Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

The newest report, out today, focused on the use of social networking platforms by young people who are/aren’t also involved with charities. Read the full press release here or download the Social Media data slides here.) Female respondents reported a significantly higher usage across all the top 4 networking sites.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2010

Social media is a space where the individual reigns, relationships are required, and conversations are public. That’s not exactly the way business normally goes down offline. Do you have any tips or examples from your social media presences or campaigns to share? And it has real impact on the way organizations fundraise.

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Care2

OCTOBER 28, 2010

16 “Mobilizing your social network&# panel with this all-star lineup: Andres Glusman of Meetup.com , Justin Perkins of Care2 , George Weiner of DoSomething and Giselle Diaz Campagna of Free Speech TV. Also, download this free flyer on 12 steps to mobilize your cause. Such is the case with the Oct.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Baker presented an engaging and dynamic presentation which emphasized the symbiotic relationship of both online and offline engagement, the power of both to create community, encourage activism, develop branding, and unify those with common goals, both locally and globally. The key concepts behind this are activism and self-organization.

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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. What's a nonprofit to do? Let's turn the responsibility back on ourselves. Probably not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

This morning the Washington Post published an article titled " To Nonprofits Seeking Cash, Facebook App Isn't So Green: Though Popular, 'Causes' Ineffective for Fundraising." Proclaiming that fundraising using Facebook Causes was a failure based on a calculation of dollars per donor. . It doesn't work that way."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

How do we activate the online activists to take action offline?" I was not presenting, but decided to use Twitter crowd source some suggestions, screencapture them, and put those into my presentation later in the day. jeffshuck @ kanter I'm biased, but events are a powerful way to move online advocates offline. I suggest a tweetup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

This terrible flood didn’t spare the Nashville Symphony Orchestra (NSO), an event that he first learned about through his social networks. But consider the following: Networking. There were 44 followers that used the #floodofsupport hash tag or linked to the Crowdrise page or blog post. Momentum is tremendously important.

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Care2

MARCH 18, 2010

Michael Cervino, Beaconfire: For online campaigning, a whole new world of tools and tactics is opening up for nonprofits as the commercial sector invests in social media, social networking and more sophisticated UI experiences. Michaela Hackner, Forum One: Community is king - both online and offline.

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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 are the change issues for traditional nonprofits that want to become “networked nonprofits? They want to connect.

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Care2

OCTOBER 18, 2009

The 2009 America’s Giving Challenge is a month long, national online competition that encourages people to leverage their online and offline personal networks to build communities via Facebook Causes, raise money and recruit supporters for a nonprofit. Want to start or help a cause? Share them with us below!

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Can you give an example of how a voluntary organization has used Social media effectively to engage with their supporters to generate income for their campaign/cause?&# -Claire. The difference with using social media for fundraising is that your organization may not even be involved anymore, the way it was offline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

Each organization received $25,000 and the announcement caused some controversy because of the contest eligibility rules and lack of a leaderboard. . Organizing Offline and Online. There is also the importance of offline/online connection that can't be ignored. The top 100 "eligible" vote getters were announced in December.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" ” Think about it. Word of mouth, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Transparency and Social Media: Dealing with Criticism. The Intangible Benefits of Social Media. Reports of the Death of Social Networking for Nonprofits Are Not True! Social Fundraising: Leveraging On and Offline Connections. Social Networking: Part of Your Job or Just for Fun?

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Care2

MAY 21, 2009

Yes, it’s true and that’s why it’s important for all nonprofits that are advocating for causes to start becoming a part of the conversation publicly and not just behind closed doors or on “the hill.&# Media outlets both online and offline. Tagging on social bookmarking sites like delicious, Digg, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

Submitted by Ted Fickes Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. How do you use the latest technologies to build active networks and roadmaps for action? Tags: sxsw.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Social Networks & Twitter from Natalie Foster: Two Principles: 1. Email still gets a good response - if it will best help you reach your desired output, don’t feel obligated to short change your capacity there to try to use social networking or something else. Raise awareness for your cause and projects.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" We encouraged people to re-tweet with the #firstfridayfive tag to organize the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Submitted by Ted Fickes Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. How do you use the latest technologies to build active networks and roadmaps for action? Tags: sxsw.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 There are two sets of social roles here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

I've also summarized the story of a how one social media guru, David Armano, leveraged his large network to help a family a need and has stepped into the role of donor steward and even service delivery. Also, when people contributed, I sent them a tweet with a link that shared why the Cause is so important. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Conference Tag: CU08 ConnectingUp Conference Warning: I am live blogging these notes as the conference unfolds. This year's program is heavily weighted to the "social web" and nonprofits. Doug mentioned attending the NTC/NTEN conference in New Orleans and had RSS and Tagging ringing in his ears.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. How do you use the latest technologies to build active networks and roadmaps for action? How do you balance online action with offline engagement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

This month's Net2 Think Tank question is: How do real-world (offline) events fit into social media conversations and campaigns ? My thinking: Social media conversations and online campaigns create whole new models for bringing together & powering the progressive movement. Courtesy of Joe Solomon. Then check out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

On February 12, 2009, Twitter users will meet up in over 100 plus cities to socialize offline, meet other Twitter users, enjoy some fun, have a few drinks, and raise money for charity: water. charity:water has a presence on Twitter and has the caught the attention of social media gurus like Twitter's founders and Mashable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Submitted by Brian Reich, publisher of Thinking About Media I have been critical of Facebook Causes, almost from the day it emerged onto the scene. Facebook Causes followed the same path. But its not just Facebook Causes. The Facebook Causes platform doesn’t change that. The fundraising results have been underwhelming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2009

Submitted by Marc van Bree, editor of Dutch Perspective During last week’s League of American Orchestras conference, I was following the session on social networking on Twitter. Mark Pemberton, who tweets @aborchestras, asked where the “business” is in social media. Social networking is a tactic or tool in your strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2009

Does the future of online fundraising lie in mobile social networks that have an easy built-in payment system for in-the-moment charitable giving of very small amounts by thousands and thousands of people? Or donating to a cause during a presentation or speech that motivated the giver? What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2010

Note from Beth: Last fall, Aspen Baker shared a guest post about privacy and social networks on this blog. And they care just as much about privacy online as they do offline. Tags: policy. She was kind enough to share some additional insights about this important topic from SXSW. Privacy is about having control.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

If the dollar amounts from fundraising campaigns using social networks are disappointing, one response is to say this doesn't work and stop doing it. 3) Tweet Meet Give : This approach weaves together online and offline activities and leverages "Tweet Ups." There are already a number of active causes on TwitCause.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

Good social media training is essential. On a final note, many nonprofits will be launching mobile websites in 2010, and much of the traffic on those sites will be going to or from social networking sites. Social media has gone mobile and that will be an entirely new set of data to monitor and track. Poll your donors.

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2010

3) Tips for list building, frequency of messaging, asks that work, integration with offline, etc. Care2 is an online social network of over 14 million people worldwide who want to make a difference in causes they care about. Tags: Care2 Webinars. An email list? Facebook Ads?

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