Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2009

Next week I will be speaking at and event Bebo is facilitating for members of Number 10 Downing St, local Councils, civic departments (police, etc.), I will also share my speech and slides next week after the event. social agencies and nonprofits, and so on focused on creating an integrated No to Knives campaign.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 25, 2024

Marketing automation can help you with: Broad, audience-building efforts (think: scheduling social media posts) Steady engagement tactics (think: sending out your weekly newsletter) Workflows that target visitors who complete certain actions (think: sharing a viewbook when someone fills out a form) And a whole lot more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Giving Days organized by local communities are being adopted by many more communities than ever before and a stronger understanding how these efforts can help build the capacity of nonprofits to embrace social media and online giving, engage more donors, and raise awareness of charity giving. It’s a huge group: two billion worldwide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Twestival Local Weekend : Last February, Twestival raised over $250,000 for charity:water on Twitter on February 13th with more 200 cities sponsoring local tweet, meet, and give parties. Charlene Li's latest slide deck about engagement, relationships, and social media. Good Reads: Online. blog here and here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

The Nasscom Foundation in India, the epicenter of nonprofit technology and social innovation, invited me to present as part of the Global CSR track in a session about reaching the Bottom of the Pyramid with technology and social media. And during breaks from sessions, did a lot of media interviews. No wonder I am still tired!

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NetWits

MARCH 23, 2012

Search engine optimization, paid search through Google Adwords, content marketing , social media engagement and display advertising all come to mind as very successful ways to drive traffic to your website on an ongoing basis. Check out the presentation slides … 2011 Online Giving Trends by Blackbaud – presented by Frank Barry.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Below, I’ve shared my keynote remarks and slides and I hope you’ll share your ideas and further the conversation in the comments. Don’t ever go for a new, shiny, cool social media platform or tool simply because you’ve heard others talking about it. Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

He is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum , and an expert in using social media in a museum setting. He welcomed me to the Bay Area and asked if I would be interested in doing some trainings for the local arts community. One thing led to another and I designed a social media lab for arts organizations.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2013

Find your local #nptech tribe by joining a NetSquared Local group. Don’t have a local NetSquared Local group? What have NetSquared Local groups been up to recently? Joyce Bettencourt has a roundup on the future of slide decks (includes video!). Burlington recently hosted a Social Media Surgery.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

As the conference nears I’m getting ready for an exciting session focused on the use of social media in the non-profit sector, but I need YOUR help. After each of the speakers present’s I’ll be moderating a discussion with them focused on helping nonprofits understand how they can use social media for social good. Thanks for your help!

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 18, 2011

Participants will walk away with a set of guiding principles and tactics to develop media, events and activities that encourage connections and local leadership among your stakeholders to increase your organizational reach and impact. Blog post with slides and notes. Related Links : Conference registration. Session page.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2011

—– Whether you are part of a nonprofit organization, an action campaign, a local community, or a school, you know that it is through stories you can showcase your work, change people’s minds, inspire them to make change, or join you to make a difference. or read the entire post copied below.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

A chance for local organizers to come together, network, ask questions, etc. Takeaways: A chance to connect with other local organizers. Intesreted to learn more about how NetSquared is connecting those at the intersection of social media and social change? Each slide is displayed for 15 seconds. Sessions and Events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

The course is about how to leverage networks and social media for learning and impact. They will be doing a variety of work tasks (not just social media and networks). I’ve spent some time taking a look at various reports, studies, and International organizations and the use of networks and social media.

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Care2

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Last Friday, Care2 held an information packed webinar Engaging Baby Boomers and Seniors through Social Media with panelists Gina Pagliaro, Immersion Active, Jen Smith from AARP, and Molly Connors from Care2. They deliver local, personalized content to members on whatever device they choose to use. It’s an app on their phone.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

What are the reasons for integrating social media into your website? It all begins with a goal: what do you want to accomplish using social media? Taking that thought a bit further, think about how using social media on your site will accomplish those goals. part of a national event to inspire giving and local leadership.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2011

CTK Foundation Grant Award: Social Media, Technology, and Poetry for the Soul | Community Organizer 2.0 – "I was contacted by my colleague John Haydon last week to write about an interesting foundation grant challenge by the CTK Foundation. Broadband users are more critical of their communities and local institutions."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

I was invited to present a key note at the Mekong ICT Camp in Thailand about nonprofits, social media, and measurement. Using Google Hangout, you can switch between slides and camera, although when you are in slide mode, you can’t see the remote participants. The Google Hangout was projected on the screen.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 24, 2012

You can look at total contributions, contributions by household, discretionary income by household, and percentage of income given by household at the national, state, county, and local level. Acceptable submission formats include Windows Media, Quick Time and MPEG (files ending in.wmv,avi,mov,mpg or.mp4). Be passionate. Be creative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2007

A major aha moment for me was reading Wendy Harmon's excellent advice on how you reflect on your social media experiments and begin to measure the results. At some point, will do a mega synthesis from all workshops. Right now, I'm little fried. Thank you Wendy for your brilliant thinking on this. The workshops were only 2.5

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Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2013

NetSquared Local members meet monthly in 50 cities around the world with the goal of helping each other solve their tech challenges and finding a tribe of people who shares our passions. Social Media September is coming! What have NetSquared Local groups been up to recently? Manchester, UK: MediaCity social media surgery.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

I’ll be posting my slides and speaking notes on Tuesday for my session on the topic of “the future of online revenue generation for charities.&# More to come on this question then! and social media but have not thought it through in relation to my organisation. 5 Steps to a Successful Social Media Strategy.

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Classy

JULY 5, 2021

A small business matching partner is typically a local or regional company within your service area. Think local boutiques, accounting firms, or restaurants, for example. Positive publicity through a partnership with your nonprofit can also have an even greater impact for them locally. Learn How To Tap Into Local Partnerships.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2010

At the end of every presentation, they put up a slide where students can either 1) join their cause on Facebook or 2) text them to sign up. I recently watched Bioneers and some TEDx’s being streamed from a satellite location with local people – becoming my preferred way to participate. It works really well.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

Eight leading experts in social media and nonprofit technology have joined forces to create Socialbrite.org, a hub that showcases social tools for social change. A Social Media Glossary that offers a deep, friendly introduction to dozens of social media terms in plain English.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Greg Ligon, our guest blogger for the Social Media for Nonprofits conference, is an online communications professional with experience in building a brand via online channels, social media communications, and website content development. Think Strategically About Your Social Media Presence. Learn more about Greg on LinkedIn.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

All social media companies want teens to use their services. A “particularly concerning trend,” according to one slide, was that time spent in the Facebook app by young people in the US had declined from the period before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic last year, when usage of Facebook’s services momentarily spiked across the board.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Local connections built through engagement. Organizers in local community own the agenda. They had vastly different ways in which they approached partnering. Rebbecca shared some lessons learned by “retro-fitting&# theory to their actual practice using this framework. Hands-off approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

The next exercise was to focus on media choices. Although social media was the focus of the how-to trainings that are part of the trainer the trainers, this exercise was intended to help NGOs think through their media choices. Localize and make it relevant. Mary Joyce, Digital Campaigns. It boils down to audience.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 17, 2010

I suspect Robyn's slide content might be available somewhere, so I'll focus on what I captured as the lessons learned. #1 1 Take it local and f2f. Local events can be great for increasing your social media content, pumping up evangelists, and creating a local love-fest which hopefully can include the media. #2

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 31, 2007

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 4, 2013

The Needham Community Farm is enhancing their relationship with a local pizza shop by offering a chance to win the pizza party. Advocacy. ” Bonus material … For those who attended our npEXPERTS webinar series … here are the free Facebook marketing videos [by John] and the slides from the session.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 7, 2007

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2008

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Lauren-Glenn Davitian's " Be the Media -- Free Speech Unfurled " guest post on NTEN blog. Could a local social change site knock off Facebook for the social networking webby? Despite a DOS attack this week on SlideShare, a couple of nonprofit techies managed to upload slide shows. Two items grabbed from the NTEN Blog.

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Forum One

JANUARY 11, 2008

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts.

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