Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Consider these two sample audiences: “Canadian women” or “18 to 30-year-old women in BC or Alberta who live in cities with more than 100,000 people” Of course, most NGOs can’t afford to hire the kind of market researchers you’d need to produce a sophisticated work-up of who your core audience is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2010

Last November, Causes, a popular and free social networking fundraising application, ditched its Myspace widgets and Ideablob closed its doors. His post sparked a community plea to Ning to keep its service free for grassroots nonprofits and community groups and Amy Sample Ward also wrote about it. So, if era of free 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Unfortunately, the gopher did not live a long life, it was soon overshadowed by the World Wide Web. Even in the early days of the web, there was the urge to organize collections of files and links. That's where I met Arthur Secret , the project coordinator of this web volunteer effort. (He Your lists can be public.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

While young people and early adopters increasingly turn to the social Web not only to socialize but to communicate, explore new ideas and share new experiences, nonprofits and social change organizations are still generally stuck in the top-down, one-way world of Web 1.0. You’ll find: A directory of Web 2.0

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

See Amy Sample Ward's materials on Community Driven Social Impact for more details on strategically planning online communities.). IdeaEncore is a nice solution for organizations that have limited web resources and want to share not just their own resources, but those of other compatible organizations. What roles are needed?

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JULY 8, 2009

” Much like we’ve strived to do with Connection Café, Socialbrite’s mission is to share insights about tools and best practices that “drive the social Web and advance the social good.” Amy Sample Ward of Netsquared and Amy Sample Ward's Version of NPTech. A directory of Web 2.0

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 11, 2008

In a time when fundraising widgets, Causes on Facebook and other forms of web-based giving are rising in popularity, it's important to not forget the power of people connecting face-to-face. If you are looking for a way to support an organization or cause you care about while having a good time socializing, why not host a house party?

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Give them pass-along content like short videos and sample email text that they can share with their friends. Integrate your real-time communications channels into your website, for example, by using Twitter or Facebook widgets or RSS feeds that bring the live conversation to your site.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. [Ed. This is a free web-based tool that is totally customizeable and can be used both privately or publicly.To Netvibes will let you track all kinds of things online, all by using RSS feeds or ready-built widgets. note: This article is part of NTEN's Member Appreciation Month spectacular.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Here's my contribution to this month's Net2ThinkTank question posed by Amy Sample Ward, "What are the key questions nonprofit orgs should ask to help them determine how to prioritize social media training and experimentation as they do their technology and organization-strengthening planning?" net2 nptech Web 2.0 What a pain!"

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 24, 2008

Here's a sampling of what other bloggers are saying about the new Change.org: "I can see Change.org becoming a social action site for the more mature crowd who want knowledge before they get involved, and who want to do more than passively sponsor causes through corporate donor widgets.

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JUNE 1, 2017

Squarespace doesn’t offer any free website options, but they do give free trials if you want to sample the features before diving into a paid plan. There, you’ll find widgets for everything under the sun—from syncing up your social media accounts to creating dynamic team pages. You have a developer whiz on your team.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 20, 2009

You can donate online here through Chipin, an online donation web application linked with Paypal. Please click on the widget below if you can donate. Holly Ross ( @ntenross ), Director of NTEN, graciously offered to hold the place for me.The sooner I can raise the funds, the sooner I can book the flight and secure my place.

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MARCH 19, 2010

Check out more awesome giveaways and highlights from a sampling of our exhibitors below. Call2Action's Spark™ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget. Learn about our NPOrganizer Starter Pack includes Web Site Development and CRM all for $2000. 501 Technology, LLC in booth 80. Call 2 Action in booth 88.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2008

We created a wiki full of sample avatars, banners, widgets, videos, audio clips, etc. Until recently, all employees had been blocked from viewing social networking sites due to security concerns, so we were never even able to tell our own organization what we were doing out in this wild social web. that are easy to grab and use.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Check out more awesome giveaways and highlights from a sampling of our exhibitors below. Call2Action's Spark™ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget. Learn about our NPOrganizer Starter Pack includes Web Site Development and CRM all for $2000. 501 Technology, LLC in booth 80. Call 2 Action in booth 88.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Like most things in the social web, though, there are tools and resources that can make creating a podcast accessible to almost any organization. What makes it powerful is that the podcast can be part of a broader web presence for your organization. The What and Why? Don't neglect to market your podcast through existing channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2007

Tools like widgets and charity badges, combined with social media networks, enable these fundraisers to extend their reach and amplify their message. Now that evangelizing has become as simple as posting a widget on a MySpace or Facebook page, they are promoting causes. Type 2: Fundraising Transformed Techie. A new group who weren???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

And because you probably can't eat that much - unless, of course, you're Joey Chestnut - you put many small samples on your plate instead. So, here's a few samplings from my digital buffet. A few examples - TwestivalDC , BostonTwestival , SFTwestival , and so many more. You can even add a good deed widget for your site.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

Then, we’ll look at various ways to market your podcast via your own website, the social web, and the iTunes Music Store. You can start small - whatever you have, even just a web cam mic. You can also use web cams for a video podcast. Can host your podcasts on your web servers, transfered through ftp, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

I just sampled one month. So, dear readers, have you set goals for your blog (or web site?). My blogging platform, Typepad, does not have a way to easily and automatically measure the number of posts and words in post in a given time period. Word Press users can use General Stats plugin.). Audience Growth. This year $314,000.I

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