Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 19, 2011

Location : online with Nonprofit Webinars. Description : Social media, online campaigns, and community engagement can be tricky things to dive into and do well without measuring, monitoring and evaluating. But what to measure? Related Links : Nonprofit Webinars website. Slides and notes. How to evaluate?

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Classy

JULY 5, 2021

While many nonprofits think of donation matching as a year-end effort or something for which you need a major corporate sponsor, sourcing the right matching partner can happen year-round and leverage a variety of partners. Positive publicity through a partnership with your nonprofit can also have an even greater impact for them locally.

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Classy

JUNE 23, 2021

When your work changes the world daily, your nonprofit board should see just how impactful it is. Present clear areas of opportunity with data-driven recommendations that lead your organization down a proactive path to success. . Step 1: Understand the Common Priorities of a Nonprofit Board.

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NetWits

MARCH 23, 2012

We recently released the most comprehensive analysis of online giving trends in the nonprofit sector. In our 2011 Online Giving Report we’ve combined findings from The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving with additional multi-year giving data, which allows us to pull out a very rich set of insights. 1) Have People Over Year Round.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

These methods included: Developmental Evaluation , Shared Measurement , and Big Data. These approaches have the potential to change how nonprofits and funders view of evaluation in a significant way. Measure success against predetermined outcomes. ” ( Video and Slides ). Based on a logic model.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

Note: This is the second in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. Most nonprofits already have Google Analytics installed on their website to track online traffic. This post is about how we incorporate Google Analytics data into our Design Process. To understand how visitors interact with the site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

It used to be twenty years ago that the “do gooders” would go off and take lower paying jobs in the nonprofit sector. They shared a slide (see above) about new models we’ll see that combine both – especially the “not invented yet.” They want to combine both.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2013

I thought if I set up a tumblr blog curating great nonprofit spreadsheets , but the next logical step is create visualizations of your data. Great data visualizations don’t necessarily require an expensive software package or a programmer on staff. If your data adds up to 100%, you might choose a pie chart. Low budget?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Share Your Story: ROI, Social Media, Nonprofits. tags: nonprofits roi ). My chapter lays out a traditional ROI process that Nonprofit technology staff use to make major IT investment purchases such as hardware, video conference system, database system, etc. And, it also includes measurement - not just qualitative information.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

After nearly 30 years working in nonprofits and 5 years as the president and CEO of Charity Navigator , Berger has seen plenty of inefficient, dishonest, and outright fraudulent nonprofits. As bad as these corrupt nonprofits are, they're not the biggest problem facing the social sector, according to Berger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

I was invited to present a key note at the Mekong ICT Camp in Thailand about nonprofits, social media, and measurement. The theme for the training was “ Data, Data.” ” Unfortunately, I could make it to Thailand, so I presented and lead a discussion remotely using Google Hangouts from California.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

The event brought together over 50 speakers and thousands of nonprofit professionals from across the social sector. Get to know their top insights and learning moments to accelerate the impact of your nonprofit’s next virtual fundraising event. Experience Our Nonprofit Event On-Demand. Experience Our Nonprofit Event On-Demand.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And just a couple of quick housekeeping items, just want to let you all know that we are recording this session and we’ll be sending out the recording, as well as the slides, later on this afternoon. So I’m going to stop sharing so that you can bring up those beautiful slides we were just looking at. Marie: Wonderful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

One of the reasons I made a commitment to blogging about professional topics regularly was because I was inspired by Marnie’s nonprofit technology blog, ext. David was interested in learning more about what American nonprofits were doing with social media, he asked me for some advice. What fun is that for me or them?

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

You see, your annual fundraising plan is a treasure map that leads you to the exact activities that will raise the most money for your nonprofit over the course of the coming year. Or enough data. A nonprofit I work with has tried several different campaigns on Valentine’s Day, and they always fail to ignite. Just do it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2013

He’s one of many four-legged and fine feathered fans of ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” The book continues to be in the top nonprofit books at Amazon. But by holiday season, I needed a break and took one. So, I asked on my page, ”If your Facebook analytics looked like this, what would you do?”

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yesterday was the 3rd annual Women Who Tech Telesummit , bringing together over 600 women (and men) from for-profit and nonprofit organizations and technology start, connecting developers and techies with those new to the field, igniting conversations and long-term collaborations. WWT 2010: Apps and Tools to Energize Your Base.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

How will you measure success? To avoid getting seduced by “ shiny object syndrome &# get educated about Mobile Campaign Basics for Nonprofits and spend some time reflecting those strategic questions. Also, there is secondary data to review and your web site analytics. View more presentations from Kyoo Slides.

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Forum One

MAY 4, 2010

A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post on how organizations can use Convio’s Online Nonprofit Benchmarks Study to determine how well they are doing online compared to others. So at times, when they segment the data by organization type (or similar subgroups), you’re seeing trend data for as few as three or four organizations.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2014

After nearly 30 years working in nonprofits and 5 years as the president and CEO of Charity Navigator , Berger has seen plenty of inefficient, dishonest, and outright fraudulent nonprofits. As bad as these corrupt nonprofits are, they're not the biggest problem facing the social sector, according to Berger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2011

If you want extract value from your social media strategy, you need to use measurement. That means setting measurable goals, collecting the right data, making sense of it, and transforming it into actionable decisions. I think these workplace skills are important for nonprofits, especially making sense out of data.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2012

He's spent close to ten years helping nonprofits be more. We recently released the most comprehensive analysis of online giving trends in the nonprofit sector. Every nonprofit sector has seen double-digit online fundraising growth since 2009. 5 Tactics Your Nonprofit Must Implement Today. effective online.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2009

As I announced recently , Advocacy Online and Fairsay have jointly produced a benchmark report to examine key e-campaigning performance measures. The benchmark data is derived from the activity of over 2 million supporters from 50 campaigning organisations in the UK, Canada, and several other countries. Download Reports.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

some pics of slides are here ). " She talked about the importance of measuring your social media efforts.   This was a great positive spin -- rather than measure to show me or prove the impact, it's measure so you can quantify it.    It is about how to analyze the data. 

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Yesterday, I had the huge honor and pleasure to present the keynote at the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits ‘ NPTech Conference, eStrategy in an iWorld. There were interesting conversations at every turn and I also had requests to share my notes and slides. If you have other questions, or other ideas, please share them!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

In this post, I’m sharing my slides , resources , and practical engagement tips with a higher purpose. That purpose, of course, is to build a life-long relationship with alumni of your nonprofit’s program or school so that they are a donor and champion for your organization. Experiment, Measure, Learn, and Revise.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 6, 2012

Nonprofit Finance Fund. continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to. inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Earlier this year Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) asked for a few minutes of your time to help us tell the collective story of the nonprofit sector. As part of a.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Web Analytics As Simple Gifts To Measure Mission 3. Kaushik's thinking is based on " Occam's Razor Principle " (which boils down to a poetic way of saying " KISS ") The screencast will show some practical examples of how at least one nonprofit organization's web site, the Idealist , is using the software in practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop. Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy.

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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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NTEN

JULY 5, 2012

Are the slides available? You can download a PDF of the slides and get the recording of the webinar right here. Total Reach, Viral Reach, Fan Page Users, People Talking About This, and Daily Page Engaged Users are all reported by Facebook Insights – export your monthly data and you’ll see. Take some tips from Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

That's why this is the perfect time to make a fresh start on your nonprofit tech resolutions. Then check out our new online learning courses, starting with Tech Training for Nonprofits and Libraries. NetSquared Vancouver** shares [slides and videos]([link] from their November event. * Microsoft Office 365 for Nonprofits.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Also posted on the Frogloop blog for nonprofits here. See the slide deck below and notes from the panelists: WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore. Sustainable product and solid support from a nonprofit specialist. Facebook General Growth data: More than 200 million active users. Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. More than 3.5

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 30, 2017

For 5 years the Blackbaud Institute has brought together experts in the nonprofit sector to speak on a wide variety of topics. From donor retention to nonprofit marketing to organizational leadership, every ebook is an invaluable resource. In this post we’ll focus on must-haves for your nonprofit marketing plan.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

It should be reassuring for many nonprofit professionals to learn that EVERYONE is relatively new to this stuff. One of the most common things I hear from nonprofit staff is something along the lines of, "I'm just learning about social media. Social media is an area the nonprofit sector has been, in many ways, leading the way! .

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Blackbaud hosted its annual conference for nonprofits from September 29 through October 1 in National Harbor, MD. Nonprofit experts from around the country presented best practices to over 2000 attendees. It’s pretty safe to say that everyone wants more donors for their nonprofit. Check out their slides today!

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2010

Mastering Social Media for Fundraising Success". (**full presentation slides can be found here ) My favorite quote from their presentation - "Gardens are lovely as long as you water them. Measuring success properly by answering the correct questions: - Which measurements mean success? What are the right moments to measure?

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