Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 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

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. It's something that I try to tackle by having a clear personal definition, for my own word choice.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Next week I'll be teaching a session about blogging during a nonprofit social media webinar, We Are Media, presented by NTEN. As part of my preparation, it seems like a good time to update my 2006 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Us Blogs , and my 2007 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Debra has posed a very good question frame in the comments: Does the blog offer consistent insight and education about an area I want to learn about? Debra has posed a very good question frame in the comments: Does the blog offer consistent insight and education about an area I want to learn about?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Some awesome tool resource pages where you'll find links to simple definitions, tips and tutorials, and some tools. Social Bookmarking. Blogging Tool. This week we worked on listening and participation tools: Monitoring. RSS Readers. Commenting. You can still participate and you might even win a cool t-shirt.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Browser Bookmarks - To start with, I created bookmarks for my Grandma to be able to access her favorite sites without having to use Google Search or remembering the URL. While not specific to older people, it's definitely a useful resource. (As Getting Social. Thanks for sharing this resource, Sarah Marston!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2006

But the fruits of my labor has gotten so much richer with the integration of social networking tools, particularly social bookmarking services. Look at the bookmarks of folks who first tagged an item that is popular. I also look at the bookmarks of first taggers of resources that I find particularly useful. But not all the time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

The Cross Blog Discussion of the NpTechTag has generated some comments and blog posts that I've summarized below. Gavin's post does a great job explaining the definitions and the advantages of a taxonomy over a folksonomy. Write a blog post. Join the cross-blog conversation! How are they different from taxonomies?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

I've definitely added that link to my social media metrics personal learning space ) She recently pointed to a blog post called " Ten Ways To Measure Social Media Success " by Chris Lake. number of Facebook fans, Twitter followers, Digg links, Delicious bookmarks, and referrals from social media sites, plus existing website traffic).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The second reason is a clear definition of what social media is, even within the social media community. However, very few people use these terms precisely and almost nobody agrees on the exact definition of these terms. Most users prefer to consume user generated content, by reading blog, watching videos, or browsing through photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

An interesting point about using MySpace: "It can definitely be used for recruitment and as a mass communications tool, particularly for younger voters who tend to use email less. Tagging and Social Bookmarking Social Bookmarking Showdown is a quick overview/review of the major social bookmarking services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Maybe you saw this teaser over at the NTEN blog last week about the WeAreMedia project activites for the month of October wondered what the term fondle the hammer meant. Social Bookmarking. Photo by Stitch. The phrase comes from Jeremiah Owyang in a post titled ' Stop Fondling the Hammer and Focus on the House." you work in.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

Collaborative Files I couldn't get through my day without Dropbox , which I have blogged about before. For step-by-step, go-at-your-own pace tutorial documentation, definitely try ScreenSteps. Notes and Bookmarks After starting and stopping for years, I have come to embrace Evernote. OK, enough preliminaries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

" Also quoted is Sean Stannard-Stockton, author of the Tactical Philanthropy blog was also quoted and he shares his expanded predictions here , including "Charities recognize the potential of social-media tools and finally get serious about integrated online strategies. On blogs, comments are the conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

notes and David Weinberger's live blogging of the session.). The tags you use to describe something should be intuitive so you can recall the bookmark. When delicious tells you the number of people who bookmarked, I hate the way it looks. If just one other person bookmark, it shows a link. t be bookmarked.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2005

social bookmarking genre, has been acquired by Yahoo. You can read announcements of the acquisition on the Yahoo search blog here , and on Joshua's del.icio.us blog here , where he writes: We're proud to announce that del.icio.us Search team - they definitely get social systems and their potential to change the web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2006

The exercise went something like this and it struck me that if I ever taught a workshop on how to use tagging that I would definitely do something like this, tailored to the group's interests of course. Go to del.icio.us , a social bookmarking or tagging tool, and create an account (if you don't already have one).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

The NetSquared Conference is just days away and the NetSquared blogs are buzzing with activity! I noticed a lot of "Top Ten" blog posts this week. Marnie Webb has been too busy to blog much this past month, but she finds time to tag ! Buzz in NpTech space -- from blog to blog to tagged bookmarks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Use Technorati , a blog search engine.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 6, 2005

If writing up a case study or going to a Net Tuesday feels too time consuming, you can also help by tagging web sites in del.icio.us , photos in Flickr and personal blog entries that relate to NetSquared with the tag "net2" and they will feed into the NetSquared news aggregator. I'm double blogging right now, here and on the NetSquared blog.

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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. The library is all cross-browser tested - a "graded browser" policy described in the documentation that lays out the Yahoo definition of "multi-browser support."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

Click To Play John Kenyon tells you why video blogging is useful for nonprofits. A definition of screencasting, with real examples. All the research is done, you'll find links to my bookmarks on delicious). #2 2 Video Blogging for Nonprofits. Top Three Takeaways. Overview of the tools needed.

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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. I also bookmark posts that reference the project using a unique project tag. Pick the right ones! .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2005

I love ( and hate ) how blogs, rss, tags, and these other tools are so right-brained and being able to indulge in some non-linear thinking. More importantly, they gave me enough incentive to start reading blogs and also had some simple 1-2-3 advice for selecting a RSS reader. Bernie was right, it makes it easy to read more blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

A few days ago, I got a ping from Deborah Finn via a social bookmarking service with a pointer to the same book - " Nonprofits and Technology: Emerging Research for Usable Knowledge " One of the chapters is called "Geeks for Good: Technology Evangelism and the Role of Circuit Riders in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

You can follow her adventures in Afghanistan on her blog. I'm really glad that she sent me this email because I had bookmarked one of her recent commentaries on nonprofits and online social networking. Her piece begins with a simple definition of online social networking tools and asks: What's the appeal?

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 2007

But in the first 6 months of 2007, I was experimenting with social networking and bookmarking tools on Green Brooklyn, including and especially the Care2 News Network , and saw such a great result that I decided that I needed to redesign everything ASAP. 60) Search « Care2.com Besides, Im too busy with clients. com , Inc.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2005

Here's what I mean: John Hagel in a post last week offered a tentative definition of web 2.0 I think this is the reason I instinctively identified Ajax as someting my users would care about, and why I've not been as vocal about tagging or social bookmarking, for example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

What we're talking about are web widgets and the definition is: A Web Widget is a portable chunk of code that can be installed and executed within any separate html-based web page by an end user without requiring additional compilation. A few important questions to ask before your consider adding a widget to your blog or web site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I created it for the screencast to illustrate the definition of tagging. Some of my thinking has definitely evolved. s experience (good and bad) with social bookmarking, the NTEN Affinity Group , NpTagvocates, is a great place for discussion with your peers on these topics. 2) Bookmarks can???t Act 2: Definitions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

So, make sure you feature your fresh content first (your blog feed) and calls to action after that. Some may even bookmark it for browsing regularly. Promote Your Mobile Website in Print Materials, on Your Website and Your Blog, and in Your Social Networking Communities. The two have completely different purposes.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Is the blog used and updated? In the case of MySpace profiles, there is a very definite tipping point in terms of the amount of content that should be included in your profile. The social bookmarking sites offer this. Does their profile include a link to an action (sign a petition, write a letter, etc.)? How much is too much?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Is the blog used and updated? In the case of MySpace profiles, there is a very definite tipping point in terms of the amount of content that should be included in your profile. The social bookmarking sites offer this. Does their profile include a link to an action (sign a petition, write a letter, etc.)? How much is too much?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

For example, Yahoo bought del.icio.us – it didn’t have social bookmarking. There are definitely instances where companies buy up competitors to simply shut them down but I am not convinced that this is such a case. Jon Biedermann Vice President DonorPerfect Fundraising Software blog: [link] 6 admin 08.09.07

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Windows Live Writer is primarily known as tool to help you better format and publish blog posts to the Web, but it’s also a very useful, simple, and free tool that can be used to easily generate HTML code. An online database of what is #trending on Twitter with user-generated definitions of related hashtags. Retwact :: rtrt.co.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Clipix makes bookmarking a.k.a. e-Newsletter. Based in the U.K.,

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