Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2009

Did you choose Facebook because you evaluated your existing community as well as the audience you wanted to bring into your community, and they were already using Facebook? Go where the community already is! Don’t expect the community to come to you, or even find you, online. Join the community!

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Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2014

Those are places that build community. Or rather, those are places with the potential to build community. But what if we designed public space for community? Collaborations with unorthodox community partners. I''m thrilled and finally realizing what this means for our community. Those are places of uncertainty.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 19, 2023

From the moment they join, you can hype members up for the journey they’ll have with your nonprofit. To help your members feel like they’re part of a bigger community, you can create regular networking opportunities. Your members-only online community can offer more value for members like: An easy-to-search member directory.

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Forum One

MARCH 17, 2010

Reflections on community at SxSW. But beyond all of the hype and noise, the most dominant theme I keep coming back to is that community is and always will be King. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

But beyond all of the hype and noise, the most dominant theme I keep coming back to is that community is and always will be King. 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. Some may exist solely online.

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CauseVox

JULY 31, 2023

In a world facing countless challenges and inequalities, even one day of generosity and compassion can transform lives and communities. The Benefits Of Giving Days Giving days offer several notable advantages for nonprofits and the communities they serve by attracting donors , raising awareness and encouraging action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2019

But as my colleague, Steven MacLaughlin points out, “We should keep in mind that AI is a “how” and not a “why” or “what” — but that gets lost in a lot of the hype.” Artificial Intelligence presents a lot of benefits for the social good sector. ” Here’s some recent links that look at the why and what. .

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Qgiv

AUGUST 21, 2023

With the holidays and the end of the year coming up, many people are more inspired to give back to their communities, so you don’t want to go into the giving day unprepared. A tiered ad campaign can help hype your donors and get them into a giving mindset.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

" or what we call "hype" - how does a small nonprofit avoid getting seduced by the hype? apps to a community centre for Bangladeshi women. Having a bad case of work avoidance yesterday - specifically building powerpoint slides and figuring out what to say, I got into an email conversation about Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2019

For additional use cases of blockchain for social good, the Stanford Graduate School of Business Center for Social Innovation created an in-depth report, “ Blockchain for Social Impact: Moving Beyond the Hype ,” that can be downloaded here. So many incredible ideas and initiatives are being shared at #BRG2019 !

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Raiser’s Edge NXT Extensibility Options: What’s Real, What’s Hype? , EDT, the first truly comprehensive cloud-based fundraising and donor management software solution built specifically for nonprofits and the entire social good community. Hosted by Blackbaud expert, Jane Langer. TUESDAY, Oct. at 11:45 a.m.

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Greater Giving

MARCH 12, 2021

The key is to create a program that will energize the attendees and encourage a sense of community along with a desire to contribute funding. Set up a chatroom on your website or through a “messenger” feature on your most active social networks for your community to be able to connect with each other.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 25, 2020

Viewers may start interacting with one another in this format but at the very least, it gives you the opportunity to put minds at ease and start hyping the networking capabilities in advance. . From there, you can read out some of the questions and address the concerns in real-time.

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CauseVox

JUNE 28, 2021

Catalogue for Philanthropy made use of Giving Tuesday Now (a national fundraising day to support nonprofits through COVID) to hype up their own one-day giving event online. It got a ton of community engagement, brought attention to their work, and brought on individual fundraisers. If you want to make something more accessible, Yeah!

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

Here’s what we’ll cover: Using Instagram promotion before your event Instagram event promotion during your event Following up on your Instagram event promotion Whether you’re hosting a fundraising event or a community volunteer opportunity, Instagram can help you engage current and new audience members and set your event up for success.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 3, 2020

At the same time, all this hype about “big data” can be anxiety-inducing, especially for smaller nonprofits. Or, perhaps you’re a museum with the goal of becoming a pillar with your community and cultivating long-term engagement among your visitors.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

One of the highlights: she notes that they would not have had such success in raising money online if they had not already invested in building up a community of active supporters. In some respects, the attempt to block communication has done little to stifle reports coming out of the country.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

If I was going to create a google + brand page for a nonprofit, I would probably focus on using to cultivate a small sub-set of my community that I knew was already using Google + – perhaps use it as a focus group to learn and figure out what might make sense. It can also distract you from your priority to do list.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

We're all familiar with the mantra that we should be out there leveraging influencers in our communities in order to get the word out about our causes, brands or services. and that makes total sense from a generating-word-of-mouth point of view. But hold on. maybe you're starting to think "this is not as easy as it sounds."

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Whole Whale

MARCH 10, 2021

One interesting use of NFTs is to incentivize community building and participation. A lot of the success of a NFT drop is based on the hype and perceived value generated by the promotion work. This example shows how a nonprofit can be a fun partner to meme NFT and benefit from the sale. Creating NFT Artwork.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 25, 2020

Viewers may start interacting with one another in this format but at the very least, it gives you the opportunity to put minds at ease and start hyping the networking capabilities in advance. . From there, you can read out some of the questions and address the concerns in real-time.

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AccelEvents

MARCH 8, 2021

Maybe you’ve heard about the hype and are eager to see how an event can drive your brand awareness. Or, your brand has a virtual event idea aimed at increasing revenue, but you are not sure of the right way to do it. Virtual events are one of the best ways to boost revenue and are great for increasing digital clout in 2021.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2016

Rather than chaining game players to their computer screens inside their houses, it sends players roaming their neighborhoods and communities to play the game. Perhaps its appeal is an escape from all the bad things that are happening the world right now. On the plus side, they are avoiding death by sitting. This primer helped.

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AccelEvents

MARCH 8, 2021

Maybe you’ve heard about the hype and are eager to see how an event can drive your brand awareness. Or, your brand has a virtual event idea aimed at increasing revenue, but you are not sure of the right way to do it. Virtual events are one of the best ways to boost revenue and are great for increasing digital clout in 2021.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 19, 2018

If your church operates a homeless shelter and has spent all year talking to your community about how you want to serve more homeless and thus need more money to add beds to your facility, talk about that at the year-end as well. Avoid the gimmicks and the hype. Keep your year-end goals mission-focused. Rule #3: Make Multichannel Asks.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

We’re building nonprofits, businesses, and brands around our Facebook communities, and yet every couple of months we wake up to new changes (made primarily to benefit Facebook’s revenue model) that we have to figure out for ourselves and scramble around. There is some ROI, but there is also a lot hype about Facebook.

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Care2

MARCH 18, 2012

This week we wanted to share some of the most thought-provoking and insightful blog posts from the nonprofit community. Africans are talking about the campaign – and you can see a roundup of posts from African bloggers responding to the hype. Last week Frogloop asked readers "Can Viral Videos Really Create Social Change?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

Stewarding Technologies for Collaboration, Community Building & Knowledge Sharing in Development??? KM4D Journal) is an open access, peer-reviewed, community-based journal on knowledge management in development ??? They hype around "Web 2.0" Knowledge Management for Development Journal??? This issue.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Ensuring fundraising success is more important than ever and our team at Blackbaud is monitoring the latest trends coming out of our Blackbaud Fundraiser Performance Management community to help our customers stay relevant and innovative. . Recent data shows that total commitments and donor retention are both down in 2020.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2011

According to Ed Bice, the short term goal is to just make sure that information is flowing between language communities and the longer term goal is to network these communities. So for example, now I can see what State Department was tweeting in Arabic. For example, what is being tweeted about the use of social media.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

MPower has started to generate some community-driven development. So the reality is still pretty far behind the hype. I’m excited to see what community-driven development can do! These look like pretty interesting, and useful applications. I sure hope the reality catches up. It looks interesting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

While the specific tactics and techniques for a tool may change, the concepts generally hold constant. Over the years, as I have watched Facebook roll out features and changes, it seems takes a predictable pattern: the big announcement, hype, backlash, more tweaks to the platform, experiments by users/organizations, and learning what works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Here’s my picks for SXSW Nonprofit Panels: A Conversation About Change Agents Through Social Media Social media is causing a revolution in how information is shared and communities are formed. How do you build an online community that makes a serious impact for your cause? What are they good for?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Hope from the Hype So why does social networking matter? It's not merely just another communication channel. Communities matter. There is still a lot of hyper-hype, but the opportunity and potential is very real. If you do a good job, then the fundraising will follow. It's the most human channel.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2013

For example, France Telecom-Orange has made anonymized records of five million mobile phone users in Cote d'Ivoire available to the research community as part of the Data for Development Challenge. Seeing Like a State in Africa: Data Needed. Pundits: Stop Sounding Ignorant About Data.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

The official hashtag, #14NTC , is starting to buzz on Twitter, and I’m getting hyped about connecting with nonprofit leaders from around the globe! This was about an authentic community that lasts far beyond the confines of a conference. The Community. A Growing Community. Who wouldn’t want to be a part of that?

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Achieve

MAY 21, 2019

Your events are a crucial part of your supporter engagement strategy, and they help your organization build community and move forward together. If you’re using association management software to keep track of your members and supporters, make sure that you’re using it to engage your supporters in your community.

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