Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 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). " Why Do You Participate in Twitter Chats? " Why Do You Participate in Twitter Chats? on Twitter and Facebook.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 4, 2020

It is likely that the questions and responses will prompt conversations between participants that can continue offline or in another session. When creating your event agenda, be sure to schedule a time for social interactions. This is particularly important if you are hosting a virtual conference , education session, or industry event.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2019

In fact, according to Nielson , 92% of people claim they trust personal recommendations and other earned media, while just over half trust messages found on a company’s website or sent via email. These are your social media ambassadors. . Social media aims to connect people with people. 2) Choose the right people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2009

Photo of Chrystie Corns Chrystie Corns is the Social Media Marketing Manager for Where.com , a location-based application chock-full of widgets that deliver essential information about what's around you. Tell me about you I am Chrystie Corns, Social Marketing Manager for WHERE.com. Social Marketing and SEO related.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2012

According to the State of the Nonprofit Industry ( grab the full report here ) nonprofits face four common challenges : Increased demand for services. Telephone, events, Facebook, Twitter, direct mail, website, mobile, in person, peer-to-peer , etc. Check out the full 2012 State of the Nonprofit Industry INFOGRAPHIC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2009

Submitted by Ivan Boothe, publisher of the Rootwork Blog Over at the NetSquared blog, Joe Solomon provided a great roundup of reasons people might be "jaded about social media for change" and ways they overcome it. Joe runs through some great responses from a whole bevy of social-media-for-change folks, including me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

The first steps are simple once you have policy/philosophy in place and the right mix of bottom up/top down adoption or acceptance of social media. It’s easier to understand the culture behind tools like Facebook and Twitter when you spend some time posting your own pictures and experiences.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 25, 2010

How much is your online fundraising augmenting offline efforts? Was the social media plan you implemented worth the time you spent running it? While the area of social metrics continues to evolve and grow, there are five main tips all organizations should follow when measuring social media activity for ROI: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

I used a brief pre-survey where I was able to collect information about success stories, challenges, and current social media usage. The survey asked participants to share a story that illustrates how social media has brought value to their organization. It directly increased ticket sales.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 11-15, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. In order to do this, they need to work with free agents, hyper-connected individuals who are passionate about social change, but don’t work within institutional walls. Trust me.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING FOR NONPROFITS. 5 Nonprofits Winning At Social Media. Case studies of nonprofits winning at social media is an opportunity to see the strategies in action. Social Media Marketing Statistics. Social Media Marketing Strategies. Social Media Marketing Tools.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 24, 2010

She was the one that took me to the overnight events at OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry) where I had my first go at building robots. Want to join in? Sign the pledge, add your post to the list, and get connected: [link].

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 17, 2014

Plus, it’s something that spans both the online and the offline worlds, and can put your organization clearly on people’s radars in a very positive fashion. Recruit a Group of Volunteers Who Are Willing to Share Your Brilliant Social Media Content. Hopefully along the way, you may even see some content go viral.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of hearing Chip Giller from grist.org give a talk at the Packard Foundation about their social media strategy and how they used measurement. The talk was so insightful that I’m sharing what I learned. grist.org’s key results are: Footprint: The reach of their activities, both online and offline.

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

Charity and Technology in the Online Universe This infographic from Mashable and Shane Snow puts social good into better context with donation numbers, growth charts, and some comparisons to its offline counterparts. Get the latest data on email open rates, social media usage, email churn, and more. All Rights Reserved

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 10, 2019

Further, Rand Fishkin shared a recent study of business engagement rates on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. The organic reach is awful and the engagement rates for businesses have fallen from 10% at its height to an abysmal 0.09% across all industries in 2019 on Facebook alone. Guess what?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Social Media Explained View more presentations from kanter. Allison Fine and I have been busy working on a book about how social media and connectedness is changing the way nonprofits are creating social change. And, as you know being successful with social media is the opposite of that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Charities outside the US can set up a profile. To generate a robust profile, your organization should be able to plug in existing social media presences (Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Blog RSS Feed, Etc) so it seems to favor organizations that have already established a social media content strategy.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 13, 2012

And all of these are certainly appropriate tactics to be found in the social marketing toolkit for constituent engagement. So we start with the industry-wide best practices: How many people like you on Facebook? How do you value the actual impact of your “inactive” social media connections? How many should?

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Care2

MAY 9, 2008

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!" Excell also provides scholarships to people who want training in the industry.

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Care2

MAY 8, 2008

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!" Excell also provides scholarships to people who want training in the industry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2009

Resources to keep you thinking: What are Your Nonprofit’s Social Media Strategy by WildApricot. Social Media For Nonprofits. Make it easy for people to give online and offline while also showing people how you are using their money. Resources to keep you thinking: Starting a Social Media Strategy by Chris Brogan.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

If it works with your BFF and your honey, it stands to reason that it will work with your social media relationships too. This Valentine’s Day, take a tip from your offline relationships and start listening. Start listening to what’s being said about your organization, your competitors and your industry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. Last year, there was an event called "Social Media for Social Good" organized by Jeff Pulver that prompted quite a rich discussion. The SXSW Interactive Festival. So, yes, please vote for these panels, but .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

Flickr Photo by Incurable Hippie I've been writing a lot about listening through social media channels in preparation for a live workshop for WeAreMedia next month in San Francisco. Industry terms or other phrases. Reiteracy is Social Media Listening Literacy. Other nonprofits with similar program names.

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Care2

MAY 29, 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!" Giving on social media sites. 60) Search « Is Direct Mail Dying or Dead?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Your organization has identified a social media objective, audience, strategy, tools, measurement, and experiment. Your organization may be skeptical about the value of listening through social media channels. Listening should be linked to real life decisions or your social media strategy objectives.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

Oh, and please do give a thumbs up to the panel Beth and I cooked up: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change ]. scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. on whether social media for fundraising and marketing can effect real on the ground change.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2016

In order to do this, we knew that we had to increase civic engagement both on and offline, so we recruited local street artists to help. By using social media, a new generation of citizens became excited about voting. In all, we built an engaged following of over 2,300 dedicated individuals across social media and on email.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2017

I’m a big believer in having conversations across the industry ( check out my podcast, if you haven’t already) to share honest advice about what’s working and what’s not—I feel that it’s one of the best ways for us learn and lift the fundraising profession together. Building year-end content strategies.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 1, 2010

A higher percentage of donors 45 to 54 and 55 to 64 give online than offline. 25% of donors aged 65 and older give both online and offline. Also, a higher percentage of donors with annual incomes greater than $50,000 and beyond $100,000 give online than offline. Online donors don’t give offline Wrong.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

I’ll keep an eye on Twitter. So emails, social media, your website. A quarter century of going toe to toe with the tobacco and industry has proven the power of relentless advocacy to save lives in the U.S. So use your social media in a way that’s another notch above just posting a picture and saying thank you.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

I recently stumbled across the Infographic of Who’s Who of Social Influence Measurement and while it’s no surprise to see the social influencer industry growing, it’s a little worrisome. Took action on important advocacy actions when we talked about them on social media. Fair enough.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

The difference is that Causes is continuing to blur the line between online and offline activity. That means taking things offline and into a traditional retail environment. I was quoted in the article noting that less than 1% of online giving happens through social media today. Will it work? Absolutely.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 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!" » Sunday May 31 2009 Is Direct Mail Dying or Dead?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

I’ll keep an eye on Twitter. And so, again, I am Sabrina Walker Hernandez, and I studied political science and public administration and I obtained a nonprofit management certification from Harvard Business School and for the last 25 years, I’ve worked in a nonprofit industry. That’s awesome. Keep doing it.

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