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APRIL 2, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). 3 principles for reporters and bloggers in a networked era | Online Journalism Blog – I totally agree that context is just as important as content. "Dina

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MARCH 2, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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MAY 17, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). " Are you writing the blog posts that people are looking for? "Blog entries are a great way to bring people to your website.

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OCTOBER 27, 2009

This month’s Net2 Think Tank question asks, “How do you stay up-to-date online?&# There are so many blogs, news sources, and conversations happening at the same time, every day, and the chances that you’ll be able to find them all without trying is pretty unlikely. About Net2 Think Tank.

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AUGUST 23, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). He's a regular blogger on the Lithosphere's Building Community blog and previously wrote in the Analytic Science blog. 'What

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MARCH 2, 2009

Assuming our fictional organization has done this, let’s say that they chose to create a blog that the middle and high school students who volunteer in the after school program author, with stories form their work, things they are thinking about, events, friendships, and so on. In this example, we are using a blog.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

One example that I’ve blogged about before is the annual project from EpicChange: Tweetsgiving. You can see the numbers (from tweets, to dollars, to videos and more) on the EpicChange blog here. The winner will be announced here in an update at the bottom of the blog post that day. Enter the Contest.

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JANUARY 10, 2010

We’re hoping to inspire 53 bloggers to publish a post today that shares how Beth has impacted his/her work and shares Beth’s birthday wish with his/her blog audience. (Of Publish a blog post about how Beth has impacted your work (be sure to include a link back to her birthday wish post: [link] ). How does it work?

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

My friend and engaging community leader for all those looking to have fun while improving the world, Britt Bravo, is doing a little experiment and asking a handful of bloggers to write short guest posts about how they have fun and do good. Here’s my guest post: you can read it and join the conversation on Britt’s blog here.

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OCTOBER 20, 2009

Social Media and Technology: What Nonprofits Need To Know « Nonprofit Communications: Duck Call Blog - I really love the highlights Farra shares from the “Social Media and Technology: What Nonprofits Need To Know" panel she attended yesterday as part of #baruchnp, at Baruch College in New York. ."

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NOVEMBER 24, 2009

I was interviewed recently by Petra Kroon , a blogger focused on social media and entrepreneurship in The Netherlands, in which she asked some really great questions, including what I thought the trend would be for social entrepreneurship in 2010 as well as where we may be in 25 years. Find out more about the conference here.

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MAY 14, 2009

" Techcafeteria Blog » The ROI on Flexibility - Peter Campbell has a great blog post addressing the common reality inside foundations and nonprofit organizations when it comes to IT management: total lockdown. Follow them at tg2009.com! link] - "Lights.

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JANUARY 15, 2009

." Forrester Wave Report: The Leaders in Community Platforms for Marketer - Community Platforms reviewed on the Forrester Research blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals. New Marketing Summit 2008 - Events in San Francisco, Dallas, Boston, USA & Milan, Italy.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

Oakland Local is launching in partnership with 35 local nonprofit, neighborhood & community organizations: it combines postings of partner organizations’ news and information with blogging and with reported stories from a top quality news team. You can also connect with Oakland Local on twitter and facebook. Getting Local.

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MARCH 14, 2009

You can always reach me on email or Twitter - or follow this blog and my Twitter stream for updates. I’m going to miss the tail end of Tuesday for my flight home…but hope to hear all about what I miss from all the other bloggers! Here’s an outlook of sessions and events on my radar. Let’s connect!

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

This example can be applied to many situations, whether it's malicious comments on a blog, bad behavior in a forum, etc. Introducing Tactical Philanthropy Advisors | Tactical Philanthropy - If you don't read Tactical Philanthropy, the blog from Sean Stannard-Stockton, you should.

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JULY 8, 2009

." Traveling Geeks - "The Traveling Geeks are an informal group of technology influencers and bloggers rooted chiefly in the San Francisco Bay Area. We like to report on innovative technologies through blogs, video, podcasts and social networks." " Facebook Users Are Getting Older.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

My latest post is up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review opinion blog. The survey found that blogging and blog outreach was the most popular social media choice. 83 percent currently reach out to bloggers and the remaining 17 percent plan to in the future. It’s already happening, so go there!

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Debra Askanase: I know that my blogger colleague W. Britten @CROutwardBound : I know some companies, Social Media Examiner for example, replies to Facebook/blog posts as themselves which makes it seem a lot more personal while still preserving supposed titles. Here it is: [link]. Think it’s along @realize_ink’s idea.

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APRIL 8, 2009

My newest post is up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review Opinion blog. Because of search, it no longer matters how many blog posts I write, because search can find the relevant ones for me or my readers. You can add your comments and thoughts here or on the SSIR blog. What has it done? Enter Twitter.

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JUNE 29, 2009

A Free Photos Directory , Free Video Directory and Free Music Directory that offers nonprofits, cause organizations and Web publishers a guide to hundreds of online resources for adding legal, high-quality content to their own Web sites, blogs, podcasts, newsletters, printed materials or online presentations.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Social Citizens Blog | Immerse. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Sean Stannard-Stockton has just posted my guest post on the Tactical Philanthropy blog. You can read it and the comments on the blog here , it’s copied below. Tags: community issues otherblogs causes development funding guest blog ideablob innovation myspace social media. To some, these events were unimportant.

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MARCH 20, 2009

Edward Harran is a blogger and nonprofit technologist I have connected with through NetSquared, this blog, and of course Twitter. Below is the blog post from him, calling for help. He is based in Australia, a far way from San Francisco.

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JUNE 24, 2010

She’s a blogger, trainer, coach, and consultant. From there, I write a weekly e-newsletter and I blog a couple of times a week. . —– Kivi Leroux Miller helps small nonprofits and communications departments of one make a big impression with smart, savvy communications and marketing.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2009

It looks like David Bernstein at the Volokh Conspiracy was the first major blogger to post about it, Monday at about 5pm, and AllFacebook’s Nick O’Neill tweeted about it two hours later. You can read Micah’s full blog post here. Soon it was being retweeted all over Twitter , and for good reason.

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JUNE 22, 2011

Today, I’m live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit. Engage your Millennials as guest bloggers. This session focuses on Millennial Donors, with Angela White from JGA presenting. What did they find out in the Millennial Donor Report? Giving, communication and engagement are the three areas of research.

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JUNE 6, 2011

Who’s read a blog post about it? It is less about the number of people to retweet or like or blog. Our fear should not be of losing branding, not having “control” of the conversation, or having someone post a negative comment on our blog or facebook wall; but only in not changing the world, right? Slacktivism. What is it about?

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NOVEMBER 11, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 21, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Kevin Anderson, blogs editor of the Guardian. Annabelle Sreberny, Professor of Global Media and Communication, School of Oriental and African Studies (with special interest in Iran, bloggers & social media). Andrew Keen (via video), author of Cult of the Amateur: How the Internet is killing our culture.

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