Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

We can see (and learn a valuable lesson about) the way current ecosystem of social media works in regards to transparency, data, and community. There are many who approach the online landscape with very different views than their offline business decisions. The more voices the better! Well, it means a lot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

This blog post is a roundup of the face-to-face we had last week in Houston to share some of the amazing lessons learned and some reflections. So, for these organizations, their content pyramid also includes integrating offline w/online channels. On the Ground Engagement: What will you ask people to do offline?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

I actually have a repertoire of stories, but one of them is about Michaela Hackner ( Kalabird.) I connected with her through her amazing photos of Cambodia on Flickr when I was covering the Cambodian blogosphere for Global Voices over five years ago. Human contact leverages passion that sometimes gets lost online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

What are the lessons learned from Free Agents about working with nonprofits? Lessons from Nonprofit Screw Ups Nonprofits are often team-centric, mission-driven organizations—which can lead to exuberant group cheerleading in the face of mediocrity. Online numbers don’t always equate offline results. What are they good for?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

The climate change movement has shown a lot of focus on helping people effected by climate change (everyone) share their story, voice their concerns. We need to couple real voices, with real opportunities to take action and get involved. lessons learned from the work. But it isn’t enough to only tell our story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

An Internet Lesson in Rural Cambodia. Social Fundraising: Leveraging On and Offline Connections. Organizational Versus Personal Voice on A Blog. Be A Voice for Darfur: Great Example of A Multi-Channel Campaign. Social Media ROI: Compare With Paper. You're Never Too Old To Change the World. Twitter on Paper Icebreaker.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

They designed the event with the goal of sharing lessons from agencies who have some early experiences. Virtual front porch: providing people ways to find and engage online with other people in their town/neighborhood, and then to take it offline to actually have meetings. State Dept ? Office of eDiplomacy.

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Forum One

JANUARY 4, 2024

Nonprofits don’t typically have customers, but they can still apply the lessons of CX in digital strategies. We can follow up on this, and build more opportunities to communicate, because we shared that experience, blending online and offline experience. Become a member. It creates a journey!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery. The class typically erupts in a cacophony of voices, as it did that first time he told students to talk to each other because he couldn’t figure out what else to do. Living Case Study: The living case study is when you make participants part of the content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

There are offline ways to do it. If you think your organization needs a more personal voice, or if you need more people to provide content - both of these reasons are good ones for having an organizational blog. Does the post relate to the blog's goal, voice, and conversational voice. What is the first step?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Sharing, it should then be assumed, is necessary for building trust and real relationships, online or offline, and like in the real world, there are reasonable and unreasonable expectations for your information staying private. If you tell your friend known for gossiping a secret, you can expect that your secret might get around.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Lesson ( RE ) learned, always budget in that ten minutes late start and print out the location from an email don't transcribe (dang, was trying to save paper) Also, keep a few slides after the end that may explain a commonly asked question. Some strategies for offline/online engagement were discussed. What lies beneath this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2010

Regardless of how successful this call was, I always hung up feeling things were incomplete.” - Danielle Thomas, Exhale Talkline Counselor & Pro-Voice Ambassador. And they care just as much about privacy online as they do offline. Most important, we responded to the information, adapted and made a change. These are solvable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

The number or organizations who joined causes in the past with enthusiasm and now voice frustration, or who have abandoned their efforts entirely, continues to grow. Having an understanding of what has spurred action in the past and how to adapt those lessons to your work will help inform everything you do going forward.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

I’ll share some lessons as we go, experiences that I’ve had, and how to also manage different stakeholders and people. So some examples and lessons. Make sure that you share that plan back with them and you let them know that their voice helped to impact this plan and here’s how they continue to stay involved. .

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Everyaction

AUGUST 20, 2018

It’s important for progressive organizations to define their voice online; how do you do that? Becka: Something really important that progressive organizations can do to define their voice online is to decide what your voice is and stick to it. How do you define that voice differently across different platforms?

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Full Transcript: Steven: You’ll hear a robot voice. And if you have not heard, I have a podcast, “Let’s Take This Offline,” and you can go ahead and binge listen while you do your running, or your walking, or you’re sitting lakeside this summer, kind of decompressing from a really hellish year.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

I also think there are a lot of lessons to be learned from sites like Kiva, where the concept of micro-designation really resonate with donors and could only easily be achieved online. I think it is wonderful that Mal Warwick continues to be the voice of traditional direct mail. But neither approach represents a solution by itself.

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