Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

Starting off 2010, the monthly #4change Twitter chat focused on the topic of campaigning with social media. There were quite a few participants and some really great conversation. I’ve tried to pull out some of the relevant tweets from the Twitter stream to help follow the flow of the conversation in case you missed it.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

I wanted to use today to focus in on a question recently posed by my good friend Joe Solomon on Twitter : What are the nonprofit/orgs that are working 2 wire the green movement, like what @ netsquared does 4 nonprofits, @ sunfoundation for politics; which orgs are working to expose data, leverage soc media, connect the orgs together?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 18, 2010

A free agent changemaker having success fundraising with Twitter. I thought that the Twitter feed @abolishcancer, which is the entire org, except for the blog, would be strictly focused on developing a following that had one thing in common- to fight cancer. Tags: case studies fundraising cancer health twitter.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Let’s start at the most fundamental place for this conversation. For this conversation, and those to have over the course of the next two days together at least, let’s work from the place that a movement is larger than coalitions. org before? What is a movement? Or engagement? Have people heard of 350.org

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Yesterday, NTEN;s Holly Ross hosted an online conversation with Seth Godin and me, along with Roxy Allen and 100 plus NTEN members. This conversation came about after Seth's provoking post " The Problem with Non " took a swing at nonprofits for lack of adoption of social media, saying it was all due to fear.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The key to successful fundraising is asking smarter questions. We’re here to talk about “Raising More Money By Asking and Answering Better Questions.” There’s also a Q&A box specifically, your questions might be a little more visible there if you use that one. We’ll take questions at the end.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

More importantly, it unpacks any skepticism or opposing points of view about the topic you’ll be addressing in the peer learning. It is a good idea to include a fun question appropriate to the audience to illustrate the technique. We used: I love grass-fed beef. Experimenting to Expand Capacity. How To Convince Policy Directors.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2011

The webinar, hosted by Jayne Cravens and Erin Barnhart , focused on four tools to use with volunteers — Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and blogs — with an emphasis that the recommendations could be adapted for any social networking tool, including those that may replace these four as most popular in the future. and their efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2013

As you can see, the design is a bit edgy – and its part of new multi-channel campaign that hopes to activate activists and ignite conversations. And, is this type of campaign a departure from what your org typically does? We need to stand out from the clutter, provoke conversation and inspire action. Seems a little edgy?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Support: There’s no one readily available to help answer your questions or fix something if you have an issue with the program. Top feature: Donorbox’s UltraSwift Checkout feature allows donors to quickly complete payments in just a few clicks, promoting higher conversion rates. This keeps all conversations focused.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

I got flooded with questions and wasn't able to answer them all in an hour. So, I wrote a post organizing all the questions and providing some short answers in a follow up post. How often should an organization post to Twitter or send out updates on Facebook? I'm elevating them from the comments because they make a great post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

I still don't know of that many nonprofits using Friendfeed , though, whether as an overall tool or for joining the "nptech" community conversation ( "nptech" is a tag that Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, and others have been using to tag nonprofit technology resources on delicious, twitter, etc., One of those venues is Twitter.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Maybe you’ve also taken the next step of strengthening your stakeholder community by engaging in back and forth dialog online – whether in existing social spaces like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, or in a custom built online community. Nptech resources can be found on delicious , flickr , slideshare , and Twitter.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The far-ranging conversation in the second week (a summary of the panel) touched on how interconnected and slippery the terms we use about the people who enjoy our organizations (and for that matter the ones we wished did.) For this week, I'm summarizing thoughts people had about community-engagement on Twitter.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

pull in hashtags from Twitter into the RSS reader (pull in the RSS of a search.twitter.com result). How do you involve the org? Examples: Yammer for internal sharing, it’s a Twitter for groups. at NWF, listening has been the foundation of our social media movement, we are nothing unless someone thinks we are something.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Ask these questions: Is there a project you want to get funded for immediate use, before the end of the year or early into next year? Your answers to these questions should help you to determine the type of campaign you want to create, and how you do it. Or add a Twitter widget for all hashtag mentions of your campaign.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2013

It’s been almost 2 weeks, but conversations around Giving Tuesday haven’t stopped. From reports of specific organizations’ success to questions of skepticism, one thing is certain – #GivingTuesday rocked the industry. This Statigram page compiles pictures shared on Instragram with hashtag #GivingTuesday.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

It also feels that sometimes genx is being forgotten in this conversations. What are the conversations that should be happening and what advice do you have for organizations on how to be the teacher? Wendy : I think traditional org structures are going to change and aren’t the best. That works really well at the Red Cross.

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Tech Soup

MAY 2, 2013

Hi friends, I've been inspired by this community for a long time - from being mentored by Britt Bravo when first starting a little Net2 chapter in Vancouver (which Elijah van der Giessen and team have turned into something huge and magnificently helpful), to being inspired by Amy Sample Ward to grow conversations and dig deeper.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

The discussion around trying to quantify it - can lead to productive conversation about why the technology is important to mission. If the conversations focuses on the results, not the measurement unit. I tried to make the point by raising the question, " Can you quantify the intangible ?" s reports on Twitter.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

First off, a tip o’ the hat to NTEN for organizing this, the participants of the panel for an interesting conversation, and Mark Bolgiano from the Council on Foundations for awesome moderation. This conversation would not have happened a couple of years ago, and that it is happening now is great (late, but great.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

Get your conversations going online NOW! Pick one or two places, say Twitter and Facebook, and start talking about your issues and listening to the conversations that folks are having about your cause. Don’t worry if the conversation is small, don’t worry that it isn’t leading to donations right now. I used a cli.gs

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2017

During the webinar, we received a ton of questions regarding: When and how to start end of the year planning. So, with the influx of questions we received around preparing for end of year fundraising, I realized that these questions are probably on a lot of fundraisers’ minds these days. Great question. Danielle .

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2017

You can learn what we’re all about over at nonprofit hub dot org. JEANETTE: That is a great question. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram if you have a good following, and just the folks are not too picky, just send them out. And we’ve found that the conversion rates are typically like 50 percent open rate, 25 percent conversion rate.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

Mark shared his progress around the country in YouTube videos (he’s been featured on the YouTube homepage, blog posts , and his Twitter feed. Mark’s infectious enthusiasm and evident passion for his cause make him an excellent story teller and his road trips have sparked a national conversation and movement.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2011

An important aspect of this is the opposite question: why do people stop making donations? Currently (on my lowly grad student budget), I only give money to one nonprofit org. In conversations they would ask me how school is going and then I would tell them about the different things I am doing in each class.

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2011

It also feels that sometimes genx is being forgotten in this conversations. What are the conversations that should be happening and what advice do you have for organizations on how to be the teacher? Wendy : I think traditional org structures are going to change and aren't the best. Kari: I'm so glad you brought that up.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

The question I want to ask is, what do web stats really mean, anyway? at 8:21 am What a great conversation; fun to have but for the fact that it misses the point. I think that metrics to answer specific questions related to outcomes or improvement are useful. They start conversations you can’t stop, just like this one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

He tries to make the point: “Social change has been happening before the creation of Twitter four years ago&# but disappoints. Nancy Scola at TechPresident, in a post called, Malcolm Gladwell Goes Searching Twitter for 60’s Activism. We’re only four years into the Twitter era, after all.

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Media Cause

APRIL 22, 2021

This past March, without much fanfare, Twitter celebrated its 15th birthday (or more accurately, the anniversary of co-founder Jack Dorsey’s first official Tweet). In a 2020 study, The Canadian Centre for Child Protection (C3P) actually ranked Twitter as the worst platform for sexual abuse-related material reporting functions.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

I’d like to extend my thanks to Emily and Beth for participating, and to all of the audience for your good, insightful questions. Beth : That is a question that is not easy to answer in a couple of sentences because there are so many "it depends" variations. It depends the context, who is having the conversation, etc.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 30, 2009

Instead, I'd like to spend a little time thinking about the questions that were raised for me (and maybe you). The first type is "commercial" which the survey has defined as external to your organization, like Facebook or Twitter. My question: what are the other 14% doing? My question: why is this? Promotion of Community.

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NetWits

JUNE 23, 2011

The Big Question. In addition, the five organizations had moved to integrate Facebook and/or Twitter over the past few years. They understood that they could stand alone, and that beachheads were necessary for fluid conversation. It was a revealing exercise talking to the five orgs. They simply responded accordingly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2013

This was a face-to-face session, but the learning was extended online afterwards, albeit briefly, in an organic way on twitter using a hashtag “ npsmpeer.” That was a question that Mario Morino and Cheryl Collins asked in an email thread to a couple of folks with lots of great ideas and experience facilitating online communities.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

Send in your questions and comments, we love for these sessions to be interactive. And you can also send us a tweet, I’ll keep an eye on Twitter, in case you are a tweeting-type person, which we appreciate. So, as Steven said, if you have any questions, put them in the Q&A box. There is a chat box and a Q&A box.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

And just as quickly as people responded with outrage against Komen, the conversation changed to be about the women who would continue to need support and the services that help them. As Lucy would tweet later, “Pink is a color not an org.” 10 Lessons from Community-Driven Organizing. 10 Lessons from Community-Driven Organizing.

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Care2

MAY 31, 2007

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!" Based on these returns, it is no wonder so many nonprofits implement similar programs.

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