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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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. Specifically, the intent was to: Tags: Online Advocacy.

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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. Tags: maps netaction.

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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? Tags: facebook netaction network effectiveness scholar. How to weave the two in order to scale. Or do you just step away and let it roll? .

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Building a loop between online and offline community activities. Tags: community events 4change chat community building monthly chat offline community online community. Share your ideas ahead of time in the comments below, or on twitter using #4change and/or #commbuild – have an idea for a better hashtag for this chat?

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Wild Apricot

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Many organizations use Gmail to manage their email, because its generous storage space, ability to use your own domain , and system of tags and filters make it easy to organize email communications. Tags: Gmail General non-profit interest Google Non-profit technology Web 2.0 read more ). read more ).

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

and/or tagging them in comments in your project management tool or shared document. Any item that goes beyond its designated time can be taken offline for relevant team members or a subsequent meeting set up for that item specifically to be addressed to keep the meeting on track. That might include CC’ing them on project status emails.

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Forum One

JANUARY 27, 2009

We've been helping groups for many years with ways to have a little more influence and get a little more impact out of their online and offline events. If the event is offline, conduct follow-up online discussion using a simple listserve or a group collaboration tool to keep the lively discussions going. Tags: Collaboration.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2010

As I started to collect my thoughts, though, I realized that my impressions and recommendations were really applicable to any tweetup or offline gathering of online networks. NFPTweetups and other events where online networks come together offline are unique opportunities and hear from practioners and colleagues and get the “real story.&#

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 9, 2010

With all the buzz about social media, it’s easy to forget that offline media attention can be equally valuable, especially for community-based nonprofits who want to get attention to local projects or recruit local members and volunteers. Offline media attention is good. Getting it can be hard, however, in the digital information age.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Or are you looking to move from online community to offline event coordination? These monthly chats part of the #4Change network and are open to anyone interested in learning and sharing about building community, on and offline, with the use of social media or other technology tools. Maybe across multiple countries, or even continents.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Description : Social media tools provide a lot of opportunities to make local, offline connections and build community. Tags: 2010 presentation presetnation small business social media webinar. This webinar will introduce some best practices, strategies, and next steps for getting started with social media for you organization.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Tags: Online Advocacy Online Organizing Technology. It should be clear how these smaller goals and milestones add up to the bigger vision, but the lessons from these smaller tests may increase your chances of successfully arriving at the ultimate destination.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

More than a dozen features have been added or significantly enhanced in the new version, including improvements to the way photos are managed, the ability to copy sites, and transaction management capabilities that go even further in serving donors by intuitively blurring the lines between online and offline giving.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2010

Most of us would probably agree that social media indeed can enhance offline events, but does it always? Can social media also diminish offline events? There are so many tools we can use to try and enhance offline events. Tags: events socialchange 4change social change social media twitter. Date: March, 18th 2010.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 20, 2010

Last night was the first in what will now be a monthly chat for community builders or those interested in learning more about building community, on and offline. tools and tactics that build a loop between offline and online activities. Tags: community events 4change chats community building community management.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2009

Tags: Online Activism Online Recruitment Social Networking Software Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 He told me that a few months ago, they'd set up a social networking hub on Ning for friends and constituents of the organization to connect with each other. " read more. Tools Web 2.0 Tools Web Building.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 3, 2010

I’ve had experience organizing communities offline in local communities, and organizing community online – but the kind of organizing that inspires me the most is combining online and offline. Tags: community events 4change community building community organizing netsquared social by social twitter.

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NetWits

MARCH 8, 2012

And because fundraising continues to shift from offline to online nonprofits are faced with a growing need to find new and innovative ways to do fundraising through online sources. The move towards a multichannel fundraising approach (online and offline) is becoming more and more critical to long-term success.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Whether it’s small communities coming together offline to train and share knowledge about using technology or it’s innovation projects competing in the same contest working together instead – we hope you’ll find this short paper compelling and share it with your networks. You can download the paper directly here.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Tags: campaigns presentation facebook lpw philanthropy romania workshop. In the slides, I highlighted some of the work of 350.org org but I know there are lots of great examples out there. Has your organization campaigned specifically on facebook? I’d love to hear how it went!

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Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Hashtags are used on many social media platforms to “tag” posts for specific topics. Ambassadors are supporters of your organization that may have a broader reach, either online or offline. TIP: You’ve probably seen it referred to as #GivingTuesday. But what’s that hashtag all about? Issue a challenge to your followers!

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

It’s always great to meet offline with folks you’ve already had conversations with online. Tags: interview social entrepreneurs socialmedia video. This past weekend I had the opportunity to be in Rotterdam, Netherlands, for the European Summit. What do you think? What are your answers to Petra’s questions?

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M+R

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Set up Google Tag Manager to centralize tracking codes across platforms to enable faster and easier updates. Offline, you can find her biking in the Berkeley hills and baking her top-secret chocolate chip cookie recipe. It also offers audience insights and traffic information that can be helpful for targeting your ads!

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 15, 2024

Be sure to tag guests and sponsors to further boost engagement and reach! By sending the right donor communications and reaching your target audience where they are, you’ll be able to successfully promote your event and expand your nonprofit’s reach. Start promoting your next event.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 22, 2010

I ran an online poll that revealed about 75-80% of Admins receive these updates, but I took it offline because folks emailed that the poll wasn't correctly registering their votes.]. Tags: Facebook. Now I receive these updates via email for all 17 Pages, and only two have more than 10,000 fans. [I

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2009

How do opportunities, successes, connections and authority online translate into offline opportunities and successes? What cultural shifts need to take place offline in order to provide non-privileged groups earlier access, interest, and opportunity in technology-related fields?

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Next, focus on your goals – Are you trying to raise a million dollars or mobilize a group of offline volunteers? Tags: Social Media #nptech Non-Profit Social Media Strategy. First, create a page on Causes and activist resource center. Or, if you are a non-profit, check out the non-profit resource center. Strengthen your core.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

I’m just back from a few days mostly offline in the Point Reyes National Seashore area to walk along the beach and appreciate the beautiful views and nature. That balance is not a simple on and off switch – it is understanding how to integrate focused and receptive attentions into our online and offline lives.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 18, 2017

If your organization participates in OpenAIR, it gets more than a new website; your organization becomes a more welcoming organization online — and maybe offline as well. Your organization gains expanded awareness about accessibility online, awareness that is easily translated offline, to the way you work with people face to face.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2005

Tag Poetry. Yesterday, Nancy White suggested that we add having the students create poetry from their tags. When I got back from on-site work (reflections on that follow) and finished my mommy shift, I discovered that Nancy wrote a poem with her tags. " What if you linked your tag words to something?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Target Analytics, a Blackbaud company, has been looking at trends in online and offline giving for many years now. A recent meeting of the donorCentrics Internet Giving Benchmarking Group reviewed online and offline giving between 2005 and 2009. Multichannel donors are more loyal than offline or online donors alone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2010

Playing tourist in DC, it is interesting to see how much your online digital life impacts your offline life. There were a number of online/offline participatory visitor experiences. Tags: Engagement smithsonian. The Smithsonian is one of the Networked Nonprofits we feature in the book. Next stop, the Jersey Shore!

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2009

We all know from offline life experience that you don’t just schedule a meeting, but you have to show up and contribute for the meeting to be successful; you probably also have action items that come out of the meeting that people work on individually and that also draw them back together for another meeting.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

The responses lean towards a reality in which our online presence is just as diverse as our offline personalities – people are connecting with a mix of others on difference platforms. In preparation for their presentation, they circulated a survey to over 200 nonprofit professionals, asking how they use various social platforms.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 9, 2009

How Technology is Redefining How We Connect | Psychology Today - An interesting read - focusing on the need to incorporate offline interaction in relationships. How does your organization encourage your online supporters/friends/fans to take action offline, together, or to meet with your organization? Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 12, 2010

—— Last year I used the metaphor of “ gardening vs landscaping &# to outline some of the key attributes I believe make for successful community building, on or offline. Tags: community issues best practice community building gardening ssir. What would you add about cross-platform community building?

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