Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2009

This month’s Net2 Think Tank question asks, “How do you stay up-to-date online?&# 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. Finding Feeds. Twitter Search.

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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). Is your organization considered a content curator? " Pew: Open government is tied to higher levels of community satisfaction | Gov 2.0:

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 22, 2009

When all is said and done, the last place I seem to share content that interests me is here. I’m not alone…it seems many formerly active bloggers are now sharing most of their content everywhere but a traditional blog. It’s easy to get content in. Google agrees: Click to view large. Easy to share out.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

APRIL 20, 2020

This could include blog and website content, social media updates, press releases, email marketing, and so on. They are often stand alone campaigns that you do one time for a very specific purpose. They post and publish certain types of content with decent regularity. Remarkables is a term from Seth Godin.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 22, 2009

When all is said and done, the last place I seem to share content that interests me is here. seems many formerly active bloggers are now sharing most of their content everywhere but a traditional blog. Google agrees: I think I need to move to a new server, and I don't have the time or energy to focus on the change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2008

Flickr Photo by Veesees Elise Bauer , a food blogger who writes Simple Recipes. She has 1,000,000 feed readers. She looks at traffic building in three elements: content, community, and technology that you use to support. She looks at traffic building in three elements: content, community, and technology that you use to support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

Today I discovered Cityzenjane's blog and her i_like_to_watch tag/delicious rss feed via a comment to one of my blog posts. " Cityzenjane's goal for this feed is to provide you with content that will inspire you to make a great green future. What is your interest in viral video and why did you start that feed?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 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). It’s time we stop blindly believing in mythology. It’s time we stop blindly believing in mythology.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 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). 3 principles for reporters and bloggers in a networked era | Online Journalism Blog – I totally agree that context is just as important as content. "Dina

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Winner of the Creative Commons 2006 Photo Schwag Contest I believe in setting my content free. People can add and embellish your content and if you have access to the remix, it can give you new ideas. now for four years because it is simple, direct, and easy. "You are free to use the content, just me credit and/or a link."

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Once we hit November and we’ve gotten through Halloween, Daylight Savings Time, and the first frost, it’s officially the holiday season – and for nonprofits, that means it’s also time for year-end giving campaigns. The reason is twofold: first, it makes sense to align with the holiday season, a time of generosity and giving back.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 6, 2011

Maria Rainier , Freelance Writer & Blogger. Through pages, you can publish content that will appear in the main news feed, send messages and other notifications to a large list of fans, and create interactive content. Add Unique, Interactive Content. Be sure to update your page regularly with engaging content.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

This very long post has been a long-time coming for so many reasons. At a training last week with a lot of long-time Facebook Admins in the room, I saw much head-nodding and eyes rolling. I think the time has come for nonprofits to examine Facebook a little deeper. It’s time for them to give back.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

Some newbie spammer posted a message on my site that shows the contents of their spam merge database. In my opinion|Personally|In my view}, if all {webmasters|site owners|website owners|web owners} and bloggers made good content as you did, the {internet|net|web} will be {much more|a lot more} useful than ever before.|

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

A lot of nonprofit blogs have come on the scene in the year between these events and I feel like it is time to revise and update my "10 Ways" post to include not only ways that nonprofits can use blogs, but also engage bloggers to support their cause. 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause 1.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 20, 2018

Deliver your releases to community organizations, local bloggers who care about your cause and national publishers that align with your mission and vision. These types of content not only establish you as a leader in the nonprofit space, but also identify you as an organization that cares deeply about your local community and its needs.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

In most cases, the audience wasn’t asking about money: they were asking about time. As one woman put it, “spending time on this means time staff isn’t spending on other work.” So in the interest of hers, yours, and everyone else’s time, here’s a rundown on what I see as the real time costs of a variety of Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

On a listserv the other day, Laura Quinn at Idealware asked if "Visit" or "Click" data on Feedburner were useful metrics to track to assess reader interest in your blog content. I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). Did anything surprise you?

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 1, 2009

Contrary to what the bloggers want you to believe, email is not dead. Way more folks subscribe to C3’s content via email as compared to Facebook, Twitter and RSS feeds combined. I’ve been using Campaign Monitor to test new templates, but there’s a small per-test cost and it’s time consuming.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 10, 2007

Not only will this give you a feel for the different styles of blogs, but it will also provide content for some of your first blog posts. A natural person to be the staff blogger is whoever writes the organization's newsletter or e-newsletter. Newsreaders are my top choice. Post consistently. Blogging is part of social media.

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NTEN

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. Finding Feeds. Netvibes will let you track all kinds of things online, all by using RSS feeds or ready-built widgets. Twitter Search.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Here’s the article from today’s New York Times. My colleague, Evone Heyning, calls this “ more sticky interactions.&# It will also be interesting to track how Jumo helps organizations and causes attract new supporters and what is required in terms of time commitment and strategy to be successful.

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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. But, a top ten post would focus on the content itself - and also jump start some thinking that I need to do for a redesign of this blog. Bloggers Who Create Community Award.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 17, 2016

In modern times, there is not a day that goes by in which I forego attempting to learn from my peers. Bloggers just like myself are sitting there tormenting their brains in an effort to say things that impact you more than the person before them.

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 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!" spheres -- driving your organizations content deep into the blogosphere. 60) Search « Care2.com

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2007

Work out who your target audience is and write your content exclusively for them. If time is a problem, post less. Put your feed button above the fold. ve just read a value-packed post and are feeling most positive about your content. Laura Scott adds a 5th point - offer full feed posts. By doing so, you???re

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

How much time, staff and money do you have to put into setting up your blog, writing your blog, answering comments, reading other blogs, and leaving comments on other blogs? Should the content be appropriate to your audience? The interns can be contributing bloggers, but they shouldn't be the lead blogger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

We want to distinguish the salon from the informal knowledge sharing that happens daily on the web or behind pay walls by offering a regular synthesis of the stories, knowledge, tips, resources, and wisdom shared in real time in the salon. Other than benchmarking against yourself over time, are there sub-sector averages that we can look at?

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2014

NTEN committee members are the volunteers who work behind the scenes, contributing their expertise, time, and advice to help shape NTEN programming. Michaela Hackner, Project Director & Content Strategist, Forum One Communications. Dan Michel, Digital Marketing Manager, Feeding America. Emily Weinberg, Nonprofit Blogger.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

In fact, it can help provide content for both. If you've been posting on your organization's blog regularly, you'll have lots of content to pull from when you sit down to write your newsletter. It's been said that people need to see an advertisement seven times before they will buy.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Bonus Tip: Rather than email alerts, you can use a feed reader like Google Reader to collect all of your listening alerts and searches from Google, blog search engines and Twitter into one place. Google Reader will also suggest more relevant blog posts based on your feed subscriptions, all the better for listening. Choosing Keywords.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2008

As Geoff Livingston further notes on Social Media Club blog : "The time to for action is now, and in a year when many of us are suffering financial hardship, we can still make a difference. Blog Components There is also a bloggers kit and blogger outreach effort underway. In addition, it puts a story in your needs feed.

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Forum One

MARCH 1, 2009

I had a great time yesterday at Transparency Camp '09 in DC - kudos to Peter Corbett , and Gabriela Schneider and Clay Johnson and others at Sunlight Foundation , as well as others for catalyzing it. Twitter feed and Flickr pictures. There were folks there from NYC, west coast, and elsewhere, but about 2/3 were locals from DC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

An extension is actually good thing, gives us more time to look at all those projects! Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on. DEIdea Lounge blogger Melanie Coulson offers a roundup of Day 2, including some reflections on David Weinberger's Keynote.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

In fact, it can help provide content for both. If you've been posting on your organization's blog regularly, you'll have lots of content to pull from when you sit down to write your newsletter. It's been said that people need to see an advertisement seven times before they will buy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together. It's messy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

Our biggest challenge as bloggers was getting off the soap box and into a facilitation role. This diagram, credited to the “ New York Times via Ed Philp ,” (original source ) illustrates the flow of comments on a blog. It also returns the search results and you can grab an RSS feed as well. It searches for links on Twitter.

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