Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

One goal that I had was to a peer support community through the twitter hashtag # npsmpeer – where nonprofit social media managers could share advice and support one another. Love how this peer-to-peer workshop on non-profits + community management is being run. When the energy drops, people’s brains go to sleep.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2013

This highly interactive and engaging community conversation will look at how nonprofits can create a culture of experimenting, testing, learning and correcting. Beth Kanter will facilitate this session with a panel of nonprofit tech leaders and the community – and special surprise guests who will join us via video. NpTech Fail.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2012

In this edition of TechSoup's Nonprofits Live, our guests spoke about why they employ user-generated content and how they tap into their communities for it. We welcomed the following experts: Amy Sample Ward , Membership Director of the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN). Michael De Long , TechSoup Global Online Community Manager.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 20, 2022

Maybe you’ve drafted some fundraising letters to your community, but you’re in search of new ways to spread the word. Flyers are a tried-and-true advertising method to get the community engaged with your event and organization. Here’s a sample fundraising flyer with a great design: This flyer is a piece of art!

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Tech Soup

JULY 22, 2015

Whether their vocal ability is limited due to illness, genetic factors, or brain injury, these individuals have the right to communicate using a unique voice, a vocalization they can identify with as they interact in the world. Dr. Patel realized that there was a need in the community of assistive technology users to diversify voices.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2011

Growing Virtual Roots – How our online efforts led to amazing offline results – A great case study in community organizing, on and offline, from Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure. "From "Our message to nonprofits: Your mission is noble, and your intentions are honorable.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2011

If you liked this post, you might also like: How to Find Your Have Fun, Do Good Zen Peacekeeper, Marianne Elliott, Shares How She Has Fun, Does Good Leonie Allan of Goddess Guidebook Shares How She Has Fun, Does Good Amy Potthast, Idealist.org: How I Have Fun, Do Good Amy Sample Ward, Community Builder and NPtechie: How I Have Fun and Do Good Jennifer (..)

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 9, 2012

If you liked this post, you might like past Have Fun, Do Good guest posts: How to Find Your Have Fun, Do Good Zen Peacekeeper, Marianne Elliott, Shares How She Has Fun, Does Good Leonie Allan of Goddess Guidebook Shares How She Has Fun, Does Good Amy Potthast, Idealist.org: How I Have Fun, Do Good Amy Sample Ward, Community Builder and NPtechie: How (..)

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 25, 2010

My friend and engaging community leader for all those looking to have fun while improving the world, Britt Bravo, is doing a little experiment and asking a handful of bloggers to write short guest posts about how they have fun and do good. I’m thrilled to be included in the line-up! Those are the things that are most fun to me, anyway!

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2011

Wendy is a listener, innovator, online community member, information synthesizer, big picture thinker, and Director of Social Media for the American Red Cross. Thank you for letting me be part of this community. The second guest blogger in my Have Fun, Do Good series is Wendy Harman. digitalsista , @wharman & @sokunthea.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 8, 2011

She uses her superpowers-her voice, sense of adventure and belief in the transformative power of community-to help organizations design programs that create unrestricted revenue, volunteers and advocates. It’s a great combination of all the things I love and adore—good food, good people-community-culture-travel – and fun!

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Laura’s experience working at and serving on the board of multiple arts organizations around the country shape her insights into the nonprofit community. Our brains process philanthropic motivation and financial motivation separately. Tell Your Story : You need to set off the right motivation in your member’s brain.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 3, 2011

If you liked this post, you might also like: How to Find Your Have Fun, Do Good Zen Peacekeeper, Marianne Elliott, Shares How She Has Fun, Does Good Leonie Allan of Goddess Guidebook Shares How She Has Fun, Does Good Amy Potthast, Idealist.org: How I Have Fun, Do Good Amy Sample Ward, Community Builder and NPtechie: How I Have Fun and Do Good Jennifer (..)

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 14, 2009

She even crowdsourced some of the responses via Twitter - a fun way to get a bit more brain power out of the process of blogging! Debra Askanase has turned a recent experience dealing with many social media obvjections into a list to help you nail your comeback lines for any objectors in your organization or office.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 9, 2011

With a “have fun, do good” attitude, the rewards are plenty: • Instead of a group, we have a community. There has to be a reason for actors, designers, and stage managers to show up, stay late and put their heart into it. People’s true selves come out to play (and we’re shiny!) • Creative sparks fly. We know our impact.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 10, 2011

If you liked this post, you might also like: How to Find Your Have Fun, Do Good Zen Peacekeeper, Marianne Elliott, Shares How She Has Fun, Does Good Leonie Allan of Goddess Guidebook Shares How She Has Fun, Does Good Amy Potthast, Idealist.org: How I Have Fun, Do Good Amy Sample Ward, Community Builder and NPtechie: How I Have Fun and Do Good Jennifer (..)

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

Here's where I'll be (the links are to MyNTC, the social community site for the conference): New to NTC Orientation (9-10:30 am Thursday) - As an NTEN Member Ambassador, I'll be helping NTEN's fabulous new Membership Director Amy Sample Ward (a perfect choice for this job, don't you think?) I love it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 16, 2012

Breathing… ** If you liked this post, you might like past Have Fun, Do Good guest posts: How to Find Your Have Fun, Do Good Zen Peacekeeper, Marianne Elliott, Shares How She Has Fun, Does Good Leonie Allan of Goddess Guidebook Shares How She Has Fun, Does Good Amy Potthast, Idealist.org: How I Have Fun, Do Good Amy Sample Ward, Community Builder and (..)

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2012

. ** If you liked this post, you might like past Have Fun, Do Good guest posts: How to Find Your Have Fun, Do Good Zen Peacekeeper, Marianne Elliott, Shares How She Has Fun, Does Good Leonie Allan of Goddess Guidebook Shares How She Has Fun, Does Good Amy Potthast, Idealist.org: How I Have Fun, Do Good Amy Sample Ward, Community Builder and NPtechie: (..)

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

Here's where I'll be (the links are to MyNTC, the social community site for the conference): New to NTC Orientation (9-10:30 am Thursday) – As an NTEN Member Ambassador, I'll be helping NTEN's fabulous new Membership Director Amy Sample Ward (a perfect choice for this job, don't you think?) I love it.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2011

I got goosebumps when my colleague Rachel Muir (founder of GirlStart & voted AFP Fundraiser of the Year by her peers) first described to me her tried-and-true method for creating high-impact cultivation events that – while NOT fundraising events, per se – seriously moved the needle on community support in the long term.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 3, 2012

If you liked this post, you might like past Have Fun, Do Good guest posts: How to Find Your Have Fun, Do Good Zen Peacekeeper, Marianne Elliott, Shares How She Has Fun, Does Good Leonie Allan of Goddess Guidebook Shares How She Has Fun, Does Good Amy Potthast, Idealist.org: How I Have Fun, Do Good Amy Sample Ward, Community Builder and NPtechie: How (..)

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

We call these weekly calls, “brain dates.&# Instead of leading with answers, let’s start focusing on the questions we can ask each other, ask of funders, ask of our communities, ask of ourselves. At the end of 2010, I started having a weekly, 30-minute skype call with my friend Vanessa Rhinesmith. There is no agenda.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 7, 2011

If you liked this post, you might also like: How to Find Your Have Fun, Do Good Zen Peacekeeper, Marianne Elliott, Shares How She Has Fun, Does Good Leonie Allan of Goddess Guidebook Shares How She Has Fun, Does Good Amy Potthast, Idealist.org: How I Have Fun, Do Good Amy Sample Ward, Community Builder and NPtechie: How I Have Fun and Do Good Jennifer (..)

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Nicholas Carr’s prescient book, The Shallows , claims that the Internet is doing something to our brains. The Internet, especially the mobile web, encourages rapid, distracted sampling of small bits of information from many sources. Like it or not, to get our messages out, we need to make them more compact. Really short.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

The Brain exhibition, for example, has a table where people can work together to put together the pieces of the brain neuron by neuron. When we first started babycastles, we had no idea there was any kind of community in NY for it. They knew of a few people but it was nothing like the communities on the West Coast.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Social media's still pretty great, though, for raising awareness about your nonprofit, communicating with existing supporters, and listening to your community.). Amy Sample Ward, NTEN's fearless leader, has a different view. Image 5: Amy Sample Ward. Forty percent find charities through plain old web searches.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Fundwriter further trains this AI using nonprofit-specific writing samples from websites to appeals to proposals to social posts. Appeal – Research Centered This appeal is trained on samples from research-related appeals, but it can work for any organization. To put it simply, Fundwriter.ai

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

The reality is that our brains only have the capacity to manage a limited number of relationships ??? "There's a mentality shift required to fully engage with social networking and community content sites: sometimes, you have to let go." the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content. More here ). *

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

NTEN's Amy Sample Ward shares from her experiences at the Games for Change Festival. The Brain exhibition, for example, has a table where people can work together to put together the pieces of the brain neuron by neuron. When we first started babycastles, we had no idea there was any kind of community in NY for it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Wrangling your RSS Feeds by Amy Sample Ward 4. Set up your Listening Radar and Response System Your radar will have different components: Ego Feeds: Search on your organization's name, url, or other specific identifier. URLs for your blog, web site, online community. NpTech 101: How I read 2,000 Articles in 30 Days by Chas Grundy.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 5, 2009

Our brains our packed with ideas and inspiration for how to do our jobs better, our social networks are a little richer because of the new relationships we have forged, and our hearts are full with the comradeship of being with so many people that share our passion and perspective for the role of technology in work promoting the social good.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 1, 2011

The first post is by Jennifer Lee, author of The Right-Brain Business Plan: A Creative, Visual Map for Success. Jennifer Lee, Right-Brain Business Plan: How I Have Fun, Do Good Since 2005 I’ve volunteered off and on at a local non-profit called C.E.O. Accenture, Sony, and HP, helping leaders and organizations manage change.

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sgEngage

APRIL 7, 2023

This frees up your to-do list—and brain space—to focus on important tasks that improve your grantee experience. You can attach documentation for easy reference, such as reporting your grantees submitted or sample Board packets they provided during the application process. Do you want to increase the number of grant programs you offer?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. In researching the ROI Chapter of the NTEN book, I intervewed some staff members from Legal Services community. The hardest part of putting this presentation together was using the template because it reminds me why I think powerpoint is evil !

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

So when we talk about wasting time, here’s a sample of the numbers that I see with folks in terms of how they’re spending their time. Who do you know that wants to see our community do X? So another way I think about this is like it’s opening up so many tabs in our brain. I’m a trained executive coach.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

So when we talk about wasting time, here’s a sample of the numbers that I see with folks in terms of how they’re spending their time. Who do you know that wants to see our community do X? So another way I think about this is like it’s opening up so many tabs in our brain. I think I had over 10,000, probably in my 13 years.

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