Amy Sample Ward

JULY 19, 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). We are hoping to understand what tools or practices appeal to different age groups online and how organizations can best target their efforts to those audiences.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

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). Target's data this year was drawn from 80 different nonprofit organizations, 38 million donors, 79 million gifts and $2.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2011

It is process o f organizing, filtering and “making sense of” information on the web and sharing the very best pieces of content that you’ve cherry picked with your network. In the post I referenced a video interview with Robert Scoble by Howard Rheingold that Mari Smith highlighted in a google + post.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 1, 2009

Do you have a group or use a fan page to create a community space for your organization on Facebook? Here are a few things to consider: are you listing organization or sector-related events within the group or fan page? Google Alerts. Spring cleaning definitely applies to your Google Alerts! Delicious / Bookmarks.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

She now uses Google Search, reads her news online, sends and receives email, and even uses Facebook to check-in with family and friends. These are the tools that I used to get my Grandmother started: Google Search - So simple! Getting Social. It was developed to provide a Social Network geared towards Mature Adults and Seniors.

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Tools Skype Netsquared Bookmarking 92

Care2

JULY 14, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Moderate* 7. Easy to Moderate* 9.

Marketing 70

Marketing Adwords Widget Listserv 70

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

The purpose is to call attention to the problem of Information Overload, how it impacts both individuals and organizations, and what can be done to lessen its impact. Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics.

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Awareness Tips Social Media RSS 100

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. Android, iOS, Web) is like a personal web desktop for your bookmarks and RSS feeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

WhosTalkin is a new social media search tool that makes it easy to search multiple social media sources. It has a clean interface where you quickly search, scan, and click through blogs, micro media, news, forums, social bookmarking sites, social networking sites, and other sources that are talking about you.

Tools 56

Tools RSS Bookmarking Feeds 56

Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Online social networking was just being born. They originally wanted to organize a conference to convene social innovators and social entrepreneurs on the nonprofit tech cutting edge to see what everyone was doing. The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Moderate* 7. Easy to Moderate* 9.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

What are people already saying about my cause, or organization? Search on Google , Google Blog Search , Technorati , Twitter Search , and Social Mention for your cause, the name of your organization (if you have one), and the URL of your website (if you have one). How much time do I have to spend on social media?

Social Media 74

Social Media Project Question Ning 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Social Media: Adoption, Strategy, and Measuring Success ZUP4Nonprofits has a two-part post ( pt. 2 ) that discusses how to lay the groundwork for board signoff on an organization's social media in initiatives. I Collaborate blog has a post about how to lobby for skype in your organization, if you're working internationally.

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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. Your organization may be skeptical about the value of listening through social media channels. Beth Kanter, Examples of How Listening Returns Value for Nonprofit Organizations. Google Reader.

Literacy 51

Literacy Technorati RSS Bookmarking 51

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

The goal is to encourage nonprofits to make New Year's resolutions to that help them more efficiently and effectively move people to support their organizations. There are many different options to executive a social media strategy, but only so much time. Don't set up a presence on every social network in the world all at once. .

Social Media 98

Social Media Media Tips Social 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

It gave me some reflection time away from the daily fast-paced, always moving forward world of social media. It gave me space to give social media use some mindful attention. What role does social media play in it? This is the listening and scanning I do. Her blog posts certainly get me to think!

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Reflection Professional Learning Network 97

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Nonprofit Tech for Good began as a “Nonprofit Organizations” Myspace Page in 2005. In the 10 years since the “Nonprofit Organizations” brand has expanded to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Tumblr, Storify, Flipboard, Periscope, and most recently Snapchat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Use your blog or twitter or whatever tool to solicit practical ideas on how to use social media to make connections. Set up Google Alerts to follow what's being said about your organization and cause online so that you can act on what's being said, join the conversation and build your community. Lisa Neal ) 2. Tyler Willis ) 7.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

Use Google Analytics (GA) to see things like how many unique visitors you’re getting, what content is being viewed the most, what keywords or phrases people are using to find you and where people are coming from when finding you. Check out: Google Analytics Maximized: Deeper Analysis, Higher ROI & You by Avinash Kaushik.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

See3 Blog writes about the advantages of the Convio Face App (integration with organization's Convio database) and the limitations (can only run one Facebook app at time). Which is worse, email overload or social networking fatigue. WSJ article " Will Social Features Make Email Sexy Again? Convio or Causes?

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

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!" How can your organization effectively brand itself and get on the radar?

Track 41

Track Social Media Media Advocacy 41

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. Twitter is the Second Highest Referral After Google.

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ROI Widget Metrics Cambodia 50

See3

OCTOBER 7, 2007

RSS feeds and blogs, article comments, social networks… it’s all increasingly important. Some of what they found was on the low end — such as 17% of people using shared bookmarks (sites such as Del.icio.us). Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Some user curate user generated content, by tagging it on social bookmarking websites, voting for it on social voting websites, commenting on it, or linking to it. Collective action can take the form of signing online petitions, fundraising, tele-calling, or organizing an offline protest or event.

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

Care2

MAY 21, 2009

“If you don't brand yourself, Google will brand you,&# says branding expert Sherry Beck Paprocki. How can your organization effectively brand itself and get on the radar? Tagging on social bookmarking sites like delicious, Digg, etc. Think about it. Earned media is comprised of coverage on: Blogs. Tweets on Twitter.

Track 41

Track Media Digg Bookmarking 41

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Phillip Smith has a thoughtful post called " Social tech meets the Social Innovation Generation " The Nonprofit Eye blog writes about leadership challenges in the nonprofit sector. Michele Martin points to a new feature in google news that can spark conversations. Social bookmarking in plain English!

Nptech 50

Nptech Language Summary Advocacy 50

Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Share your expertise Think about all of the brainpower and expertise within your organization's staff, board and volunteers. Example: Volunteer Match's Engaging Volunteers blog is running a series about Boomer Engagement: Build Your Organization's Capacity, Even in Times of Scarcity. What "ways" am I missing? allow comments.

Green 42

Green San Francisco Tennessee Nonprofit 42

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. Finally, add the category of “nonprofit organization” under Edit Profile > Category. Write Good Captions.

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Practice Nonprofit Avatar Social Media 363

Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

Go to Technorati or Google Blog Search and put the name of your museum (or exhibit, or program, or.) What you need is organization, interesting content, a person who can edit audio (which you can do for free with Audacity ), and a place to post it. Bookmark your hour each week and start wading in. ventures?

Web 44

Web Time Museum Audio 44

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

For mobile social networkers, Viddy is a must-download. TwtPoll enables nonprofits to create polls that can be shared on Twitter or any any other social network. 501(c)(3) organizations can register people and try to convince them to vote. USTREAM :: ustream.tv. TwtPoll :: twtpoll.com. T urboVote enables U.S.

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Free Mobile Nonprofit Map 280

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Annual Calendar of Social Good and Cause Campaigns :: nonprofitorgs.wordpress.com/annualcalendar. Clipix makes bookmarking a.k.a.

Web 273

Web Tools Free Mobile 273

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Clipix makes bookmarking a.k.a. It must be downloaded and is available only to nonprofit organizations. Based in the U.K.,

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Web Tools Free Mobile 279

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Clipix makes bookmarking a.k.a. It must be downloaded and is available only to nonprofit organizations. Based in the U.K.,

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Web Tools Free Social Media 256

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Last year at Princeton, we added a Google Map for people to geotag their home location , an invitation to share photos of the number “15? (it Pathable- A Conference Social Network Site. Our conference planner told me earlier this year about Pathable a company that provides a social network site for your conference.

Social Media 81

Social Media Media Social Flickr 81

See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Carie opened with an intro to social media. She says social networks are “not just a bunch of lonely teenage boys.” She notes that people really rely on social networks for influence on decision-making. If you are a small organization, you won’t get that traffic. Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

America 40

America Social Media Myspace Second Life 40

Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

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!" said Greg Elin of the Sunlight Foundation. said Greg Elin of the Sunlight Foundation.

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Government Social Media Open Advocacy 31