Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Despite the generic title, this is a report chock full of examples, best practices and data about the effects of joining the conversation online. The survey found that blogging and blog outreach was the most popular social media choice. 83 percent currently reach out to bloggers and the remaining 17 percent plan to in the future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

None of this can be done effectively without systematic planning upfront – and that takes time. Here is a Sample Six-Month Planning Timeline to help you get started. This Sample Budget Template provides a more detailed expense breakdown and can be used to start your Giving Day budget.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Are there methods and tools in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector for using it effectively? Do you only want to monitor social media mentions, or would you also like to manage your social media profiles using this platform? Which profiles are you most active on? ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Consider these two sample audiences: “Canadian women” or “18 to 30-year-old women in BC or Alberta who live in cities with more than 100,000 people” Of course, most NGOs can’t afford to hire the kind of market researchers you’d need to produce a sophisticated work-up of who your core audience is.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Here are the details: @BrandsConf is a new event taking place in early December 2010 that will explore the “Humanization of Brands” and the underlying effects this is having on business. Personal profiles, direct communication, authentic conversations. I’m also hoping to find some panelists to join me! Read more.].

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 28, 2011

I go over some simple yet effective time management strategies that will help you plug the time leaks in your day. There’s a whole section on creating a donor profile and selecting the right target audiences. That’s why I start this book with a section on Making Fundraising a Priority.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 28, 2011

I go over some simple yet effective time management strategies that will help you plug the time leaks in your day. There’s a whole section on creating a donor profile and selecting the right target audiences. That’s why I start this book with a section on Making Fundraising a Priority.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Here’s a sample of our accomplishments: Martus , our secure, open-source information management software for human rights defenders continued to empower many human rights groups worldwide to secure thousands of stories of human rights violations and to use this information strategically to advance their causes.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 2, 2011

And, most critically, what “personas” or profiles currently make up my list? How can I communicate with them more effectively? There is also a great blog post by Nancy Schwartz that talks in depth about personas and includes a sample persona checklist that you can adapt for your organization.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

foundation profiles. This sampling of funding opportunities available in their database shares both national and regional grant leads. Word of Mouth Never dismiss the effectiveness of spreading the word to help find grants! Here are a few of them. Candid was recently formed when GuideStar and Foundation Center merged together.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 1, 2021

Share the campaign to your personal Facebook profile and tag a few friends to make sure they see the posts. Notice the low goal and the small, solvable problem: Here’s another sample $5 Friday from Beautiful Feet Ministries of Tanzania. Challenge your Board members and a few key donors to ask five or ten friends to chip in just $5.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2011

That high-profile celebrity 35% or influential leader endorsement? In looking at TV ads, The 2010 Celebrity Advertisements: Exposing a Myth of Advertising Effectiveness , report showed less than 12% of ads using celebrities exceeded a 10% lift, and one-fifth of celebrity ads had a negative impact on consumers.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 10, 2009

Join NTEN for this 4-part webinar series hosted by Triplex Interactive, a division of InfoGROUP to learn how to become a more effective email marketer, communicator and fundraiser. After this series you will know how to: Create an online donor profile. Do you set up campaigns? Do you set up campaigns? Engage in conversations (vs.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Their description on the MySpace profile says: ideablob.com ® is a website for entrepreneurs, small businesses, and idea people to congregate and submit business ideas with the chance of winning $10,000 towards growing their ideas*. How will it effect the work you’ve done so far? ideablob.com allows users to post business ideas.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

You may not have heard about Lara Stockman's "25 Days to Make a Difference" blog, or how, after profiling different nonprofits, random acts of kindness, and community-driven efforts she mobilized an audience of 25,000 readers after just a few weeks. Representative Samples? So what, you may ask?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Their description on the MySpace profile says: ideablob.com ® is a website for entrepreneurs, small businesses, and idea people to congregate and submit business ideas with the chance of winning $10,000 towards growing their ideas*. How will it effect the work you’ve done so far? ideablob.com allows users to post business ideas.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

Social Media: What I Learned This Year | Millennial Marketing – Carol Phillips has a great post recapping what she learned about social media in 2009, including: "Effective use of Social Media requires enthusiasm and diligence." " Read all of the lessons Carol learned – and I'd love to hear what you learned!

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Sending personalized communications, geared toward supporters' interests and preferences is much more effective than broad mass communication, and personas are the tool used to identify exactly who messages should be personalized for. Eddie Engager + Emma Event Attendee 7. Luna Lapsed Donor. Oscar One-Off Donor.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

“Social media is a storytelling tool, it’s let voices effected by climate change be heard around the world&# (@ amysampleward ). The challenge, then, is how to use the tools to effect change, “not just talk about change we want to see one day&# (@ replyforall ). Lesson #1: Voice. link] is a climate change wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2008

Amy Sample Ward has a post summarizing the why social is important from Chris Brogan's recent Twebinar that capture the why: Social media has an equalizing effect: It can make large organizations seem small (personal) while making small organizations seem big (participating in the conversation).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Don’t forget the legitimizing effect of being a part of a nonprofit organization. These are icons or image overlays that you add to your profile picture the same way people do declare they voted, or donated blood, or got vaccinated. Personal thank you letter from the founder, ED, chair, leadership powerhouses. Touch the work.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Facebook Will Be Google-able (If Your Profile is Set to Public) – “At Google’s event today announcing a number of fantastic new features, including real-time search, a new partnership was announced: real-time search of public Facebook status updates.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2018

Possible questions include the following (*also see the end of this article for a sample survey): a. C ounteract recency effects: If these are properly branded the donor will essentially be holding on to a reminder of the hospital and the care they received there; b. Sample survey: . What prompted the first gift?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Simply offer ticket sales online, then send your guests a care package of the beverages to be sampled on the day of the event. For added suspense, you may send out a mystery box with a variety of beverages to sample. And many nonprofits have found that TikTok is an effective place to share their beneficiaries’ success stories.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Engagement acts as a ripple effect so if a few people present responses or communications using their organizational profile, for example, it can set the precedent for others to follow profesionally. These kinds of preferences by users can dramatically influence a network and community. And likewise with a personal side.

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

By Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN. Supporters simply connected their Twitter profile with Twibbon on the TMWL Twibbon page, and the tool updated the Twitter profile picture of the user with an overlay that included the campaign logo and hashtag. Stacey felt it was a great tool, but they didn't use it effectively.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

It will be like the difference between organizations that developed an effective web or email presence early vs. those that did not. If organizations want to be relevant and effective, they will need to incorporate some elements of real-time information delivery into their work flow. I expect that some will do so and many will not.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Can you give an example of how a voluntary organization has used Social media effectively to engage with their supporters to generate income for their campaign/cause?&# -Claire. for supporting us; and make sure your real one is prominent to begin with, like on your profiles in social media platforms and so on). Dealing with Resistance.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 4, 2009

This is one of the most effective ways to let people know about your Birthday Cause. Email is an effective way to get in touch with large numbers of your friends and let them know about your birthday cause. If you haven’t already, take a look at your birthday cause page to see if they left you any birthday greetings.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

► November (10) Read "The Seven Arts Of Change" 4 Quick Tips For How To Lead More Effectively 5 Reasons To Do An Employee Survey Give Positive Feedback. Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? Don't Praise. How To Write An Employee Satisfaction And Engageme.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Engaging effectively. Wrangling your RSS Feeds by Amy Sample Ward 4. Set up your Listening Radar and Response System Your radar will have different components: Ego Feeds: Search on your organization's name, url, or other specific identifier. The most important listening literacy skills are. Keywords Are King. Pattern Analysis .

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

An effective donor data migration strategy is the cornerstone of a successful transition between database systems. Append missing information, such as social media profiles or demographic data, to enhance donor insights. In the prior section on test migrations, we mentioned sample testing, query testing, and function testing.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore View more presentations from Amy Sample ward. Our organizers were particularly excited about the Google Maps example and are even now brainstorming ways we can use those tools to show the effects of toxic run-off on watersheds and drinking water supplies and to mobilize our supporters. All rights reserved.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Sunday, November 28, 2010 4 Quick Tips For How To Lead More Effectively Roger Fulton’s book, Common Sense Management , offers these quick tips for how to be an effective leader: • Don’t Blame Others – When in a position of power, everything that occurs is your responsibility, even the errors. .

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We know the impact is having a strong effect on someone or something. And that might involve collaboration, saying, “We acknowledge that there are others in the community that do this better or more effectively. Are you going to use this to evaluate your internal operations so that you can become more efficient, more effective.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

•and other essential elements you need to consider to ensure consistent and effective communication. ► November (10) Read "The Seven Arts Of Change" 4 Quick Tips For How To Lead More Effectively 5 Reasons To Do An Employee Survey Give Positive Feedback. Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Tuesday, November 9, 2010 How To Produce An Effective Company Blog If you lead a business and aren’t part of the 34% of U.S. ▼ November (10) Read "The Seven Arts Of Change" 4 Quick Tips For How To Lead More Effectively 5 Reasons To Do An Employee Survey Give Positive Feedback. Don't Praise.

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