Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Today’s Community Builder chat focused on examples and best practices for connecting on and offline community activities, events, and organizing. Get the October Chat archive. We’re leading up to it providing webinars and chats, but will be hosting an awards mixed reality event in February.

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Other associations post regularly on social media and cultivate vibrant online communities while yours just sends monthly email newsletters and occasionally meets over Zoom. In this guide, we’ll discuss three steps to creating an online community, starting with identifying the primary objectives and purpose of the community.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2011

The June Community Builder chat focused a lot on listening, engaging, and supporting communities with organic and emerging conversations and goals. Some of the highlights discussed for engaging your community included: In terms of participation from community, we welcome posts and mentions with positive affirmations.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 24, 2011

We just wrapped up another rousing Community Builder chat – I’m always so energized and inspired by these chats and thankful for all those that participate and share. Some of the topics from the chat include: Engaging specific ethnic groups/communities. Using content to fuel community engagement.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2011

The April Community Builder chat zeroed in on data and tools. Some of the past chats have discussed strategy, philosophy, and best practices, but this time we were all excited to share our tips and tricks for measurement, goal-setting, and specific tools to help us do it all! Topic: Community Building, of course!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 31, 2020

This year’s tools tap into emerging trends, such as Messenger bots, cryptocurrency, and gaming for good, and also build on long-time successful fundraising strategies, such as e-advocacy, online contests, and monthly giving. GivingLoop focuses solely on offering monthly giving donation pages and recurring donor retention tools to nonprofits.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Today’s CommBuild chat brought together some regular participants and some new ones for a rich conversation chock full of examples and ideas to share! Get the chat archive! The conversation in this month’s chat focused on these questions: How to best stay motivated and motivate your community team. Not a small feat.

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Most calls, web chats, and text messages are from people looking for help meeting basic needs like housing, food, transportation, and health care. A toll-free call to 211 connects you to a community resource specialist in your area who can connect you with local organizations that provide critical services."

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Today’s Community Builder chat had a small group with a lot to say! Review the full chat transcript! Questions in the November chat: Is it important to discern/clarify what a community expects to get from their participation in the community? What are online communities good for? And as for me?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2011

The January chat flew by with so many participants sharing so many personal experiences, anecdotes and ideas. Get the chat archive! The conversation in this month’s chat focused on these questions: What are the best mechanisms for connecting online & offline communities? Get the chat archive! from @ehon.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Tonight was the 2nd monthly Community Builder chat ; and I had a great time! Question 1 : asked about migrating a community from one tool to another, specifically from listservs to a website/forum. October Community Builder Chat. Chat : Launch the chat here (not live until the chat starts).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

Since this is an article on using AI to write, we asked Google’s Bard, “What is the difference between ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, and Bing Chat?” Bing Chat is a chatbot powered by ChatGPT-4. Bing Chat can be used to answer questions, generate creative content, and even translate languages.”

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 3, 2010

I love community organizing. I’ve had experience organizing communities offline in local communities, and organizing community online – but the kind of organizing that inspires me the most is combining online and offline. What are the online community organizing best practices from your experience?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Are you working on building or supporting community beyond one geographic region? Or are you looking to move from online community to offline event coordination? This month’s chat is for you! We’ll be talking about organizing events and supporting international/global communities. Time : 4 pm EST (1 hour).

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 20, 2010

Last night was the first in what will now be a monthly chat for community builders or those interested in learning more about building community, on and offline. The goal of this chat was to set some of the ground work for us to build on going forward. August 2010 – Community Builder Chat Wrap Up.

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Whether they are communicating by phone, text, or chat, or through public facing directories of resources and services, or through translators and assistive devices, these specialists perfect the art of listening well, understanding the expressed needs and the needs that may not be so easily apparent. And their analytics?

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 16, 2010

In this month’s chat,we had some good discussion around social media guildines and online community moderation. We heard from many people that there were too many holiday deadlines at work to make the chat so be sure to add your thoughts to the comments here after reading the archive to join in! Join the January Chat!

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

But, what if you could use social media to overcome one of the biggest challenges that nonprofits have faced over the past year: creating communities for supporters to engage with one another? We’ll cover creating digital supporter communities through the following points: Brief Overview of Supporter Communities on Social Media.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

Lindsay Simonds will decode the top five most impactful ways people contribute to communities. By understanding core motivations, intentions, perspectives reflected in this webinar, you will be able to build a stronger case for support, increase the impact you have, and gain strategies for creating and preserving community.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2019

billion monthly registered users – almost a third of all people on the planet! Community fundraisers. Super Chat for Good. Community Fundraisers will enable multiple YouTube “Creators” to raise money for the same fundraiser on multiple YouTube channels and videos, all updated at the same time. Campaign matching.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

Last week, I had a fun time moderating the June #4Change Twitter Chat on Online Community Building. This wrap up will highlight some of the insights and resources shared during the chat, but, if you’d rather, you can review the full transcript. From @jonasthanatos: Can communicate effectively. real time, and 2.

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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. Since then it has grown from 106 million active monthly users to 310 million active monthly users. Content that focuses on thought leadership, rather than inspirational storytelling, best serves the tone of the LinkedIn community.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 12, 2010

—— Last year I used the metaphor of “ gardening vs landscaping &# to outline some of the key attributes I believe make for successful community building, on or offline. The approach is focused on organic collaboration and growth for the entire community.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 29, 2023

To submit an email ticket, you’ll first go to the Support Center … … Then you’ll click on “Submit a Request” Can I Have Chat or Phone Support, Too? You can add chat support and phone support to your account; click here to learn more. These webinars are a great way to do just that! What Are They?

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

We’ve seen several associations exporting data from their online communities and analyzing it with artificial intelligence tools to extract member sentiments and find fresh solutions to problems. On the other hand, if I want to sit by the fake fireplace, have a chat with the barista, and hear some easy-listening jazz, that’s available too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2016

Powering the Nonprofit Community through Customer Support Guest Post. You don’t have any stipulations about who can ask for help, and make it incredibly easy to access documentation and support staff (via chat, phone, or e-mail). I had two chats with Tyler. by Dorie Wallace Vice President, Customer Support, Blackbaud.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 4, 2021

With GiveCloud , once attendees register for your livestream event, they can access a branded event page to consider multiple giving options, see how much is being raised in real time, share on social media, and interact with others in a public chat. Offer a monthly giving program to retain donors. Encourage easy text donations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Enhance online fundraising by offering monthly giving and crowdfunding. An interactive online community hub – Connect with other nonprofits , review your support case history, learn new features, and discover useful tips and best practices. Levels of fundraising software support typically include phone, email, and chat.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

WhatsApp is also an excellent tool for community building with stakeholders, for crowdsourcing information and knowledge and for traditional and peer-to-peer fundraising. These can then be seamlessly shared within WhatsApp chat messages that prospective funders and buyers can access on a Website and/or forward on WhatsApp to peers.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 20, 2022

Pricing: depends on the size of your organization’s volunteer community, but starts at $9/month. All you have to do is create customized templates and share with your community via email or social- the tool with collect registrations and send reminders. Vomo is a simple volunteer management tool created by nonprofit professionals.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 27, 2019

YouTube has released a suite of new fundraising tools, namely Fundraisers, Community Fundraisers, Campaign Matching, and Super Chat for Good. Modern in design and functionality, Funraise also integrates with numerous third-parties , such as MailChimp, Salesforce, Apple Pay, BitPay, Quickbooks, and more. Plans start at $299 per month.

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EveryAction

JANUARY 25, 2023

from our friends at Community Boost Consulting The work you do is important and it’s imperative that people know about it. To learn how to maximize your digital advertising potential, chat with our team today. Make sure you cover your bases and set up accounts on multiple social platforms (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, etc.)

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2014

NTEN''s newest team member, Bethany, is focused on our community programs, including the Communities of Practice and Tech Clubs. This month''s theme is building community, on and offline - a perfect time to interview Bethany about her inspiration for working in nonprofit technology and more! Tech lets me be creative.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 16, 2009

I am part of the planning team working on the monthly chat series behind #4Change. There is also a Twitter-based chat starting up for consultants who work with social benefit organizations. I wanted to share some of the lessons I’ve learned from my involvement with organizing Twitter chats.

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NTEN

APRIL 26, 2013

If you haven’t digested or implemented all of your takeaways from the conference—or if you couldn’t make it, and are itching to connect with fellow nonprofit techies—you may want to check out the NTEN Communities of Practice (CoPs). Meanwhile, the many devoted organizers of the CoP known as CommBuild have found weekly tweet chats most useful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The NTEN Book Club, organized by Lauren McKown and Kai Williams, hosted a video chat this week.This month they have been reading The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout and discussing it in the NTEN online community.

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AccelEvents

JULY 21, 2021

A leading virtual meeting platform, Accelevents is more than just a hosting solution; instead, it inspires brands to grow loyal communities and drive sustainable growth. Polls, Q&As, and live chats. Primary features include one-on-one speed networking, networking tables, and live chats for all members. Breakout sessions.

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