Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

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. Online numbers don’t always equate offline results. Tags: Conferences Free Agent. What are they good for?

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JANUARY 27, 2009

We've been helping groups for many years with ways to have a little more influence and get a little more impact out of their online and offline events. If the event is offline, conduct follow-up online discussion using a simple listserve or a group collaboration tool to keep the lively discussions going. Tags: Collaboration.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 20, 2010

Last night was the first in what will now be a monthly chat for community builders or those interested in learning more about building community, on and offline. tools and tactics that build a loop between offline and online activities. Tags: community events 4change chats community building community management.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 22, 2010

Number of Comments and Likes per Impression. Comments + Likes)/Impressions. I ran an online poll that revealed about 75-80% of Admins receive these updates, but I took it offline because folks emailed that the poll wasn't correctly registering their votes.]. Tags: Facebook. and in the News Feed of your Fans.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

And, if you submitted a nonprofit panel - and I managed to miss it while scanning 2200 in ten minutes - please add the link and description in a comment. How do you balance online action with offline engagement? Tags: sxsw. Please try to vote for as many nonprofit panels as possible. I will also be tweeting this post.).

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NOVEMBER 5, 2010

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: Social Media #nptech Non-Profit Social Media Strategy. First, create a page on Causes and activist resource center. Strengthen your core.

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Amy Sample Ward

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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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

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! Tags: events fundraising presentation facebook individuals notes slides socialmedia ssir.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

In this post, Jasper shares some lessons learned from a recent experiment to design a more social comment station. He will respond to comments here and can also be reached on his blog (where this post first appeared). translated this online game to an offline activity around everyday objects. I believe it worked brilliantly.

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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 16, 2009

You can read it and the comments on the blog here , it’s copied below. There are many who approach the online landscape with very different views than their offline business decisions. ideablob particpants are locked out from seeing any comments or feedback on their ideas. To some, these events were unimportant.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2009

Yesterday’s post for Earth Day, about social media and the energy/climate change/green movement is already getting some tremendously insightful and interesting comments. Tags: issues socialchange 09ntc cause justgiving. It’s just the kind of conversation starter I wanted to throw out there! Photo: Howard Lake.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2005

Tag Poetry. Yesterday, Nancy White suggested that we add having the students create poetry from their tags. When I got back from on-site work (reflections on that follow) and finished my mommy shift, I discovered that Nancy wrote a poem with her tags. I wondered outloud in a comment. The theme was the tag, in some sense.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 3, 2010

weeks offline with friends and family for the holidays. Writing a blog can be a lonely adventure but I’m so very thankful that you as the community of readers and commenters and conversationalists have kept me from ever feeling like I was alone in the conversation. Tags: collaboration community 2010 goals planning.

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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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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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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2009

Tracking how many of your volunteers participate by posting to the blog and commenting on each other’s posts + other online mentions + increase in inquiries and volunteers, etc. combines both online and offline measurement and values so can help you more thoroughly evaluate both the strategy and how to address the original problem.

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

Charity and Technology in the Online Universe This infographic from Mashable and Shane Snow puts social good into better context with donation numbers, growth charts, and some comparisons to its offline counterparts. If you’ve seen some other good nonprofit infographics, then leave a comment.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. " Tags: roundup adoption bookmarks community communitybuilder communitymanagement engagement list net2-recommends nptech postalicious report resources socialmedia strategy training tweet twitter women.

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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

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Below are links to the four session proposals, and I’d love your support with a vote and comment on any that you want to have at the NTC! >> >> Do You Have the Right Balance of Online/Offline Communication? Tags: events presentation 10ntc conference nptech ntc nten speaking voting.

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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). Join the conversation on the SSIR blog or share your ideas in the comments below.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 15, 2009

They wouldn’t even want to get a discount for shopping at a vintage shop (used clothes, not new) only on that day, and have lots of folks going together (bridge online and offline communities)?&# The people I was meeting with looked at each other and said, “now there’s an idea!&#. Share your ideas in the comments below.

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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. Comment here, or visit the original post at SSIR here. What do you think?

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Tech Soup

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

MARCH 5, 2009

You can read it and comment on it over at SSIR as well. 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. No, you really don’t. 20 world leaders.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Suzanne Rainey wrote about this in another blog post on Getting More Out of Online & Offline Events ). And, all of this content aggregated in one place - comments on sessions, news feeds, photos, videos, etc. Technorati Tag: GDNET09. Tags: Strategy. Watch video of actual conference sessions.

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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? HSUS - integrated it with everything else, email campaigns/newsletters, offline, etc. test and teweak. harvest insights.

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See3

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

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. Tagging is crucial for SEO because it includes some of the only metadata that will help get your video into search engines. Run Online Ads.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I blogged earlier this year about research that indicates very strongly we’ve replicated our offline social barriers and segmentation in our online social networking platforms. ( Visit danah boyd’s website for more information and research on this topic.) What it Means to Individuals. What other questions do you want answered?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I blogged earlier this year about research that indicates very strongly we’ve replicated our offline social barriers and segmentation in our online social networking platforms. ( Visit danah boyd’s website for more information and research on this topic.) What it Means to Individuals. What other questions do you want answered?

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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! What’s the difference between online and offline marketing – or is there one? Tags: interview marketing best practice fundraising storytelling.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

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. But the important difference is all about the formation of connections, or relationships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Other organizations broke their efforts down into bite-size pieces for their volunteers by creating templates to use to send messages to their friends, post and comment on blogs, and create their own videos.” There were 44 followers that used the #floodofsupport hash tag or linked to the Crowdrise page or blog post. Technology.

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