Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2011

We focused on principles for community building and community organizing, as well as examples of both short-term and long-term engagement. Principles of Community Organizing. It’s important to remember that not everything your organization wants to do or achieve, matches up with with your community wants to do, and vice versa.

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Community Build Organization Case Study 253

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Organizations must invest in technology to stay relevant. 3) Of those donors inspired by social media, 56% say that Facebook inspires them the most. 18% of donors worldwide have donated to a charitable organization directly through Facebook. Of those, 88% say they are likely to give again through Facebook.

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South America Global Trend North America 245

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2011

Slacktivism, to me, comes down to two crucial points: 1) organizations play an important role in creating and endorsing the level to which people take action, and 2) “slacker activism” is really a gateway to more lasting change. Organizations are putting out calls, and the community is responding. Getting Offline.

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Change Offline Lecture Student 194

Kindful

APRIL 28, 2021

Events are typically near the top of every nonprofit organization’s list of disrupted activities and strategies. Thankfully, many organizations were able to shift to a virtual event format with limited disruption and, in some cases, even greater success than their previous in-person incarnations.

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Fundraising Virtual Offline Michigan 134

Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Image Credit: dole777 on unsplash After more than a decade of dominating the social media landscape, Big Tech platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are in flux. Meta—the parent company of Facebook and Instagram—has been under fire in the past few years over its lax policies on news content, data privacy, and misinformation.

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Social Media Media Strategy Social 94

NTEN

JUNE 29, 2011

When it comes to nonprofits – and particularly, nonprofits on Facebook – we're all looking for the answer to the question: What's the ROI? If you're only focused on one aspect, you may be missing Facebook's larger value. In general, the consensus seems to be that Facebook is not the place to pin all your fundraising hopes.

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ROI Facebook Advocacy Social Media 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

One of the questions that came up during a discussion of concerns at the beginning of the day, was "We have 5,000 friends on Facebook, now what? Escalate relationship w/periodic updates through Facebook messaging with higher asks. jeffshuck @ kanter I'm biased, but events are a powerful way to move online advocates offline.

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Activities Active Activism Social Media 50

Forum One

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

It was true even before the pandemic, but now—with nearly every aspect of our lives moved online in some way—the expectations of what a mission-driven organization can and must do to connect and engage with its community have changed. Organizations can no longer use their digital platforms to simply explain their mission or successes.

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Build Community Experiment Las Vegas 70

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

With 300 million active users, Facebook is a natural starting place. As of September 2009, scores of Facebook applications have been developed to support the nonprofit sector in one way. As of September 2009, scores of Facebook applications have been developed to support the nonprofit sector in one way. and Canada.

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Facebook Money Raise Strategy 99

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2014

Note from Beth: In 2014, digital marketers predicted the rise of ” niche social networks ,” as it becomes increasingly harder to reach your audiences on general social networks like Facebook, these highly targeted online social networks are going to become more valuable. million divers.

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Awareness Project Data Map 99

NetWits

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Join us and get new ideas for connecting Facebook®, Twitter®, YouTube®, email and more. Efficiently Manage Administrative Activities by Mastering the Tools. In this session, we’ll talk about how to create an effective event fundraising website, how to raise more funds online, and how to integrate online and offline efforts.

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Consultant Free Strategy Slides 196

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 13, 2012

But lately, I've noticed an interesting trend: I post something on Facebook that I think is fascinating, hilarious, or some deep revelation into the mysterious world of Miriam Kagan, and my social sphere reacts in.dead silence. The part that's still very tricky for most is measuring the impact of these activities. Use Facebook surveys.

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Facebook Ratio Influence Social Media 51

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2011

Families USA is an organization fighting for affordable health care for all Americans. In this example of using grassroots organizing to influence grass tops debates, how do we measure it? The grid itself can be customized to your organization’s way of thinking about its marketing funnel, target audiences, and tactics.

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Twitter Google Facebook Broadcast 95

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

. —– Google+, the social network launched by Google nearly 5 months ago, has recently opened up the platform to organizations and brands with a profile type akin to the options for individuals and Pages on Facebook. One of the core principles in community engagement is to use the tools your community is using.

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Social Network Network Strategy Social 165

Forum One

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

It was true even before the pandemic, but now—with nearly every aspect of our lives moved online in some way—the expectations of what a mission-driven organization can and must do to connect and engage with its community have changed. Organizations can no longer use their digital platforms to simply explain their mission or successes.

Build 46

Build Community Experiment Las Vegas 46

NetWits

JUNE 6, 2011

Think about the websites you most visit: Facebook , Google’s Gmail , Calendars and Docs , Yahoo , Netflix , NYTimes , Friendster –what, you don’t use Friendster anymore? Remember not to make it difficult to access resources, but I suspect every organization has at least some content that could be secured.

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Websites Offline Doc Newsletter 165

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. Grassroots organizing. 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.

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Script Ethiopia Nonprofit Facebook 103

sgEngage

MARCH 30, 2021

The data highlighted in this study represents a careful analysis of 687 organizations that produced 31,035 peer-to-peer fundraisers from January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2020. It also points to the accelerated shift in funds from offline to online. Did Facebook Fundraising benefit from pandemic-driven social media use?

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Blackbaud Studies Fundraising Registration 65

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

This event focuses on Causes , an application for supporting and fundraising for organizations by individuals, groups and even the organizations themselves. Causes’ About statement says, “The goal of all this is what we call “equal opportunity activism.&# First, let me explain what happened yesterday.

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Myspace Technology Causes Application 158

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

This event focuses on Causes , an application for supporting and fundraising for organizations by individuals, groups and even the organizations themselves. Causes’ About statement says, “The goal of all this is what we call “equal opportunity activism.&# First, let me explain what happened yesterday.

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Myspace Technology Causes Application 158

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

launched a contest on Facebook. Each organization received $25,000 and the announcement caused some controversy because of the contest eligibility rules and lack of a leaderboard. . Having real-time information is very important to the organizations. It's not just the size of the Fan base, but activating them.

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Contest Community Organization Giving 62

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. Links to Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, can help you increase brand awareness and facilitate networking before and during your virtual event. Program Networking Sessions.

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Virtual Network Create Social Media 90

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. Your donor engagement strategy outlines exactly how you’ll reach out to donors and the KPIs you’ll track to measure how engaged a donor is with your organization.

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Donor Strategy Nonprofit Phone 98

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

But to many people active in online social action communities, these events had deeper meaning. Two weeks ago , Causes, the application that lets individuals and organizations campaign and fundraise, removed itself and all Causes-related content/data from MySpace. First, let’s start at the beginning: Causes Leaves MySpace.

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Myspace Causes Philanthropy Offline 108

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. Think Giving Tuesday but without all the clutter of thousands of organizations asking for money. Choose one day- a day that possibly has some symbol or importance to your organization (ex.

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Ideas Online Fundraising Charity 98

NetWits

JUNE 23, 2011

As of now we have four active generations (Traditionalists, Boomers, Gen-X, Millenials) making contributions. Each generation requires a different type of engagement to move from the casual to committed relationship with an organization. Web: An up-to-date website that provides information about your organization is vital.

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Campaign Fundraising Maryland Channel 253

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

New research out today from nfpSynergy shows that organizations who serve youth may want to be going online to reach them. Amongst 11-25 year olds, Facebook is trailed by Bebo (28%), MySpace (25%), Twitter (12%), MSN (9%), YouTube (2%) and “other” (4%). First, what the research does not mean: Don’t jump into Facebook immediately!

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Online Social Network Facebook Charity 126

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

On Tuesday, right before the KONY video exploded on the mainstreams and went viral online, my 6th grade son came home from school and announced, ”Did you know that there are more people on Facebook today compared to the number of people on the planet ten years ago? I immediately asked him how do you know that?

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Network Children Offline Storytelling 119

NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

From the ubiquitous Facebook "Like" button to Google’s new +1, it’s never been easier to share what you’ve found exploring. A big challenge with It Gets Better was to create a site that captured the excitement (and data) coming out of a truly organic online movement. They may even talk about your site offline, sharing without a button.

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Social Media Websites Integration Media 99

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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Life Learning Offline Social 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Tom and Cecile shared a rich story about culture change, loosing control, building relationships, story telling, multi-channel strategies, engagement techniques, online/offline metrics, and more. Says Tom, "We don't talk about Facebook or Twitter. A couple of takeaways from the interview: Leaders Lead Culture Change. We help guide it."

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Story Platform Build Organization 90

Care2

AUGUST 18, 2011

Nonprofits, businesses, and entrepreneurs have been busy focusing on growing their social networking presence, but how valuable are active social media users to your organization? Have you ever dived into your data to determine if it's the more active social media users connected to your organization that are donating more money?

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Social Media Media Social Social Network 75

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

The purpose of managing customer service is to answer questions and address experiences with products and/or services an organization offers. Community managers foster relationships with customers and build community on an organization’s available channels. One tool worth using is Facebook, which allows for geo-targeted posts.

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Open Community Management San Francisco 52

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Organization: Taproot Foundation. Organization Size: 40 Employees. Facebook: facebook.com/taprootfoundation. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? Which tool has been surprisingly useful in getting out the word about your organization and its programs? Jumo: [link].

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Social Media Foundation Examples Media 189

Connection Cafe

MARCH 30, 2021

The data highlighted in this study represents a careful analysis of 687 organizations that produced 31,035 peer-to-peer fundraisers from January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2020. It also points to the accelerated shift in funds from offline to online. Did Facebook Fundraising benefit from pandemic-driven social media use?

Blackbaud 48

Blackbaud Studies Fundraising Registration 48

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

One of the biggest barriers to sharing our experience and knowledge, and learning as organizations is the belief that we are all so different we can’t actually share or learn from each other. what other organizations have a vested interest in the success of our station? Defining Community. Using Social Media.

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Social Media Public Media Community 178

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 1, 2012

Seen as a success for the participating nonprofits, the organizers wanted to know more about what worked and whether giving days as a form of regional nonprofit development could be a new trend for the sector. Just as organizations (usually!)

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Community Giving Washington Arlington 158