Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 21, 2019

Want to learn how to use social fundraising to get the most out of your supporters voice? But when it comes to social fundraising, try to go one step further and encourage your supporters to use their own voices to share what they’re doing with your cause and tap into a whole new audience that might be unaware of your nonprofit and mission.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

2) 29% of donors worldwide say that social media is the tool that most inspires them to give, however, email is a close second at 27%. Of all social media worldwide, Facebook dominates and its new fundraising tools will likely transform global giving. In third place is an organization’s website at 18%. Australia & Oceania.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

The other interviews include Sylwia Presley from Gobal Voices , and Claire Sale from NetSquared. When you bring the Internet, online social tools, mobile technologies, and all the rest into the equation, you do not fundamentally change how communities organize or make change. I definitely recommend them both! What is changing and why?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Let’s begin with some practical strategies, including ground rules, defined roles, supplies, and tools. Be sure you’ve done the prep work to establish roles and responsibilities, prepare supplies, and bring in tools to facilitate your brainstorming session. Here you can review a comparison of virtual tools. Well, almost.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 23, 2023

GivingTuesday participants worldwide also volunteered, performed countless acts of kindness, and gave their voices, time, and goods. A vast majority of nonprofits reported experimenting with new techniques last year, which could be anything from new tech tools to a novel strategy for reaching new supporters.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

She’s the host of the podcast “Let’s Take This Offline,” an adjunct professor at Baruch College, a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE), a BoardSource Certified Governance Trainer (CGT), A Gallup Certified Strengths Coach and an AFP Master Trainer.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. Here’s a run through of the Tools Galore session. More than 3.5

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It’s easy to feel like you’re the voice of your organization, and it’s tempting to try to talk like you are that organization. When posting on social media, skip the formalities and embrace your unique voice and tone. That tip sounds kind of goofy, doesn’t it? But communicating with your supporters can be intimidating.

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NetWits

MAY 19, 2011

Giving them the tools they need to be successful fundraisers is important, but beyond that there’s so much more that can be done. Examples include best time or days to communicate with friends, how often to cummunicate, tone of voice and simply the need to ask and ask often, as well as thank and thank often!

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

This week, I shared with Vanessa that during my time offline for the holidays, I found myself reflecting on just how many different frustrations I feel people in this sector have voiced over 2010 – to the point that I, honestly, feel really overwhelmed by the “sick and tired&# state of nptechers world wide.

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In your SimplyFundraisingCRM launchpad, just enter your public and private API keys from your 360MatchPro account and save to activate your integrated tools. About SimplyFundraisingCRM: Manage donors, collect donations online or offline, and make it easy for you and your board members to attract and retain donors.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2012

You know more about the tools. Assuming you know the most about these tools means you have the opportunity and responsibility to share your knowledge and help the community be as savvy as you! There are mind-boggling reports and stats our there that show just how much time many of us are spending [wasting?]

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

How can we and how are we using social media tools for social change? Lesson #1: Voice. “Social media is a storytelling tool, it’s let voices effected by climate change be heard around the world&# (@ amysampleward ). Social media is still the tool or the medium, not the change or the action.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2022

They needed a mobile app that worked offline. It’s not just useful for offline situations like interviewing people in rural India. It’s supposed to be a simple but effective tool that can flex to the unique needs of different organizations. So, I started sharing my idea at different networking events.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 6, 2021

THE AGITATOR / DONOR VOICE. In this blog, you’ll learn about: Social Media Marketing & Measurement, Network Building, Tech Tools for Nonprofits, Company Culture, Donor Engagement, and Data Science. And it’s not style over substance; their opinions are backed up by data and carefully considered. BETH’S BLOG.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 21, 2014

Thriving requires taking a digital detox – going offline and focusing on the other people you are with. I’ve written a lot about mindfulness and managing your attention in an age of distraction , including the use of “ conscious computing tools.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2011

Create a vibrant online platform that inspires offline action, where challenges are posted, solutions are debated, successes and failures are archived, data is both disseminated and captured, stories are shared, and essential civic relationships developed. Disclaimer: Razoo is a Zoetica client).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Leading on social media requires nonprofit CEOs and their staff, even Trustees, to master basic digital communications skills that allow them to engage directly with stakeholders as themselves, in their own voices. Nonprofit leaders need to use social media to drive conversations online and offline, influence others, and shape perceptions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2012

New Tools for Digital Justice - [link] – coordinated by Mike Medow. Moving Past Pixels: Claiming Your Strategic Voice – [link] coordinated by Eve Simon (Be sure to see all the great panels Beaconfire has put together for voting). Social Media Smackdown: Online VS Offline Impact - [link] coordinated by Kayta Andresen.

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Everyaction

APRIL 23, 2018

A CRM is no different than any other tool that your nonprofit uses, in the sense that there is a difference between using it well enough to get by, and really getting the most bang for your buck. The tip that we can tell you is that your CRM is the only tool you need to find this information for yourself.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

There are many who approach the online landscape with very different views than their offline business decisions. I don’t necessarily want to call for the communities on MySpace or on ideablob to call for the return of the tools. The more voices the better! Do you know what the plans are for the tools you are using?

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Everyaction

MAY 24, 2018

As nonprofits are using multiple channels to reach their supporters, they also need to be able to track engagement across these online and offline channels. Having a tool that allows for easy segmentation and testing is key to improving email deliverability. Mobile list size grew by 35% in 2017.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2011

They are integrating social media tactics to their online advocacy tool box with this Twitter tool. Its Stand Up For Health Care , a project of Families USA, has created a Twitter tool that easily lets your identify Twitter names for your US Representatives, Senators and Governor by typing your zip code.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

In this post, we hope to voice many of the tools, resources, and tactics that have been shared, in hopes of encouraging others around the world to get involved with the digital relief efforts." These fall into two types: crises that originate in social media, and crises that originate offline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

Bots needs to be designed increase engagement, support and inspire offline action. Charity:Water created a bot called “ Walk with Yeshi ” as a donor engagement tool. You also need to think about its voice and tone and how it can be relevant and engaging to your target audience. There are two design tasks.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I blogged earlier this year about research that indicates very strongly we’ve replicated our offline social barriers and segmentation in our online social networking platforms. ( Visit danah boyd’s website for more information and research on this topic.) as a form of self expression and identification.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I blogged earlier this year about research that indicates very strongly we’ve replicated our offline social barriers and segmentation in our online social networking platforms. ( Visit danah boyd’s website for more information and research on this topic.) as a form of self expression and identification.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

Sometimes we even put voices and faces to names (er, Twitter handles), whether through a phone call about the group’s evolution or an in-person meetup at the NTC. Claire Sale, a longtime #CommBuild champion, says this is her favorite part: “Mixing the online/offline builds stronger bonds between people and projects.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

I presented an overview on content curation why important, a framework, and introduced some new curation tools – scoop.it 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? How will you get their voice?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2011

As she says, “ Go one way, and you risk overstating the influence, go the other and you’re dismissed as assuming individuals in the Arab world incapable of leveraging social media tools for organizing.&#. But when did we go from referring to social media as a tool to calling it the catalyst of a revolution?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2015

Voice over IP phones are probably the most important (and least utilized) technology for that purpose. And when you're offline, you have access to all the Box documents because the documents cache offline." For us, running in-person education programs that we do, having a group SMS text tool is critical.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Analytics tools. how to integrate tools without reinventing the wheel. use monitoring tools. Listening tools: Netvibes. Are there ways of catching offline datapoints? HSUS - integrated it with everything else, email campaigns/newsletters, offline, etc. Here goes… Take aways: How to use listening.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

Sometimes we even put voices and faces to names (er, Twitter handles), whether through a phone call about the group’s evolution or an in-person meetup at the NTC. Claire Sale, a longtime #CommBuild champion, says this is her favorite part: “Mixing the online/offline builds stronger bonds between people and projects.”

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 9, 2010

It comes at the same time that I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the importance of community builders/managers/leaders or organizational voices to give permission back to the community members. . —– A new report from the team at Forrester came out last week: Tapping The Entire Online Peer Influence Pyramid.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

Use the tool for what it is: a communications platform. 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. It’s not going to work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

The Valley Medical Foundation: This organization provided an example of the personal versus organizational voice issue that social media often brings up. Robot Voice Disguiser for Large Group Facilitation. My son lent me his Robot Voice Disguiser which was good for an opening laugh, but the chimes were preferable.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore View more presentations from Amy Sample ward.

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