Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 10, 2009

Where: Twitter (search for #4Change ). When: 5 – 7 pm US Eastern Time. And here are some examples to consider: SocialActions – a great example of social media powering the sharing and aggregation (and thus the collaboration and partnership) of social action opportunity portals all over the world. Stay on topic!

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FEBRUARY 10, 2012

One of the points he made during our planning call is that in order to curate, you need two sets of tools – news discovery and curation tools. News discovery tools select and aggregate content based on keyword searches, but give a higher signal to noise ratio than general keywords searches or general news sites.

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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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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. That’s why the Atlanta councilman used twitter!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2010

Note from Beth: Social media is not a waste a time, but there are ways to waste your time. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Allison Fine just twittered me that Twitter Vote Report is now live.      They need everyone's help to get the word out on Twitter and the effort will only work if a lots of people are using the system. t use Twitter and want to go to www.twitter.com, sign up then follow the directions above.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2014

Content curation is not about spewing out links on Twitter or Facebook as you find them. It is about discovering great stuff amid the noise, annotating it, organizing it, and adding your wisdom or perspective and sharing a collection of curated links in a context or time that adds value. Take Crowdtangle as an example.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 21, 2010

For many organizations with a small number of staff, it’s a luxury to have time to sit, talk, and think aloud together. Part of our conversation about who the community was and how it was broken down into groups also included some dedicated brain time about some of the words we were using. What already exists? peer to peer.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

I wanted to use today to focus in on a question recently posed by my good friend Joe Solomon on Twitter : What are the nonprofit/orgs that are working 2 wire the green movement, like what @ netsquared does 4 nonprofits, @ sunfoundation for politics; which orgs are working to expose data, leverage soc media, connect the orgs together?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2015

A stellar example of content curation : Content curation is not aggregation or a big gigantic list of links. A content curator v ets, filters, organizes, and presents information in a instructional way. Here’s an example: Make Ideas More Visible. Oneshot : Highlight screenshots of text and share on Twitter.

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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. Social media is not free, there is a true cost of operation because of the time spent managing it. What Does the Data Say?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2007

This post is an attempt to document a "long link back chain" ( term from Cogdog), identify an example of twittering with friends not at them (observation from spin via Chris Brogan ) and aggregate the links and key points from the eduserve session on virtual worlds. But wait it gets better.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

For those that follow the #4Change twitter-based chats, this is a post recapping and highlighting our latest conversation on social media application in the Climate Change movement. That’s the question that the monthly #4Change chats (that take place on Twitter) address, this month focusing on the Climate Change movement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Be A Voice for Darfur is an excellent example of multi-channel campaign designed to bring attention to the appalling genocide in Darfur. As Geoff Livingston further notes on Social Media Club blog : "The time to for action is now, and in a year when many of us are suffering financial hardship, we can still make a difference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Just like message consistency, storytelling, and interviewing skills, proficiency with social media like Facebook and Twitter increases their capacity to make change happen for children in their state. It takes time to develop a solid organizational practice in social media, so we wanted to celebrate those small victories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine, we provide an overview of mapping your social network in Twitter and other sites using some of the social network analysis tools available. . I learned a lot but need to spend more time with the tool and terminology - and apply it to a real world situation.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Maybe you’ve also taken the next step of strengthening your stakeholder community by engaging in back and forth dialog online – whether in existing social spaces like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, or in a custom built online community. What are some examples of knowledge sharing networks? What are some possible tools?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 1, 2009

Here are a few ways to get you diving in: Twitter. Want to find new followers and receive useful statistics to improve your Twitter usage? It’s easy to use: all you have to do is follow the Mr. Tweet twitter account and messages will be sent to you via DM. Twitter Karma. Try it out yourself! Communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

Some examples: A follower on Twitter or someone you’re following. What I’m most interested is how to use social network analysis and the various tools to better understand your network on Twitter or Facebook or elsewhere. One problem is that it doesn’t analyze your network in real time. Family members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

This time, online organizing efforts using social media are happening before the storm hits. Take for example this widget created by Cerada, Hurricane Gustav widget for iPhone, mobile device or Web site/blog , which allows you to list yourself and indicate whether you are offering. It aggregates feeds from many sources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2008

It's part of the Foundation Center's aggregated page of articles, podcasts, data, and resources that Focus on the Financial Crisis. Excellent example of aggregation strategy and really clear and good information design. You need social capital to help in difficult times. foundations to aid those affected by the downturn.

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NTEN

JULY 2, 2010

You can see the aggregated Tweets from the NYC 501 Tech Club here. For some Zen time, read Michelle Murrain 's reflections on coding -- why coding today is so different. I liked this little tidbit on Twitter : Shana Masterson , at the National Brain Tumor Society , is looking at. he thinks are worth reading.

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JULY 14, 2011

A prime example of what APIs can achieve with relative ease is optimizing content for web visitors based on location. Twitter Twitter has long been a tool for organizing and bringing people together around topics of interest. HelpAttack.com is a prime example of building on top of Twitter and other APIs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

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 A conversational approach is not an expert or a group of experts talking the whole time. Refining Real-Time Networked Learning. Some Reflections.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

And Twitter? Businesses offer discounts and ads for people that check-in each time they’re on site. Just take the American Red Cross as an example. When people check in X number of times, they receive a badge from the application. Most of the time, people want to see the presentation after you’ve completed it.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Once upon a time, just a little more than a century ago, every factory that wanted to run its systems on electricity had to build its own electrical generating system. Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. CrisisCamps is not a rogue example.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2014

I used the time I had carved out to tap into new sources related to the Latino experience and people of color. I started by: subscribing to some mainstream aggregators, like Huffington Post Latino Voices , Latino USA , Colorlines , Codeswitch. Here are just two examples: It has made us more savvy surveyors. That''s it.

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NTEN

JUNE 30, 2011

) In some ways, this could be confusing to people who've become accustomed to Facebook's approach which has layers of settings and changes those layers, options, and controls all of the time. You can share with all of your circles, any specific one/s, or with the world, every time you post. Circles are how you organize your contacts.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Once upon a time, just a little more than a century ago, every factory that wanted to run its systems on electricity had to build its own electrical generating system. Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. CrisisCamps is not a rogue example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. In co-creation, the value lies as much in the curated aggregate as in the individual contributions. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation. The Second C: Collaboration.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

But the way we think about and turn to social media in a time of disaster is changing. The disaster in Haiti is a perfect example of these changes: the impact of the Real-Time Web and the power of our phones. At the time of writing, nearly 1300 reports had been placed via SMS, and reports are still coming in. Fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

We have lists of nonprofit technology and nonprofit bloggers , we have the nptech tag , a NpTech Blogs Twitterfeed Twitter account , and several excellent lists on AllTop ( fundraising , nonprofit , social change , and social good ). That's a river of blog resources, why add to it? My problem has been retrieval. Communication.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

But how nonprofit organizations can take advantage of Twitter should be. Twitter, a micro-blogging site makes it easy to create short posts known as tweets from anywhere, using almost any kind of wireless device – perfect for users with little time, but have something to say.

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NTEN

JULY 30, 2010

Twitter this week , so thanks, again, Small Act and Annie Lynsen , for writing up a helpful how-to about. Amy Sample Ward is great at aggregating news and notes about nonprofits. " It's pretty provoking -- but at the same time, says what I think most of us email-campaigners have been thinking and asking ourselves for a while.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Last week, I wrote about Twestival , the most recent example of fundraising on Twitter and a networked fundraiser of a scale we haven't seen before. I titled the post " Look Out Here Comes Everybody To Raise Money for charity:water on Twitter " with a wink to Clay Shirky's work. Says Ben, "We knew each other on Twitter."

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" But how nonprofit organizations can take advantage of Twitter should be.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Look for Amazon, Rackspace, Google, and Microsoft to continue spending a lot of time and effort in this area, liberating us from our hardware prisons. . Here are a few examples: The " FaceTime " feature of the new iPhone 4.0 Sales and Customer Support had to address the issue of productivity and results a long time ago.

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