Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2012

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. Please help us select a winner for the Care2 Impact Prize! "We Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of March 30th).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Elements your nonprofit should include in your storytelling campaigns include: Show impact. People want to know and see the impact of their donations. Women for Women International does a good job of keeping their supporters updated with stories of women impacted by their program.

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EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

At Cornershop Creative, we partner with nonprofit organizations to develop web solutions and build dynamic, easy-to-maintain websites. This strategy allows you to make full use of your website’s blog as an outlet for showcasing your accomplishments, your donors’ impact, and your gratitude. Make a plan for site crashes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

You are most likely to be testing email , social media , mobile, web site , and landing pages (fundraising, etc). How are you using experiments, a/b testing, and validated learning to improve your nonprofit’s impact? Share an example of your experiment in the comments.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. They are hoping to start conversations and hear feedback about the competitions, the fundraising techniques and more. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of May 20th). This is the latest in the series.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

It also requires strategic planning, effective communication, and innovative marketing techniques to reach your target audience and inspire them to take action. Tell the story of those impacted by your organization. Show impact and results. Don’t just tell your audience what you do—show them the impact of your work.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Let’s take a look at some fundraising ideas – the fifteen most effective donor acquisition and online fundraising techniques used by top nonprofits. If you’re using a website analytics tool like Google Analytics, jump in there to see how much of your web traffic is coming from mobile users. 1) Go Mobile, Now! Tweet It] !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

What are some practical techniques for practicing systems leadership skills? One the techniques they teach and apply is called “ Shadowing.” The formula for a successful change process is not “form follows function,” but “form follows consciousness.” But it’s not easy to create effective videos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to participate in a brainstorming meeting at a foundation that was developing a strategy for its digital platforms (web, social, mobile, etc). The process was facilitated byPeter Maher, founder and CEO, of Luma Institute. Technique #1: Rose, Bud, Thorn (Understanding).

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

As an example, the ‘Millennial Impact Report’ was a study commissioned by the Case Foundation. We evolved to focus on leveraging technology, like web design, social media, and other digital tools, to advance the causes nonprofits care about. We believe a strong web presence is critical to increasing support for organizations.

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TechImpact

MAY 12, 2014

If your nonprofit isn’t sure how to make the move to mobile, Tech Impact has you covered. In previous blog posts we’ve discussed responsive web design, formatting mobile friendly emails , and shown you even more statistics that will convince you to prioritize mobile sooner rather than later. Equinux (June 2013).

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2023

By using narrative and storytelling techniques, you’ll be able to communicate your nonprofit’s mission and impact while building stronger emotional connections with your audience. For the greatest impact, collect stories from members of your nonprofit’s community such as: Beneficiaries. Highlight impact and transformation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master. Anyone can be a designer!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

You can read more in this series of five reports that looks at the definitions, research, power, practices, and insights relating the impact of social networks on family strengthening and community change. Open/Closed and how it impacts the learning. There are many challenges to assessing the impact of networks.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 27, 2013

TechSoup discusses unified communication (UC), which is a type of internal communication structure that combines text messaging, web conferencing, email, video, and instant messaging, among other technologies to connect employees more effective and efficiently. Now we are getting into some newer techniques. Web conferencing.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Website usability data suggests that users often make judgments about a web page within the first few seconds of landing on it. It reassures donors about the security and impact of their donation. Most of us scroll to the bottom of a web page and pause before navigating back up to the top. Don’t forget about your website footer.

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CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2024

Let’s dive in and explore how creating donor personas can help us engage and resonate with our target audience better, so that in turn, we can create more impact in our areas of work. Website analytics: help us track donation page interactions and web traffic. She wants to make a positive impact on the lives of animals and needs.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 24, 2013

Let’s take a look at the fifteen most effective donor acquisition and online fundraising techniques used by top nonprofits. If you’re using a website analytics tool like Google Analytics, jump in there to see how much of your web traffic is coming from mobile users. 1) Go Mobile, Now! That’s right – this year! Are you ready?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. I’ve used Chris Brogan’s technique for over a decade and found it very helpful in keeping me focused. I’ve used these rituals for over a decade and found them helpful.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 10, 2013

This post originally appeared as part of an online debate about How Big Data Can Have a Social Impact, which the Harvard Business Review Blog Network hosted jointly with the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship. Skoll World Forum Skoll Syria SWF Big Data Harvard Business Review Web Reader human rights SkollWF SWF13 Bookshare'

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Forum One

AUGUST 24, 2021

For nonprofits and government agencies, gathering insights and feedback from audiences is critical to effectively carry out their mission and achieve lasting impact. How can the information that we need be collected in a way that minimizes the impact on our audiences? Audience research is here to stay. Ongoing challenges remain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

” Content curation is sifting through information on the web and organizing, filtering and making sense of it and sharing the very best content with your network. Jarche describes some techniques on how to do the most important, but sometimes difficult step of sense-making. Instead, content curation helps us keep focused.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

By applying this approach to any program development or strategy and even your organization’s dashboard, your nonprofit can more innovative and get more impactful results. Here are two stories about two very different nonprofits and how they approached designing their dashboards with human-centered design techniques.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 17, 2021

Web-to-Lead Conversion Rate. Takeaways ranged from “controlling the controllables” to helping nonprofit pros understand how traditional media tools like television and radio can be more impactful than ever. ” The perfect recap of a day full of new ideas and techniques to take our missions and our marketing to the next level!

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Make the mission or program the hero – Focus messaging on your nonprofit’s values, impact, and service. This showed him that ad campaigns should spotlight the product itself – the emotional impact it provides. Clear human impact should take center stage. Passionate explaining of impact?

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Think carefully about the cost of your fundraising activities and the long-term impact your nonprofit potentially has on your community. Creating a sustainable, scalable fundraising campaign that will help you grow your future impact is just as important as reaching your fundraising goal. Why is fundraising important for nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

I’ve been working in my pajamas since the early 1990s, during the early years of the Web. As nonprofits are impacted by the CoronaVirus and need more virtual meeting skills, I’d like to share what I have learned. Here’s a write of this technique. Some of these were inspired by this tweet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. We started off with an affinity clustering of the strengths, challenges, and opportunities for improving their organization’s practice of measuring impact and communicating about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

The annual SXSW Interactive Festival is a geek home coming for those who work on the web, social media, and gaming. This workshop will share strategies and techniques for changing your nonprofits culture to be more agile, training other staff to be social to scale, and managing your nonprofit’s c-suite and board.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Remember, a well-designed website that seamlessly incorporates social media acts as a powerful catalyst for advancing the impact of your nonprofit organization. By enticing visitors to explore your organization’s website, you can engage them with your mission, impact, and, ultimately, the donation button.

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NetWits

JANUARY 9, 2011

Website copy can have a huge impact on how long your website visitors choose to stick around for. If you can, try to keep your web pages around 300 words. Do you have any techniques that you use to stay reader focused and relevant? Can your readers easily understand what you’re trying to say via your website?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2014

In your eagerness to demonstrate your organization's impact, you may be wishfully interpreting the data to draw conclusions that can't be drawn. That's why Elizabeth says nonprofits shouldn't initially focus on measuring impact. Don't Try to Prove Impact First. Measuring impact is the last thing to tackle.

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Forum One

APRIL 13, 2021

Within an increasingly complex digital landscape, particularly in light of the global pandemic, institutions rely on content strategists to use curatorial techniques and principles to bring their collections to virtual audiences. What does your collection represent? Not everything is required to be available online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

But it is also theme of a panel that I’m moderating at the Innogive Conference on Monday, April 2 that will focus on how this trend is and will continue to impact nonprofits’ communication strategies. The panel description: At the Cross Section of Web, Social and Mobile. That’s why we started the Donate Movement.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Make a point to craft compelling impact stories, keep in contact with donors, and listen to what they want. A good online web presence and marketing campaign are essential for any nonprofit, regardless of the economic climate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2011

As the leading global advocate for making and supporting games created for social impact, we want to share some of the exciting events at this year’s Festival that we feel will resonate with nonprofits. We invite everyone to check out the Games for Change Festival website and explore the content that will make an impact on you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2015

I am excited to announce that I am working on my next book, tentatively titled “The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout.” I’m honored to be co-authoring this book with Aliza Sherman to be published in 2017 by Wiley. Stress reduction techniques. And, that is where we first crossed paths.

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