Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2010

The 2010 National Conference on Volunteering and Service (NCVS) is June 28-30 in New York City. Date: Tuesday, June 29, 2010; 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM. Date: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM. The NCVS conference is an opportunity for volunteer and service leaders to get together for in-person networking and learning.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

Interested organizations can register to win and find out more at [link] But, it's only going until June 4th, 2010, so they'll need to get on it pretty quick to be part of it." This is a massive blow to smaller companies (or individuals) looking to build their presence through Facebook Pages."

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

| craigconnects – "I took a look at a few articles and studies, and according to ComScore's 2010 Digital Year in Review, email use dropped 59% among Internet users ages 12 to 17 in 2010. An increase in email use, however, was visible in the 55+ age group, who used web-email 15% more in 2010 than in 2009.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Microcredit processes with mobile phones worked because of effective microfinance organizations…" YMCA of Metro Chicago Launches Facebook « Chicago YMCA's IT Space – Great resource from Steve Heye, thanks for sharing your facebook manual! "How

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2010

If you are going to do one new thing in 2010 to help get the word out about your organization’s mission, it should be to create a video." Beth has a great post discussing some of the changes and how they impact your organization on facebook. Well I'm here to tell you that it should be video.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

HOW TO: Create Custom iFrame Tabs on Your Nonprofit’s Facebook Page – "In March 2011 Facebook disabled the popular Static FMBL App that many nonprofits had used to create custom tabs on their Facebook Pages. Rather than having their apps be based on FBML, Facebook has now switched over to iframes.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Notes from the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference for: Who : Speakers: Susan Tenby | TechSoup Global; Janet Fouts; Kira Marchenese. You can only have a real impact and “control&# or influence over the public conversation about you, your organization or your programming if you are listening and engaging. Where are the conversations?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

Submissions close January 22, 2010." " 1 vote can equal $1 million « Nonprofit Communications: Duck Call Blog – "Today is the first day people can vote in the final round of the Chase Community Giving contest on Facebook.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Facebook Will Be Google-able (If Your Profile is Set to Public) – “At Google’s event today announcing a number of fantastic new features, including real-time search, a new partnership was announced: real-time search of public Facebook status updates. The paper will be open to comment til the end of January 2010.&#.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Streamlined sidebar : Now that content is highlighted in multiple ways—via the top navigation, footer columns, and so on—the sidebar is freed up to serve as an entry way to other spaces for continued conversation like facebook and twitter, and even an option to jump to the latest comments on the site.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

." The Next Generation of American Giving – Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media – frogloop – Here is a great guest post from Jocelyn Harmon on the Care2 Frogloop blog: "“Our donors are aging-out.&# “We need to attract younger donors.&# “We need to be on Facebook.&#

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 21, 2010

Twitter’s beta advertising model via "Promoted Tweets" and Facebook’s new Fan Page “Like&# button (which is replacing the “Become a Fan&# button) is buzzing with critics’ opinions. "In the last week, I attended both the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference and the AFP 2010 Conference.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

In 2010, we enter in to a new era of social media marketing, one based on information, rationalization, and resolve." " Facebook Causes: Not just for Individuals: ICT Hub Knowledgebase – The Knowledgebase from LASA is a great place to find articles on all kinds of topics related to technology for organizations.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

The big guys quickly followed suit: Yelp introduced "Check-Ins" while Facebook launched "Places" and most recently, Google Latitude updated to incorporate check-ins and check-outs. But here's the thing: the trends aren't actually that good."

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2011

So, when the ICT-KM Program was tasked with organising the social reporting for the Share Fair on Agricultural and Rural Development Knowledge in Africa in Addis Ababa in October 2010, it was clear that it was high time that we document the social reporting team’s experiences and lessons learned in a generic guide.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 13, 2010

" Deadline: January 31, 2010. Participate in this campaign to recognize the top-rated nonprofits developing your community through job training or job placement." " Check out the stats highlighted by Allyson Kapin in this short but interesting post!

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 12, 2010

Twitter, Facebook and Google tools have already been used for market research, sales predictions and targeted advertising. That was the meat, now here's the pudding: the NTEN community's remake of "Bohemian Rhapsody", Muppets style!" " Be sure to watch close for cameos of myself and many others.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

WWT 2010: Apps and Tools to Energize Your Base. Tip: You can also get Google Analytics for your Facebook Page! Facebook Insights. These analytics are part of having a Facebook Page. View more presentations from womenwhotech. My slides covered the tools and apps for the back stage side of energizing your community.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

A year later, in 2010, it was even bigger. This is a facebook page where many organizations across the environment, climate and animal welfare sectors came together to share news, updates, action alerts, and much more after the BP Oil Spill. Remember the action-focused facebook page? And then something exciting happened.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

Starting off 2010, the monthly #4change Twitter chat focused on the topic of campaigning with social media. amysampleward : does growing a Facebook Fan page numbers count? There were quite a few participants and some really great conversation. Question 1: How do we define campaigning in the context of social media?

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 10, 2009

URGENT: Facebook Pages are changing | facebook | social-advice- Advice for charities – More information about changes coming to Facebook – this time it's more changes in the way Fan Pages function. A great read if you have a fan page for your organization as these changes are said to go into effect in early 2010.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 20, 2011

Every day I field questions from organizations and community groups looking to use facebook, Twitter or YouTube. Her honors thesis from UCBerkeley won the Ronald Frankenberg Prize and the Sylvia Forman Prize from the American Anthropological Association; it was also published in the 2010 Project Censored Journal.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Too Many Messages and Only One Facebook Page: April 6th Movement in Post-Mubarak Egypt | technosociology – Check out this great guest post by Susannah Vila on the technosociology blog! "This In 2010, the average online gift jumped up to $91.94."

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

Almost twice as many users got news from a mobile device compared with 2010, and almost three times as many got news from a social network." The first version of the infographic was published on June 15th and included Facebook, Linked-In, and Twitter. " Where do you get your news?

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