Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Create an ambassador sign up page and provide sample email text and social media graphics/avatars. In the weeks leading up #GivingTuesday, email your ambassadors and ask them to update their social media profiles. Write an article or blog post summarizing the success of your giving day and then: 1.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 4, 2012

On Facebook , as a volunteer you will need to consider the options of using your personal profile, creating a page, or starting a group. View more PowerPoint from Amy Sample Ward. Here are some Twitter-specific tools: Twitalyzer. hashtags.org. Bit.ly, goo.gl, t.co, TinyURL, youtu.be, s.coop. Tweetdeck, Hootsuite. What do you think?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Provide sample email text and social media graphics and avatars to your ambassadors. In the weeks leading up to your giving day campaign, email your ambassadors and ask them to update their social media profiles and email friends and family. Write an article or blog post summarizing the success of your giving day and then:1.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

I normally separate my post-presentation blog posts and slides but think it will be valuable to group them together this time. Once you have a feel for who’s talking about what, where, start joining them by leaving comments on the blogs, pointing to content or discussions from your station’s website or blog, and so on.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Or you can track the time it takes you to fill out the form, either with sample data or by trying to collect similar data from your own systems. For example, you can use the IRS Form 990 or the GuideStar profile to get basic information about your grantees, such as their mission, budget, staff, and board.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

So have others – here’s a blog post from Beth Kanter and Steve McLaughlin on Jumo.). So far, trying to navigate the site to browse or set up a profile has about a 50/50 chance of hitting either a 504 or 500 error page. “Amy Sample Ward wrote on her/her profile:&#. Functionality. Persistence.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 30, 2011

In that window of opportunity, I snagged an invite from NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward and have spent the last day playing around with it in between other projects. I don’t see any value there over Facebook or Twitter or here on my blog. I hid off my profile the count of how many people have me in circles. More intimate.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

There are bound to be many, many versions of this blog post as people from around the world start investigating the tool and sharing their impressions. Now, your sharing and connecting settings apply to much more of the web than just your social networking profile. But, at least right now, you can still only have that one profile.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2014

Amy Sample Ward. The internet might be everywhere, but where are you? Amy makes the case for making your website your digital home. For all this effort to create content and spark conversations, we won''t be successful if our online presence didn''t have a home. Our website is that home, and being a home is a difficult but important role.

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Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Make profiles for each volunteer. Make profiles for each volunteer. This is where volunteer profiles become a major asset for your scheduling and management system! Be sure to include this information in your own volunteer profiles: Names and contact information. Keep volunteers updated with mobile messaging.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review is up on the opinion blog – you can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR blog or read the full post below. But if they congregate online, on a community news site or blog network, join them in conversation there. It’s the same with any platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2014

As you build your storytelling profile, Hatch will suggest tools, case studies and resources customized to your needs. These recommendations will always be saved to your profile so you can access them later. Here’s just a sampling of what you’ll find: How to Make the Case to Invest in Story. Taming the Measurement Monster.

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sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2023

To get started, consider this sample workplace giving plan; then, build out each phase to craft a clear roadmap for success that fits your organization’s efforts. More than likely, you’ve been using your fundraising technology to collect data and build detailed donor profiles in your CRM. But this is a vital piece of the puzzle!

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Build Giving Strategy Tips 73

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

You can include a disclaimer in all of your profiles, actually! “Almost everyone uses LinkedIn, but hardly anyone asks for recommendations with any regularity (despite the fact that your LinkedIn profile is one of the top results for your name in Google ).” Be a social recommender! Choose your own path!

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Today's Blog Action Day 2009 ! 9,428 blogs from 150 Countries with 12,896,974 Readers and counting are participating -- you can still join the effort! Amy Sample Ward recaps the lively discussion and shares some excellent resources like this Climate Debate Map , the Drupal.org profile of TckTckTck and the Climate Lab Wiki.

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NCE Social Media

APRIL 29, 2009

4) Link to your profiles on MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. That’s just a small sampling of what your organization can now do on Change.org with the premium toolset. Finally, you may have noticed that a number of organizations such as Amnesty International [link] have branded headers for their profiles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Amy Sample Ward put the Global Giving Widget on her Facebook profile. Michele Martin of the Bamboo Project Blog wrote a terrific post about the campaign. All that to day I'm behind two or three days with saying thank you to a couple of friends for helping out with the America's Giving Challenge.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 23, 2013

Description : Social media presents a confusing blur of personal and professional profiles. Blog post reflections. In a tightly integrated community like ours, social media use requires special consideration. Related Links : KAUST. Course listing in Acadox. Slides (coming soon).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

When I was in Minnesota, one of the questions I got was about blogging and social networking policies. Now, I swear I remember seeing something from Easter Seals or another nonprofit on a listserv that mentioned either social networking policy or blogging policy. Do any nonprofits have a formal blogging policy? Be Responsible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

Here’s a sampling of just a few: How do you create ideas that the crowd embraces, makes stronger, and spreads? One of my favorite chapters of the book describes different leadership profiles based on the values and leadership approaches that different leaders use. Each profile is illustrated with an in-depth case study.

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NTEN

APRIL 7, 2015

Sixteen nonprofit tech experts (including NTEN Members: Jeff Shuck , David Neff , Donna Wilkins , Frank Barry , and NTEN''s Amy Sample Ward ) share their ideas and fundraising best practices in Blackbaud ''s new free ebook, The Future of Fundraising. Get inspired, mark you calendars, and enjoy the latest round-up of NTEN Members making news.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2011

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Tips to grow your list: Short sign-up forms – you just need their email, ultimately, and you can start building out their profile of what actions they take and how they engage. Email Campaigns: Know Your Audience and Get Results. Highlights. Get Started Increasing Your Engagement.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2009

As Jordan Viator explains on the Connection Café blog: It’s no surprise that every other blog post you read these days talks about how to raise money, stretch funds and build supporters in the current economic climate. Give to the Scholarship Fund. Spread the Word. Put this great little widget made by NTEN to good use!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Many of us have been up early playing with Jumo, setting up our individual profiles and finding issues and organizations or setting up profiles for organizations. Amy Sample Ward shares her first reflections and critique of the platform and wonders what’s the point? This post is also published on Steve’s blog.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Posted on Stanford Social Innovation Review’s Opinion blog. Young people you are trying to connect with online (anyone, really) will judge you by your profile information: does it say who you are, which individuals at the organization may be speaking on behalf of the organization via the account? Visit the original post here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Here is a Sample Six-Month Planning Timeline to help you get started. This Sample Budget Template provides a more detailed expense breakdown and can be used to start your Giving Day budget. None of this can be done effectively without systematic planning upfront – and that takes time. How much staff time is involved?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Beth’s Blog, September 2011. SSIR Blog, January 2013. Here’s a blog post by Rachel Dearborn describing the process. Do you only want to monitor social media mentions, or would you also like to manage your social media profiles using this platform? Which profiles are you most active on? Not Data Driven.”

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 30, 2009

You can read more about Lists on the Twitter Blog here. Celebrities, politicians and others with a high profile. Lauren outlines 7 Lists that organizations may find useful, including: Your organisation’s chapters and campaigns. Related international organisations and campaigns. Volunteers.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 30, 2009

You can read more about Lists on the Twitter Blog here. Celebrities, politicians and others with a high profile. Lauren outlines 7 Lists that organizations may find useful, including: Your organisation’s chapters and campaigns. Related international organisations and campaigns. Volunteers.

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Care2

MAY 13, 2013

Last week Amy Sample Ward and I held a webinar with Care2 on Social Media: You’re Probably Doing it Wrong. While Guy is not an organization, he is a well-respected thought leader, so his personal profile is a significant part of his brand and business. What are your favorite tips for doing social media right?

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NTEN

MARCH 11, 2010

All three session designers (myself, Ivan Boothe, Amy Sample Ward) have a background in community organizing, have run successful community organizing campaigns, and offer expertise in the field of social media. . Where can people follow you online (twitter, blog, etc.)? . I have a Google profile, if you want to connect on Google Buzz.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Maybe you’ve also taken the next step of strengthening your stakeholder community by engaging in back and forth dialog online – whether in existing social spaces like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, or in a custom built online community. Are you ready to take your community to the next level of maturity? Some are huge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Consider these two sample audiences: “Canadian women” or “18 to 30-year-old women in BC or Alberta who live in cities with more than 100,000 people” Of course, most NGOs can’t afford to hire the kind of market researchers you’d need to produce a sophisticated work-up of who your core audience is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

What reading level is your blog? Most NpTech blogs are high school level. According to an email from Ben Rattray, Change.Org founder, "This is not at all meant as a replacement for the profiles organizations have on MySpace and Facebook, which I think are great for reaching younger supporters.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

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). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. ""

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Care2

JULY 11, 2013

For example, one of the case studies that Amy Sample Ward and I profiled in the mobile section of our book Social Change Anytime Everywhere was about “Missed Calls” as an organizing strategy. They share best practices in online campaigning as well as concrete data and analysis from their A/B testing.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2011

My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review’s opinion blog is up – you can read the post and contribute to the conversation on SSIR , or read it in full below. Ensure that your Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and any other online profile you have includes a link back to your organization’s website.

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