Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 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 February 23rd). Check it out!

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Web ROI Bookmarking Phase 108

Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The next five months can be your learning phase. For example, it can determine things like donation probability, which calculates the likelihood that a user who was active in the last 28 days will log a donation conversion event within the next seven days. What happens to my existing data? Google has announced two key dates.

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FAQ Organization Analytics Google 58

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 16, 2010

We will phase out our free service. [ Read the full letter here. ]. Join the conversation taking place on Manny Hernandez’s blog about keeping the network free for nonprofit and educational use. Tags: campaigns community community management free ning tools. Please share your ideas, your stories and your examples.

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Ning Free Network Phase 158

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

The big mistake that many organizations make is that they stop at the “attention&# phase of the ladder of love. And, of course, you need content that inspires good conversation. (Using spreadsheet aerobics will help you hone your content and engagement strategies on Facebook). Tags: Case Studies Engagement Facebook.

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Facebook Alaska Case Study Hunger 110

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Some user curate user generated content, by tagging it on social bookmarking websites, voting for it on social voting websites, commenting on it, or linking to it. Collaboration can happen at three levels: conversation, co-creation and collective action. Conversations create buzz, which is how ideas tip, become viral.

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Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

They can give directly from their seats without disrupting conversation with one another. Hootsuite allows for a set-it-and-forget-it approach that frees up more time during your fundraising campaign for more face-to-face conversations with supporters and less time watching your computer screen. Outbid notifications.

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Org Raise Tools Help 80

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Change: an event that occurs when something passes from one stat or phase to another. Visit the 4Change blog to join the conversation! Tags: case studies events 4change strategy. Success: an event that accomplishes it’s intended purpose. an attainment that is successful. a state of prosperity or fame. an event that happens.

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Change Case Study Org Lesson 102

NTEN

JULY 24, 2009

Lots of you helped us with Phase One: The Card Sort. This week, we moved on to Phase Two: The Wireframe Test. We need to integrate more of the great people and conversations that make NTEN what it is into the site. Tags: beaconfire Communications ia informationarchitecture navigation NPTech NTEN website wireframe.

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Test Phase NTEN Rate 36

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Read the post and join the conversation on the Frogloop blog (or read the post below). Tags: case studies challenge competition frogloop guest post howto tips. I’m honored to have a guest post up on Care2′s Frogloop blog today! —– What do you think? What tips would you share from your experience?

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Tips FAQ Howto Netsquared 114

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2020

Currently, this happens in two phases. After this first phase is approved, the second phase is building out a basic Google Ads account, and submitting that for approval. However, one area to note is that you must have conversion tracking set up as part of the application process. Effective conversion tracking is in place.

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Google Grant Guide Adopt 332

Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

This technology selection and implementation phase can be daunting and complex. WARNING: using an inexpensive, easy-to-deploy tool does not mean you can skip or shortchange the strategy and planning phases outlined in the earlier posts in this series. Tags: Influence Collaboration. Evaluate and select an enterprise solution.

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Collaboration Tools Ning Sharepoint 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2009

As a SEO and Social Media Manager, I have learned the ins and outs of traffic building, lead generation, website user conversion and community building. Once the research and profiles are set up, less time (or more time, depending how addictive these sites can be ;) will be needed to maintain the profiles and conversations.

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Social Media Media Work Social 51

NTEN

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

The Office of Marketing & Communications began the task of dealing with the uncertainty of the library’s future with one strategy in mind – creating communication messages asking the public to “learn the facts” and “join the conversation”. After we completed the listening phase, we began the process of relationship building.

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Charlotte Library Social Media Communication 89

Judi Sohn

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

The more I think about it, the more I think I need to work with a consultant for the conversion. At the same time, I’ll be talking to Convio seriously about Common Ground, now that it’s well out of the charter/testing phase. Tags: Salesforce Nonprofit. Especially in converting from the old model to the new.

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Convio License Contact Model 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2009

Open ended conversation – conversations that continue to rise and fall over time without a specific goal (i.e. To see larger diagram Inspired by Nancy's analysis of a bird watcher's community orientation , I thought I do a little analysis of the WeAreMedia year 1 as a reflection tool for thinking about the next phase.

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Digital Community Technology Wiki 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

You can avoid having a conversation. You can even pretend the conversations aren't happening elsewhere. Tags: guest blogging nptech socialnetworking. Before starting to create a strategy it makes sense to set a baseline. Where are we today? What's going on? Haven't we seen this before? Why does any of this matter? Lots of talk.

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Social Network Network Create Strategy 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

My central thesis is that social media can enhance all phases of the instructional design, delivery, and evaluation process: . . That's one advantage of the backchannel - is that you came your presentation top level - and encourage more advanced people to share what they know in the backchannel and then bring that into the conversation.

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Social Media Share Media Instruction 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

10 Steps in Creating Movements by Conversation Agent. The 5 Phases of a Movement by Brian Reich of Thinking About Media. Tags: movement building. Five Stages for Social Movements by Training for Change. Tips on Getting Started: How to Start a Movement in 7 Easy Steps by Nathan McGee of Social Media Today.

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Resource Build Brain Social Media 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

For example, on Twitter, a strong tie could be two nodes or people that engage consistently in two-way conversation. Network maps support "what if conversations.". Tags: network effectiveness. (BTW, there's an interesting discussion about this on David Armano's blog). Connections also be strong or loose.

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Analysis Social Network America Network 95

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Honest conversations are the beginning of more equitable museums. This decade has begun the conversation about labor. We're still in the additive phase of making museums equitable. Tag me so I can add your thoughts to this month’s summary post @artlust on twitter, @_art_lust_ on IG, & @brilliantideastudiollc on FB).

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Museum Work Social Media History 21

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

John: I think you sort of have to phase it in. The phasing in is beginning to communicate that being a member comes with privileges, but those privileges are not necessarily free. Try to engage administration in these conversations, and challenge them to be part of it. What will it take to make this happen?

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Interview Museum Phase Reflection 32

Museum 2.0

JUNE 9, 2009

Noting that the museum is at a very early stage in development and is still learning about its' audiences' needs (and getting their feet wet on the Web), she recommended a three-phase plan for both internal online skills development and external audience research and pilot projects. Tags: web2.0 What kind of relationship is sought?

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Social Media Develop Media Museum 43

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

Tag Partners and Corporate Sponsors. Partners and corporate sponsors are notified if they are tagged in your posts. That’s an incredibly high donor retention rate for a set of tools that are still in their early adoption phase. link below ) and pixels to track conversions from your ads.

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Practice Nonprofit Avatar Social Media 363

Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

Format conversion tools. At the end of 2020, internet browsers phased out Adobe Flash and many organizations needed to adjust their courses accordingly. Some course authoring software platforms have built-in format conversion tools to help with this effort.

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eLearning Authoring Course Platform 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

We have gone through a few key phases in the first year, from working hard for nine months to build our first 10,000 connections and then being placed on the Twitter Suggested Users list and racing to the more than 300,000 we now have. Conversations focus on next steps and areas for further exploration.

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Twitter South America North America Conversation 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2009

I participated in a lively exploratory conversation about "How do you evaluate network effectiveness?" The other conversation I participated in was focused on network effectiveness and how to evaluate it. The framework assumes that networks can move up or down through these phases. Coordination. Collaboration. Partnerships.

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Social Media Story Evaluation Media 90

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Here is how I would approach it: The Five Phases Online movements are successful because they marry the right set of opportunities for engagement with a level of awareness and passion among the target audience. The concept of moving in phases is not new. Tags: facebook guest blogging. Let’s review: Its not about the technology.

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Facebook Causes Challenge Communication 98

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 23, 2010

We are currently in the first phase of implementation with a group of three Community Action Agencies in Massachusetts. He’s been a great resource and conversation starter recently for me. Tags: collaboration interview case studies clienttrack community management tools. More information available on the CT website.). >>

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Interview Collaboration Chicago Boston 144

NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Not everyone wants, or needs, the same amount of “interactive", but it sets the tone for many web planning conversations these days. Tags: CMS Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN Planning steve backman Web Sites. It really depends on what will best serve your goals.

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Project Management Websites Technology 78

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Our October 14th conversation began with Jensine explaining how World Pulse works. Our next phase is really a massive expansion - our vision is to link over five million women within three years into one of the largest action networks for women in the world, and have a communications infrastructure that really unites the women's movement.

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Voice Global Saudi Arabia Journal 69

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

We used bit.ly (to track viral spread), Google Analytics (for goal conversions), Paypal audit accounts (to see donation amounts) and Clicky (for real-time web analytics.) We also linked to the Google Group discussion, which added new members and triggered conversations. Conversion funnels and donations. We had a great cause.

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Canada Lesson Twitter Learning 50

Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

They were a reminder of the conversations we'd had about the content, and they got me started more usefully than the solicited comments, which I hadn't lived with and thought about for weeks or months. For the next two months, I focused full-time on the book in its most intense phase. Tags: Book: The Participatory Museum.

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Participatory Museum Process Experiment 33

Museum 2.0

MARCH 25, 2009

The whole room lit up, and we found ourselves suddenly engaged in active conversation. The language itself has prevented a critical conversation from taking place. Tags: guestpost. I backed way up, and explained Optical Character Recognition in the most straightforward way I could. Don’t use meaningless terms.

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Language Museum Professional Application 20

Forum One

MAY 4, 2009

Conversely, relying only on experts help reliability but at the cost of scale. Tags: Technology. On the one hand, to achieve the scale of a true picture, one wants to get as many inputs as possible, but clearly taking data from anyone opens the data to mistakes, fraud, or fear of self-reporting. This concept may have come of age.

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