Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 24, 2012

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To gear up for our session on "Mixing Business and Pleasure: Managing Your Personal Brand in Social Media," we asked nonprofiteers (readers like you!) to respond to a quick survey about their own behaviors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2009

I'm sure many nonprofits (and foundations) who enter into the waters of social media for the first time feel this nervousness and perhaps fear. Here's a new fear: Reputation for accuracy, quality, and professionalism will be damaged if the organizations shows its human side. This morning was the big day! He feels that it is mistake.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post called “ Why the Nonprofit Work Ethic Is Outdated and Needs Change ,” about why nonprofit professionals need to pay attention to self-care and bring a culture of wellbeing into the nonprofit workplace. (The Gabriela says that senior leaders at her nonprofit model self-care.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

Nonprofits that have built their network can use social media tools to crowdsource ideas for projects at an amazingly fast pace. Crowdsourcing can be done at an organizational level, blended into the way nonprofits create , implement, and evaluate their programs. What are the best practices or techniques for crowdsourcing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Typically, this information about your brand or nonprofit. There is a trade off is that your friends my not want to comment if they notice people they don’t know. If you aren’t comfortable with who can see the post, don’t comment on it or like it. News Ticker. Brand Page Changes.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Yesterday, I attended — and live tweeted (#baruchnp) — an interesting panel discussion at Baruch College here in New York, “ Social Media and Technology: What Nonprofits Need To Know.” The panel featured some great nonprofit social media heavy-hitters: Allison Fine , Speaker and Author of Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I feel that my technology training for nonprofits work is more like a calling for me than simply a job or career. For the past 15 years, I have been excited about nonprofit technology training design and delivery and it is what I will continue to focus on as part of my role at Zoetica over the coming years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Hosting engaging online events and learning experiences has been of interest to me over the past ten years and the question of whether or not virtual events replace the face-to-face or how to best blend together. Will the Virtual Summit Replace Face-to-Face? Engagement cannot be left up to chance, and is vital to the success of a session.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. We welcome your comments and feedback. Oh, the high-wire balancing act of nonprofit CEO compensation.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The newest addition to TechSoup's vast array of nonprofit resources is a live monthly interactive video chat series, Nonprofits Live. The event blended virtual video speaker conferencing; online presentation and video; and live audience chatting and social networking, including conversation on Twitter using the #NPLive hashtag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Right after Thanksgiving, TechCrunch published a guest post called " The Secret Strategies Behind Many Viral Videos " which unleashed a record 491 comments because it described some unethical practices. See3 Article About Video The Chronicle - article about video and nonprofits. There was also a follow up post here.

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2012

As Stefan Wray posited in a drupal.org post , “The capacity or ability for a nonprofit to create and maintain its own Drupal-based CMS / web site … is a function of, and proportional to, its size (measured in staff and budget) and (or) the amount of technical know-how that its staff possesses.”. Ask around and get lots of references!

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

I hope it's a fun read for anyone either looking to redo their own small nonprofit brand, or who wants a deeper dive on what we did at Fight Colorectal Cancer. An example of our early "brand" circa 2005 Like everything else that has gone well in my career, it started with a NTC (Nonprofit Technology Conference).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Here are some good examples of CEO and Executive Director use of social media in the US social sector: Holly Ross is the executive director of NTEN, the nonprofit technology network in the US. Holly also shares more of her in-depth thinking about the nonprofit technology field on NTEN's blog.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 12, 2011

The following post is by Kivi Leroux Miller and originally appeared as "Blending Marketing and Fundraising into Community Engagement Teams" on Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog on July 6. It’s confusing for supporters and inefficient for nonprofits. Please share in the comments. Author: Guest Blogger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

At Fort Mason on San Francisco Bay investors, fund managers and social entrepreneurs put their heads together to discuss what it will take to do better, and do more, in the space that lies between strictly nonprofit and strictly for profit. Others examples include loans to schools in India and capital for small manufacturers in Ghana.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes END-OF-YEAR EVENT FUNDRAISING The final quarter of the year unfolds with a blend of reflection and anticipation. As the days grow shorter and the year’s narrative approaches its climax, nonprofit leaders are presented with a golden opportunity: to rally their communities for one last, impactful push.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

This is less true of Dirty Laundry, which required a blend of friendly invitation to participate and private spaces to contribute secrets.) But one student commented, "A lot of people need therapy and can't afford it. When activities were not facilitated, people were often too timid to interact. Why did this happen? I don't know.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

To kick off a series of profiles on leaders in nonprofit technology, we thought we’d start close to home by featuring our TechSoup Global founder, Daniel Ben-Horin. CompuMentor in due course turned into TechSoup when it became a national nonprofit, and TechSoup Global in 2008 after it had become an international organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Last week, I was honored to deliver the lunch keynote at the 2014 TechNow Conference in Pittsburgh, PA organized by The Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management at Robert Morris University. (My When nonprofits marry tried-and-true fundraising techniques with social media and online networks, they are able to tap into the power of crowd funding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm slightly out of my comfort zone here because I've only been following this topic closely for a short time, although I have co-authored a guide for nonprofits on technology evaluation and ROI. I'm looking to blend different perspectives and have a workshop session that can speak to nonprofits and grassroots media makers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

These gatherings provide a chance for all those interested in the intersection of social technologies and social change , whether you're part of a nonprofit organization or a for-profit organization, a funder or a consultant, a developer or an entrepreneur.". Please share your ideas in the comments!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Most important, he teaches business leaders and nonprofit executive directors why they need to change the way they lead change.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Sometimes, we are categorically turned down, but on numerous occasions there are questions, comments and other concerns that prospecive donors convey. The challenge for nonprofit leaders is to place realistic boundaries on this request. Has the nonprofit experienced difficulties in the past? This is perfectly natural.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 23, 2021

But most importantly, please feel free to chat in any questions or comments you have along the way. I come to you today with about six years of fundraising experience, traditionally, and lots of other additional nonprofit experience as well. We’re going to save some time at the end for Q&A. So don’t be shy.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

The paint function has painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone, gradient editor and blending tool. It’s also a nonprofit project. TechSoup: Free Infographic Tools for Nonprofits and Libraries. Please log in to comment. This software pretty much requires some familiarity with Photoshop.

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