Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Timo Luege recently shared the new social media staff guidelines created at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). >> Review the IFRC Social Media Staff Guides here. Why create social media staff guidelines? Highlights from IFRC Social Media Staff Guides.

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NCE Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Second, a local nonprofit executive is suing LinkedIn , because someone put up a LinkedIn profile with his personal information without his permission. It leads me to point out that even if you don’t post information to social media – others will on your behalf. What do you expect from social media in 2013?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2010

Last month, I presented at the NCVO Foresight seminar: Changing ICT – what does it mean for your charity with a focus on the future of online revenue generation for nonprofit organizations. Social media is a space where the individual reigns, relationships are required, and conversations are public. Start looking for it!).

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Topic : Community-Driven Planning: Creating a Social Media Strategy. Description : This all-day workshop starts with the real foundation of social media engagement: community and content. Topic : Social Media Boundaries: Personal/Personnel Policy. Topic : Social Media Done Right in 30 Minutes/Day.

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APRIL 19, 2023

As a nonprofit or educational institution, you know firsthand the importance of fundraising to support your mission programming. Payroll deductions: When a company offers a payroll deduction program, employees can have a set amount of money automatically deducted from their paychecks and donated to a chosen nonprofit organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2008

We invite you to join the conversation each week as roll out a new theme related to social media and nonprofits. This week we'll be discussing Module 1: Why Your Nonprofit Organization Should Be The Media. " But what if your nonprofit is not a community media center or media maker?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

So far, trying to navigate the site to browse or set up a profile has about a 50/50 chance of hitting either a 504 or 500 error page. I’m not sure that organizations will want to maintain, or create, a profile on facebook just as a ticket to using Jumo. “Amy Sample Ward wrote on her/her profile:&#. Messaging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

The concepts around connectivity and leadership were synergistic with the concept of networked leadership that Allison Fine and I wrote about in the Networked Nonprofit , published in several years before. The article caught fire – not only in nonprofit and philanthropy circles – but also business, government, and beyond.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

In preparation for their presentation, they circulated a survey to over 200 nonprofit professionals, asking how they use various social platforms. You can include a disclaimer in all of your profiles, actually! Be a social recommender! Think of it as the social media version of a good deed or social capital investments.

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JULY 23, 2014

Amy Sample Ward. The internet might be everywhere, but where are you? Amy makes the case for making your website your digital home. For all this effort to create content and spark conversations, we won''t be successful if our online presence didn''t have a home. Our website is that home, and being a home is a difficult but important role.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

Now, your sharing and connecting settings apply to much more of the web than just your social networking profile. My Google+ profile automatically includes a Google Buzz tab to see the stream from that space. But, at least right now, you can still only have that one profile. Options for Nonprofits.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

. —– Google+, the social network launched by Google nearly 5 months ago, has recently opened up the platform to organizations and brands with a profile type akin to the options for individuals and Pages on Facebook. Are you using Google+ now and have you set up a profile for your organization? Apples and Oranges.

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JULY 11, 2013

Sometimes I feel like there''s an encyclopedia of online advocacy, fundraising, and social media stuck in my head. While I have close to two decades of experience in the nonprofit field and love to share my experiences and data, I’m lucky to be surrounded by such smart nptech folks who share their knowledge with me.

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NCE Social Media

APRIL 29, 2009

Hello Nonprofit Admins, Good news! Now all nonprofits on Change.org have the premium service toolset added to their Admin Dashboards. In addition to all the tools that came with the basic service, all nonprofits can now: 1) Create Actions, including email petitions that can empower and expand your base of supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

Please join me on June 21st from 1-2 PM PST for the virtual launch of The Networked Nonprofit. These are my notes for webinar about Nonprofits and Slideshare , a social site where community members share presentations, documents and pdfs. Networked nonprofits are simple and transparent organizations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Simply offer ticket sales online, then send your guests a care package of the beverages to be sampled on the day of the event. For added suspense, you may send out a mystery box with a variety of beverages to sample. You could even make a film or documentary about the core purpose of your organization as a nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Note from Beth : Over the past six months, I’ve been on an advisory group for project that my colleague Jay Geneske at the Rockefeller Foundation has spearheaded to help build the capacity of nonprofits in storytelling skills. These recommendations will always be saved to your profile so you can access them later.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2007

My first job in the nonprofit field over 28 years ago was in development office at the New England Conservatory and later at the Boston Symphony. Amy Sample Ward put the Global Giving Widget on her Facebook profile. Michele Martin of the Bamboo Project Blog wrote a terrific post about the campaign.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 13, 2010

The Changing Face of Nonprofits. My session focuses on the fact that nonprofits, just like businesses and other enterprises, have seen a dramatic impact from the increased use of social media. Personal profiles, direct communication, authentic conversations. Session: The Changing Face of Nonprofits.

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MARCH 21, 2022

While social media platforms and search engines can get you started, you’ll also need access to the following: . Too many nonprofits make the mistake of focusing on capacity markers alone, honing in on potential donors’ ability to contribute financially and forgetting that caring about a cause is why major donations are made.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Note from Beth: The long anticipated social network site for social change, Jumo , launched. Many of us have been up early playing with Jumo, setting up our individual profiles and finding issues and organizations or setting up profiles for organizations. Here’s the article from today’s New York Times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Consider these two sample audiences: “Canadian women” or “18 to 30-year-old women in BC or Alberta who live in cities with more than 100,000 people” Of course, most NGOs can’t afford to hire the kind of market researchers you’d need to produce a sophisticated work-up of who your core audience is.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Topic : The Changing Face of Nonprofits. Description : Nonprofits, just like businesses and other enterprises, have seen a dramatic impact from the increased use of social media. Personal profiles, direct communication, authentic conversations.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Why Real-World Socializing Is the Next Big Thing for Social Media – "From the Latin root socials, meaning “united, living with others,” the word social is firmly grounded in the physical world and implies face-to-face interaction. ." ""

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Giving Day Playbook , published by the Knight Foundation, is the first how-to guide providing community foundations and other nonprofits comprehensive tips to planning a successful online giving marathon. On Sept. You can also set goals for donor engagement, brand awareness, or capacity building for local nonprofits.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 7, 2010

The site said the original message was in Greek and translated to “From the 16th to the 20th of November, we shall change our profile pictures to our favourite cartoon characters. The purpose of this game is to remove all photos of human for a few days from Facebook.&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

How To Marry Social Media with Fundraising. Social fundraising is when your nonprofit integrates tried and true fundraising techniques with social media to inspire your supporters to raise money from their networks on your behalf. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

OCTOBER 3, 2018

It’s no secret that storytelling in the digital age is essential for nonprofits , but the efficacy of stories depends largely on how clearly and strategically they’re communicated to each unique segment of your audience, also sometimes known as a persona. Answer a call to donate on social media? Click an online ad?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

On Friday, I tripped down the rabbit hole of Google + field test with many other social media early adopters and nonprofit technology (#nptech folks) who were kicking the tires. Google + is Google’s new social sharing platform. As my colleague Geoff Livingston points out, nonprofits have limited time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

By Sean Kosofsky , is the Nonprofit Fixer and founder of Mind the Gap Consulting. Nonprofit organizations have a lot of challenges relating to fundraising. Nonprofits need every tool possible to entice donors to join and then stick around for years. On your social media pages, “pin” or prioritize acknowledgments to donors.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

nfpSynergy, a leading nonprofit sector think-tank and research consultancy in the UK, “tracks a representative sample of over 1000 11-25 year olds throughout mainland Britain twice-yearly, gaining insights into their views and habits, both social and charity-related” in its Youth Engagement Monitor. The Research.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

" Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media – frogloop – "Can I be honest? I’m worried about the lack of nonprofit leadership creating a culture of innovation. As part of this communications evolution, nonprofits have grown accustomed to relying on url shorteners such as bit.ly

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NTEN

MARCH 11, 2010

Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010? Why do you think your session topic is important for nonprofits to address?

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NOVEMBER 1, 2011

You may not have heard about Lara Stockman's "25 Days to Make a Difference" blog, or how, after profiling different nonprofits, random acts of kindness, and community-driven efforts she mobilized an audience of 25,000 readers after just a few weeks. Social Media as an Equalizer. Representative Samples?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2009

In the nonprofit technology community, I’ve heard stories of cut backs on “nice to have&# items and expenses such as travel and training so that organizations can focus on their most critical goals first and cut back on what they deem not to be completely necessary. (An Put this great little widget made by NTEN to good use!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I was going to spend a lot of time making up different lists and sub-lists of nonprofit techies , social causes, social media gurus, metrics geeks, and the way too many other topics I'm obsessed with, but realized all I had to do was find someone who I knew and trusted and follow their list.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

—– It’s not a surprise to any of us that social media is changing the way our organizations work, not just communicate. The lessons in social media are especially important for organizations working with the public, whether it’s public service or opinion.

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