Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. Below is the live blog or the archive of the live blog. The internet connection here is such that I don’t think a live blog portal will sustain itself. Can’t wait!

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2009

You can read the post and participation in the conversation on the SSIR blog here! The piece is reposted below: Have we replicated our offline social dynamics and barriers online? MySpace has become the ghetto of the digital landscape,” Ms. Did you consider MySpace ? I believe we have, and so does Danah Boyd.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review is up on the opinion blog – you can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR blog or read the full post below. But if they congregate online, on a community news site or blog network, join them in conversation there. It’s the same with any platform.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

Here is a short list of innovations that happened after online giving began in 1999: Airbnb, Android, Bitcoin, Chrome, Dropbox, Etsy, Facebook, Github, Hashtags, iPod, iPhone, iPad, jQuery, Kindle, LinkedIn, MySpace, Netflix, Oculus Rift, Pinterest, Reddit, Slack, Tesla, Twitter, USB Flash Drive, Venmo, Wii, Xbox, YouTube, and the Zettabyte.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Posted on Stanford Social Innovation Review’s Opinion blog. Amongst 11-25 year olds, Facebook is trailed by Bebo (28%), MySpace (25%), Twitter (12%), MSN (9%), YouTube (2%) and “other” (4%). does it give your contact information outside of the social network (website, email, blog, or address)? Visit the original post here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Blog: taprootfoundation.org/blog. Megan: MySpace was probably our first introduction to social media, but not sure the year we created the account. Dupe: I love our blog – I has surprisingly become one of the strongest presence on our website. Website: www.taprootfoundation.org. Twitter: twitter.com/taprootfound.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2007

Today I got an email about Mypacis - a word play on myspace and peace? It would be great to know what you and your blog readers think about this. How can online blogging tools etc. and offline communication be bridged, to reach more people? A couple of bits and pieces to blog and possibly check out later.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2008

The Brains On Fire blog tell us why it is so important to be prepared before you launch an online community effort: Online communities are popping up everywhere. Ninety-two percent of word of mouth happens offline. So make sure the online supports the offline and vise versa. Ask for a show of hands, who has heard of Myspace?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

Now the online channel has breathed new life into this surging wave and brought with it Facebook events, Myspace groups, Razoo causes, BBC News feeds updated real-time, Twitter posts about Wear A Red Shirt This Friday For Burma and countless IMs??? from friends telling friends telling friends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Tom and Cecile shared a rich story about culture change, loosing control, building relationships, story telling, multi-channel strategies, engagement techniques, online/offline metrics, and more. Duct Tape Marketing blog has an interesting post called " Engaging Content Creates Engagement " which gets at connection. We help guide it."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

re doing offline. Heather from Diosa who works on MySpace shared this: On MySpace you can use an individual profile as a nonprofit profile. pretty much anything goes on MySpace so our online efforts dovetail with what we???re Something to lobby Facebook for, and we at NTEN are in touch with them about this already.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2009

Photo by Cell105 Note from Beth: Last week, I hunted down the nonprofit panel proposals for SXSW including one submitted by me on crowdsourcing social change (see the NTEN blog post ). They are used to text messaging, MySpace, Facebook, get-in, get-out, instant gratification. both offline and online. Ali Cherry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2008

MySpace), subscribing, forwarding and/or learning. An easy action involves blogging, signing petitions, protesting and/or wearing a badge/shirt/wristband. A specific action involves donating, volunteering, finding events to attend, downloading and using online materials offline and/or creating and uploading video/images.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2009

I started blogging in 2001 with my very first 'blog' on Diaryland. I get to use sites like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace for a living! Secret: The most powerful social networking secret I have is to network offline just as much as you network online. I believe that the companies who exude personality come out on top.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

That's when I was working with the New York Foundation for the Arts on its technology capacity building programs, including offline/online workshops for online skill building called SpiderSchool. You can follow her adventures in Afghanistan on her blog. I finally got to meet Jayne about a year at the netsquared conference.

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Care2

JUNE 5, 2009

Websites like Facebook, MySpace and YouTube are among the top 10 most trafficked sites in the US. Encourage your offline members to donate online so you can capture their email addresses. Use email appends to match your offline donors with their email addresses. Tens of millions of people are doing business online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

I'm live blogging this panel from the Making Media Connections Conference. All live blogging disclaimers apply. You already know Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn et al???now Go where the people are - if they are offline - help them get connected. Twitter - micro blogging tool. Use this to communicate with your children.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Also posted on the Frogloop blog for nonprofits here. A couple of examples: GreenPeace didn’t have everything they needed to conduct an email campaign so they set up a Myspace profile. They were able to use the platform for organizing offline events, finding and collaborating with volunteer organizers, and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. "Laura is not creating media, as the Social Source blog suggests one ought, to lure you into her site. The media here IS the service. So how do we propose to pay for it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Conference Tag: CU08 ConnectingUp Conference Warning: I am live blogging these notes as the conference unfolds. There are offline ways to do it. They will be using Skype, Second Life, Facebook, and MySpace. You shouldn't have a blog for the sake of having a blog because you'll have content. More Flickr Photos here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Blogging: 10 Hours Weekly. Niche Networks and Early Adoption (Instagram, Tumblr, Ning, Change.org, Care2, Wiser Earth, BlackPlanet, Quepasa, New Myspace): 5-10 Hours Weekly. Chapter 2 :: What About Myspace? A New Myspace has launched. Chapter 7 :: Add Share Functionality to Your Blog. LinkedIn: 5 Hours Weekly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Blogging: 10 Hours Weekly. Niche Networks and Early Adoption (Instagram, Tumblr, Ning, Change.org, Care2, Wiser Earth, BlackPlanet, Quepasa, New Myspace): 5-10 Hours Weekly. Chapter 2 :: What About Myspace? A New Myspace has launched. Chapter 7 :: Add Share Functionality to Your Blog. LinkedIn: 5 Hours Weekly.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Emily Riley from Forrester Research and Beth Kanter from Beth’s Blog both gave great presentations that really complimented each other. I will say that there are regulations that relate well to offline consumer relationships that don’t apply well online. They have published their commenting policy on the site.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

And even blogs, which allow for comments, can be brochureware, just pretty words that are meant to tell the world how great and invincible the group is, not letting people inside to help figure out strategy and even struggle with the hard questions all organizations face. How can offline and online approaches coexist?

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NetWits

JUNE 7, 2011

This study reveals that 31% of website referrals are from the “sharing&# of your content; including social networks, blogs, and email–and bookmarks. Takeaway: Public social networks, such as Twitter and blogs, have a higher number of clicks per link than private networks, such as Facebook and email. 2) Search is Still King.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. e-Newsletter. 2dCode :: 2d-code.co.uk. Based in the U.K., 360 Panorama :: occipital.com/360/app.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day (worldwide) More than 20 million users update their statuses at least once each day More than 4 million users become fans of Pages each day A couple of examples: GreenPeace didnt have everything they needed to conduct an email campaign so they set up a Myspace profile.

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See3

AUGUST 6, 2007

drinkingliberally.com which is online and offline one-to-many. Meet people where they are, don’t make MySpace people come to Facebook or try to create groups that cross network platforms. Greenpeace has 65,000 friends in MySpace. Common Story – we have to be on the same page (eg. Sorry Everybody ) 3. wikipedia b.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2007

These individuals know the power of personal fundraising offline. Now that evangelizing has become as simple as posting a widget on a MySpace or Facebook page, they are promoting causes. What is starting to happen now is the organization where I serve on the board, I've been asked - think you can raise this money on your blog?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. e-Newsletter. 2dCode :: 2d-code.co.uk. Based in the U.K., 360 Panorama :: occipital.com/360/app.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. e-Newsletter. 2dCode :: 2d-code.co.uk. Based in the U.K., 360 Panorama :: occipital.com/360/app.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. e-Newsletter. 2dCode :: 2d-code.co.uk. Based in the U.K., 360 Panorama :: occipital.com/360/app.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

What websites were your visitors on right before they visited your site [Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace]? Are you building community on Twitter or just pushing out press releases and blog posts [that in time people start to ignore]? End-of-Year print appeal, e-newsletter, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Linkedn, YouTube?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. e-Newsletter. 2dCode :: 2d-code.co.uk. Based in the U.K., 360 Panorama :: occipital.com/360/app.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

The two top posts of the week were about Twitter and MySpace, both Web2.0 Face-to-Face Trumps Twitter, Blogs, Podcasts, Video. The other big story in Kikono was Best Practices in MySpace pointed to by Solidariti blog. Traditional offline/online fundraising techniques still, of course, work. technologies.

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