Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Susan is a grandmother, a cancer survivor and the major ingredient that differentiates organizations that truly make change from those that just make a lot of digital noise. Every grassroots organization has volunteers like Susan. This year’s Women’s March and March For Science are just two examples of this incredible trend.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2011

My latest post is up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review – you can read it and join the conversation at SSIR or read the repost below. Organizations are putting out calls, and the community is responding. Getting Offline. —– I’ve been thinking about slacktivism a lot lately. Call and Response.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Donor engagement is what your organization does to build and strengthen donor relationships and the methods you use to keep donors active and involved. Your donor engagement strategy outlines exactly how you’ll reach out to donors and the KPIs you’ll track to measure how engaged a donor is with your organization.

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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. Last month, I presented at the NCVO Foresight seminar: Changing ICT – what does it mean for your charity with a focus on the future of online revenue generation for nonprofit organizations.

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Social Media Organization Media Fundraising 102

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Organization: Taproot Foundation. Organization Size: 40 Employees. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? Which tool has been surprisingly useful in getting out the word about your organization and its programs? Name (s): Dupé Ajayi and Megan McDonald. LinkedIn: taproot-foundation.

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Kindful

APRIL 28, 2021

Events are typically near the top of every nonprofit organization’s list of disrupted activities and strategies. Thankfully, many organizations were able to shift to a virtual event format with limited disruption and, in some cases, even greater success than their previous in-person incarnations.

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Candid

JULY 26, 2022

The overhead myth is a pervasive challenge for nonprofits, often leading to organizations that are under-funded, unable to make an impact that aligns with their potential, and rapidly losing high-performing employees. And, it can make organizations feel the need to limit their operating expenses to a detrimental degree.

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Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 28, 2022

The overarching goal of this next phase is to humanize the customer experience with new AI-powered conversational intelligence, mobile offline access, and innovations to the Customer Data Platform. . With these advancements in capabilities comes a need for new vocabulary to adequately encapsulate those capabilities. Why the change?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review is now up – you can check out the blog and conversation on the SSIR opinion blog , or read it reposted below. In this case, for this conversation, co-creation is used generally to touch on issues of access and engagement, and collaboration.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

You meet with the donor, explain that your organization is exploring new types of giving programs, and ask if they’d be open to creating a bequest gift in their will. You agree to reconvene once they have a chance to think about it, but the conversation fizzles out over email, and the donor ultimately turns you down the next time you ask.

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Bloomerang

JULY 26, 2021

Internalizing and externalizing an organization-wide culture of philanthropy. Is your site well organized and easy to navigate? . First, pretend you know nothing about your organization. if your organization ceased to exist, would people care ?)? . Does the organization look trustworthy? If so, how?

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Strategy Online Fundraising Plugin 142

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

The social impact landscape in Romania is complex and exciting – you can see struggle and hope, fear and enthusiasm mixed in every conversation and every presentation. I had the opportunity to facilitate the IT track and had lots of fun poking, prodding, and supporting some really interesting conversations and sharing sessions.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

In addition to the challenges inherent to any nonprofit mission, these organizations and their personnel must often work in areas with poor security and limited resources. Organizations should critically review proposed data collection and ensure that the intended benefits and impact justify the risks of data collection in the first place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

A few days ago, I asked for some stories " What is the value of listening through social media channels for your organization? " I wanted to see examples from nonprofit organizations engaged in listening and conversation and the value it has to their missions, programs, or marketing efforts. And you shared them!

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

This post originally appeared on the NTEN blog – you can also read the full post and join the conversation on the NTEN.org website. We can’t forget that to be data-informed as an organization and as decision-makers, we have to actually be informed by that data (see what I did there?).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

Last week, I was in Sao Paolo for the ABCR Festival, the leading conference in Brasil for fundraising for nonprofit organizations. The moderator, Marcelo Jamberio, organized a set of questions that other Marcelo and I responded to with slides and audience interaction. This was my third visit to the country. A multi-screen world.

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NetWits

APRIL 12, 2012

Many people and organizations define a “major gift” based on some minimum gift amount. For example, does your organization take any $1,000+ gift that comes in the door and code it a “major gift”? But I would suggest what I think are two important points: It’s an Offline Process. Online Support is Needed.

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Gift Online Donation Offline 133

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

In my experience, the more diverse group you can get together to have this conversation and work through this planning together, the more complete a picture you can draw of your community. Even though much of these will be online social technologies, don’t forget about the offline spaces, too. Step 1: Identify all the content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

We had a wide ranging conversations about how to apply network mapping and visualization and debated about its use as a measurement technique vs strategy tool. Here’s some additional thoughts sparked by our conversation after reflecting on various blog posts I’ve written and others. Organization. The notes are here.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 24, 2011

This month’s chat focused mainly on sharing lessons and examples from the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference , which took place in Washington, DC, last week. Engagement for advocacy vs non-advocacy organizations. It was a rich conversation, so I haven’t tried to pull out specific quotes. Hyper-local communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2014

Thought leaders drive conversations – online and off, influence others, and shape perceptions in their field. Your leader as a champion and personal brand for your organization is going to have less risk than external volunteers or champions. Rich Huddleston Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, is an example.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 4, 2020

It is likely that the questions and responses will prompt conversations between participants that can continue offline or in another session. Set up virtual meeting rooms, for example, so the audience can continue discussions after a session is done. Also, make room in your agenda to include a Q&A at the end of each session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

Grassroots organizing. Bots needs to be designed increase engagement, support and inspire offline action. Right now it is difficult to discover bots, but after a bit of research I found a few examples of nonprofits making use of Facebook Messenger platform. Poverty Reduction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2009

I asked my Twitter followers for suggestions for questions , I tweeted the key points from the conversation yesterday. Take for example this recent case study on the blog. Joe says, "It happens when organizations aren't responsible in using the tool. Think like an offline community grassroots organizer.".

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 12, 2010

My latest post for the Stanford Social Innovation Review is now up – you can check it out and join the conversation there ; or read the repost below! —— Last year I used the metaphor of “ gardening vs landscaping &# to outline some of the key attributes I believe make for successful community building, on or offline.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

Team DNL provides Digital Nonprofit Leadership to mid-sized and large nonprofit organizations. For example, you can compare this year’s year-end giving campaign to last year’s. For example, you can understand what impact, if any, a new communication channel had on fundraising outcomes. Data analytics is one tool in that mission.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2012

Read the post and join the conversation on the NTEN blog. When you post a call to action for people to share a message, be sure to include reference to how they can do so; or if you are asking people to create content themselves, be sure to provide instructions and examples to help them respond to your call.

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Community Management Lesson NTEN 249

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

It’s something I can only wrap my mind around by talking to others and hope that this is a chance to further a very important conversation. Two weeks ago , Causes, the application that lets individuals and organizations campaign and fundraise, removed itself and all Causes-related content/data from MySpace.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The facilitator can call on people individually or, when multiple voices chime in simultaneously, create a structured queue, saying for example, “Let’s hear from Amy, then Cynthia, and then Brad.” Online brainstorming tools, like Miro and Lucid , replicate the offline experience using virtual templates. Or try a case study.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 6, 2009

You can read the full post and join the conversation on SSIR here. to share some of what I believe is the core of successful community building (on or offline). Some people define it as organizing, especially around specific events, campaigns, legislation, or fundraising. Have a great example or case study you want to share?

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 3, 2010

You can check out the post and conversation there , or read a copy of the post below. The power of social media in a global context is two-fold: There’s huge potential with these news tools for real movement building, bringing organizations, campaigns and people together behind a movement and not just one brand or one call to action.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 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. Is your organization considered a content curator? Are you a leader or a follower? Nope, it’s not possible."

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 20, 2017

The prime example of slacktivism gone right is the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge campaign. Sparking conversation. Say what you will about slacktivism, but even with a very small cost (sharing a post), Sue is still inviting her friends into a conversation about how to help kids on reduced lunches. Viral movements. The inverse effect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

Here’s a summary of tips, tools, examples, and resources for getting the most of our your nonprofit event with social media. Here’s a summary of tips, tools, examples, and resources for getting the most of our your nonprofit event with social media. (Here’s a curated link list used to create this post).

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review is up on the opinion blog – you can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR blog or read the full post below. But if they congregate online, on a community news site or blog network, join them in conversation there. It’s the same with any platform.

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Social Network Network Strategy Social 165

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

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. In the most simple terms, a movement is when organizations work with, and not for, the community.

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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. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of July 10th).

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