Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. 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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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 21, 2007

Linux Journal ran the following advertisement by a company called “QSOL&# : And, it got 2100+ diggs , with the title “Best. Unfortunately, the open source community seems to find ways to ridicule, degrade and and belittle women quite often. It ran in 2000, with a lot of uproar, and they promised never to run it again.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

I set her on the path to join all of the major and up-and-coming social media sites like StumbleUpon , Digg , Reddit , Delicious and Mixx. " So much of social media is dependent on the support of others (votes, thumb-ups, diggs, etc.). Anne is having a lot of success at doing this on Green Hour's Twitter page.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

A link from a blog post? tweeting your site on Twitter. bookmarking on Delicious & Digg. commenting. Check out the Google Analytics blog to stay on top of the newest tools and exciting changes. The Goal Flow, on the other hand, helps you to understand the dynamics of your site. emailing to friends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

  We're talking about tools like Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit and others.    This includes Twitter, Utterli, and Sesmic.    This is the place to share all your great Twitter clients and more.   Which ones are you using, what are the best tips and resources?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" To create a new comment, use the form below. By: Simon Jackson. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

While at WWD I had my posts make it to the front page of Digg a few times, and the front page of Yahoo! Connect with me: For many years I had a personal blog stemming from the freelance work I was doing under the biz name Mom at Home Design. Follow me on Twitter. Leave a comment » once which was a trip.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

While at WWD I had my posts make it to the front page of Digg a few times, and the front page of Yahoo! Connect with me: For many years I had a personal blog stemming from the freelance work I was doing under the biz name Mom at Home Design. Follow me on Twitter. Leave a comment » once which was a trip.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Leave comments on blogs. Type in your organizations twitter handle, organization or hashtags.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

In my presentations, I use a slide from Nina Simon's blog post called " How Much Time Does It Take To Do Web2.0 For example, you can use Twitter as both a listening tool and for participation. You can listen with google alerts, technorati, twitter, and RSS readers. Tools to help you participate are Twitter and Co-Comment.

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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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Care2

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Familiarize yourself with blogging lingo. Make sure you blog on a consistent basis.

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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. s community using Twitter. s content to Kirsty.com, a mom oriented niche Digg-like service. They actively engaged the site?s Finally, she submitted the site?s The results?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

My most recent experiment involved Twitter, fundraising, and an integrated offline component at the Gnomedex Conference in Seattle. Integrate quick email interviews as you say thanks with donors, pattern analysis of comments or blog posts. The repeat donors and those who read my blog, the motivations are clear.

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Care2

APRIL 13, 2009

Make sure you are hooked up to an RSS reader such as Google Reader or Netvibes to monitor everything from Twitter to Blogs to what stories hit the front page of Digg. It is essential not only to read the blogs and websites of the influencers in your community, but also become a frequent commenter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2007

Kevin Rose of Digg fame launched a new social sharing site called Pownce to much buzz and mixed reviews. It is a competitor of twitter and jaiku. I managed to get an invitation from one of my twitter friends. See, ha, twitter can be useful). The first six people to leave a comment got the invites. My Flickr Stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

This idea came to me from Twitter. One thing I've come to appreciate Twitter is that it allows me read the thoughts, ideas, and musings of lots of smart people and thought leaders in many different disciplines. And, if nothing else, Twitter can be a terrific muse and stimulate creative thinking. Especially in this economy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

User generated content is also at the core of citizen journalism, the notion that amateur users can perform journalist-like functions (accidentally or otherwise) by reporting and commenting on news. 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

APRIL 13, 2007

Allen Benamer of the Nonprofit Tech Blog says " Support Idealware !" Everyone is invited to make any last minute plugs in the comments or trackbacks! Here's a few blog posts about the NTC experience: Marnie Webb says Web2.0 Google Blog Search. Donor Power Blog defines fundraising 2.0, NTC 2007 Pipe.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Main | Lean, Mean Blogging Machines » Thursday Nov 16 2006 The Coming Wave of Web 2.0

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Care2

APRIL 14, 2009

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Care2

JULY 15, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Post a Comment | by Share Article in Video Reader Comments There are no comments for this journal entry.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Main | Lean, Mean Blogging Machines » Thursday Nov 16 2006 The Coming Wave of Web 2.0

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Care2

JUNE 11, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Read blogs, get into social networks, register at Digg and then go sit in a corner and listen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

npdigg.org , cooked up by the nonprofittech blog , is up and running. It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae?

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" The ever popular widgets seen on blogs, for example, take advantage of APIs. All rights reserved.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Eight social media tracking tools: Act.ly: New tool to launch petitions on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Jonathon Coleman's Twitter Avatar. s taken us a long time to build up credible, authoritative profiles and groups on sites like Care2 , Digg , Facebook , Flickr , and StumbleUpon. ??? This means that we see a lot of value in commenting, linking, tagging, and the like; sometimes more so than just an empty visit to our site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Seth Godin took a swing at nonprofits today in a blog post “ The problem with non ," saying that nonprofits are afraid of change and that many are lacking in social media adoption. Many took issue with the logic and metrics he used to make his case: Take a look at the top 100 twitter users in terms of followers. Twitter & Digg?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

This was originally published at the Rednod blog by Alistair Croll who among other things is the co-author along with Sean Power of Complete Web Monitoring recently published by O'Reilly. We told a few key bloggers and Twitter personalities about it beforehand; then, on June 30, we started talking about it online. What worked?

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. Post your commenting policy on your Fan Page's info tab. Get them on Facebook and Twitter. Retweet followers, answer questions, and comment back. Be transparent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

I'm writing this post for the benefit of our "Twitter Backchannel Moderators" who will be live tweeting the panel and posting these URLs to Twitter. To follow the Twitter stream or ask questions or make comments, use the #ROI hashtag. Who knew that there were poets on Twitter? Oh my god, take a look.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Kikono - Digg for NpTech. The two top posts of the week were about Twitter and MySpace, both Web2.0 The post on Twitter was Kurt Voelker's twitter@nten? Opinions about Twitter are divided. There are Twitter critics in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. Face-to-Face Trumps Twitter, Blogs, Podcasts, Video.

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Care2

APRIL 20, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Reader Comments (3) To speak to your point about passion, Allyson. What were the key highlights?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 6, 2006

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