Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

What this created was a chance for people who use Twitter to come together offline to create community. This month’s Net2 Think Tank asks: How do real-world (offline) events fit into social media conversations and campaigns? Space : This is both online and offline. What worked?

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 12, 2021

As much as we all dislike encounters with me-focused people, we can sometimes slip into the same kind of mindset when talking with our donors in our online and offline fundraising programs. The use of the word, “talking” is deliberate here because your communications should sound like a personal conversation you are having with your donor.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Question 2 : asked how to build a loop between on and offline engagement. Most agreed that it is harder to move from online to offline, where engagement may be strong because of the access or timing that can’t be accomplished with the physical world. About the Community Builder Chat. Hope to have you join us next time.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Today’s Community Builder chat focused on examples and best practices for connecting on and offline community activities, events, and organizing. The Community Organizers Handbook available as a public resource, you can certainly refer there for information/feedback/best practices on offline organizing: [link]. Recap: October.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2010

Networked Nonprofits know how to close the loop between social media and offline actions. Tags: Tips Tools and Tactics online-offline tweet up. They understand that it is a scaffolded process. Whatever channel they use, they’re building a bridge from online to onland. What’s A Tweet Up? Planning TweetUps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2010

But as a bonus, I learned from Facebook expert Mari Smith , that sandwich boards and window clings with Facebook and Twitter IDS are an effective technique to close the loop between offline and social media. to track how your online social network activities are driving offline actions. I've also been reading about tips.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Surely, we should be looking at social networks as a “cultivation” and “relationship-building” tool in the same sense that we do offline in person. You must cultivate that relationship like you would with any offline prospect turning “cold” prospect leads into “warm” or even “hot” donor prospects. Robin L.

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Judi Sohn

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

I’m amazed that after all these years, no one has come out with a killer offline blog editor for the Mac yet. As I see it, if you want to use an offline editor on a Mac you only have 3 choices, each with its own strengths and overwhelming weaknesses. Full of unnecessary tags and other junk that caused all sorts of problems.

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NetWits

OCTOBER 30, 2009

But I’m talking major mind shifts here, stay with me… No longer is the world of independent schools separated into segments of online/offline communication. Yes, you will say (and you would be right) it is constantly changing and has been for years!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2021

The last thing you want added to your list is trying to figure out how to fix a site that’s been suddenly hijacked or taken offline. It’s a matter of time before your website gets hacked. In this webinar, you’ll learn: Why strong security is important for WordPress.

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NTEN

MARCH 13, 2012

Online, we look for the same things we look for offline: connection to something genuine, and a way to share that connection with other people. It's the stories of people overcoming odds, of what happened to a neighborhood when something drastic changed, of how an environment is poised to bounce back from a disaster.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

At ACS CAN, we’re seeing this newly inspired level of activity reflected in our offline recruitment as well. While the effort to recruit offline volunteers is never easy, the timing for such a campaign has never been better. How to Use Online Channels to Build Offline Support. Let’s get started with some general tips.

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Tech Soup Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Appearing as her super hero alter ego, complete with green cape, Super Green, Kroll spoke about how online activity can be used to inspire offline action. Make something beautiful together : Organizing an offline activity that has a goal or an endpoint, gives community members something to build towards together.

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NetWits

OCTOBER 4, 2011

If you’ve been in the nonprofit industry for a while, you’ve likely heard that “direct mail is dead” or that offline fundraising is on the decline. Offline still rules …. 90%+ of fundraising revenue comes from offline sources. They key to raising more money is to figure out how to utilize offline and online channels together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2010

As he shared the story, I had some questions about weaving offline/online collaboration within networks. We most typically think of the offline/online as a sequence somewhat like this: Small group meets face-to-face - builds trust. How can you effectively weave offline/online work in a network? Does that have to happen first?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 13, 2020

The marketing team of the international nonprofit, Water.org , was quick to evaluate their social content plans as the COVID-19 pandemic spread on and offline in early 2020. Content that considers the user experience on and offline and is created with empathy, sensitivity, and relevance. Instagram.com/water. Twitter.com/water.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

When we discuss peer-to-peer fundraising our focus often is on the online components; however, the offline activities surrounding our event allow us to improve relationships and connections with our supporters, thus potentially improving our online outcomes. And these relationships can be vital to fundraising success. Event Kick Off.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

The ambition of the online organizing platform never matched the success of the offline organizing community and strategy. The goal was to create a unified online community for the climate movement to reflect and spur more of the movement’s offline collaboration. After 12 months, it folded. What happened?

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 19, 2010

Ivan Boothe posted a link to this story recently on the Progressive Exchange list. It’s been a busy week so I just clicked through today and thought it was an excellent opportunity to start integrating more conversation starters into this blog (as suggested in the Blog Redesign thread).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2020

The last thing you want added to your list is trying to figure out how to fix a site that’s been suddenly hijacked or taken offline. It’s a matter of time before your website gets hacked. Your website is an investment that’s worth protecting and it’s important that your donors and constituents have a consistently positive experience.

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NetWits

JULY 15, 2010

We recently released a pretty cool resource for the nonprofit industry – The Blackbaud Index ! It contains both The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving and The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving. The charitable giving index reports that overall revenue increased by 6.2

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The time and financial resources necessary to restore a website that’s been suddenly hijacked or taken offline can be enormous.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2009

My guess is as we enter 2010, might we see the invention of Real Time Web fundraising events As more nonprofit explore the possibilities of location-based social networks and fundraising , the distinctions between online/offline fundraising will melt away. It's real time and location based social networks are also impacting advocacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

How do you analyze the use of social networks/social media in the context of online/offline activism? He gave a presentation about how Surfrider Foundation is striving to make its grassroots network more effective. He touched on how they are using social networks/media in this effort. How to weave the two in order to scale.

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Donorbox

DECEMBER 14, 2021

These include SEO, email, social media, digital ads while also keeping traditional offline efforts steady. But as marketing methods evolve, acquiring new donors means staying on top of all the digital channels. Donor acquisition today is a […].

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 5, 2020

If you want to know how to run an amazing year-end fundraising campaign (both online and offline) for your organization, check out our three part series How to Do Year-End Fundraising the Right Way. The primary difference between offline fundraising letters and e-mail fundraising letters is length. The rule online is less, less, less.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Those are impressive numbers on the surface,” says Jayne Craven of Coyote Communications, but it’s vital to evaluate your organization’s online activities in terms of offline actions: “If they don’t translate into more volunteers, repeat volunteers, new and repeat donors, new and repeat clients,( read more )

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NTEN

MARCH 13, 2012

At our upcoming webinar, " Up the Leadership Ladder: Taking Activists from Online to Offline Action and the Tools You Need to Track Them ", Sarah Alexander from Food & Water Watch will share ways online activists can actually be moved to take action offline. > You'll learn: How to transform online engagement into offline action.

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NetWits

AUGUST 8, 2012

Online donor solicitations are powerful. Such messages are able to reach large audiences, present …

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 19, 2019

According to a recent DonorPerfect study , you can expect that multichannel donors will contribute triple the amount of online-only and offline-only donors. This is your chance to get your offline donors online – but you have to make it easy. How can you identify your multichannel donors? Send direct mail, too!

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Double the Donation

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Digital fundraising is more important than ever, and even traditionally “offline” engagement efforts are being powered more effectively and efficiently by newly developed fundraising software.

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Salsa

MAY 7, 2021

So, over the past two years, Salsa has surveyed nearly 400 nonprofits in an effort to understand what they’ve done to successfully bring their offline events into the world of virtual nonprofit events. The ever-increasing digital nature of event planning has thrown a virtual wrench into the fundraising gears of nonprofits large and small.

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Tech Soup Blog

JULY 19, 2017

For the Professional Social Media class I teach at Sonoma State University , I created an exercise designed to help folks practice both content creation and looking at metrics. Nonprofits can use this at a staff meeting or other gathering to help people improve their content creation skills as well as their skills with looking at social media data.

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CauseVox

MAY 11, 2021

With these insights, you’ll be sure to make the most of your next fundraising event both on and offline! Don’t miss out on this insightful webinar that will help you get ahead of the curve + implement a hybrid approach for your fundraising events. Can’t make it live?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

This month's Net2 Think Tank question is: How do real-world (offline) events fit into social media conversations and campaigns ? We need offline events to meet each other, bond eye-to-eye, and forge the collaborations that will make our social networks stronger, better connected, and ultimately transformative. Courtesy of Joe Solomon.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Customer service can be unreliable and slow to respond and if your site has been taken offline or data compromised in a cyberattack, and in either case, you are going to need fast-responding, knowledgeable customer service.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The last thing you want added to your list is trying to figure out how to fix a site that’s been suddenly hijacked or taken offline. It’s a matter of time before your website gets hacked. In this webinar, you’ll learn: Why strong security is important for WordPress.

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