Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

A great example of this is when we talk about working with our communities. The people who donate, listen in, connect with our programs by calling in, reading or commenting online, and coming to our offline events are our community. Google Analytics for your Wiki. Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Check out this how-to in TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki and watch the video below. Sarah is interested in the intersection of online and offline communities, helping organizations use the power of the web to make an impact in society. Never participated in a tweet chat before? Please visit the site to view this video).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. Here's the description: Join Beth Kanter who has been teaching nonprofit technology workshops for over 15 years, both offline and online. The Topics.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

I’m bummed that I cannot participate this time around (will be traveling with my family, enjoying some offline adventures) but am already looking forward to the next opportunity! REGISTER HERE! The Format.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2008

The screen capture is a visual conversation trigger to answer the question, "How does your working environment affect your work?" " We have uploaded the screenshots into our wiki profile pages. " "How does it differ from others?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

We started with key results and worked backwards to technical assistance goals: Kids get health care coverage Policies are adopted More attention from policymakers. So, for these organizations, their content pyramid also includes integrating offline w/online channels. It also connects the social media technical assistance to results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I don't get an opportunity to do this workshop with a large group, so this was fabulous learning experience to work out some techniques to make it scale. And they worked! I wanted to capture a couple of reflections on the process as well as content learnings by way of this post. . Ant Trails As Learning Opportunities.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

The power of social media in this context, “is in networks growing and collaborating, not silo-ing&# (@ amysampleward ) or “ connecting/leveraging/magnifying the work of people who’re already aware&# (@ HildyGottlieb ). link] is a climate change wiki. Examples of Social Media.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

I work in a small organisation and have heard a lot about web 2.0 Including various social media tools in the way you do your work (whether it’s communications, fundraising, outreach, volunteer recruitment or service delivery) comes from strategically identifying the right tools for the right things.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki is designed to be a starting place for organizations just getting started on social media. Read an account of how Canteen , an Australian nonprofit dedicated to supporting teenagers with cancer, used social media to raise awareness for an online and offline campaign. TechSoup Canada.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2011

TechSoup continued its Social Media Mondays in May with a discussion on Twitter to expand on the resources offered in its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki. One participant said, "A good tweet is something that elicits action offline, for example, a laugh or a conversation. Action can be thought of as creating conversation.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It evolves to meet our changing needs, to fit our changing lifestyles, and to integrate into the way we do our work. Working together, citizens could piece together news stories as well as facts from witnesses as they emerged to create the most complete picture of events. http ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 7_July_2005_London_bombings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

The inspiration was part The Lab Theater a place where you try out contemporary or experimental works before you bring them to the main stage and part peer learning program. The social media lab for arts organizations is a combination of face-to-face workshops, phone calls, and online support via a wiki and Twitter over several months.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Over the last year, I have had to explain how social media works to diplomats, defense officials, and academics and students focused on fields as diverse as international affairs, management and sociology. Mastering each tool individually seems like a lot of work and a lot of people give up even before they begin.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2009

The debate about what impact the online world has on offline action gets smashed when you look at these numbers and think about the over 12 million people around the world who are raising their consciousness by reading more about climate change and how they can get involved with their local communities. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

Working with cutting-edge websites like epolitics, Future Majority, Change.org, and many others, I plan to share this content with and contribute to as many relevant outlets and individuals as possible. Another change blogger, SocialButterfly has created a Changeblogger wiki where other change bloggers can add their information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

I interviewed Joitske about her work way back in 2006. The adoption of the typewriter, at just the same time that women began to work in offices, reflected changes in women's roles, new ideas about the organization of work, and the rapidly growing corporations of the day. Joitske recommend Learning To Change.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki is designed to be a starting place for organizations just getting started on social media. Read an account of how Canteen , an Australian nonprofit dedicated to supporting teenagers with cancer, used social media to raise awareness for an online and offline campaign. TechSoup Canada.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The wiki is here and they welcome remote participation. Andy Roberts has a good roundup of advice for encouraging participation on wikis, yet another new kind of online community. Lee Romero has posted a nice guide to using wikis to support his Idealist group's work. FLOSS Usability Sprint is taking place this weekend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

In the nonprofit sector, many people work long, hard hours on behalf of larger movement. Alexandra closes her post with some great questions: What did you do today that moved your work, your organization or your personal practice forward? She shares are learnings and her passion about her work. She is going to Ghana in November.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

More than one third of Packard Foundation’s grantees are networks and many more get their work done through networks. But over the past two years, the program has expanded its work to include a focus on how grantees can improve the strength and use of these networks. . His work was recently profiled in this New York Times piece.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

I had already been working on the social media tools wiki so we could offer our supporters a bunch of easy ways to help online. That's why I'm making the wiki full of tools - so it'll be super easy for anyone to do this to support victims of disaster. That was useful considering our time crunch.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I know a lot of the free site tools, wikis like wetpaint.com, keep trying to move to become more social, and let the audience/membership interact more – that is definitely related. We worked with Ianncomm for the Drupal development and Frazny for the Salesforce work. Integrating online and offline communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

Joitske Hulsebosch, who lives and works in Netherlands, writes a blog called " Communities of practice for development " where she writes about topics related to her work of facilitating processes at different levels; teams, groups, organizations, networks, and communities of practice. t have a clue. t have a clue."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Working Wikily: The Power of the Newbie.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. The Core are people who do most of the work (think wikipedia editors.) Do you know anyone who's working specifically to draw attention to the "holes" in our networks?

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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. Or, you may need to get one that can work for many kinds of groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

I was networking weaving between the offline/online. It was like very primitive version of wiki collaborative organizing. Rapid prototyping while working towards perfection. answers from a chat room or wait a day and get a response to your question posted in an online forum. It was before the commercial web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

She notes, "It doesn't specifically talk about open content, but discusses online and offline content income models in depth, with numbers." Peter Campbell equates Buying Software To Buying A House , a great metaphor, inbetween working on site redesign for the NPTech Community site. You've got to love their logo.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

More important to me is how they talk about the way that they work. Technology is not a panacea for the hard work of developing relationships face-to-face. JO: In Momentum , you claim that online organizing will never take the place of offline organizing. How can offline and online approaches coexist?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

It worked for me because of the clock technique we often use to facilitate conference calls. Using a chat room to collectively take notes, or a wiki to evolve the agenda and take notes during a meeting. We try and duplicate offline experiences (be they useful or not) and not really take advantage of the medium.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

In just 50 minutes Laura Quinn of Idealware , Natalie Foster of the DNC and Rebecca Moore of Google Earth Outreach talked about a ton of great tools to ramp up nonprofits online campaigns ranging from Wikis to Google Earth and Twittter. Or, you may need to get one that can work for many kinds of groups.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

If museums get involved in these online-offline partnerships, we can bring new audiences through our doors, familiarize them with museum-going in a comfortable way, and reap the benefits of their online musings about their real-life experiences. Work with communities that relate to your content and reach desired audiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

One of the very first bloggers I started reading and having conversations with about social media was Alan Levine (aka CogDog Blog ). Over the years, we have supported each other’s professional work and personal fundraisers before ever meeting in person. I’ll look forward to read any reflections from Alan on how this worked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

You're testing different social media tactics and learning what works. And while surveys, focus groups and other services can give you an analysis of what your current audience is doing online, direct observation is works best. Is there an “offline” marketing push that you need to support/connect? by Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

This is one of several powerpoint presentations now archived in SlideShare and also included in a NpTech History wiki (anyone can join and contribute.). Traditional offline/online fundraising techniques still, of course, work. Geekcorps Mali works to create and deploy ICT solutions that are sustainable and appropriate for Mali.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

The offline wikipedia, Moulin. Marshall Kirkpatrick, longtime Netsquared blogger, is now working with Splashcast also at DEMO 07 this week. The Network-Centric Advocacy blog says thank you to the Integration Proclamation that might help progressive organizations reach the Holy Grail: getting the technology groups use to work together!

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