Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

Nonprofit tech experts team up to help others master ‘social tools for social change’. Eight leading experts in social media and nonprofit technology have joined forces to create Socialbrite.org, a hub that showcases social tools for social change. The Socialbrite site features dozens of videos, screencasts and slide presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

tags: blogging nptech ).   So, in that spirit,  I'm sharing my presentation from last week which is a case study of my blogging ROI.  Followers, Friends, and Fans: Expanding Your Online Community If you aren't on facebook, twitter, friendfeed, technorati, and delicious, should you be?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The primary goal of the report is to set a baseline of benchmarks for success for NGOs worldwide in their use of web and email communications, online and mobile fundraising tools, and social and mobile media. 38% regularly publish a blog. 92% of global NGOs have a Facebook Page. 92% of global NGOs have a website. 3% use.NGO.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 4, 2012

The session focused on using core social media platforms Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to raise awareness and inspire others as a volunteer. Your tools are defined both by the goal of what you want to do, but also by the people – are they tools that that audience uses and likes? Here are some specific Facebook tools: Edgerank.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Cognitive load management: ability to discriminate and filter information for importance, and to understand how to maximize cognitive functioning using a variety of tools and techniques. My result metric is the number of good ideas and saved time getting those ideas that I get for blog posts, curriculum development, and presentations.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Also posted on the Frogloop blog for nonprofits here. I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2010

As social media tools like Twitter and Facebook become core components of nonprofit communication strategies, there is a corresponding need to assess how well programmatic messaging and organizational identity are propagating in those channels: “We Tweet; is anybody listening?&#. Presentation slides. Audio recording.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2008

To prepare for this presentation, I used social media tools not only to locate the experts and good examples, but this time invited them to collaborate in a google doc that ultimately became the wiki resource page. BTW, the photo that graces the cover of this slide show was taken by Patricia). (BTW,

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Description : Social media tools allow for people to connect: broadcasting messages to real time communication, online networking to offline collaboration. Location : San Antonio, TX. Topic : Social Media in Disaster Response. Related Links : Conference website.

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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). Or are social media ranking tools an example of more kool-aid mix being added to the overflowing punch bowl? Are you a leader or a follower?

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FEBRUARY 2, 2011

First, use the Google AdWords keyword research tool to do some analysis for words and phrases you’d like to rank highly for in search results. This tool will crawl and evaluate your website for a lot of the key elements you should be monitoring. Custom Facebook Landing Tabs Convert 47% of Your Visitors.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

You can review the slides below, and click through to slideshare where you can view all of the speaker notes as well. For a presentation about blogging, facebook and twitter for blind or partially sighted people , visit: [link]. Social Media for Small Enterprises. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Anything else?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2010

I have a new post up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog and I’d love to hear your thoughts! You can read the full post and comment on the SSIR blog or be part of the conversation below. You can’t access your friends on facebook if the platform is down for maintenance, let alone if it goes down permanently!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

There's a good round up of links to blog posts and articles by other nonprofit techies and SEO mavens. For more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog. Social Media A couple of really useful posts on Facebook and Nonprofits. The Chronicle sets up a twitter account to broadcast links to blog posts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2011

A good number of your Facebook fans, Twitter followers, and Flickr, YouTube, and Foursquare friends will come directly from clicks on social media icons placed on your website with “Follow Us” pitches. An embedded video or slide show can add value to your text if it is relevant and well produced. Host Your Blog Inside Your Website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2007

It's better if you view the slide show in its full size here. Threads is an online media album that allows people to make audio or text comments and embed those comments on the Slide Show. So, I started the NpTech Group on Facebook for that purpose! You can also leave a comment in the slide show or set one up yourself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Helps us move away from tool driven decisions to results. But ROI was not really intended to measure a technology project, program, or tool or any other isolated aspect of an organization. Using monitoring tools. I used the example from the Facebook Birthday campaign. Unique Blog Readers. The tools I use are below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

Here are my slides and curated resources materials for a talk called “ What Can Nonprofits Learn from Robin Good, the Best Content Curator on the Planet? The session will begin with a simple primer about content curation , the benefits, and a few examples of nonprofit content curators and their tools. A Few Good Starter Tools.

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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. Once you have a feel for who’s talking about what, where, start joining them by leaving comments on the blogs, pointing to content or discussions from your station’s website or blog, and so on.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Posted on Stanford Social Innovation Review’s Opinion blog. Read the full press release here or download the Social Media data slides here.) Amongst 11-25 year olds, Facebook is trailed by Bebo (28%), MySpace (25%), Twitter (12%), MSN (9%), YouTube (2%) and “other” (4%). This post originally written September 8, 2009.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 13, 2008

There's been a lot of excitement in the last year about social networking in general, and about Facebook in particular. Using tools readily available on Facebook, the organization has raised almost $48,000 in the first six months of their social-networking effort. Here's a success story. You can find the presentation here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Post, Post It Passion Exercise from Youth Noise, Youth Summit Blogging and New (to me) Blogs Blogging 101 Community Blogging describes how to avoid the slow hard agonizing death of a blog: Make it a team effort. This articles provides some excellent tips and strategies for a successful group approach to blogging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Followers, Friends, and Fans: Expanding Your Online Community If you aren't on facebook, twitter, friendfeed, technorati, and delicious, should you be? Tips, tools and stories from the trenches from three people who focus on online engagement and have more links, friends and followers than some small countries have citizens.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. It eventually garnered 45,000 users who took advantage of the easy-to-access tool to place reports.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2010

You can see the full slide deck here. I took measurement and since David Neff wore an apron and talked about kitchen tools and recipes, I riffed on cooking measuring techniques. I shared some learnings from my Birthday fundraiser on Twitter and Facebook. This started a twitter hashtag #squirrel.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

We've compiled a list of Tools and Resources to share with participants, and thought that you might enjoy seeing it as well. Update: The presentation slides are available on FivePaths. This is by no means a comprehensive list, so please add your suggestions in the comments! Hosting included) WordPress.org: [link] (Free software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

What reading level is your blog? Most NpTech blogs are high school level. ve already partnered with 50 non-profits, like Care2 , Greenpeace , and Amnesty International The question it raises for nonprofits is, join an existing network like Facebook or MySpace or build your own social network or combination? This is a must-read.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

Pitch to Your Website, E-newsletter, Blog, and Print Materials. This new page should then be linked near the e-newsletter subscribe option on your website and blog. Finally, there are icons for SMS that you can download and integrate with your social networking icons on your website and your blog. page on your mobile website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

One of the reasons I made a commitment to blogging about professional topics regularly was because I was inspired by Marnie’s nonprofit technology blog, ext. So making the audience part of the slide deck and inviting commentary surfaces the wisdom and knowledge in the room. 5: Make sure your content has a social life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

Here’s the official announcement on the Google Blog and review in the New York Times. Let’s consider the list of most used forms: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google+ (assuming all continues to go well), LinkedIn, FourSquare, Gowalla, StumbleUpon, Tumblr, and your own site. I found it overwhelming!

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

If you're considering revamping your website to include social elements like the Facebook Like button, streaming from YouTube, or adding information from a social site through its API, it can be overwhelming to know where to begin. Each category is exhibited by different tools, technology, and/or approaches. Authenticate. Open source.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 27, 2011

SlideRocket , the cloud-based tool for creating and sharing presentations, recently announced a new SlideRocket Player app for iPad. Like PowerPoint, SlideRocket lets you create customized slides with text, images, and media. You can also share your live Twitter feed, Facebook page, and Flickr. Cloud-Based and Offline Access.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

One of the slides that struck me was a map that look at the full range of their activities offline and online (including social media) using two data points (numbers of people and ladder of engagement ). The levels of engagement included: stranger, friend, supporter, member, activist and leader. How to weave the two in order to scale.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Read Andrew's blog post , which explains more about the importance of analyzing your audience. View the session recording or download the slides to learn more. There are free tools that can help you identify broken links, inaccessible pages, and content most and least viewed. Audience Analysis. Create a Visual Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

My content on Slideshare can easily be published here on my blog or by anyone else anyplace else! For example, I share them on my welcome tab on my Facebook Page and on my LinkedIn profile. We set up a group in Slideshare to share and remix our slide presentations. (4) I don’t have be a networked silo! (2) 6) Training.

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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. Blogging Behind the Nonprofit Firewall: ROI Approach.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

There were interesting conversations at every turn and I also had requests to share my notes and slides. Below, you can find my full speech and slides, as well as links to address questions and requests from many of those I met with. And in each of these we will talk a bit about tools, tactics and strategies. Analog Tools.

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