Neon CRM

JUNE 23, 2023

GivingTuesday participants worldwide also volunteered, performed countless acts of kindness, and gave their voices, time, and goods. GivingTuesday Participants Want to Be Part of a Huge Group of People Doing Good 52% of GivingTuesday supporters said that they are drawn to the idea of a bigger group of people doing good.

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Statistics Fundraising United States Global 98

Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

” “The conversation easily gets off-track, and before you know it, 30 minutes have passed and we haven’t even discussed important business because we’ve gotten off on a tangent again.” It’s impossible to get anything done or to keep the group focused without one. What’s on the Agenda? without an agenda.

Fun 98

Fun Product Law Nonprofit 98

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

For those that follow the #4Change twitter-based chats, this is a post recapping and highlighting our latest conversation on social media application in the Climate Change movement. Note: the @names provide links to the Twitter users who made specific comments, just in case you want to connect and continue the conversation!*.

Social Media 145

Social Media Change Media Lesson 145

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2009

You can read the post and participation in the conversation on the SSIR blog here! The piece is reposted below: Have we replicated our offline social dynamics and barriers online? You’ve probably heard of Facebook ; you may even have set up a group or a fan page there for your organization. Go where the community already is!

Community 100

Community Myspace Social Network Demographics 100

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. and so… The Conversation. There are many who approach the online landscape with very different views than their offline business decisions. Well, it means a lot.

Myspace 108

Myspace Causes Philanthropy Offline 108

Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2022

Nick Ellinger of Donor Voice is a guru on this type and he suggests the following as a guideline: For current low/mid-level donors – Set suggested donations at 1x, 1.5x, and 2x their average amount, and offer an “other” option. increase in donor conversion and generated a higher average gift than the ask strings control.

Donation 74

Donation Donor Gift Nonprofit 74

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 9, 2010

You can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR blog here , or read the copied post below. It comes at the same time that I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the importance of community builders/managers/leaders or organizational voices to give permission back to the community members.

Influence 114

Influence Giving Broadcast Empowerment 114

NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

How #CommBuild works Each week whoever wants to participate comes to Twitter, searches for the hashtag #CommBuild, and finds a conversation about topics tied to community management. Claire Sale, a longtime #CommBuild champion, says this is her favorite part: “Mixing the online/offline builds stronger bonds between people and projects.”

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Facilitation Guidelines Hosting Twitter 82

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

Facebook’s newest “renovations&# have, as many people have already noticed, nearly relegated Groups as a thing of the past and pushed Pages onto the main stage. The climate change movement has shown a lot of focus on helping people effected by climate change (everyone) share their story, voice their concerns.

Green 102

Green Mashup Aggregator Org 102

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

My latest post for the Stanford Social Innovation Review is up and I hope you’ll dive into the conversation with me! This event focuses on Causes , an application for supporting and fundraising for organizations by individuals, groups and even the organizations themselves. First, let me explain what happened yesterday.

Myspace 158

Myspace Technology Causes Application 158

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

My latest post for the Stanford Social Innovation Review is up and I hope you’ll dive into the conversation with me! This event focuses on Causes , an application for supporting and fundraising for organizations by individuals, groups and even the organizations themselves. First, let me explain what happened yesterday.

Myspace 158

Myspace Technology Causes Application 158

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

to Boston for two days of book events hosted by Associated Grant Makers , Barr Foundation , Public Conversations Project , TechFoundation and Berkman Center Luncheon series. Networking: Weaving Online and Offline, Strong Ties and Weak Ties. This “relationship building&# conversation is the foundation of forming stronger ties.

Boston 95

Boston Network Story Nonprofit 95

NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

How #CommBuild works Each week whoever wants to participate comes to Twitter, searches for the hashtag #CommBuild, and finds a conversation about topics tied to community management. Claire Sale, a longtime #CommBuild champion, says this is her favorite part: “Mixing the online/offline builds stronger bonds between people and projects.”

Facilitation 60

Facilitation Guidelines Hosting Twitter 60

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Examples: Yammer for internal sharing, it’s a Twitter for groups. assessed the conversation and they had a 58% negative blog/conversation ratio (used manual researching, icerocket, forumtracker, search.twitter, etc.), Nonprofit staff are so overwhelmed, how many groups have someone to measure social media?

Social Media 102

Social Media Map Strategy Media 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery. The class typically erupts in a cacophony of voices, as it did that first time he told students to talk to each other because he couldn’t figure out what else to do. Then the group draws the connections.

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Experiment Learning Create Exercise 116

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I don't get an opportunity to do this workshop with a large group, so this was fabulous learning experience to work out some techniques to make it scale. The Valley Medical Foundation: This organization provided an example of the personal versus organizational voice issue that social media often brings up. Photo by Nelson Layag.

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Social Media Game Media Social 87

Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2014

She recently shared her social media and community-building wisdom at an event organized by the SF Tech4Good group and the San Francisco Online Community Meetup Group. The goal is for people to have "an ongoing conversation that is positive and informed and that inform purchasing and donation decisions for the rest of their lives."

Social Media 61

Social Media Community San Francisco Media 61

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2011

At minimum, this application lets people air their concerns to legislators and policy makers easily through Twitter and can amplify more traditional tactics such as email campaigns and signing online/offline petitions. It’s pretty difficult to create circles or groups of like-minded individuals in G+.

Twitter 95

Twitter Google Facebook Broadcast 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The social business sector has shared metrics and understanding of being data-informed. That changes the conversation for nonprofits. But expect how you report and measure impact with the social business sector. She touched on some of the implications for staffing and governance.

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Skills Reflection Management Aggregator 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

right now two reasons: Sometimes pictures and people's voices are a better way to tell a story than text alone. You need to add Cambodia's voice to the global conversation happening on video blogs. There is an active Cambodian community/groups there. I should do that more often. I always like to start with the why.

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Cambodia Video Remix Jing 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Kanter will bring together a group of highly visible free agents working on important social change causes and representatives from different nonprofits for a lively discussion with the audience. Online numbers don’t always equate offline results. Our session will explore how and why this needs to change. What are they good for?

Comment 97

Comment Artist Social Media Hype 97

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Consider the groups you will want to track or by which you will want to arrange members: donors, activists, organizers, stakeholders, partners, volunteers, supporters, and so on. Or, you may need to get one that can work for many kinds of groups. A great example of using Twitter for real information exchange and for conversation.

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Tools Tech Map Case Study 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

The workshop was an all day workshop , with an opening presentation followed by small group exercise. The workshop was the first time I had used the game with fleshed out scenarios for the small groups to work and an assignment to have a discussion around planning questions: What's the goal? What's the outcome? What's the key metric?

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Reflection Slides Metrics PowerPoint 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Why it works: conversation, authentic, story, translates into action -- how do I let go and let my supporters take hole of my messaging. There are offline ways to do it. Personal experience, to connect to younger groups. Does the post relate to the blog's goal, voice, and conversational voice.

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Australia Conference Guidelines Comment 56

Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

Change the World, Lives, with Bikes core conversation Tuesday, March 16 at 11:00 AM – “This core conversation will talk about how cycling, the bike, and social media are changing the world and lives. We'll also talk about how you can get sizeable online grants and free/discounted help from key professionals.”

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Conference Government Social Media Influence 38

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

I will say that there are regulations that relate well to offline consumer relationships that don’t apply well online. It depends the context, who is having the conversation, etc. When I was in Australia last year, I met Priscilla Brice Weller who worked for a native rights group. I did an interview with her about this.

Social Media 20

Social Media Social Media Blogger 20

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

And so I have more than five years of experience creating online and offline communities to support social and environmental causes as Steven said and I worked a lot in Latin America. So it is grouped in the category of social media because people use it a lot. They can send you a voice note. In the U.S.,

Community 67

Community Video Broadcast Phone 67

Care2

MAY 15, 2009

Consider the groups you will want to track or by which you will want to arrange members: donors, activists, organizers, stakeholders, partners, volunteers, supporters, and so on. Or, you may need to get one that can work for many kinds of groups. A great example of using Twitter for real information exchange and for conversation.

Social Media 34

Social Media Tools Online Advocacy 34

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

The number or organizations who joined causes in the past with enthusiasm and now voice frustration, or who have abandoned their efforts entirely, continues to grow. Their focus must shift from building new tools and waging higher-profile campaigns to understanding what motivates action and how to support groups in their work.

Facebook 98

Facebook Causes Challenge Communication 98

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Full Transcript: Steven: You’ll hear a robot voice. And if you have not heard, I have a podcast, “Let’s Take This Offline,” and you can go ahead and binge listen while you do your running, or your walking, or you’re sitting lakeside this summer, kind of decompressing from a really hellish year. Absolutely.

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Management Work Video Slides 94

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

It’s a good group. We may go through rough patches, but because we’re working together, because it’s not just dictated by a small group of people what the plan is going to be or a top-down approach, folks have worked together. So I wanted you to just think about that, how your group addresses resources.

Community 82

Community Video Slides Survey 82

Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

The most important one for our conversation—95% of donors consider content created by nonprofits to be trustworthy! That’s why we work with a group of like-minded strategic partners— BDI , DNL Omnimedia , Donorly , and Oneicity , who share our passion to help make a difference. Pro tip: don’t ignore your website conversion rate.

Channel 59

Channel Marketing Fundraising Nonprofit 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

The key thing that is different with setting a social media objective is that it is not about reaching a mass audience and blasting your message out, it is more about reaching the influencers, developing relationships, having a conversation, and getting insights. Why this target group? Identify the Audience. by Beth Kanter.

Social Media 106

Social Media Map Strategy Media 106

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

As part of our ongoing research project into the future of membership-based advocacy organizations, we’ve been talking to folks from “new” as well as “older” groups focused on issue-organizing. E.g. they work with policy groups, environmental groups, social justice and poverty prevention groups, etc.

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Model Grant Learning Online 85

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2009

The Wall Street Journal covered her keynote, they picked up on these points: Don't rely on groups in Facebook, have a Fan page to take advantage of Facebook's viralness. (You Be a little less "formal" and try a few fun updates and other content that sparks conversations. Randi suggests that having a personality is an asset.

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Conference Reflection Social Kiva 91

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2010

Regardless of how successful this call was, I always hung up feeling things were incomplete.” - Danielle Thomas, Exhale Talkline Counselor & Pro-Voice Ambassador. At first, what they asked for were in-person support groups, and over time, the request turned into something else. We do offer something.

Social Media 96

Social Media Lesson Public Change 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Note from Beth: As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I’ve had the honor of designing and facilitating a “networked capacity building project” for a cluster of grantees, state-based groups, to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. Life Elevated.” It turns out there is a.

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Children Voice Social Media Utah 106