Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Make profiles for each volunteer. The right volunteer management software can make this even easier, organizing volunteer hours into manageable dashboards and showing you important information about your schedule, such as open slots, overlaps, and recurring schedules, all in one screen. Make profiles for each volunteer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. Here’s a sampling of just a few: How do you create ideas that the crowd embraces, makes stronger, and spreads? One of my favorite chapters of the book describes different leadership profiles based on the values and leadership approaches that different leaders use.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2011

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. From 2009 to 2010, the open rate for organizations of all sizes and sectors declined by 12% on average. Tips to grow your list: Short sign-up forms – you just need their email, ultimately, and you can start building out their profile of what actions they take and how they engage.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

. —– Google+, the social network launched by Google nearly 5 months ago, has recently opened up the platform to organizations and brands with a profile type akin to the options for individuals and Pages on Facebook. Are you using Google+ now and have you set up a profile for your organization? What do you think?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 28, 2012

However, since it is a Facebook photo, when you click on it, the photo opens in a preview viewer and you can see further information and the link to the microsite in the photo description to the right. Both of these actions make it clear and easy for people to learn more and take action while still playing by the rules of Facebook.

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NetWits

JUNE 6, 2011

For example, maybe everyone can see a certain resource or sample quiz, but you must login in order to also download the white paper or answer guide. Secured Content – The easiest of ways is to simply require a login to access certain content. These could be articles, resources or documents.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2011

Ensure that your Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and any other online profile you have includes a link back to your organization’s website. Hold open discussions. Announce it to the community with an invitation to join an open conference call where you will provide information, allow people to ask questions, and so on.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Personal profiles, direct communication, authentic conversations. This panel session included presentations from: Amy Boroff (Development Director, Junior Achievement of NJ), Brittney Gilbert (VP of Marketing and Outreach, Modest Needs Foundation), and Laura Brahm (Web Officer, Open Society Foundations). Live stream video.

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NTEN

APRIL 7, 2015

Sixteen nonprofit tech experts (including NTEN Members: Jeff Shuck , David Neff , Donna Wilkins , Frank Barry , and NTEN''s Amy Sample Ward ) share their ideas and fundraising best practices in Blackbaud ''s new free ebook, The Future of Fundraising. Stay tuned—registration will open in May. What''s the future of fundraising?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Many of us have been up early playing with Jumo, setting up our individual profiles and finding issues and organizations or setting up profiles for organizations. Amy Sample Ward shares her first reflections and critique of the platform and wonders what’s the point?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2009

open stack. professional v personal = two profiles. how do you get everyone to open up? get your privacy and permission policies and proceses aligned with an open strategy. Open networks will be the new norm, so consider how you will open your business or organization. Contacts - who you know? Activities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. Patricia Patrizi, Elizabeth Heidi Thompson, Julia Coffman, and Tanya Beer, “ Eyes Wide Open: Learning as Strategy Under Conditions of Complexity and Uncertainty.” Which profiles are you most active on? Not Data Driven.”

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Some are medium sized and open, but still centered around a discipline. See Amy Sample Ward's materials on Community Driven Social Impact for more details on strategically planning online communities.). profiles so people can find out more about who is sharing this knowledge, and see quickly what other things they have shared.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2013

For example, one of the case studies that Amy Sample Ward and I profiled in the mobile section of our book Social Change Anytime Everywhere was about “Missed Calls” as an organizing strategy. They share best practices in online campaigning as well as concrete data and analysis from their A/B testing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Here’s a sample of our accomplishments: Martus , our secure, open-source information management software for human rights defenders continued to empower many human rights groups worldwide to secure thousands of stories of human rights violations and to use this information strategically to advance their causes.

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NTEN

APRIL 10, 2009

After Idealware 's latest report reviewing Open Source CMS tools , there were, as might be expected, a few dust-ups in the open source developers and users communities, which includes NTEN members like David Geilhufe. Amy Sample Ward took up the discussion on her blog. . " You can see his "Meet NTEN" profile here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

A lot of NPTECH folks raved about the beautifully simple “ friend management &# features that Google + offers through circles. Much easier to figure out how not to share everything with everyone or spend than Facebook as Amy Sample Ward writes about in her early thoughts on the platform. Circles Are Not Community.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2011

That high-profile celebrity 35% or influential leader endorsement? R eport financial condition - transparency is key, your 990 and other paperwork is public data (it’s already posted on Guidestar so you might as well be open about it!). Slightly more than a third (34%) gave as a result of a workplace fundraising 52% drive.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

MyBlogLog is a service that shows blog writers and readers the faces and profile information of other MyBlogLog users that visit their sites." These opportunities are typically open to all sorts of social entrepreneurs as well. Download the December 2009 version of this list here. Also available in French and Spanish)."

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

I really like so many aspects of this campaign that instead of simply changing my profile picture or tweeting about the campaign, I wanted to take a closer look, share with you some of the elements that are making it a great campaign, and some suggestions for ways it can be improved.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

We provide a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights. Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. View more presentations from Amy Sample ward. The sessions are short (only 50 minutes!)

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Your donor database should track and report on how supporters interact with all of the channels in a campaign: email opens, social media engagement, web page visits, etc. Run a report to identify which email recipients have just plain stopped opening your messages and decide once and for all to purge them from your list.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 16, 2009

The platform just hit open beta today, so create an account and start playing (hey, it’s Friday, right?). You will be able to connect to and manage profiles on other social media sites helping you coordinate supporter action. “Together we are…LOUDER!&# It’s true!

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

Note , this was adapted from the book Social Change Anytime Everywhere by Amy Sample Ward and I. Email: Number of new subscribers, open rates and click through rates, best performing subject lines and topics, and most engaged email audience segment. Spotlight/Profile, Interview. Who are the target audiences? Lists Post (e.g.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Facebook Will Be Google-able (If Your Profile is Set to Public) – “At Google’s event today announcing a number of fantastic new features, including real-time search, a new partnership was announced: real-time search of public Facebook status updates. The paper will be open to comment til the end of January 2010.&#.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Though, with MySpace, organizations have different opportunities for creating profiles and interacting with supporters than on Facebook. What will be the requirement in an open data or open web for applications serving communities? It also skews the idea that organizations can focus energy where their communities already are.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Though, with MySpace, organizations have different opportunities for creating profiles and interacting with supporters than on Facebook. What will be the requirement in an open data or open web for applications serving communities? It also skews the idea that organizations can focus energy where their communities already are.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 24, 2010

Results & lessons learned. Results & lessons learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

Social fundraising is when your nonprofit integrates tried and true fundraising techniques with social media to inspire your supporters to raise money from their networks on your behalf.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Nancy raises a few questions about whether a distributed presence for organizations - splitting the attention of members between an organization's web site and social networking profiles is a liability or an asset. Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools. Her selection criteria.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2008

to build on these pillars to ensure public access in their communities, free speech and open networks for everyone." The answers lie within our deep pockets of community relationships, our ability to help people tell their stories, and abiding knowledge media production and and distributions. "So when I talk about web 2.0,

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

By Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN. Two or three years ago, you could have a conversation out in the open and have people organically join in. According to the Twibbon profile for TMWL, 667 users added the badge to their pictures. Epic Change is no different. It's much more challenging to do something like that now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

Social networking requires commitment -- you can't set up a MySpace profile and then walk away. You have to approve new friend requests, respond to messages, post your latest action alerts, send out bulletins, keep your profile up-to-date, and more. The concept of openness. " This point really resonates with what Allison H.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Simply offer ticket sales online, then send your guests a care package of the beverages to be sampled on the day of the event. For added suspense, you may send out a mystery box with a variety of beverages to sample. Alcoholic beverage tastings are frequently held as special events and are surprisingly simple to create online.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

5 Open-Ended Questions To Ask Your Customers How To Produce An Effective Company Blog Leadership Tips From Good Boss, Bad Boss How To Write A Business Plan In About One Hour ► October (11) How To Write Your Company's Core Values How To Be A Green Leader Key Interviewing Questions To Ask To Identify Lead. Don't Praise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

According to an email from Ben Rattray, Change.Org founder, "This is not at all meant as a replacement for the profiles organizations have on MySpace and Facebook, which I think are great for reaching younger supporters. The NOSI Choosing and Using Free and Open Source primer is on the ICT Hub Knowledgebase! What do you think?

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Care2

AUGUST 7, 2007

We took a sampling from all of the Causes to get a sense of what the potential is. There are currently about 8,000 Causes, and we sampled about 10% of them. Lots of zero dollar donations in that sample (555 out of the 774 we sampled). per user is eye opening. Is it a random sample? Crowd-sourcing.

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