Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. The Value-add of Crowdsourcing: For me, the two biggest reasons to include crowdsourcing in your strategic design of community building or contests are: Crowdsourcing invites diversity by encouraging anyone with an idea or interest to participate. Crowdsourcing for Social Change.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 31, 2021

Use this Complete Toolkit for Nonprofits for a sample timeline to get on track with your communications. Pro Tip: Write out your emails and social media posts ahead of time and schedule them to be sent out ( check out these free social media scheduling tools ). FLIPCAUSE EXAMPLE CAMPAIGN.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 11, 2011

. —– Have you thought about running a contest or crowdsourcing ideas for your organization or community group? In a previous job, I had the opportunity to help run crowdsourcing contests for new and innovative technologies that help nonprofits and the world. If you have, you certainly aren’t alone. The ins and outs.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 1, 2021

Facebook fundraising tools are designed to keep people on the site rather than send them to a crowdfunding platform or other website. Despite the downsides, Facebook can be a powerful fundraising tool. As a first step, you need to sign your organization up for Facebook fundraising tools. Your organization gets the full donation.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 1, 2012

In the report “ How Giving Contests Can Strengthen Nonprofits and Communities ,” sponsored by the Case Foundation and released today, Geoff Livingston analyzes the impact of Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington and the repercussions for other regions and nonprofit communities.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2011

We know that tools (aka tactics) are what help us implement a strategy, not what it is built around. Love of Philanthropy Photo Contest « Vivanista | Living Well. So we need to remember that with social media! Doing Good. " Great example of digital storytelling and community engagement.

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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

I was an early adopter of this approach back in 2006 and over the years I have had the opportunity to raise over $250,000 for a charity that supports Cambodian children using these techniques as part of online giving contests like the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Challenge. Enter online fundraising contests.

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Achieve

JANUARY 17, 2016

by both the contestants and the survey respondents. In short, they are not always adequate tools for investigating either an intricate/in-depth topic or an ongoing phenomenon. are tools that can be. And mixed-methods will, in most cases, require both kinds of data collection tools.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 14, 2012

Since the Twive contest kicked off a couple months ago, these nonprofits got to work. She’s also editor of Inspiring Generosity, a blog that gives nonprofits helpful resources on online community management and social media tools. The Importance of a Strong Community. Building a community takes time and effort.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

With the evolution of the social web and the tools available today you’re able to listen much like you can with your ears in real life. Step Two: Configure the tools. There are more tools out there than you can possibly make use of so I thought I’d make it easy and give you a jump start. See a sample Listening Dashboard here ].

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 24, 2012

." Interactive: How America Gives – How America Gives – The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas – The Chronicle of Philanthropy has launched a great new tool: an interactive map of giving data in the US.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2009

The contest asks clients, donors, volunteers, and board members to write reviews of these nonprofits. Contest Deadline: September 30th. “GreatNonprofits is a tool that allows you to find, review, and talk about great — and perhaps not yet great — nonprofits. About GreatNonprofits.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

Canva is a great tool for designing images. Or host a rib, pie, or hot dog eating contest and have your own tip jars for people to support their favorite competitors in the form of donations. Set up tasting tables with glasses and laminated A/B/C cards (they will get wet) for people to try to match the samples to the bottle.

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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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Connection Cafe

MAY 8, 2017

Teach Supporters to Fundraise and Provide Samples. 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. Add page sharing tools to the fundraising page.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Millennials want basic information and tools for action. Using a mobile app allows you as a nonprofit to have a tool where you can push messages out about how to volunteer/give, what the impact is, etc. SmartOnline just wrapped up an Invent Your Mobile App contest. How can enhancements and tools be paid for?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

. …That means setting aside our shiny online tools and tactics long enough to ensure that we're using them to deliver real impact." Much has been written criticizing the contest and the initial selection of 100 charities who already received $25,000 and are now vying for the grand prize of $1,000,000.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

In our recent webinar on super-short videos , we heard from digital storytelling experts about how nonprofits and libraries can use these tools to easily make their own super-short videos. The Internet, especially the mobile web, encourages rapid, distracted sampling of small bits of information from many sources. Really short.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

As a speaker and trainer , Slideshare, along with wikis, Twitter, and other tools are important part of my trainer’s social media toolbox. For example, Amy Sample Ward , Danielle Brigida , and Michael Edson. 5) Tool For Networked Nonprofits To Share Draft Documents and Get Feedback. 6) Training.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2012

Thank you, Debra Askanase, Chris Bernard, Rick Birmingham, Britt Bravo, Barbara Buswell, Gavin Clabaugh, Martin Dooley, Deborah Elizabeth Finn, Paula Jones, John Kenyon, Kivi Leroux Miller, Julie Macalik, John Merritt, Laura Quinn, Amy Sample Ward, Ash Shepard, and Michael Stein !

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2009

It’s one of your most effective marketing tools, but the 2008 GettingAttention.org survey showed that 72% of nonprofit organizations don’t have a tagline or rate theirs as performing poorly. Deadline to enter your organization in the contest is July 31st! 2008 Winners.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

" GlobalGiving recently ran a contest to encourage nonprofits to use social media tools to engage and raise donations for their causes. They provided social media tools to the vying nonprofits and provided $9000 in prizes to the organization that raised the most money. Marnie Webb reveals their project overview on her blog.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 26, 2013

View the archived Visual Intelligence Expert Session webinar here for tips and tricks on how to best utilize this tool and streamline your process. website along with a contest aimed at new and nontechnical users. Or stay tuned for the next live session on Friday, July 12, at 11 a.m. Eastern time. Images: SAP.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 13, 2016

TechSoup organizes an annual event called Storymakers ; organizations from around the globe participate in a multimedia contest for a chance to win exciting prizes and learn how to effectively tell their story. Photoshop CC is the ultimate tool for enhancing photos, but it's so powerful that it can be a bit daunting to learn.

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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. If you have a topic or question you’d like to explore in an upcoming chat, feel free to let me know anytime!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

At first glance, it may seem impossible to recreate some of these types of events in a virtual format, but with a little creativity and the right fundraising event tools, you might be surprised at the high-quality experiences you can offer for your donors virtually. 15) Brand design contests. 5) Online classes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. Amy Sample Ward writes about the new plugin launched by Social Actions that will place ???possibly The article profiles Networked For Good's Six Degrees of Separation. Which one worked best?

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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. Powerful new tools and technology are making email fundraising even more effective. You can enter to win on this site. Predicts consequences of multiple decision options.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2013

So why not use peer-to-peer event fundraising methods and tools to maximize your #GivingTuesday campaign? Encourage your current fundraising participants to push their efforts on #GivingTuesday by hosting a fundraising contest. Already hosting a fundraising event? Communicate Before, During and After #GivingTuesday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Maybe we'll see some tools to automate list maintenance, widgets , and clients. 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. And, that has to be done manually.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 11, 2011

I had so much fun, in fact, that I shared screen shots and some thoughts around the way organizations could put a tool like this to use. (If I think there’s a lot of potential for the way organizations can use a tool like this, and I’m sure there are plenty more that you can think of! The folks at Qriously think so, too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2008

As for social media, we've tried to supply our online supporters with all the tools they might need to make it as easy as possible for them to help us get the word out that people affected by disasters need their help. We created a wiki full of sample avatars, banners, widgets, videos, audio clips, etc. that are easy to grab and use.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Nonprofits need every tool possible to entice donors to join and then stick around for years. 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.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Analytics tools. how to integrate tools without reinventing the wheel. use monitoring tools. Listening tools: Netvibes. but didn’t stop doing photo contests; instead they adapted. So, I’m going to trouble shoot and just take some live notes here and post them as soon as possible. The right metrics.

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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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