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. In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

A few days ago, I asked for some stories " What is the value of listening through social media channels for your organization? " I wanted to see examples from nonprofit organizations engaged in listening and conversation and the value it has to their missions, programs, or marketing efforts. " But what does that really mean?

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 30, 2023

When’s the last time you heard a board member say, “Members want…” followed by an aggregate of the last five conversations they’ve had. Dig Below the Surface to Find Gaps in Member Retention It’s likely that your organization measures retention rates, but are you looking at the surface or digging in below the aggregate level ?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

YourVersion and LazyFeed are two real-time discovery services that unearth blog posts, web pages and other resources about topics of interest to users. If all webpages were PubSubHubbub enabled, for example, they could simply tell a Hub about any changes they had published and Google could find out via that Hub.

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Candid

JULY 1, 2021

Based on our analysis, the answer is, it's (currently) impossible to know —but it’s important to get right. . In this blog, we identify three current challenges we’ve encountered in tracking corporate pledges and offer a call to action for future corporate giving. . What are corporate pledges?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2010

A few weeks ago, I started a thread on my blog’s Facebook Page, “What are the best tips and tools for saving time managing your nonprofit’s Facebook Page?&# I summarized the tips shared in this earlier post. Is there a tool that can automate this someone asked on my blog’s Facebook page ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2011

Note from Beth: Last week, I wrote about SoSomeThing.Org as an example of a nonprofit with a “data-driven culture.&# What initially caught my eye was the above presentation from George Weiner. o Google Analytics is free, as are many other basic analysis tools. What Does the Data Say? Tweets Into Action on Prezi.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

Some occur on a regular basis I don't think there is a formal directory of nonprofit hashtags, but there are few terrific blog posts that have good lists. For example, Socialedge compiled a list of Twitter users in the social entrepreneurship sector that included a list of hashtags. Another example is their use in a policy debate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

I look for people in the nonprofit space, but also those who work for the platform or have specialized in blogging about the platform. Janet Fouts : Blogger and social media coach who is consistently blogging some excellent posts about how nonprofits can leverage google +. Ask around if you don’t know who they are.

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Association Analytics

JUNE 2, 2021

Many organizations measure the success of their products by aggregate revenue, engagement numbers, and member feedback. As we discussed in our recent blog post about retention, data isn’t one dimensional. Understanding post-purchase behavior is an important part of the analysis. What is the trend in sales over time?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2010

Robert Scoble offers detailed meta analysis of the implications from a technical, marketing, and individual user perspective. Mostly because they’ll spit all those bits over onto my blog, if I add the code to my blog (which I’m pretty sure I will). There are some user personal privacy issues and PC Mag has a good analysis here.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. An example would be getting your high-fidelity medical simulator to talk to your LMS and LRS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. The afternoon featured six mini-workshops that drilled down in the use of the tools such as Facebook , Blogging , Storytelling , Listening , Twitter , and Social Media 101. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

Second Life can be the aggregate of public good - we'll give people the tools what they want to see or not see but not control what people see. Linden gives the example of American Cancer Society. Following the event, I summarized the reflections and analysis in this post: Platforms for Good: Empowering Individuals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Each type dictates a different process and therefore requires different measurement and analysis methods. Does the input aggregated allow you to move forward on a project or move forward in a new direction? There are three main types of crowdsourcing: Work, Input and Action. Does it help you solve a problem?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2008

But, I'd love to see a range of examples that de-construct the development of a wiki in a nonprofit setting. You can see a simple example that I tried to extract myself from looking at the history. There is one or two examples. A call for sessions goes out from conference organizers through many different channels - blogs, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2007

When I blogged my preliminary thoughts and set up a wikispace , I was seeking a specific nonprofit example to make it more real. I'd like to see how you are going to specifically look at success/change and metrics for your blog. You talk about aggregating content, but what about comments/conversation on the blog?

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. In April at our NTC conference panel, we'll dig in and discuss some strategies, advice, and real examples from groups that have had success. Connect the dots from raw source to visualization to analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

I’ve been remiss in summarizing some of the nuggets out here on the blog, so here goes. What I learned is that “drive by&# analysis of metrics is really a waste of time. The number of stars depends on how your Post Quality compares to similar Pages (for example, Pages that have a similar number of fans.).

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2010

Earlier this week, I introduced a series of blog posts discussing the Good News Story in Haiti. One of the most compelling examples are the Crisis Camps that the community of developers and web geeks are leading around the world. Crisis Camp DC participants work hard to develop applications and tools for relief workers in Haiti.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

This takes a lot of time because I'm not just browsing, but I'm doing a pattern analysis for best practices that I can incorporate into a presentation about social media principles and nonprofits. For example, note their call to action right on the YouTube video. Some really good design points.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

The reason I am excited about this project is because it represents a new area of inquiry for me as well as a chance to deepen my learning in the topics that I've been writing about here on this blog for years. today contribute 1 example of a great digital story, tomorrow contribute 1 digital story-telling resource).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

I'm tagging information related to discussion, examples, and comments about nonprofits using tagging (or not using tagging) to prep for upcoming session at netsquared.org with the tag del.icio.us/nptag. A quick analysis of the types (create a visual with mindmanager - concentric circles? " This is an aggregation of the above.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 24, 2021

For example, event marketers can plan for certain ticket types that could gain exclusive access to event content through digital gateways that unlock follow-up webinars, Q&As, or networking sessions. That’s why teaming up with a technology solution with amazing customer support is critical. Enables easy integrations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

" Allan also offers an analysis of the nonprofit micro-philanthropy applications, but says it is too early to speculate where things will be in the next 21 days or next few months. Charlene Li has an analysis of the impact. I like Christopher Penn's example: Think for a moment what this means. s an example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. TechSoup blog profiles Taproot Foundation. Which one worked best? Shiny Object Syndrome.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Allen Benamer of the Nonprofit Tech Blog says " Support Idealware !" The are many projects are out campaigning for votes -- for example - here , here , here , here , here , here , here , here ,and here. There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I have years of blog content and resource collections. I've gotten a lot of great advice about how to get started and I will share it as I plan to blog what I learn about taking this blog to the next level. A few blog redesign resources I need to sink my teeth into after I share my goals, audience, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Kaushik's thinking is based on " Occam's Razor Principle " (which boils down to a poetic way of saying " KISS ") The screencast will show some practical examples of how at least one nonprofit organization's web site, the Idealist , is using the software in practice. What follows is a very rough draft for a script.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

And when I think back on the last year and how it compared to year one of blogging, the shining difference is you--your interest, your comments, and most of all, your extraordinary example. blog in 2006 as a personal learning exercise about "the ways that museums do and can evolve from 1.0 But this blog is mostly push content.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

Analysis & Strategy: The consultant conducts an analysis of your current software and formulates a strategy to align those solutions with your goals. Research top providers online using third-party sites, review aggregators, and educational guides. Documentation: The consultant documents their recommendations.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 22, 2011

This blog is another robust source for ideas, dialogue, debate, and informed opinions that serves as an intersection between research and practice. How's our blogging? Click here to give us your feedback about our blog. I am not talking here about aggregators of information. The Virginia G. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Chad graciously agreed to write up a guest post — and start a meme asking nonprofit and social media folks to add their favorite social media tactic in the comments below or using the hashtag #50smt and aggregated here. Do an analysis to improve or create content. I’m aggregating the Tweets for #50smt here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

My blog is worth $314,448.78. How much is your blog worth? I was inspired by Connie Bensen , a community strategist, who shared a post celebrating the success of her blog over the past year. About a year ago, I decided to benchmark my blog using some tips suggested by Avinash Kaushik. Okay, I'm procrastinating.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2009

He's an example of one of my loose ties strengthened through online social networks. It's also an example of how online social networks can connect you to people in your professional area who may not have met and open the door to valuable informal learning. Aggregate (a Twitter user's followers or friends).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

I wish I had the capacity to write a blog post about each of these links below. I've been retweeting a lot of these links, but I also like to look for patterns and the best way to do that is aggregate them in a single blog post. A few examples - TwestivalDC , BostonTwestival , SFTwestival , and so many more.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

Nonprofits can teach us a lot about how best to use social media, whether to promote an ecommerce business, a blog or simply for personal use. On her blog, VictoriaEcommerce , she looks at how organizations can make the most out of their social media accounts and covers the latest developments in the digital world. Conclusion.

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