Amy Sample Ward

JULY 31, 2012

With the “Call Me Maybe” example, the song is very popular and many people in the Sesame Street community have heard it (a lot of Sesame Street supporters are parents that grew up with the show and support it as adults). This meant fans could share it on social media sites like Facebook, where it’s easy to share images.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Since 1988, CCTV has provided Cambridge residents with access to media production equipment, training, facilities, and cable television channels to accomplish this goal. Social media is a perfect compliment to our public access television channels. Connect to CCTV on Twitter , Facebook , YouTube and LinkedIn.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 24, 2010

Nonprofits seem to be more acutely concerned than small businesses, for example, about what someone might think or what someone might say about this or that, and it makes them too cautious and conservative in their marketing. Stories provide the examples and the context for what nonprofits are doing.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Email is a critical channel. Facebook General Growth data: More than 200 million active users. billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day (worldwide). A couple of examples: GreenPeace didn’t have everything they needed to conduct an email campaign so they set up a Myspace profile. More than 3.5

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

" [Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: National Wildlife Federation – Here is a terrific interview with my friend and colleague Danielle Brigida of the National Wildlife Federation – she discusses both the tools she uses and the lessons she's learned from managing the social media presence for the NWF.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 28, 2010

YouTube Goes Fully Social And Challenges Facebook | Community Organizer 2.0 – "Today, YouTube announced that every single YouTube channel now comes equipped with a moderator feature. The moderator feature allows any channel to ask for ideas, questions, or suggestions from the community.right from your YouTube channel.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Nor does it require that we leave our human faculties at the on switch – the internet democratizes the channels. When it comes to the internet, you can of course find lots of examples where twitter or facebook or email have been used by governments or corporations or regimes. Facebook is increasingly hard to excavate.

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