Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Submitted by Amy Sample Ward, publisher of Amy Sample Ward’s Version of NPTech Hildy Gottlieb’s new book The Pollyanna Principles is a handbook for starting a revolution in social benefit organization design and practice, but it isn’t the revolution. But, that isn’t to say it’s the complete conversation. What’s the catch?

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Candid

APRIL 14, 2021

Depending on your organizational culture, you may need to expand your definition of who is a major donor. Leverage your team’s social media skills for online research and put networking skills to use in discovery conversations. It’s amazing what you can unearth with a little detective work. Keep growing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Based on the research, they have launched a platform that helps connect practitioners with tools and resources to tell better stories of impact. I particularly like the sections about how to create a culture of storytelling and measurement. Here’s just a sampling of what you’ll find: How to Make the Case to Invest in Story.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Aaron and his team have designed a donor thank you process that’s an ongoing practice integrated into the fundraising culture at Feeding America. Make use of a New Donor Welcome Kit that contains sample content. When a gift comes in, the team member receives the donor’s details and a script to guide the conversation.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 10, 2012

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. In Silicon Valley, they say they celebrate failures and their lessons as key to a culture of innovation and success.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2021

For example, if an organization finds that applicants of a certain demographic group are dropping out of their program at a higher rate, it would need to better understand the reasons behind this phenomenon through conversations, including focus groups or interviews, with participants and frontline staff. Integrated Financial Management.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. This point underlies all of the best practices and organizational culture required for successful community-driven social impact work. They are also hoping to learn from and document their experiences to share as a model with the larger global community looking to do something similar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2013

” It isn’t a matter of finding the time, it is a matter of making the time and starting with some steps. Have a conversation with your social media team and ask these questions: What do you spend time doing now that you could do better via social? Organizational Culture'

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Let’s start at the most fundamental place for this conversation. For this conversation, and those to have over the course of the next two days together at least, let’s work from the place that a movement is larger than coalitions. You can read her poem, Untitled, here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

Today, NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward shared this fabulous video on Facebook. One of the chapters is on organizational culture – what’s in the DNA of a “data-driven&# nonprofit and what are the incremental steps for change? Organizational Culture. Finding the time to devote to measurement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

Use Scientific Methods: These include having a significant sample size, randomly selected groups and some split testing. It’s a subjective and culturally influenced unconscious and involuntary response. Cultural nuances abound. In the example above, you would test posting the same link with the embedded link tool and without it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2013

This highly interactive and engaging community conversation will look at how nonprofits can create a culture of experimenting, testing, learning and correcting. How To Implement Multichannel Online Campaigns - Amy Sample Ward and Allyson Kapin. Keynote by Dan Pallotta. April 12 – 10:30 – Noon. April 12- 3:30-5:00 pm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

Amy Sample Ward facilitated a lunch time conversation about impact measurement for nonprofits in the Beacon Lounge with Lynn Labieniec of Beaconfire and Robert Rosenthal of VolunteerMatch. The conversation thread made me think of this excellent blog post by my two favorite nonprofit data geeks from DoSomething.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

First, CDSI requires the right culture; unless your organization, board and staff are going to honor and support an idea that emerges from the community, there isn’t any point in trying to use CDSI strategies. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. View more documents from Amy Sample Ward. What’s the foundation of CDSI?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. It is a conversation and it is an archive.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 21, 2010

Key Questions: The session was designed to be a conversation – with an avid note taker (me). I came with a list of questions that I used to steer the conversation to ensure not only were we focused, but also that each question pushed us closer to our goal of identifying opportunities for community-focused programs or services.

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DipJar

MARCH 21, 2022

Don’t be afraid to ask for samples of their work or ask their past clients for feedback on their performance. . Organizational culture. Your first interaction with a new potential donor should be a basic get-to-know-you conversation. It’s critical that your consultant will work well within your organization.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 25, 2023

Shared stories can tie whole cultures and groups together. Make nonprofit storytelling conversational and informal. At its most basic level, storytelling is a way to convey facts, information, history and experience from one person, the teller, to another, the listener, but it goes deeper than that. Stories are interactive, bonding.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 7, 2009

Every month, a group called #4Change organizes open & lively conversations about how web-connected communities and our use of social media tools are helping to create change in the world. 4Change Chats are hosted on Twitter – Read “ Join the Conversation ” below for ways to jump into the discussion. Join the Conversation!

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Topic : Questions, conversation and ideas about communications for nonprofits. Bit it also comes with very real obstacles for communication: from translation and language barriers to cultural differences that may impact your programs or reception of your services. Date : December 7th, 2010. Location : Phone & online chat.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of June 13th).

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 11, 2012

You may not have someone with you on every funder pitch, but it’s not hard to arrange at least some of those conversations with a colleague who won’t do too much talking during the meeting, so someone else can pay more attention to how well you do.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

Share your organization’s mission, who you serve, the influence your organization has on its audience(s), and the role it plays in the larger conversation around your issue area. allows it to stand out in the larger conversation in our issue area? What about our organization, its leadership, its mission, its supporters, etc.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

OneWebDay opens up techie conversations to everyone. The only way, in my view, to bring those you aren’t connected or participating online into the conversations, especially those on digital inclusion, to help shape policies and changes for creating one web that really does serve everyone. This year’s theme is One Web.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 24, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Real-time is the fastest way to join the conversation, provide help and information, and direct the messages.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Nor is it a conversation relegated to a niche contingent of experts and gurus.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Amy Sample Ward, CEO of NTEN. Whether it’s integration of content or integration of staff, nonprofits are trying to take the next step beyond engagement to conversion. digital Digital Strategy investment Leadership Organizational Culture Social Media staffing Staffing' Catch our session in person on Wednesday, March 4 at 1:30pm.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 16, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of May 16th).

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Global Scale Purpose: Bonnie and I were inspired by conversations with each other on and offline but knew there were many more people who should be involved in discussing, sharing and learning. This email group is intended as a conversation space to supplement and support the Global Scale Wiki. How to Contribute. Date: December 7th.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 19, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. It's about having a CONVERSATION with people who care about your work and can help you reach your goals.

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Tech Soup

JULY 22, 2015

Although Hawking has made augmentative systems much more visible in popular culture, there are lots of technology advancements that can still be achieved. In 2002, Patel overheard a conversation between two people with speech impairments communicating through their augmentative systems. Why is this important?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. I’m worried about the lack of nonprofit leadership creating a culture of innovation.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

There are many issues to consider and any system transition requires planning, so we suggest you check out the case studies we've pulled together that tackle the actual transition to the cloud, the organizational culture of working with cloud services, and more. Thinking about dedicating some of your volunteers to tech projects this year?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 11, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of June 11th).

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Both of these organizations have both been able to figure out how to bring people together across ages, cultures, etc. It also feels that sometimes genx is being forgotten in this conversations. What are the conversations that should be happening and what advice do you have for organizations on how to be the teacher?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of April 23rd).

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 11, 2009

You can find previous blog posts (with great conversations in the comments) here , here and here. But, that isn’t to say it’s the complete conversation. This is truly a great starting place from which we can all move the conversation forward. Can we move to the Culture of Can? are built in a bubble. Are we ready?

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