Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Measuring the ROI of these new tools can be tricky for many organizations, especially those not yet measuring the ROI of their other technology tools and investments. Related Links : Kentucky Nonprofits website.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 1, 2009

But what about taking an inventory of your social media tools? Twitter Karma is a great tool to use if you want to inventory your Twitter community, clean up any nonreciprocal followers, or simply evaluate your lists. Here are a few ways to get you diving in: Twitter. do you link to your group/fan page from your website?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Social networks and social media has busted out of the marketing communications and fundraising silos and changing the way nonprofits deliver programs, manage, and even govern. This session will take a look about these trends and how nonprofits can equipment themselves to be networked nonprofits. What is the Networked Nonprofit?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 11, 2012

This guest post is from Jacob Smith , the co-author of The Nimble Nonprofit. I’m really excited about this new comprehensive, honest resource for nonprofit leaders, and hope you’ll check it out ! For most nonprofit folks, the limitation isn’t about resources but about how serious they are about improving.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 15, 2009

My presentation includes some brief highlights from research done in the US and the UK around social media use by nonprofit organizations (including the Nonprofit Social Networking Survey and the eCampaigning Report ). Social Media, Nonprofits, and the Role of Individuals. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Description : When it comes to nonprofit technology, successful strategy and implementation can mean the difference between staying current and getting left behind. Nonprofit leaders need to keep up with the constantly changing techcomm environment by remaining curious, flexible and ever able to adapt. Date : February 23rd, 2011.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 24, 2010

She’s a go-to resource for nonprofit marketing and her new book is called The Nonprofit Marketing Guide ( get your copy here ). —– Kivi Leroux Miller helps small nonprofits and communications departments of one make a big impression with smart, savvy communications and marketing.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Yesterday, I had a lot of fun giving another webinar for Nonprofit Webinars, this time focused on DIY Social Media Management. The goal of this webinar was to provide some baseline tools to help manage the incoming and the outgoing content across all channels an organization may be using to communicate and connect. Listening Dashboard.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2011

The good news is that the nonprofit technology community is rich in sharing, and there are lots of online tutorials about this latest wave of updates on Facebook. Ted Fickes’s guest post on the Care2 Frogloop blog explains how this new feature impacts the way nonprofits are sharing news and updates. Metrics that Matter.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2009

Your nonprofit or foundation could be one of this year’s Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Award winners! It’s one of your most effective marketing tools, but the 2008 GettingAttention.org survey showed that 72% of nonprofit organizations don’t have a tagline or rate theirs as performing poorly.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Vote here for the 2009 Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Awards. Give you the chance to register for the free 2009 Nonprofit Tagline Report, with 2,500 tagline examples. About the Nonprofit Tagline Awards. Your nonprofit or foundation could be one of this year’s Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Award winners!

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 25, 2011

The presentation will cover the ins and outs, as well as best practices and ways to get started using Twitter as a tool for communicating with, surfacing new, and recognizing volunteers. At the end of the session, we will leave time for hands-on Q/A and demo of Twitter applications and tools. Related Links : Conference information.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2009

Instead of going to Google.com to search the Web, we have search tools (often powered by Google) in our browsers, on our website and on our blogs, and everywhere else really. So, what’s the advantage for nonprofits ? Tags: issues otherblogs google nonprofits search ssir twitter. Enter Twitter. Because it’s all conversation.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 6, 2009

Here are my slides: I’ll post more notes about the case studies and tools as well after the event. Twitter.Org: Twitter for Nonprofit Organizations. Follow the conversation on Twitter (the Hashtag is #TiESE ). Ask questions via Twitter - just include the hastag in your post! View more presentations from Amy Sample ward.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Both large and small nonprofits earned top honors this week for their attention-getting taglines, demonstrating again that an organization of any size can craft a powerful, pithy motto to build awareness and connect with its key audiences. More than 4,800 nonprofit professionals cast votes in the final selection round.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

My conversations so far for February are all focused on the role of nonprofits online. The first thing I asked about was his view of the new role of nonprofit organizations in the social media or technology revolution that is well underway. I would LOVE for you to get in on the conversations, too! Standford Social Innovation Review.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

The topic asked: What do you think the role of nonprofit organizations is in the changing world of social media? This month, we asked: What do you think the role of nonprofit organizations is in the changing world of social media? How do nonprofits participate online differently than individuals? What about the book giveaway?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 11, 2010

It’s because this is another example of how our tools are defining community. ( Last month’s post focused on that topic using Causes, Ideablob and Ning as references for the conversation.) This is where we really start to touch on the issues around the tools we use defining how we can build and connect with our communities.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Oxfam in Haiti – Google Maps – This is a great example of how you can use a tool like Google Maps to tell a story and provide easy access to information – great job Oxfam! "Oxfam The future of the nonprofit sector depends on it." "Oxfam is responding to the biggest earthquake for 200 years in Haiti.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

SOCIALMEDIA NONPROFIT tweet Book01. Networked Nonprofit. Tools and Apps to Energize Your Base. Metrics Template: [link]. Listening Dashboard: [link]. Books & Collections. We Are Media. Social by Social. Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission. 5 Steps to a Successful Social Media Strategy.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 16, 2010

Grassroots, hyper-local, nonprofit, and educational communities cannot be expected to operate in the same way as commercial or sponsored communities, online or off. Many groups would much rather have an impact and involvement in the shaping of the tools they use than pay for something that others control. identify tools to fund.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2012

"We invite you to cast your vote to help pick this year's winner of the second annual Care2 Impact Prize, which recognizes individuals in the nonprofit sector who have made an outstanding impact on the field of online advocacy, online fundraising or both.

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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?&#. Links to tools & info. Audio recording.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

There are bound to be many, many versions of this blog post as people from around the world start investigating the tool and sharing their impressions. As always, when it’s just the first trickling of people joining up, the way the tool is used, the depth of some functionality, and the technical issues are all a bit out of proportion.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 21, 2010

Are these changes good for nonprofits bottom line too? Chris Brogan Talks Nonprofits and Trust Agents – netwitsthinktank.com – One of the basic best practices I am always talking about with organizations starting out with social media is to be a real person – not an "organization" online. The jury is out."

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

It's left some nonprofit professionals wondering whether these types of contests are a good idea." " Try These Dynamic Digital Storytelling Platforms | Community Organizer 2.0 – "Nonprofit organizations can tell the best stories. " Check it out! Why limit yourself?

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

." The Buzz Builders Blog – "As Habitat for Humanity celebrates their 35th anniversary, along with the completion of their 500,000th home this month, they’re jumping on the “social” train and investing in new web tools that integrate the “social media experience” with the “volunteer experience.”

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 16, 2010

Join the conversation taking place on Manny Hernandez’s blog about keeping the network free for nonprofit and educational use. Please join me in signing this Change.org petition to keep Ning free for nonprofit and education use. We really want to ensure this tool continues enabling communities, regardless of their budget.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

By Julie Macalik, with Greenlights for Nonprofit Success. The standard nonprofit data points come from fundraising, communications, programs, and finance so consider these sources when gathering your team. If you’re just looking to get your feet wet with a quick survey, one of the many free or low cost online tools will do the trick.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 14, 2012

I’m really excited to share this guest post today from Ifdy Perez about the Twive and Receive campaign going on right now: Today’s a special day for nonprofits. To get to this point, Twive and Receive nonprofits worked their tails off for weeks building a community and strategizing fundraising tactics.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The advantage of the technology sector is that even if it is rudimentary or preliminary functionality, you can expose a new idea/tool/app/platform to the community from the very beginning, getting their feedback and support. We can also look at the why to understand the ecosystem for new or complimentary tools. Not always.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 11, 2011

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 And here’s the offer: 5 Nonprofits, 5000 Responses. If you missed it, here’s last week’s post about Qriously.) The folks at Qriously think so, too.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2011

." eAdvocacy Readiness Assessment – A terrific round up of resources from Aspiration – if you're looking to get started with or ramp up your online engagement efforts, check out these tools first! "Welcome "Welcome to the pre-release version of Aspiration's eAdvocacy Readiness Tools.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2011

John was reaching out to bloggers, asking us if we would write about the launch of the fourth annual CTK Foundation Heart and Soul Grant Award to nonprofit organizations. Or are social media ranking tools an example of more kool-aid mix being added to the overflowing punch bowl? Is your organization considered a content curator?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2012

Even though the majority of the attendees representing big brands, companies, and start-ups, the nonprofit technology contingency still had a strong showing with many socially good focused sessions on the agenda, the Beacon Lounge, and plenty of extracurricular events. Personal and Professional Identity: Social Media Policies for Nonprofits.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 1, 2012

Nearly 18,000 people participated in the 24-hour, online fundraising event, raising more than $2 million to benefit 1,200 local nonprofits. The in-person events were complemented by a free, comprehensive online nonprofit toolkit. Just as organizations (usually!)

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2011

" The Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide – "With more than 750 million people signed up for Facebook alone, there’s little doubt that social media can be a powerful part of most organizations’ communications mix. For many nonprofits, it’s far more obvious that such tools can be useful than how to use them.

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