Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 25, 2010

My friend and engaging community leader for all those looking to have fun while improving the world, Britt Bravo, is doing a little experiment and asking a handful of bloggers to write short guest posts about how they have fun and do good. I’m thrilled to be included in the line-up! Sharing is caring, so they say!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

Like many of you, when Facebook unveiled the new brand page guidelines – I was stressed out. With a big training project in the Middle East less than a week away, I was short on time. And, if you’re photoshop and graphically challenged, making the switch to the new brand page format could cause a double whammy of panic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2012

Over the last six years since our founding, MomsRising has worked with hundreds of bloggers and has learned how to strategically use social media to ensure that key audiences don’t miss compelling posts. We started by proactively reaching out to bloggers of color to participate in the blog carnival.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2009

It does help to have a general philosophy and guidelines might help. It's funny, one of my most popular and highly rated posts was about celebrating my 22nd wedding anniversary and sharing advice about blogger cultivation. And, aside from Wendy Harman's "Don't embarrass your mother rule," there the balancing act.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

These are simply a guidelines to help think through what to measure – or what metrics that will help your organization demonstrate progress towards an objective. . The story is shared via an intermediary – journalists, bloggers, or influencers: Metrics reflecting the sharing of the message with the target audience.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 25, 2010

T he fourth guest post in my have fun, do good blogger series is by Amy Sample Ward. Amy is a blogger and trainer focused on supporting and educating organizations and changemakers in the use of evolving technologies that cultivate and engage communities. Happy Monday, Have Fun, Do Gooders! Sharing is caring, so they say!

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Care2

AUGUST 17, 2011

You convinced the bigwigs to let you start a blog for your organization, you recruited peers to join you as staff bloggers, you’ve set clear guidelines , and shared some creative blog post ideas for your staff to draw from. Blogger List. While you’re at it you send it to your blogger contacts.

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Care2

JULY 18, 2011

You've designed and built your blog, signed some of the staff on to help, laid out your blogging guidelines , and even engaged some volunteer blog contributors. Here are some event post ideas you can borrow and adapt to get your bloggers unstuck. It seems like smooth sailing until. "I I have nothing to write about!".

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Disclaimer: I shall start this post by stating that the internal views of this article are that of the blogger himself and not Gyrus Systems as an entity. Establish an LMS team to evaluate all the parameters you would like to assign roles in the system and focus on the LMS offerings that are able to adhere to your stringent guideline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2008

The foundation will provide transparency and operational guidelines around technology, documentation, intellectual property, and other issues related to the evolution of the OpenSocial platform, while also ensuring all stakeholders share influence over its future direction. s also a Blogger blog for OpenSocial. a public benefit???)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2008

I actually got a chance to meet Ben face-to-face at a recent Berkman Center Thursday Bloggers meetup. I tried for a balance between not being prescriptive and laying out some guidelines. Benjamin Greenberg works for Physicians for Human Rights but I "met" him on Facebook through a mutual friend, Marian.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

This post was contributed by Nate Solloway, a new guest blogger to our team. Virtualizing the standalone servers in our server room proved to be consistent with the green IT guidelines that are starting to trickle down to even the smallest organizations.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

Should your organization's blog have editorial guidelines? Provide rss feeds to the whole blog, and to individual bloggers' feeds so readers have a choice of how they want to subscribe. The interns can be contributing bloggers, but they shouldn't be the lead blogger. Talk to other nonprofits whose blogs you respect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

Here's a story from behind the firewall of a large nonprofit organization - the names and particulars have been changed - but here's how the blogging process unfolded: As the organization's blogger, I facilitated creating the policy. Laying down rules makes everyone think they have more control and it helped everyone to feel better.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2005

I went to the Thursday Night Berkman Blogger Meeting and I saw this woman who looked vaguely familiar - it was Jory!! People were interested in the speaker guidelines. That's Jill Fallon of Estate Legacy Vaults, Inc. Jill is from Boston and she live-blogged the Political Blogging session. The notes are here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Free software, but expensive in terms of your time -Set out with minimal (achievable) goals and guidelines (policy) They differed in the audience building strategy and definition. Generally I wrote an honest comment and respond to what the blogger wrote. Does your organization give you any guidelines to your writers?

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Forum One

APRIL 28, 2010

Empower stakeholders, provide training and writing guidelines, as well as incentives for their contributions. In my presentation, I looked at ways organizations need to change the way they do business and generate content in order to facilitate a storytelling culture, namely: Ensure organizational backing from senior management.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

There are a number of media outlets you can use to publicize your program, including: TV or radio stations Newspapers Magazines Local bloggers or social media influencers. Frame your need for volunteers as a story that reporters or bloggers can tell and share with their audiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

Guidelines for Easter Seals Bloggers. However, it is in Easter Seals??? interest that staff and volunteers understand the responsibilities in discussing Easter Seals in the public square known as the World Wide Web. Be Responsible.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

I was starting to hear more and more about the service (from bloggers and early adopters like Beth Kanter and others), and simultaneously was launching a new website for Wellstone Action that we wanted to be more interactive, and which included a blog. DZ: Whats your Twitter "plan," so to speak-- what are your guidelines for tweeting?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 17, 2005

If there are any readers out there who want to start a blog for themselves, here are my basic, "accidental techie" guidelines. I use Blogger , because it is free! If I had known I would like blogging so much, I would have set up a Typepad account, because it has more features, but Blogger is just fine and it's a bargain!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2005

The photo above is the cubicle and workspace of Eric Williams who is a new media designer at the Walker Art Center and one of the staff bloggers who contributes to the Walker New Media Initiative Blog. Has the Walker developed formal guidelines for your posts to the blogs? We started blogging to give a online to a lot of different.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2005

Since your blog is an organizational blog and not a personal one, do have any particular organizational guidelines you must follow? I try to get them to post interesting stories or links and they haven't really picked it up yet. I feel pretty free to post whatever is interesting that I find.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Allan Benamer responded this week with some suggested guidelines for nonprofits to use for disclosure of security breaches Check this out! Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. The NOSI Choosing and Using Free and Open Source primer is on the ICT Hub Knowledgebase!

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2007

Ironically, floor staff may be the MOST appropriate museum bloggers. And others set basic guidelines and then step away. It's also about trusting our own staff and colleagues to act responsibly when given an opportunity to join the museum mouthpiece. And not just the directors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation. When you take the time to comment on a post, you become part of the blogger's community and if you are writing a blog, they will most definitely read your post and perhaps become a reader of your blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

They run contests, but they are sure to follow Facebook Guidelines. ( How Networked Nonprofits Use Facebook. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Introduction. See these two posts for more explanation.). Networked Nonprofits promote their Facebook presence through all channels. MIDEA member organizations on Facebook [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

20 Different Formats by Pro Blogger. As a one-person shop, I use guest bloggers throughout the year, especially when I need to take a vacation! As a one-person shop, I use guest bloggers throughout the year, especially when I need to take a vacation! 50 Social Media Content Ideas from Convio.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Last week, I partnered with nonprofit communications specialist and Getting Attention blogger Nancy Schwartz to tackle these questions, share guidelines, and highlight case studies on using social media tools to build buzz (and reach) via a webinar for the Communications Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

" Through bloggers , we learn that like it did for an older version of SnagIt, TechSmith is offering a free download for an older version of Camtasia, the gold standard of screencasting editing and capture software. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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