Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 6, 2009

Instead, I’m going to be presenting by proxy: the wonderful and talented John Haydon will be walking you through my slides. Here are my slides: I’ll post more notes about the case studies and tools as well after the event. Twitter.Org: Twitter for Nonprofit Organizations.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

It’s incredibly important for nonprofits to tell stories about their organization and the people they serve. Storytelling for nonprofits is an avenue to connect with donors and help them relate to your work. What is Nonprofit Storytelling? Stories are powerful.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 25, 2011

Katherine Snider, Executive Director of Baby Buggy will join to share her case study of using Twitter with her organization. Blog post with slides and resources. At the end of the session, we will leave time for hands-on Q/A and demo of Twitter applications and tools. Related Links : Conference information. Volunteer Management Group.

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CauseVox

APRIL 20, 2021

With vaccine rollouts underway, nonprofits are still wondering: how do I fundraise during COVID? Here’s what nonprofits should plan for the rest of 2021 to navigate through fundraising during COVID. All of this means that virtual events help nonprofits come away with more funds raised with less effort.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Nonprofits who care about donor retention employ numerous strategies to keep their donors coming back year after year. While the full 2023 data has not yet been compiled, FEP has found that, through Q3 2023, donors decreased moderately and donor retention continued to slide, driving a slight decrease in fundraising dollars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

The survey polled 978 nonprofit professionals about their organizations’ use of commercial social networking sites (e.g. The survey provides us with a baseline of social network use by nonprofits. According to the survey, nonprofits are more likely to grow expertise from within than use outside help. . On Facebook, about 39.9%

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2017

Do these services truly lead to a “ Capacity Dividend ” – accelerating nonprofits’ ability to pursue their purpose? Rather, the question grant-makers and nonprofits should ask is what kinds of capacity building will achieve the desired outcomes and optimize mission-related impacts. Presentation slides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2011

My colleagues at The Monitor Institute just published a study called “ Disruption: Evolving Models of Engagement and Support ,&# a national study of member-based advocacy organizations. The study was funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, The John S. DISRUPTION: Evolving Models of Engagement and Support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

  In that post, he describes one technique - make yourself a public case study.    So, in that spirit,  I'm sharing my presentation from last week which is a case study of my blogging ROI.  Marshall Kirkpatrick has a great post over at Read/Write Web about keeping momentum. 

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2010

The talk: My talk may not be as easily captured in the slides as some of my other talks are since this was a smaller group and I had the time to dive into each example and discuss it with the participants, instead of a more traditional presentation. Hint: click through to view the slides on SlideShare.net to see speaking notes.).

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 7, 2011

During the workshop, we will present traditional community organizing principles, campaign mapping methods and case studies. Workshop leaders will offer feedback, and the nonprofit will select a winning strategy. Slides and notes. Attendees will divide into breakout sessions to design an online campaign. Related Links : NCVS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

Content Curation for Nonprofits. Here are my slides and curated resources materials for a talk called “ What Can Nonprofits Learn from Robin Good, the Best Content Curator on the Planet? ” that I will be presenting at the Social Media for Nonprofits. Benefits for Nonprofits. A Few Good Starter Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Drew Bernard has a review of a new guide by the good folks at Tactical Technology Collective called " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " Nonprofits are from Mars, Designers/Techies are from Venus from the alldaybuffet describes some classic communications issues between nonprofits, designers, and technology staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Note from Beth: Many nonprofits do not have dedicated teams for social media and social media strategy and implementation is typically only a part of a someone’s job. Nonprofits nowadays invest serious resources to keep pace with the latest social media trends. Flickr Photo by Yung Tsai. By Sacha Evans. Here are our crib notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

To avoid getting seduced by “ shiny object syndrome &# get educated about Mobile Campaign Basics for Nonprofits and spend some time reflecting those strategic questions. View more presentations from Kyoo Slides. Are Qwerty Monsters the Nonprofit Donors Via Mobile Phones of the Future?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

In our ongoing mission to provide technology information and resources to nonprofit organizations and libraries, TechSoup’s latest Nonprofits Live (NPLive) explored advice and resources for creating great presentations. Presenters who are interested in embedding a live Twitter stream into their slides can do so with SlideRocket.

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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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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Just want to let you all know that we are recording this session, and we’ll be sending out the slides as well as the recording later on this afternoon. That’s awesome, really involved in their nonprofit leadership program, which is really cool. So I know you got some slides to pull up but the floor is yours.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Listening for Nonprofits in a Digital World View more presentations from kanter. As many of you know who read this blog, I am an early adopter of social media and set up my listening post 5 years ago to scan for people, trends, and ideas related to social media and nonprofits. A Living Case Study of Red Cross Listening Techniques.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2011

John was reaching out to bloggers, asking us if we would write about the launch of the fourth annual CTK Foundation Heart and Soul Grant Award to nonprofit organizations. The study will offer support for elected officials who run on open government platforms or who work for more transparency. Are you a leader or a follower?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

These approaches have the potential to change how nonprofits and funders view of evaluation in a significant way. The above slide was used to illustrate the iterative nature of a developmental evaluation of a complex systems social change initiative. Here are my notes and takeaways. Refine a model or make definitive judgment.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Webinar Slides: Presented 2/2/17 to 1,600+ NGO staff. Based upon the survey results of 4,908 NGOs worldwide, the 2017 Global NGO Online Technology Report is groundbreaking in that it is the only annual research project dedicated to studying how NGOs use online technology on a global scale. View on SlideShare.

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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. Look at what other nonprofits are doing in the space.

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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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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries. For more information, check out the recording and slides from TechSoup Canada's recent Google Apps 101 webinar. *US

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

tags: nonprofits socialmedia ). This slide deck comes via Tim Wilson who I "met" in Twitter while he was getting information to organize this panel. I've seen happen over the past 15 years of doing nonprofit technology training , no matter the tools. He has a write up of his process and notes here. David Neff has more.

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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. As primary author Steve Peretz points out in his synopsis of the study , the trends that matters most to you, should be your OWN trends!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries. Earlier this year , TechSoup Canada hosted a webinar on Google Apps for nonprofits. Watch the recording below and check out the slides. Additional Resources. 615 KB DOC).

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

And just a couple of real quick housekeeping items, just want to let you all know that we are recording this session and we’ll be sending out that recording as well as the slides later on. Well, let me take down my slides because they want to hear from you, not me. So are you ready for me to present my slides? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

I’ve been reflecting on why some nonprofits do a better job of measurement and learning, while others do not. The nonprofits that embrace measurement have a data-driven culture. What is needed for nonprofit organizations to make this shift? DoSomething.Org: A Data-Driven Nonprofit In Action.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 19, 2010

Marketing for Nonprofits: Want to Build Community Online? Social Spaces is project which studies positive community projects and aims to test if these types of projects can be stimulated elsewhere through spreading ideas and practices. Great slides. " Add your thoughts or blog posts in the comments! Become a Bridge Builder.

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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. This is also the period when honest case studies take the forefront.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

So if you have to leave early or maybe you get interrupted, or you just want to review the content later on, maybe share it with a friend or a colleague you’ll be able to do that because I’m going to send you the recording also going to send out the slides. And we provide program management services to other nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

You can view the recorded webinar , along with related slides and links. Along with talking about Dharma's history of working with nonprofits, she also provided an excellent overview of merchant services in general. Case Study: Northern Jaguar Project. Merchant Services and Credit Card Processing. Continue the Discussion!

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 2012

Adding pertinent information such as your address, phone number, and privacy policy is important too, because it demonstrates that you are a legitimate nonprofit. Grow your list to keep ahead of the average unsubscribe rates which are 0.23%, according to the 2011 eNonprofit Benchmark Study. Send new donors a special welcome message.

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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. Crowdsourcing for Social Change.

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