Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2009

I have written before about the way I believe causes are shifting be the way individuals identify themselves, group up, and organize. So that got me thinking about the idea of cause fatigue. So how does a cause, an organization, a campaign re-emerge? Tags: issues socialchange 09ntc cause justgiving.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

The ambition of the online organizing platform never matched the success of the offline organizing community and strategy. The goal was to create a unified online community for the climate movement to reflect and spur more of the movement’s offline collaboration. Specifically, the intent was to: Tags: Online Advocacy.

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

and/or tagging them in comments in your project management tool or shared document. Any item that goes beyond its designated time can be taken offline for relevant team members or a subsequent meeting set up for that item specifically to be addressed to keep the meeting on track. appeared first on Media Cause.

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Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Hashtags are used on many social media platforms to “tag” posts for specific topics. Every year on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, donors from around the world contribute to causes they care about—and many even discover new organizations and missions they want to support. GivingTuesday Fundraising in 30 Seconds. Get creative!

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Qgiv

AUGUST 21, 2023

Many organizations use GivingTuesday as a social media campaign to increase fundraising and spread awareness for their cause. One way to engage with your donors on social media for GivingTuesday is to create a hashtag challenge for people to participate and tag you in.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 24, 2009

There was an article in the Washington Post this week that talked about Facebook Causes and basically said they aren’t any good. It’s way to easy to accept a Facebook invitation to join a cause. How often do we join causes that we only remotely care about just so we don’t offend our friend who is asking?

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M+R

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Set up Google Tag Manager to centralize tracking codes across platforms to enable faster and easier updates. Now, let’s go raise all the money for the most important causes — before the ball drops! . __. Offline, you can find her biking in the Berkeley hills and baking her top-secret chocolate chip cookie recipe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2009

You might remember that a few weeks ago there was an article in the Washington Post proclaiming that fundraising using Facebook Causes was a failure based on a calculation of dollars per donor. Allison suggested that we reframe how think about Causes. I'll boil it down to " Causes is A Friending Tool, Not A Fundraising Tool."

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NetWits

MARCH 8, 2012

And because fundraising continues to shift from offline to online nonprofits are faced with a growing need to find new and innovative ways to do fundraising through online sources. The move towards a multichannel fundraising approach (online and offline) is becoming more and more critical to long-term success.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 9, 2009

How Technology is Redefining How We Connect | Psychology Today - An interesting read - focusing on the need to incorporate offline interaction in relationships. How does your organization encourage your online supporters/friends/fans to take action offline, together, or to meet with your organization? Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Making it easy for people to give to a cause by integrating charitable actions into the activities, routines, and habits of daily life is brilliant. One quote from the article related to Cause fatigue caught my eye. "If Tags: movement building. We're really excited about the mention of the new charity:water.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 18, 2017

If your organization participates in OpenAIR, it gets more than a new website; your organization becomes a more welcoming organization online — and maybe offline as well. People with disabilities want to donate, volunteer, and otherwise support causes they care about. Register for webinar to learn more.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

This event focuses on Causes , an application for supporting and fundraising for organizations by individuals, groups and even the organizations themselves. Administrators of Causes accounts on MySpace received a notice via email stating, “Thank you for the work you’ve done on Causes on MySpace.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

This event focuses on Causes , an application for supporting and fundraising for organizations by individuals, groups and even the organizations themselves. Administrators of Causes accounts on MySpace received a notice via email stating, “Thank you for the work you’ve done on Causes on MySpace.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 10, 2021

The most effective way to increase the number of touches you have is to share your invitation in a wide variety of channels , both online and offline. On the flip side, if I understand what I’ll get out of the event I may want to attend even if I don’t have any particular connection to your cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

He is using a tool called " Twibbon " that makes it easy for people to change their avatar to incorporate a visual for a particular cause. Two years later, changing your Twitter icon in support of a cause (even though some call this " slacktivism "), is a techniques being used. Tags: twitter. What do you think?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2010

That’s not exactly the way business normally goes down offline. Tags: events fundraising presentation facebook individuals notes slides socialmedia ssir. Social media is a space where the individual reigns, relationships are required, and conversations are public. And it has real impact on the way organizations fundraise.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 12, 2010

—— Last year I used the metaphor of “ gardening vs landscaping &# to outline some of the key attributes I believe make for successful community building, on or offline. Tags: community issues best practice community building gardening ssir. What would you add about cross-platform community building?

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 3, 2010

The power of using social media in a local context focuses most directly on just those things that make “local&# different: being “here,&# connecting online and offline, taking action collectively and delivering services. I think there’s a lot of potential for hyper local search and the power that comes with geo-tags/data.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 3, 2010

weeks offline with friends and family for the holidays. communities of cause. Tags: collaboration community 2010 goals planning. I’ve just spent a very wonderful 2.5 As much as my life is fueled by my work and connections online, it sure was wonderful to unplug and recharge. communities of focus.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2010

Kivi Leroux Miller has just launched a book, Nonprofit Marketing Guide: High-Impact, Low-Cost Ways to Build Support for Your Good Cause. For example, on your thank-you pages and follow-up emails, you could encourage your supporters to share a story about why they are giving to your cause on your Facebook wall.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

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!); Tags: community networking community building community management cross platform networks ssir. whether you are a small team or a huge office, your work requires engagement.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

By amplifying content on Google Search, participating organizations can connect with motivated prospects searching for their causes online. The program is most helpful for organizations that have discussion-worthy causes and content centered around related topics that people are actively searching for online. Do Google Ad Grants work?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2010

Users can also download stories for offline reading. VolunteerMatch is an award-winning service that makes it easy for good people and good causes to connect – and now their iPhone app makes it even easier. Tags: Mobile Fundraising Mobile Technology Mobile Websites Smartphone Apps Text Alerts iPhone Apps Smartphones Apps.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 24, 2010

Her new book, “The Nonprofit Marketing Guide: High-Impact, Low-Cost Ways to Build Support for Your Good Cause,&# is part survival guide and part nitty-gritty how-to handbook for nonprofit communicators. What’s the difference between online and offline marketing – or is there one?

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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

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Matthew Mahan , vice president of impact at Causes. She leads social innovation, philanthropy, and causes at Twitter and Blogs at Claire.us.com. More specifically we discussed grass roots fundraising and the rapid growth of online platforms that allow people to raise money for the causes they support. Meet Claire.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Create opportunities and events that bring people together online and offline - these activities can help move people up the ladder of engagement, get them volunteering or advocating for your organization, using your services or helping promote them. So, throw a party or two, and have fun! What do you think?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 5, 2009

we20 wants to inspire people, online, to get together, offline, to talk about ideas to improve our lives and our world. But that doesn’t mean they can’t be spreading their message and mobilizing people into action both on and offline. These G20 leaders meet in London on 2 April. 20 world leaders. They don’t have a website, yet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

Even if you have the most awesome web site, campaign, or cause out there, you need a thoughtful and dedicated community behind it in order for it to be successful. Both online and offline, communities are not only the way we identify ourselves, but more importantly, they are the most authentic and powerful vehicle for change.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Twitter is establishing itself as a charitable giving and cause marketing channel. . Last month, the Twitter community came together online and offline in over 180 cities around the world to raise money for charity:water with the highly successful " Twestival " fundraising event which brought in over $250,000. has been raised.

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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. Online contests that award dollars to nonprofit causes are here to stay. Online numbers don’t always equate offline results.

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Care2

OCTOBER 28, 2010

. • JD Lasica (that’s me) offered a one-stop shop for resources on how nonprofits and cause organizations can use social tools : a landing page that aggregates resources on social networking tutorials, handouts, top fund-raising tools and much more. Also, download this free flyer on 12 steps to mobilize your cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2009

It turned out that I was sitting next to Eve Penny Cowan who is the founder of Future Leaders Institute that guides and mentors youth to employ social entrepreneurship to solve the world’s most pressing needs and Dan Jacobs who is the founder of EveryWun is a platform where individuals can leverage business donations to causes.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 9, 2010

The conversations and connections that are taking place elsewhere, whether it’s on or offline, don’t have to remain a mystery to you, though. What if you could send powerful invitations to spread the word or rally behind a cause or action to a select group of people instead of creating mass mailings to everyone you know?

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Forum One

MARCH 17, 2010

Even if you have the most awesome web site, campaign, or cause out there, you need a thoughtful and dedicated community behind it in order for it to be successful. Both online and offline, communities are not only the way we identify ourselves, but more importantly, they are the most authentic and powerful vehicle for change.

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