Amy Sample Ward

JULY 16, 2009

That’s part of the key to success when using Twitter for a Global conversation. Using Twitter search or other tools, you can watch news and updates about the election in Iran by using #IranElection; or, find interesting people to follow and connect with using #FollowFriday to peruse the recommendations that pile up on Fridays.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Dan Michel, Digital Marketing Manager, Feeding America Twitter: @dpmichel. Dan is the Digital Marketing Manager for Feeding America where he oversees the execution of their external digital strategy which includes social media. We saw a lot of interest and click thrus from Twitter particularly.&#

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TechImpact

JANUARY 23, 2014

Because their importance can not be understated, it is crucial that you take the time to thank them publicly through your social media feeds when appropriate. Host a Twitter chat. Another unique way to give back to supporters is to host a Twitter chat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Recently, my social media feeds have been anxiety producing, if not downright depressing. Today I’m seeking out examples of how nonprofits use cute dogs, cats, or babies in their social media to feel good, but also extract a social media best practice or two so it doesn’t feel like a “waste of time.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2011

Here’s one for Twitter. It’s really important to fill out the information in your Twitter profile especially the “Bio&# field where you sum up in a few words who you are and make it sound interesting. It’s like an elevator speech. For example were you the first or only one to do something?

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

We’re here to help! To make posting easier, we’ve rounded up some of our favorite time-saving tools to help you create the best nonprofit social media campaign ever. In addition to analytics, Loomly offers an interactions hub where you can see and reply to engagement on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. The good news?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Some individual board members may want to start with “easier” tasks like thanking donors, but eventually, they should be directly helping raise thousands of dollars annually. Give in-kind support to the organization in a way that actually helps. 6. Facebook , Reddit , LinkedIn , and Twitter have great options. Be Informed.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2018

From Twitter to Pinterest to Instagram to LinkedIn, social networks are becoming environments where video content not only thrives, but is expected. Square videos provide 78% more space in social feeds than landscape and they don’t require that the user tilt their phone to view it in full-screen. Get their attention with a “hook” (i.e.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Finding Feeds. Netvibes will let you track all kinds of things online, all by using RSS feeds or ready-built widgets. Here are some example searches using NetSquared as the organization. As far as the email vs feed option - we are using Netvibes so you can cut down on email! Twitter Search.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Twitter and Nonprofits April 10, 2008 This actually was a post to the Progressive Exchange discussion list. I love twitter, which in some ways surprises me, and in some ways doesn’t. Sure, why not.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 14, 2023

If you’re not great at writing, recruit help from someone who is. It also helps your potential donors understand where their money will go, why their money is needed, and the impact their gift will make. For example, if your campaign is off to a slow start, you can post something about that and wake people up. Write your copy.

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NCE Social Media

JULY 6, 2010

Online applications are very helpful tools. Once example is Mention Map. It is an application that shows you current connections for any Twitter username (including your own). Here’s an example: Mention Map for ACHIEVA’s Twitter feed. How is this helpful for you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2008

" An activity stream is a feed of recent activities by your blog friends on various social networks - blog posts, new photos, bookmarks on Delicious, Facebook updates, Twitter updates, etc. Ian spoke on a panel called Social Networks and the Need for Feeds at Graphing Social Patterns. Just some more to ponder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Twitter Lists: A Natural Evolution of Internet List Culture. There is something about Twitter Lists, the new feature recently launched by Twitter , that allows Twitter users to create their own lists of followers that reminds of the gopher. This gives us a number of ways to look at Twitter lists and their potential.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

hint: it’s very helpful if you can make your “character” a specific person/animal or small group of people/animals that you can attach names to). For example, our plot is that many children eat one meal a day and do poorly in school. What are you planning to do to help alleviate the conflict and help the hero overcome the problem?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 4, 2012

The session focused on using core social media platforms Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to raise awareness and inspire others as a volunteer. On Twitter , look up hashtags that your community uses and follow them to track conversations. Here are some Twitter-specific tools: Twitalyzer. Creating Buzz. hashtags.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2008

She also mentioned how they were beginning to experiment with Twitter. They are setting up twitter accounts linked to programmatic areas and affinity groups. For example, here's the arts programming account. I'm sure we'll see more particularly as Kevin Dando urged stations to get a twitter account with their name.

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Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2023

To help nonprofit board and staff leaders address this challenge, I created a list of more than 100 fundraising tasks for nonprofit board members. Board members can practice telling the story of one person helped by the organization, or the story of how they came to be on the board. They simply need to be good storytellers.

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NetWits

JUNE 8, 2012

We can’t help you with the effort and persistence, but we can definitely give you a little web design know-how. Try these easy steps to showing your timeliness: Utilize automatic feeds. Gather user-generated content via blogs, forums or posts and let your audience help keep content fresh! Tweet, blog and post.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2011

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). We know that tools (aka tactics) are what help us implement a strategy, not what it is built around. . Twitter beta-tested a spine."

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

With the release of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy this summer, we're particularly interested in how our partners are using new and traditional media to help implement the goals of the Strategy. Is it simply the number of followers you have on Twitter, or how many people "like" you on Facebook? Make it known.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

We agreed that it was much easier to share information on Twitter, that the immediate gratification was addicting, but that retrieval on Twitter is a not easy. Some of the best info I come across is flowing through Twitter and I stamp it for later, but I am missing an easy means to get back to it. Update: Here's the feed

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Pencils of Promise (PoP) was founded in October 2008 to help build safe and healthy learning environments for young children worldwide. Web3, the third generation of computing and a new iteration of the World Wide Web, is a rapidly emerging technology poised to help organizations connect, engage, and innovate at a higher rate.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 27, 2022

There are many problems with this which is the subject of a different novel… The purpose of this guide is to help organizations take advantage of this truth. On LinkedIn, for example, posts from a company account are throttled and aren’t shown as much as posts that come from an individual account. . Social Media Tools.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2011

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). Or are social media ranking tools an example of more kool-aid mix being added to the overflowing punch bowl? Are you a leader or a follower?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2008

I'm not sure what Smith's book has to do with twittering and tagging , but there is a connection. Twitter is the here and now, archiving the past is not built into the design. Tagging helps memory and helps keep found resources found. Tagging helps memory and helps keep found resources found. and tag it.

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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. " But what does that really mean?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

The Real-Time Web: it's more than just immediate delivery of Twitter messages to an always-on mobile device, disrupting the concentration that civilization is based on and bringing a rush to crazed social media addicts obsessed with the hottest new buzzwords. Twitter as Trigger. You can pre-order the report here.].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

I left inspired, yet I also felt there is still a lot of work we need to do to help our peers in volunteer coordination put these ideas into practice. The question is what can volunteer coordinators – those who are tasked with the work-a-day chores of volunteer engagement – do to help bring about this transformation? Orientation.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 24, 2021

For example, supporters may contribute to pay for school supplies or to maintain a public sports field. This will help build trust with supporters, making them more likely to give again. For example, in the face of a crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic, you’d want to check in on them to show that you care for their well-being.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

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). Feeding America has utilized numerous Call2Action Sparks. The Analytics Challenge is a ½ day event at X Change conference on September 13th.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

How do you get your appeals in front of your Facebook audience despite the significant decline in organic reach and the resulting reduction in engagement caused by changes to the News Feed algorithm? You could, for example, base one on an email list of your past donors to try and reach the most productive segment of your following.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 21, 2021

With so many forward-thinking members on the platform, there is also ample opportunity for networking, finding mentors to help guide your strategy, and even fundraising. One early example of the potential fundraising power of Clubhouse came in February, when an unprecedented winter storm shut down much of Texas’ infrastructure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

For example, this year several cities, like Baltimore, are launching city-wide campaigns. Leaving the dinner, I checked my Twitter feed and started seeing tweets like this one from my colleague, Tal Frankfurt. I asked my Twitter friends exactly what he said. Conan O’Brien was talking about me? Mocked your hat).

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

Commit to eliminating departmental silos so that everyone is on the same page and all team members contribute their unique skills to help you succeed. Your fundraising strategy will build on your past successes and opportunities to help your organization grow year after year. With that, let’s get started. Offers accountability.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

There are some industry blogs and twitter feeds. Not so helpful for a curious person with diverse interests--especially if you care most about small, experimental organizations. How do you find fresh and inspiring resources in your field? This is a tricky question in the nonprofit arts world--and probably in every field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2014

Effective content curation can help your nonprofit engage your audiences and help spread your organization’s content beyond current supporters because it can trigger sharing and conversation. Content curation is not about spewing out links on Twitter or Facebook as you find them. Take Crowdtangle as an example.

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