Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2011

First, identify what your community wants to do – what it is coming together around, whether it’s an event, an action, or a movement. That’s the sweet spot where you can focusing your calls to action and community engagement. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Focus on Shared Goals and Shared Ownership. Transparency.

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Community Build Organization Case Study 253

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

The people who donate, listen in, connect with our programs by calling in, reading or commenting online, and coming to our offline events are our community. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Slacktivism: Turning a Like Into Action. Community-Driven Engagement.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Today's Blog Action Day 2009 ! The debate about what impact the online world has on offline action gets smashed when you look at these numbers and think about the over 12 million people around the world who are raising their consciousness by reading more about climate change and how they can get involved with their local communities. .

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 13, 2021

People will be more likely to respond to your call to action or, at the very least, open your emails if they look like they’re coming from an individual. Tip 2: Send online and offline appeals. Here’s a sample script you can use: . “Hi! Send emails from an individual associated with your organization.

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NetWits

JUNE 6, 2011

Feedback – We could send a survey to all members who utilized a certain feature, such as forms or eCards, asking them about their experience or suggesting follow-up actions. For example, maybe everyone can see a certain resource or sample quiz, but you must login in order to also download the white paper or answer guide.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2011

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Advocacy actions and items of personal interest tend to result in more click-throughs from newsletters. Tips to grow your list: Short sign-up forms – you just need their email, ultimately, and you can start building out their profile of what actions they take and how they engage.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

On & Offline Engagement. Whether you’re using social networks, or other shared spaces online, the social web is where you can find others, figure out the actions you want to take, spread news and information, promote the actions, and even stream media/data while taking the action. Online is great for organizing.

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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? We’ve done step 1: admitted that we have a problem.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 30, 2021

A Sampling of the Data from the Blackbaud Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Study. It also points to the accelerated shift in funds from offline to online. The above is just the beginning of this 40+ page report filled with data, insights, and actionable recommendations to improve your 2021 P2P campaigns. Online Registrations by Month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

Be sure to provide them with content they can share about the events such as sample tweets and Facebook status updates. Here’s a great example of material for event ambassadors from last years’s Giving Tuesday. Start to recruit your champions, people in your community who can serve as ambassadors for promoting the event.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

All of the words probably have different meanings to each of us, but as a term, I mean programming, services, media events or campaigns that emerge from the needs, actions and involvement of the community. You can see CDSI in many things, and most clearly in grassroots organizing or any non-organization led action. Case Studies.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Download this Sample Year-End Fundraising Goals Spreadsheet: You’ll see this fundraising goal sheet is broken up into 2 parts: A donor thank-you campaign from 11/2-11/13 and a fundraising campaign from 11/14-12/31. Today, your organization’s visibility and credibility are tightly linked with the fervor of your online and offline audience.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

From Like to LOVE: Get More Action from Social Media, Thursday, February 21st. Following the From Like to LOVE: Get More Action from Social Media panel, join me (Allyson Kapin) and Amy Sample Ward for the unveiling of our new book about how to implement multichannel strategies to spark advocacy, raise money and engage your community.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2012

All that you can really assume are the things that aren’t assumptions; give your community the chance to tell you their preferences and interests, and track what you can (from email opens and clicks, to actions taken) to be sure you are responding to the facts whenever possible. I hope you’ll share your lessons, too!

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Community Management Lesson NTEN 249

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

Keep doing the offline stuff for the offline people! I wonder, though, when looking at the campaign information and actions if participants or potential-participants see the connection between responding to the ask (upload your kiss – your kiss can make it better) and the real goal of tackling Malaria?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

But to many people active in online social action communities, these events had deeper meaning. This is a guest post from Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared’s Global Community Development Manager.&#. There are many who approach the online landscape with very different views than their offline business decisions.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. I like to think of it this way: Organizations may have the research or data, the capacity and staff, to identify problems and opportunities, to build messages, calls to action and campaigns. Movement building also requires that focus on real action at the nexus of our collective goals.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Even though much of these will be online social technologies, don’t forget about the offline spaces, too. These goals should primarily come from the Community Map where you have two columns’ worth of goals and actions. Presentation. DIY Community Engagement Metrics. Do-It-Yourself.

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Metrics Community Map Template 219

Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 14, 2023

You can create and run an online campaign to support an offline appeal or an event. Interest Keepers: Post photos and videos of your work in action throughout your campaign. An online campaign is pretty important for Giving Tuesday or other giving days. You can post milestones like “we’ve just reached $1,000!”

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Campaign Online Fundraising Social Media 98

NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, Community Development Manager, TechSoup Global. She is inspired by opportunities to catalyze community building and social action, online and offline, whether it’s through blogging, facilitating, training, or speaking. Tags: amy sample ward NPTech NTEN Program.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Whether you are working on a campaign, a program or a service; whether it is online or offline (though I would argue it should probably touch both!); Connecting conversations and people means cross-pollinating or jumping across platforms to share messages or actions from one to the next. Temporary versus Permanent Networks.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2009

The piece is reposted below: Have we replicated our offline social dynamics and barriers online? If we truly are reproducing our offline social divides online, then it’s further proof that the central part of your social media strategy needs to be focused on your audience. Make your calls to action part of the routine!

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Community Myspace Social Network Demographics 100

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. Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take.

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Disaster Social Media Haiti Media 206

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

The responses lean towards a reality in which our online presence is just as diverse as our offline personalities – people are connecting with a mix of others on difference platforms. Similarly, Google+ allows you to filter general actions or content as well as post-by-post content to certain groups. Set your own tone!

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 5, 2009

we20 wants to inspire people, online, to get together, offline, to talk about ideas to improve our lives and our world. But that doesn’t mean they can’t be spreading their message and mobilizing people into action both on and offline. we20 has done an excellent job of presenting an actionable movement. 20 world leaders.

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Network Offline Case Study Campaign 100

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 3, 2010

The power of social media in a global context is two-fold: There’s huge potential with these news tools for real movement building, bringing organizations, campaigns and people together behind a movement and not just one brand or one call to action. Global use of social media is also a great way to amplify voices, ideas, and stories.

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Local Global Tools Case Study 143

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2009

We all know from offline life experience that you don’t just schedule a meeting, but you have to show up and contribute for the meeting to be successful; you probably also have action items that come out of the meeting that people work on individually and that also draw them back together for another meeting.

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Life Learning Offline Social 100

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 9, 2009

How Technology is Redefining How We Connect | Psychology Today - An interesting read - focusing on the need to incorporate offline interaction in relationships. How does your organization encourage your online supporters/friends/fans to take action offline, together, or to meet with your organization?

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 10, 2012

These mini-websites are usually graphic-heavy and have very straightforward, action-oriented copy. Actions can include making donations, social media sharing, signing a petition, and more. A microsite is a mini-website, generally two to four pages, focused on a specific topic or campaign. Microsites can also promote dynamic content."

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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? Claire Sale, a longtime #CommBuild champion, says this is her favorite part: “Mixing the online/offline builds stronger bonds between people and projects.” Ways to plug in Intrigued?

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Facilitation Guidelines Hosting Twitter 82

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 29, 2010

Yes, of course, I would advocate that organizations who are eligible ensure that they can be listed as beneficiaries of causes on Facebook (visit the FAQ here ) but doing so is an enough of an action to replace your other funding work. Fact : 400,000 users have contributed to a cause at least once. Context : That’s a lot of people.

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Causes Myspace Donation Application 166

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 7, 2009

Image from Blog Action Day - their topic this year is also climate change!). Starting the Conversations: Here are some questions to consider: How does online discussion and networking connect with and support offline action? How does the web change the way we organize for climate action?

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Social Media Twitter Change Media 117

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2009

Want to talk about in person - I’ll be at the NTC and will be eager to continue the conversation there as well (will update the blog with highlights from those offline conversations!). I can’t wait to hear your ideas on this and to share mine, too. Photo: Howard Lake.

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Causes Conversation Award NTC 100

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

The power of social media and the authentic storytelling that takes place is in the opportunity for people to inspire other people to take action, which leads to lesson #2. Lesson #2: Action. Her question spurred some interesting comments that targeting the idea of taking action. Lesson #3: Local vs Global.

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Social Media Change Media Lesson 145

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

You know those bags tattooed with the sponsors' logos and filled with stickers, t-shirts, coupons, samples, and other goodies. is about building a bridge between two-way online communication and offline actions and impact. We assumed that if we created a generic platform that people would start their own actions.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

Can we take that topic offline and talk about that outside of the Board meeting?” If it’s tough to get your Board members to come see your programs in action, bring the programs to them in video. Interrupt if you have to. David, we’re going to go ahead and move on because time is short, and we have a lot to cover.” Show a video.

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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? Claire Sale, a longtime #CommBuild champion, says this is her favorite part: “Mixing the online/offline builds stronger bonds between people and projects.” Ways to plug in Intrigued?

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Facilitation Guidelines Hosting Twitter 60