Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Based on the research, they have launched a platform that helps connect practitioners with tools and resources to tell better stories of impact. I particularly like the sections about how to create a culture of storytelling and measurement. Here’s just a sampling of what you’ll find: How to Make the Case to Invest in Story.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2011

—– Whether your organization has had a presence on Facebook for years or just days—or you’re considering starting now—trying to follow along with all the changes to functionality, options, and analytics is incredibly overwhelming. Note: You can find resources about Facebook on Facebook using its resource center.).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Create social and media graphics in at least two sizes:800 x 800: Best for Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram. 800 x 400: Best for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn. Create an ambassador sign up page and provide sample email text and social media graphics/avatars. Best Practice #2: Design Visual Content. Countdown graphics.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

With the right tools in place, anyone can organize a golf tournament, regardless of their golf knowledge or experience. Start with a prompt to create a skeleton sample golf tournament marketing plan that your team can further flesh out with your content, or verbiage for promotional emails.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

Here’s a summary of tips, tools, examples, and resources for getting the most of our your nonprofit event with social media. (Here’s a curated link list used to create this post). John Haydon also notes that EventBrite can be integrated into your Facebook Brand Page. The first step is to get organized.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

Nonprofit tech experts team up to help others master ‘social tools for social change’. Eight leading experts in social media and nonprofit technology have joined forces to create Socialbrite.org, a hub that showcases social tools for social change. Socialbrite.org is launching with a rich set of resources: A directory of Web 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Tools and Apps to Energize Your Base. Tools and Apps to Energize Your Base. Google Analytics for Facebook Pages. Community Map Template: [link]. Content Map Template: [link]. Metrics Template: [link]. Listening Dashboard: [link]. Books & Collections. We Are Media.

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M+R

JANUARY 11, 2022

December is for two things: cooking great big extravagant feasts, and using every tool at our disposal to raise money. Overall, groups were split on whether they raised more or less overall digital revenue than end-of-year 2020 — in fact, our sample was split exactly 50/50! Read time: 4 minutes. We’re carrying that energy into 2022.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 4, 2012

The session focused on using core social media platforms Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to raise awareness and inspire others as a volunteer. Your tools are defined both by the goal of what you want to do, but also by the people – are they tools that that audience uses and likes? Here are some specific Facebook tools: Edgerank.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Tools and Apps to Energize Your Base. You need two key ingredients – people and tools to connect and engage with them. From “texting&# to location based apps like FourSquare this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest apps and tools organizations can use to effectively moblize and energize people online.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

By Kelly Pullin , Marketing Manager at RoundUp App – the nation’s largest tool for rounded up donations, giving nonprofits across the country a new stream of recurring giving. RoundUp App is the nation’s largest tool for rounded up donations. That’s where RoundUp App comes in.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Email is a critical channel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

I launched a Facebook Fan Page for my blog over the summer shortly after Facebook announced vanity urls. To create a listening post to understand the questions and concerns from nonprofits about implementing an effective Facebook presence. To engage and discuss techniques and tips for using Facebook effectively for nonprofits.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

She now uses Google Search, reads her news online, sends and receives email, and even uses Facebook to check-in with family and friends. That said, she understands the power of these tools, and relishes the opportunity to learn more. These are the tools that I used to get my Grandmother started: Google Search - So simple!

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

By Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN. Every campaign, every organization, and really, even every individual engaging with others online has a set of tools and techniques they've learned from and rely on every day. When it came to blogger outreach, a Google Doc was the preferred and successful tool.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Topic : Listening & Engaging: DIY Tools for Social Media Management. Date : February 22, 2012, 3 pm EST. Location : Online.

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2011

Part of this month's Net2 Think Tank focused on tools and best practices. Below are some tools to help your organization monitor and learn from online feedback. The following tools may help you listen, monitor, measure, and ask. interest to you and your cause on the web: Social Media Monitoring Tools. The polls on.

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NetWits

MAY 25, 2011

Teach Them to Fundraise and Provide Samples. As Anthony Sicola’s recently mentioned, fundraisers who use who use social networking tools like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube increase fundraising results by up to 40%. Provide samples of everything. Add page sharing tools to the fundraising page. insert link}.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Facebook Requirements. It seems that you have to have an organizational presence on facebook in order for the project page on Jumo to work/look right – I put in my facebook ID, thinking it was verifying my association as the admin on the organizational account, but instead it put my photo and info as the organization’s!

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NCE Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2012

First, not even the former marketing director of Facebook knows how the privacy policies at Facebook work. Randi Zuckerberg is the sister of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg found out the hard way. On Christmas Day Randi posted a family photo on Facebook. She thought only her friends could see it. Boy was she wrong.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Net2 Think Tank Round-up: Creating Awesome Video | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – "For this month's Net2 Think Tank we asked you to share your tools and tactics for creating effective video messages – regardless of budget and organization size.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 14, 2023

It’s an online-fundraising-friendly environment out there, with everything from donate buttons for your Facebook page to crowdfunding sites that leverage the power of relationships. With so many tools available, it’s easy enough to start an online fundraiser. But it’s not a “build it and they will come” situation.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2009

Sifry , the co-founder of Personal Democracy Forum, took a closer look at ROI for Facebook apps in his piece last week Facebook Haggadah: A Case Study in Viral ROI (Is This App Different From All Other Apps?) Here’s an excerpt from his post : Within a day his Facebook Haggadah was all over the web. for TechPresident.

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NetWits

JUNE 22, 2011

Make it easy for them by providing samples of everything they’ll need. Sample tweets, emails, Facebook posts, employee memos, phone scripts, communication plans, and anything else they’ll need to inspire and manage their team. Include a sample script of what to say to team members. Providing Resources.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2010

Amy Sample Ward from NetSquared. The team at TechSoup has brewed up a select menu of tools and strategies to provide a social media curriculum to conference attendees on how to explore Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and applications for engaging volunteers and supporters around the world. Room: 1471. Get in Touch Via Twitter.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 1, 2009

But what about taking an inventory of your social media tools? Twitter Karma is a great tool to use if you want to inventory your Twitter community, clean up any nonreciprocal followers, or simply evaluate your lists. Do you have a group or use a fan page to create a community space for your organization on Facebook?

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

First, use the Google AdWords keyword research tool to do some analysis for words and phrases you’d like to rank highly for in search results. This tool will crawl and evaluate your website for a lot of the key elements you should be monitoring. Custom Facebook Landing Tabs Convert 47% of Your Visitors.

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NetWits

AUGUST 23, 2011

Include a sample email and talk about the impact of gifts ( Did you know just raising $25 can provide sick kids with a toy this holiday?). Participants who use online fundraising tools raise 6x more than those who don’t. I haven’t received any gifts and frankly don’t have the time. Tailoring your communication is key.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Facebook is an ever growing force in the internet space and it looks like it will be for a while. Facebook is also a great tool for nonprofits. Facebook also gives others the ability to share their affinity to you with their friends, family and co-workers. Google) of Facebook. Four tips to help you get started.

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NetWits

JULY 18, 2011

What’s great about task-based contests is that you’re encouraging participants to use online tools. Encourage participants to engage their social network by updating your Facebook status 3 times in the next week. And for good measure give them a sample update. What other task based contests can you run?

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NCE Social Media

APRIL 29, 2009

In addition to all the tools that came with the basic service, all nonprofits can now: 1) Create Actions, including email petitions that can empower and expand your base of supporters. 4) Link to your profiles on MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. 2) Message all your supporters. 3) Send supporter requests to recruit new members.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 6, 2009

About the event: Already Twitter, Facebook, and the rest are revolutionizing the business and marketing of social impact. Here are my slides: I’ll post more notes about the case studies and tools as well after the event. View more presentations from Amy Sample ward. Twitter.Org: Twitter for Nonprofit Organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

It also analyzes the skills – which are often misunderstand as the ability to use the social network platforms like Facebook. It encompass mindset and ways of working which can be used to exercise new power despite whatever platform or tool is available to us. An example is Kim Jong-un. (In

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

There are bound to be many, many versions of this blog post as people from around the world start investigating the tool and sharing their impressions. As always, when it’s just the first trickling of people joining up, the way the tool is used, the depth of some functionality, and the technical issues are all a bit out of proportion.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The mystery of creating real impact using Facebook has eluded many organizations for years now. There are other examples of organizations finding some tricks and functionality that really help them make connections with supporters, and then Facebook changes the functionality. Grab the trial code at the bottom of the post!

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 28, 2012

IAVA’s #gosilent campaign is a terrific example of social campaigning because it uses tools and tactics that make it easy for the organization to track, measure, and evaluate success – in real time and after the campaign is over. Sharing across platforms – Facebook. Sharing across platforms – Twitter.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

Some are using tools like Twitter or Facebook to invite listeners to a post-segment conversation with reporters, moving them from a passive action (listening) up the ladder of engagement to an active action of commenting and discussion. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward.

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