Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

The social impact landscape in Romania is complex and exciting – you can see struggle and hope, fear and enthusiasm mixed in every conversation and every presentation. I had the opportunity to facilitate the IT track and had lots of fun poking, prodding, and supporting some really interesting conversations and sharing sessions.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Amy Gahran has some excellent self-reflections and advice about the way she reads feeds in her RSS reader. I have them organized into folders by topics I'm tracking, including my "ego feeds" and "circle of wise" (the blogs that I get the most value from reading like Amy's for example). ego surfing???

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

I normally separate my post-presentation blog posts and slides but think it will be valuable to group them together this time. A great example of this is when we talk about working with our communities. Many public media organizations are looking to use social media as a way to have conversations directly with community members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. They are using RSS to stream content, including resources tagged with NpTech tag in del.icio.us. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. It's always nice to discover redesigned nonprofit web sites with a web2.0 functionality.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

That aside, Joistke goes on to reflect on the usefulness of tagging and rss feeds for her work with communities of practices (and by extension - nonprofit organizations.) This is a huge shift RSS/tagging can bring into the workspace." Concrete examples were needed." Much more interest driven, user-centric.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

Today’s webinar focused on the building blocks of social meda; things like tagging, RSS and how to get started finding the conversations taking place online. Some of them, along with my answers, include: How much time a day do you spend reading (RSS feeds)? There were other questions and some good conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2007

In the presentation for this session, Doug Haslam used a screencapture of this blog post as an example of how a pr person can leave a comment to pitch a story on their client's behalf. (He He also mentioned that I had not blogged it.) The emphasis of the session was on how to find conversations online and respond to them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

This is an example of how you can use social media to crowdsource your professional development and learning. Replies only appear in your intended recipients stream and in those of people who follow both you and the recipient, so don't be afraid to have conversations with your supporters. Thank you Kevin!

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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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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

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. There are hundreds of millions of blogs according to Technorati, and that’s just blogs! Getting Started. Twitter Search.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But a good CMS can also facilitate constituent relationships in a number of other ways, including facilitating comments, blogs and social media. Letting them subscribe to your site content through RSS feeds or email can help them ensure they’re getting the most-update information from your organization with ease and convenience.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Most of us can think of examples of this from our own lives.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yesterday was the 3rd annual Women Who Tech Telesummit , bringing together over 600 women (and men) from for-profit and nonprofit organizations and technology start, connecting developers and techies with those new to the field, igniting conversations and long-term collaborations. Subscribe via RSS in a reader to cut down on emails.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Here are some live blogging notes from the SXSW session. Blogs, wikis, social network platforms, forums, chats: aka user generated content, conversations, communities. Emergent, peer to peer conversations and sharing of knowledge. Examples: WorldChanging: knowledge prodution and sharing. What is social media? -

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Broadly, I'm researching how museums are using micro-blogging. Do you want to start conversations? Will it be another RSS feed? Try using the @username feature to start conversations with your audience. One example is simply turning a Twitter account into an RSS feed. What is your thesis about?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 10, 2007

I am often asked for advice from nonprofits that want to start a blog. Read blogs. I can’t tell you how many amazing, visionary nonprofit leaders I talk to who when I ask them if they read blogs say, “I read email.” The best person to write an organization's blog is the person who is the most excited to write it.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! What are your thoughts on this issue? What has your organization experienced?

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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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JULY 6, 2005

I'm trying to get some links assembled in one place for the Berkman Thursday evening bloggers meetings where we will discuss nonprofit blogging. There is no official organized nonprofit blog census, npo blogroll or a bridge blog like Global s. Omidyar Thread on Nonprofit Blogging. Omidyar Thread on Nonprofit Blogging.

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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. Blogging Behind the Nonprofit Firewall: ROI Approach. Twitter Demographics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

For example, on Facebook the average user creates 90 pieces of content each month. It can be done simply as writing a blog post with links or sharing annotated links on Twitter around your topic. Take for example, how Bruce Lesley from First Focus uses Twitter to establish authority as a content curator on children welfare issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

You know your first step is listening, but before you jump into a river of conversations and keywords and even before you touch the tools, you need to be ready to listen. He encourages staff to listen on many different channels and to blog what they learn in order to share with members. Use Your RSS Reader Like A Rock Star.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

But social media and social networks respond to the same needs that drive people; the need to connect with one another in meaningful ways through conversation. Social change happens through conversations, and the job of nonprofits is to organize themselves in such ways as to catalyze and manage those conversations.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

Last March I was on a blogging panel for an event put on by the Alliance of Technology and Women. To prepare for the panel, I wrote up 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs. You can read Steve's blog at the Eye of Bakersfield. Blogs fall under the category of "social media" because they are, well, social. So here it goes.10

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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. More specifically, I help non-profit, small business and academic groups and individuals learn how to use web applications and services like RSS, blogs, wikis, search, social bookmarking, podcasting and more.

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JUNE 13, 2009

Just had a good conversation this morning with Craig Newmark of Craigslist and the Craigslist Foundation. These sites should be working together using technology like RSS feeds. For example, you can see that Arianna Huffington is much better at writing in her post: "All for Good: A New 'Craigslist for Service'" !

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JANUARY 8, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. " I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. I have one blog post here. Although I do have a couple of uneasy feelings about blog spontaneity. ll blog it.

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JUNE 29, 2007

There was an interesting mini-conversation, which, in retrospect, I really wish I’d had a chance to explore more, about the supposed "egalitarian" nature of free and open source software development. This was the most diverse crowd I’ve ever talked with or been in for an open source conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

My initial remix thought (wrong) was to look for examples that were related to agriculture, but the extension is so much more. looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! I'm creating a powerpiont for the Webinar and an accompanying wikispace, but wanted to put out this blog post for any feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

It will explain the problem that a widget may solve for a nonprofit blog, some examples of nonprofit blogs using them, and oh yeah, answer the age old question "What is a Widget?" What are a few good examples and how easy are they to install? This is both the hard and fun part of making web videos.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

We've been reflecting on all the great conversations we had with people from around the country (and around the world) on how new media is and/or might enhance their work. . At AIDS.gov, we have made a commitment to tweet on a daily basis, and blog at least once a week. Conference on AIDS. Plan ahead. Make it known.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

I like to have fun experimenting and that’s just what I’m doing on my Facebook Page , a place for learning, and sharing insights about best practices in social media for networked nonprofits. I learn so much from the conversation threads and people sharing what they do. What about a certain post created that big conversation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

They do a good job of using examples for each of these things (like why Southwest Airlines is so successful, and why the Kidney Heist urban legend sticks so well, among other stories. It uses examples and such, but it is not anywhere near as engaging and readable as “Made to Stick.&# I’ll have to look for it.

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MAY 14, 2008

It gives an opportunity for the audience to have a conversation with audience around programming. For example, here's the arts programming account. Twitter is being used for conversation, along with tidbits from the show and interesting quotes from guests. She talked about the Panorama project on their site.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Maybe you’ve also taken the next step of strengthening your stakeholder community by engaging in back and forth dialog online – whether in existing social spaces like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, or in a custom built online community. What are some examples of knowledge sharing networks?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Sean of the Tactical Philanthropy blog called me the batman of nonprofit technology. Okay, so let me answer the question by posed by The Tactical Philanthropy blog. Does anyone know of any other audio or video programming that has mentioned philanthropy blogs? Click on the RSS button in the results page. Ego searches.

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