Amy Sample Ward

JULY 21, 2010

Lastly, there are lots of 1-time or regular events that surface ideas and case studies and generate content that could be really useful to pull in or capture. Tags: case studies resources casestudy community communitybuilding ctt howto strategy tsg. But what is missing from everything that exists?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 27, 2011

A Few Words of Caution: Small to medium-sized nonprofits should take Facebook case studies and best practices based on the success of large nationally and internationally well-known nonprofits (with huge email lists and multiple communications and development staff) with a heavy dose of skepticism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2009

Twitter has been used during the G20 protests , election monitoring and crowd-sourcing the location of a torch when it was passing through San Francisco. The recently published The DigiActive Guide to Twitter for Activism (Click here to download the PDF version) offers some mini-case studies organized by objective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2009

I was also reminded by one very smart colleague that the Twitter audience card had out-of-date information. In the last few months , Twitter become popular with old people. If you’re under 25 and use Twitter, you’re not the source of the site’s tremendous growth. Twitter is where the stalkers are."

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 19, 2009

You can also connect with Oakland Local on twitter and facebook. Tags: community otherblogs local news socialbysocial. The site offers forums, a directory of 320 local nonprofits and a blog directory of 180 active local bloggers! Getting Local. There’s a lot of very cool activity happening lately around local websites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

tags: blogging nptech ).   In that post, he describes one technique - make yourself a public case study.    So, in that spirit,  I'm sharing my presentation from last week which is a case study of my blogging ROI.  Why Twitter Matters View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

According to our latest research study on giving trends during a time of social distancing , peer-to-peer and virtual fundraising strategies reach more donors, engage diverse segments of the population, and create vast potential to tap into new donor bases online. . On Instagram alone, the average person has approximately 150 followers.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Recent evidence from the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) indicates that grantmakers are asking the same questions with slight differences across funders, wasting a significant amount of a nonprofit's time during the application process. Organization Social Media (Facebook page, Instagram page, Twitter page, etc.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2010

How networked nonprofits use twitter. Last week, I parachuted into BlogWorld 2010 in Las Vegas for less than 24 hours. I presented on two panels (How Nonprofits Use Twitter and CrowdSourced Philanthropy) in the Cause Track curated by Chris Noble and the good folks at WhatGives. How Networked Nonprofits Use Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

The good folks at Care2 (Heather Holdridge, Justin Perkins, and James O'Malley) have a detailed case study on the NTEN blog about the top Facebook winner of the recent Case Foundation America's Giving Challenge. Nate Ritter gives a brilliant example of how Twitter could help save the lives of missing children.

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NCE Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2010

A new study by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research also found that 97% of large charities have a Facebook page as of 2009. The study found that charities adopted social media faster and the adoption was more widespread than for-profit use. Tags: Research facebook socialmedia statistics.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2009

Sifry , the co-founder of Personal Democracy Forum, took a closer look at ROI for Facebook apps in his piece last week Facebook Haggadah: A Case Study in Viral ROI (Is This App Different From All Other Apps?) Soon it was being retweeted all over Twitter , and for good reason. Tags: otherblogs roi facebook metrics.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 3, 2010

The January #4Change Twitter Chat will focus on the use of Twitter and other social media tools in campaigning. Share your ideas now: You can share your ideas about the topic as well as any resources, case studies, examples, research etc. Jump in to the conversation by adding #4Change to your Twitter message.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2008

tags: information socialmedia ). Social Media tools such as wikis, social networking sites like Twitter, FriendFeed, using Tagging and RSS feeds can enable organisations of all sizes to best use and build on its existing collective wisdom and innovation. . tags: km laurawhitehead ). tags: nonprofits socialmedia ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2009

Youth Haven't Adopted Twitter in Drives. On Sunday, if you were tuning into Twitter you might have noticed the TWTRCON tag trending. The tweets were from a business conference focused on Twitter. Some Twitter Tidbits plucked from the TWTRCON stream (and beyond). Pistachio : Twitter is: Newspapers in a Blender.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

(Not sure if this matches demographic studies of RSS users or not because this group was under 18) They were aware of tagging, but in the sense of how it is used on Facebook - to tag your friends in photographs or notes, etc. None of them had heard of Twitter, let alone used it. Maybe Twitter isn???t he said. ???The

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Forum One

JUNE 1, 2009

This Wednesday I'll be a guest presenter in a two-hour Twitter-based discussion of environmental issues and social entrepreneurship. This follows on three recent press events with newspapers, radio and bloggers on similar topics, so it will be interesting to compare the Twitter results and my experience from these different media channels.

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Wild Apricot

AUGUST 2, 2010

Carol’s been studying Idealware’s Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide – the latest in a line of Idealware’s terrific research-based publications – and she’s kindly agreed to share her top “take-aways” from this new publication.( Wild Apricot Blog welcomes a special guest today: Carol Buckheit of NonprofitMediaWorks. read more ).

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 29, 2010

Christopher Fabian has a great blog post up on the MobileActive blog about the way the #1MillionShirts idea emerged and grew via social media, especially Twitter, this week. Tags: case studies events 1millionshirts development international mobileactive twitter. You can read the full blog post here.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2010

And then there’s the role that Facebook and Twitter are playing. Of course, we don’t just want to talk about Haiti — we want to highlight some amazing work from around the sector, while also building a nice little library of case studies we can all learn from. Submit your Social Media for Social Good story today!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 3, 2010

What are your favorite examples or case studies where this is really working? If you want to contribute to the conversation, you’ll need to have a twitter account (it’s free). To follow the conversation (whether you are planning to contribute or not), use [link] or another application to search on Twitter for #4Change.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

She leads social innovation, philanthropy, and causes at Twitter and Blogs at Claire.us.com. After our panel I got a few minutes to talk to Claire about her work at Twitter and how non-profits can use the information network for good. Looking to get more out of Twitter? Check out the video. Watch the Video from #bbcon.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Twitter has a mobile website ( m.twitter.com ) and its own official Twitter App for iPhone, iPhone Touch and iPad. Twitter Apps for Android and Blackberry are also available. TwitPic.com allows you to easily share photos on Twitter in real-time. Related Links: [STATS] New Study Shows the Mobile Web Will Rule by 2015.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" I followed with a post to our blog , Facebook pages, Twitter and an email blast. on Friday Feb.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). " Twitter tactics – Louder.org.uk See an overview of the findings below." Please add any experiences or thoughts of your own."

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Care2

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

I followed with a post to our blog , Facebook pages, Twitter and an email blast. girlsincchatt ) and I ( @adrienneroyer ) are active on Twitter so we sent regular tweets about it. Between our personal Twitter accounts, @chattarati and @girlsincchatt , everyone in the Chattanooga corner of the twitterverse knew about First Friday Five.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 10, 2010

years, I have been providing lots of little tips on how nonprofits can increase their ROI through my Twitter , Facebook , YouTube , and MySpace Best Practices, but now that the vast majority of nonprofits utilize social media and have been for awhile, I think most of us are ready some more advanced strategies. For the last 4.5 Be creative.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

If you want to contribute to the conversation, you’ll need to have a Twitter account (it’s free). To follow the conversation (whether you are planning to contribute or not), use [link] or another application to search on Twitter for “#4Change”. Jump in to the conversation by adding “#4Change” (without the “”) to your Twitter message.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

If you want to contribute to the conversation, you’ll need to have a Twitter account (it’s free). To follow the conversation (whether you are planning to contribute or not), use [link] or another application to search on Twitter for “#4Change”. Jump in to the conversation by adding “#4Change” (without the “”) to your Twitter message.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2012

Ag Grantees Twitter Webinar. As a trainer, I strongly believe that learning experiences need to weave content delivery with participant interaction. Also, it is far more effective to have peers share their own case studies and experiential learning with others. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

I’m really interested in what happens next, and not just because I am part of the team but also because I think we can be a case study in ourselves of the changing landscape and processes of online collaboration. has twitter integration, 3. I plan to continue exploring the best options for these chats, and welcome your feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2010

I asked the above question on Twitter after reading what Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg said at the Nielsen’s Con­sumer 360 con­fer­ence. Tags: Research Studies. Chris Wells Created This Tombstone for Email. If you read only that, then you might think email is on life support. (A What you think?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

During the US Thanksgiving holiday, Tweetsgiving asked people around the world to use Twitter to share something they were grateful for and include the link to the Tweetsgiving site (where people could donate to help build a library, classroom and more for the benefiting school in Tanzania).

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 25, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Some of this applies to twitter as well. Saying thank you Twitter is easy with a retweet. Blogger Outreach: New Study Attempts to Define Success by Kami Huyse. Tags: relationships. Say thank you: If the blogger writes about your organization or project, it is a nice touch to say thank. Make it easy. Are Bloggers Media?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The Social by Social book has How-Tos, Case studies, Jargon Buster and much more : [link]. If you want to explore Twitter chats , I suggest checking out what various hashtags mean and use this list for a directory of chats: [link]. Tags: presentation resources enterprise small business social media webinar.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

." Non-profit’s Twitter Interview Questions | twitter-interviews | interviews TechnicaVita Social Media Advice - Does your organization use Twitter? John Carnell, from BullyingUK or @johncarnell on Twitter, is helping organizations share their twitter experiences with each other in this interview series.

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