Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 9, 2009

How Technology is Redefining How We Connect | Psychology Today - An interesting read - focusing on the need to incorporate offline interaction in relationships. How does your organization encourage your online supporters/friends/fans to take action offline, together, or to meet with your organization? Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

What’s this mean to you as an activist, supporter, volunteer, changemaker, entrepreneur, innovator or *insert preferred title* online? There are many who approach the online landscape with very different views than their offline business decisions. and so… The Conversation. Well, it means a lot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2009

Educate general public, local leaders, supporters, donors and volunteers. Reach new supporters, donors and volunteers. Demonstrate progress and success of active projects. Are your supporters, donors, volunteers online? Reach new supporters, donors and volunteers. Keep people informed. Build loyalty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2005

Tag Poetry. Yesterday, Nancy White suggested that we add having the students create poetry from their tags. When I got back from on-site work (reflections on that follow) and finished my mommy shift, I discovered that Nancy wrote a poem with her tags. " What if you linked your tag words to something?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

I have always been proud to support WWT both during the telesummit and during the rest of the year with other offline meetups, online content, and more. This may be other organizations/partners, donors, volunteers, fundraisers, event attendees, etc. Subscribe via RSS in a reader to cut down on emails. How do you set up an unconference?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2009

TechSoup Global's MaintainIT Project will be having a party going on via webinar tomorrow, April 22 from 11 a.m. - 12 noon Pacific, to celebrate the amazing contributions from volunteers, contributors, steering committee members, staff, and friends of the many libraries which have worked with the project since its inception three years ago.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

To start with, remember that social media isn’t one of your projects or mission areas. Including various social media tools in the way you do your work (whether it’s communications, fundraising, outreach, volunteer recruitment or service delivery) comes from strategically identifying the right tools for the right things.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

traditional offline software) into the cloud (a.k.a. When considering cost of solution, keep in mind the solution you adopt will often be defined by the budget you have allocated for the project. When considering cost of implementation, some cloud computing solutions consume more project resources than others.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

traditional offline software) into the cloud (a.k.a. When considering cost of solution, keep in mind the solution you adopt will often be defined by the budget you have allocated for the project. When considering cost of implementation, some cloud computing solutions consume more project resources than others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Other organizations broke their efforts down into bite-size pieces for their volunteers by creating templates to use to send messages to their friends, post and comment on blogs, and create their own videos.” There were 44 followers that used the #floodofsupport hash tag or linked to the Crowdrise page or blog post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

The free agents do it when and how they please, making them distinct from and more powerful than traditional volunteers. Online numbers don’t always equate offline results. Tags: Conferences Free Agent. Our session will explore how and why this needs to change. Check out his illustration of the panel). What are they good for?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

The need for some experimentation before a program or project rolls out or scales. The context is that many projects don't offer this. is about building a bridge between two-way online communication and offline actions and impact. Tags: socap09. That it is about effectiveness and quality, not growth.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Consider the groups you will want to track or by which you will want to arrange members: donors, activists, organizers, stakeholders, partners, volunteers, supporters, and so on. They were able to use the platform for organizing offline events, finding and collaborating with volunteer organizers, and more. WeAreMedia.org.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

The 2009 N2Y4 Conference showcased the Featured Projects from NetSquared's Global Challenge focused on mobile technology. There were 14 great teams pitching their Projects at the Conference, but only 3 voted as prize winners. There were many excellent ideas (check out the Project Gallery !) VozMob: Mobile Voices/Voces Moviles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Some user curate user generated content, by tagging it on social bookmarking websites, voting for it on social voting websites, commenting on it, or linking to it. Open group blogs, photo pools, video collages and similar projects are also good examples of co-creation. Tags: ROI. The Third C: Community. Do share your thoughts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

So, I ask for volunteers who love leading meetings and making brief presentations. These leaders are then given the meeting agenda (game instructions), keep the group on track, and volunteer to report out. The Power of Social Learning: Online and Offline . This would have increased the scope of the project, of course.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

So, my first steps into social media were logging onto a BBS for disability rights and support groups called Project Enable back in 1989 via Fidonet. I was networking weaving between the offline/online. I volunteered to be the Dance Cybrarian. Note the blink tag! Twitter reminds me so much of that BBS. just in time???

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Care2

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) By 10:30 a.m. By noon it was $500 and by 9 p.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. How do you balance online action with offline engagement? Tags: sxsw. Twitterstorm, anyone?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. How do you balance online action with offline engagement? Tags: sxsw. Twitterstorm, anyone?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

On February 12, 2009, Twitter users will meet up in over 100 plus cities to socialize offline, meet other Twitter users, enjoy some fun, have a few drinks, and raise money for charity: water. While Twestival is an all-volunteer effort organized outside of the nonprofit direct management and control, the volunteers are highly organized.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Some strategies for offline/online engagement were discussed. Tags as a metric. Can you use the number of photos tagged as a metric for something on say, flickr. One scenario involved volunteer recruitment and one group came up with a strategy for using facebook group. Observations. I also ask if they have questions.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. How do you balance online action with offline engagement? Tags: beth kanter NPTech sxsw. Carie Lewis.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

And one of the best ways to do that is through integrated, consistent messaging across all channels – online and offline. And this is true not only for personal situations like planning a family reunion, but also for how your nonprofit markets its mission, fundraisers, and volunteer opportunities to the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Amanda Rose at the London Twestival Photo was taken by @mikebutcher The Twestival combined online twitter fundraising with a groundswell of offline self organized events in 202 cities around the world on February 12th. As Amanda notes, "It quickly became too much for one person, particularly as a volunteer. Leadership ability.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The magical kingdom in which offline and online worked together, where strategies that were proven in one place were re-imagined in new ones. In the social paradigm, we recognize the need for both online and offline to be part of our work. We had run at the digital space in a panic and forgot a major component: the community.

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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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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2017

Open Data Kit helps you collect and manage data through a mobile app that works offline. Expensify could be good for volunteers who are notoriously bad at losing receipts! The Noun Project has a fabulous supply of free icons. It's also worth following Nick Pickles because he tweets about this stuff a lot. Open-Source Tools.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 12, 2011

Do you have identified volunteers and engaged constituents? Do you have offline and well as online channels ready to go? Here are some key questions for nonprofits to ask themselves. People Does your staff have experience with prior emergency situations? Do you have pre-defined segments for previous episodic donors?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

It's The People Behind The Tags! Traditional offline/online fundraising techniques still, of course, work. Second Life Relay for Life for 2007 volunteer blog is gearing up for this year's event, the third one in Second Life. Gavin's NpTech Timeline in SlideShare. Steven Cliff's Notes - Saving Internet 1.0 Extreme Email Makeover.

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