Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 3, 2010

Earlier this month, the Connected Generation conference brought lots of folks from organizations and direct services groups, as well as practitioners, educators, and researchers together in Bristol, UK, to talk about the use of social media in youth work. Connecting to Youth: Leveraging social media for work with young communities.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

While the full 2023 data has not yet been compiled, FEP has found that, through Q3 2023, donors decreased moderately and donor retention continued to slide, driving a slight decrease in fundraising dollars. Digitize your gift agreements Collecting multi-year gift agreements through online agreements with e-signatures is a game-changer.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2013

TechSoup's 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge is here! All April long, we're putting on events to sharpen your digital storytelling skills. Then, you submit your own short video (up to 90-seconds) or five-image slide show to our challenge to win prizes! Highlights from the day will be captured and shared with everyone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Note from Beth: Many nonprofits do not have dedicated teams for social media and social media strategy and implementation is typically only a part of a someone’s job. Nonprofits nowadays invest serious resources to keep pace with the latest social media trends. Flickr Photo by Yung Tsai. By Sacha Evans. Simply Measured.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

Mary Joyce leads a session on digital activism using the Story of Electronics. Day 3 of the Train the Trainers session was devoted to Digital Activism and facilitated by Mary Joyce. The learning objectives: To provide participants with a formula for training digital campaign strategy. Mary Joyce, Digital Campaigns.

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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. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people. Why Social Media? Citizen-Powered Response.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

Generosity Xchange Nonprofit Marketing Summit Cause Camp TNPA Leadership Summit The Nonprofit Social Media Summit Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) AFP ICON Engage for Good Good Tech Fest Bridge Conference If you’re thinking to yourself “I can’t make all those conferences,” you’re probably right. Cost: General admission is free.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 4, 2014

Another form of real-time communications is using mobile and social media to report live from your events and conferences. Potential attendees will monitor the hashtag, and those attending will promote the hashtag on mobile and social media in the weeks and days leading up to the event as well as during the event.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If why people should care can’t be figured out at a stop light, it’s too complex for a digital audience. Here are some options that come top of mind: Social Media: Cons: Generally limited in the amount of content you can fit in a post. So we created a carousel of images that broke down story slide by slide.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2013

The TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge is back and there are some great prizes in store for organizations with the most creative, compelling, and entertaining stories. However, before we can talk about prizes or even sending submissions, we need to cover how to create those digital stories. So pick your tools and get started!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 6, 2012

Submissions for the 2012 TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge have closed, but the fun has just begun! While our community is busy from March 6 – 12 picking their favorites for the Audience Choice Awards , our panel of expert judges will be selecting the top digital stories from among hundreds of entries. As the Dean of Story.

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Achieve

JULY 7, 2021

introduced Stories to compete with the rising popularity of Snapchat Stories, and the way we interact with social media has never been the same since! The slide after explains the correct answer! Social media is an opportunity to share your mission with a wider audience and in many ways, you can do so for free. 500 million.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2007

That's a video blog post I did to demonstrate how a simple technique for creating effective videos using your cell phone or digital camera and placing it one the web, in this example, on YouTube. Also, there may be other priorities to focus on rather than incorporating social media. They are here and you can download the pdf.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Last week, Care2 held a terrific webinar on the latest killer tactics to drive elections using online fundraising and social media. “The most successful organizations using social media focus on engagement rather than broadcast, said Stanton. You can also check out the slides below. To listen and view webinar click here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Guest Post by Frank Barry: Social Media for Social Good Video Roundup from #BBCon. Social Media for Nonprofits Ignite! In true “Ignite” style, each presenter had five minutes to present 20 slides about their nonprofit programs, initiatives and the ways they’ve seen nonprofits from around the world use social media to make a difference.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

As a presenter, advocate, or fundraiser, your job is to ensure that your colleagues, followers, or students want to soak up your message — a tall order, especially in a digital environment. Those words were quoted across the media coverage repeatedly.”. Johnson & Johnson. Put the soundbite on the screen. Well, that depends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Social Media A couple of really useful posts on Facebook and Nonprofits. NpTech Slide Decks SlideShare is like YouTube for powerpoint presentations. It also offers groups where members can share slide decks. Check this recent interview to learn more about Jonathan's secrets to using social media tools for success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

I presented a master class on The Networked Nonprofit as pre-conference session, a mini-workshop on the Happy Healthy Nonprofit , and a plenary session on engaging donors moderated by Macelo Jambeiro, a talented digital strategist that works for an agency called Alder & Lang and previously with Change.org. A multi-screen world.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Qualtrics WorkDifferent Digital Event Series. Key Takeaway: While Qualtrics had been hosting weekly virtual event strategy webinars, this shift to a digital event series showed the industry how it should be done. They kept their brand followers engaged with a unique and powerful digital event. . Cisco Live Two-Day Virtual Event.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 24, 2021

Digital walls. Highlighting your donors in a photo album or digital slide show. On social media. Depending on the types of social media platforms your organization uses, thanking your donors can look a little different on each one. This option is great for events and fundraisers.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2014

The Northstar Digital Literacy Project has 33 questions, but only a few touch on safety and security. Common Sense Media offers online safety assessments for educators. Slide Decks and Activities. Here's another slide deck from the Darien Public Library. The quizzes are divided by grade level.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Can Social Media Help Your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Efforts? Social Media. Social media is no longer seen as a fad or waste of time or thing that young people do. But the real key is that social media gives you a way to interact with people (your supporters and people who are trying to learn about you) like never before.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2011

With Animoto, you can put together photos, slides, and text with audio and video to create a compelling story from all the various elements you may have created separately or gathered at an event. Looking for more resources for turning your organization’s stories into digital engagement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. The course is about how to leverage networks and social media for learning and impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2008

Slide 9 & 10 from " What's Next In Media ?" This week we've been working on the " Strategic Social Media " module for the WeMedia project. In other words, how can your organization's social media strategy co-exist, support, enhance, or dovetail with your Internet marketing communications plan?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2007

And, the terms "digital native" and "digital immigrants" comes from an essay by Marc Prensky dated 2001, over six years ago! These patterns point to some larger trends about generational shifts, digital divides, and dancing in the space in between. addictions these days is slide share.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The final installment of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays tweetchat series, an interactive companion to its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , covered the topic of tagging. Tagging, a feature found across many social media channels, is used to help surface content during searches. A Taxonomic Tree of Philanthropy.

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Byte Technology

MAY 10, 2017

If your biz is a start-up or digital/technology-based company you’re probably looking for a fresh and dynamic theme. The homepage allows for animations galore as well as slide-in elements, and the services, testimonials, “about,” mission and visions sections are very unique to this design, as is the contact form.

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NetWits

MARCH 23, 2012

Every nonprofit sector has seen double-digit online fundraising growth since 2009. >> Search engine optimization, paid search through Google Adwords, content marketing , social media engagement and display advertising all come to mind as very successful ways to drive traffic to your website on an ongoing basis.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 10, 2020

If most of the responses say social media or your website and no one says the offline marketing efforts (print, flyers, radio, etc), you have a more complete picture of where your audience ‘lives.’. Ask this as a multiple-choice question or as a sliding numerical scale. Again, it can be multiple choice or a sliding numerical scale.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

You may need to get rid of sticky notes and embrace digital tools, better time management, and more efficient processes. Work Smarter with Digital Tools to Increase Your Nonprofit Productivity I used to be an old school pen-and-paper person. It took me a minute to go from old school to the digital age, but now I love it!

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This includes Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Slides, Meet, and more. This tool enables users to build forms in just minutes, collaborate with team members to add questions, and share the forms on a website or social media. Social media is as popular as ever, with 99% of nonprofits on Facebook and 95% on Instagram and X (Twitter).

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

JP helped with efforts related to the Collaborative’s use of different communication technologies and digital flow. This can be through email groups, digital breakout rooms, or other chat board software. Virtual Fundraising Event Public Relations and Social Media Strategy. Virtual Fundraising Event Production and Technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

I’ll be sharing blog posts about my experience here. The program is managed by the Institute of International Education (IIE), and implemented with a coalition of leading new media experts and local and international partners from the public and private sectors. I’m looking out my hotel window at the Dead Sea in Jordan.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Qualtrics WorkDifferent Digital Event Series. Key Takeaway: While Qualtrics had been hosting weekly virtual event strategy webinars, this shift to a digital event series showed the industry how it should be done. They kept their brand followers engaged with a unique and powerful digital event. . Cisco Live Two-Day Virtual Event.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

There were interesting conversations at every turn and I also had requests to share my notes and slides. Below, you can find my full speech and slides, as well as links to address questions and requests from many of those I met with. Digital Paradigm. Digital Tools. Digital Tactics. Digital Strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Many years ago before the digital cameras and children, my husband used to spend many hours combining two past times: birding and photography. Over the holidays, I took an all too brief social media break to spent time with family. It gave me space to give social media use some mindful attention. Black-Crowned Night Heron.

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