Media Cause

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This is a critical time for participating in relevant social media conversations and using trending hashtags in your posts. Tag the campaign target—and influencers, journalists, and partner orgs. A critical piece of advocacy is reaching the target you are trying to influence. Center your campaign around timely events.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

For instance, if your goal is to boost signups for your next event, you could track the conversion rate from your marketing materials to your signup form. Get nonprofit influencers on board. Still, you can take your efforts to the next level by leveraging popular nonprofit personalities, also known as influencers. Geofilters.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

For instance, if your goal is to boost signups for your next event, you could track the conversion rate from your marketing materials to your signup form. Get nonprofit influencers on board. Still, you can take your efforts to the next level by leveraging popular nonprofit personalities, also known as influencers. Geofilters.

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Try to keep discussions to relevant project conversations. Keep conversations about a project to the main channels of your workplace communication system (Slack/Teams/etc.) and/or tagging them in comments in your project management tool or shared document. Include as much of the team as possible at any given time.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2023

Quotes by Influencers Take this opportunity to up your networking game. Reach out to nonprofit influencers and ask them for a quote on different nonprofit-related topics, such as easy ways to manage multiple events or nonprofit fundraising trends. If they are comfortable, you can even tag them and ask for a repost.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

How each traffic source is influencing sign ups for your peer-to-peer campaign. Are your conversion rates different for different audiences? They simply refer to tags that can be added to any URL. Are your conversion rates different for different audiences? How many donations each marketing initiative is getting you.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Listen first and discover where the conversations are! Tweetdeck – add columns to listen and track conversations or watch mentions. Conversations take place in both places separately and together. Multi-channel conversations. Where are the conversations? Learn what people want to hear. Communities.

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Qgiv

APRIL 11, 2023

Examples of direct donor signals include: Surveys Conversations with donors Direct messages or tagging your organization on social media Indirect signals are a bit less obvious, but no less valuable. Typically reading donor signals that are indirect requires some sort of software tools to gather that data.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

I’ve written about it , submitted a session proposal with colleague Debra Askanase to the 2011 NTC, and recently had the opportunity to start a conversation on the topic of engaging your community across platforms in a GroupVine message (more information about my use of the tool at the bottom of this post).

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 25, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of October 25th).

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Media Cause

JUNE 10, 2021

Because of this, the platform is getting an influx of features to make it more functional, including tipping features, a bell that you can select to RSVP for events, topic-suggestion prompts, a history feature to show users you’ve listened to, and profile tagging in bios. Plus, they have fixed bio bugs that have pestered users. It took off!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

This post summarizes the content I shared in my presentation and offers some reflection on the conversational keynote. Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. Conversational Key Note. 3: Use conversation starters to engage your target audience.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

To dive into the conversations about Causes, visit my earlier post , or posts by Marshall Kirkpatrick , Ivan Boothe , Beth Kanter , and Joe Solomon.). The most important parts of the conversation around Causes do not actually focus on Causes, specifically. Tags: community issues challenges competitions shutdown socialmedia.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 21, 2017

After several months analyzing tweets by registered voters and comparing them to the larger social media conversations—that include real people, organizations, campaigns, and bots—sometimes real people, or at least the segments of real people we want to engage, are not talking about our issues or candidates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. Need to catch up last week's ROI conversations so you can jump in - start here. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

To dive into the conversations about Causes, visit my earlier post , or posts by Marshall Kirkpatrick , Ivan Boothe , Beth Kanter , and Joe Solomon.). The most important parts of the conversation around Causes do not actually focus on Causes, specifically. Tags: community issues challenges competitions shutdown socialmedia.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2009

Because of search, it no longer matters how many photos we post online or where we post them, because search can filter out our tags and codes. Because of search, it no longer matters whether you are a blogger or a company, because search will sift the most active conversations to the top. Because it’s all conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2009

What makes a good influencer strategy? I followed the ant trails of the San Francisco Symphony Twitter stream - they are doing a particularly good job of conversational, relationship building tweets - not "BUY TICKETS NOW!" They found some influencers who they cultivated. A big topic of discussion was influencer strategies.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2017

Engaging with supporters + influencers goes a long way. Pay attention to what others are doing on Instagram — follow key supporters, peers, influencers , those who inspire you, etc! You can collect a list of hashtags that other like-minded orgs and influencers are using. A little love goes a long way.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Not just to broadcast, but to have a conversation, share ideas, and provide context. Organizations that I am or could follow are on both platforms, so what is the deciding factor influencing their strategy for engagement on the platform and the deciding factor for which platform I use to connect with them? Isn’t that the point?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2010

Listening can help your organization craft conversation starters , figure out how to best start engaging , identify social content that you can incorporate into your content strategy , identify potential brand ambassadors , or address a potential crisis early in the game. Note their influence scores. See who scores higher and ask why.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of April 28th).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2009

What makes a good influencer strategy? I followed the ant trails of the San Francisco Symphony Twitter stream - they are doing a particularly good job of conversational, relationship building tweets - not "BUY TICKETS NOW!" They found some influencers who they cultivated. A big topic of discussion was influencer strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2010

Managing your organization’s Facebook page, particularly tracking, content, and engagement can be a time suck, particularly as your network grows. For example, we know that identifying and engaging with super fans/influencers on our Facebook presence is important. Aggregating Conversations.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of November 11th).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2010

Of course you have to be interested in what information or conversations they are sharing on Twitter. Run the impact report to help you identify influencers. Klout lets you track the “influence&# of specific Twitter users, including the growth of their network, who they influence, and who they are influenced by.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2010

One you may be familiar with the Conversation Prism that has probably appeared in more powerpoint presentations about social media than any other graphic. . Tags: promotion. What I appreciate are the info graphics that accompany most of the chapters. Jesse Thomas created the information graphic below to illustrate the full concept.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yesterday was the 3rd annual Women Who Tech Telesummit , bringing together over 600 women (and men) from for-profit and nonprofit organizations and technology start, connecting developers and techies with those new to the field, igniting conversations and long-term collaborations. How do you know an “influencer?&#.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 19, 2010

A hashtag is similar to other web tags: it is metadata that helps add tweets to a category. Hashtags have the 'hash' or 'pound' symbol (#) preceding the tag.: Just as you might tag a Web bookmark in a social bookmarking site such as the now defunct Xmarks.com and Del.icio.us The hashtags kept the conversations separate.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2009

The goal is to use the power of "Social Influence" via Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Blogs and other online media to raise an unprecedented amount for our fund benefiting The Humane Society, LIVESTRONG, Oxfam America and WWF from June 1st until August 28th, 2009." " Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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BoardAssist

MARCH 20, 2014

Opening the conversation about social media to your board. Before a board meeting, have a conversation with the board member you feel will be your greatest ambassador to the rest of the board. These types of conversations can have greater sticking power and impact when coming from a board peer instead of a staff person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Maybe open Social Graphs will help

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NTEN

MARCH 3, 2011

You even see negative conversations. What kind of influence do they have – how many followers do they have, what kind of people are following them? Based on tone and influence, you should make an executive decision on who this person is and if they can be turned around. Always deliver in the medium the conversation began.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 15, 2009

At the time of this posting, there are already 9,340 blogs contributing to Climate Change conversations today in 150 countries. Blog about Climate Change and start a conversation ( register your blog to show up on the Blog Action Day website ). Tags: events socialchange blog action day blogging climate change environment.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 2, 2009

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources across the web ever day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of December 2nd).

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Blogs, wikis, social network platforms, forums, chats: aka user generated content, conversations, communities. Emergent, peer to peer conversations and sharing of knowledge. Social Media Influencers: as an individual you can join forces, share ideas, communicate. Tags: climatechange energy sxsw events. Jon Lebkowsky.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. "Over the years, Social Media experts attempted to redefine ROI for a new era of influence. Check it out!

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