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). We provide both a feature summary and detailed reviews, as well as a directory of consultants. Who Tweets? Get the Tagline Database and Report!"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

The NpTech Summary. Looks like a teams from Australia and New Zealand will compete to build a fully-operational website for a non-profit organization in 24 hours. Buzz in NpTech space -- from blog to blog to tagged bookmarks. I just love this video introduction from the good folks from Freedom for IP.

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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). Ivan Boothe from the Genocide Network has a case study of how his organization used Reddit to drive calls to the Hotline. Social Bookmarking. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

a leading provider of software and related services designed specifically for nonprofit organizations, has announced that it has acquired privately-owned eTapestry, based in Indianapolis, Indiana. Here's a roundup of all the live blog posts from the recent BlogHer conference neatly organized by session. Blackbaud, Inc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Listening Listening is knowing what is being said online about your organization and your field. It becomes part of your organization's culture. It can be hard to retool an organization's culture to do listening as a daily part of the work flow, particularly if it isn't valued or there are concerns about negatives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2007

I scan the tagged items every week and do a pattern analysis and summary of these undifferentiated items. But is there a way to make it proactive and more organized rather than reactive with no structure or organization? Do you read the summaries? Obviously, it ain't no taxonomy and it shouldn't substitute for one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2008

account with a couple hundred bookmarks tagged Friend Feed. Find a resource that resonates with you or helps you think about how FriendFeed might be useful to you personally or to your organization. I will do a summary as part of this week's NpTech Tag Roundup. He has a del.icio.us Share that link in the NpTech FriendFeed Room.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 29, 2016

You’ve got the usual list of suspects at your organization: the online engagement tool, a blog, social media platforms, and a website. Pro Tip #1: Check Summary Only to make your results easier to read. As you might imagine, this will take much longer than using the summary validator. That’s a lot to manage. Neither do we!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

While this Peer Exchange starts off with best practices on Facebook, it is a means to a higher end: how to apply and integrate those principles into the organization’s broader children’s health communications strategies. The privacy features allows organizations to have conversations with specific groups of people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

I’m honored to be included on a panel proposed by him, along with Carrie Rice , called “ How to Conquer Technology Distraction and Burnout and Be More Present for Yourself, Team, and Organization for the 2018 Nonprofit Technology Conference. (If Describe some of your mindfulness work with nonprofit organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Here's a summary of the data from the report: - Twitter is dominated by newer users - 70% of Twitter users joined in 2008. - On Twitter, your organization should have a personality. Holly Ross's Twitter account is ntenhross - so it is branded as both her and her organization. Twitter bookmarks on delicious.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 executive summary here ) ContinuousProgress: Better Advocacy Through Evaluation is an online guide to more effective foreign policy advocacy and evaluation. Steve Bridger from NFP 2.0

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. For next week's summary, I'm going to be using a different aggregator called index cards. Update your bookmarks: [link]. " Important Projects - the organization just turned three , but I've only just discovered the blog. NTC is just days away! It's moved. What did you learn?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

I argue that while folksonomies are changing the way we interact with content, people, and organizations, they are still a long way from helping us optimize our consumption of the ever increasing amount of content and media on the Web. Do you read the summaries? But give it time. Sort of an emergent taxonomy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

You can find out what other people are saying or thinking about your topic, community, organization, program or issue area. A nonprofit organization that provides support for homeless in Northern, CA found references to homeless people on restaurant blogs and used what they learn for a fundraising campaign. This can inform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

" And now, you can bookmark Second Life locations (called slurls) into del.icio.us Marshall Kirkpatrick's Comparing 5 Ways To Tag Videos hit dig popular. Fight Hunger shares the results and learnings from its Second Life fundraising event "Walk the World." without leaving the virtual world!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Here's a summary of the distributed conversations, some context, and some questions. nonprofit technology thought leader Marnie Webb created the NpTech Tag as a way for nonprofit techies to share bookmarks on del.icio.us. As the volume of information increased, weekly summaries were added to the mix. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Here we review, 'The New Community Rules' by Tamar Weinberg - probably the single most important book to read this year if you are involved in marketing your organization or cause on the web. Tools touched on include: blogs, microblogging, social networks, social bookmarking, social news, Q&A websites, photography, video, and podcasting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

If you have questions about widgets or want to share your organization???s Here's a summary: Using widgets is not yet a common practice on nonprofit blogs and folks are still experimenting and learning. Here's a few examples: Delicious Badge : I use this widget to publish my social bookmarking bookmarks on my blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

For example, Yahoo bought del.icio.us – it didn’t have social bookmarking. And this is a bad thing for the many small organizations that have been using eTapestry for reasonable prices (or free). at 9:24 am Excellent summary. There basically are three types of software acquisitions that companies make.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

However, neither Carie nor Tim discussed social bookmarking or social news strategies in any depth, and Digg, Stumble Upon, and del.icio.us If you are a small organization, you won’t get that traffic. Thanks for the summary. I agree based on sheer traffic volume, the first 3 are no-brainers for any nonprofit to start.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) said Greg Elin of the Sunlight Foundation.

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