Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2009

You can read the post and participation in the conversation on the SSIR blog here! The piece is reposted below: Have we replicated our offline social dynamics and barriers online? You may hear about Facebook, but if your audience is on MySpace, it doesn’t matter how much time and energy you put in. Boyd explained to the crowd.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

For those that follow the #4Change twitter-based chats, this is a post recapping and highlighting our latest conversation on social media application in the Climate Change movement. Note: the @names provide links to the Twitter users who made specific comments, just in case you want to connect and continue the conversation!*.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Leading on social media requires nonprofit CEOs and their staff, even Trustees, to master basic digital communications skills that allow them to engage directly with stakeholders as themselves, in their own voices. To be effective, it should be closely aligned with the organization’s goals, objectives, and audiences.

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Everyaction

MAY 24, 2018

As nonprofits are using multiple channels to reach their supporters, they also need to be able to track engagement across these online and offline channels. With easy to use A-J testing, nonprofit digital teams can ensure that every message is targeted and reaching the right audience. Social media audiences continued to grow in 2017.

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Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2022

Nick Ellinger of Donor Voice is a guru on this type and he suggests the following as a guideline: For current low/mid-level donors – Set suggested donations at 1x, 1.5x, and 2x their average amount, and offer an “other” option. increase in donor conversion and generated a higher average gift than the ask strings control.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2011

At minimum, this application lets people air their concerns to legislators and policy makers easily through Twitter and can amplify more traditional tactics such as email campaigns and signing online/offline petitions. The rows are your audience. There are two types of audiences. Use the “ Valid Measurement Grid &#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

to Boston for two days of book events hosted by Associated Grant Makers , Barr Foundation , Public Conversations Project , TechFoundation and Berkman Center Luncheon series. Networking: Weaving Online and Offline, Strong Ties and Weak Ties. This “relationship building&# conversation is the foundation of forming stronger ties.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2014

" Different audiences and different social media platforms demand different messages. The goal is for people to have "an ongoing conversation that is positive and informed and that inform purchasing and donation decisions for the rest of their lives." Decide What You Want People to Do with Your Message.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Kanter will bring together a group of highly visible free agents working on important social change causes and representatives from different nonprofits for a lively discussion with the audience. What should we be building to help artists make and sell art, engage their audiences, and connect to other artists?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The social business sector has shared metrics and understanding of being data-informed. That changes the conversation for nonprofits. When the people, formerly known as the audience, get to participate, you always learn something. But expect how you report and measure impact with the social business sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

One of the things that is essential to good instruction (or presentation) is knowing your audience. The Valley Medical Foundation: This organization provided an example of the personal versus organizational voice issue that social media often brings up. Robot Voice Disguiser for Large Group Facilitation.

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Bloomerang

JULY 30, 2021

An M+R benchmarks study found that nonprofit text messaging audiences grew by 26% in 2020, outpacing growth for other popular channels like Facebook and email. With this rapidly growing audience , there comes the need for nonprofits to learn and adapt to using texts for fundraising and supporter engagement. of the time, with 1.24

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. Social Fundraising: Leveraging On and Offline Connections. Organizational Versus Personal Voice on A Blog. Intergenerational Wired Fundraisers: A Conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

CRAM = Connect, Reward, Action, Memorable - mentions Technorati as a tool to find your potential audience who have interest in your cause or programs. Why it works: conversation, authentic, story, translates into action -- how do I let go and let my supporters take hole of my messaging. There are offline ways to do it.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Everything revolves around the audience. They were able to use the platform for organizing offline events, finding and collaborating with volunteer organizers, and more. A great example of using Twitter for real information exchange and for conversation. It really depends on the audience you are trying to engage.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2012

After exhibiting the vending machine in our entrance building, we found it was used by a cross-section of our audience: families, day-trippers, pupils and students. We want to have a conversation with our audience and facilitate storytelling. Are we the ones who should curate the items that tell people’s history?

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Forum One

JANUARY 4, 2024

How can a focus on CX help nonprofits to better connect with their audiences online? We’ve edited our conversation, below: How do you think about CX for a nonprofit like ZERO TO THREE? Too often this leaves out the audience! This created such a tangible experience for the audience; it was a unity moment and a community moment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

There's nothing like having an audience to see where you got inside your own head too much. My colleagues in the audience like Marshall Kirkpatrick and Holly Ross were twittering. During the morning and early afternoon session, I felt that some tables were having difficult conversations. Before I went on Twittered. Observations.

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Bonterra

APRIL 11, 2024

Bonterra’s supporter engagement platform puts a comprehensive profile of every audience member at your fingertips, so you can have intuitive interactions that lead to lifelong connections. Help different audiences take action frequently and easily with customized asks, and see up to a 3.5X Create more change. So is your community.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

Everything revolves around the audience. They were able to use the platform for organizing offline events, finding and collaborating with volunteer organizers, and more. A great example of using Twitter for real information exchange and for conversation. It really depends on the audience you are trying to engage.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

When you go where your donors are, you expand your reach to a larger potential audience. The most important one for our conversation—95% of donors consider content created by nonprofits to be trustworthy! And one of the best ways to do that is through integrated, consistent messaging across all channels – online and offline.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

I’d like to extend my thanks to Emily and Beth for participating, and to all of the audience for your good, insightful questions. I will say that there are regulations that relate well to offline consumer relationships that don’t apply well online. It depends the context, who is having the conversation, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

The number or organizations who joined causes in the past with enthusiasm and now voice frustration, or who have abandoned their efforts entirely, continues to grow. but more importantly you must also hear what the audience is saying. The fundraising results have been underwhelming. The Facebook Causes platform doesn’t change that.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

I work mainly with nonprofits and social enterprises that want to have a bigger impact, that wants to increase their audiences, and that want to interact with diverse communities. So step one is find how your audience communicates. So I’m a communication consultant, a communication strategist for nonprofits, mainly. Lots of ones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

The key thing that is different with setting a social media objective is that it is not about reaching a mass audience and blasting your message out, it is more about reaching the influencers, developing relationships, having a conversation, and getting insights. Identify the Audience. Why this target group?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

What I loved about this BlogPotomac is that it was a small and intimate event that allowed for a conversation between the speakers and the audience. followed by 20-30 minutes of discussion with the audience facilitated by the hosts. The format was ten minutes of speaking (no Powerpoint allowed!),

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2009

Be a little less "formal" and try a few fun updates and other content that sparks conversations. Skeptics in the audience tweeted about the limitations of tool-centric campaigns or wondered if, at the end of day, there was any on the ground social change. Randi suggests that having a personality is an asset. Was it all hype? .

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

So we’re going to talk about how to communicate with authenticity, how to use your voice to convey your message, that’s one V. I want to talk about how you can inspire your audience using imagery and creative communication. So we’re at voice, vision, and values. Voice was being one of those. Expression.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2010

Regardless of how successful this call was, I always hung up feeling things were incomplete.” - Danielle Thomas, Exhale Talkline Counselor & Pro-Voice Ambassador. Danielle says, “As soon as I let a caller know about the community and how she can access it, the tone of conversation changes immediately. We do offer something.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Elevating Advocacy Voices for Children Through Social Media – Guest Post by Barbara Munoz. conversation and make headway on the policy front when everyone is approaching the issue with the same negative messaging frame. Voices for Utah Children recently helped host a conference on. Life Elevated.” It turns out there is a.

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Everyaction

AUGUST 20, 2018

It’s important for progressive organizations to define their voice online; how do you do that? Becka: Something really important that progressive organizations can do to define their voice online is to decide what your voice is and stick to it. How do you define that voice differently across different platforms?

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