Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

Case Study. I invited Heather McLeod Grant to write a reflection base the case study of KaBOOM! Just last week we published a new case study of KaBOOM! has empowered more than 6,000 communities to build local playgrounds in the past few years (far more than the 1,700 it has built directly in 15 years).

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AUGUST 3, 2010

. —– I truly believe that in all communications, information sharing, marketing and even community building there is a natural balancing between more-and-more-global and more-and-more-local. Get connected – be part of the community yourself by connecting with other organizations, community leaders, and individuals.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

For example, simply review the hundreds of ideas listed in NetSquared ’s Project Gallery and you’ll quickly see that people from around the world are hard at work leveraging all kinds of technologies to create positive change for communities tackling many different issues.

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NTEN

JUNE 9, 2011

Email is the annoying little brother of online communities: pesky, poking, insistent. But online communities are just one of millions of destinations competing for your community members' attention. When planned and well-written, emails are effective at gently nudging people back to your community. That's so 1995.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2011

Growing Virtual Roots – How our online efforts led to amazing offline results – A great case study in community organizing, on and offline, from Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure. "From "Our message to nonprofits: Your mission is noble, and your intentions are honorable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2013

Note from Beth: I’m headed down to Austin, TX for SXSW where I will have the pleasure of facilitating a workshop on measuring social media with KD Paine with case studies by David Neff and Carie Lewis. They build up an online and offline community, create great projects, and then ask the community to fund them through donations.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2009

You also have a volunteer program for middle and high school students to work with the children in after-school time in lieu of child care, but find that the current partners you have in the community don’t work for attracting new volunteers to participate. So now, finally, we get to the metrics.

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The ASSH/Nimble AMS case study goes into more detail about how the organization is creating new efficiencies by automating processes. Email communications to members : Automate email communications, using Nimble Create , to members based on their actions, such as registering for an event or paying membership dues.

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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. My slides covered the tools and apps for the back stage side of energizing your community. Community Mapping. What is the cost of adding text messaging?

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 6, 2021

Her goal is to see more nonprofits become true “sustainable social benefit organizations”– those that help people be the change they want to see in their communities and the world. If you’re not afraid of getting into the nitty-gritty of network building, both online and offline, this is the blog for you. FUTURE FUNDRAISING NOW.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

. —– Lately, I’m thinking about the topic of cross-platform community building. 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!); These kinds of preferences by users can dramatically influence a network and community.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) As the director of development of Girls Inc.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

We Are Media is a terrific resource for anyone looking for tips, examples, case studies and information on using social media in a nonprofit organization. The community will help identify and point to the best how-to guides and useful resources that cover all aspects of creating, aggregating, and distributing social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2012

Panelists will deliver their case studies in verse and the authors will provide expert feedback. New Radical Online Community: [link] coordinated by Debra Askanese. Social Media Smackdown: Online VS Offline Impact - [link] coordinated by Kayta Andresen. You can vote for our session here.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

NetSquared supports the community at the intersection of technology and social impact in a few ways, including open innovation competitions. I serve as the Community Development Manager for TechSoup Global’s CDI (Community-Driven Innovation) program, which includes managing community and content strategy for NetSquared.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

For the WeAreMedia Module 4: Spreading Awareness and Buzz With Social Media , the community has built an awesome resource - lots of tips, resources, and ideas from people's experience. We have enough Red Crossers on Twitter for that to get attention - they retweeted to their communities and we were off to the races.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

You can also accept offline donations via a manual donation page. Case Studies. Donors Fundraising Online Fundraising cloud causes cloud computing community'

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 5, 2009

>> Do You Have the Right Balance of Online/Offline Communication? Do your communications with users build trust as well as maintain relationships? >> The Social by Social Game: Social Media for Your Community. Read more about this session and vote here. >> >> Wiring a Movement.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

What is it about the health community that’s different? For example, PatientOpinion’s community could operate very different if it was a for-profit company instead of a nonprofit organization. Feedback to presentation: would want to involve staff and services in the offline local events to share their experiences, too.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2011

SXSWcares , co-branded as SXSW4Japan, was a campaign that rallied the SXSW community to raise awareness and harness support for disaster relief. Many of them were really driven by the community. The site was hosted on [link] , which used a URL and design that supported a strong sense of community around the campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2013

It covered maturity of practice in social media and measurement and brief case studies of advanced practitioners including Humane Society , UpWell , and DoSomething. Katelyn Mack from FSG gave a presentation about the results of social media impact for the Knight Foundation Community Information Challenge.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

“Real world movement needs to allow 3rd world (biggest victims) to take leadership&# (@ SethHorwitz.) “The accumulation of climate conscious communities will slowly add to a big pay off. Tags: case studies issues 4change climate change environment lessons learned social media. Examples of Social Media.

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Care2

DECEMBER 8, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

We have designed and been delivering “ Friending the Finish Line ” with the goals of having organizations create an integrated social media strategy into their overall communications plan and as a way to accelerate the progress of their children’s health care advocacy work and create a peer networked learning community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery. Living Case Study: The living case study is when you make participants part of the content. If your true goal is inspire people to learn, then you need to incorporate techniques so people can process the information every ten minutes.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2012

The April edition of Nonprofits Live looked at environmental policy, sustainable practices, and nonprofit sustainability case studies. and Zoey Kroll from the City of San Francisco's Department of Environment (SFDOE) ; and Jamie Henn, communications director at 350.org. contributor; Kevin Danaher.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2012

which means "enough," began online and moved offline to solidify a movement to create a better Bosnia and Herzegovina. Learn how your organization can best use mobile from actual case studies in this recap of TechSoup’s Text-to-Give Tweet Chat. Please visit the site to view this video).

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

We've compiled a list of resources including articles, blog posts, webinars, and case studies on best social media practices from our global network. Maria Ogneva, director of community at Yammer, spoke at a San Francisco online community event about how to make your organization go social. TechSoup.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Integrated Marketing and Communications Campaigns. The new skills are learning how to be a good community manager – and focus on relationships with people, not tactics on specific platforms. And, that is how they measure success. As this all evolves, I suspect that the number of fans will be truly meaningless.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2009

Joe Green, one of the founders of Causes, spent an hour on the phone with me to discuss how they hope to work differently with the nonprofit community. Take for example this recent case study on the blog. He suggests that organizations forget that they're on the Internet and think about what their strategy in offline terms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Watech4good Summit. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. It directly increased ticket sales.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Rik Panganiban, community manager of TechSoup’s Nonprofits in Second Life online community, rounded out the lineup of speakers by offering tips gleaned from his experience giving presentations in mixed reality environments – advice that can also be used in the offline world. Presentations for Webinars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

I used this an opportunity to reflect on my experience as a free agent over the years and while the tools have changed, the principles effectively using social media to fundraising for a cause have not. Some tips to build capacity and benefiting from a fundraising contest: Get organized both online and offline. Designate a cheer leader.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

And if you're not using an integrated approach, with email as part of that strategy, you're probably missing out on some huge opportunities to develop deeper engagement, identify superactivists and superconnectors, and use a network-centric approach to grow and cultivate your community more efficiently.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

We provide a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights. They were able to use the platform for organizing offline events, finding and collaborating with volunteer organizers, and more. Google Sketchup.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

We Are Media, a wiki-based community project curating resources about using social media in nonprofit organizations. There are many different examples out there, ranging from small organization fundraising locally to organizations leveraging the global community for change. 5 Steps to a Successful Social Media Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2008

Through Connie Reece's visionary leadership, the community rallied and the " Frozen Pea Fund " was started. " she's now taking her activism offline. Her other motivation is an opportunity to experiment with Twitter and blogging to see just how much her community can raise for this cause. Komen 3-Day in Atlanta.

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