Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2010

I am writing a book about social media for nonprofits. The book will be a very comprehensive social media how-to guide that will be based on the lessons I have learned from spending over 10,000 hours utilizing social media for social good over the last five years. THANKS very much!

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Topic : Tools and Options for Selecting Social Media for Your Organization. Description : The hardest part of getting started with social media is figuring out what tools your organization should use. I’ll contribute to this webinar as a guest speaker weighing on tools and options.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 24, 2010

“A survey of 200 charity and foundation professionals revealed that nonprofits are finding it difficult to determine how valuable social media tools are for their organizations. If you are using social media correctly, then your numbers should rise from month-to-month. If not, it may be time to get some training.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 23, 2008

NTEN & TechSoup have teamed up to deliver a series of webinars on storytelling and social media - and I’m the presenter for the first one! Wikipedia says: A webinar is a neologism to describe a specific type of web conference. Click here for more information about the webinar and to register!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 10, 2010

years, I have been providing lots of little tips on how nonprofits can increase their ROI through my Twitter , Facebook , YouTube , and MySpace Best Practices, but now that the vast majority of nonprofits utilize social media and have been for awhile, I think most of us are ready some more advanced strategies. For the last 4.5

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NCE Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2010

Recently I gave a presentation on privacy and social media for ACHIEVA’s free webinar series. Posting private information on social media sites takes that to a whole new level. Tags: Education and Training Facebook Microblog Research social media twitter facebook privacy.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Topic : Social Media Basics. Description : Social media tools provide a lot of opportunities to make local, offline connections and build community. This webinar will introduce some best practices, strategies, and next steps for getting started with social media for you organization.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Today I had the pleasure of presenting a webinar to clients of the Washington Access Fund. The webinar was designed to offer an overview of the basics, best practices and examples of successful social media integration. Social Media for Small Enterprises. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Six months ago I came pretty close to complete social media burnout. I was running over 20 social networking profiles, logging in seven days a week, and at minimum pulling 60-hour work weeks. If you are managing numerous social networking profiles Monday-Friday, then you need some down time on Saturday and Sunday.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

Today was the first webinar in the Storytelling & Social Media series from NTEN and TechSoup Global. I’m happy to say that I had the great honor of serving as the speaker for the webinar and had a ton of fun. Here’s my slide deck: Social Media Building Blocks. tags: nonprofit nptech ).

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Whole Whale

MAY 2, 2024

Social media posts and account maintenance We’ve noted that organizations should guard their voice online. The safest way to have interns participate in social media is to have them analyze the data and then come up with sample posts for the platform. Visit Campus 15.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 3, 2010

Earlier this month, the Connected Generation conference brought lots of folks from organizations and direct services groups, as well as practitioners, educators, and researchers together in Bristol, UK, to talk about the use of social media in youth work. Connecting to Youth: Leveraging social media for work with young communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2012

Ag Grantees Twitter Webinar. This blog post summarizes some of the knowledge shared about effective social media strategy, tactics, and practices. You can also embed the list into pages which makes it handy for Webinar resource pages. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Peer Case Studies.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2013

Cost: $50 or Winter Webinar Special. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. This webinar begins with a brief explanation of the difference between Facebook Profiles, Groups, and Pages and then quickly moves into a short click-by-click demonstration on how to successfully create and manage a Facebook Page for your nonprofit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Cost: $50 or Fall Webinar Special. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. This webinar begins with a brief explanation of the difference between Facebook Profiles, Groups, and Pages and then quickly moves into a short click-by-click demonstration on how to successfully create and manage a Facebook Page for your nonprofit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Cost: $50 or Fall Webinar Special. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. This webinar begins with a brief explanation of the difference between Facebook Profiles, Groups, and Pages and then quickly moves into a short click-by-click demonstration on how to successfully create and manage a Facebook Page for your nonprofit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Cost: $50 or Fall Webinar Special. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. This webinar begins with a brief explanation of the difference between Facebook Profiles, Groups, and Pages and then quickly moves into a short click-by-click demonstration on how to successfully create and manage a Facebook Page for your nonprofit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 1, 2010

A couple of times a year DIOSA Communications offers a webinar special for nonprofit organizations, and the month of April is now one of those times. From now until April 30, all social media and mobile technology webinars are 2-for-1. Webinars are currently scheduled through the end of July: View Webinar Schedule.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

As the Web goes mobile , so does social media… and so should your nonprofit. If there is one thing I have learned over ten years of using the Internet for fundraising and social change, those nonprofits that can embrace change quickly, empower their visionaries, and adopt new Web trends, reap the benefits of being early adopters.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Cost: $50 or Fall Webinar Special. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. This webinar begins with a brief explanation of the difference between Facebook Profiles, Groups, and Pages and then quickly moves into a short click-by-click demonstration on how to successfully create and manage a Facebook Page for your nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

Social Media Trainer's Bag of Tricks View more presentations from Beth Kanter. It was almost five years ago to the day, that I did a webinar for NTEN on the topic and have been integrating social media into teaching and learning experiences ever since. How to think like a social instructional designer.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 26, 2013

Cost: $50 or Spring Webinar Special. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. This webinar begins with a brief explanation of the difference between Facebook Profiles, Groups, and Pages and then quickly moves into a short click-by-click demonstration on how to successfully create and manage a Facebook Page for your nonprofit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 21, 2009

2010 is going to be a big year for social media. Geolocation services are going to be flooding the market, and it’s becoming apparent that blogging is often the missing link in a successful nonprofit social media strategy. That said, each year DIOSA Communications offers a year-end webinar special for nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 24, 2010

The title of this blog post may be a bit of mouthful, but Facebook Tagging is very simple. Without fail, every time I demonstrate Facebook Tagging in a social media training there is always a resounding “Wait… hold up! Webinar: How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use Facebook and Facebook Apps.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

You've heard that social media can be useful to your organization… but how useful? If you or others at your organization are asking these questions, this webinar is for you. Attend this free webinar on Tuesday, September 21, at 11 a.m. Tags: Online Seminar. What tangible results are people seeing from it?

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Wild Apricot

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Jay Moonah's presentation on Social Media Best Practices for Non-Profit & Public Sector Organizations was streamed live online as part of The Canadian Institute’s recent “Managing Social Media” conference recently - but if you missed it, no worries! We’ve got the highlights right here.( read more ).

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

In a way, I feel like I'm on that show --but my car is NTEN's social media platforms, and my Xzibit is all of you, our awesome community of social media users and experts. Here are three super easy tactics mentioned we'll be implementing right away: Create event specific hash tags.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

We Are Media is a terrific resource for anyone looking for tips, examples, case studies and information on using social media in a nonprofit organization. Now, the content from We Are media is available to you in a brand new “ Choose Your Own Expert &# format. The best part: any path you choose will be a good one.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2012

Pulling off a successful event requires many different tools – not the least of which is social media. For little to no cost, social media can help organizations meet attendance and fundraising goals. Make it Social. This is because going to an event is a social decision. Motivate Your Supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The project includes face-to-face training , webinar , as well as one-on-one coaching provided by the expert team at SpitFire. It also connects the social media technical assistance to results. Grantees get better results integrating Facebook, Twitter, and other social media channels best practices and measurement.

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

October 2010 is notable for the variety of topics in the free nonprofit webinars on schedule – both recurring events and special one-time opportunities for professional development. And if you’re offering a free webinar of interest to non-profit folks that didn’t make October’s list, please leave a comment.( read more ).

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2011

On April 14, TechSoup presented a webinar on using social media tools to support, involve, and recruit volunteers. University of Oregon's campus group AHA was mentioned in #techsoup 's webinar on social media for volunteer managing. Social Media = online tools for sharing ideas, information, etc.

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Wild Apricot

AUGUST 30, 2010

September is a busy month for just about everyone – a new school year for many, harvest time for both fundraisers and farmers - and a whole new crop of free nonprofit webinars is here. As always, you’ll want to check back from time to time through the month, as late-coming webinar notices are often added in the comments section, down below.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 29, 2010

Tags: Non-profit technology General non-profit interest Fundraising nptech Marketing Volunteers events Social networking Non-profit Communications training Membership management Donor management webinar social media. read more ).

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Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Tags: Fundraising Marketing Membership management nonprofit non-profit Non-profit Communications Non-profit technology nptech SEO social media Social networking training volunteer management Volunteers webinar. read more ).

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2010

You've heard the maxims of social media before: "Join the conversation," "Engage your audience," "Be authentic!" — but what does all of that really mean? If you attended last Thursday's free webinar, 10 Social Media Tips & Secrets , you can now answer these questions for yourself. Tools Web 2.0

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Join Alan Rosenblatt, Associate Director of Online Advocacy at Center for American Progress, Garth Moore, Internet Director at 1Sky, and Justin Perkins, Director of Nonprofit Strategy at Care2 for a discussion about cutting edge integrated social media strategies. Tags: Care2 Webinars Nonprofit Events.

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