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. —– A new report from the team at Forrester came out last week: Tapping The Entire Online Peer Influence Pyramid. Giving permission to the community to have conversations without you requires trust.

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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.” One agenda item is mentioned, and that is Betty’s cue to break into lengthy stories and opinions, basically hijacking the conversation.

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Fun Product Law Nonprofit 98

Forum One

AUGUST 24, 2022

Narratives have the power to liberate or oppress because they have the potential to influence the beliefs and behaviors of individuals, which in turn can shape institutional policies and practices. A good narrative includes both values and ideas about how the world could work. Putting narrative change into action for impact.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

While these techniques can’t change the past, here are some design ideas to help your organization adjust and optimize your website in the future. Still, understanding your audience is the foundation of all other design strategies and directly influences the success or failure of a website. In practice: 1) Civil Voices.

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Technique Design Websites Brain 325

Neon CRM

JUNE 23, 2023

Check out these GivingTuesday statistics sourced from the GivingTuesday 2022 impact report and broader impact data to learn more about the influence GivingTuesday has on the philanthropic sector. GivingTuesday participants worldwide also volunteered, performed countless acts of kindness, and gave their voices, time, and goods.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

We are tracking the conversation and resources about AI and Nonprofits and social good. AI Is Getting Better At Conversation. This will be help voice assistants like Alexa improve as well as software that automatically analyzes documents inside law firms and others organizations. Here’s this month’s roundup. Social Change.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 5, 2021

We need to normalize those conversations, and then involve our children in acting with us for the climate. It’s important to know a little about the issue and what some good resources are, to help us have those conversations. The parent voice carries acute moral and emotional weight. Start talking about it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2008

I got this great question from someone and I know that many of you may have struggled with this issue and have some wisdom to offer: Hi Beth, My question is: does the voice/tone of a blog need to match up with the voice/tone of the nonprofit? Perhaps that is why I am protective of my blogging voice. Any thoughts or resources?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2011

As Geoff writes in the book, “an understanding of what makes people fall in love with causes, products, services and ideas.&# That takes the discipline of listening to ensure that you understand your community, value them, and build a meaningful experience. These include: Conversation Starters. Relationship Approaches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

Screencapture from Jonny Bentwood 's White Paper on measuring influence. A new whitepaper by Jonny Bentwood, a PR consultant for Edelman, Distributed Influence: Quantifying the Impact of Social Media. pdf) starts the conversation and attempt to address a method to quantify influence. s voice louder than ever before.

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Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2022

Donors like to have an idea of the type of donations your organization is looking for to help them choose the right giving amount. Several different studies provide insight into why how you present giving price options can influence donors to give more (or less) generously. They’ll give even more when offered a choice of giving levels.

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Donation Donor Gift Nonprofit 73

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2017

That’s why we’ve included a highly practical toolkit that consists of facilitator agendas and worksheets for nonprofits to apply the ideas and frameworks. Getting this right is a conversation that requires all voices at the table. Getting this right is a conversation that requires all voices at the table.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

Personalization alongside a donor’s individual case for support can entirely change conversations around year-end giving. Images become live conversations when the sender and the receiver are both looking at the exact same thing; in that way, ensure photographs always direct a viewer back to where you want them to read.

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Campaign Guide Fundraising Storytelling 52

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

I’ve included my interview below, but you can also read it and join the conversation on the NetSquared blog. The other interviews include Sylwia Presley from Gobal Voices , and Claire Sale from NetSquared. Or even the networked influence from news coverage and stories from one group or city to the next. Start small.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

This global ecosystem includes the digital brand and voice of your organization, the main source of knowledge and data about the programs and issues you work on, as well as detailed information about the audience you are reaching. Do they have a unified visual voice and brand?

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Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2021

Conversely, if you have “totally awesome” as one of your criteria, how will you measure that and how will you craft an appropriate interview question? And who has influence over its success? Engaging them can bring to light critical information and ideas that would have otherwise gone unnoticed. What was the outcome?”.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

We’ll be facilitating a conversation, more than doing a formal presentation, and will focus on the power of crowdsourcing (using our own case study from conducting the Social Media for Social Good case study competition) and the application of social media in nonprofit program delivery. If you’re here in Austin, do join us!

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Community Case Study Haiti Social Media 207

Qgiv

APRIL 26, 2022

This means employee behavior influences corporate dollars. Camtasia makes it easy to turn your raw footage and voice over recordings into a video you can make yourself with their simple video editing tools. They cited the performance of the stock market as a driver of this growth. Hybrid fundraising events.

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Trend Camtasia Nonprofit Video 96

Bloomerang

JUNE 20, 2023

In this guide, we’ll cover the ins and outs of online fundraising, explaining how you can leverage various platforms and fundraising ideas to engage your supporters virtually. 10 effective online fundraising ideas Your online fundraising ideas may be virtual or hybrid. Here’s what to expect: What is online fundraising?

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Ideas Guide Online Fundraising 97

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! Because individuals network together online and the biggest influencers are our closest friends in our network. It also skews the idea that organizations can focus energy where their communities already are.

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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! Because individuals network together online and the biggest influencers are our closest friends in our network. It also skews the idea that organizations can focus energy where their communities already are.

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Myspace Technology Causes Application 158

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. The social business sector has shared metrics and understanding of being data-informed. That changes the conversation for nonprofits. Let’s start with a definition first.

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Skills Reflection Management Aggregator 96

Association Analytics

JANUARY 30, 2023

When’s the last time you heard a board member say, “Members want…” followed by an aggregate of the last five conversations they’ve had. You’ll come away with a better idea of where opportunities exist for pruning and provide better, more relevant content for members.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

They can give directly from their seats without disrupting conversation with one another. Chapter officers can use OmegaOne to send out mass messages to all members and the “wall” allows everyone to post announcements or ideas in a social media-inspired manner. Outbid notifications. Instantaneous check-out. Chapter communication.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 6, 2013

Ideas and stories were going viral long before the web. John Haydon draws upon Jonah Berger’s STEPPS to share the 6 Human Factors that Influence Virality. As your organization works to distinguish a unique voice, you must focus also on the identity and promise it conveys. Don’t blame it on the internet.

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Profile Blackbaud Stats Nonprofit 38

Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

In this guide, we’ll cover the ins and outs of online fundraising, explaining how you can leverage various platforms and fundraising ideas to engage your supporters virtually. Browse the list to find online fundraising ideas that work for your nonprofit’s mission and goals. Here’s what to expect: What is online fundraising?

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Ideas Online Fundraising Tips 78

Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

This plan is a living rough draft based on everyone’s ideas. When it comes to strategic planning, there are a few common hesitations that nonprofits voice throughout the process. While more revenue probably comes from in-person conversations with major donors, most of your donors probably prefer to give online.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 25, 2017

Why cover an event where an elected official and constituents have a calm conversation on public policy?) And, indeed, many citizens come to these events not to have a conversation, but to vent. Yet my experience is that town hall meetings can actually be wonderful opportunities for an exchange of ideas. I came here to yell!”.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 12, 2021

He’s spent the last three years specializing in WordPress and conversion optimization, and is an active proponent of coding guidelines. Showcase your unique brand voice. Custom software developers work with your ideas to create plugins and applications made exclusively for your website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

One way to rejuvenate your practice, is to be a participant in training designed and facilitated by someone else. The day provided lots of inspiration and new ideas designing and facilitating training. It never ceases to amaze how the set up of the room influences how we learn and how important that is to consider it in your design.

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Social Media Media Technique Tunisia 93

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

The Austin Game Developers Conference is finishing up, and from it comes Gamasutra's intriguing account of the session on Engaging and Empowering Community Influencers. Notably, the Brooklyn Museum's heavy involvment with social networking sites like MySpace has extended the idea that museums are sites for discussion. around gameplay.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

We asked some of our favorite nonprofit tech friends to share ideas for how organizations can use social media to build meaningful relationships with their supporters—donors, influencers and activists—and what that looks like on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Influencers are busy. Do your research first. Make it easy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

We kicked off the conference with an interview style keynote about the Networked Nonprofit, moderated by fabulous Shireen Mitchell (aka digitalsista ). The best part is when the audience joins the conversation. Shireen did a fabulous job of bringing in their voices. Wendy Harman from the Red Cross.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

It's like a giant combination of influence and karma. Influence: Can you move groups of people, small or large, to take some action? Access to ideas, talent: Beyond your own skill set, do you have ways of reaching out to others with talent and knowledge? Forget brochure-speak — this is a world of conversations.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2017

If you haven’t already, it is time to come to terms with the idea of paying your best social channels for premium visibility. So, think about how you can communicate impact and add value to your conversations on social. You also want to drive cost per email down along with increasing donor conversations via email and social.

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Social Media Digital Life Media 29

Connection Cafe

APRIL 7, 2016

At bbcon 2015 , some of the top minds in the nonprofit industry came together to present Big Idea sessions. In this monthly blog series, top Big Idea presenters will recap the topics they presented on so you can use their insight to build your next Big Idea. . Although women have represented more than 50% of the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

What ideas might they offer for new services or marketing/fundraising campaigns? How is the conversation around your organization, issue area, or program changing? Who are the influential voices in the social media space covering your issue area or topical domain? Here's a few ideas to get started.

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