Amy Sample Ward

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). Is your organization considered a content curator? Are you a leader or a follower? Accidentally, of course.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

Some newbie spammer posted a message on my site that shows the contents of their spam merge database. In my opinion|Personally|In my view}, if all {webmasters|site owners|website owners|web owners} and bloggers made good content as you did, the {internet|net|web} will be {much more|a lot more} useful than ever before.|

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Amy Sample Ward

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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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 13, 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). Really changes the impact of those Twitter numbers! "Social Yes, the Internet can help activists mobilize and re-frame public issues.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

They will Tweet from location, break news on Facebook, send out group text calls to action, document in real-time photos and videos, and blog report backs live from events as they unfold. There’s a good chance that much of this content will be viewed and read on “TV&# sets. 12Seconds.tv. 12Seconds.tv Mobile Browsers.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2009

How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live - TIME - There's a great article in Time about Twitter, and what the community of Twitter users has done to make the tool more than first meets the eye. "In "In short, the most fascinating thing about Twitter is not what it's doing to us.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Good news: bookmark cheat sheet and you'll never draw a blank again. Any other ideas to fill the social media content queue with? You have absolutely no idea what you are going to post to Facebook, let alone the (seemingly) 500 tweets you need to come up with. Writing two sentences (or even just one!) has never felt more daunting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

.    A few days ago, I asked " What are the best metrics to track your blog's ROI and make improvements? "   The areas of the blogging ROI analysis included:  author contribution, readership growth, reader engagement, authority, cost, and value.  Reader Sharing (bookmarked items).

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 19, 2009

blog post from the SSIR opinion blog about why Kiva ([link] chose to be a nonprofit and the story of how it started. Fifty-seven percent reported activity in blogging. Tags: roundup bookmarks. These are some links I wanted to share from June 19th. Find me on Delicious for more!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 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). Official Google Blog: Explore museums and great works of art in the Google Art Project – Take yourself on an art tour using Google Maps! ."

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 13, 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). 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

JUNE 11, 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). " Nine Ways Networked Nonprofits Use Slideshare | Beth’s Blog – Beth has a great post up about how organizations can use SlideShare.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 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). Go ahead and criticize the substance of an action or the content of a speech, but just calling a person a nasty name is like pulling hair.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 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). 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 5, 2009

Read the full interview with him on Britt's blog! While the exact formula behind the front page remains unclear, its contents are clearly changing minute by minute. ." Tags: roundup bookmarks. "–David Cohn, Founder, Spot.us.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 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). And where you stand on the discussion of copyright, digital rights, online content sharing and intellectual property?

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 18, 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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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 10, 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). Microsites can also promote dynamic content." Actions can include making donations, social media sharing, signing a petition, and more.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 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). " Cause Fatigue #4Change Recap « 4change – Did you miss the recent #4change twitter chat? Check it out!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

These are a few gems that I've bookmarked on delicous and slightly different than those streamed on my blog. (And Live Tweeting: If I am at a conference or meeting, I'm usually live blogging or tweeting. I think it also has to do with several factors - your content strategy - and also how you've built your network.

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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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NTEN

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. My co-worker, Anne Keisman, recently came to me for advice on how she could get started using social media to promote web content. She provides a resource.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 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). The multimedia platform is managed by Link TV and utilizes a back catalog of development-related videos as well as new content procured for the site.

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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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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2013

Everyone brings something unique to the table, whether it's content, tech skills or social media know-how. The social media team includes the Deputy Director, the Special Projects Director, the Social Media Manager, the social media consultant, summer interns, and an outside content development consultant.

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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. Twitter As Charitable Gift Spreader. Twitter Demographics.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 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. Doing Good.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2013

For content creators, a news story can inspire a moving blog or article. Social media and community staff rely on RSS readers to find interesting and share-worthy articles for Facebook or Twitter. The app hooks into your social networks so you can easily share interesting articles on your Facebook or Twitter accounts.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

And Twitter? Or, maybe you bookmarked it and still can’t sort through your tabs. It’s a social bookmarking tool that comes with annotated notes, tags and links so you can save, organize and discover new content. How it works for nonprofits: This makes your content gathering easy. You’ve got social media covered.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. If you are not reading blogs and web sites in an RSS Reader , make that your New Year's resolution. If you have started following too many people on Twitter by choice or accident , use Tweetdeck and create groups. Take Breaks.

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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. Reader Growth : This is content consumption.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

This is the fourth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. To learn more and begin the sign-up process, visit (and bookmark) socialgood.fb.com/charitable-giving. Related Webinar: Online Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

apps out there, and beginning to try and use them to create content and organize my life, I have come to the following conclusion: the apps are great, but integration still sucks. First, there’s the blogging issue. I don’t get paid to blog, so I don’t really want to spend my time doing that. That is so cool.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Facebook was just getting its first venture funding, YouTube was just starting, and Twitter was still a year away from being founded. social bookmarking (now called Delicious ) by using their APIs on the site. (An Most of the content was (and is) user generated. Technorati (the first blog search engine at that time).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner co-founder of Momsrising and Bruce Lesley, President, of First Focus. (I learned so much that I enough material for several blog posts, my first post is here – it is about content curation.). Jeremiah Owyang has a good analysis of what features Google + needs to go mainstream.

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