Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Whether it’s Facebook, Twitter, or something else, you don’t have to be satisfied with a feeling: use your organization’s strategic plan to identify real goals and then track the data to show your impact. Related Links : Blackbaud Conference information.

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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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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. If you want to explore Twitter chats , I suggest checking out what various hashtags mean and use this list for a directory of chats: [link]. Social Media for Small Enterprises. Anything else?

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

I was limited to discussing only three social media tools, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube, because of time. Here are my slides that I wanted to share with you. > Hat tip to Beht for all of the great information she shares with us. Hat tip to Beht for all of the great information she shares with us.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

The slides are below as well as some notes. In the slides, I highlighted some of the work of 350.org I had the opportunity to facilitate the IT track and had lots of fun poking, prodding, and supporting some really interesting conversations and sharing sessions. The Local Philanthropy Workshop: Facebook Campaigning in Romania.

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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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Get Fully Funded

MAY 24, 2021

Use the information in your CRM to collect and leverage the most correct and accurate information. By including this information on your outreach materials, your supporters won’t feel like one of the masses. Now that you have the information needed to make the best outreach letter possible, what do you include in your message?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2009

Photo by Esparta A few weeks ago I did a book giveaway for the Twitter Book. Readers from nonprofits who wanted to a chance to win a copy of the book had to leave a comment saying how they were using Twitter and how they hoped to improve their results. Here's my shot at the answers: How is your organization currently using Twitter?

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

In addition to information on subscribing by keyword and short code, you should also embed an online form or widget (provided by your vendor) on the page that easily allows people to type in their mobile number to subscribe instantaneously. Add Your Text-to-Subscribe Keyword and Short Code Pitch to Your Twitter Background.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Another topic that is of interest and can serve as a valuable launch pad for conversations and information, both for Romanian NGOs and organizations around the world, is a blog. A blog can provide the space for sharing news, announcements, stories, and other information and let you reshare and distribute it all over the web.

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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

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. That’s why the Atlanta councilman used twitter!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2011

The rise of social media and mobile technology has changed the way people process information. Whether we like it or not, information overload is a part of our culture now, and the design and tone of your nonprofit’s website need to take this shift in communication seriously and present your website accordingly.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2010

You can review the slides from my whole presentation, as well as all of the speaker notes, here. Tags: events fundraising presentation facebook individuals notes slides socialmedia ssir. Do you have any tips or examples from your social media presences or campaigns to share? Visit the SSIR blog to comment, or leave your thoughts below!

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

A few things to consider when it comes to running an effective program: Make sure your website has a clear way for people to opt-in to receive emails from you and don’t ask people for a lot of information to sign up. Share what you do and ask for enewsletter subscriptions on social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, etc).

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2010

flatter processes – less hierarchy in organizations, fewer steps in finding information and services. flatter processes – less hierarchy in organizations, fewer steps in finding information and services. Join the conversation by using #cc2020 on Twitter! What were my ideas? View more presentations from Ben Matthews.

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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. Since my slides are mostly screen shots, I’ve shared a bit of context below. This is great for use in your Twitter messages but also in emails or even text messages. WWT 2010: Apps and Tools to Energize Your Base.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

Let that inform your decisions on what channel(s) to use to reach your audience. To learn more about how you can use email marketing to support year-round online fundraising, Ive uploaded my slides to Slideshare. Channels such as social media can really help with this. Id love to continue the dialogue about these two topics!

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NTEN

AUGUST 28, 2014

The presentation slides have been uploaded to Slideshare. This was one of our most interactive webinars - it was filled with community organizers, after all - the Twitter stream and chat channel were delightfully out of control! For more information, view the entire presentation on Slideshare , and event Storify.

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Tech Soup

JULY 23, 2012

constantly emerging to share information and context more effectively. we encourage interactive feedback through Twitter using the hashtag. Read Jim Lynch's post about the use of Slide Rocket for great presentations and remote work in the cloud. Storytelling is an evolving art, and new tools are. time-strapped causes.

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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. is our community directly informing the services we provide? Let’s focus on that first question for a moment: is our community directly informing the services we provide? Defining Community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2010

I had a lot of fun doing a panel with colleagues Jordan Viator, Carie Lewis, and David Neff called " The Real Housewives of Social Media." Our task was to present practical and tactical information about social media using metaphors that related to housewives. You can see the full slide deck here.

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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? Information How does it work?

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AFP Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Pecha Kucha: The F2F Twitter Stream for Events | Engage365: "Adrian Segar, author of Conferences That Work: Creating Events That People Love, said Pecha Kucha, which originated in Japan, consists of several speakers presenting 20 slides for 20 seconds apiece. It is a great way to present cool information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2012

The slides are here. He went on to describe how to activate social voice by describing how these personas use social networks to share information about their favorite charities and fundraise for them. He posts links to his “tribe” on Facebook,Twitter, and Tumblr- His friends “like”, “retweet”, “repost” bythe hundreds…many purchase.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2015

A stellar example of content curation : Content curation is not aggregation or a big gigantic list of links. A content curator v ets, filters, organizes, and presents information in a instructional way. Format: He has organized this resource in a Google document — his slides, FAQ, and links are on one page.

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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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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Test your current site: Use online or onsite usability testing to learn what information your users look for on your website and how easy it is for them to find it. View the session recording or download the slides to learn more. Information architecture: Everyone accesses information on your website differently.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

Quora has been around for a year and provides an independent question platform from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn that is similar to Yahoo! It does heavily rely on Twitter and Facebook for promotion, adding it to the increasing amount of social middleware platforms that are being developed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

This informative post is based on a recent webinar presented by the Ad Council provides an overview of how to understand the return on your time investment. Or, if you’d like to watch the entire presentation or download the presentation slides. Twitter engagement rates for brands are actually higher on the weekend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Private: This is obvious, but information like your social security number,bank account number, passwords, birthday w/year, or intensely private information that if made public could embarrass you or put you in personal danger. Typically, this information about your brand or nonprofit. What Are You Sharing?

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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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AccelEvents

JULY 14, 2021

The audience was then asked to vote on their favorite one, with the winner announced the following day on Twitter. . with valuable information about the effectiveness of the content, the format, and the audience engagement levels. . Have sponsored marketing slides as powerpoints, stable branding, or live ads.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

In our ongoing mission to provide technology information and resources to nonprofit organizations and libraries, TechSoup’s latest Nonprofits Live (NPLive) explored advice and resources for creating great presentations. Presenters who are interested in embedding a live Twitter stream into their slides can do so with SlideRocket.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2012

Their slides are also available via SlideShare here. His slides are available on SlideShare here. Download his PowerPoint presentation, Data @NCVO , or view his slides via SlideShare here. Download Nathaniel Manning's PowerPoint presentation, Ushahidi: Made in Africa , or view his slides on SlideShare here.

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