Amy Sample Ward

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Using Twitter for a Global Conversation

Amy Sample Ward

That’s part of the key to success when using Twitter for a Global conversation. Using Twitter search or other tools, you can watch news and updates about the election in Iran by using #IranElection; or, find interesting people to follow and connect with using #FollowFriday to peruse the recommendations that pile up on Fridays.

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What’s the cost of “following” on Twitter?

Amy Sample Ward

Deborah Elizabeth Finn just posed a terrific question: This is a question for nonprofit organizations that use Twitter for outreach, fundraising, and advocacy campaigns: do you factor your organization’s Twitter follow cost into your campaign strategy? Tags: issues roi twitter. And the list goes on. What do you think?

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August #4Change Chat: Opportunities for Collaboration

Amy Sample Ward

Where: Twitter (search for #4Change ). 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. Tags: events issues 4change chat collaboration twitter.

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Technology Toolbox: Learn from Occupy Wall Street to Occupy YOUR Street

Amy Sample Ward

Creating a space where you can collect and aggregate the news, content, and updates of your movement is important for people to better understand, follow, and join you. One key element is the use of an online homebase. We are now seeing this put to great use with #OWS. There are many free online website and content creation tools available.

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Let’s Connect at SXSW!

Amy Sample Ward

You can always reach me on email or Twitter - or follow this blog and my Twitter stream for updates. Beyond Aggregation. This is my first time attending the huge event and I’m already quite overwhelmed by all the people and conversations converging around me. Here’s an outlook of sessions and events on my radar.

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Security and Control: Early thoughts on Google+

Amy Sample Ward

For example, people are talking about viewing their Google+ circles in Tweetdeck or Hootsuite where they can already view Twitter and Facebook. There’s also the integration for multimedia like YouTube (though, that’s Google property so maybe more hopeful there), Flickr, and things like Twitter and Twitpic.

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Wiring the Green Movement for Earth Day

Amy Sample Ward

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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