Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 16, 2018

The reality is that nonprofits must keep up with changing donor expectations or they will be left behind… along with the communities they aim to serve. As we slide toward the end of 2018, there are five broader digital trends that we see affecting non-profits next year. 1) Marketing Automation/Giving Automation. Think Netflix.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

College of Consultants Presentation - Kellogg Action Lab View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Last week I facilitated a workshop at the Kellogg Action Lab's College of Consultants Convening. My slides and other resources are on the wiki. tags: nonprofits socialmedia ).

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NetWits

JULY 16, 2012

Here’s a few ways you could go about communicating these things …. Give parents an idea of the community they’ll be joining. Include calls-to-action just like you might on your website. Most schools (and nonprofits) have a long history of helping the community through impacting the people they serve. Show off your campus.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

If a news story is breaking when you get to work in the morning, and it is related to your mission or your programs, write up a quick two-paragraph summary of or commentary about the breaking news story, add a link to the original source, and then distribute your blog post to your communities. Post Calls to Action.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 4, 2011

Last week I had the huge honor of guest lecturing in Laurel Hart’s class for the masters course in Corporate and Organizational Communications at NYU’s school of continuing studies. I want to share the slides here and especially some of the links and resources. Community & Content. Learning in Action.

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NetWits

JULY 11, 2012

Once you have you page you’ve got to put in the time, effort and creativity to build a vibrant community of engaged fans. Here are a few tips that will help you get started and/or enable you to take your Facebook community to new levels of engagement. Make sure to check out the slides below for a bunch more. Status Updates.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

Apps are a powerful way for everyday people to act for social good, making their lives, and the lives of their communities, stronger. Then you’ll create a short video (up to 90 seconds) or a five-image slide show to enter the challenge and win prizes donated by our sponsors. Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Contest.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

It was much more traffic than I would have ever thought possible, but thanks to the burgeoning “Nonprofit Organizations” communities that I had built on Facebook, Twitter and Myspace, launching a blog was much easier in 2009 than it was when I tried and failed in 2004. Post Calls to Action. received 13,000 visitors.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 4, 2013

A common approach to growing a list is to make the opt-in form more visible, the call to action (CTA) more compelling and the placement perfect, but eventually, even a beautiful form in the right place with the right CTA fails to grow the list as hoped. Action Alerts. After all, they’ve opted into taking some kind of action!

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

It was so much fun and it was an amazing experience to work with people like Chris Worman and meet with so many local nonprofit and community changemakers. The slides are below as well as some notes. In the slides, I highlighted some of the work of 350.org The Local Philanthropy Workshop: Facebook Campaigning in Romania.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

By Beth Singer , Principal at Beth Singer Design, LLC – a design and communications firm specializing in nonprofit organizations to help them fundraise, educate, and promote membership and the mission of their institutions through design solutions. Armed with greater knowledge and ready to take action? There’s a new normal.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In nonprofit storytelling, this could look like adding someone from a marginalized community to a written story or video to give the impression of diversity when the organization hasn’t created a connection with or made an impact in that marginalized community. Show the difference. Give your story a beginning, middle, and end.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

My slides covered the tools and apps for the back stage side of energizing your community. Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. Community Mapping.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 19, 2010

This round-up is a summary of the responses we received from the community and it will hopefully serve to help you re-think the ways that you're targeting your limited audience." Marketing for Nonprofits: Want to Build Community Online? Great slides. " Add your thoughts or blog posts in the comments! Check it out!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Ethan Zuckerman gives a summary of Pros/Cons of facebook Activism , a presentation by Imran Jamal and the Burma Global Action Network. NpTech Slide Decks SlideShare is like YouTube for powerpoint presentations. It also offers groups where members can share slide decks.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2011

—– Whether you are part of a nonprofit organization, an action campaign, a local community, or a school, you know that it is through stories you can showcase your work, change people’s minds, inspire them to make change, or join you to make a difference. or read the entire post copied below.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

NetSquared’s Global Community Builder , Amy Sample Ward, will be at the NTC this year to connect and collaborate with friends, colleagues and new faces in the sector. Come chat with me about online communites, some of the topics of conversation may include: What have been some changes or issues recently with your online community?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Kathy Brennan, Research and Evaluation Advisor, AARP gave primer about developmental evaluation – what it is, how it is applied, how it different from other methods, and why it is useful in evaluating complex systems projects. You can l isten to the video or view her slides here. Before Action Review/ After Action Review.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

It was much more traffic than I would have ever thought possible, but thanks to the burgeoning “Nonprofit Organizations” communities that I had built on Facebook, Twitter and Myspace, launching a blog was much easier in 2009 than it was when I tried and failed in 2004. Post Calls to Action. received 13,000 visitors.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Impact,” by definition, is the action of one object coming forcibly into contact with another. You can use those figures to market and communicate with donors, foundations, other nonprofits and the rest of the community. Communicate what you’re learning. Defining impact. Measuring impact.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Create Community Dialogue. Whether you are asking for feedback, sharing stories, or urging people to take action, providing a place for your community to share back with you shows your openness to feedback and interest in the community. Do you have videos, pictures, or slides? Multimedia Storytelling.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

Get creative in integrating your text-to-subscribe keyword and short code pitch into photos, slide shows, or even your YouTube Channel banner. When you are checking in to places, venues, and spots on location-based communities, add your text-to-subscribe keyword and short code pitch to status updates and shouts. Use Bit.ly

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Nonprofits have a habit of dropping the ball on their call-to-action landing pages. First, they Google your nonprofit—that’s them climbing up the stairs of your slide. As they read your first few pages, they’re sitting on the top of the slide. At this point they are still sitting atop the slide. And no call-to-action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

I am participating in this year's " Connected Futures: New Social Strategies adn Tools for Communities of Practice " a five week online workshop for community managers, designers and conveners to explore social strategies and tools to support their work. Be sure to check out the Technology for Communities wiki too).

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Just want to let you all know that we are recording this session, and we’ll be sending out the slides as well as the recording later on this afternoon. So I know you got some slides to pull up but the floor is yours. So on the next slide, you can see we partner with more than 500 nonprofits annually worldwide.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

Their latest iteration, titled “Radical Impact” will bring together over 25,000 nonprofit professionals across three days and 75+ high-impact sessions to provide them with actionable next steps in their fundraising and marketing efforts. Cost: General admission is free. Cost: 2023 ticket prices have not been released yet.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

TechSoup hosted the San Francisco Online Community Meetup which recently featured Marc A. " Marc is with the Connected Action Group , which uses social methodology to gain insights into patterns of communities. How is this helpful for community managers? Future Online Community Meetups (OCTribe). View Marc A.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

The day of the panel, I published a blog post that shared our slides, wiki, and resources. Knowledge capture makes it easy to share the learning with others in the community, but as a session designer and speaker – you can also use it to do an “ after action ” review to help you review the delivery and the content.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

There were interesting conversations at every turn and I also had requests to share my notes and slides. Below, you can find my full speech and slides, as well as links to address questions and requests from many of those I met with. We thought that there would need to be new tactics for making impact and new calls to action.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

(You can review the page edits here: [link] ) Links to news stories were included as they emerged and the occasional personal edit of sentiments like “no one knows what’s going on” contributed to the live action growth of the page. This proved to the Ushahidi team that their tool would be valuable to communities around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2012

The slides are here. His points were: Each person does a little, the community does a lot. Does” is any action – post, like, share, mobile photo,create – expressed via a social voice. Enabling expression of the social voice will raise more$$$ than a direct donation.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2009

After all, I definitely believe that the community is far smarter than me - and really appreciate any and all ideas you have to share! This campaign is targeting youth at-risk of knife crime in the UK and plans to have a large portion of the messaging and calls to action embedded within social media tools/platforms used by local youth.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 13, 2009

It was clear from the webinar that the natural progression of online technology and the best practices has progressed greatly over the past 18-24 months and that the nonprofit community has more opportunity than ever to recruit new supporters, raise more money and empower constituents to take action using social media like online communities.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

To learn more about how you can use email marketing to support year-round online fundraising, Ive uploaded my slides to Slideshare. On day 2, I was part of the Visual Communications panel with four panelists (some you might recognize from the NTEN Community!):

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

If you missed it, read on about creating and designing a successful, engaging website that inspires action. Creating a website with your users at the center of your strategy will get their attention, keep their interest, and inspire more action. View the session recording or download the slides to learn more. Audience Analysis.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

Not the call to action (which needs to be clear and motivational). Then build the email so that every word, every image, every bit of formatting supports them to take that action. Your fundraising emails have ONE JOB: get people to take action. We have never been so scared of sliding into homelessness,” Jasmine said. “We

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 27, 2018

You need your volunteers to spread the word about your good work, to connect you with their networks and generally be the amazing gatekeepers to the community you know they can be. Here’s the truth about why your board members aren’t actively serving as community ambassadors: They don’t know what that specifically means. Let me guess.

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