engaged in listening and conversation and the value it has to their missions, programs, or marketing efforts. " But what does that really mean?

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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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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. In reaction to the Causes announcement, Economist bureau chief Matthew Bishop tweeted “Who knew it was on MySpace?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

If you don’t follow her on Twitter , you should! The e-book offers an overview of the benefits of participating in GivingDays like #GivingTuesday, followed by a whole lot of wisdom and best practices. It’s got to be fun – games and activities can make a big difference. million in a day on #GivingTuesday 2013.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

I started my talk with a story about why I liked Twitter: It allows me to connect with people in my professional field and have a great conversations or ad hoc collaborations that improve practice. I used David Hood as an example. Examples: Wildlife Direct and Brooklyn Museum. Example: Red Cross.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Grantees get better results integrating Facebook, Twitter, and other social media channels best practices and measurement. This was designed as a peer learning activity – so it was the participants who were mostly the presenters. Content Curation on Twitter. Getting Started with Content Curation on Twitter.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2013

Review upcoming content for programs, campaigns, and other organizational activities. You’ll also want to have content templates handy – for example different formats for how-to pieces, lists, or idea pieces. Ask: What existing content can be re-purposed for social channels? Review ideas in your “Idea Dashboard”.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

If your community meets offline at a local watering hole to share opinions and make plans, don’t bother setting up a Twitter account with the purpose of influencing them. One of the core principles in community engagement is to use the tools your community is using.

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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. Choose a day and actively encourage donations and sharing through all your social media channels, such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Snapchat. Virtual Gala Fundraiser.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

A great example of this is when we talk about working with our communities. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

They are asked to visualize the relationships – and who players are both online and offline. The map above is a visualization of the Community Foundation of Monterey Twitter following using TwitterMap. It is also a fun way to visualize your Twitter network – and there are some great free apps to do that.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

While there have been different surveys on nonprofit adoption, for example, these two recent studies I profiled last month, I wish there was a benchmarking study. I mentioned this on Twitter. What kind of resources do managers commit and how active are orchestras in social media? Find him on Twitter @mcmvanbree.

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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. Pay attention to the “change&# in weekly numbers and measure it against activities or messages you were pushing that week. URL Shorteners – [link]. Community Mapping.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Amongst 11-25 year olds, Facebook is trailed by Bebo (28%), MySpace (25%), Twitter (12%), MSN (9%), YouTube (2%) and “other” (4%). how about information - if you provide mental health services, for example, post information about how to get help if you need it, or how to help a friend, and so on. So, throw a party or two, and have fun!

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

pull in hashtags from Twitter into the RSS reader (pull in the RSS of a search.twitter.com result). Examples: Yammer for internal sharing, it’s a Twitter for groups. Are there ways of catching offline datapoints? listening has been to the community and to the quantitative results. Listening based on location?

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

I posed this question to the twitter-verse and here are some of the responses I received: patience, commitment, passion, ability to listen and ability to ask without apologizing. It’s time we start separating these activities. Normally I would give an example here, but I’m not going to do it. What skills does a fundraiser need?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

Then I started to get emails from respected colleagues and a few hours later I saw references all over my friends Facebook newsfeeds and on Twitter. For example, it does not make the timeline/dates very clear – it mixes recent and older footage without date stamps. The storytelling was engaging and compelling.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For example, if we are telling a story about a client who lives in a certain area, we make sure the constituents that live in that part of the city know our clients are their neighbors. Offline activities. An example of this: After a recent survey, we learned that many of our constituents were interested in gardening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Learning was an individual, often solitary activity. for many of us, that learning style carried over to our work culture where we are rewarded for our expertise and to keep private what we don't know. I find myself doing this on Twitter more and more. Offline/Online Interaction. Twitter Training Notes and Audio File.

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Care2

AUGUST 26, 2011

But really, there’s a lot you can be doing all year to increase your base of supporters, engage them in your mission, and convert them to active donors. Send messages to your existing supporters, asking them to “tell a friend&# about you and follow you on social network like Facebook and Twitter.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 10, 2019

Further, Rand Fishkin shared a recent study of business engagement rates on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. If you want people to take you seriously on LinkedIn then you need to be active on the platform. If you’re into meeting connections offline you may also want to filter by location. Guess what?

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 3, 2019

Further, Rand Fishkin shared a recent study of business engagement rates on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. If you want people to take you seriously on LinkedIn then you need to be active on the platform. For example, take the phrase “nonprofit marketing” which has over 800,000 search results when filtered by people.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Last week I had the opportunity to speak with Judy Chang of PayPal and Debbie Swider of the ASPCA on “ 10 Tips to Jumpstart Your Nonprofit Social Media Plan ” with examples of some of the amazing success the ASPCA has seen through growing its social media plan. Leave a comment or @ jordanv me on Twitter to share!

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Care2

JUNE 7, 2010

Campaigners were invited to abandon the numbers game -- the list building arms race, the obsessive counting of Twitter followers -- and start directing that energy into creative solutions for engaging supporters in meaningful activity that solves real-world problems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

That is where the Blue Key Champion strategy came in; to bring on board US-based bloggers who are active online, and cause-passionate, to help spread the word and, hopefully, get more keys ordered. Describe the Twitter Charts: What are you showing? How do you know that Twitter caused the increase in Web site traffic?

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Care2

OCTOBER 28, 2010

“Recognize people who are active on your behalf,&# Andres urged the crowd. See Meetup Everywhere on Tumblr for best practices and examples. I may have gotten a detail or two wrong but the overall point was that organizations should take steps to move from online action to offline activity.

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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. Social Networks & Twitter from Natalie Foster: Two Principles: 1.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Before exploring the questions around limitations and needs, I want to share a couple examples of things happening right now to remind us that even though it will take a lot of work, and honestly a good bit of time, that we are already moving. Instead, they are examples of what it looks like when we double down on our focus to make change.

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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. Green for All developed a long-term program of on the ground activities to continue engaging participants -- and attract new ones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

grist.org’s key results are: Footprint: The reach of their activities, both online and offline. Take for example their coverage on food that is devoured by a devoted flock of foodies. Says Erika, “We hatched an idea to host Twitter chats about this using a hashtag #climatehawk and point people over to their content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

Chapter 6 of Measuring the Networked Nonprofit focusing on examples of how you measure engagement which begins with formulating your engagement model. In the book, we share a couple of case studies and examples of engagement models. grist.org’s key results are: Footprint: The reach of their activities, both online and offline.

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NTEN

AUGUST 1, 2011

Priebatsch even proposed how school could be improved by adding better game mechanics than those that already exist: for example, having a points system that allows you to "level up" rather than our current grading-average system, and building in an honor system to eliminate cheating ( as Princeton has done , with huge success).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2009

They also have a @causes on Twitter and I hope they will use that to engage directly with the nonprofits who want to get better results rather than just tweeting about themselves. . I asked my Twitter followers for suggestions for questions , I tweeted the key points from the conversation yesterday. Here's the answers: .

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