Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

As many of you know, before joining NTEN as the Membership Director last year, I managed the NetSquared program which included locally-organized groups around the world, innovation challenges, and more. We should approach offline action as one of many channels available to us to reach our mission. What is changing and why?

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NetWits

JULY 12, 2011

In 2010, 78% of nonprofits surveyed by NTEN who had raised money on Facebook raised $1K or less in 12 months. I was surprised to see these results because getting people to attend offline events is not a low barrier. Facebook Is Not a Good Tool for Donor Acquisition or Volunteerism. Check out the key Facebook data below.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2012

This post is cross-published from NTEN. Read the post and join the conversation on the NTEN blog. You know more about the tools. Assuming you know the most about these tools means you have the opportunity and responsibility to share your knowledge and help the community be as savvy as you! You know more about the cause.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

In Making Event Participants More Successful with Social Media Tools , several key findings are revealed: Event participants who adopted integrated social media tools increased their fundraising by as much as 40 percent compared to their peers who weren’t using the available online tools.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

I was lucky enough to attend NTEN's Nonprofit Cloud Computing Summit on Monday, August 29. Platforms as a service: you rent server space, bandwidth, and the tools to help you build or customize web-based applications ( Salesforce , for example). There are many potential benefits to using cloud tools. If you want to just dip.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 6, 2021

In this blog, you’ll learn about: Social Media Marketing & Measurement, Network Building, Tech Tools for Nonprofits, Company Culture, Donor Engagement, and Data Science. If you’re not afraid of getting into the nitty-gritty of network building, both online and offline, this is the blog for you. NTEN CONNECT BLOG.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. Here’s a run through of the Tools Galore session. More than 3.5

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2015

From building a movement to groundtruthing an organization's policies, a listserv can be a powerful tool for a revolution within and beyond an organization. They can be a great tool to bring together people virtually who will not cross paths in life. Bicicultures. I am a big fan of email listservs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

This is part of series of reflections on what I've learned about working wikily through working on NTEN's WeAreMedia wiki - not so much the content, but the community curriculum development and knowledge sharing process. Here's what lies ahead -- a division and then a bridge between online/offline learning and community/content.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Target Analytics, a Blackbaud company, has been looking at trends in online and offline giving for many years now. A recent meeting of the donorCentrics Internet Giving Benchmarking Group reviewed online and offline giving between 2005 and 2009. Multichannel donors are more loyal than offline or online donors alone.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference | NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network – Have you registered yet for the Nonprofit Technology Conference? They want to see what could happen if we serious commit to working together, on an offline. "It's What is your conversation strategy?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Charities that have traditionally focused on offline fundraising have also learned in recent years the importance of online giving. " They probably said the same thing about Facebook, Twitter, and other social media tools. Compare that with a recent downward trend in donor acquisition using offline channels like direct mail.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

How Big Tech Harms Social Justice and Equity For many nonprofits, social media platforms are vital communication tools with which to organize people and provide them with services and information. These barriers and disruptions to visibility, access, privacy, and safety impact people’s online experiences—and have offline consequences.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

The Nonprofit Technology Conference ( 12NTC ), organized by the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN), brings together nonprofit leaders from far and wide to learn about the latest in technology that can benefit their organizations and the communities those organizations serve. Tips and Tools for Technology Planning. Mixing It Up!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

The organization identifies the people most passionate about their work in their online networks or offline community and empowers them to raise money through social fundraising platforms. We know that the power of NTEN is in the community, so we’re asking 25 of our most engaged community members to become Champions for NTEN.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

The tool is meant to openly share and visualize the operations of World Bank financed activities down to as local a level as possible and compare these with actual need and monitor the effects over time." Change the way we associated with others on and offline? But here's the thing: the trends aren't actually that good."

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 5, 2009

NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference held each Spring is always THE place to be for nonprofit techies: whether you work in a nonprofit organization or with one, are totally technical or fell into your techie job, like social media or like wiring an office. >> Do You Have the Right Balance of Online/Offline Communication?

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Tech Soup

JULY 19, 2016

Nonprofit educators, leaders, and consultants from multiple countries submitted over 540 session proposals to NTEN. You need to log in with your NTEN account. If you don't have an NTEN account, register first. Click on the title of the session to go to NTEN's space. Which Social Media Tool Works Where and Why?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2013

3 Ways to Use Social Media in Your Next Campaign by Amy Sample Ward, Author of Social Change Anytime Everywhere and Membership Director at NTEN. Your Donors Don’t Live Only Online or Only Offline, So Why Do Your Communications? The Science of Email by Steve MacLaughlin , Director of Ideas Labs at Blackbaud. Happy Friday!

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

Last week was the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference and not only did I have the pleasure of presenting a couple sessions, it was also my first NTC as a staffer, as I joined NTEN earlier this month. Especially with the increased use of social media tools to help community building activity around causes or specific organizations.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2016

Bridging the Divide: Online and Offline Community Managers — Thursday, March 24 — 10:30 a.m. Are you curious about how to use open-source tools and free open datasets to better deliver on your mission? — Bridging the Divide: Online and Offline Community Managers. – 12:00 p.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2011

Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] Just as the strength of the donor-charity relationship heavily influences offline giving, the online giving experience has a significant impact on donor loyalty, retention, and gift levels.

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NTEN

MAY 18, 2011

and if you're an NTEN member, you'll also be able to see the raw survey data, as well. Clearly, we could all be doing a better job of analyzing the business and mission effectiveness of our technology projects -- everything from our internal collaboration tools to our social media efforts could probably use an examination. Or does it?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2015

Amy Sample Ward — CEO, NTEN. And when you're offline, you have access to all the Box documents because the documents cache offline." For us, running in-person education programs that we do, having a group SMS text tool is critical. Image 1: NTEN. Here's what they said. Have a plan, of course!

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

Kara Carrell (aka @Karitas ) pointed out that she has a "How I Roll" post that she links to and updates as her on and offline world evolves. That means I am very comfortable with all sorts of cloud-based tools and I like to tinker with new stuff. I am a proud member of NTEN , the trade association so-to-speak of nonprofit techies.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

Kara Carrell (aka @Karitas ) pointed out that she has a "How I Roll" post that she links to and updates as her on and offline world evolves. That means I am very comfortable with all sorts of cloud-based tools and I like to tinker with new stuff. I'll accept if we've had a conversation I can remember, on or offline.

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2015

After wrapping up our annual Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), NTEN’s CEO, Amy Sample Ward, and I quickly recharged for SXSW Interactive , where we partnered another year with Beaconfire to host the Beacon Lounge for social changemakers, and with the NonProfit Times to cover stories on the nonprofit technology sector. In the U.S.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. Analytics tools. how to integrate tools without reinventing the wheel. use monitoring tools. Listening tools: Netvibes. Are there ways of catching offline datapoints?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

There are companies and tools that offer "solutions" for tracking, measuring, and even "engaging" with your community online. The tools and methods here are designed to be flexible and adaptable so that you can make them work for your organization and needs. Tags: amy sample ward NPTech NTEN Program.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

Occasionally we connect throughout the week via the NTEN community platform , and of course, there are other spaces for community organizers and online community managers on Facebook, Google Plus, and other sites.

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See3

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Starting today, video submissions are being accepted for the 3rd Annual DoGooderTV Nonprofit Video Awards, co-sponsored by The Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) and See3 Communications. With camera and equipment costs down, organizations have nothing holding them back from using video as a communications tool. contest2009 !

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

traditional offline software) into the cloud (a.k.a. Start your review process with objective material from sources like NTEN, Idealware, and TechSoup. For example, QuickBooks offline to QuickBooks online is almost seamless, whereas a move from Sage MIP to QuickBooks online would require a multi-step process (i.e.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

traditional offline software) into the cloud (a.k.a. Start your review process with objective material from sources like NTEN, Idealware, and TechSoup. For example, QuickBooks offline to QuickBooks online is almost seamless, whereas a move from Sage MIP to QuickBooks online would require a multi-step process (i.e.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

We'll cover the how-to of integrating direct mail – still the biggest giving channel – with on-line giving and social media tools in your fundraising campaigns at " Fundraise Everywhere: Coordinating Your Campaigns & Appeals ". > > Learn more and register today. > Learn more about "The Email Fundraiser's Toolkit".

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

Occasionally we connect throughout the week via the NTEN community platform , and of course, there are other spaces for community organizers and online community managers on Facebook, Google Plus, and other sites.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. And, he thinks that NTEN should be responsive to him, as a member, in asking to publish web stats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2009

Use social tools to make it easy to find and learn about you. Make it easy for people to give online and offline while also showing people how you are using their money. Raise more money – Use a tool that makes it simple for people to give online. Reach new supporters, donors and volunteers. It’s back to call to action 101.

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