Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

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). We learned so much while running that campaign, but we also made lots of mis-steps along the way. " Is email going out with 2011?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2011

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). the nation’s first film festival for nonprofits and cause advocates, is officially accepting entries for the 2011 festival.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The online protest event was organized by the DC area based advocacy nonprofit, Demand Progress. The centerpiece of the campaign is Safer Internet Day that kicked things off on February 11 th , the same day as The Day We Fight Back. Microsoft has run the campaign since 2011, but it seems to have deeper resonance this year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Note from Beth: I’m planning a year-end campaign for one of my favorite charities and wanted some good tips on incorporating video. Adding video to your end-of-year online campaigns can help you achieve, and even exceed, your year-end fundraising goals. How big is video online? Why is 2011 even more important?

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2013

Next Thursday, we''re holding a webinar that will dive into the key findings from the 2013 Blackbaud Online Marketing Benchmark Study – to indicate where your organization''s performance stacks up in relation to your peers, as well as what you can be doing better to speed your journey to online success. How Do You Measure Up?

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NTEN

JULY 2, 2010

Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . It's a helpful compilation about online tools for. American Cancer Society. We're looking forward to many more events in DC in the fall, and leading up to the 2011 NTC !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2011

I’m at the Innogive 2011 Conference today. What is the key to a viral campaign which combines these outreach tools. In this case, we were talking about how to integrate the use of mobile technology into multi-channel campaigns with an emphasis on social. Text Poll App from MobileCause. The focus is on Mobile Giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Why GoFundMe is a Fundraising Game-Changer: While the GoFundMe platform can be used to raise money for any cause – like funding a vacation – charitable causes are some of the most successful campaigns on the site. Three years later, GoFundMe is still riding the wave of social good, online payments and social networks.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

According to the 2011 Millennial Donors survey, 65% of people surveyed want to find guides on charity websites on how their support could make a difference and 52% want to learn about volunteer opportunities. As Twestival founder Amanda Rose told us, $264,000 wasn't raised in one day by them on Twitter.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 20, 2012

Mobile strategy : From defining goals, to designing for mobile, to developing and executing campaigns, to measuring results, a growing number of digital strategy consultants can be your partner in effectively using the mobile channel. For example, Humane Society saw that number grow from 7 percent to 16 percent during 2011.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2012

We provide resources to effectively share information about the ways that causes can use the platform to engage with supporters — for example, we produce best practice guides and Facebook live talks that we make available online at our Nonprofit Resource Center. In 2010, 35 year-old Gabe Canales was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

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NetWits

OCTOBER 18, 2011

The most followers that an organization has on Twitter is 840,653 (PBS)…but on the other hand, the organization following the most people is following 200,522 (The American Cancer Society)! My one question for you … Does social media improve fundraising online or offline in any way?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 1, 2015

Be sure to give the 2013 , 2012 , and 2011 reviews a look too. We know from other Blackbaud research that most online donations happen between 11am ET and 2pm ET. The rest of the message and the entire year-end email campaign from Oxfam America were all well done. Subject lines are just one aspect of a successful email campaign.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 1, 2014

This is the 2013 edition of my annual review of year-end email subject lines that started in 2011 and continued in 2012. Online giving was at its highest between 11am ET and 1pm ET in December. The best email campaigns of December had a mix of the right ingredients. Help cancer survivors like me. Email by Hour.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

Back in 2011, I started collecting all the emails that nonprofits sent me during the month of December and reviewed what was in my inbox. Be sure to check out 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , and 2011 too. Perhaps nonprofits have listened to my advice over the years to time their email campaigns when the most giving happens.

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