Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Debra Askanase: I know that my blogger colleague W. Michelle: what also many times works with big bosses is a sentence: “But youll have something your competition do not have.&#. Time: 4 pm EST (1 hour). Ching Ya has a “member of the month&# that she highlights on a custom FB tab. Here it is: [link].

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

It’s Time to Focus on Volunteers’ Results - Philanthropy.com - Evan Hochberg has a terrific post on Philanthropy.com starting an important conversation on what to do about all this focus on volunteering and service. "Government, The panel had some great minds, including Allison Fine, Andrew Rasiej, and Deanna Zandt.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2009

This is my first time attending the huge event and I’m already quite overwhelmed by all the people and conversations converging around me. I’m going to miss the tail end of Tuesday for my flight home…but hope to hear all about what I miss from all the other bloggers! I’m here in Austin, TX, for SXSW Interactive.

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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 like to find ways either in real-time, or after a project, to share.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Wendy was hired “to make the bloggers go away.&# They are anchored to the ocean floor, they let in 20 thousand times their weight of water through them every day, and they hold the nutrients from the water. Radical transparency: all naked all the time. Three Themes from the Book: 1. Social Culture.

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Network Nonprofit Guidelines Social Media 173

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2009

It’s soft and maliable and relative, pretty much all of the time. You also have a volunteer program for middle and high school students to work with the children in after-school time in lieu of child care, but find that the current partners you have in the community don’t work for attracting new volunteers to participate.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 10, 2010

We’re hoping to inspire 53 bloggers to publish a post today that shares how Beth has impacted his/her work and shares Beth’s birthday wish with his/her blog audience. (Of She shares those notes in real time (or as near as she can). How does it work? She takes notes, constantly. I’m working on it.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2009

Adding PayPal, the most popular online payment service, has been a frequent request from our users for some time, so we’re really pleased to have integrated it into our donation process and become the only online fundraising platform in the UK to do so."

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Most of the time, if someone has something bad to say, other community members will step up to right the remark before you even have a chance! Before you jump in the car and hit the open road, you want to take the time to plan where you’ll go, and what you need. Multimedia Storytelling. Think blogs are boring? MoveableType.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 13, 2009

Join hosts, John Haydon , social media coach for nonprofits, and blogger and internet marketing consultant, Chris Garrett , as they demonstrate how to get started with social media and the value this can bring your organization. Register now for the live webinar, Wednesday, April 15th, 9 AM Pacific Standard Time.

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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. There you go! About Net2 Think Tank.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

And the third is on what happens when you open up the process with real-time transparency. At the same time, though, the Pew study also sees some hints that new forms of civic engagement through social media services could soon change this pattern." Let me see if I can combine the threads." " Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 8, 2009

" Traveling Geeks - "The Traveling Geeks are an informal group of technology influencers and bloggers rooted chiefly in the San Francisco Bay Area. will screen the best of the over 130 documentaries, PSAs, shorts and feature length films submitted to the festival." " Facebook Users Are Getting Older.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 23, 2009

Time: Networking and dinner begins at 6:00pm. Remotely Twittering guest: Amy Sample Ward | Consultant and Blogger | www.amysampleward.org (@ amyrsward ). iE Boston Marketing and TiE Boston Social Entrepreneurs present: The 140-Character Mission: How Social Media Revolutionizes Social Entrepreneurship. Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2009.

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Boston Massachusetts Social Media Broadcast 100

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

83 percent currently reach out to bloggers and the remaining 17 percent plan to in the future. Real-time is just as important. Twitter is part of the real-time Web, meaning it enables people to communicate, share information, spread news, and distribute links in “real-time&# as it happens. What do you think?

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Conversation Effective PDF Social Media 114

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2011

It’s time we stop blindly believing in mythology. Other bloggers are also more likely to link to your blog posts than the home page (or services page) of your website, and those links can bring both referred traffic and a higher ranking on search engines. I’m not saying don’t give.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 24, 2010

She’s a blogger, trainer, coach, and consultant. In 2007 I started to transition away from consulting for a few clients at a time to more writing, online training, and public speaking, which lets me connect with thousands of nonprofits every year. From there, I write a weekly e-newsletter and I blog a couple of times a week.

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Interview Marketing Guide Attitude 140

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Blog Action Day is an annual event held every October 15 that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. At the time of this posting, there are already 9,340 blogs contributing to Climate Change conversations today in 150 countries.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2010

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to leave a comment here or email me any time. —– More about Matt: Matt Cheuvront is the founder of MATTCHEVY – a Chicago-based online marketing consultancy and web design firm.

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Collaboration Chicago Comment Slides 129

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2009

Because of search, it no longer matters whether you are a blogger or a company, because search will sift the most active conversations to the top. Because of search, it no longer matters how many photos we post online or where we post them, because search can filter out our tags and codes.

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Search Twitter Google Nonprofit 100

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

By providing tools and support for people with ideas, the group hopes to empower Americans to change the world, one project at a time. Fundraiser and blogger Chuck English asserted that a tagline is nothing but a tool, and that approaching it otherwise diverts organizations from the critical work of strategy.

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Web Paypal Influence Teen 105

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2009

It looks like David Bernstein at the Volokh Conspiracy was the first major blogger to post about it, Monday at about 5pm, and AllFacebook’s Nick O’Neill tweeted about it two hours later. Here’s an excerpt from his post : Within a day his Facebook Haggadah was all over the web. and 22735 kilograms of CO2 per year.&#.

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Case Study ROI Facebook Studies 108

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

A first-of-its-kind Twitter widget that tracks tweets about nonprofits or social causes in real time. Socialbrite’s lead developer, Esteban Panzeri, just finished work on a Creative Commons plug-in that lets bloggers assign different licenses to different blog posts, which he is releasing to the WordPress community.

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Tools Change Los Angeles Social 100

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 20, 2009

Edward Harran is a blogger and nonprofit technologist I have connected with through NetSquared, this blog, and of course Twitter. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Below is the blog post from him, calling for help. He is based in Australia, a far way from San Francisco. So here I am. I need your help.

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NTEN Conference Digital Campaign 100

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Before exploring the questions around limitations and needs, I want to share a couple examples of things happening right now to remind us that even though it will take a lot of work, and honestly a good bit of time, that we are already moving. Have people heard of 350.org org before? Have you heard the number 350 parts per million?

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Build Community Technology Action 220

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

to which New York Times reporter Stephanie Strom tweeted back “No kidding.”. Just because you aren’t meeting offline, in real-time, in the same room with your supporters and the competitors in the ideablob competition, does not mean likewise that you do not need to know if the platform will even be around for your competition to finish.

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Myspace Causes Philanthropy Offline 108

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

44% said a few times per year, 12% once a month, 18% a few times a month, 14% once a week or more, 12% ones a year. The primary obstacle to volunteering being a lack of time. Email: asking for $50 or less with a very timely message. Engage your Millennials as guest bloggers. How often do Millennials volunteer?

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Research Donor Gift Leadership 224

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

The Rise Of Women In Tech | MBA Online – "It’s time for the old adage that women neither like nor do well in math and science be put to rest …The benefits for women who enter tech are hard to deny. They experience smaller wage gaps due to gender than women in other industries. ." " Where do you get your news?

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Web ROI Bookmarking Tech 137

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Annabelle Sreberny, Professor of Global Media and Communication, School of Oriental and African Studies (with special interest in Iran, bloggers & social media). This is politics – we need the good and the bad; the cyber army, the 10,000 bloggers claimed to be trained by the national guard, etc. Why the sense of solidarity?

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