Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 5, 2009

we20 wants to inspire people, online, to get together, offline, to talk about ideas to improve our lives and our world. But that doesn’t mean they can’t be spreading their message and mobilizing people into action both on and offline. In this case, we20 started a Facebook group to keep everyone together and communicate with each other.

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MARCH 24, 2014

Fundraising Tools. Donation pages also come with social media tools built in for sharing across Twitter, Facebook, and more. You can also accept offline donations via a manual donation page. Case Studies. CauseVox themes are all optimized for mobile devices. Screenshot of the CauseVox dashboard.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

How can we and how are we using social media tools for social change? “Social media is a storytelling tool, it’s let voices effected by climate change be heard around the world&# (@ amysampleward ). Social media is still the tool or the medium, not the change or the action. Lesson #3: Local vs Global.

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DECEMBER 14, 2012

By now, you've probably heard all the benefits of building a social media presence on Facebook or Twitter. So what's the secret to maintaining a popular Facebook profile or Twitter account? Learn how to maximize the reach of your nonprofit or library's posts to Facebook. TechSoup.org. TechSoup Canada.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

Social media can be a useful (though often overlooked) tool for frontline workers in social service agencies to engage with youth, according to Jason Shim, a Program Facilitator at the Canadian nonprofit, Mosaic Counselling & Family Services. According to Shim, Facebook is a primary communication tool for young people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The session was designed a mix of strategy with a deep dive into content, measurement, Facebook, and Twitter. Best practices for effective use of common social media tools: Facebook and Twitter. Then I tell them they are well on their way to a Facebook content strategy. Most, if not all, raise their hands.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

To top it off, I did an interview with Wendy Harman from the Red Cross about her recent experience using Twitter and other tools to spread buzz for campaign - Social Media Roadblock. I had already been working on the social media tools wiki so we could offer our supporters a bunch of easy ways to help online. I have no idea!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2009

You might remember that a few weeks ago there was an article in the Washington Post proclaiming that fundraising using Facebook Causes was a failure based on a calculation of dollars per donor. I'll boil it down to " Causes is A Friending Tool, Not A Fundraising Tool." Take for example this recent case study on the blog.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2012

which means "enough," began online and moved offline to solidify a movement to create a better Bosnia and Herzegovina. Learn how your organization can best use mobile from actual case studies in this recap of TechSoup’s Text-to-Give Tweet Chat. Does Facebook Work for Fundraising?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Grantees get better results integrating Facebook, Twitter, and other social media channels best practices and measurement. I presented an overview on content curation why important, a framework, and introduced some new curation tools – scoop.it On the Ground Engagement: What will you ask people to do offline? and storify.

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2012

By now, you've probably heard all the benefits of building a social media presence on Facebook or Twitter. So what's the secret to maintaining a popular Facebook profile or Twitter account? Learn how to maximize the reach of your nonprofit or library's posts to Facebook. TechSoup.org. TechSoup Canada.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. It eventually garnered 45,000 users who took advantage of the easy-to-access tool to place reports.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Before the session, I did a survey asking participants about the successes with using social media to win online contests as well as generally with social media and the stories were gems! We’ll use a living case study approach to unpack and share that wisdom in the room. Designate a cheer leader. Get your base to give first.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

It's not enough to build a Facebook Fan page or throw an account on Twitter - you need a strategy. Cutting Edge Integrated Social Media Strategies When: Tuesday, September 28th, 2010 at 1:30 PM Eastern Time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

I used a “living case study&# approach – doing an interview with them to share how they achieved their success. Seattle Symphony created flashmob and promoted it with Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter effectively. Social Network Analysis Tools for Social Media. It directly increased ticket sales.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

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!" Get ready to throw out the book on promoting Facebook Causes. How did they do it?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

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!" Get ready to throw out the book on promoting Facebook Causes. How did they do it?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 28, 2011

As you can read in this case study that Convio recently released, in last year’s campaign, WCS… Sent more than 150,000 messages to elected officials, recruited almost 2,500 new constituents online, in addition to more than 28,000 through in-park and mobile devices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

As Debra Askanase also notes in her year-end reflection, 2013 is the year that social media grew up , predicting that more organizations, even smaller ones, will need to invest more resources (staff, professional tools, and social advertising dollars). In the book, we share a couple of case studies and examples of engagement models.

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Care2

JUNE 5, 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!" Websites like Facebook, MySpace and YouTube are among the top 10 most trafficked sites in the US.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Social Change Anytime Everywhere: Best Practices to Build a Multichannel Campaign Plan From your website to social media, email to mobile messages, online to offline, multichannel strategies require coordination and creative thinking across teams and departments, and a focus on the core of your work beyond any one specific call to action.

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Care2

MAY 22, 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!" Word of mouth, etc. They are still extremely useful in branding your campaigns so take advantage of them.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Segmentation is another powerful tool with email marketing. Also, turn supporters into advocates by asking them to post links to your campaign on their Facebook or Twitter pages. Use Offline Channels to Drive Online Action. case studies. In your first email, introduce your mission, goals, timeline and achievements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments. This is an area of tools and techniques that I have wanted to explore in further depth, but haven't. . Why map your network with a software tool? How technical?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. The What, Why, and How of Facebook Fan Pages.

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Care2

MARCH 3, 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!" All nonprofits should keep an official, offline copy of anything published elsewhere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

you'll hear case studies of social media disasters and how they could have been prevented, as well as how brands have dealt with potential PR nightmares. How do you balance online action with offline engagement? I will also be tweeting this post.). Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis. Come to this session and find out!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

you'll hear case studies of social media disasters and how they could have been prevented, as well as how brands have dealt with potential PR nightmares. How do you balance online action with offline engagement? Since you can vote for as many panels as you want, why don't use some of our mutual leverage and vote for each other!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

He told me there were presenter tools - so you could present your slides on the screen, see your notes, and see the whole slide deck. Didn't have enough time to focus on applying the tools. I need more experiential case studies of this from nonprofits. (My Some strategies for offline/online engagement were discussed.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

Case studies of nonprofits winning at social media is an opportunity to see the strategies in action. That’s why we’ve taken the guesswork out of the equation by curating only the best strategic marketing resources for Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, and Pinterest. Social Media Marketing Tools.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

you'll hear case studies of social media disasters and how they could have been prevented, as well as how brands have dealt with potential PR nightmares. How do you balance online action with offline engagement? I will also be tweeting this post.). Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis. Come to this session and find out!

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2017

For an offline welcome I would work with your database coordinator to pull an updated list of new in-kind donors every month, then send out the letters on the 1 st. Depending on the tools you use, you’ll go about it differently. Your tool may or may not manage that for you—just something to watch out for. — Brock .

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

And in each of these we will talk a bit about tools, tactics and strategies. Analog Tools. What this means for tools, specifically, is that we don’t actually like technology. The tools in an analog world fulfilled a specific function but did not influence our planning or programs. Digital Tools. So let’s dive in!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Submitted by Brian Reich, publisher of Thinking About Media I have been critical of Facebook Causes, almost from the day it emerged onto the scene. Facebook Causes followed the same path. Facebook Causes followed the same path. But its not just Facebook Causes. The Facebook Causes platform doesn’t change that.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2009

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

do you think about online or offline? we mean a group being ‘led’ Community confusion: people rarely consider themselves part of communities offline. we mean a group being ‘led’ Community confusion: people rarely consider themselves part of communities offline. tools like CAPTCHA. We mean people.

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