Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 29, 2010

There’s been quite a lot of talk in the last year about the opportunities for fundraising online, generally, as well as the best practices for organizations leveraging social media for campaigns (as well as the idea to use free tools to raise money in hard economic times). Tags: fundraising issues causes data facebook myspace.

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Care2

OCTOBER 21, 2009

After studying over 50 international nonprofit organization's email lists and response rates, the 2009 eCampaigning Review Study revealed that 60% of nonprofits present a compelling argument for supporters to take action, yet close to 70% of the organizations did not send a follow up email within one month. Can they volunteer?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

At Monitor Institute we are interested in “emerging practices” in the social sector—including new more networked ways of working. 5. Create incentives for action. In order to encourage more action, KaBOOM! is developing systems to recognize and reward those who are having the most impact both online and offline.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

I have always been proud to support WWT both during the telesummit and during the rest of the year with other offline meetups, online content, and more. Action: The action or connection that ties it together. Tags: presentation webtools analysis community mapping listening notes tools webinar women womenwhotech.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 14, 2023

You can create and run an online campaign to support an offline appeal or an event. Interest Keepers: Post photos and videos of your work in action throughout your campaign. When you send several emails out in a short period of time, you may lose subscribers or even get tagged as a spammer. Losing people is going to happen.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 21, 2023

One way to engage with your donors on social media for GivingTuesday is to create a hashtag challenge for people to participate and tag you in. Thank your donors within two days of their donation for GivingTuesday and show the impact those funds will make on your cause before you put your next campaign into action.

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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. jeffshuck @ kanter I'm biased, but events are a powerful way to move online advocates offline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. I started my talk with a story about why I liked Twitter: It allows me to connect with people in my professional field and have a great conversations or ad hoc collaborations that improve practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Grantees get better results integrating Facebook, Twitter, and other social media channels best practices and measurement. So, for these organizations, their content pyramid also includes integrating offline w/online channels. Her practical tips — like “start by tweeting one or articles you read at work in the morning.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

I like to think of it this way: Organizations may have the research or data, the capacity and staff, to identify problems and opportunities, to build messages, calls to action and campaigns. That doesn’t mean organizations sit back, relinquish all responsibility and control, and wait for the community to take action.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 9, 2010

As organizations or community builders active online, working to practice and create quality engagement, we are often trying to guide, collect or herd conversations and interactions into spaces that we have created or monitor closely. Tags: community otherblogs control permission report ssir strategy. Let’s discuss!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

grist.org has succeeded in connecting with a younger audience that not only reads its content but is also inspired to take action. We’re getting results because a large percentage of our readers have told us that they have taken action based on reading grist.org content.”. Engagement: Readers engage with their content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Different thinkers and practitioners use different terms to describe similar tools and practices. So, I use the term social media to encompass all the tools and all the practices that are described by the terms I mentioned above. Collaboration can happen at three levels: conversation, co-creation and collective action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

This takes a lot of time because I'm not just browsing, but I'm doing a pattern analysis for best practices that I can incorporate into a presentation about social media principles and nonprofits. For example, note their call to action right on the YouTube video. What's the Hash Tag? Some really good design points.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

This protocol might make some aspects of inworld chat only meetings smoother and less multiple threads, but introducing it into an established group's meeting practices might be a little like herding cats. That's why Nancy White's post on most useful synchronous online facilitation practices really caught my eye.

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Care2

OCTOBER 28, 2010

See Meetup Everywhere on Tumblr for best practices and examples. I may have gotten a detail or two wrong but the overall point was that organizations should take steps to move from online action to offline activity. Tags: Nonprofit Events Online Marketing Online Organizing Social Networking. A Mashable meetup in Greece.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2023

Notable features of this platform include: Data analytics tools to predict donors’ next actions Powerful segmentation tools that further personalize donor communications Automated welcome series for new donors to provide a positive first impression Keela’s pricing starts at $134 per month. 7 Best Practices for Effective Donor Management.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 11, 2009

—– Hildy Gottlieb’s new book The Pollyanna Principles is a handbook for starting a revolution in social benefit organization design and practice, but it isn’t the revolution. There is so much talk both online and offline, from inside organizations and from outside, that “nonprofits are broken.” What’s the catch?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Tiny Strategies: Social Media in 60 Minutes or Less In this quick-hit, practical-tips-focused panel, nonprofit social media experts will share their strategies for maximizing their social media impact with very little time to devote to it. Online numbers don’t always equate offline results. Tags: Conferences Free Agent.

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

Administering continuing medical education (CME) is no simple task— from the advanced accreditation reporting to the ongoing evolution of medical best practices, it can be a huge administrative task for your team. Evolving Medical Practices. Offline use with automatic sync. Decreased Non-Dues Revenue. Responsive design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

Taking action for social change without lifting a finger. Connecting Communities for the Common Good: Owning Online Organizing When community transcends “place,” how do you create dynamic online spaces for activists to connect and take action? How do you use the latest technologies to build active networks and roadmaps for action?

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

This helps everyone in the organization understand what the organization needs and wants to promote, as well as the actions you want constituents to take. Make sure everyone understands what the organization wants to promote and the most important actions constituents can and should take. Some best practices for integrated marketing.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Use email to reach out to your constituents to let them know what you’re up to or to ask them to take action. With email newsletters and emails as part of your campaigns you can move your supporters up the ladder of engagement to take more actions and help you more and more. The details of your emails are critical.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Taking action for social change without lifting a finger. Connecting Communities for the Common Good: Owning Online Organizing When community transcends “place,” how do you create dynamic online spaces for activists to connect and take action? How do you use the latest technologies to build active networks and roadmaps for action?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

I asked if I could live tweet to bring others into the conversation which I did using the tag #packfound. . This is the way I've described the Nptech Tagging community and other ad-hoc communities where people come ogether first through social media tools. He emphasized the importance of actions to garner trust.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

So, it is important to define what you need to know, what actions you'll take once you have the information before you rush out generate diagrams of your network. What decisions can you make or actions can you take? Christine Egger from Social Actions left a thoughtful comment on my Facebook profile about process: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Tom and Cecile shared a rich story about culture change, loosing control, building relationships, story telling, multi-channel strategies, engagement techniques, online/offline metrics, and more. Tags: movement building. A couple of takeaways from the interview: Leaders Lead Culture Change. Today, we had an amazing conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Submitted by Amy Sample Ward, publisher of Amy Sample Ward’s Version of NPTech Hildy Gottlieb’s new book The Pollyanna Principles is a handbook for starting a revolution in social benefit organization design and practice, but it isn’t the revolution. Tags: Books guest blogging. What’s the catch?

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

Taking action for social change without lifting a finger. Connecting Communities for the Common Good: Owning Online Organizing When community transcends “place,” how do you create dynamic online spaces for activists to connect and take action? How do you use the latest technologies to build active networks and roadmaps for action?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2005

I'm still dancing on the edges between action and reflection, but wanted to get down some of my evolving next action steps and questions for reflection. I'm still not sure I can bring this one to action. That way, I could have been preparing the content offline and uploaded later. Technorati Tags: blogher bloghercon

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

What I'm after are ways to tweak the design to improve learning and to improve instructional practice. I also like to practice my storytelling skills. And, while I practice before I present, many times - I have some parts that are new. Some strategies for offline/online engagement were discussed. Tags as a metric.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Conference Tag: CU08 ConnectingUp Conference Warning: I am live blogging these notes as the conference unfolds. Doug mentioned attending the NTC/NTEN conference in New Orleans and had RSS and Tagging ringing in his ears. What if networked better and created stronger communities of practice? There are offline ways to do it.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We also approached best practices from a blind perspective that if it worked for someone else, it would work for us. For example, knowing that a certain message or call to action, or even type of service, worked for one organization in one community translated to other organizations as a packaged up and ready to repeat solution.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

Multi-channel marketing is the practice of communicating and marketing across many channels. Digital Layered Campaigns with Paid Search, SEO and Display Ads – by Stephanie Tippitt, BDI Essential Nonprofit Marketing Best Practices and 3 Marketing Channels to Try – by Scott G. Why is it important for nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

It's not easy to do because it requires balancing action with reflection. Show how a small amount can it make a big difference : Now here's where Facebook Birthday Causes application gets in the way of good fundraising practice. it's been in churches, immigrant communities, and many other places offline for years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

I may just be cynical, but I’ve seen too many technology providers claim that their tools will help organizations raise money, engage volunteers, mobilize action, or generally address organizational challenges in ways that only the internet is suited to do. Facebook Causes followed the same path. They are tied to celebrities or major events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

This was a fun opportunity to pull together some of my Facebook action learning curriculum and summarize much of the wisdom being shared over on at my Facebook Page. They also know how to make use of a customized landing tab – articulating value at a glance and a call to action that ladders up to the objective.

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