Amy Sample Ward

MAY 18, 2011

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. For me, the two most prominent reason to include crowdsourcing in your engagement strategies for campaigns or contests include: Crowdsourcing invites diversity by encouraging anyone with an idea or interest to participate. Community sourcing vs Crowdsourcing. Definitions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

The social strategy includes the widget above that can be customized to show the charity and be shared on different social networking sites or blogs. They have created many social sharing opportunities, for example: Visit Create Change select a charity and share the widget with your network. Amy Sample Ward. Here's my contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

Social fundraising is when your nonprofit integrates tried and true fundraising techniques with social media to inspire your supporters to raise money from their networks on your behalf. Pick a campaign and platform to experiment with integrating social fundraising , but build your network and get organized first.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Allow your participants to register a fitness goal with your organization and gather support from their personal networks to motivate them. This spring fundraising idea provides a great chance to empower the women in your community and help them network with other women. BBQ potluck Break out the grills this spring with a BBQ potluck!

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NetWits

AUGUST 23, 2011

Include a sample email and talk about the impact of gifts ( Did you know just raising $25 can provide sick kids with a toy this holiday?). Getting your participants to harness the power of their individual networks through social media will pay off in the long run. I haven’t received any gifts and frankly don’t have the time.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

"This contest was the culmination of a two-part "vote for me" cause marketing strategy that started in November and has been rife with controversy. "This contest was the culmination of a two-part "vote for me" cause marketing strategy that started in November and has been rife with controversy.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 1, 2021

Those donations will come via a third party, most likely Network for Good. Post often about your campaign on your nonprofit’s Facebook page, thanking everyone who gave and encouraging everyone to share the fundraiser with their network. This gives you a chance to get donations from beyond your usual network.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Whether it’s small communities coming together offline to train and share knowledge about using technology or it’s innovation projects competing in the same contest working together instead – we hope you’ll find this short paper compelling and share it with your networks. Net Squared White Paper Nov 2009.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Outline your campaign plan, and ask them to mark their calendars and spread the word in their networks. And if you're not, create a "family and friends" list of select past partners, sponsors, peer organizations, and champions to call or email in advance of the campaign launch, asking them to share with their networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2008

Wendy Harman, American Red Cross According to Wendy Harman, employees at the Red Cross were blocked from accessing social networking sites, like Facebook, from work. We created a wiki full of sample avatars, banners, widgets, videos, audio clips, etc. Recently, a change in policy has allowed access. that are easy to grab and use.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 14, 2015

Remember the early days of social media when you did not have to cut through all of the noise and things felt more like a community rather than a popularity contest? This is a key principle in the book Amy Sample Ward of NTEN and I wrote about in our book Social Change Anytime Everywhere. Social Networking Trends'

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 24, 2011

Contests to encourage content sharing. About the CommBuild Chat: These monthly chats originated out of the #4Change network and are open to anyone interested in learning and sharing about building community, on and offline, with the use of social media or other technology tools. Using content to fuel community engagement.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

The contestants on The Great British Baking Show manage to get it right with impressive frequency. A master networker? I’ll walk you through these steps, plus you’ll go home with my color-coded, detailed annual fundraising plan template AND a sample plan! Can you do it? Do you really want to make fundraising so hard?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2011

Both campaigns created opportunity for people to participate and then share it with their networks and make personal recommendations. A compelling video won over 12% of donors, while fundraising contests only 42% inspired 5% to give. Both campaigns leveraged the community and competition aspects of social media.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

7 Things I learned From #Beth53 Fundraiser and PoST Class – Beth's Blog: How Nonprofit Organizations Can Use Social Media to Power Social Networks for Change – Beth shares some great lessons from the fundraising campaign she recently ran for her birthday. "This Thanks for all that you are doing, ARC!

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Web Haiti Bookmarking Lesson 132

NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The increasing popularity of social networking, blogs and social media on the web validates this point nicely – People are talking about you, but is your nonprofit listening to them? The internet’s popularity contest at your fingertips. See a sample Listening Dashboard here ]. 3tyuxpqbwg khgf89n3cu. Pretty simple eh?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 8, 2017

Teach Supporters to Fundraise and Provide Samples. Encourage them to use their social network. Hold contests. Create contests that reward fundraising activity. Provide samples of everything. Supply sample fundraising emails, Facebook posts, tweets, phone scripts, thank you notes, approved logos, etc.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 15, 2009

- Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (FEBA) of Maastricht University are conducting a survey: "We are investigating the effects of online social network memberships on your daily life. In particular, we are interested in the role of social network sites and receiving information about job openings."

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

The Internet, especially the mobile web, encourages rapid, distracted sampling of small bits of information from many sources. Once recorded, Vine videos are uploaded to Vine's social network and can also be shared on Facebook, Twitter, and other sites. Our attention spans are growing remarkably shorter. Really short.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 17, 2009

The idea of a networked organization is fascinating to me and hinges, truly, on organizations taking a networked approach both IN and OUT of the organization's "walls." " Apps for America Contest - Check out some of these really innovative (and cool!)

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

Note , this was adapted from the book Social Change Anytime Everywhere by Amy Sample Ward and I. Share a story, donate money, sign up for a contest, watch a video, etc.). Nonprofit Online Advertising Online Advocacy Online Fundraising Online Marketing Social Networking Technology Trends Web 2.0 Who are the target audiences?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. The article profiles Networked For Good's Six Degrees of Separation. Which one worked best?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2010

TechSoup Global has an upcoming Digital Story Telling contest, getting orgs to put together 60 second vid’s about what they do/who they are. You can look at #sfaddis to see what they did recently from Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. Topic: Community Building, of course! Location: Launch the chat here (not live until the chat starts).

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Encourage your current fundraising participants to push their efforts on #GivingTuesday by hosting a fundraising contest. Prepare fundraisers to notify their networks ahead of time that they will be raising money for your organization on this specific day. Then incorporate #GivingTuesday as part of your overall fundraising strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Simply offer ticket sales online, then send your guests a care package of the beverages to be sampled on the day of the event. For added suspense, you may send out a mystery box with a variety of beverages to sample. 15) Brand design contests. Consider a brand design contest for a more inventive competition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

It also enabled the WWW Virtual Library to scale in terms of server capacity and allow for a distributed network of volunteer librarians. Twitter Lists and List Numbers As Popularity Contests. Nonprofits and Twitter Lists Amy Sample Ward, on Socialbrite, has a post with some recommendations on the types of lists they should create.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Same for any prizes, contests, sweepstakes, drawings, or competitions (essay contests, spelling bees, etc. Access to password-protected content like checklists for camping with kids or sample lesson plans for outdoor educators. Offer access to a lounge before or after events with seating, beverages, and networking opportunities.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 27, 2012

The whole show is devoted to using social media and social networks to help you reach your supporters and draw them close to your work. All these areas relate to your social networks and the social media properties and our team will share their ideas, as they do every month.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 3, 2012

I recently got my copy of Measuring the Networked Nonprofit by Beth Kanter and Katie Delahaye Paine. One that really speaks to me is the point that “measurement helps nonprofits understand and improve their social networks.” ” And that they do! In the book, Beth and Katie identify a number of themes.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 4, 2017

The contest ends on April 24, 2017, so get those submissions in soon. This is just a sample of the secrets MacLaughlin revealed during his NTC session. Azure is Microsoft's solution for building scalable online apps and services without the need for physical infrastructure. You can enter to win on this site. More Secrets.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Livingston - corporate example, Network Solutions, negative perseption issues related to their brand (google your organization’s name and “sucks&# and see what comes up!), Co-creation Networks, look at the ladder of engagement and the number of use and the level of engagement - need all of them in your ecosystem.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Pet Photo Contest Capture the community’s love for their furry friends by organizing a pet photo contest, with participants paying an entry fee for a chance to showcase their pets and win prizes. These can be indoor or outdoor events, and you can invite some local vendors to show up and sell tasty movie treats.

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Ideas Fundraising Classes Contest 52

Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

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!" I think we are going to see many more nonprofits launching interactive video campaigns and contests.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

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!" I think we are going to see many more nonprofits launching interactive video campaigns and contests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Flickr Photo Remix Party Well, a few weeks ago, I read a blog post by Amy Sample Ward about Birthday Causes, This new feature lets individuals on Facebook create a birthday fundraising campaign as part of a Cause. Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest. And, yes they did !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

The panelists were Holly Ross , Amy Sample Ward , David Neff , and Kari Dunn Saratovsky. Amy Sample Ward and Holly Ross came up with the " Social Media for Social Good Case Study Contest " and did all the heavy lifting to make it happen. Amy Sample Ward shared her thoughts in a blog post along with her presentation.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Engagement through thank-yous, polls, contests, or highlighting a volunteer or project. I’ve got more tips on creating great videos along with some samples here. LinkedIn : LinkedIn is a professional platform where business people network. JUST for fun! Memes, stories, photos – anything that causes a laugh or a smile.

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