Amy Sample Ward

JULY 16, 2009

That’s part of the key to success when using Twitter for a Global conversation. Using Twitter search or other tools, you can watch news and updates about the election in Iran by using #IranElection; or, find interesting people to follow and connect with using #FollowFriday to peruse the recommendations that pile up on Fridays.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

Two weeks ago I shared a couple reflections that I had on a recent #4change chat about community building – the major output from that chat and the follow up blog post was the call I heard for a regular opportunity to talk about community building. Monthly Community Builder Chats. has twitter integration, 3.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

It’s an ideal community to connect co-workers, influencers, donors, and corporate sponsors. For now, LinkedIn Pages outperform Facebook and Twitter in organic reach and engagement. Content that focuses on thought leadership, rather than inspirational storytelling, best serves the tone of the LinkedIn community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Dan Michel, Digital Marketing Manager, Feeding America Twitter: @dpmichel. Last week, Dan Michel offered an intriguing answer to this question : “What form of social media measurement does your organization engage in; Community participation, advocacy (earned mentions, discussions), or donations ($ or time)?

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 13, 2014

According to Blackbaud’s 2014 M+R Benchmark Study , a nonprofit’s social media audience on Facebook and Twitter grew by 37 and 46 percent respectively in 2013. Why did your nonprofit start its social media feed in the first place? Was it to better engage with community? Ask your community a question. Like our blog?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 2, 2020

The social media platform has more than 1 billion users — beating Twitter, Snapchat, and TikTok — and is especially popular among people aged 18-29. The platform, however, is different than Facebook or Twitter. For example, Feeding America is a nonprofit with a national network of more than 200 food banks.

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Forum One

JULY 11, 2023

Meta launched its response to Twitter last week, Threads. To put this into perspective, this growth rate makes it the fastest-growing app ever (even faster than ChatGPT, TikTok, and Instagram), and this massive rush of users brings Threads’ audience size to nearly 30% of Twitter’s total audience of around 330 million.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Feature social media feeds on your nonprofit website Some of the users who land on your website might be engaging with your cause for the very first time. However, manually configuring your website to feature your social media feeds can involve hours of coding and feel overwhelming, especially if you’re a novice to web development.

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M+R

MAY 10, 2021

As video content on social media continues to reign supreme and audio-only content, spurred on by Twitter Spaces and Clubhouse, grows, it’s important for nonprofits to prioritize accessibility when publishing content online. Additionally, you may see special characters used to create artistic typefaces for profiles on Twitter and Instagram.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2021

That said, the number of businesses fighting for their attention in their inboxes and on their news feeds may have left them feeling a bit fatigued. DonorPerfect will scan your donors’ email addresses and pull links to their pages into their record and even allow you to interact with them on Twitter while you use DonorPerfect.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Twitter and Nonprofits April 10, 2008 This actually was a post to the Progressive Exchange discussion list. I love twitter, which in some ways surprises me, and in some ways doesn’t. Sure, why not.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Some great discussions going on today at our event " Marketing & Online Communities " Conference here in New York. Tag MOC2008) More insights later but here is live feed of Twitter posts via Twemes (and see full set of comments on Twemes/MOC2008 :

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 16, 2012

She is the founder of Feed Me Darling, a business that helps professional women eradicate food cravings and gain lasting control over emotional eating. Feeding people. The fourth blogger in this run of the Have Fun, Do Good guest post series is the delicious Meg Worden (I say delicious because I love her e-cookbook, Salad Alchemy).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

One of their newest experiments is a Twitter campaign, #150jobs. What is the objective of the Twitter campaign? Because of the project’s scale, we opted to use Twitter as our communications channel instead of Facebook. We identified two quantitative success measures, Twitter impressions and content sharing.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Finding Feeds. Netvibes will let you track all kinds of things online, all by using RSS feeds or ready-built widgets. As far as the email vs feed option - we are using Netvibes so you can cut down on email! Choose the “feed&# option and then hit save on that alert. Twitter Search.

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TechImpact

JUNE 18, 2014

But implementing a robust and effective content marketing strategy that utilizes these social feeds is going to take an investment. Whether you’re posting your nonprofit’s content on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn or Instagram, each platform will require a unique posting style and voice. It’s completely free.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 21, 2022

Even videos shot on a smartphone can movingly capture how your nonprofit impacts your community. Or choose an “audio room” with Clubhouse , Facebook Audio Rooms , or Twitter Spaces. . Incorporate live feeds into events for those who can’t attend in-person. . Ideally you can use a video production service in your community.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2019

While Facebook and Twitter may be waning a bit in popularity and usage, visual storytelling platform Instagram keeps growing in engagement and daily time spent on the site. . Post about it on your main Instagram News Feed, use Stories, send an email, post on other social media sites, announce it at events! . Well, it depends!

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TechImpact

JUNE 18, 2014

But as we’ve detailed in previous blogs , with all the increased competition online, getting noticed through the typical social media feeds and through your website is becoming increasingly difficult. Through this interface your nonprofit is engaging with the community influencers who have the best chance to engage a large audience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 5, 2011

While mobile websites, group text messaging, and text-to-give campaigns may be looming large on your To Do List, making that transition from desktop communications to mobile is a crucial and timely evolution in your nonprofit communications practices. Download a Twitter app. Finally, Instagram also deserves a mention.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 27, 2013

For example, the National Wildlife Federation was an early adopter of Google+ and now they have more followers on Google+ than on Facebook and Twitter combined.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 4, 2012

Yesterday was the 2012 New York Cares Leadership Conference , and I had the distinct pleasure of presenting a session to volunteer leaders and inspiring community members. The session focused on using core social media platforms Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to raise awareness and inspire others as a volunteer. Creating Buzz.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2007

For this campaign, I haven't sent out any "email blasts" - except for one to the video blogging community list. This campaign is mostly being run off of my blog, personal emails, a little Facebook and mostly Twitter. Twitter as a fundraising tool?!? So far, twitter has been great.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

At AIDS.gov , our mission is to provide access to Federal HIV and AIDS information through a variety of new media channels, and to support the use of new media tools by Federal and community partners. Is it simply the number of followers you have on Twitter, or how many people "like" you on Facebook? Plan ahead.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

For the past six years I have spent 50 to 60 hours a week utilizing Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Foursquare to promote nonprofits. Yet tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of nonprofits every day send messages to their communities on social-networking sites with completely wrecked logos. Absolutely not!

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 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). " Great example of digital storytelling and community engagement. Twitter beta-tested a spine."

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 1, 2016

Twitter has been in the spotlight quite a bit lately. The new feed brought up content by interest and interaction and not by chronological order. Not long after the new feed rolled out, #DeathofTwitter started trending—you guessed it—on Twitter; articles started popping up everywhere about how to turn Twitter’s new timeline off.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2008

The classical view suggests that people learn all of the time through meaningful experiences and through immersion in a community of practice. I'm not sure what Smith's book has to do with twittering and tagging , but there is a connection. Twitter is the here and now, archiving the past is not built into the design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2008

She also mentioned how they were beginning to experiment with Twitter. They are setting up twitter accounts linked to programmatic areas and affinity groups. I'm sure we'll see more particularly as Kevin Dando urged stations to get a twitter account with their name. For example, here's the arts programming account.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 17, 2010

As soon as Facebook launched Community Pages , I knew this day coming. If it is the later, then the Status Updates of the Nonprofit Organizations Facebook Page will no longer show up in the News Feeds. This is the risk of building communities on social networking sites over which we have no control over.

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OneCause

JUNE 15, 2023

Some common P2P fundraising campaigns include: Community 5ks, walks, and runs Sports or endurance events Corporate challenges Social campaigns and online scoreboards Scavenger hunts and local events Personal donation pages The social aspect of P2P campaigns helps foster a community of donors.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 16, 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). Open Source Zanby Announcement | Zanby.com – I'm so very excited to see this group/community platform go open source! Look no further!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

Along with the new brand are new Twitter (@ childfund ), Facebook , blogging and YouTube efforts. To celebrate, ChildFund International is giving gifts of agricultural love and hope from the organization’s gift catalog for every 200 Twitter followers @childfund. They will share the recipients’ stories and photos with the social web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 22, 2013

Unless you study Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest. 2) You are rarely retweeted on Twitter. People follow nonprofits on Twitter to learn about your cause or because they care about the work you do. Pinterest is like Twitter. Social networks have become an integral part of nonprofit online communications and fundraising.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 24, 2012

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). How to Prepare Your Community for a Major Change « The Community Manager – "Change: it’s the one constant in life.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 23, 2012

As a follow-up to Google+ Best Practices for Nonprofits and 22 Must-Circle Nonprofit Bloggers and Resources on Google+ , below are 22 nonprofits that are regularly using Google+ effectively to engage and inspire the Google+ community. To me, the Google+ Stream feels like a mixture of Twitter and Facebook.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Join online fundraising communities and ask lots of questions and monitor for great ideas. Facebook , Reddit , LinkedIn , and Twitter have great options. 50 helps us feed one child for a week.”). Build a relationship with the staff and board of your local community foundation. Canvas door-to-door.

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