Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. That’s why the Atlanta councilman used twitter!

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

pull in hashtags from Twitter into the RSS reader (pull in the RSS of a search.twitter.com result). pause for reflection time before next reiteration: how to improve results? Examples: Yammer for internal sharing, it’s a Twitter for groups. Are there ways of catching offline datapoints? Listening based on location?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

How do we activate the online activists to take action offline?" I was not presenting, but decided to use Twitter crowd source some suggestions, screencapture them, and put those into my presentation later in the day. Ironically, one of my Twitter followers suggested asking them nicely and giving them schwag. SheilaS @ kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? Before I went on Twittered. What worked? What didn't?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

If you have been following me on Twitter, Facebook, this blog or other social media channels, you know that my father passed away several weeks ago. 8% of donors were “weak ties” or people that I know online only who may read my blog, follow me on Twitter or Facebook. Only a small percentage 2% had met my Dad.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

Photo emailed from Cambodia by Elephant, Sharing Foundation 's in-country director In this post, I share some learnings as a free agent fundraise r (an individual who uses personal fundraising to raise money for a charity) who is leveraging their personal network to support a nonprofit's programs that help children in need. I think it works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

NPtech Colleagues: @zanarama Zan McColloch Lussier @ericamills Erica Mills @seattledrury Peter Drury photo by Akhtar. Seattle Symphony created flashmob and promoted it with Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter effectively. Photo by Microsoft Global Citizenship. Twitter Advocates. It directly increased ticket sales.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 12, 2011

Photo by Green LA Girl ) 2. Julie has some good photos from the session in her post, And My Water Didn't Break at All. Photo of Gwen Bell by Joel Longtine. My 5 takeaways were: Checking email, Twitter and Facebook constantly can be "insecurity work.". I held one little dachshund, Paprika, till my arms hurt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2009

Flickr Photo by DaveFishernc Charity Balls, Dinner Dances, Black Tie Charity Events, and other parties where people donate money to a charity to have fun together are nothing new. Offline/Online Mix This is not your mother's or grandmother's black tie dinner dance charity event! events morph and change. Charity Ball 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Photo by Thomas Hawk. Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I wrote a reflection on an article in CNET called " Crowded Roads Ahead for Charity 2.0 " based on an interview with Toby Daniels of Think Social and Scott Harrison of charity:water. Organizations must establish themselves as a trusted source.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

I did a scan of the several hundred organizations registered for the webinar, many from Jewish education organizations, looking at their social media engagement practices as well as a literature scan of alumni network engagement with social mediaHere’s some reflections: Alumni Networks: Benefits, Challenges, and Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

When Maddie Grant at Social Fish invited me to do a FREE webinar over at the 365 Engage Community, I was thrilled to have an opportunity to reflect the practice of incorporating social media into instruction. I use delicious, slideshare, and twitter. Integrating Twitter as A BackChannel into Instruction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr. Hence, they're pretty lousy photos. Some reflections about the newest web2.0 bleeding edge tool, twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

More Flickr Photos here. He mentioned that I would be talking about Twitter and quipped."If "If you see me twittering, take me to the back and shoot me." " I did manage to get Internet access on my nokia N95 and couldn't resist Twittering his quip. There are offline ways to do it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Amanda Rose at the London Twestival Photo was taken by @mikebutcher The Twestival combined online twitter fundraising with a groundswell of offline self organized events in 202 cities around the world on February 12th. Almost all the previous fundraising campaigns using Twitter were organized by a single person or organization.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

No “make money on social media” or “top 5 Twitter tips” I was so thrilled, then, to see a couple hundred registered! Look for patterns or activity that comes from other actions in the organization (do Facebook comments increase when a staff person attends an offline event? Photo credit: Flickr myklroventine.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

With content marketing, you and your supporters can create and upload content (blog posts, photos, testimonials, etc.) This metric should reflect both online and offline donations, ideally, as close to real-time as possible. Content marketing is an excellent strategy for cultivating and retaining donors. Here’s how it works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

It has been applied to specific social media channels – for example Twitter Ladder or Facebook Ladder or to describes different levels of engagement across channels. Promote Facebook through other channels online and offline. Set aside an hour a week for learning from your data and reflecting on how to improve. Simply repeat it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

In her dorm room, she had photos of our family and my letters to her on the wall. My goal was to ask online and offline for $10 gifts and hope that 100 people donate the $1,000 needed. So, I sent Chris a Twitter campaign status message and he responded with a $10 gift. But don't take my word for it. Chris Brogan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Photo by Borman818. Last year, TweetsGiving , raised $11,000 to build a classroom in Tanzania using Twitter to spread messages of thanks and opportunities to donate. More importantly, the event was one of a series of social media fundraisers that offered evidence that Twitter and other social media tools were not just a passing fad.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Wayne Glynn's chemotherapy party photos in flickr , let's him wish him a speedy recovery. Michael Stein (East Coast) reflects on striving for simplicity in design. The two top posts of the week were about Twitter and MySpace, both Web2.0 The two top posts of the week were about Twitter and MySpace, both Web2.0

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