Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

As many of you know, before joining NTEN as the Membership Director last year, I managed the NetSquared program which included locally-organized groups around the world, innovation challenges, and more. We should approach offline action as one of many channels available to us to reach our mission. What is changing and why?

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JUNE 3, 2009

If you've been following the fundraising and marketing trends over the last few years, you're probably hip to idea that the best strategies for maximizing engagement and fundraising for your organization involve integrating online and offline communications and campaign efforts. Oh yeah: NTEN's own Holly Ross is going to be there!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Dunbar and commissioned by PayPal discovered after examining several online fundraising campaigns that combine celebrity and online personality presence with social media found that many celebrities do not effectively raise money for nonprofits. Instead, lesser known people fair better, particularly those that 1.)

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference | NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network – Have you registered yet for the Nonprofit Technology Conference? They want to see what could happen if we serious commit to working together, on an offline. "It's Idealist.org: Imagine, Connect, Act – Idealist is trying something.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2014

Technology advances are opening up new methods of digital grassroots advocacy that are changing online and offline organizing. Advocacy Advocacy campaigns grassroots lobbying Mobile nptech phone2action Communications'

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 10, 2012

”" Microsites for Nonprofits: Your Questions Answered | NTEN – "What do you do when you want to give extra publicity to a specific cause or campaign? Featuring one campaign too prominently could distract from other things. If you don't feature your campaign enough, it could get lost in the mix.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2013

Once you download the Fundraising Ideas e-Book you’ll gain insight into: 6 Steps to a Well-Measured Social Fundraising Campaign by Beth Kanter, Social Media Expert and Author of Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Your Donors Don’t Live Only Online or Only Offline, So Why Do Your Communications? Pitman , author of the Ask Without Fear!

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2011

I shared results from the newest eNonprofit Benchmarks Study from NTEN and M+R Strategic Services. Email Campaigns: Know Your Audience and Get Results. Tips for starting email campaigns: Target by audience/segment – plan to segment your list from the beginning and identify the segments and the type of message they should receive.

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Care2

APRIL 15, 2013

Biggar, who founded and leads Leadnow , garnered the most votes from the NTEN community, from among a formidable pool of finalists. Biggar’s background is in the youth climate movement and large-scale online and offline collaboration to develop policy and campaigns.". Below is a brief video shown at the awards luncheon.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 5, 2009

NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference held each Spring is always THE place to be for nonprofit techies: whether you work in a nonprofit organization or with one, are totally technical or fell into your techie job, like social media or like wiring an office. >> Do You Have the Right Balance of Online/Offline Communication?

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Care2

MARCH 17, 2016

2015 was a banner year for integration, as nonprofits reshaped and retooled to combine traditional (offline) and digital (online) endeavors, acknowledging that in modern marketing, digital shouldn’t exist in isolation. Digital Outlook: Ready, Set, Go… Wait, Where Are We Going?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

I have always been proud to support WWT both during the telesummit and during the rest of the year with other offline meetups, online content, and more. Thanks again to Allyson Kapin and the Women Who Tech team, as well as all those at NTEN who made the webinars happen! Google Analytics – [link].

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2013

Once you download the Fundraising Ideas e-Book you’ll gain insight into: 6 Steps to a Well-Measured Social Fundraising Campaign. 3 Ways to Use Social Media in Your Next Campaign by Amy Sample Ward, Author of Social Change Anytime Everywhere and Membership Director at NTEN. Pitman , author of the Ask Without Fear!

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2015

After wrapping up our annual Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), NTEN’s CEO, Amy Sample Ward, and I quickly recharged for SXSW Interactive , where we partnered another year with Beaconfire to host the Beacon Lounge for social changemakers, and with the NonProfit Times to cover stories on the nonprofit technology sector.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. Sarah - share by email because we are an online organization, can have a spreadsheet with stats and how they are growing, organization wide as well as campaigns, etc. Can’t wait!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

We'll cover the how-to of integrating direct mail – still the biggest giving channel – with on-line giving and social media tools in your fundraising campaigns at " Fundraise Everywhere: Coordinating Your Campaigns & Appeals ". > > Learn more and register today. > Learn more about "The Email Fundraiser's Toolkit".

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

Last week was the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference and not only did I have the pleasure of presenting a couple sessions, it was also my first NTC as a staffer, as I joined NTEN earlier this month. Well, they loved the chance to get together offline and build things together, learn from each other and so on. Campaigns: 350.org.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

With turkey time only 2 months away, custom online giving campaigns are this season's must-have necessity. With countless nonprofits vying for donors' dollars, the more tailored the campaign, the more success you'll find. The second example creates a sense of urgency for donors to give, while clearly stating the goals of the campaign.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 29, 2016

On December 31st, 2015, the busiest day of the year for online fundraising, we had just one email queued up to go out from NTEN. But NTEN is certainly not the only organization leveraging advances in technology to make fundraising a donor-centric process. Data supports us first in planning for fundraising campaigns.

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NTEN

JUNE 19, 2014

I was especially intrigued about this part of the event because, with the help of our friends at LimeRed Studios, NTEN is planning its own Idea Accelerator at the Leading Change Summit this September.) Every day the app shows a new nonprofit campaign, whether project-specific or org-specific. Pitch-It competition. (I

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NTEN

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Best of all, there's still time for you to use the information they've put out there to help your end of year campaigns. Best of all, there's still time for you to use the information they've put out there to help your end of year campaigns. They've examined $381 million in online giving over a period of 7 years.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Best of all, there's still time for you to use the information they've put out there to help your end of year campaigns. Other findings include: Just as the strength of the donor-charity relationship heavily influences offline giving, the online giving experience has a significant impact on donor loyalty, retention and gift levels.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

note: This article is part of NTEN's Member Appreciation Month spectacular. Offline activities. If your offline database tracking activities can communicate with your online system (whether through data syncing or old-school spreadsheet downloading and uploading) you have a great wealth of information at your fingertips.

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NTEN

JANUARY 10, 2011

Ted Fickes, Electronic Communications Manager, The Wilderness Society (Central Rockies Regional Office) In September, 2008, Green for All , 1Sky and the We Campaign organized a national day of action -- Green Jobs Now -- to demand progress on green jobs and a green economy. Ted Fickes manages online campaigns at The Wilderness Society.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

Occasionally we connect throughout the week via the NTEN community platform , and of course, there are other spaces for community organizers and online community managers on Facebook, Google Plus, and other sites.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

More than $250 million was raised online for Haitian relief efforts in the first 21 days after the quake through Convio powered emails, websites, and other campaigns (up from approximately $120 million in the same period during Katrina). A webinar on lessons learned will be held in Q2 to share some of the key findings with NTEN members.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

note: This article is part of NTEN's Member Appreciation Month spectacular. Executed year-end, housefile building, and sustainer giving campaigns. Meg Murphy, Convio. [Ed. The most popular pieces will be featured in our newsletter. You can read all the details here. ]. Do these statements sound familiar?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In a study released earlier this year, Target Analytics found they have lower retention rates than offline donors. And when they do give again -- which roughly a quarter do, according to the study -- it may not be online but often offline. Imagine a scenario when a check arrives in the mail as a result of a direct mail campaign.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

Either through your website or as part of an annual campaign, ask your constituents their preferred methods of receiving information, the frequency at which they expect to receive communications, and if and how they want to communicate back to the organization. Additionally, actively encourage direct mail recipients to go online to donate.

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2010

Does your fundraising campaign use the same donation page for both email messages and website promotions? Sure, having one donation page for a campaign makes it quicker to tell how that campaign is doing overall. Tags: Data Newsletter NPTech NTEN steve peretz Communications. Source Everything ! www.mrss.com.

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Care2

JUNE 15, 2011

How can I leverage online and offline giving for better fundraising results? She works with program staff to develop effective, creative online advocacy campaigns that support policy goals and build the organization’s base of activists, scientists and donors. So what and who cares? Where should I invest my limited budget?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. And, he thinks that NTEN should be responsive to him, as a member, in asking to publish web stats.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2009

Thanks to NTEN for sharing live webinars of the NTC sessions for those of us that couldn’t make the actual conference. He asked the question – is organizing the same whether it is done online or offline? Campaign: win on specific interests. And then, broke the 3 goals down into offline/online tactics: Offline.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

Occasionally we connect throughout the week via the NTEN community platform , and of course, there are other spaces for community organizers and online community managers on Facebook, Google Plus, and other sites.

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NTEN

JUNE 29, 2011

After all, we know that offline donors who are on our email list have a higher average gift. They help us gauge interest in topics, adjust phrasing of our communications, and provide us with free assets to use in our campaigns. This will provide us and them with a different platform on which to interact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2009

Photo by Cell105 Note from Beth: Last week, I hunted down the nonprofit panel proposals for SXSW including one submitted by me on crowdsourcing social change (see the NTEN blog post ). both offline and online. There was a panel on slacktivism which caught my eye and later I spotted this post by Ali Cherry unpacking the concept.

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Care2

JUNE 5, 2009

According to the just released 2009 eBenchmarks study by M&R Strategic Services and NTEN, most of the 32 groups featured in the study saw their online fundraising increase between 2007 and 2008. Encourage your offline members to donate online so you can capture their email addresses. Prices vary widely, from about $0.12 - $0.60

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