Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I blogged earlier this year about research that indicates very strongly we’ve replicated our offline social barriers and segmentation in our online social networking platforms. ( Visit danah boyd’s website for more information and research on this topic.) What it Means to Individuals. What other questions do you want answered?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I blogged earlier this year about research that indicates very strongly we’ve replicated our offline social barriers and segmentation in our online social networking platforms. ( Visit danah boyd’s website for more information and research on this topic.) What it Means to Individuals. What other questions do you want answered?

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NetWits

MAY 20, 2008

The Challenge: Bread for the City wanted a new website that would create a more professional image, drive more support for the mission, and allow the organization to better integrate its online and offline marketing activities. There was a three-day delay before we even saw the funds,” said Kristin Valentine, BFC’s director of development.

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Forum One

MAY 18, 2009

Luckily, they're not really secrets: Shannon Raybold, Internet Director at the United Nations Foundation, is more than happy to share the array of tactics that have helped them raise $25 million in donations from individual donors like you and me. Tags: Global Health.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. 1: Social media must be integrated with internet communications or program strategy. 6: Use social media to close the loop between online and offline action. Connecting With New Colleagues.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

The internet connection here is such that I don’t think a live blog portal will sustain itself. Listening: hearing what people are talking about your issue or sector. 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.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 31, 2009

If you haven't allowed Windows Update to address this issue since October 2008, or hadn't scanned your computer using updated virus definitions, at this stage perhaps the best protection may just be to ensure that your data is backed up and intact. Tags: Backing Up Data Connecting to the Internet Privacy Security. read more.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites. Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. Power : lastly, and very importantly, we see our contributions making an impact.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 24, 2009

Communication is also an issue. How many donations would we get with our offline fundraising strategies if we followed the same strategies? Tags: Facebook Website/Internet Facebook Cause. How often do we join causes that we only remotely care about just so we don’t offend our friend who is asking? What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

They used "tagging" on Facebook to make people aware of the note. The Valley Medical Foundation: This organization provided an example of the personal versus organizational voice issue that social media often brings up. What's the Hash Tag? Tags: scholar technology training training materials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2009

About the issue of fatigue. He suggests that organizations forget that they're on the Internet and think about what their strategy in offline terms. Think like an offline community grassroots organizer.". Tags: facebook. Joe says, "It happens when organizations aren't responsible in using the tool.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

As the issues became more public and more people started looking for others and taking action, it was necessary for an organization to form that could provide some of the infrastructure and administration of the community and it’s work. Yes we have an accessible and attention span limited world thanks in great deal to the internet.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2009

I just finished reading the 2008 donorCentrics Internet Giving Benchmarks Analysis , put out by Blackbaud company Target Analytics. Unfortunately, there's nothing in the report about the cost of acquiring and cultivating donors online vs. offline, so it's hard to say. Tags: NPTech Fundraising blackbaud email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Earlier this week, I gave a presentation to a group of Bay Area Foundation program officers and funders who work on population research issues. Tom and Cecile shared a rich story about culture change, loosing control, building relationships, story telling, multi-channel strategies, engagement techniques, online/offline metrics, and more.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. npdigg.org , cooked up by the nonprofittech blog , is up and running. bleeding edge tool, twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

I’m the Executive Director of Exhale and I attended the conference to increase my own knowledge and awareness about how these legal and ethical issues around social networking may affect our work online with women who have had abortions. Tags: policy. I’m not a lawyer. promoting post-abortion health and well-being.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

The next exercise participants worked in small groups using a low-tech method to "doodle out" their networks (magic markers and flip chart paper.) This exercise reminded me of an exercise I used to do in workshops 12 years ago with nonprofits to introduce the Internet, " Draw A Picture of the Intern et ". builds network as it needs it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

He also makes a false distinction between online/offline or as Allison and I have called it “online and onland&# activism. One, the key issue facing activists who wish for real social change is the mismatch between the scale of our problems (global) and the natural scale of our sociality (local).

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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

They were able to use the platform for organizing offline events, finding and collaborating with volunteer organizers, and more. Helpful resources on Twitter: Pew Internet report. You can embed Google Earth into your website to present information to your community that really helps tell the story of your work and your issue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

on the interplay of newspapers and internet content. She notes, "It doesn't specifically talk about open content, but discusses online and offline content income models in depth, with numbers." Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today. Where's the conference tag? " Have any to add?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The panel will cover the various tools (YouTube, Twitter, Facebook) that are being used to elevate protests, examine the benefits and drawbacks of the internet's involvement and whether social media makes protests more or less efficient, and discuss the issue of authenticity in information dissemination. Tags: sxsw.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Tagged as: CMS , CRM , nptech , opensource { 4 trackbacks } What we’re reading, week of 1/12 « i On Nonprofits 01.15.09 at 1:18 pm Timely post, I am currently doing at pretty large scale project for a client and those are the exact issues I am determining right now. Integrating online and offline communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The panel will cover the various tools (YouTube, Twitter, Facebook) that are being used to elevate protests, examine the benefits and drawbacks of the internet's involvement and whether social media makes protests more or less efficient, and discuss the issue of authenticity in information dissemination. Tags: sxsw.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

The panel will cover the various tools (YouTube, Twitter, Facebook) that are being used to elevate protests, examine the benefits and drawbacks of the internet's involvement and whether social media makes protests more or less efficient, and discuss the issue of authenticity in information dissemination. Submitted by Ramya Raghavan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

I may just be cynical, but I’ve seen too many technology providers claim that their tools will help organizations raise money, engage volunteers, mobilize action, or generally address organizational challenges in ways that only the internet is suited to do. Facebook Causes followed the same path. They are tied to celebrities or major events.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

After the Internet became more than an online super highway crowded with signposts, we moved into a much more fast-paced and interesting period: the digital paradigm. The magical kingdom in which offline and online worked together, where strategies that were proven in one place were re-imagined in new ones. Social Strategies.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Use the tag #MPS09 to follow conversations and highlights from others at the event. do you think about online or offline? we mean a group being ‘led’ Community confusion: people rarely consider themselves part of communities offline. I’m capturing notes at the MyPublicServices event from PatientOpinion.

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sgEngage

MAY 18, 2011

This makes them less sensitive to small timing issues or large fluctuations over a short period of time. billion in yearly revenue on a monthly basis, both offline and online. billion in yearly revenue on a monthly basis, both offline and online.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

This makes them less sensitive to small timing issues or large fluctuations over a short period of time. billion in yearly revenue on a monthly basis, both offline and online. billion in yearly revenue on a monthly basis, both offline and online. These organizations had an increase of 30.5%

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sgEngage

JANUARY 18, 2011

This makes them less sensitive to small timing issues or large fluctuations over a short period of time. billion in yearly revenue on a monthly basis, both offline and online. billion in yearly revenue on a monthly basis, both offline and online. These organizations had an increase of 15.8%

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 15, 2010

This makes them less sensitive to small timing issues or large fluctuations over a short period of time. billion in yearly revenue on a monthly basis, both offline and online. billion in yearly revenue on a monthly basis, both offline and online. These organizations had an increase of 29.1%

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2009

So is the Internet. Rheingold has a mix of people he knows offline as well as virtual friends. Certainly, with discipline and a few minutes in the morning as part of your regular routine, you can overcome some the productivity issues that Nielsen points out. Tags: twitter. The tuning element is about who you follow.

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2011

This report continues to be the most significant analysis of online/offline giving trends based on actual data from nonprofits. The 2011 donorCentrics Internet and Multichannel Giving Benchmarking Report provides analysis of 28 major nonprofit organizations and transactions for over 15 million donors and more than $1 billion in revenue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2010

As Geoff Livingston explains in Why Sex-Ed Remains a Challenge for Social Media , “Openness can actually act as a barrier to communication” for sensitive issues like sex and abortion. And they care just as much about privacy online as they do offline. Tags: policy. People of all ages care deeply about privacy.

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sgEngage

APRIL 15, 2011

This makes them less sensitive to small timing issues or large fluctuations over a short period of time. billion in yearly revenue on a monthly basis, both offline and online. billion in yearly revenue on a monthly basis, both offline and online. Bell, President, American Association of Museums (AAM).

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