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Amy Sample Ward, Community Builder and Nptechie: How I Have Fun and Do Good

Have Fun - Do Good

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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December 2010 Community Builder’s Chat Wrap-up #CommBuild

Amy Sample Ward

Laura Norvig shared the guidelines used for their email listserv: E-mail discussion lists hosted by the Resource Center are not moderated. And Claire Sale shared the British Red Cross guidelines: The British Red Cross values comments both complimentary and critical. Read the full transcript here!

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Seven Ways to Make Sure Your Blog Gets Noticed

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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The Networked Nonprofit – #10NTC

Amy Sample Ward

Wendy was hired “to make the bloggers go away.&# Fast forward to 2009, Wendy led a process internally to create a social media guidelines and operational handbook. Operational guidelines need to be specific and include examples! Staff started to see the value in social media and it led to adoption of tools. Transparency.

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Guest Post: My tips to Have Fun * Do Good

Amy Sample Ward

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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Nonprofit Blogging and Social Networking Policies: Examples?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Recommend by LG Davitian : See Sample Policies in Appendix. Guidelines for Easter Seals Bloggers. Updates from Twitter: Ckreutz points to his del.icio.us blogging policy links from companies including: opera , interanet , sun , and IBM. Joitske points to this blog post on blogging policies. Update: I remembered! Be Responsible.

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NpTech Tag: Change.org To Launch White-Label Social Network for Nonprofits, GeekToys that Give Geekbumps, and Blog Readability

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Allan Benamer responded this week with some suggested guidelines for nonprofits to use for disclosure of security breaches Check this out! Amy Sample Ward has an interesting take on adoption issues as related to micro-media tools. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.