Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2011

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). The study will offer support for elected officials who run on open government platforms or who work for more transparency.

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Web Plugin Influence Award 123

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 24, 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). How to Prepare Your Community for a Major Change « The Community Manager – "Change: it’s the one constant in life. Be passionate.

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Web New York City Bookmarking Contest 137

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 9, 2009

Our aim is to help groundbreaking non-profit organisations with their work, communication strategies and advertising." Tags: roundup bookmarks. " onion network - "The onion network is an international mixture of socially aware freelancers and companies. ."

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 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). This is the first-ever survey reading from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project that exclusively examines Twitter users.

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Web Drupal Open Source Bookmarking 117

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 19, 2009

." 21 Community Foundations That Tweet " Philanthropy411 Blog - Here is a great list of Community Foundations on Twitter - if you work for a foundation and are curious about how a foundation may use the micro-blogging tool in your work, check out these groups! What a life he has already had!

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Portland Web Bookmarking Kiva 100

NTEN

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

A whirlwind set of dates followed, and I returned to Australia in love and with immigration paperwork bookmarked in my web browser. Things I learned at NTC in 2012 were of immense benefit to my organization back home, and many of them I still use today in my work. March 13-15. I would encourage you to join us.

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NTEN Australia Community San Francisco 98

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 9, 2009

"Of all the areas of life that computer and communications technology seems to be impacting the most is its influence on relationships. "The general public hold all kinds of inaccurate stereotypes about the way charities work. Tags: roundup bookmarks. You tell us, we add to the map." Check it out.

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Web Map Bookmarking Offline 117

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.

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Tag Social Media Bookmarking Delicious 61

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2011

What is interesting to me is the public/personal sharing options as Dave Gray shared in this post. This diagram is great, but in real life my own networks are blurry between personal, professional, and public sharing and learning. What ever platform you are on, there are best practices for using social networks for professional learning.

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Adopt Google Professional Network 121

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

The customers in this case are the communities where we live and work." Tags: roundup bookmarks. . "Government, nonprofit, and business leaders must together help to solve this problem by applying basic principles of supply and demand to volunteering and service. You can add to the conversation in the comments, too.

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Web Bookmarking New York Blogger 102

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

apps out there, and beginning to try and use them to create content and organize my life, I have come to the following conclusion: the apps are great, but integration still sucks. Second, is bookmarking. But I’m really getting toward the end of doing double or triple bookmarking. First, there’s the blogging issue.

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Web Stumbleupon Ubuntu Open Source 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Then pick one idea to reduce information overload in your life from this list. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. Set up a social media dashboard with google apps for your listening, separate it from your work email and tools. Here's one way you might celebrate. Make Time for Reflection.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

How it works for nonprofits: This is a chance for you to link all of your social media profiles into one and give your constituents a real understanding of what makes your organization tick. You won’t want to use it for everything, but this works especially well for small projects. It’s an easy way to organize your nonprofit’s life.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

bookmarking on Delicious & Digg. You will instantly be able to see what's working and what needs to be tweaked. How do you think the new Google Analytics will change your life? emailing to friends. liking your site on Facebook. tweeting your site on Twitter. sharing your site on LinkedIn. listening to audio. commenting.

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Analytics Google Digg Bookmarking 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

It's also about having the ability to stop doing programs or activities that don't work. I realized that I could listen to other organizations working on adolescent mental health, build relationships, collaborate, and ultimately reach more people with less effort. It's also about streamlining decision-making and being more nimble.

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Social Media Media Strategy Social 94

NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

I also need to be able to work on the move: I need my "virtual desk" in front of me quickly, whether from my laptop or some other desk or smart device. Unless you think you're going to log into everything with Facebook or Gmail, lots of accounts and passwords are part of life – and using strong passwords should go with it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

I Collaborate blog has a post about how to lobby for skype in your organization, if you're working internationally. Speaking of Google, check out this new doc uploader and this bookmark service that aggregates all social bookmarking sites in one click (for those of us tool fondlers who need more than one tool for each type.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 28, 2005

For most students, the freshman year of college is a time for discovering intellectual strength, getting behind a cause or two, and exchanging rapid-fire theories on life, the universe and everything at 3 AM when you should be writing the paper that's due at 9. A Bookshare text is a book without barriers in more than one way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2006

from a post by Steve Eisner who writes a blog called A Social Life Some points for me: Defines two different types of tag behavior: Consuming Taggers : People who stalk other people's tags. "At the same time, the network benefits of social bookmarking depend on enough publishers agreeing upon a common vocabulary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Listening should be linked to real life decisions or your social media strategy objectives. Once you've started to monitor the results of keyword searches, it's important to put your pattern analysis skills to work. Your tools are social bookmarking and the excel spreadsheet and, of course, your brain. WeAreMedia Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Tagging and Social Bookmarking Social Bookmarking Showdown is a quick overview/review of the major social bookmarking services. The library community has a large presence on Second Life at Information Island which is where the TechSoup SL Virtual Office is located. Meanwhile, library geeks are talking about tagging.

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Wiki Vlog Machinima Bookmarking 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

The NTEN WeAreMedia project has been hard at work over the last few months building the house so to speak -- focusing on how nonprofits can use social media effectively. you work in. Social Bookmarking. Life Stream. Don't want to work on the tool box? We've addressed the strategic and tactical issues. RSS Readers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

Paul's idea of blogs by people who work in ICT for volcoms (US translation nonprofit technology) as a way to have an ongoing (but distributed) conversation resonated with me: I have a blog of my work , with links to the two regionally based ICT blogs I have discovered so far. "I use my blog to help work things out for myself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

It is called " The Art of Social Web " Coolcat Teacher blog gives a wonderful post about how blogging is a work in progress - she concludes blogging is more like football than a once in a lifetime performance at Carnegie Hall. And overheard at the TechSoup Second Life meeting this week. Zaadz : MySpace for the Do-Gooder Set.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Over the last year, I have had to explain how social media works to diplomats, defense officials, and academics and students focused on fields as diverse as international affairs, management and sociology. Mastering each tool individually seems like a lot of work and a lot of people give up even before they begin.

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Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 12, 2014

Im not here to preach about needing to block the internet or outlaw cat memes at work. Rather, here are some of the most useful websites Ive found that can be used for work. If you didnt catch that clever pun, its a bookmarking website that lets you store all of your future reads in one place.). Camel Camel Camel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The HSUS newest campaign is geared towards helping the 1,300 chimps still condemned to life in research labs across the country. Social Bookmarking. A terrific step-by-step guide guide called Social Bookmarking with del.icio.us A screencapture from a recent weekly meeting for TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons project in Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2006

Think of at least three people who have influenced you the most in your work in communities of practice. Go to del.icio.us , a social bookmarking or tagging tool, and create an account (if you don't already have one). tools can be catalyst for adhoc communities to form -- what those communities look, their life cycle, etc. (in

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2006

I just realized that I had bookmarked a post from Joistke with a pointer to an article called 7 Things To Do With Your Blog When You Take A Vacation. During my recent work trip, I finally met Millie Garfield who is blogging at the age 80 plus. (It Joistke is tested Option 4, guest bloggers. It must help that Steve Garfield is her son.)

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 12, 2007

I don't get to read as much now that I work from home--one of the advantages of commuting by bus or BART is lots of reading time! The last movie we rented, which I highly recommend, was Shut Up and Sing , a documentary about the Dixie Chicks' life after lead singer, Natalie Maines', anti-George Bush statement at a 2003 concert.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Some beta work is happening on this with TechSmith's " Jing Project ," an application that allows you easily embed screencasts into conversations on both PC and MAC platform. Social bookmarking in plain English! Opening Event for Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is on Tuesday, August 14 at 5:30 PST.

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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. Working Wikily: The Power of the Newbie.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2018

A “value-added premium , ” or giveaway item : This is a premium, connected to the mission of the foundation, that incorporates healthcare and adds value to the life of the donor. Follow-up: Remove the Donor Welcome Kit and reassess. . Similar donor welcome kits can also be produced for specific gift streams (e.g. Events, P2P, etc.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Update your bookmarks: [link]. where you vote for one of the finalists in the NTEN Video Content or watch a machinima about Nonprofits in Second Life. Random Thoughts on Life and Work points us to an excellent resource on wiki adoption patterns. This queen of typos enjoyed that post quite a bit! It's moved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

The type of conversation you have with your peers about your work that you can only have face-to-face. While one might be tempted to discount the value of face-to-face gatherings when we have the Internet, some of my most valuable connections and learning experiences have taken place "in real life" at the NTC.

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Wiki NTC Screencast Flickr 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

Of Second Life? Should all nonprofits be doing all of these things, plus blogging, social bookmarking, IM, screencasting, user-generated content, etc. As Jon Stahl notes, in reaction to the recent Overbook Foundation Report , I wonder how much of this anxiety is the product of nonprofit sector consultants and pundits hyping Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I was curious by how he described his work: "blogger coach to nonprofits." So far, I have interviewed people who I have met face-to-face or have known through my work in the nonprofit tech field. What type of work do you do in the nonprofit sector? I am working on making a living turning other people on to it all.

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