Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 7, 2009

4Change Chats are hosted on Twitter – Read “ Join the Conversation ” below for ways to jump into the discussion. Where: Twitter (search for #4Change. Starting the Conversations: Here are some questions to consider: How does online discussion and networking connect with and support offline action? Details: Date: Oct, 8th.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2010

As part of a blog series leading up to the event, I was asked to share some thoughts on the event, especially for those coming along for the first time that may not know what to expect. Especially with the NFPTweetup, these events are intended to be educational and valuable. Tip #1: Share Great Stories. Lesson: Listen!

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Building a loop between online and offline community activities. Share your ideas ahead of time in the comments below, or on twitter using #4change and/or #commbuild – have an idea for a better hashtag for this chat? Please leave a comment with your idea! Did you miss last month’s chat?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 3, 2010

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. If you want to contribute to the conversation, you’ll need to have a twitter account (it’s free). Feeling brave?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Events -- especially the "a-thons" -- have been a huge part of fundraising in the nonprofit space for decades. Participants who used Twitter raised more money and reached more donors than non-Twitter users, tripled their personal fundraising goals, and raised nearly 10 times more online.

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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. All communications were strictly limited to my blog, Twitter and Facebook. Two donors were former colleagues who also have Twitter accounts. But consider the following: Networking.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Tags: campaigns presentation facebook lpw philanthropy romania workshop. In the slides, I highlighted some of the work of 350.org org but I know there are lots of great examples out there. Has your organization campaigned specifically on facebook? I’d love to hear how it went!

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 14, 2023

A well-rounded fundraising plan should include a variety of strategies like a signature event, appeals, monthly giving, and at least one online fundraising campaign. You can create and run an online campaign to support an offline appeal or an event. Create an in-person event: This may seem counterintuitive, but it works.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

It’s always great to meet offline with folks you’ve already had conversations with online. Petra wanted to a short interview before the event was over and she asked some interesting questions, like: What’s so powerful in social media for social entrepreneurs. What do you think?

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

has twitter integration, 3. Tags: community events 4change chats community buidling community management twitter chats. I plan to continue exploring the best options for these chats, and welcome your feedback. For this first chat I want to use CoverItLive because 1. it’s a tool that I know works, 2. Let me know.

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NetWits

MARCH 8, 2012

And because fundraising continues to shift from offline to online nonprofits are faced with a growing need to find new and innovative ways to do fundraising through online sources. The move towards a multichannel fundraising approach (online and offline) is becoming more and more critical to long-term success.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 21, 2023

X, formally Twitter, has also had a lot of changes that may affect your strategy for the platform. One way to engage with your donors on social media for GivingTuesday is to create a hashtag challenge for people to participate and tag you in.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 24, 2010

She was the one that took me to the overnight events at OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry) where I had my first go at building robots. Tags: events networking adalovelaceday technology women womenwhotech. Want to join in? Sign the pledge, add your post to the list, and get connected: [link]. What do you think?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

During the US Thanksgiving holiday, Tweetsgiving asked people around the world to use Twitter to share something they were grateful for and include the link to the Tweetsgiving site (where people could donate to help build a library, classroom and more for the benefiting school in Tanzania).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Ideally, it should match your Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, MySpace and Foursquare URLs. Unlike Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, and Foursquare, this image should be rectangular, not square. Unlike Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, and Foursquare, this image should be rectangular, not square. For example, www.ustream.tv/user/nonprofitorgs.

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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. Tags: community issues best practice community building gardening ssir. What would you add about cross-platform community building?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2011

In 2009, she was live tweeting a food distribution event at the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank when she noticed a man leaving the food bank juggling a lot of thin plastic grocery bags filled with food donations. Sue Kerr has put her social media savvy to work to fight hunger in the Greater Pittsburgh area and save the environment.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2010

That’s not exactly the way business normally goes down offline. Tags: events fundraising presentation facebook individuals notes slides socialmedia ssir. Social media is a space where the individual reigns, relationships are required, and conversations are public. And it has real impact on the way organizations fundraise.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

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). They want to see what could happen if we serious commit to working together, on an offline. "It's

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

I have always been proud to support WWT both during the telesummit and during the rest of the year with other offline meetups, online content, and more. This is great for use in your Twitter messages but also in emails or even text messages. To get started, first brainstorm and identify the various groups or segments of your community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

If you have been following me on Twitter, Facebook, this blog or other social media channels, you know that my father passed away several weeks ago. For the event, I used the Facebook Insights, Rowfeeder, and Storify. 80% of the goal was raised before the Online Memorial Event on July 3rd. Online Memorial Event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

How do we activate the online activists to take action offline?" I was not presenting, but decided to use Twitter crowd source some suggestions, screencapture them, and put those into my presentation later in the day. Ironically, one of my Twitter followers suggested asking them nicely and giving them schwag. SheilaS @ kanter.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

To some, these events were unimportant. But to many people active in online social action communities, these events had deeper meaning. There are many who approach the online landscape with very different views than their offline business decisions. . “In recent days, Causes has left MySpace and IdeaBlob has shutdown.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 6, 2009

to share some of what I believe is the core of successful community building (on or offline). Some people define it as organizing, especially around specific events, campaigns, legislation, or fundraising. Tags: community strategy communitybuilding online community organizing social networking. Gardening vs Landscaping.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Grantees get better results integrating Facebook, Twitter, and other social media channels best practices and measurement. Content Curation on Twitter. Next Bruce Lesley gave a virtuoso case study of how he uses Twitter to curate news articles and resources related to children’s issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

I met James Leventhal via Twitter and we ended up working together on a project. Recently, James wrote about some interesting ways museums are using Twitter for offline/online engagement. And, one of the Twitter users who participated was a friend from high school! Sometimes connections cross the boundaries of time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. 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 4, 2011

Note from Beth: Hosting events for your network – where they can meet offline – can be a terrific away to build your network. In early January, the American Museum of Natural History announced that it would hold a Brain Tweetup for 75 of its Twitter followers. Notes from a Tweetup by Jay Geneske.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

pull in hashtags from Twitter into the RSS reader (pull in the RSS of a search.twitter.com result). NWF - tag mentions in delicious with which programs or projects are mentioned, can share link to that tag on delicious with staff to see their section. Examples: Yammer for internal sharing, it’s a Twitter for groups.

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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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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. I’ll be on the Twitter back channel following the #netnon hashtag from the Independent Sector Conference in Atlanta.). Weak Tie/Strong Tie Ice Breaker.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

It’s back-to-school time for many countries and that means a switch from summer programs, outdoor community events, and many youth campaigns. Amongst 11-25 year olds, Facebook is trailed by Bebo (28%), MySpace (25%), Twitter (12%), MSN (9%), YouTube (2%) and “other” (4%). Visit the original post here. The Research. What do you think?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Charities that have traditionally focused on offline fundraising have also learned in recent years the importance of online giving. Nonprofits that use online friends asking friends or peer-to-peer fundraising programs usually see spikes around these events during the year. Steve MacLaughlin, Blackbaud. Giving USA estimates that $307.65

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

We're doing some interesting work this week bringing the online dimension to a face-t0-face event. Forum One is working for GDN to help extend the impact of the annual face-to-face event by better connecting the 300+ attendees, and better open up the event to non-attendees around the world. Google news feed about the event.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

It really was an incredible event and a great chance to catch up face-to-face with friends from all over. 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? Meet Claire.

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