NetWits

DECEMBER 21, 2010

As you wind down for 2010, it’s worth having a quick think about what your priorities will be when you next step back into your office. How will you reinvigorate yourself, your work and your organisation in 2011? You need to connect with your online donors as much as you do your with your offline donors.

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NetWits

JULY 12, 2011

Bottom line – nonprofits are having some success in connecting with new constituents and generating action, but the social network works best when requiring a low level of commitment. In 2010, 78% of nonprofits surveyed by NTEN who had raised money on Facebook raised $1K or less in 12 months.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

At the end of 2010, I started having a weekly, 30-minute skype call with my friend Vanessa Rhinesmith. We do not work together. When one organization says they want the software or platform to work differently, it’s a nice feautre request email that may even get a “thank you for the input&# message in response.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

India Social Entrepreneurship Journey, February 2010 Contest - Please support me! I’m so honored by your support and really look forward to a chance at sharing all the work from this network of changemakers with those on this journey! Please support me by voting and commenting here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 16, 2019

Since 2010, their focus has been only hosting WordPress websites. Key benefits of using Flywheel : Managed Caching and Performance – they have very fast servers that handle caching like a pro and Flywheel also works with you to further optimize your site so it jams even faster. 1) WP Engine :: wpengine.com.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2011

From 2009 to 2010, the open rate for organizations of all sizes and sectors declined by 12% on average. Meanwhile, unsubscribe rates held steady from 2009 to 2010. Those unsubscribe numbers don’t indicate that you should stop or change that message, but that you should work to more closely segment your list and target your messages.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Are you working on building or supporting community beyond one geographic region? Or are you looking to move from online community to offline event coordination? Maybe across multiple countries, or even continents. This month’s chat is for you! Really looking forward to it and hope you’ll join me!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Yesterday, I spent most of the day offline at the Wisdom 2.0 The conference was created by Soren Gordhamer in 2010, author of the book, Wisdom 2.0. I attended the first conference in May, 2010 was filled with gratitude to Soren for the amazing experience and opportunity to reflect life and balance in age of social networks.

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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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

This 6-page guide laid out specific steps for using Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, as well as advice for connecting offline events and media opportunities offered during Give to the Max Day. In 2010, we created a targeted Facebook ad with a budget of $250. As in previous years, we assembled a “ social media planning guide.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

In 2010, my three words were Networked, Generosity, and Full of Life. A lot the products of my sense-making are shared through this blog, flickr, YouTube, and Slideshare – as well as offline through presentations, book and article writing, and facilitating workshops. I’ve been doing this for two years now.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

I have always been proud to support WWT both during the telesummit and during the rest of the year with other offline meetups, online content, and more. WWT 2010: Apps and Tools to Energize Your Base. View more presentations from womenwhotech. My slides covered the tools and apps for the back stage side of energizing your community.

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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. The 10NTC will be April 8-10, 2010, in Atlanta, GA - mark your calendars now!

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

This year the staff at TechSoup has submitted 22 session proposals inspired by our work with the many nonprofit organizations we serve and that we believe will help you fulfill your mission. New Collaboration and Connection Tools in Office 2010 Your Org Will Dig. Online and Offline Community Organizing. Mixing It Up!

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

At the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference I attended a group discussion breakfast about personal vs. professional branding. 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. While I was with WWD, I worked with Anne Zelenka on her book, Connect!

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

At the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference I attended a group discussion breakfast about personal vs. professional branding. 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. I loved that idea. once which was a trip.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

Connect2Compete (C2C) is a project to supply low-cost broadband Internet, low-cost computers, and free training to as many as 100 million "offline" Americans. People like Stan Pokras of Nonprofit Technology Resources have been working in this field for as long as I can remember (which is a long time). in Philadelphia.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

In the fall of 2010, America was horrified by the tragic actions of gay young people who took their lives after suffering prolonged bullying and harassment. They may even talk about your site offline, sharing without a button. It Gets Better. Ryan Davis is Director of Social Media Strategy at Blue State Digital.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Jumo helps connects people with issues and organizations on the first rung of the ladder of engagement, but the challenge will be how to cultivate relationships to bring people up that ladder to higher levels of engagement and involvement – from following and connecting to making donations to making change offline.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010? We're asking them all to share their answers to five very important questions.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2012

— a number that grew by 10 percent between 2010 and 2011. which means "enough," began online and moved offline to solidify a movement to create a better Bosnia and Herzegovina. Does Facebook Work for Fundraising? Social media adoption continues to grow and technology becomes more accessible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 11-15, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. In order to do this, they need to work with free agents, hyper-connected individuals who are passionate about social change, but don’t work within institutional walls. What works?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 27, 2011

A couple of weeks ago I shared some insights on integrating online and offline fundraising channels for strong results. In 2009 Volunteers of America looked to get more out of their online fundraising program by tapping into the power of integrated online and offline fundraising. Online revenue from 2009 to 2010 increased 148%.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

Getting Attention talks about boosting blog coverage – it can have good offline benefits for your organization. I’m working on a screencast about how one might use some of these low cost or free tools to build community around a blog. David Maister asks " What do consultants know?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

We worked with Ianncomm for the Drupal development and Frazny for the Salesforce work. It’s definitely been a lot of work for both the developers and us as a client, but we’re pretty happy with the result so far. We’re working with them to bridge another free open source CMS platform Joomla to it.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

—– Over on the NetSquared platform right now we are in the midst of the 2010 FACT Social Justice Challenge. Has your organization run a competition online or offline? Have you found any of the tips above to be helpful in your work? I’m honored to have a guest post up on Care2′s Frogloop blog today!

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 12, 2011

My 5 takeaways were: Checking email, Twitter and Facebook constantly can be "insecurity work.". What needs are you trying to fulfill for yourself online that could be better met offline? You can serve more people if you are fueling your work with funds. Morra of Women and Work. Connecting with friends. and many more!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Claire Williams Diaz who works on social innovation at Twitter. After the nonprofit Ignite Panel at Blackbaud’s conference 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. You’ll hear from the below folks in this hour long session …. Check out the video.

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NTEN

JUNE 19, 2014

Emily Yu of the Case Foundation served as the emcee and interviewer as three social entrepreneurs presented quick pitches about their work and tech products. Each had products in development; they decided to work together rather than compete in the same space. Premise: Anyone can create a named scholarship on behalf of a loved one.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Despite the facts and the data, organizations small and large that are spending huge amounts on direct mail and telemarketing are reluctant to move spending to the online channel — even when the data clearly shows that integrating online with offline campaigns makes the overall program more successful.

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2010

Since the release of the 2010 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , we know many of you have been hard at work looking at how your programs measure up against industry benchmarks. Of course, if you can use custom URLs with source codes – such as Google Analytics codes – to distinguish where users are coming from, that will work too!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

For this conversation, and those to have over the course of the next two days together at least, let’s work from the place that a movement is larger than coalitions. In the most simple terms, a movement is when organizations work with, and not for, the community. A year later, in 2010, it was even bigger. org before?

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Our community was very active, serving some 20,000 regular visitors and about 14,000 subscribers to our email list, and offline events complemented online activities well. re more willing to give online strategies a try, and we're willing to be creative about how to integrate professional networking tools into our daily work.

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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 ://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/world/americas/21text.html?_r=

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? How #CommBuild works Each week whoever wants to participate comes to Twitter, searches for the hashtag #CommBuild, and finds a conversation about topics tied to community management.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 24, 2010

How are we going to thank our donors for giving to us in 2010? Review & analyze campaigns from years past - What worked and what didn't? Decide what methods you will use both online and offline - mobile, direct mail, email, social media etc. Scope work with vendors 3. Finalize offline materials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

They raise funds and awareness in the United States for the lifesaving work that more than 6,000 staffers of Geneva-based UNHCR undertake for refugees around the world, 24/7. million refugees worldwide, this is pretty important work… and did I mention lifesaving? Given that there are more than 43.3 Why important?

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