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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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%). The Research. What It Means. No running in the halls!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Tom and Cecile shared a rich story about culture change, loosing control, building relationships, story telling, multi-channel strategies, engagement techniques, online/offline metrics, and more. Says Tom, "We don't talk about Facebook or Twitter. A couple of takeaways from the interview: Leaders Lead Culture Change. We help guide it."

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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? Megan: MySpace was probably our first introduction to social media, but not sure the year we created the account.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

We are 20 years into this online giving adventure and there is still a tremendous amount of up-side for nonprofit organizations. Let me also suggest that we need to stop placing a wall between offline and online giving strategies and tactics. This online versus offline wall is mostly in our own heads. of total sales.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

ARC - gather data every morning and share with organization via email; issues that seem sensitive or are newsworthy will contact subject matter experts to follow up. Sarah - share by email because we are an online organization, can have a spreadsheet with stats and how they are growing, organization wide as well as campaigns, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

There was a great question about social networking and representing one's organization posted on the Social Networking Affinity Group at NTEN by K.E: re doing offline. " My question is, are the organizations doing this, like TNC, using personal usernames or organization usernames? Am I going about this the wrong way?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2008

Ninety-two percent of word of mouth happens offline. So make sure the online supports the offline and vise versa. Other questions will help you get your organization on board. Ask for a show of hands, who has heard of Myspace? Who has heard of Facebook? The first thing to keep in mind? Otherwise you???ll

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2009

So do “click actions” like signing a petition and becoming a Facebook fan actually make a difference? They are used to text messaging, MySpace, Facebook, get-in, get-out, instant gratification. This flaw is not that the tools are ineffective; it’s rather a misuse and missed opportunity by the organization.” – Kristin Ivie.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. For many people who find you online, your website is the organization.

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Care2

JUNE 5, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Who wants to do fund rising programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

You already know Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn et al???now The majority of the room had experience in social networking sites and tools, both personally and for their organization. Described her organizational's first conversations - our audience is on Facebook and why aren't we there? Organizations are changing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2009

I get to use sites like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace for a living! Secret: The most powerful social networking secret I have is to network offline just as much as you network online. How did you organization let you do that? Tell me about your job My job is pretty amazing. Haha, Thank you.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2010

They live, eat, and breathe social media in its various forms – from Facebook and MySpace to Twitter and YouTube. Just like in the offline world, the online world is full of influencers. Telemarketing? Forget it. (By By the way, landlines are apparently a thing of the past.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

VTVigils VT Vigils VTvigils.org is a project of a diverse group of national campaigns and organizations not affiliated with Virginia Tech. She notes, "It doesn't specifically talk about open content, but discusses online and offline content income models in depth, with numbers." The site was developed by Democracy in Action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

How would you organization cope with a natural disaster? What if organizations did not have government funding or pursue it? What is my responsibility to my organization - money, unique knowledge, ? There are offline ways to do it. Yes, we screen organizations, but it isn't easy for us. Good or bad thing?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A directory of quotes by famous people, this websites list thousands of inspirational quotes useful for Tweeting and Facebook Status Updates. This site provides an incredibly useful breakdown of Facebook users by age, gender, and location.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

I will say that there are regulations that relate well to offline consumer relationships that don’t apply well online. Q: How do we get past our fear of negative comments possibly being posted about the organization from activists etc.? Beth : You know, on Twitter, your organization should have a personality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2007

These individuals know the power of personal fundraising offline. Now that evangelizing has become as simple as posting a widget on a MySpace or Facebook page, they are promoting causes. What is starting to happen now is the organization where I serve on the board, I've been asked - think you can raise this money on your blog?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A directory of quotes by famous people, this websites list thousands of inspirational quotes useful for Tweeting and Facebook Status Updates. This site provides an incredibly useful breakdown of Facebook users by age, gender, and location.

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See3

AUGUST 6, 2007

drinkingliberally.com which is online and offline one-to-many. Meet people where they are, don’t make MySpace people come to Facebook or try to create groups that cross network platforms. She is an online organizer for Greenpeace. Greenpeace has 65,000 friends in MySpace. Sorry Everybody ) 3. wikipedia b.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A directory of quotes by famous people, this websites list thousands of inspirational quotes useful for Tweeting and Facebook Status Updates. This site provides an incredibly useful breakdown of Facebook users by age, gender, and location.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A directory of quotes by famous people, this websites list thousands of inspirational quotes useful for Tweeting and Facebook Status Updates. This site provides an incredibly useful breakdown of Facebook users by age, gender, and location.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

A common mistake is to assume that because a person is “young&# and has been using Facebook for years to stay in touch with friends and family, then they must be good at using social media for branding an organization. Are you correctly using the “Links&# and “Static FBML&# Apps on Facebook? 81% answered no.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A directory of quotes by famous people, this websites list thousands of inspirational quotes useful for Tweeting and Facebook Status Updates. This site provides an incredibly useful breakdown of Facebook users by age, gender, and location.

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