Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

Nonprofit tech experts team up to help others master ‘social tools for social change’. Eight leading experts in social media and nonprofit technology have joined forces to create Socialbrite.org, a hub that showcases social tools for social change. The Socialbrite site features dozens of videos, screencasts and slide presentations.

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2012

I recently talked with a group of folks who work in education as part of our School's Out for Summer series. Our focus was Facebook. With more than 900 million users, Facebook is the top social media site on the planet. That said, simply creating a Facebook page isn't enough. The other 12 are in the slides.

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NCE Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2013

The first group was a group of 32 professionals who work or volunteer for nonprofit organizations through the Foundation Center located at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Some of the students already work at nonprofits while others hope to when they are done with the program. Is Facebook the right platform? It depends.

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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. Here’s a run through of the Tools Galore session.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

It’s important to note that the time requirements for each tool are fluid and are always changing from week to week, but the estimates do provide a framework that will help you draft a realistic social media manager job description and decide what social media tools your nonprofit can utilize based on your capacity.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 4, 2014

In advance of the event, your new media manager should prepare a minimum of 10 tweets and two or three posts for Facebook, Google+, Tumblr, and so on (depending on how many days your event is scheduled for) to maximize marketing and fundraising results. On Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Tumblr post only two or three times daily.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2008

I was invited to give a keynote at a gathering of 300 IT leaders and managers who work for a large healthcare nonprofit. To prepare for this presentation, I used social media tools not only to locate the experts and good examples, but this time invited them to collaborate in a google doc that ultimately became the wiki resource page.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

The first step may be to change the way you work. If you want to be more productive and get more done without working 24/7, you have to change your habits. You may need to get rid of sticky notes and embrace digital tools, better time management, and more efficient processes. Do you constantly lecture yourself to work smarter?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2010

As social media tools like Twitter and Facebook become core components of nonprofit communication strategies, there is a corresponding need to assess how well programmatic messaging and organizational identity are propagating in those channels: “We Tweet; is anybody listening? Presentation slides. Audio recording.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2012

In my most recent session of the School's Out for Summer series, I took a deep dive into how schools can get the most out of Facebook. With Facebook, schools have an incredible opportunity to deepen relationships with families, students, and alumni. Are you using Facebook to its full potential? But there is hope!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2011

Here are the slides! Here are the five core principles as we see them from our work: 1. Different platforms have different users – be sure to do your homework by reviewing statistics and reports from various social media tools to know who’s really using them, and ask your community where they want to engage with you.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2011

The study will offer support for elected officials who run on open government platforms or who work for more transparency. Or are social media ranking tools an example of more kool-aid mix being added to the overflowing punch bowl? ." Pew: Open government is tied to higher levels of community satisfaction | Gov 2.0:

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2010

Online : that is already happening with people who use applications like Causes in facebook, which encourages users to fundraise each year on their birthday via their Birthday Cause tool (individuals select an organization, ask their facebook friends to give donations instead of presents, and the funds get distributed to the organization).

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

First, use the Google AdWords keyword research tool to do some analysis for words and phrases you’d like to rank highly for in search results. This tool will crawl and evaluate your website for a lot of the key elements you should be monitoring. Custom Facebook Landing Tabs Convert 47% of Your Visitors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

re working with???something Social Media A couple of really useful posts on Facebook and Nonprofits. Ethan Zuckerman gives a summary of Pros/Cons of facebook Activism , a presentation by Imran Jamal and the Burma Global Action Network. NpTech Slide Decks SlideShare is like YouTube for powerpoint presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

Here are my slides and curated resources materials for a talk called “ What Can Nonprofits Learn from Robin Good, the Best Content Curator on the Planet? The session will begin with a simple primer about content curation , the benefits, and a few examples of nonprofit content curators and their tools. A Few Good Starter Tools.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 24, 2021

To effectively steward supporters, you must work to build a strong, mutually beneficial relationship with your organization. Be sure to provide tools such as a fundraising thermometer to show how close you are to meeting your goals. Highlighting your donors in a photo album or digital slide show.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

It’s evident that each of them cares about making a difference in the world through the work they do each and every day. Nice work Noah!). Claire Williams Diaz who works on social innovation at Twitter. Some I’ve known for a while and others I’m just getting to know. I’m grateful they’ve decided to join us for this session.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 13, 2008

There's been a lot of excitement in the last year about social networking in general, and about Facebook in particular. The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is a 501(c)3 organization that works in the U.S. The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is a 501(c)3 organization that works in the U.S. Here's a success story.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Read the full press release here or download the Social Media data slides here.) 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! What It Means. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2010

You can see the full slide deck here. I took measurement and since David Neff wore an apron and talked about kitchen tools and recipes, I riffed on cooking measuring techniques. 2) Egg Timer: Track your time because working on social media can give you ADOLA S (AD - oh look a squirrel!) I'm still laughing.

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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. It evolves to meet our changing needs, to fit our changing lifestyles, and to integrate into the way we do our work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

After you've been able to use metrics to learn what works and adapt your approach, you can use a traditional approach which begins with defining value and culminates with a financial calculation that could go something like this. Helps us move away from tool driven decisions to results. Using monitoring tools. Investment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

Today I attended an informative lunchtime presentation by Chad Nelsen who is the Environmental Director at the Surfrider Foundation where he has worked since 1998. Chad did a video clip explaining the slide. (He He also said he'd upload his slides on slideshare.). They also have many high school groups on Facebook.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

I normally separate my post-presentation blog posts and slides but think it will be valuable to group them together this time. A great example of this is when we talk about working with our communities. Google Analytics for Facebook Pages. Defining Community. Using Social Media. SOCIALMEDIA NONPROFIT tweet Book01.

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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. And in each of these we will talk a bit about tools, tactics and strategies. Analog Tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

We are creating whole new infrastructures that didn’t exist before (think Facebook, Google, etc.) The argument goes – nonprofits need up-to-date tools to do their work effectively. 2) Would it help us live and/or work in more stable circles, and strengthen my community? So what to do?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2010

At the end of every presentation, they put up a slide where students can either 1) join their cause on Facebook or 2) text them to sign up. It works really well. The Alliance for Climate Education makes presentations about climate change to high schools around the US. Hope to have you join us next time!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

They engage people to shape and share their work in order to raise awareness of social issues, organize communities to provide services or advocate for legislation. As a speaker and trainer , Slideshare, along with wikis, Twitter, and other tools are important part of my trainer’s social media toolbox. 6) Training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

I've also added the pink ribbon to my Facebook profile. Facebook The Non-Profits on Facebook Group is for those who work for, belong to, or support nonprofits on Facebook. Why not join, upload your logo in the photo pool, and write a wall post promoting your latest your Facebook project! more about it here.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

If you're considering revamping your website to include social elements like the Facebook Like button, streaming from YouTube, or adding information from a social site through its API, it can be overwhelming to know where to begin. Each category is exhibited by different tools, technology, and/or approaches. Authenticate. Open source.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Compasspoint Workshop Slides - Beta. And they worked! I wanted to capture a couple of reflections on the process as well as content learnings by way of this post. . ACLU-Northern California: They are recruiting for a social media intern on Facebook. They used "tagging" on Facebook to make people aware of the note.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

Let’s consider the list of most used forms: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google+ (assuming all continues to go well), LinkedIn, FourSquare, Gowalla, StumbleUpon, Tumblr, and your own site. I’m reminded of this slide from Mary Joyce from the E-Mediat Training. This means choices will be made.

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NTEN

AUGUST 17, 2009

I did a session on social media using the slide deck we created for our We Are Media trainings. Then a very smart lady in the back of the room piped up: "We did all that, and our campaign still didn't work. " That's when it hit me: What we don't have in that deck yet is a patience pants slide. . All was going well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2012

To work with a network mindset means embracing an emerging leadership style that is characterized by greater openness, transparency, decentralized decision-making, and collective action. How many of you work for nonprofits that have been around for 10 years or less? Social Media 4 NPOs (@SM4Nonprofits) July 26, 2012.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

He works for an NGO in Australia and we met on Twitter (via Eddie Harran ) prior to his visit to America to attend the Wisdom 2.0 So making the audience part of the slide deck and inviting commentary surfaces the wisdom and knowledge in the room. I urge people to think of the chunks and then the tools. Effective Social Media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

page on your website that details the purpose of your group texting campaign, how it works, how often text messages will be sent, and, most important, how to subscribe. embedded in a powerful photo, you want an image that you can upload to send out in Facebook status updates, link to in tweets, upload to Flickr, and so on. Use Bit.ly

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