Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2007

That is, it takes more than just throwing up a blog or myspace profile or start twittering to make this work. Many folks at the workshop wanted access to copies of the slides. Also, there may be other priorities to focus on rather than incorporating social media. They are here and you can download the pdf.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 4, 2014

It helps to take notes using Word or a notepad during the presentation and then craft tweets and updates perfectly — correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation—before posting on mobile and social media. On Twitter, don’t tweet or retweet more than 10 times per hour or risk overcluttering the home feed of followers.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Earlier this summer, I had the huge privilege to visit Romania and help with the Local Philanthropy Workshop. The slides are below as well as some notes. In the slides, I highlighted some of the work of 350.org The Local Philanthropy Workshop: Facebook Campaigning in Romania. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

You can review the slides below, and click through to slideshare where you can view all of the speaker notes as well. There were lots of great questions on the call and I have lots of resources to share to help answer those questions, get people moving in the right direction, and know where to go to keep learning. Anything else?

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Whole Whale

JUNE 21, 2023

However, if you need to understand how one specific user/company/email is behaving on your site these tools can’t help. Integrations : Salesforce, Zoho, HobSpot, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, MailChimp, Pipedrive Cost : Free 7 day tracking with no integrations, sliding scale starting at $56 for 100 leads. Cost : Contact for pricing.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Tools like mobile text/sms, facebook, twitter, and even Wikipedia have permeated the global community and in times of crisis are natural outlets for updates, news, and even cries for help. Related Links : Conference website.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 24, 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). But now, it just may happen — after the coaltion (with a little help from their friends) gave us an impromptu course in how to run online rapid response."

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

As the conference nears I’m getting ready for an exciting session focused on the use of social media in the non-profit sector, but I need YOUR help. After each of the speakers present’s I’ll be moderating a discussion with them focused on helping nonprofits understand how they can use social media for social good. Thanks for your help!

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 23, 2010

Embeds : I really like that the entire dashboard is embedable – helping keep the resources and value emerging from the community accessible and transportable. I think the ability to separate resources by tab could really help. Tags: webtools 10ntc review the extraordinaries tools twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

To follow up on Monday’s post about why nonprofits should consider hiring a social media manger , below is an excerpt from Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits that helps further explore the time commitment necessary to create and sustain a comprehensive social media stategy for your nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

According to PC World , Yahoo will shut down several of its Web properties, including Delicious, according to a leaked Yahoo presentation slide that was posted on Twitter. I queried my friends on Twitter and my library, museum, archivist, and educator colleagues suggested Diigo. I was hoping this was just a rumor.

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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). The more than 260,000 people who follow the American Red Cross’s Twitter account were promptly informed of the discovery.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

It was much more traffic than I would have ever thought possible, but thanks to the burgeoning “Nonprofit Organizations” communities that I had built on Facebook, Twitter and Myspace, launching a blog was much easier in 2009 than it was when I tried and failed in 2004. As of last month, Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

Last week I participate on a panel on “ Data Visualization for Nonprofits: A Picture Is Better Than A 1,000 Words ” with Johanna Morariu from Innonet and Brian Kennedy of ChildrenNow. The day of the panel, I published a blog post that shared our slides, wiki, and resources. Documentation of Session.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

My slides covered the tools and apps for the back stage side of energizing your community. Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. Community Mapping.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

You’ll gain some interesting and actionable insights that will help guide how you create content and manage your website with a focus on SEO. Can Social Media Help Your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Efforts? Share what you do and ask for enewsletter subscriptions on social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, etc).

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Several websites were set up to help family members find out information about each other in the chaos. That’s why the Atlanta councilman used twitter!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Last year, I had the unique privilege to help facilitate The Local Philanthropy Workshop with the TechSoup Romania team. But blogs can help your organization in a few key ways: Central Communication Hub. A blog can also help people find out more about you or find other ways to stay connected to you. Create Community Dialogue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Followers, Friends, and Fans: Expanding Your Online Community If you aren't on facebook, twitter, friendfeed, technorati, and delicious, should you be?   Laura will focus on Twitter and measuring success.     From what I've seen in the draft slides, their presentations will rock. . 

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 24, 2021

This will help build trust with supporters, making them more likely to give again. When you’re communicating with your supporters, be sure to include the following data from this helpful solution: The donor’s preferred name. Highlighting your donors in a photo album or digital slide show. Any engagement history.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

The map above is a visualization of the Community Foundation of Monterey Twitter following using TwitterMap. It is also a fun way to visualize your Twitter network – and there are some great free apps to do that. Click to See Larger Image and Full Data by Marc Smith. NodeXL and Marc Smith. Click to See Larger Image.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

Channels such as social media can really help with this. For example, if youre trying to reach new donors, consider participating in #GivingTuesday (in addition to running your year-end campaign) to help increase visibility by connecting to this broader movement. Id love to continue the dialogue about these two topics!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

I am firm believer that social media will be the foundation of the Mobile Web and the book was written to help prepare nonprofits for the coming shift from desktop and social to social and mobile. Get creative in integrating your text-to-subscribe keyword and short code pitch into photos, slide shows, or even your YouTube Channel banner.

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NetWits

MARCH 23, 2012

This tactic is genius because it helps do two things. The more effective you can be at helping your donors see how their money is making a difference in the world the better of you’re going to be. Autism Speaks created a unique and fun way to raise money online that was so engaging that people couldn’t help but share it.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 19, 2010

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). It's about having a CONVERSATION with people who care about your work and can help you reach your goals. Great slides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2008

This slide show from Stephen Collins make me think about teaching Internet Skills Workshops for Nonprofits that I used teach over dozen or so years ago. The slide show is from a session he did at BarCamp Sydney called " All You Do Is Talk Talk Talk." Awareness What is Twitter? | View | Upload your own. Is it worth it?

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NTEN

AUGUST 28, 2014

As we all know, the nonprofit tech community is loaded with smart and thoughtful organizers who give their time and efforts to help the rest of us do the good work we do. The presentation slides have been uploaded to Slideshare. We learn new community organizing tips and tools from them all the time.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

My Twitter feed will have quotes, notes and links. This session will revisit the challenges of collective action in an era of “open source activism,” and highlight how the Web can help overcome those hurdles. Each slide is displayed for 15 seconds. Slides are automatically advanced. Sessions and Events. Sunday, April 26.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

There were some terrific questions and discussion. I’ve included some resources along with the slides here. It was great to get this feedback during the presentation and helped make it more effective. Tags: Conferences Tips Training Design ffog remote presentation skype twitter video. Talk about multi-tasking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

What are the right tools to help measure success? Earlier this month, the Ad Council hosted a webinar on the topic of social media ROI with three great social media minds to help us navigate these and other thorny online issues. Or, if you’d like to watch the entire presentation or download the presentation slides.

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NTEN

MARCH 23, 2010

You can watch the full presentation here: Session Slides . Ramya on Twitter: @ramchopps. Other Nonprofit Video Resources: Lights, Camera, Help. YouTube Nonprofit Resources: . YouTube Direct . YouTube Video Volunteers. How to use YouTube Annotation . Examples from this session: Stillerstrong. Come Clean for Congo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

Also great to see old friends like Mark Horvath, who helped run the mic. My slides are here. My slides are here. Mark Horvath shared how he searches on Twitter for the words "homeless" and either educates or empowers. Many passionate people and stories. . It was the first time I ever gave a talk on a cat walk stage.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2012

help the public. Some key highlights : Marnie Webb, co-CEO and Paul van Haver, director of global services at TechSoup Global, highlighted the need for charities to help transform the way they engage with and. Their slides are also available via SlideShare here. His slides are available on SlideShare here.

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NTEN

MARCH 23, 2010

You can watch the full presentation here: Session Slides . Ramya on Twitter: @ramchopps. Other Nonprofit Video Resources: Lights, Camera, Help. YouTube Nonprofit Resources: . YouTube Direct . YouTube Video Volunteers. How to use YouTube Annotation . Examples from this session: Stillerstrong. Come Clean for Congo.

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NTEN

AUGUST 14, 2014

NTEN Member and Social Media Strategist, Lyndal Cairns , moderated the panel, and helped put together this blog post. The best part was the input we received from attendees about tools to help social media managers get organized and develop content without straying from their mission. Paul Neighborhood Network. Community engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

In true “Ignite” style, each presenter had five minutes to present 20 slides about their nonprofit programs, initiatives and the ways they’ve seen nonprofits from around the world use social media to make a difference. Claire Williams Diaz who works on social innovation at Twitter. Looking to get more out of Twitter?

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