The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Thousands of nonprofits use EveryAction every day to raise money, manage offline fundraising through pledges and grants, send emails, run nonprofit digital advocacy campaigns, and so much more. Higher Conversion Rates = Raising More Money. It's offline fundraising tools were built for development pros.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

Social Networking and Web Tools for Chicago Nonprofits. now hear from homegrown social networks and what they have to offer local nonprofits. The majority of the room had experience in social networking sites and tools, both personally and for their organization. How to keep this conversation going?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

Ari Sahagun , a consultant who works with social justice groups on network visualizations, called for a group to discuss Network Mapping and Visualization. We had a wide ranging conversations about how to apply network mapping and visualization and debated about its use as a measurement technique vs strategy tool.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 6, 2009

My latest post is up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review opinion blog. You can read the full post and join the conversation on SSIR here. to share some of what I believe is the core of successful community building (on or offline). You can read the full post and join the conversation on SSIR here.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2009

My newest post is now up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review. You can read the post and participation in the conversation on the SSIR blog here! The piece is reposted below: Have we replicated our offline social dynamics and barriers online? Why would your organization want to have a presence on a social network?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2014

Thought leaders drive conversations – online and off, influence others, and shape perceptions in their field. They are the respected voices who others turn to understand sector social change issues. It’s one of the realities of living in a networked world – and as much as it makes us feel uncomfortable – we have to accept it.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2010

I have a new post up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog and I’d love to hear your thoughts! You can read the full post and comment on the SSIR blog or be part of the conversation below. Social media is a space where the individual reigns, relationships are required, and conversations are public.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

This post summarizes the content I shared in my presentation and offers some reflection on the conversational keynote. I started my talk with a story about why I liked Twitter: It allows me to connect with people in my professional field and have a great conversations or ad hoc collaborations that improve practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

we're mobilizing a global conversation about the various forms of. Have an offline conversation with someone about it. Cyberbullying social network ( [link] lying.ning. You can learn more by participating in the social. network, or you can visit resources like. via en email from Andy Carvin.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

My latest post for the Stanford Social Innovation Review is up and I hope you’ll dive into the conversation with me! A recent event has brought up some huge red flags for me around data, around communities, around social impact, inclusion and even more.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

My latest post for the Stanford Social Innovation Review is up and I hope you’ll dive into the conversation with me! A recent event has brought up some huge red flags for me around data, around communities, around social impact, inclusion and even more.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Adelaide, Australia: Mixing online with offline - building communities that take action. Guatemala: The Social Good Summit Global Conversation 2013 - Guatemala. Honolulu, HI: Overview of Social Networking: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. Social Innovation Week is coming to Baltimore. Tuesday, September 17.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Yesterday, I spent most of the day offline at the Wisdom 2.0 Conference where I gave my full attention to the presentations and conversation. The Wisdom 2.0 This year, I was honored to be speaking on a conversational panel about Wisdom and Social Good, Giving, and Technology along with Laura Arrillaga-Adreeessen, author of Giving 2.0

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AUGUST 9, 2011

This is another great way to capture your offline donors email addresses so you can foster relationships with them online too. Rather than trusting a visitor to type in www.yoursite.com , a QR code can send them directly to the specific page you’d like them to see," said Henry Quinn at the Idealware Blog.&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

to Boston for two days of book events hosted by Associated Grant Makers , Barr Foundation , Public Conversations Project , TechFoundation and Berkman Center Luncheon series. This post shares a few observations about Networked Nonprofits. Networking: Weaving Online and Offline, Strong Ties and Weak Ties.

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Care2

JANUARY 24, 2013

Say good bye to "online fundraising" and "offline fundraising," there is only fundraising. Leads acquired online are often best nurtured through social networks and converted in the mail, or over the phone if you're after monthly donors. Direct mail donors give more if they are hearing from you via email and social networks.

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JULY 14, 2011

The Remember Me website provided a way to display these haunting pictures and push them out to various social networks. The solution was the Most Jewish card game - a social way to start the conversation. The participants were able to engage in conversations about what being Jewish meant to them in a very low-barrier way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Identify Specific Network Weaving Techniques To Integrate. I’ve been having this conversation with several groups lately, Network of Networked Funders and Network Weaving Sandbox , comprised of individual who are intentionally approaching their work with a network mindset.

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Care2

JUNE 7, 2010

“I loved Eli Pariser's presentation and his main theme that we have to be careful about filtering too much, cutting ourselves off from uncomfortable conversations that are the only possibility that we have for breaking through the echo chambers. Check out some of the key take-aways of PDF by some of our favorite nonprofit experts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Allison Fine and I have been busy working on a book about how social media and connectedness is changing the way nonprofits are creating social change. Activists are sharing their personal stories in their own words, images, and videos across social networks with little prodding from the organization. We help guide it."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

I’m honored to be part of the Schusterman Philanthropic Network and Jim Joseph Foundation for #NetTalks , a free, five-part webinar series for Jewish professionals who want to tap into the power and potential of alumni networks. Engagement models that integrate social media should have: Defined objective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2013

Just like Mark, @home is moving beyond the old models of documentary film, using social media, web video, and a smartphone “game for change” to to spark a conversation about homelessness, and how we can solve it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

We are also learning in public when we engage in in-depth conversation whether it is offline or online, for example in the comments of a blog post or asking questions on Twitter. Conversation is a “learning in public” tool – maybe one of the best. Social media is a conversation engine. Offline/Online Interaction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

But expect how you report and measure impact with the social business sector. The social business sector has shared metrics and understanding of being data-informed. That changes the conversation for nonprofits. She touched on some of the implications for staffing and governance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Casey Foundation's " Making Connections " initiative Part of the Making Connections core approach uses (offline) social networks. A peer learning environment requires creating a safe space for conversation. Using visuals to document a network's outcomes - whether photos or videos - is incredibly powerful.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

A whopping 77% of event planners currently use social media to market their events, and another 14% plan to do so in the next year. When your nonprofit is planning events, it is critical to build relationships both on- and offline, and relationship building requires follow up and reminders, oftentimes on multiple platforms.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

But I do love to share my ideas and experience with others and hope this is an opportunity to start many new conversations both with readers here and participants at the seminar. where are they online already and how do they want to interact with you online (is it in the same spaces or different ones, is it conversations or promotion, etc.)?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

A few days ago, I asked for some stories " What is the value of listening through social media channels for your organization? " I wanted to see examples from nonprofit organizations engaged in listening and conversation and the value it has to their missions, programs, or marketing efforts. And you shared them! Observations.

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DECEMBER 20, 2010

Finally, we are beginning to measure how many volunteer applications come by way of our social media channels as well as using marketing sites like Klout to measure our influence online. Dupe: To me, to be a strong social media manager requires a perfect balance of the technical and social. Finally, you’ve got to love it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

This terrible flood didn’t spare the Nashville Symphony Orchestra (NSO), an event that he first learned about through his social networks. But consider the following: Networking. However, most of the donors were definitely social media contacts with whom I have had more in-depth conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Since social media encompasses many different types of tools, and each tool has specific characteristics and a steep learning curve, a toolkit approach can quickly become overwhelming. The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

At that time the Facebook Causes was only two months old and in their conclusion they pointed out that fundraising on social networks was not a silver bullet and that it takes time. . Steve MacLaughlin points out "If the reason why you want to use social networks is just to raise money, then stop now.

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Care2

JUNE 5, 2009

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2009

As a SEO and Social Media Manager, I have learned the ins and outs of traffic building, lead generation, website user conversion and community building. It's my job as a social marketer to use the stats to figure out what is working and what is not. I started blogging in 2001 with my very first 'blog' on Diaryland.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

He didn’t do the “sage of the stage&# thing, he gave ample opportunities for the audience digest the ideas he shared as well as engage them in conversation. Alison Carl White from NPower Seattle has a good summary on her blog. Actionable Social Media Listening for Nonprofits. It directly increased ticket sales.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Transparency and Social Media: Dealing with Criticism. The Intangible Benefits of Social Media. Reports of the Death of Social Networking for Nonprofits Are Not True! Social Fundraising: Leveraging On and Offline Connections. Social Networking: Part of Your Job or Just for Fun?

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2011

Action can be thought of as creating conversation. One participant said, "A good tweet is something that elicits action offline, for example, a laugh or a conversation. are useful for examining conversations pertaining to topics of interest. Granted, that's hard to measure."

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