Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

This evening, Joe Solomon pointed out a great example that touches on data, social media, 3rd party platforms, and being proactive with getting your supporters connected directly with your organization – all things we’ve touched on in the conversations about Causes and ideablob! That example?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

The word most in question: “organization&#. When applying the idea of the traditional understandings of the word “organization&# to this bunch, we could say: Strawberries = the organization (staff). Blueberries = the members/supporters/community. Let’s use this beautiful picture of fruit as an example.

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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. And it has real impact on the way organizations fundraise. That’s not exactly the way business normally goes down offline.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2013

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. And to ensure that you do have a strong community of supporters, you need to make supporting your mission fun, valuable, and easy.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

There are so many tools out there and so many different options pulling us in so many directions that I’ve found many organizations, especially very small organizers, can feel like they are getting tied up in knots. Track your organization and your cause. Create a shared tracking space for your team or whole organization.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 5, 2013

It’s your chance to have direct conversations with supporters, fans, and donors – conversations that happen in public so many more people can learn about and engage with you. How does this support online fundraising? You will start to see certain people and organizations rise to the top.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 18, 2011

This time around, my topic was Crowdsourcing vs Community-Sourcing, answering questions about the difference is and what the opportunities are for organizations looking to get connected outside their organization. It isn’t right for every project or process and is often not right for every organization. Definitions.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 6, 2010

I have followed the development of Social Actions over the last few years and really believe in the work that Peter, Christine and the community have done to shape a collaborative, open tool that benefits so many people and organizations in all kinds of ways. Learn more and support this work! Add a minimum of three (hopefully more!)

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Lauren Cochrane has a great post today with ideas for lists organizations could create with Twitter’s new List function. Lauren outlines 7 Lists that organizations may find useful, including: Your organisation’s chapters and campaigns. Would love to hear if you have other ideas about using Lists for organizations.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2012

While there are many, many organizations working on water-related issues all around the world, there’s one I want to highlight: Water for People. Many organizations are working to find ways to show donors and supporters how their participation is transforming beneficiaries directly and as quickly as possible. Read More.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

The real-time web has also revolutionized the way we support local communities in disaster. Their Tweetsgiving campaigns were fundraisers benefiting Mama Lucy’s school in Tanzania and connected the students to their supporters through Twitter. They don’t necessarily think they need an organization in order to make an impact.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

The 2013 NTEN Challenge will raise $50,000 to support expanded programs and continued accessibility for a diverse set of organizations in 2014. Learn more about why Beth is supporting Giving Tuesday and RSVP to join the online chat on her blog. Sign your organization up for Giving Tuesday.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Lauren Cochrane has a great post today with ideas for lists organizations could create with Twitter’s new List function. Lauren outlines 7 Lists that organizations may find useful, including: Your organisation’s chapters and campaigns. Would love to hear if you have other ideas about using Lists for organizations.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

What that translates to is that a movement is built on collaboration, incorporates co-design between individuals and organizations, and remains focused, even during an event or campaign, on lasting, real impact. In the most simple terms, a movement is when organizations work with, and not for, the community. What’s our role?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 4, 2012

For many organizations, we provide guidance or goals for using social channels to our staff, but this session was for the volunteers who want to make a difference from outside of the organization. And the content – is that a platform or application that supports that kind of content? Creating Great Content. What do you think?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2011

I’ve been following the work of Rob and his team closely as they have shown not just interest, but passion and intent for engaging with the community at large to create a tool that meets the needs of nonprofit organizations and keeps us involved in making the tool better and better. What drove you to start CauseVox?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 14, 2012

It started at midnight on the Pacific, when over 200 nonprofits flipped the switch and started racing to see which of them will be one of the three organizations to raise the most donations and win a share of $30,000. Their goal is to help supporters understand and memorize the simple call-to-action: donate to us on June 14 th.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 28, 2012

Here’s an example of a Senator showing his support for veterans through participation in the #gosilent pledge: Tracking silence. IAVA didn’t confine their own use of social tools to Facebook and Twitter, as their supporters would be using other tools, too.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

As a community organizer and network weaver myself, I am incredibly excited by the #OccupyWallStreet movement that started in New York just over three months ago now (on September 17th) in response to a failing federal economy and political process that impact local, national, and international markets. How To: Use Tech to Organize Today.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 6, 2012

Jeff Widman suggests, and I agree, that a major contributing factor is that Page owners/organizations can no longer set a custom tab as the default landing content for new visitors, instead of the Wall. You can see a larger version of the graphic here.).

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 1, 2012

Seen as a success for the participating nonprofits, the organizers wanted to know more about what worked and whether giving days as a form of regional nonprofit development could be a new trend for the sector. Just as organizations (usually!)

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 31, 2012

That’s right, a widely recognized nonprofit organization has created a parody so that it can propagate a meme. Why would an organization even consider participating in something like this? Everyone involved in an organization and everyone online is, actually, human, and fun is a good thing. Why meme at all?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

What’s the point in using “global” tools (social media) for local organizing? From @amoration: I find we’re always both global & local, so many of us travel frequently that virtual organizing tools are essential even for “local&# endeavors. — so it’s good to play to that advantage.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 7, 2012

with the mission of the organization. Your board has to know the mission, and keep it in mind in their role forming the strategic vision of the organization. This is a great concept and one I often see organization willing to internalize, but not for fundraising. You have to start inside the organization.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

This event focuses on Causes , an application for supporting and fundraising for organizations by individuals, groups and even the organizations themselves. It also skews the idea that organizations can focus energy where their communities already are. First, let me explain what happened yesterday. Looking Ahead.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

This event focuses on Causes , an application for supporting and fundraising for organizations by individuals, groups and even the organizations themselves. It also skews the idea that organizations can focus energy where their communities already are. First, let me explain what happened yesterday. Looking Ahead.

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Myspace Technology Causes Application 158

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Did your organization create impactful videos in 2011? Do you want your organization to be recognized for making great videos and maybe win some incredible prizes? For nonprofits, video is a great way to share your mission, get out a message, and tell the stories of the people and issues you support. Are you a nonprofit?

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 2, 2010

" Engagement Ladders: Building Supporter Power – Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media – frogloop – "We, as social change organizations, exist to enable the power of our supporters. It is the power of our supporters, collective or individual, that we are trying to enable. Direct service?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 11, 2010

Let’s start at the beginning… A recent conversation sparked on the Ars Technica blog focused on the use of push-notifications by the This American Life application on iPhones – the pop-up messages asked users to make a donation to the program as, it is, like other public radio/media, listener supported.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

As Mashable reports, “Jumo was designed to let users find, follow and support the causes important to them, and with 3,500 organizations on board at launch, would-be philanthropists should be able to find and follow something of interest upon joining. As you may have heard , Jumo is now open in beta. What is Jumo? Transparency.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 29, 2010

There’s been quite a lot of talk in the last year about the opportunities for fundraising online, generally, as well as the best practices for organizations leveraging social media for campaigns (as well as the idea to use free tools to raise money in hard economic times). You may not know them, and you may have never heard of them.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

There are definitely times when community building and even campaigning or organizing feels just like that! But, operating as a community organizer or manager is such a filling and critical role for programs, platforms and even campaigns to be successful that the idea of herding cats turns into searching youtube for cutest kitten videos.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2012

This year, I thought about my options, and decided to try something a bit different: giving gifts that support others. Supporting local businesses. Supporting real crafters. Supporting real impact. I know I said that I’ve taken my turn a few times with DIY projects, but I’m just a casual crafter.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2009

The benchmark data is derived from the activity of over 2 million supporters from 50 campaigning organisations in the UK, Canada, and several other countries. I also referenced the report in my latest presentation slides about social media use by individuals in nonprofit organizations.). This is bad news!

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 11, 2011

—– Have you thought about running a contest or crowdsourcing ideas for your organization or community group? There are many ways you could approach crowdsourcing, but the value of such a tactic usually focuses on these three components: Expose your organization, campaign, program, etc. iStart and options for nonprofits.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 20, 2012

Contest Sponsor Cisco , will be awarding $3,500 in prizes and up to $3,500 in products to the winner of each category, and the Case Foundation is awarding one $2,500 grants to the four organizations with the most fearless videos submitted to this year’s contest. The medium educates, inspires and moves people to action.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

Circles are how you organize your contacts. But it allowed for some really organic networking across the platform with functionality that Facebook later dissolved. I tried setting up an account on Google+ with that email but I was given an error message that said they do not support the additional domains yet.

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