Amy Sample Ward

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Women Who Tech Telesummit: Tools Galore Panel

Amy Sample Ward

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. Here’s a run through of the Tools Galore session. More than 3.5

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Back to School, Back Online

Amy Sample Ward

Some of the results include: Facebook is by far the most popular social networking site amongst young people - used by over 7 in 10 (72%) of all 11-25 year olds; rising to 80% of 17-25 year olds, those of college/university age – and to 83% of those who are currently at, or who have already been to, university. What It Means.

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Great reads from around the web on February 23rd

Amy Sample Ward

While some introduced alternative philosophies for measuring the nuances tied to social media, others wondered aloud whether ROI simply wasn’t necessary as the tools and methodologies for analyzing yields didn’t yet exist. . "Over the years, Social Media experts attempted to redefine ROI for a new era of influence.

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Free TechSoup Webinar: Basics for Beginners

Amy Sample Ward

This Wednesday, April 15th, you can participate in a free online event and webinar from TechSoup, Basics for Beginners: Getting Started with Social Media Tools. So you’ve heard about Facebook, Twitter, and other online social networking sites. billion in IT expenses as of September 2008. Whether you’re brand new to Web 2.0

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. It eventually garnered 45,000 users who took advantage of the easy-to-access tool to place reports.

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Interview: Marshall Kirkpatrick on the Real Time Web Report

Amy Sample Ward

Think of how Facebook notifies you that you have new messages without having to refresh the page, or the way your Instant Messaging client shows you new messages as soon as they are sent. Probably middle of 2008. Like people generally do, we thought about the impact that Twitter and Facebook were making on the web.

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Collaborative Technologies for Social Impact: How Survivors Connect leverages the web and you can, too!

Amy Sample Ward

Every day I field questions from organizations and community groups looking to use facebook, Twitter or YouTube. Most all of these groups are excited and enthusiastic but are coming from the wrong direction: focusing on the tools first. Top Tools for Collaboration. The tool to try: Just communicate by email, privately.