Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). "Oxfam is responding to the biggest earthquake for 200 years in Haiti. Here are five things non-profits should consider before pursuing texting."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

A big thank you conference organizers! We kicked off the conference with an interview style keynote about the Networked Nonprofit, moderated by fabulous Shireen Mitchell (aka digitalsista ). Many in the audience were colleagues that I have met through my blog over years and have helped me with Cambodian fundraising, like Roger Carr.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2010

How to make the most of a crisis situation with cross channel integration. Many organizations have been using mobile technology successfully for years, but I believe 2010 will stand above the rest for nonprofits jumping on board and maximizing the potential of text messaging campaigns. Session: Are you ready to react?

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2010

How to make the most of a crisis situation with cross channel integration. Many organizations have been using mobile technology successfully for years, but I believe 2010 will stand above the rest for nonprofits jumping on board and maximizing the potential of text messaging campaigns. Session: Are you ready to react?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Mobile can’t be this separate tactic or channel in your communications strategy. What is your message and what do you want the audience to do? How do your all your communication channels work together to inform, engage, and motivate? Larger organizations may have the capacity and resources to make a bigger investment.

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Care2

JANUARY 20, 2010

Care2's Jocelyn Harmon's wrote up a great list of six suggestions for Fundraising Success Magazine's blog on how nonprofits need to step up their marketing game in 2010. Stop debating which channel is best. 5 Social Media Lessons From the Haiti Earthquake Relief Effort. Her list includes: 1. Stop thinking tactics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2010

Given the visible success of the Haiti text to give campaigns, SMS is bound to become one of the tools in the an organization's fundraising bag if it isn't already. Post it to your Facebook Fanpage and any other social networks your organization is active on. Reinforce this in a follow up thank you email as well.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

We are 20 years into this online giving adventure and there is still a tremendous amount of up-side for nonprofit organizations. One would like to think that after 20 years of testing, more testing, conferences, webinars, and pithy blog posts about online giving that there might be wide adoption of best practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Your website is becoming a channel and the web is already a hybrid mix of media where video plays a dominant role. So how can we put the interest in video to work for our organizations, specifically your year-end fundraising? In 2010 much of their focus was on responding to the earthquake in Haiti. How big is video online?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

The title of this blog post is of course a wildly inaccurate claim. All communications were strictly limited to my blog, Twitter and Facebook. They found that: “Personal solicitations to pre-existing networks of donors and friends through multiple channels were rated as the most effective methods for fundraising.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 22, 2010

Questions abound: How do donors of different generations learn about nonprofit organizations? What are their preferred channels for engagement? What are the most appropriate channels for fundraising? What will the on-going value of direct mail be versus online and emerging fundraising channels such as social media and mobile?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2010

Questions abound: How do donors of different generations learn about nonprofit organizations? What are their preferred channels for engagement? What are the most appropriate channels for fundraising? What will the on-going value of direct mail be versus online and emerging fundraising channels such as social media and mobile?

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

A winning strategy for spreading the word about your organization’s work is getting your nonprofit’s story in the news. . A news story gets your organization in front of a large audience of potential supporters and gives your organization instant credibility. . The worst time to pitch about the event is after it happened.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Last year, when I turned 51, I posted a challenge on my blog - could I get 51 people to donate $10 to the Sharing Foundation? Whether you want to raise money for clean water in Ethiopia, vaccinations for children in Haiti, or a safe home for a puppy in Mississipi, with a Birthday Cause your friends can give in honor of your special day.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 12, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking What’s Different One Year After Haiti? The earthquake occurred at 4:53pm EST and the epicenter was 16 miles west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Nonprofit organizations responded to the disaster and so did their supporters.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2012

As part of TechSoup's do-it-yourself month, Nonprofits Live (NPLive) featured a discussion of blogging. Blogging is a great way for organizations to communicate and establish themselves as thought leaders. Thurman has been blogging about leadership, nonprofits, and social media since 2007. Vision and Execution.

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sgEngage

MARCH 15, 2011

This is the first time that the indices have included fundraising data related to the 2010 Haiti earthquake. The Blackbaud indices include organizations that raised money specifically for Haiti relief in the year-over-year analysis. Some important trends will be explored later to show analysis of post-Haiti giving.

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sgEngage

MAY 10, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 25 Largest Online Fundraising Nonprofits in 2010 Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on May 10th, 2011 The Chronicle of Philanthropy is not only a great publication, but they also publish some excellent research about online fundraising trends.

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sgEngage

MARCH 18, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 2011 NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference – Day 2 Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on March 18th, 2011 Day 2 of NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference ( #NTC ) in Washington, DC is when things really kick into high gear.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 22, 2010

It's no secret by now that social media is hot topic with nonprofit organizations, and quickly the topic of social media measurement is becoming a common conversation thread across the community. There's all the new social media channels, plus all the channels they already were working on (like email). Author: Jordan Viator.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 23, 2006

Sorry to have been away from this blog for so long. Speaking of infectious disease, while I was cooped up I read Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains , the story of Paul Farmer and his Partners in Health organization. but I spent all of last week in bed battling what started out as a cold but morphed into a case of pneumonia.

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