Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

For those that follow the #4Change twitter-based chats, this is a post recapping and highlighting our latest conversation on social media application in the Climate Change movement. That’s the question that the monthly #4Change chats (that take place on Twitter) address, this month focusing on the Climate Change movement.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

These are just a few of the questions to consider in real time. If members ask a question on Twitter, respond on Twitter, and so on. Take the finger-pointing as opportunities to fix things in real time! Has your organization run a competition online or offline? Are people participating or not?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2013

Having spent a year working with KD Paine on our book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” we faced the same challenge at times, although we had fairly large group of Packard Foundation grantees testing the frameworks which helped. For starters, follow the #sm_re hashtag on Twitter. … Read More Measurement'

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2011

Within 30 minutes, I registered a domain name, launched a fundraising site on CauseVox , and seeded it with key influencers on Twitter to help build momentum. We also used branded Twitter accounts ( @sxswcares and @sxsw4japan ) to promote the campaign. What you will change the next time? Hindsight is always 20-20.

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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. we20 has a time-sensitive campaign (though, who’s isn’t?) 20 world leaders.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

Here is a short list of innovations that happened after online giving began in 1999: Airbnb, Android, Bitcoin, Chrome, Dropbox, Etsy, Facebook, Github, Hashtags, iPod, iPhone, iPad, jQuery, Kindle, LinkedIn, MySpace, Netflix, Oculus Rift, Pinterest, Reddit, Slack, Tesla, Twitter, USB Flash Drive, Venmo, Wii, Xbox, YouTube, and the Zettabyte.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

It was great to see long-time colleague from NPower Seattle Peg Giffels who I met ten years ago when she first joined the staff. I’ve asked this question before, but this is the first time I had so many stories that it was hard to narrow it down to a few. Twitter Advocates. It directly increased ticket sales.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Claire Williams Diaz who works on social innovation at Twitter. She leads social innovation, philanthropy, and causes at Twitter and Blogs at Claire.us.com. Looking to get more out of Twitter? Why Twitter Matters | Getting Started with Twitter | Twitter 101 for Nonprofits. Meet Claire. Meet Geoff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

I've been on Twitter since almost the beginning and have watched charitable giving and fundraising go from the edge to mainstream. Twitter is establishing itself as a charitable giving and cause marketing channel. . The event attracted a lot of attention because it was an example of integrating a live charity event with Twitter. (See

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Webinars can greatly benefit from developing a “run of show” which in radio is a script designed to outline the order and amount of timing for items to be discussed within a program. Presenters who are interested in embedding a live Twitter stream into their slides can do so with SlideRocket.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. That’s why the Atlanta councilman used twitter!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

Shim shared a case study at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference on how his organization uses social media to communicate with youth participants in the Pathways to Education program. He also began using Facebook (and later Twitter) as a way to listen to and better understand his students' concerns and interests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2009

They also have a @causes on Twitter and I hope they will use that to engage directly with the nonprofits who want to get better results rather than just tweeting about themselves. . I asked my Twitter followers for suggestions for questions , I tweeted the key points from the conversation yesterday. It takes time to be successful.

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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. Social Networks & Twitter from Natalie Foster: Two Principles: 1.

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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. as a first time donor. Designate a cheer leader.

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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. Twitter compasspoint. Next was Susan Tenby from TechSoup who did a mini-workshop on Twitter. Measurement mini workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

I shared my lessons learned from my first campaign in 2006 in this case study , with best practices work today. It was terrific to meet some folks face-to-face who I had “met&# on Twitter like Shirley Ayers and see old friends, like Paul Henderson again (who took fantastic photos.).

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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. 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

APRIL 5, 2009

From an article in the New York Times dated April, 1896 about the Hackensack Hospital's Charity Ball) . Offline/Online Mix This is not your mother's or grandmother's black tie dinner dance charity event! The event used social networks like Twitter and Tumblr for real-time updates on the event and had the ladies of Sleepover 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Some people are beginning to use twitter for adverts…and doing ‘paid tweets’ Is this going against the whole ethos of SM and especially Twitter, when authenticity is the key?” I have looked resistance in the face, many times. For more: The Social Media Ready Nonprofit: Dealing with Resistance. Dealing with Resistance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Twitter : A space where we can engage with the community, share ideas, ask for help, get feedback, listen to complaints, participate and mobilize people to help us with our vision of ‘a book in every child’s hand’. Channels used: Twitter, Skype, Blog. Channels used : Scribd, Blog, Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

I asked for some recommendations on Twitter for the best practical sources for change management. I also wondered about the historical context of change management and technology tool adoption, asking on Twitter if there case studies about the adoption of the typewriter in the workplace. Remington & Sons around 1875.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

The afternoon included four case study sessions and an ethics session. In case you missed this freezing cold yet informative day, here are my favorite key points from each session. Their customer service team answers approximately 800 questions per day via Twitter. Thus I had the great opportunity to attend.

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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!" Encourage your offline members to donate online so you can capture their email addresses.

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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!" Type in your organizations twitter handle, organization or hashtags. Brand Your Issue.

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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!" But how nonprofit organizations can take advantage of Twitter should be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

It uses sources such as how many delicious bookmarks, incoming links, how many times mentioned on Twitter, how many comments, etc. Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? Twitter As Charitable Gift Spreader. Twitter Demographics. Twitter is the Second Highest Referral After Google.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

But many nonprofits are not properly measuring whether their engagement efforts are worth the time and cost. In the book, we share a couple of case studies and examples of engagement models. grist.org’s key results are: Footprint: The reach of their activities, both online and offline. What does it look like?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

Some examples: A follower on Twitter or someone you're following. For example, a one-way connection on Twitter is someone who follows you, but you don't follow back. A two-way connection is someone you follow on Twitter and follows you back. (BTW, Each dot represents a person or in network jargon, a node. Family members.

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NTEN

JUNE 9, 2011

In contrast, Twitter allows seven. Follow up the initial Welcome message with a timed series of messages that invite the user to take additional steps. Just as in the offline world, people are more likely to do something when personally invited. Our objective, however, is not for our emails to be annoying.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

With turkey time only 2 months away, custom online giving campaigns are this season's must-have necessity. 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.

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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!" Social Networks & Twitter from Natalie Foster: Two Principles: 1. What is your real output?

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Care2

MAY 9, 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!"

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Care2

MAY 8, 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!"

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

The organization wants to capture the demographic details, as well as make sure that data is synchronized with the data they might already have on that web user, so they can track their constituents over time. All of these strategies take time and resources, but of different kinds. Integrating online and offline communications.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 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!" Q: Does this include offline giving too? A: The Convio benchmark numbers exclude offline giving.

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Care2

MARCH 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!" Q: Does this include offline giving too? A: The Convio benchmark numbers exclude offline giving.

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