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). Love of Philanthropy Photo Contest « Vivanista | Living Well. Check it out and submit a photo yourself! Doing Good.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 18, 2022

Your website needs to be warm and engaging with plenty of stories, photos, video, and blank space for the eye to rest. Does my website feature clear (not blurry), compelling, high-quality photos, images, and video? How does my nonprofit’s website look on a phone? Or that it costs you 27 cents to feed a hungry person.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 18, 2014

You’ve definitely seen it pop up on your social media feed. Do they require a photo or video? It requires almost no investment (aside from the donation, and maybe a bucket), a camera or camera phone (which almost everyone has one of the two), can be done almost anywhere, and anyone can do it. Image courtesy of Montreal Gazette.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. You can either manage your group online or on your mobile phone. In fact, I used them for this blog (see upper-right), but please ignore the silly photo in the Fotolia ad. GroupMe :: groupme.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

For security reasons, do not add your phone number or mailing address. Use a Professional Photo for Your Profile Photo. It’s best to use a profile photo on LinkedIn that speaks to your professional career, not your personal life (that is, not photos that were taken on vacation, with the family, in costume, and so on).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Upload your avatar/logo (250 x 250), a cover photo(1128 x 191), add a description and website URL, your company/organization size, industry, and city and country. To begin, provide your staff, board members, and volunteers guidelines for maximizing their LinkedIn Profiles , such as: Complete their profile and upload a professional photo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Mark Zuckerberg’s recently announced that Facebook’s News Feed will be veering away from branded content to prioritize content posted by personal accounts. 16:9 ratios require that the viewer tilts their phone and watches it in a non-vertical orientation. This article shares insights from nonprofit marketers. .

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 12, 2020

One of the best ways to instantly engage your supporters is to call them on the phone or use video conferencing tools in order to establish a personal connection through one-on-one conversations. . Therefore, we know that phone calls have a positive impact on your first-time donor retention rate. Use social media.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Thankfully for members of #OWS, there are various tools to livestream events, just from your mobile phone. OWS has made the economy and political process a personal issue, inviting people around the US and the world to put their story on paper and share a photo of themselves with the story online. How To: Use Tech to Organize Today.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Here are some examples: Feed your hungry neighbors. Request their email, address, and phone number, but make the address and phone number optional. Don’t let stale photos languish on your fundraising donation page. Give the priceless gift of education . Give a veteran hope for a brighter tomorrow . Keep it fresh!

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 24, 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). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

For instance, ever get swept up in the Facebook videos that automatically play as you scroll through your feed page? Create a timeline contest that encourages people to craft videos and photo sets boosting your fundraiser. Build your campaign around the concept of letting the community create the content.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 11, 2014

In addition to seeing your Facebook News feed (what your friends are posting), you can add various news categories to your Paper feed. To look at a larger version of a photo, you tilt your phone. social media mobile phone apps App It Up tssocialmedia tsmobiletechnology'

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

As always, there’s plenty more news like how Facebook’s news feed policy is not good news for charities, how smartphone kill switch legislation will affect your organization, how things like your own perspiration will run your phone someday and some more NPTech quick hits. Facebook’s Problematic News Feeds.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

For security reasons, do not add your phone number or mailing address. Use a Professional Photo for Your Profile Photo. It’s best to use a profile photo on LinkedIn that speaks to your professional career, not your personal life (that is, not photos that were taken on vacation, with the family, in costume, and so on).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2017

Is everyone sitting around the table, but only engaged on their mobile phones or laptops, checking email or looking at social feeds? Also be sure to establish the rules such as “stay with the group” “Slowest walker sets the pace,” or “no cell phones,” before you head out.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

TweetDeck (Windows and Mac OS client, Android, and iOS) is a Twitter client that lets you customize your various Twitter feeds. Buffer App (Android, iOS) allows you to easily share articles, photos, videos, and status updates to various social networks. Apps for Social Media Management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2016

Snapcha t is a mobile app that lets users exchange text messages, photos and videos that disappear in 24 hours. Instagram is for jealousy-inducing photos. For example, I noticed this in One Campaign’s Instagram Feed and started following them. This is called disposable media. My first experience was “What?”

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Try YouCam , a video and photo capture app with a built-in editor. Norton Satellite from Symantec is a free app that scans your Facebook feed for malicious links, as well as your Dropbox and local files for malware. Social Media and Communication. Need a good vlogging (video blogging) tool? Productivity. File Management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Photo by Beth Kanter. There was spotty cell phone reception, so I got my news the old fashioned way – reading a newspaper! Ironically, one of the shorts I read was a piece about how people are now spending more time on Facebook than Google.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Personal: In an age of Facebook, many of our close friends and family are using it – and we’re sharing family photos, what we do in our leisure time, hobbies, our location, and all sorts of personal information. For example, you might comment on a photo one of your family members posts just to family.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2017

You can only post from your phone (or from Hootsuite on a computer after integrating Instagram), so you’ll want to recruit fun images from and about your team members, and save to your phone. Live videos on Instagram get preference in the Instagram news feed algorithm for display, so give it a try and go live!

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Photo-printing company Persnickety Prints knows its target customer inside and out, and that knowledge comes through in how it addresses its audience: 2. You can search for free photos or icons within the tool or use your own images or video clips. Select a cover image that's engaging so it looks great in your feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2016

I was out hiking in the Santa Cruz Mountains this weekend, sans wifi, so I was not paying attention to it until I got home and saw mentions of it in my Facebook feed from technology observers like Jeremiah Owyang and Robert Scoble. It has brought augmented reality to a mainstream audience , with millions downloading the app and playing.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

AUGUST 28, 2018

The event page's form should feed contact data into a CRM (Contact Relationship Management system) or event management software. Talk on the phone or in person to make sure you're on the page. It’s also a great idea to send along a call script and encourage folks to get on the phone to make personal invitations. Send Reminders.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Apps are only a few years old, but have taken the mobile phone and tablet worlds by storm. Apps are software widgets that you usually download onto a phone or PC. They are add-ons that extend the functionality of your mobile phone, tablet computer, or PC beyond its basic repertoire. Photo: Jorge Quinteros.

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Judi Sohn

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Communicating entirely through email and sending him pictures taken on my phone, I completed the sweater pieces, taking notes on stitch counts and making changes as we went along based on Mathew’s feedback. Here’s an in-progress photo from the elbow detail knit in September 2010. and plays to my strengths.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2010

Also, make sure there is decent wifi (or cell phone reception). Encourage Live Tweeting during the event and don't forget to encourage photos. If you have a projector and laptop available, you may want to stream the Twitter Feed during the event. They all have free elements to their service. Be creative. Keep in touch.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Steller (free; Apple iOS) is an app that lets you build stories with your photos, videos, and text. It's also got a familiar appearance, as the main feed of other people's stories mildly resembles Instagram. You can pick whether you want to open your story with text, a photo, or video (see screenshot).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Photo by Laughing Squid. Docs live in a designated place within your group and are therefore not as subject to the news feed, which is more timely. Think about the relationships between what happens in the group, on Facebook in general, over email, on the phone, in person, at events, etc. No medium exists in a vacuum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2014

I’ve captured some good notes, tweets, photos, and shared resources for each session, but here I wanted to dive into a few interesting ideas that bubbled up. Mini-Workshop: Content Curation for Professional Learning. Organizational Amnesia. Incorporate more movement into the day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2009

Photo by Joi No, I'm not talking about texting in your take out order. In response, Share Our Strength is asking people to send a text donation and hold food drives to help feed those in need. I'm taking about No Kid Hungry Text Donation and Canned Food Campaign just launched by Share Our Strength.

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Classy

MARCH 26, 2021

When a donor is checking out on their phone, the corresponding payment option will appear. Not only will they get an automatic notification when you comment to them on the feed, but it’s also very personal and feels like you’re communicating with a friend or family member, rather than receiving just the official email receipt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

This photo is from the Humane Society's recent "Wendy That's Not Right" campaign. This technique is the " hold a sign meme " where you ask your community to send photos to flickr of you (or your animal) holding a protest sign. The flickr pool of photos is here. use your digital camera or even your cell phone.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

For Fiver, this means pulling client testimonials from thank you letters written by program participants or through phone interviews with families. Ask them to compose a quick, hand-written note or an email or see if they can make time for a phone call or even a lunch with top donors. The photo helps, too. Storytelling.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Photo and Bio. Personal phone call from the founder, chair, ED. Phone call to the donor from a person impacted by the nonprofit. New technology called “voicemail drop” allows an organization to place a voicemail in your voicemail box without ringing their phone. Inclusion in flyers, pamphlets, or other print materials.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 19, 2019

Monetize your social media channels by pairing captivating photos and heartfelt stories with donation – and crowdfunding forms when appropriate – that make it easy for your donors to support and share about causes that matter to them. Reach them through a text message. You can even use this platform for a text-to-give campaign.

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