CauseVox

JULY 18, 2023

Sample fundraising calendar Be sure to update your quarterly and monthly totals for the year, comparing them to your original goals. Sample SMART fundraising goals Reflect on Your Focus Areas Begin by asking yourself some key questions related to your goals and focus areas. Are you on track to meet your goals?

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Develop Fundraising Pledge Track 81

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. Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) , shares reflections on the 2015 Lesbians Who Tech Summit.

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eBook Communication Digital New York City 36

NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? How #CommBuild works Each week whoever wants to participate comes to Twitter, searches for the hashtag #CommBuild, and finds a conversation about topics tied to community management.

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Guidelines Facilitation Hosting Twitter 82

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

.&# It is a chance to connect in real time, share ideas, and generally have space to explore ideas or questions that we have encountered during the week as we push ahead with our various jobs, projects and goals in the nonprofit and technology sector. But I hope we can go deeper both in what we share and how we listen.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 6, 2011

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. But a new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project should assuage some of those fears.

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Web Bookmarking Delicious Social Media 114

NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? How #CommBuild works Each week whoever wants to participate comes to Twitter, searches for the hashtag #CommBuild, and finds a conversation about topics tied to community management.

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Guidelines Facilitation Hosting Twitter 60

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Here’s my latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review – you can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR Blog or below. I’m gathering my thoughts to start putting together my slides and presentation and wanted to stop for reflection and sharing. and we replace “institutions&# (boring!)

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Community Library Model Adopt 167

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

Colleague Debra Askanase was also overwhelmed and wrote this terrific reflection on how to be a thoughtful, responsible early adopter in the nonprofit technology community. Source: Mary Joyce, Digital Activism Workshop - E-Mediat Project. But it is also attractive to some NPTechers was the ability to have more intimate conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2008

(The original worksheet was developed from recommendations from the Spin Project and the " Smart Chart " developed by Spitfire Strategies.) Amy Sample Ward contributed a workshop group exercise based on Forrester's POST method. These steps are about figuring out who in organization is going to have the conversations.

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Social Media Develop Media Remix 65

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2007

So, here goes: Michele Martin, The Bamboo Project. Michele is an amazing blogger and a master of reflection and learning. If you read her blog, you'll notice the lively conversation that happens in the comments. Amy Sample Ward's Version of NpTech Amy Sample Ward is writes about nonprofits, technology, and social media.

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Blogger Award Community Create 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2008

Earlier this week, the WeAreMedia project we had an amazing phone call with some of the really smart people who are contributing the wiki (Michelle Murrain, Jocelyn Harmon, John Kenyon, Ben Sheldon, Ruby Sinreich, Amy Sample Ward, Sheetal Singh, and Katya Andersen). Amy Sample Ward has already volunteered for one of the modules.

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Wiki Challenge Work Module 50

NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

By Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN. ToMamaWithLove (TMWL) is no exception – but, as Stacey Monk, CEO of Epic Change, reflects, "It's a much different medium than it used to be.". Two or three years ago, you could have a conversation out in the open and have people organically join in. Epic Change is no different.

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Case Study Tools Studies Community 80

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

March of Dimes Nancy White reflects on the project in response to postings by me and Lisa from Rherotic of Me. Here's a sampling of articles: Marnie Webb, CompuMentor Ready to Start Blogging ? had quite a lot of us writing, reflecting, and ranting. Some comments by Bob Moffit about their blogging experience.

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Conversation NPO Minnesota Blogger 50

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

The DAM is one of several large art museums that is embracing making in a big way—first, through their event-based programming and open art studios tied to temporary exhibitions, and now, through a 1,200 square foot studio in which visitors can do art projects tied to the permanent collection. Who are all of these people? What inspires them?

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Denver Museum Arts Collaboration 35

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

Think about those 4th grade science experiments where huddled over your experiment you all learn together. The instruction not only included the content – all the best practices and how-tos, but also took an approach that encouraged and developed reflection. Here’s quick sampling: LA Universal Preschool.

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Social Media Network Media California 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2008

Here's three themes worth reflecting on. Amy Sample Ward who has recently moved across the pond gave a presentation about online engagement She makes a point about connecting social media strategy with traditional strategy with her phrase - conversations and conversions. His project is ??? be authentic. Spot Us ???

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Relationship Cancer Fundraising Offline 50

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

List, Learn, Adapt - concept from David Armano: “Insight must before investment when implementing a social media project.&#. NWF - tag mentions in delicious with which programs or projects are mentioned, can share link to that tag on delicious with staff to see their section. WeAreMedia Project ([link] has a listening toolbox!

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Social Media Map Strategy Media 102

The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Then two hours later, you’re sitting there looking through past writing projects and online templates hoping to find inspiration without a single word written… Sound familiar? Dawn needed fresh eyes on the project to give it that last power wash before sending this out. Fundwriter.ai Fundwriter.ai To put it simply, Fundwriter.ai

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Los Angeles Cancer Proposal Model 130

ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

Respondents came from large organizations and small, and from all sub-sectors, and include a small sample from Arizona. After the next round of projected government funding cuts, will we continue to ask nonprofits to pick up the slack, expanding their services without a solid plan for funding the full cost of these operations?

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Research Arizona Survey Fund 61

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

If you're at the conference, hand me an index card the URL of a web resource that you discovered in a session or informal conversation, write a brief description, and hand it to me while at the conference. Marnie Webb asks " Have you seen the Technology Innovation Fund projects ?" I'll come with extra blank index cards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Definition: An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time. But ROI was not really intended to measure a technology project, program, or tool or any other isolated aspect of an organization. Listening is the first step, but you do it before, during, and after the project.

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ROI Social Media Slides NTEN 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

The panelists were Holly Ross , Amy Sample Ward , David Neff , and Kari Dunn Saratovsky. Amy Sample Ward and Holly Ross came up with the " Social Media for Social Good Case Study Contest " and did all the heavy lifting to make it happen. Amy Sample Ward shared her thoughts in a blog post along with her presentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

re not creating a billboard, but rather starting a conversation -- you have to be willing to respond." The book includes a "Connected Quiz, a set of reflective questions that can help an activist think about how well they or their organization is connecting with others -- something to think about before jumping into the tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

The key to success in social media is to leave room for reflection at the end of a project. Reflection gives you a chance to understand what worked and what didn't. The exercise is intended to help you slow down, be in the moment, and shift you into a reflective mindset or at least feel what it is like.

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Classes Learning Fundraising Reflection 95

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

So the question here is, you know, when you look at your workflow, how much of your time is spent actually having these face-to-face conversations with your donors? . The volunteer did not ask for money, but they had a nice pleasant half-hour conversation. . What’s the optimal division of time in that conversation? .

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Money Question Raise Video 108

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Conversation Rate (measuring success in a social medium). I just sampled one month. I want people who find me via a google search to want to stick around and join the conversation, not click away. Conversation Rate (measuring success in a social medium). Conversation Rate = Number of Visitor Comments / Number of Posts.

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Reflection Measure Technorati ROI 50

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

As I reflect on the trip, the course specifically, and the conversations students and staff had with me, I am reminded in many ways of the event I helped with a few years ago in Romania. Haven’t We Had This Conversation Before? Those countries may not strike you as very similar at first, but let me explain.

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Social Media Saudi Arabia Romania Media 152

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

I hope to pair both vision and mission and goals with concrete tools for you to be able to help manage whatever project that you are overseeing or strategic planning process that you were overseeing. ” That reflection is really important. . We really need strong project managers. I had an instance that was similar.”

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Community Video Slides Survey 79

Achieve

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

This second phase of the project had one goal: Build a stronger community by promoting the City of Tampa’s events. After identifying the most consistent user journey, the team created sample wireframes to structure the future website and pages. Let’s have a conversation and see if we could be a fit for your next project.

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Award Tampa Websites Phase 52

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And I think that that’s been a very important focus because a lot of my clients are just saying, “We don’t need to build a project. And there’s been also a lot of questions about that and applications about racial equity, and then the makeup of your staff and reflective of the people that you serve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2014

The course is about how to leverage networks and social media for learning and impact. It was an amazing experience and so delighted that I’m doing a FREE webinar next week to share some reflections on designing and delivering an effective nonprofit training. Here’s what I learned from Amy Sample Ward, Alejandra S.

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International Advice Student Classes 113

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

It entails reaching out to well-aligned funders via email and phone, sharing information with them, and, perhaps more importantly, listening very carefully to them, and incorporating feedback from these conversations into your grants, your reports, and your programs. There are lots of great samples and guidance out there.”

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Grant Lesson Tips Video 76

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

In Keep Calm and Write It Down: How Reflective Practice Leads To Better Results for Nonprofits , we’re reminded that a key step to improvement is having an accurate retrospective view. It’s projected that there will be more than $602 billion generated this holiday season. So get out your journals and start taking note.

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Story Nonprofit Social Media Content 54

Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Conversation is the key, and we’re starting to give our supporters individual voices to hear while at the same time getting to know them. I’ve finally started work on my Now-to-New book (the book is itself a N2N project and you can see it unfold on my blog) and these words are very encouraging. Special thanks for the E.

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