Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

These are my links for February 11th through February 19th: Fundraising Kit from Red Nose Day - Check out this fundraising kit from Red Nose Day, complete with ideas, case studies, example forms and more! Tags: roundup bookmarks. Hat tip to Tessy Britton! " Beyonce, Bacon and Trombones = Donate Now!

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 12, 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). Twitter, Facebook and Google tools have already been used for market research, sales predictions and targeted advertising.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

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). – "Despite the enormous popularity of peer-to-peer social networking, the adoption cycle for branded online communities has been relatively slow.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 9, 2009

Check out this example from Refugee Week that asks supporters to change their profile pictures on their online profiles to show solidarity and spread the message. Social Networks Around the World - Check out this great visualization of users on social networks around the world from ReadWriteWeb.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 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). Do you have examples on this topic, has this happened to you? Do you have insurance? .""

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 23, 2009

Aardvark - Take a look at this tool that leverages the extended networks we all have to get answers to questions that you may not know who to ask, but your network does! Exploring Social Media for Social Good #FindingTheGood - Have you been following Mashable's Summer of Social Good? What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2011

I’ve been experimenting with Scoop.It , a bookmarking and curation tool. also lets you easily share the gems you find selectively to other social networks. There is also a social aspect – you can “follow&# other Scoop.It Sue Anne Reed’s &# Trail Blazers for Good &#.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Whether you or not you understand how to use tags, chances are you have come across them if you have ever used blogs, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, or bookmarking sites such as Delicious. Blogs, photos, video, and bookmarks can benefit from the use of many tags when they are uploaded. The campaign.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Online social networking was just being born. The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. social bookmarking (now called Delicious ) by using their APIs on the site. (An An example of an API is when you put a Bing or Google Map on your website.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Learn to use the tools that help you measure success. Don't set up a presence on every social network in the world all at once. . For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2013

An RSS reader is an essential tool for keeping up with current news and the issues that affect or influence your organization. Social media and community staff rely on RSS readers to find interesting and share-worthy articles for Facebook or Twitter. praised Digg Reader for its clean, minimal design and rich social media features.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

One of the most common questions I'm asked as a social media consultant is, "Which tool is the best?" If you have a do-good project, or a small nonprofit that you want to promote, fundraise for, or build an online community around using social media, your first step is to create a plan. What social media tool(s) should I use?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

A couple of takeaways from Wendy: First thing every morning, she spends a couple of hours listening - reviewing hundreds of mentions that have been captured in their monitoring radar using a variety of free and professional tools, including Radian 6. One of the values of a professional tool is that it saves a lot of time in the work flow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

The tools are changing, so if you've settled into one way of using a particular social media tool or set of tools, don't set yourself on automatic pilot. Are you using the social media tools most efficiently and effectively given the environment , the changes in the tools, and your goals? Take Breaks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

It includes case studies, tools, and how-tos. Yet another great example of using Web2.0 tools to capture and share knowledge from nonprofit gatherings. tools into your PR messaging? Head right over to the Social Media Press Release Template from Shift Communications and reviewed by the Getting Attention Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2011

I want to be able to bookmark or pick things out from the stream that I want to go back to so the items don’t get lost. Also, there’s search yet. For example, not all my colleagues in Cambodia got on and some are feeling left out by the exclusiveness of the beta process. Source: Quick Draw Comics - John Weeks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Your organization has identified a social media objective, audience, strategy, tools, measurement, and experiment. You know your first step is listening, but before you jump into a river of conversations and keywords and even before you touch the tools, you need to be ready to listen. Social Mention. Social Mention.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Through these simple steps and reviewing Savvy Social Media Webinar you will be armed with the tools and resources needed to create your next social media strategy with confidence. Focus on the social channels that work with your brand. When it comes to social, you can’t do it all. Use the tools provided.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The first reason is the excessive focus on specific social media tools. Many first-timers are introduced to social media via specific tools. Many ’social media experts’ who are practitioners rather than thinkers also focus on specific tools. The 4Cs Social Media Framework. The First C: Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Election Day Debriefs What we can learn about online politics from the 2006 Campaigns from e-politics offers some lessons and takeaways about social networking and other traditional technology tools deployed for political campaigns. And here's another "vertical" video host -- Capitol Hill Broadcasting Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

The array of social media can appear to be very complex. But social media and social networks respond to the same needs that drive people; the need to connect with one another in meaningful ways through conversation. I was acting like a self-absorbed three-year-old on a trampoline – “Look at me! Look at me!”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. With one billion active monthly users, Instagram is a very powerful social network used by nonprofits worldwide. For examples of text-free avatars, see the United Way of Southwest Michigan and Amnesty International : Instagram Bios. Write Good Captions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Transparency and Social Media: Dealing with Criticism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

Our main goal is to help you learn how to leverage our technology and the tools that make up social media. Without great content, the following tactics and tools are limited at best. Put these tools in place. Use a social bookmarking plug-in like Add This so people who like your work can easily share with their network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Another interesting post about going from blogging for professional development to Social Networking as professional development. The Digital Diner has an excellent post on photo management tools and the limits of consumer projects in an enterprise setting. Update your bookmarks: [link]. Tools and How They're Used.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

re out there in the wilderness doing our grassroots thing, using tools like Flickr, Del.icio.us, YouTube, etc. There are people who are already bookmarking particular resources. Use the contact and social networking tools built into the tools to find them and connect with them. Connect with natural behavior.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2006

In between, I attended WoolfCamp , had lunch with Gliteratica and the good folks at TechSoup, got a chance to hangout with Seth and Erin, assisted Chris Heuer with a BrainJam , co-lead a workshop on social networking tools with Kaliya Hamlin , met Juanita Brown of World Cafe and many many more extraordinary people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I'm really glad that she sent me this email because I had bookmarked one of her recent commentaries on nonprofits and online social networking. Her piece begins with a simple definition of online social networking tools and asks: What's the appeal? social media, or social networking tools.

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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!" 60) Search « Care2.com 60) Search « Care2.com Use with care!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

So I developed some information consumption tools and habits that would scale well with the rapidly increasing volume of new material coming my way everyday. Most importantly, it remains a tool for staying informed and for reflection. I think perhaps the Social Ecology experience has made me cautious about tool promotion.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 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!" But on MySpace, it is kind of tricky to get it there.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 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!" But on MySpace, it is kind of tricky to get it there.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 26, 2007

I’m not talking about plastic fish that sing along with your iPod (HIGHLY annoying), electric knives, or a subscription to the latest web-based social network cum parallel reality. In most cases, the hype that precedes a tool is so overwhelming that its functional value is lost in its charm appeal.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

These are arguably the most time-consuming of the "cheap" time options, but if you have staff members who are already using these social networks, you can quickly broadcast out to a large group of people (like Twitter) at infrequent points, and provide a place for that group to meet and interact with each other. ventures?

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 20, 2009

Social media brings thousands of ppl w/diabetes together at the SAME time | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org - Manny Hernandez (@askmanny on Twitter), the creator of TuDiabetes.com has shared a great case study on the NetSquared Community Blog about how they have used social media tools to bring a community together.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. That said, to be alerted of new low-cost or free resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 e-Newsletter. e-Newsletter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. That said, to be alerted of new low-cost or free resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 Clipix makes bookmarking a.k.a.

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