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. The Community Organizers Handbook available as a public resource, you can certainly refer there for information/feedback/best practices on offline organizing: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2010

Networked Nonprofits know how to close the loop between social media and offline actions. Take Twitter for example. If your organization has a robust Facebook presence, you can also use a Facebook Event to promote the event. Tags: Tips Tools and Tactics online-offline tweet up. What’s A Tweet Up?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2011

We focused on principles for community building and community organizing, as well as examples of both short-term and long-term engagement. Would love to hear if you have examples or tips to share! Principles of Community Organizing. Here are the slides! The key is that that’s okay!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Organization: Taproot Foundation. Organization Size: 40 Employees. Facebook: facebook.com/taprootfoundation. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? Which tool has been surprisingly useful in getting out the word about your organization and its programs? Jumo: [link].

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2010

Last month, I presented at the NCVO Foresight seminar: Changing ICT – what does it mean for your charity with a focus on the future of online revenue generation for nonprofit organizations. That’s not exactly the way business normally goes down offline. And it has real impact on the way organizations fundraise.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Image Credit: dole777 on unsplash After more than a decade of dominating the social media landscape, Big Tech platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are in flux. Meta—the parent company of Facebook and Instagram—has been under fire in the past few years over its lax policies on news content, data privacy, and misinformation.

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Kindful

APRIL 28, 2021

Events are typically near the top of every nonprofit organization’s list of disrupted activities and strategies. Thankfully, many organizations were able to shift to a virtual event format with limited disruption and, in some cases, even greater success than their previous in-person incarnations.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2011

Slacktivism, to me, comes down to two crucial points: 1) organizations play an important role in creating and endorsing the level to which people take action, and 2) “slacker activism” is really a gateway to more lasting change. Organizations are putting out calls, and the community is responding. Getting Offline.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 14, 2023

It’s an online-fundraising-friendly environment out there, with everything from donate buttons for your Facebook page to crowdfunding sites that leverage the power of relationships. You can create and run an online campaign to support an offline appeal or an event. But it’s not a “build it and they will come” situation.

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TechImpact

JUNE 19, 2014

Everyone wants to compare the success of their organization to a measurable analytic. But getting started with any performance measurement initiative can be difficult and overwhelming for some nonprofits, especially smaller organizations that do not boast the raw man-power of other more established nonprofits. And for good reason.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

They’re excited to get their fledgling organization off the ground, and they need the funds to do it. If you’re struggling to make ends meet, you’re probably using a broken funding model — meaning your organization cannot survive into the future on the funding you are receiving now. But we want something much better for you!

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2019

online giving increased from $400 million in 2018 to $511 million and that total online and offline giving reached $1.97 How did a rts, c ultural & h umanities organizations fare on # GivingTuesday ? . Expanding on the examples above, here are some ideas to get your gears turning: . billion. .

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Qgiv

AUGUST 21, 2023

Many organizations use GivingTuesday as a social media campaign to increase fundraising and spread awareness for their cause. Before November rolls around, you need to prepare your organization for the big day and set your GivingTuesday goals. A tiered ad campaign can help hype your donors and get them into a giving mindset.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

When people who work in services, programs, grant writing and fundraising, for example, all share their view of the groups in the community, not only can you start mapping the network but you can also have really rich discussions about the way different parts of your organization view the community. Step 1: Identify all the content.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

, but after four hours of testing and coming up against numerous brick walls and errors on Justin.tv (primarily with their Facebook and iPhone Apps), I went with Ustream. Unfortunately, Ustream’s Facebook App is limited to brands with large numbers of viewers. For example, www.ustream.tv/user/nonprofitorgs.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2011

CTK Foundation Grant Award: Social Media, Technology, and Poetry for the Soul | Community Organizer 2.0 – "I was contacted by my colleague John Haydon last week to write about an interesting foundation grant challenge by the CTK Foundation. Is your organization considered a content curator? Are you a leader or a follower?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

. —– Google+, the social network launched by Google nearly 5 months ago, has recently opened up the platform to organizations and brands with a profile type akin to the options for individuals and Pages on Facebook. One of the core principles in community engagement is to use the tools your community is using.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

Last week, I was in Sao Paolo for the ABCR Festival, the leading conference in Brasil for fundraising for nonprofit organizations. The moderator, Marcelo Jamberio, organized a set of questions that other Marcelo and I responded to with slides and audience interaction. This was my third visit to the country. A multi-screen world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

Here’s a summary of tips, tools, examples, and resources for getting the most of our your nonprofit event with social media. Here’s a summary of tips, tools, examples, and resources for getting the most of our your nonprofit event with social media. (Here’s a curated link list used to create this post).

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 13, 2012

But lately, I've noticed an interesting trend: I post something on Facebook that I think is fascinating, hilarious, or some deep revelation into the mysterious world of Miriam Kagan, and my social sphere reacts in.dead silence. So we start with the industry-wide best practices: How many people like you on Facebook? How many should?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

Grassroots organizing. Bots needs to be designed increase engagement, support and inspire offline action. Right now it is difficult to discover bots, but after a bit of research I found a few examples of nonprofits making use of Facebook Messenger platform. Climate Reality is using a bot on its Facebook Brand Page.

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NetWits

JUNE 6, 2011

Think about the websites you most visit: Facebook , Google’s Gmail , Calendars and Docs , Yahoo , Netflix , NYTimes , Friendster –what, you don’t use Friendster anymore? For example, maybe everyone can see a certain resource or sample quiz, but you must login in order to also download the white paper or answer guide.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

It was true even before the pandemic, but now—with nearly every aspect of our lives moved online in some way—the expectations of what a mission-driven organization can and must do to connect and engage with its community have changed. Organizations can no longer use their digital platforms to simply explain their mission or successes.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2012

on social media platforms like Facebook each day. That said, it is best to assume that your community isn’t hip to every trick you’ve found for Facebook, Twitter, and any other site you may use. There are mind-boggling reports and stats our there that show just how much time many of us are spending [wasting?]

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2011

Families USA is an organization fighting for affordable health care for all Americans. In this example of using grassroots organizing to influence grass tops debates, how do we measure it? The grid itself can be customized to your organization’s way of thinking about its marketing funnel, target audiences, and tactics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Bullet Journal (BuJo) started as “an analog system to track the past, organize the present and plan for the future.” Within a few years, it grew to be a community of people who use it as a tool for planning, organizing, and adjusting the methodology to their life habits and routines. My collections: 2 examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2014

Note from Beth: In 2014, digital marketers predicted the rise of ” niche social networks ,” as it becomes increasingly harder to reach your audiences on general social networks like Facebook, these highly targeted online social networks are going to become more valuable. million divers.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

New research out today from nfpSynergy shows that organizations who serve youth may want to be going online to reach them. Amongst 11-25 year olds, Facebook is trailed by Bebo (28%), MySpace (25%), Twitter (12%), MSN (9%), YouTube (2%) and “other” (4%). First, what the research does not mean: Don’t jump into Facebook immediately!

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Donor engagement is what your organization does to build and strengthen donor relationships and the methods you use to keep donors active and involved. Your donor engagement strategy outlines exactly how you’ll reach out to donors and the KPIs you’ll track to measure how engaged a donor is with your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

launched a contest on Facebook. Each organization received $25,000 and the announcement caused some controversy because of the contest eligibility rules and lack of a leaderboard. . Having real-time information is very important to the organizations. For example. Organizing Offline and Online.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Think Giving Tuesday but without all the clutter of thousands of organizations asking for money. Choose one day- a day that possibly has some symbol or importance to your organization (ex. You can add these into your virtual fundraising campaign site on CauseVox as an offline donation to showcase fundraising progress!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

The map can be of social media conversations, for example these network maps of Twitter conversations. Or they can be maps of networks of organizations and communities. For example, the Irvine New Leadership Network project that has used network mapping for two purposes: 1) evaluation 2) direct network engagement.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 20, 2017

Slacktivism typically means taking to social media and encompasses things like retweeting words of hope after a national disaster or liking a charity’s Facebook page—as the study implies—but can also include non-digital actions like wearing a ribbon on your shirt to bring awareness. Viral movements. Slacktivism in the real world.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Two weeks ago , Causes, the application that lets individuals and organizations campaign and fundraise, removed itself and all Causes-related content/data from MySpace. Now that Causes removed itself, it’s content, and any related data from MySpace, organizations cannot connect with their supporters who were using Causes.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

This event focuses on Causes , an application for supporting and fundraising for organizations by individuals, groups and even the organizations themselves. Do to the lack of activity on MySpace, we’ve decided to focus our efforts on the Causes Application on Facebook.&# (To read the full message, click here.)

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

This event focuses on Causes , an application for supporting and fundraising for organizations by individuals, groups and even the organizations themselves. Do to the lack of activity on MySpace, we’ve decided to focus our efforts on the Causes Application on Facebook.&# (To read the full message, click here.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

On Tuesday, right before the KONY video exploded on the mainstreams and went viral online, my 6th grade son came home from school and announced, ”Did you know that there are more people on Facebook today compared to the number of people on the planet ten years ago? I immediately asked him how do you know that?

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