Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 24, 2010

In 2007 I started to transition away from consulting for a few clients at a time to more writing, online training, and public speaking, which lets me connect with thousands of nonprofits every year. What’s the difference between online and offline marketing – or is there one?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I describe Social Actions as an aggregation of actions people can take on any issue that’s built to be highly distributable across the social web. We pull in donation opportunities, volunteer positions, petitions, event, and other actions from 60+ different sources. That’s today. Originally, adding actions manually. was difficult.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 4, 2009

Here’s the first sessions: And the the report back: The game is a development of others Drew Mackie have created over the years - as you can see here - with the social media element added through work with Beth Kanter in 2007. After the problem and the people are addressed, then it’s time to consider the tech tools.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

ChristinasWorld : building a network of awareness is different from campaigning: 1) campaigning is about mobilizing action toward specific objectives . Works best when people can see that action leads to affect. rootwork : The Powershift youth climate change conf in 2007 was also largely organized via social media [link].

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 28, 2010

It launches alongside the current JustGiving application for Facebook which was launched in 2007, which has seen over a half million users – and over 139,000 active in the past month – and over 9500 fans. Users may vote the crowdsourced ideas up or down.

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