Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

How can we and how are we using social media tools for social change? “Social media is a storytelling tool, it’s let voices effected by climate change be heard around the world&# (@ amysampleward ). Social media is still the tool or the medium, not the change or the action. link] is a climate change wiki.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

Using tools that allow reposting, sharing, emailing and so on will give anyone the options they want to push your content around the web for you. Sometimes what you want to do and the tools at your disposal just don’t match. Collaboration via social media has enabled the program to come together and launch.

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Community Case Study Haiti Social Media 207

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The first reason is the excessive focus on specific social media tools. Many first-timers are introduced to social media via specific tools. Many ’social media experts’ who are practitioners rather than thinkers also focus on specific tools. My own approach to social media is both tool-agnostic and terminology-agnostic.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

An example of an API is when you put a Bing or Google Map on your website.). site in which people could interact and collaborate with each other to create a virtual community. Google Maps. The new platform and the new tools are all about communities. The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2009

Does your organization have access to the technology tools and skills as well as the capacity to collaborate beyond your organization's firewall? I'm going to list sources for some of these tools by general category. These tools can facilitate coordination/discussion/communication amongst key stakeholders about the content.

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Storytelling Network Collaboration Classroom 63

Care2

MAY 15, 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!" WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore View more presentations from Amy Sample ward.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Hacker Helper is a free online tool that will allow volunteer developers to prepare for hackathons. The tool will allow hackers and coders to get up to speed before the hackathon by reading problem statements written from the perspective of the people who are working to solve social problems on the ground: NGOs and activists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2008

Earlier this week, the WeAreMedia project we had an amazing phone call with some of the really smart people who are contributing the wiki (Michelle Murrain, Jocelyn Harmon, John Kenyon, Ben Sheldon, Ruby Sinreich, Amy Sample Ward, Sheetal Singh, and Katya Andersen). Amy Sample Ward has already volunteered for one of the modules.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. This session introduces the concepts and tools behind the next generation of internet technologies or what has been dubbed "Web.20" So, how does a technology steward strike a balance between being seduced by the tools versus total rejection of the tools?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

I've always evangelized the potential of tools like Facebook and Twitter to create meaningful communities and collaborations, but now realize the true opportunity for all of us who spend our days mixing up cocktails of mission and technology: . social tools + people = lives saved. . Now they have the tools.

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Disaster Haiti Los Angeles Social Media 89

NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Amy Sample Ward recaps the lively discussion and shares some excellent resources like this Climate Debate Map , the Drupal.org profile of TckTckTck and the Climate Lab Wiki. We talk about collaboration a lot, but this is a true collabor-ACTION, mirroring the desire to work together seen across the climate movement.

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2010

Crisis Camp DC participants work hard to develop applications and tools for relief workers in Haiti. Open source maps to help aid workers navigate damaged areas and coordinate their efforts. A Crisis Wiki to serve as "yellow pages" for folks supporting the relief efforts in Haiti. Photo above by Leslie Jenkins.

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Haiti Los Angeles Washington Social Media 50

NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

These included an English-Creole dictionary phone app, tools for tagging photographs of displaced people, texting tools that could be coordinated with the Ushahidi text alert system, and several tagging and updating efforts of satellite imagery and maps. CrisisCamps is not a rogue example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond," I wanted point to a new (to me) UK nonprofit technology blog discovered via a comment to my post about technology stewards and also weave in some more notes on UK examples. tools and business applications for it. tools already out there. apps risk free?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2008

In this workshop you will discover how the latest tools for online collaboration and sharing can offer opportunities to improve the way you work. Ways to collaborate and share knowledge using social media tools View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: km laurawhitehead ).

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Tag Reflection Conference Miami 50

NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

These included an English-Creole dictionary phone app, tools for tagging photographs of displaced people, texting tools that could be coordinated with the Ushahidi text alert system, and several tagging and updating efforts of satellite imagery and maps. CrisisCamps is not a rogue example.

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Social South America Disaster Mobile 61

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

I feel the learning is richer and more sticky. Peer exchanges help participants not only form good habits, but they also naturally start to collaborate and work in a networked way. Participants create a poster of their networks, view other the network maps of others, and then do a debrief.

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India NGO Network Exercise 102

Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 27, 2009

They map out every step that will take them to realize their vision. Collaboration. Programs like Off the Mat, Into the World are providing tools for people who are, "interested in conscious activism and service." Other people are planners. Cross-posted from BlogHer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

The vision is to help the global movement of people and organizations working toward social justice, indigenous rights, and environmental stewardship to connect, collaborative, share knowledge, and build alliances. Think about what you want to accomplish and pick the tools/features to support that work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Along with Ed Walz, myself, and Liane, we spent a lot of time at the beginning mapping out program level outs and used a modified theory of change process. This prevents getting to tactical too quickly and places results in a larger context. Synergistic Collaboration: Who are you aligned partners online/offline? and storify.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

nonprofits for free, but even happier that Google is integrating jotspot , a wiki app, into Google Apps. Tools Here's yet another post declaring the death of email due to Facebook and Myspace. tools to adopt. It's an online collaborative mapping tool. tools, you need to change your mindset.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. tools can provide quick and dirty market research tools or the ability to do an environmental scans for strategic planning. Step 5: RSS As Information Coping Tool.

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Remix Professional Technorati Wiki 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

A volunteer network of software developers, designers, and other collaborators have teamed up with the award-winning blog techPresident to launch Twitter Vote Report.  s go and ???tweet??? this election! Here's the background information from the press release.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support. tools, to get past some of those communication barriers â?? both electronic and print. Evaluation. Leave a Comment.

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Knowledge Effective PDF Evaluation 60

Forum One

JANUARY 12, 2023

Better tool and CMS selection. What makes up your digital ecosystem Beyond tools and platforms, a digital ecosystem is also made up of the practices and people you interact with every day. In some cases, you may find efficiencies in combining two or more systems into a single platform. And if they are not, can they be?

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Digital Websites Platform Newsletter 57

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

These were (as captured by blogger Marcia Stephanek ): Open Green Map , offered up by Holly Ross, helps communities map their eco-friendly spots, whether it's a bike rack or a solar-heated apartment complex or a public herb garden. The maps are made by community members. The first layer of preparation was the content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Last month, I heard a talk by author Jonathan Salem Baskin about his soon to be published book, “ Histories of Social Media.&# The book looks at social media concepts and ideas, asks is this really new? The technology tools certainly are, but history provides a context for every behavioral quality of new media. 2) Crowd Creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2012

The participants, most of them women, are exposed to a variety of tech tools, which are easy to adopt and help in organizing community activities, such as: messaging via cell phones, mapping tools, remote conferencing, arranging meetings for large groups, social networking, and more.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The memorandum outlined the three pillars of open government thereby narrowing the discussion to transparency, participation, and collaboration. Finally, the data should be easily mapped to State Department data on entity in control of territory aid is rendered throughout the duration of the project. Vote for this Idea].

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Maybe a section on this blog, or a wiki, pulling the idea together[?] Would you have had better participation from authorities if it had been a wiki? (I JustGiving for charities: Twitter tools & the fourth NFPTweetup: part 2 on Thursday, October 8, 2009 at 9:14 am [.] Nudge me again soon. article here, forwarded on by [.]

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