Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

Amy Sample Ward , a major player in the nonprofit technology blogosphere, has been named Connec+ipedian of the Year , an innovative example of nonprofits working wikily and that Amy helped design and launch. Amy is about to move from the West Coast to London - yet she still found the time to volunteer as a editor for the WeAreMedia project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Submitted by Amy Sample Ward, publisher of Amy Sample Ward’s Version of NPTech Hildy Gottlieb’s new book The Pollyanna Principles is a handbook for starting a revolution in social benefit organization design and practice, but it isn’t the revolution. What’s the catch? I’d love to hear your ideas!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2022

Sample messages : The Smart Nonprofit by Beth Kanter and Allison Fine gives readers everything they need to know to leverage AI and other automated technology to its fullest (and safest) potential to enable nonprofit leaders to do what they do best: impact the world. Here are some messages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Amy Sample Ward put the Global Giving Widget on her Facebook profile. It brings up the issue of capacity which translates to time commitment. All that to day I'm behind two or three days with saying thank you to a couple of friends for helping out with the America's Giving Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

3 at 9 am on my LinkedIn Influencer blog for a chat with NTEN CEO Amy Sample Ward where we will discuss collective philanthropy and why you should donate to the NTEN Challenge. Hopefully, it will only be my turkey that is tweeting on Thursday ! And don’t forget to join me on Dec. How are you giving thanks? Housekeeping'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The survey fundings are based on a sample nonprofit CEOs whose organizations are receiving funding from foundations giving at least $5 million annually in grants called the “Nonprofit Voice,” with 170 respondents answering the questions on this survey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

After each presentation, one of the “responders” other experts in the field including Amy Sample Ward (see her write up ), Mark Horvath, and David Neff offered their insights in two minutes about the topic. ” @ brianreich #sxsw #npsmpeer #nptech — Amy Sample Ward (@amyrsward) March 10, 2013.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Here’s just a sampling of what you’ll find: How to Make the Case to Invest in Story. As you build your storytelling profile, Hatch will suggest tools, case studies and resources customized to your needs. These recommendations will always be saved to your profile so you can access them later. Taming the Measurement Monster.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Meanwhile, I queried my nonprofit tech geek friends like Amy Sample Ward who said the Droid X rocks. If you think they should reconsider changing their policy, sign this online petition. Meanwhile, I’m going to shopping for a phone with a Android operating system.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2015

Other esteemed contributors include: Jayne Cravens, Aria Finger, Holly Ross, Amy Sample Ward, Joe Waters, Scott Henderson, Meg Garlinghouse, Robert Eggers, and Greg Baldwin. Distilling the latest research and insight from industry leaders, Volunteer Engagement 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2013

Our book was one of four finalists, including colleague Allyson Kapin and Amy Sample Ward’s awesome book, “Social Change Anytime, Anywhere.” ” This book would not have been possible with going through a wonderful collaboration for my first book, “The Networked Nonprofit” with Alison Fine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2012

Amy Sample Ward did a hilarious “who is the room” with asking those who had attended their first NTC ten years ago to raise their (Friendsters) and to shake hands with people who are first-timers (pinterest). Holly Ross welcomed everyone and thanked the event sponsors who made it possible for 50 NTC Scholarships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

The authors include two dear friends and colleagues, David Wilcox and Amy Sample Ward. It makes accessible the tools you need to engage a community, offer services, scale up activities and sustain projects. Whoever you are, it shows you how to take technology and turn it into real world benefits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2010

The panelists include Amy Sample Ward, Holly Ross, David Neff, and Kari Dunn Saratovsky. I'm moderating a panel at SXSWi called " Crowdsourcing Innovative Social Change." Everywhere you turn, you're hearing about social media. Especially when it comes to fundraising. We know that social media is good for a lot more than raising money.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Amy Sample Ward from NTEN invited me to participate in an online webinar with other NTEN community champions to talk about GivingTuesday efforts. The Giving Tuesday Movement has helped mobilize many to participate both small and large.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2012

Once the blog carnival went live, we provided sample tweets and Facebook updates about the blog carnival to our bloggers and partners and encouraged everyone in the coalition to share the links with their networks. We also sent individual thank you e-mails to our bloggers, and included sample tweets and Facebook posts they could share.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Here is a Sample Six-Month Planning Timeline to help you get started. This Sample Budget Template provides a more detailed expense breakdown and can be used to start your Giving Day budget. None of this can be done effectively without systematic planning upfront – and that takes time. How much staff time is involved?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Join me for a chat on #GivingTuesday, TODAY December 3 at 9:00 am PST with NTEN CEO, Amy Sample Ward. NTEN nurtures and supports a vast community of folks who are passionate about nonprofit technology and social good causes and want to learn from each other. So, please join me today and help me support NTEN on #GivingTuesday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

I'm also tagging Amy Sample Ward , Nina Simon , Britt Bravo and Allison Fine who can point us to some of their posts on this topic or even share some current thoughts. What are the best emerging examples and early lessons learned? I'm really curious what you think? You can add your ideas or pointers to resources here on the WeAreMedia wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2010

And little did I know that Amy Sample Ward and Stacey Monk were planning one hell of a surprise party! For now, enjoy Amy Sample Ward's reflection on crowdsourcing a surprise party ! One of things I've learned about social media and doing fundraising for causes is that you will be surprised! But it is late, and time for bed!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

Today, NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward shared this fabulous video on Facebook. Today, NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward shared this fabulous video on Facebook. How is your nonprofit using data and measurement to make effective decisions about networked approaches and social media?

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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. 6 Specific Challenges Online Fundraisers Should Consider When Using Facebook by John Haydon, Author of Facebook Marketing for Dummies and blogger at www.johnhaydon.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

Here’s a sampling of just a few: How do you create ideas that the crowd embraces, makes stronger, and spreads? It encompass mindset and ways of working which can be used to exercise new power despite whatever platform or tool is available to us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

Here’s a sampling: Our organization does advocacy around some policy issues. Here’s a sampling: Our organization does advocacy around some policy issues. How do the rules on lobbying play into our social media strategy? What if we’re asking people to take action on Facebook, does that constitute lobbying?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2011

Amy Sample Ward, NTEN. Hashtags and Non-Profit Community Development. Devon Smith. Under the Social Good Hood. Susan Gordon, Causes and Robert Rosenthal, VolunteerMatch. Social Media Boundaries: Personal/Personnel Policy. When Social Good Goes bad. Chad Norman, Blackbaud. Positively Inspired Change Campaigns. Stacey Monk and Tom Dawkins.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2012

What resonated with the crowd (based on a quick sample of tweets), was the idea of using a failfest to share what didn’t work and look at ways to improve results. At e-metrics, I shared a story about DoSomething.Org’s recent “Text Pregnancy Campaign ” for teens and how they used measurement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

As well as friends and colleagues: Anne Mai Bertelsen Anne Quinn Ulseth Wendy Harman Amy Sample Ward Michael Hoffman Farra Trompeter Stephanie McAuliffe Sandy Lopacki David Krumlauf Spencer Brodsky Sandra Sutton Andrews Judith Sol-Dyess Marianne Richmond Mark Horvath Catrina Joy Roallos Korey Lee . . Thank you for donating!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

While it wasn’t my campaign, I participated in the “ TakeBackthePink ” to understand the lessons of self-organizing, free agent activists along with Allison Fine , Amy Sample Ward , Stephanie Rudat , Lucy Bernholz , Tom Watson , and Lisa Colton.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2013

How To Implement Multichannel Online Campaigns - Amy Sample Ward and Allyson Kapin. Keynote by Dan Pallotta. April 12 – 10:30 – Noon. Using Data to Measure Your Mission – Laura Quinn. April 12- 3:30-5:00 pm. Two very good sessions scheduled at the same time. April 13 – 1:30-3:00. NpTech Fail.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2010

For example, Amy Sample Ward highly recommended the Droid X on Verizon. I have until December 27th to terminate my contract, select a more nonprofit friendly phone, and toss my iPhone. I queried my friends on Facebook and Twitter and to my surprise, I learned that many of my nonprofit techie friends are Android fans!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Amy Sample Ward. They also implemented a bloggers outreach campaign to do a product giveaway. They asked me to participate along with several colleagues. Fine Blog . My Dirty Life & Times. Katya's Non-Profit Marketing Blog. Here's my contest. Leave a comment sharing your "Theory of Change".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Late last night (or early this morning), Amy Sample Ward reported that Causes notified 184,725 users that its MySpace app will be removed from MySpace as of today. Photo by Billie Hara. The email encouraged MySpace users of Causes to join the cause on Facebook. . One wonders what the motivation was ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2008

Earlier this week, the WeAreMedia project we had an amazing phone call with some of the really smart people who are contributing the wiki (Michelle Murrain, Jocelyn Harmon, John Kenyon, Ben Sheldon, Ruby Sinreich, Amy Sample Ward, Sheetal Singh, and Katya Andersen). Amy Sample Ward has already volunteered for one of the modules.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2010

His post sparked a community plea to Ning to keep its service free for grassroots nonprofits and community groups and Amy Sample Ward also wrote about it. so that the nonprofit groups that have been increasingly adopting Ning (while possibly buried in the long tail) will not be left to fend for themselves. Start a Petition ».

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2009

Amy Sample Ward shared a collection of links recently pointing to my post about silo culture. Steve MacLaughlin, No Constituent Is An Island Amy Sample Ward, Moving Away from Organizations To What? In a follow up email, she asked what might be different about the adoption issues for social media?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2010

Donors: Thank you for making a difference in the lives of Cambodian children Cathryn Hrudicka Stacey Beatrice Lucy Monk Brian Reich Elke Sisco Dan Michel Stephen Sherlock Scott Henderson William McClellan III Chris Noble Anne Mai Bertelsen Anne Quinn Ulseth Wendy Harman Amy Sample Ward Michael Hoffman Farra Trompeter Stephanie McAuliffe Sandy Lopacki (..)

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