Amy Sample Ward

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Nonprofit Marketing Report: Organizations Failing to Connect

Amy Sample Ward

Nancy Schwartz, president of Nancy Schwartz & Company and blogger at Getting Attention , has just finished analyzing data from a nonprofit marketing survey of more than 900 nonprofit leaders, revealing that they are doing a poor job connecting with their audience and community. I can’t even understand what we’re saying.”.

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Online Community Organizing: Start small, think big!

Amy Sample Ward

NetSquared’s February series exploring “Online Community Organizing” includes three different interviews; I’m really excited to participate! I work in and support nonprofit organizations, and my focus on communities isn’t to suggest that organizations are “bad” or aren’t making a difference.

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Empowers Grant for Community Organizing at #OWS from DemocracyInAction

Amy Sample Ward

From speeches, to marches, to the signs individuals have brought with them, core issues that nonprofits work on every day, such as economic inequality, high unemployment and corporate greed are coming to a head. If your group is ready to organize, DemocracyInAction is ready to help! The first grant was awarded to Occupy Philly already!

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Try Qriously for free: Real-time data for your organization!

Amy Sample Ward

I had so much fun, in fact, that I shared screen shots and some thoughts around the way organizations could put a tool like this to use. (If I contacted the Qriously team to thank them for access, and to ask if there was a way I could get a few more organizations connected to give it a try. The folks at Qriously think so, too.

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Bringing Community Organizing into Online Campaigns – Dashboard

Amy Sample Ward

Here’s the dashboard from The Extraordinaries of our 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference session today: Bringing Community Organizing Into Online Campaigns – [International Ballroom C] (#co2oc). What: What is the basis of community organizing and why is it important to online campaigns? When: 1:30 p.m.

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Notes from Webinar: Social Media for Organizations

Amy Sample Ward

It was an introduction to social media, especially focused on what organizations (regardless of size) can start doing today. I had a bit of fun with it, especially with the pictures on the slides, by using a party metaphor: Social Media for Organizations: Enjoy Your Own Party! Social Media for Organizations: Enjoy Your Own Party.

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New on SSIR: Should Nonprofits Act Like Businesses or People?

Amy Sample Ward

The new book I co-authored with Allyson Kapin, Social Change Anytime Everywhere , looks at the way nonprofit organizations can use multichannel strategies for advocacy, fundraising, and community building. While those objectives have merit, they are not directly aligned with creating the best constituent experience.

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