Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

." Non-profit’s Twitter Interview Questions | twitter-interviews | interviews TechnicaVita Social Media Advice - Does your organization use Twitter? John Carnell, from BullyingUK or @johncarnell on Twitter, is helping organizations share their twitter experiences with each other in this interview series.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 29, 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). – Read this great case study from JustGiving about Charlie's bike ride to raise money for Haiti relief support. "Charlie

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

This blog post is a roundup of the face-to-face we had last week in Houston to share some of the amazing lessons learned and some reflections. Grantees get better results integrating Facebook, Twitter, and other social media channels best practices and measurement. Content Curation on Twitter. Friending the Finish Line.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

PreSchool California : Did an experiment using Twitter as a way to connect with journalists. They discovered a slight disconnect between those journalists that wrote print stories on early learning issues, and those education journalists that were on Twitter. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. An Unanticipated Outcome.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 4, 2013

Yesterday, the good people at Resource Media shared a report which I immediately re-posted to Facebook and Twitter. My favorite lesson from the report is “to use pictures effectively, be diligent about taking them… and storing them.” The next major lesson I took from the Resource Media report is about stock pictures.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Swedish-Lesson - (Photo: International Federation of Red Cross/Hakan Flank/VolunteerMatch). In a networked nonprofit, VCs might mine their personal and professional networks for ideation, best practices, and case studies to learn how organizations are engaging volunteers effectively. He offered to write a guest post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2009

This is the beginning of their effort to better communicate and share lessons learned with nonprofits about using Causes. They also have a @causes on Twitter and I hope they will use that to engage directly with the nonprofits who want to get better results rather than just tweeting about themselves. . Tags: facebook.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

A variety of topics were discussed, including social media metrics, case studies and best practices, tools and applications, and strategy and planning. Out of the sessions Forum One staff attended, we took away seven key lessons from the event: Congressional staffers view social media and related Web 2.0 technologies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

We also use it an opportunity for participants to get on Twitter as an individual and how to use it as a personal professional learning and branding tool. In India, the line between personality and brand is not strict as it is in the US – and the identities can be fluid. I wrote about the practice of Team Tweeting here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2009

This is a new and improved version of the Social Media Case Study Slam. I've gathered up some of best of the best folks in the nonprofit tech field to share their social media measurement lessons learned. I've designed some fun ways to incorporate Twitter into the experience. Tags: sxsw.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

The add-on to my previous workshops were three "experiment in a box" modules which included Listening , Twitter , and Facebook Fan Pages. I created these for Twitter , Facebook Fan Pages , and Listening. . Ashely shared a mini case study about their Pacifier Campaign. I did floating consults. What are your thoughts?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

Some examples: A follower on Twitter or someone you're following. For example, a one-way connection on Twitter is someone who follows you, but you don't follow back. A two-way connection is someone you follow on Twitter and follows you back. (BTW, Each dot represents a person or in network jargon, a node. Family members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

It uses sources such as how many delicious bookmarks, incoming links, how many times mentioned on Twitter, how many comments, etc. Twitter As Charitable Gift Spreader. Twitter Demographics. Twitter is the Second Highest Referral After Google. An Internet Lesson in Rural Cambodia. Twitter on Paper Icebreaker.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

Jeremiah Owyang posted this case study about how they used YouTube and Flickr to share their media and encouraged the community to create content. How to aggregating and distributing content using tagging and widgets. I was delighted to discover that Sea World worked with Kami Huyse to reach out to a community called ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Lesson ( RE ) learned, always budget in that ten minutes late start and print out the location from an email don't transcribe (dang, was trying to save paper) Also, keep a few slides after the end that may explain a commonly asked question. Before I went on Twittered. I need more experiential case studies of this from nonprofits. (My

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2010

The first half focuses on principles of design for participation, drawing on examples from the Web, retail, and restaurants as well as cultural institutions for lessons on how to help visitors confidently and enthusiastically contribute in ways that help achieve institutional goals. Tags: participatory museum Quick Hits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I will also continue to write case studies, step-by-steps instructional pieces, and trend pieces. One example recently was I post I wrote about a Twitter tool. Someone emailed me to complain that I didn't link to a definition of Twitter. Social Media and Nonprofits: ROI Case Study Slam NTC in 2008.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

As for tactics, well, we mostly relied on “proven” or “successful” efforts; lessons learned from other organizations working in an analog paradigm like government, unions, and churches. We sought out case studies or examples that reinforced much of how we already operated. Analog Tactics.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

What : This is a chance for local organizers to share stories and lessons learned and network with those considering starting a group. We’ll use the TSdigs event in October 2009 as a case study. Tags: events 10ntc netsquared nten presentation. Local Community Organizers (#localco). When : 10:30 a.m.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Neff and Jordan Viator -- had the great opportunity to lead a session entitled " The Real Housewives of Social Media " Funny Photoshopped pictures were displayed of us, we sported aprons to hype the theme, and we shared information and case studies on various aspects of social media campaigning. Be proactive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

On Day 3, Mary Joyce will lead a workshop on digital activism using the Story of Electronics , an environmental-themed short film, as a case study and jumping off point for a workshop exercise to create a digital campaign. It isn’t a matter of a Facebook profile or using Twitter. The Colbert Report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

This same criticism can be leveled on any new channel or platform that claims (or has claims placed on it - ahem, Twitter) that it can solve the many organizational problems that surround nonprofits and charities or address the intractable social problems plaguing our society on their own merits. Tags: facebook guest blogging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

The team uses social media, twitter to initiate community generosity projects. Also in 2008, Daily Bread Food Bank , a local organization, announced that contributions had been sparse and unless something changed, homeless people would go hungry. Several Twitter social change users started to urge others in the community to do something.

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