NetWits

MAY 19, 2011

First and foremost, determine which existing audiences you wish to engage (board members, major donors, past event fundraisers or attendees, all donors, volunteers, etc) in your fundraising and how you will reach out to them (email, social networks, mail, phone, on-site events, etc). 2) Educate.

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Raise Relationship Tips Fundraising 208

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2009

The piece is reposted below: Have we replicated our offline social dynamics and barriers online? If we truly are reproducing our offline social divides online, then it’s further proof that the central part of your social media strategy needs to be focused on your audience. I believe we have, and so does Danah Boyd.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2011

In April, the Knight Foundation and Monitor Institute published a new report called “ Connected Citizens ” that looks at the impact of networks on communities, and asks, what do these emerging networks mean for community change? The report was filled with examples , but more and more are coming to life everyday.

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Action Community Fundraising Widget 101

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

This event focuses on Causes , an application for supporting and fundraising for organizations by individuals, groups and even the organizations themselves. Different communities have aligned and adopted different social networks, social media tools, communications platforms, etc. First, let me explain what happened yesterday.

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Myspace Technology Causes Social Network 158

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

This event focuses on Causes , an application for supporting and fundraising for organizations by individuals, groups and even the organizations themselves. Different communities have aligned and adopted different social networks, social media tools, communications platforms, etc. First, let me explain what happened yesterday.

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Myspace Technology Causes Social Network 158

Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The factors determining how engaged a donor is will vary from organization to organization, but engaged donors are typically the ones most responsive to your messages, most likely to attend events, the first to volunteer, and proud to share your mission within their networks. That tip sounds kind of goofy, doesn’t it?

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Donor Strategy Nonprofit Phone 98

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

There are many who approach the online landscape with very different views than their offline business decisions. In the Causes move, the issues around community are very clearly focused on the different demographic groups represented on MySpace and Facebook. The more voices the better!

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Myspace Causes Philanthropy Offline 108

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

A really unique partnership with Metro Transit, which is Minnesota’s transportation resource offering a network of buses, light rail and commuter trains, allowed us to plug into their engaged audience of commuters. For us, our offline activities are as important as online efforts. They are enthusiastic and positive voices for us.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Lesson #1: Voice. “Social media is a storytelling tool, it’s let voices effected by climate change be heard around the world&# (@ amysampleward ). Many social media tools are specifically designed for users to tell stories and voice opinions, others are built as aggregators and distributors of users’ stories.

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Social Media Change Media Lesson 145

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

I really wanted to attend the " Social Networks Friend for Foe? "at who gave the keynote speech at UC Berkeley’s conference on law, ethics and technology, “ Social Networks: Friends or Foes? ,” complaints of hijacked accounts increased by one-third from 2007 to 2008. at UC Berkeley earlier this month, but unfortunately had a conflict.

Social Network 97

Social Network Network Law Social 97

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

Facebook’s newest “renovations&# have, as many people have already noticed, nearly relegated Groups as a thing of the past and pushed Pages onto the main stage. You can also use Social Actions’ Twitter mashups to pull and push actionable opportunities to your network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

I did an interactive master class on networked leadership and the practices of becoming a networked nonprofit for over 300 nonprofits seated at round tables as the last session of the day. ” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 9, 2010

It comes at the same time that I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the importance of community builders/managers/leaders or organizational voices to give permission back to the community members. to provide recognition or spotlight for those that are taking your message into their networks and creating impact.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

But we always know we can return to Twitter and #CommBuild week after week for networking, reflection, professional development, and resource sharing. Sometimes we even put voices and faces to names (er, Twitter handles), whether through a phone call about the group’s evolution or an in-person meetup at the NTC.

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Guidelines Facilitation Hosting Twitter 82

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery. The class typically erupts in a cacophony of voices, as it did that first time he told students to talk to each other because he couldn’t figure out what else to do. It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this.

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Experiment Learning Create Exercise 119

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

I actually have a repertoire of stories, but one of them is about Michaela Hackner ( Kalabird.) I connected with her through her amazing photos of Cambodia on Flickr when I was covering the Cambodian blogosphere for Global Voices over five years ago. Some may exist solely online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2011

At minimum, this application lets people air their concerns to legislators and policy makers easily through Twitter and can amplify more traditional tactics such as email campaigns and signing online/offline petitions. It’s pretty difficult to create circles or groups of like-minded individuals in G+.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Examples: Yammer for internal sharing, it’s a Twitter for groups. Livingston - corporate example, Network Solutions, negative perseption issues related to their brand (google your organization’s name and “sucks&# and see what comes up!), Are there ways of catching offline datapoints?

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Social Media Map Strategy Media 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

I hope you’ll also vote for my panel proposal, Nonprofits and Free Agents in A Networked World and while you’re there vote for the other awesome nonprofit panel proposals (I’ve shared a list below). What are the change issues for traditional nonprofits that want to become “networked nonprofits?&#.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

But we always know we can return to Twitter and #CommBuild week after week for networking, reflection, professional development, and resource sharing. Sometimes we even put voices and faces to names (er, Twitter handles), whether through a phone call about the group’s evolution or an in-person meetup at the NTC.

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Guidelines Facilitation Hosting Twitter 60

NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

This resulted in us creating a “sneaker-net” approach to providing basic asynchronous ICT services to rural villages: a complete offline Wikipedia that fit on a CD-ROM, and severely restricted bandwidth throttling to allow community radios to access the Internet (via prepaid RBGAN) for $2-3 a day. . Voice remains the killer app.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

We provide a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights. Network for Good : $29.95/month Or, you may need to get one that can work for many kinds of groups. Everything revolves around the audience.

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Tools Tech Map Case Study 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

Non profit groups struggle with funding and public support issues on a daily basis. Yet many have overcome the odds and made a splash online and offline by using the latest Web technologies - for pennies on the dollar. We connected through the "cambodia" tag on flickr because I was tracking it for Global Voices back in 2005.

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Fundraising Cambodia Social Blogher 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

The workshop was an all day workshop , with an opening presentation followed by small group exercise. The workshop was the first time I had used the game with fleshed out scenarios for the small groups to work and an assignment to have a discussion around planning questions: What's the goal? What's the outcome? What's the key metric?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

What if networked better and created stronger communities of practice? Bill Strathmann Opened with his personal story about he got started with Networked For Good. He introduced Networked For Good and the features. Networked For Good - Have shifted from just providing services. There are offline ways to do it.

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Australia Conference Guidelines Comment 56

Care2

MAY 15, 2009

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!" Or, you may need to get one that can work for many kinds of groups.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Based in the U.K., It is a must download!

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Fun Resource Mobile Social Media 253

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Chapter 1 :: Network for Good. Network for Good now offers mobile-optimized donate pages and donation “Share” functionality. Thus, please be careful when using any tool that automates posts from one social network to another. Chapter 3 :: Find Your Facebook Voice. Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly.

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Social Media Social Chapter Media 252

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Chapter 1 :: Network for Good. Network for Good now offers mobile-optimized donate pages and donation “Share” functionality. Thus, please be careful when using any tool that automates posts from one social network to another. Chapter 3 :: Find Your Facebook Voice. Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly.

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Social Media Social Chapter Media 204

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

I will say that there are regulations that relate well to offline consumer relationships that don’t apply well online. When I was in Australia last year, I met Priscilla Brice Weller who worked for a native rights group. Beth : Here's my little library - the second row has my picks for social media and networking.

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Social Media Social Media Blogger 20

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

And so I have more than five years of experience creating online and offline communities to support social and environmental causes as Steven said and I worked a lot in Latin America. So it is grouped in the category of social media because people use it a lot. They can send you a voice note. In the U.S.,

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Community Video Broadcast Phone 66

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

The number or organizations who joined causes in the past with enthusiasm and now voice frustration, or who have abandoned their efforts entirely, continues to grow. Their focus must shift from building new tools and waging higher-profile campaigns to understanding what motivates action and how to support groups in their work.

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Facebook Causes Challenge Communication 99

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2010

Note from Beth: Last fall, Aspen Baker shared a guest post about privacy and social networks on this blog. Regardless of how successful this call was, I always hung up feeling things were incomplete.” - Danielle Thomas, Exhale Talkline Counselor & Pro-Voice Ambassador. People of all ages care deeply about privacy.

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Social Media Lesson Public Change 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

As part of our ongoing research project into the future of membership-based advocacy organizations, we’ve been talking to folks from “new” as well as “older” groups focused on issue-organizing. They explicitly take a partnership/ network approach. Members help determine which issues the group focuses on – not the other way around.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Why this target group? Is this a target group identified in your organization’s communications plan? And while surveys, focus groups and other services can give you an analysis of what your current audience is doing online, direct observation is works best. Is there an “offline” marketing push that you need to support/connect?

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Social Media Map Strategy Media 107

See3

AUGUST 6, 2007

The title of the session was “Politics 2.0 – How social networks and new media are changing politics.&# Her subject was, what makes for effective social networks. awareness – you have to know the network exists 2. drinkingliberally.com which is online and offline one-to-many. Here are some notes: 1.

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Social Network Network Myspace Social 40

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Ideal for mobile social media managers, VoiceTexter is an iPhone app that instantly transcribes your voice messages. For mobile social networkers, Viddy is a must-download. TwtPoll enables nonprofits to create polls that can be shared on Twitter or any any other social network. Learn more at: petitions.whitehouse.gov.

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