Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Yesterday, I had the huge honor and pleasure to present the keynote at the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits ‘ NPTech Conference, eStrategy in an iWorld. The Evolution of NPTech: Where we came from, and [maybe] where we’re going. The social period saw a more balanced weight across various kinds of media. Social Tools.

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TechImpact

MARCH 20, 2014

To many nonprofits (especially smaller nonprofits) social media was once viewed as a burden. However, once social media established itself as a full fledged phenomenon nonprofits quickly jumped on the bandwagon. The lack of man power is what hampers the progress of many social media accounts for most smaller nonprofits.

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TechImpact

MARCH 10, 2014

Search engine result pages are difficult to grasp and take complete control of, while social media feeds become more saturated with our peers, Even more difficult and mysterious, especially to many of us in the nonprofit sector, is the search engine and where it places our websites and social media outlets on those first few pages.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Most people will tell you that learning how to effectively monitor (or listen to) what’s being said on the web is the beginning of social media success. The increasing popularity of social networking, blogs and social media on the web validates this point nicely – People are talking about you, but is your nonprofit listening to them?

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TechImpact

AUGUST 13, 2014

We all know social media is the preferred means of connecting among millennials. With 26% of all millennials actively using Twitter , and 59% having an account on the most pervasive social media network in the world, leveraging the influence of this social platform is imperative to your nonprofit’s effectiveness at penetrating millennials.

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TechImpact

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Twitter’s most recent update now allows thumbnails of images to appear in feeds. That being said, staying active on your Twitter feed can be difficult. Industry News Mobile Social Tech nonprofit nonprofit technology npTech social media technology twitter' Tweet pictures. Tweet timely. Entice your followers to interact.

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TechImpact

APRIL 8, 2014

Following too few accounts will not allow you to fully utilize the platform, while following too many can over-saturate your feed, making it impossible to find the pertinent content. This innovative feed provides information about the always changing Facebook algorithm. Look no further than Jay Frost’s Twitter feed. AllFacebook.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 27, 2014

Interact via social media. It is amazing that every nonprofit does not already have a Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, or all three and more social media platforms. Social media accounts are free, easy to use, and incredibly powerful. Nothing reaffirms a donation like a genuine “thanks!”.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 16, 2014

As social media becomes more important to every nonprofit’s marketing plan, targeting youth through the traditional social media feeds is becoming obsolete. This functionality makes it easy for your target audience to interact with your content directly on their feeds. Facebook is for “old people”. That’s a big number.

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NetWits

JUNE 20, 2011

Subscribe to the RSS feed ›. There are seven ways people can interact with your Page , which all effect your ability to show up in your fans news feeds. How many people hid our Page stories from their news feed in this specific time period? What types of media do fans prefer? Make sure to check out his blog [link].

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

But since I’m not on twitter anymore, and I don’t read my RSS feeds as often as I should. In July, Idealware published the Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide. It’s great – chock full of good information, and some very, very interesting research.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Whether through social media or at local events, promoting your content marketing efforts directly to the community you’re trying to reach is imperative. Make sure your social media feeds are always up to date and ready to tweeting away! Seeing an empty Instagram feed or a blog with no posts is an easy way to turn someone away.

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Wild Apricot

AUGUST 20, 2009

On August 20, Facebook announced a new feature allowing Facebook Pages to automatically feed status updates, photos, links, notes and events to Twitter. Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Social networking Facebook Twitter social media.

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TechImpact

MARCH 6, 2014

Big data is the name given to the millions of digital interactions corporations and nonprofits experience every day across social media platforms, websites, and third party resources. Dell is famous for receiving 25,000 mentions across their social media channels in 11 different languages every day. Track overall changes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

That was the conversation in the nonprofit, nonprofit technology, and social change social media space. nonprofit technology thought leader Marnie Webb created the NpTech Tag as a way for nonprofit techies to share bookmarks on del.icio.us. And Jonathon Colman created the NpTech FriendFeed Room. To get a zeitgeist of nptech.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Integrate the Activity Feed or Recommendations plugins. Those who click on the Activity Feed plug-in in particular generate 4x as many page views as the average media site viewer. Highlighting most popular content on your site leads people to view more articles.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

Today was the first webinar in the Storytelling & Social Media series from NTEN and TechSoup Global. Here’s my slide deck: Social Media Building Blocks. tags: nonprofit nptech ). Some of them, along with my answers, include: How much time a day do you spend reading (RSS feeds)? How do you create a tag?

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 23, 2013

When linking to your cause via social media, text message, or email, make sure the link takes the donor directly to the donation page, not the main site. Those who give are most likely to give again, so advertise your social media feeds and email notifications to individual donors after they have donated.

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TechImpact

JUNE 18, 2014

But as we’ve detailed in previous blogs , with all the increased competition online, getting noticed through the typical social media feeds and through your website is becoming increasingly difficult. Social media feeds are powerful tools that are just waiting to be effectively utilized. Attract volunteers steadily.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Now that you know exactly which volunteers you’re trying to attract to your nonprofit, target the call-to-action copy on your email blasts, website copy, and social media feeds that will appeal to that demographic. Tech nonprofit nonprofit technology npTech technology'

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Do you want to post the content from several different blogs and social networks to your organization's Facebook Page, and add a news alert feed for your cause's keywords, too? And let's say you want to “mix and match” — to post RSS feeds ‘A’, B’, and ‘C’ to your personal Profile; and post.( No problem. read more ).

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TechImpact

JANUARY 21, 2014

For example, you may want to know the demographics viewing specific web pages, or interacting with your social media feeds. Industry News Tech CRM data database nonprofit nonprofit technology npTech technology' It is important to hash out what type of data your nonprofit is uniquely interested in, and then moving on from there.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Integrate the Activity Feed or Recommendations plugins. Those who click on the Activity Feed plug-in in particular generate 4x as many page views as the average media site viewer. Highlighting most popular content on your site leads people to view more articles.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

But what about your nonprofit’s social media feeds? General analytics nonprofit nonprofit technology npTech social media supporters technology website' The truth is your nonprofit’s Twitter is producing just as many important analytics as your website is, and you should be tracking and reporting on them.

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TechImpact

APRIL 22, 2014

The contemporary consumer is addicted to information and media. In a previous article we discuss the importance of interaction to running a successful social media campaign. Analyze social media interactions. You want your social media feeds to be known for something. Image courtesy of Gramination. Be interactive.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

Employees are being terminated or pressured to resign due to social media instances ranging from criticizing a customer's hometown, surfing Facebook while calling in sick, and posting pictures of drinking alcohol at social events. Whatever social media site you use -- Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn -- read the privacy settings on the website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

A few days ago, Amy Gahran and I exchanged some musings on social media tradeoffs. His point 5 is something that sounds like a dream come true to me to monitor Twitter for NpTech related items I know I'm not alone in finding it much easier to share information over Twitter than by blogging or tagging in a social bookmarking app.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2008

Thanks to Jonathan Colman, we have a NpTech Room on FriendFeed - which is essentially a way for a group of people to share their feeds with one another. So, I've cooked up a little experiment that combines NpTech Punk with FriendFeed conversation and resource sharing between peers. Share that link in the NpTech FriendFeed Room.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Do Not Forget About Social Media. The donors you are trying to reach may not be in the office, but they’re most certainly still on their smartphones checking their social media. Be sure you queue up your social feeds with strategic messages, calls to action, and lots of engaging images to tell the story of your nonprofit.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Media Cause. The struggle to create effective content strategies for social networks either comes from not having enough time to devote to social media or not having enough content to post. Below are 10 tips for managing your time and dealing with the problem of feeding your organization’s social media beasts. Cody Damon.

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TechImpact

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Facebook videos also seem to be getting more organic reach in news feed than article shares […]. Fundraising Industry News Tech nonprofit nonprofit technology nonprofits npTech social media supporters technology'

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TechImpact

JUNE 24, 2014

There’s so much talk over where a nonprofit’s audience is online, and where a nonprofit needs to be concentrating their social media marketing efforts. Facebook is one of the most important social media channels for almost every nonprofit in operation today. But with over 2 billion users, everyone’s audience is on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

People who can touch API's out there have been fooling around with trying to extract data from the NpTech tag for analysis as well as think about ways that we can make the data that has been tagged more filtered via social search, collaborative filtering, and whatever else. Deborah Finn's thoughts on the NpTech Tag Mashup.

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NTEN

AUGUST 14, 2014

Last week I got to attend the National Alliance for Media and Culture (NAMAC) and Alliance for Community Media (ACM) ''s first-ever joint National Conference: State and Main 2014 ( #StateMain14 ) in Philadelphia, PA. NTEN Member and Social Media Strategist, Lyndal Cairns , moderated the panel, and helped put together this blog post.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Sure, readers care about the quality of the content, and the validity of the information that’s being disseminated; but they also care about being entertained, and the ease at which they can consume and digest the information your blog and social media feeds are presenting to them. ?Ultimately,

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NetWits

MARCH 25, 2013

Social Media: Action Sharing. Perhaps you’ve even started to feed live posts and tweets to your organization’s homepage. That’s certainly the first step towards social media nirvana. What you may not have considered, however, is how you can actually impact viral sharing and improve interactive marketing on your website.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Digital Media and Learning Competition: Applications now open! Submissions close January 22, 2010." Thanks for all that you are doing, ARC!

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