Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 11-15, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. They’re convening Barcamp-like unconferences called PubCamps all over the country, allowing local techies and citizen journalists to forge collaborative projects with NPR and PBS stations, both online and offline.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 3, 2010

I’ve had experience organizing communities offline in local communities, and organizing community online – but the kind of organizing that inspires me the most is combining online and offline. You can also suggest questions or topic areas to be included by leaving a comment on this post! How to Participate.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

This year, the Tweetsgiving campaign also asked people to gather in person, offline and have gratitude parties, where people could also donate in person to the project. On March 1, I will select a winner at random (all commenters who answer the question will be put into a hat and I’ll draw one at random).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. Last year, there was an event called "Social Media for Social Good" organized by Jeff Pulver that prompted quite a rich discussion on whether social media for fundraising and marketing can effect real on the ground change.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Thank you to those who have already voted or commented! Please support me by voting and commenting here. Part of my role as the Global Community Development Manager at NetSquared is to support and grow our offline organizers from around the world. Leave a comment on the application here. Like I said, I cannot wait!

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

Please share the questions you’d like to explore by adding a comment here ahead of time and I’ll use those to feed our discussion. Tags: community events 4change chats community buidling community management twitter chats. Perhaps #4change.commbuild or something? Let me know. See you on the 19th!

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JANUARY 7, 2010

You can read the full post and comment on the SSIR blog or be part of the conversation below. That’s not exactly the way business normally goes down offline. Visit the SSIR blog to comment, or leave your thoughts below! And it has real impact on the way organizations fundraise.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

You can read it and the comments on the blog here , it’s copied below. To some, these events were unimportant. But to many people active in online social action communities, these events had deeper meaning. There are many who approach the online landscape with very different views than their offline business decisions.

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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. Temporary versus Permanent Networks. And engagement requires people. People are networked.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. They want to see what could happen if we serious commit to working together, on an offline. "It's I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources across the web ever day.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 5, 2009

I am part of four different proposals and would love to have a chance to share some of the ideas and experiences I’ve had with all of you at the event (even if you can’t come in person, you know I’ll post my notes and ideas on this blog!). >> Do You Have the Right Balance of Online/Offline Communication?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Blog Action Day is an annual event held every October 15 that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. Blog Action Day 2009 will be one of the largest-ever social change events on the web. Share your ideas in the comments below.

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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. Deepen relationship through custom apps that improve on org activites (event fundraising, petitions).

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

It’s back-to-school time for many countries and that means a switch from summer programs, outdoor community events, and many youth campaigns. The parties, the dances, the school events, they all helped shape many of the memories from being school-aged. Comment here, or visit the original post at SSIR here. The Research.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2009

Assuming our fictional organization has done this, let’s say that they chose to create a blog that the middle and high school students who volunteer in the after school program author, with stories form their work, things they are thinking about, events, friendships, and so on. The benefits? These are both tangible and intangible.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2009

We're doing some interesting work this week bringing the online dimension to a face-t0-face event. Forum One is working for GDN to help extend the impact of the annual face-to-face event by better connecting the 300+ attendees, and better open up the event to non-attendees around the world. Google news feed about the event.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Read the post below or visit the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog to comment. Note: the @names provide links to the Twitter users who made specific comments, just in case you want to connect and continue the conversation!*. Her question spurred some interesting comments that targeting the idea of taking action.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 9, 2010

You have to trust that the community will monitor or respond to comments or issues in a way that matches the way you would (that you’ve modeled the behavior the way you want it repeated). Think about all of this in terms of campaigns, fundraising, events and more!).

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JUNE 26, 2009

The start of June brought the official launch of TechSoup for Libraries , where librarians can find stories from the field, hear from experts on libraries and technology, stay up-to-date on the latest offerings from TechSoup, participate in online and offline events , and learn about a new TechSoup product each month.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

A recent event has brought up some huge red flags for me around data, around communities, around social impact, inclusion and even more. This event focuses on Causes , an application for supporting and fundraising for organizations by individuals, groups and even the organizations themselves. What it Means to Individuals.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

A recent event has brought up some huge red flags for me around data, around communities, around social impact, inclusion and even more. This event focuses on Causes , an application for supporting and fundraising for organizations by individuals, groups and even the organizations themselves. What it Means to Individuals.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

NWF - tag mentions in delicious with which programs or projects are mentioned, can share link to that tag on delicious with staff to see their section. Are there ways of catching offline datapoints? Livingston - Network Solutions, free online video event, know who will send the most traffic second time around.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

If your video was made for an event, it might not fly online. Ask your supporters to share the video with their friends and give specific instructions about what you want them to do—email a link, post to Facebook, leave a comment. Create Relevant Tags. Also look at other videos in your field and see which tags they’re using.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

She posts her photos to the group and something clicks, “we could do this for our annual holiday event!” Because the difference isn’t in using the tools per se, we all have the same functionality to upload, tag, comment, etc. Tag your blog with “net2thinktank”. Tags: interview otherblogs issues net2thinktank.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 24, 2010

I’m thrilled to have the chance to share an interview with her here and encourage you to add your questions in the comments! This interview is part of her virtual book tour; check out the full calendar of events. 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

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

My role was to facilitate and model new practices and present on a couple of new approaches, such as content curation. We established a hashtag for the event #fflsmart and modeled how you can capture a complete archive with rowfeeder and since content curation was on the agenda, I modeled using storify to capture a curated record of the event.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

These are the themes I heard while attending the interesting Open Government: "Strategies and Tactics from the Playbook" event this past Monday in DC, organized by the team of Lucas Cioffi , Stephen Buckley , and Kaliya Hamlin. They designed the event with the goal of sharing lessons from agencies who have some early experiences.

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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. There were 44 followers that used the #floodofsupport hash tag or linked to the Crowdrise page or blog post. Tags: Experimentation Free Agent Fundraising. Technology.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2008

The event is organized around the recent issue of the journal Museums and Social Issues on the same topic, and will feature both formal lectures and small group discussions. On a different note, I will be totally offline until Feb. Tags: programs. I’ll be speaking briefly about the role of civic discourse in Web 2.0,

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

Getting Attention talks about boosting blog coverage – it can have good offline benefits for your organization. And in realms more familiar: This week’s nptech tag roundup has some great stuff to read about { 1 trackback } Blog Carnival 10.31.06 at 7:44 pm { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth 10.31.06

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2009

Write posts that let people into the process you go through to get everything ready for the new event or initiative gives benefits to the early birds. Make it easy for people to give online and offline while also showing people how you are using their money. Categorize and tag your posts by project name and type of work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

It really was an incredible event and a great chance to catch up face-to-face with friends from all over. Next, focus on your goals – Are you trying to raise a million dollars or mobilize a group of offline volunteers? I’d love to hear your take on each of these in the comments. Tags: Conferences Guest Post.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Our community was very active, serving some 20,000 regular visitors and about 14,000 subscribers to our email list, and offline events complemented online activities well. Tags: Collaboration. It remains one of my favorite professional initiatives/accomplishments, and looking back, it was before its time.

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JULY 9, 2009

Have you asked people to comment on a great blog post that is getting good traction? Are their offline events they can attend? Tags: Email Marketing Online Advertising Online Advocacy Online Fundraising Online Organizing. Experiment and see what resonates with your list. Can they volunteer? Write a letter to the editor?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

User generated content is also at the core of citizen journalism, the notion that amateur users can perform journalist-like functions (accidentally or otherwise) by reporting and commenting on news. Collective action can take the form of signing online petitions, fundraising, tele-calling, or organizing an offline protest or event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

The meme isn't necessarily limited to individuals as David Neff at Fispace mentions - corporate bloggers like Tyson Foods will donate 100 pounds of food for every comment made here. She ends her post with change blogging meme -- asking and answering three questions and tagging other bloggers. s Alex Steed. s touring the U.S.,

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JULY 9, 2009

Have you asked people to comment on a great blog post that is getting good traction? Are their offline events they can attend? Tags: Email Marketing Online Advertising Online Advocacy Online Fundraising Online Organizing. Experiment and see what resonates with your list. Can they volunteer? Write a letter to the editor?

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