Amy Sample Ward

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. " Tags: roundup bookmarks. New Marketing Summit 2008 - Events in San Francisco, Dallas, Boston, USA & Milan, Italy.

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JULY 20, 2009

On June 25, 2009, I announced on my blog that I was five days away from a cross-country move and knew it would disrupt my routine, including my blogging routine. I didn't want the stress of writing posts or the stress of having a blog go dark and disappoint loyal readers. I've even lived blogged my vacations.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Between the internet strategy teleseminar for the San Francisco Writing Conference I did on Monday, the blogging presentation I did for the Oakland branch of Ladies Who Launch on Tuesday, and the consults I had with individual bloggers on Wednesday and Thursday, I've been asked several times this week: "How do I increase my blog traffic?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

The Net2 Secret Plan from Marnie Webb NpTech Tag New Year's Reflections, Predictions, and Best Ofs What are some of the ways that the social web marks the New Year? The Selfish Giving Blog by Joe Waters gives us some tongue and check predictions about Cause Marketing. Let's take a look. What are the nptech social media needs for 2008?

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Amy Sample Ward

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." " Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Amy Sample Ward

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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Amy Sample Ward

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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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. " Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

I Collaborate blog has a post about how to lobby for skype in your organization, if you're working internationally. JournaMarketing has a post called " Why Your Blog Is Worthless without Connectedness " which harkens back to an ongoing debate we've had in this space -- is a blog just a web site or a community?

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JANUARY 14, 2013

I find them useful to bookmark, especially when you need to get your hands on an important article that has good data or strategic advice that you want to share with senior leadership to get their buy in. Mobile: Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Integrated Mobile Strategy (Beth Kanter's Blog). Nonprofit Marketing P osts of 2012.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2005

So I started trolling the net for new ideas and sample scripts for improving my Blogger site. As I play with these tools over the next while I'll offer more substantial reviews that might be useful to other Blogger-based bloggers out there - but until then, let me leave you with a few useful sites: 1. Blogger Templates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2005

That was the name of the session for this Thursday's Bloggers Meeting at the Berkman Center. The session begain with an overview of some of the familiar services that are using tagging. There was also a look at the differences between spurl, furl, and delicious in terms of clusters, related tags, bookmarking widgets, private tags, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2005

In addition to the traditional methods of integrating technology, I want them to explore some simple ways to integrate these new tools such as tagging and blogging without running away screaming. Use of blogs for student poetry journals and for instructor "mini-lessons" 2. These can be easily blogged as mini-lessons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Here's what some nonprofit technology bloggers posted - Paul Lamb , Allison Fine , and Deborah Finn. For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. The Nonprofit Blog Exchange shares Roundup #9. The Getting Attention Blog hosted a Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on the topic of Professional Development for nonprofit marketers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Should all nonprofits have a blog? Can having a blog benefit your organization? Below are eight benefits of having a nonprofit blog. Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. Blog posts, on the other hand, can be written in 15-30 minutes. Blogs can help you work faster.

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MAY 5, 2005

Tag Poetry. Yesterday, Nancy White suggested that we add having the students create poetry from their tags. When I got back from on-site work (reflections on that follow) and finished my mommy shift, I discovered that Nancy wrote a poem with her tags. " What if you linked your tag words to something?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Submitted by Britt Bravo, publisher of Have Fun • Do Good Should all nonprofits have a blog? Can having a blog benefit your organization? Below are eight benefits of having a nonprofit blog. Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. Blogs can help you work faster.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Like last year, conference participants are introducing themselves on their NetSquared Blog. So, blog posts with tips on productivity are very much appreciated. The Daily Rebellion blog gives nonprofits some tips for using MySpace for members and money. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Comparing 5 Ways To Tag Videos hit dig popular.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

One of the things I've been wanting to do for a while is review my blog content for the year and select the "Top 10" posts or the "best of" posts. Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. Where Are The Gen-Y Bloggers Who Write About Nonprofits and Social Change?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2008

I met Ian Kennedy who is the product manager at MyBlogLog, a blogger social network. " An activity stream is a feed of recent activities by your blog friends on various social networks - blog posts, new photos, bookmarks on Delicious, Facebook updates, Twitter updates, etc. Just some more to ponder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Here's the description: In what began as a half dare, the editors, Gavin Heaton and Drew McLellan challenged bloggers around the world to contribute one page ??? And in the spirit of conversation, you can follow-up and extend your interest in the topics covered in the book at the Age of Conversation blog ??? 400 words ???

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OCTOBER 29, 2008

I spend a lot (and I mean a lot) of time trying to figure out how to use social networking, bookmarking and news sites to enhance the National Wildlife Federation's online presence. She "tweets" various tips for getting kids outside, links to new Green Hour blog posts and information on events and more. Everyone wins!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

tags: listening socialmedia ). He encourages staff to listen on many different channels and to blog what they learn in order to share with members. Don't feel like you have to read every post on every blog, use the "Mark Read" option. URLs for your blog, web site, online community. Find Bridge bloggers alltop.com.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

Then she encouraged the staffer running the site to reach out to 'mommy bloggers' by posting comments to their blogs. Next they used stumbleupon.com, a social bookmarking site, to 'thumb up' the sites pages to improve search engine ranking by increasing inbound links. Technorati tags: 09ntc , nptech. The results?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. On a listserv the other day, Laura Quinn at Idealware asked if "Visit" or "Click" data on Feedburner were useful metrics to track to assess reader interest in your blog content. Visitors are people who visit your blog.

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JANUARY 6, 2011

I knew some of the participants on the thread, well-known bloggers, authors, librarians, educators, and thinkers. This conversation thread was rich, witty, and thoughtful. The site is also becoming popular with technology insiders in Silicon Valley. You can use any of those links to look around you. What do you think?

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Care2

MAY 21, 2009

Earned media is media you don't “buy&# but earn the old-fashioned way - by taking the time to properly engage reporters, bloggers, and influentials about your issue. Earned media is comprised of coverage on: Blogs. Tagging on social bookmarking sites like delicious, Digg, etc. Media outlets both online and offline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2006

I got excited when I read this post on Nancy White's blog about comment tracking tool called CoComment via a post by Scoble. I was excited because the other way to do this is to bookmark your comments in delicious with a tag like comments and use the feed to display them on your sidebar. Then off to bookmark some comments.

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AUGUST 10, 2007

Presentation Slides on flickr Blog post here. Phillip Smith has a thoughtful post called " Social tech meets the Social Innovation Generation " The Nonprofit Eye blog writes about leadership challenges in the nonprofit sector. Heather at Aspiration is doing some research on blogging and professional development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

" For me, live blogging notes from conferences and other gatherings helps me think through my fingers about what is being said in the room (and helps me retain it and share it with others (usually via my blog.) Conference or Event Blog: A group blog is set up for the specific event or conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

For this week's bloggerview, we caught up with Michael Gilbert, who writes the Nonprofit Online News, which is not only the oldest nonprofit-oriented blog, but one of the oldest blogs altogether. Nonprofit Online News is tied with Scripting News (Dave Winer's blog) as the oldest weblog still being published, period.

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APRIL 18, 2007

I'm creating a powerpiont for the Webinar and an accompanying wikispace, but wanted to put out this blog post for any feedback. Extension programs track blog conversations and respond. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. milllion blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I first "met" Marshall when he left a comment on my blog about the interview with Marnie Webb. I was curious by how he described his work: "blogger coach to nonprofits." I have long been a dedicated web researcher, so when I started hearing about blogs and about RSS, I investigated. Tell us about your blog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

tags: blogs facebook ). But now, the process of listening has changed concerns into strong interest about what people have to say." The first project was to listen to what was being said on blogs about the Red Cross. They spend time reading other posts by the blogger to help make this decision.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2006

One of the things we're doing is asking nonprofits and NGOs to share their success stories and challenges about their use (or difficulty using) emerging technology like blogs, podcasts, wikis, RSS feeds, aggregation, social bookmarking, social networking, tagging, content management and cell phones/SMS.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

Earned media is media you dont “buy” but earn the old-fashioned way - by taking the time to properly engage reporters, bloggers, and influentials about your issue. Leave comments on blogs. Blog Searches: Technorati. Custom RSS feeds let you get quick updates on blogs that mention your organizations name.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2006

I just checked back to where I bookmarked the Yahoo announcement a couple of days ago in del.icio.us; at the moment 2888 other people have also bookmarked it. Tags: yahoo , web2.0 , webdev It's certainly big news. The design patterns all have accessibility sections - which is great to see.

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