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.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

Ways to measure your efficiency and success within each . Looking ahead at future events, we will likely shorten the duration to ensure we’re not pulling our audience away from the important work they do for too long. Make Your Content Accessible to Varying Audiences. How to Measure Success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Along with measuring against impact results, it is important to look at how much time has been invested. What are the right tools to help measure success? Or, if you’d like to watch the entire presentation or download the presentation slides. Measure program success, not just analytics. Simply Measured.

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CauseVox

APRIL 20, 2021

If social distancing measures aren’t followed, a stronger virus could rapidly infect and kill hundreds of thousands of people before they can be vaccinated.”. Screenshot of a slide with the title “Virtual Fundraising Case Study” and a photo from Summit Assistance Dog’s Unleash Your Love. Raise more with less effort.

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Classy

JULY 5, 2021

However, corporations also receive many requests for support from nonprofits, so it can be more difficult to make your proposal stand out, especially if you’re a smaller organization with less audience reach. Given their wide audience reach, influencers may be able to use crowdfunding to establish your matching fund. Small Business.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

We had close to 2,000 fundraising friends sign up, and we kicked things off by surveying the audience about their year-end fundraising goals (which we defined to include Giving Tuesday ). Audience questions from our fundraising friends who attended the webinar. Is anyone being measured on their goals? Be donor-centric.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

And, it also includes measurement - not just qualitative information. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. Helps us move away from tool driven decisions to results. Wall Street views it as the only legitimate means of measuring business performance. Defined Audience.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 10, 2020

The post-event survey is one of the most effective tools available for measuring attendee experience and gaining valuable insights into your virtual event as a whole. Don’t make your target audience work to find you — they won’t. Ask this as a multiple-choice question or as a sliding numerical scale.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Create goals that are specific and measurable to ensure that the stories you tell are purposeful (“specific” and “measurable” just so happen to be the first two letters in the S.M.A.R.T. Utilize Visuals Humanize your nonprofit’s stories by adding visuals like photos and videos to engage your audience. goals acronym).

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 1, 2021

This will help you measure improvement year-over-year and hold your team accountable for meeting various goals. It can be tempting to dedicate a couple of slides to discuss your wealth screening and other predictive modeling results. Predictive analytics. Wrapping up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

Not only does this help me frame and tailor the talk I give to the audience, but facilitates Twitter conversations before. I don’t like giving a keynote where I talk at the audience for 45 minutes. So making the audience part of the slide deck and inviting commentary surfaces the wisdom and knowledge in the room.

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Classy

JUNE 23, 2021

Share these slides with your nonprofit board directly, and use our game plan in step three to bring thoughtful considerations to the table. . Activate event attendees to raise more and expand your audience. Step 2: Know Which Fundraising Benchmarks to Share With Your Nonprofit Board. NONPROFIT BOARD PRIORITY: Advance the mission.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Audience Analysis. Read Andrew's blog post , which explains more about the importance of analyzing your audience. There are a few steps to successful audience-centric design: Identify your audience: Understand all of the groups you serve and find out what makes them tick. You know your audience.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 10, 2020

The post-event survey is one of the most effective tools available for measuring attendee experience and gaining valuable insights into your virtual event as a whole. Don’t make your target audience work to find you — they won’t. Ask this as a multiple-choice question or as a sliding numerical scale.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

The final tip Leroux Miller shared acknowledges the reality that online audiences are inclined to multitask during webinars so presenters should keep their tone conversational to keep their audience engaged and consider using a webcam or live polling for interactivity. Ask and Share with Your Audience. Make Presentations Social.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

I’ve been reflecting on why some nonprofits do a better job of measurement and learning, while others do not. The nonprofits that embrace measurement have a data-driven culture. Works with measurement consultants or specialists to improve skills and capacity. Example of A/B Testing Results. What is the difference?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 25, 2024

And while that may sound simple in practice, you need the right tools and the right plan. Marketing Every Stage of ‘The Donor’s Journey’ It’s tempting to think of marketing as a broad-minded approach that’s focused on building awareness with the largest audience possible. Here’s what that looks like in practice.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

Action: Giving people the right tools at the right time only matters if you ask them to do the right thing. Learn solutions for moving your audiences forward on a unified front towards a shared goal. Learn the best ways to crowdsource your mission and measure progress toward your goals. Each slide is displayed for 15 seconds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. They shared a slide (see above) about new models we’ll see that combine both – especially the “not invented yet.” Let’s start with a definition first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2007

strategies and tools. This audience was different. A major aha moment for me was reading Wendy Harmon's excellent advice on how you reflect on your social media experiments and begin to measure the results. Resource Sheet I had the opportunity to do two workshops here. I got some great questions as you would expect.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

Here are some of my thoughts going into the conversation and slides if you prefer engaging that way: Crowdsourcing for Social Change. Using tools that allow reposting, sharing, emailing and so on will give anyone the options they want to push your content around the web for you. We’ll put up more notes after the session, too!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

some pics of slides are here ). " She talked about the importance of measuring your social media efforts.   This was a great positive spin -- rather than measure to show me or prove the impact, it's measure so you can quantify it.  Dell measures ROI based on the number of useable ideas generated. . 

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 30, 2012

I’m excited – I think it will be the largest audience I’ve presented to and the company I’m in is nothing shy of spectacular. As what I hope is the next best thing, I’m sharing the content from a few of my slides for today and a some notes on them. Goals : Are you trying to increase awareness?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

I've been blogging and tracking conversations about social media measurement and ROI over the last few months. Minus the audience ratings or competitive aspect) Maybe use the "Ask Later" 5-minute format, popularized by Ignite Seattle. (10 10 powerpoint slides (visuals only) with each slide on the screen for 30 seconds.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

There were interesting conversations at every turn and I also had requests to share my notes and slides. Below, you can find my full speech and slides, as well as links to address questions and requests from many of those I met with. And in each of these we will talk a bit about tools, tactics and strategies. Analog Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Web Analytics As Simple Gifts To Measure Mission 3. Scope: This screencast will demystify web analytics and use Author and Analytics Evangelist Avinash Kaushik's mantra of simplicity to illustrate some of the useful features and reports in Google Analytics , a free but powerful web analytics software tool. Learning Goals.

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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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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Victor d’Allant, founder of SocialEdge , kicked things off with a lively presentation of seven ways to improve your social media life, noting it’s not about the tools, it’s about the story, and making an embarrassing admission: “I am not on Facebook,” Victor said. Which tools are you using and why?

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

I’ll be posting my slides and speaking notes on Tuesday for my session on the topic of “the future of online revenue generation for charities.&# More to come on this question then! Social media is a tool for you to use to help you achieve your mission. Key questions to ask include: who is your audience?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2010

Mastering Social Media for Fundraising Success". (**full presentation slides can be found here ) My favorite quote from their presentation - "Gardens are lovely as long as you water them. Measuring success properly by answering the correct questions: - Which measurements mean success? What are the right moments to measure?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2009

I think this was the point that Peter Deitz was making in his slide show " I am not an ATM Machine: Your Charity from the Donor Perspective." This slide shows the different type of relationships and shift in thinking. Find out who is best at listening to that audience. Measuring the Return on Relationships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

There's nothing like having an audience to see where you got inside your own head too much. While I was presenting, I was thinking what ten-minute chunk to cut or where I should skip through some slides. I also didn't facilitate the whole room discussion around the slides which I usually do because I worried about going over time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2009

What audience do you want to reach? How are you measuring success? We're just looking at Twitter as a conversation tool to see how many people care what we have to say and those that do, do they find it useful or interesting One of the great uses of Twitter is as a listening tool. There's a tool called BackTweet.

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Forum One

AUGUST 20, 2008

youre a funder in the philanthropic sector, and youve concluded that online collaboration is a great tool for solving issues like. You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2008

youre a funder in the philanthropic sector, and youve concluded that online collaboration is a great tool for solving issues like. You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 31, 2007

youre a funder in the philanthropic sector, and youve concluded that online collaboration is a great tool for solving issues like. You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of.

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Forum One

MAY 1, 2008

youre a funder in the philanthropic sector, and youve concluded that online collaboration is a great tool for solving issues like. You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of.

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