Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2009

“ Social by Social is a timely and invaluable contribution to the literature and contains some fundamentally important emergent lessons for anyone considering the use of social media to develop their ideas.&#. But, didn’t know how to choose from all the great readers and commenters here. Tessy Britton, Social Spaces.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. " My favorite lesson? But, despite the controversy in the first round of results, I think there are some positive lessons that can be learned for nonprofits of all sizes."

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Web Haiti Bookmarking Lesson 132

NTEN

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

By turning our Facebook fan page into a community feedback forum, we were able to harness the power of our patrons by seeking their comments and suggestions in regards to our crisis. Tags: NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications. We chose two specific social media networks, Facebook and Twitter, to assist us. What we learned .

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Charlotte Library Social Media Communication 89

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

The Cross Blog Discussion of the NpTechTag has generated some comments and blog posts that I've summarized below. However, in the comments, readers point to the benefits of a folksonomy and suggest that combining the two approaches can lead to a best-of-both-worlds outcome. "It seems to me that the tag is not that useful ???

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. " Tags: roundup bookmarks broadband casestudies evaluation list postalicious report research resources volunteering. I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day.

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Web Bookmarking Evaluation Lesson 120

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2005

In addition to the traditional methods of integrating technology, I want them to explore some simple ways to integrate these new tools such as tagging and blogging without running away screaming. Use of blogs for student poetry journals and for instructor "mini-lessons" 2. These can be easily blogged as mini-lessons.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

In this post, Jasper shares some lessons learned from a recent experiment to design a more social comment station. He will respond to comments here and can also be reached on his blog (where this post first appeared). Tags: Museums Engaging in 2.0 Projects guestpost Book: The Participatory Museum.

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Museum Comment Experiment Participatory 34

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2010

This website has been a great place for me to post ideas and share lessons learned, store content from presentations, and share resources. But what’s really important to me, is that there are A WHOLE HECK OF A LOT of conversations here: there are around 500 posts and over 6,700 comments ! books/publications, and other resources.

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Collaboration Chicago Comment Slides 129

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 17, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Selma vets and young activists must share lessons. " Tags: roundup advocacy bookmarks citizenjournalism competition crowdsourcing facebook list millennials postalicious presentations resources socialchange sxsw.

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Zambia Jordan Web Bookmarking 108

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2005

Tag Poetry. Yesterday, Nancy White suggested that we add having the students create poetry from their tags. When I got back from on-site work (reflections on that follow) and finished my mommy shift, I discovered that Nancy wrote a poem with her tags. I wondered outloud in a comment. The theme was the tag, in some sense.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2010

Five Lessons Learned. Supposedly, MySpace is dead, but I still get about 100 friends requests and 20 wall comments a week. Tags: Uncategorized Social Media. 2) Being an early adopter helps increase your numbers. The MySpace example is one we should all learn from. 5) Never abandon your communities.

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Social Network Community Network Myspace 191

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The winner will join a select group of senior leaders from some of the world’s top private, public and civil society organisations, and will get first-hand lessons in innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership from some of Bangalore and Mumbai’s leading social entrepreneurs. Thank you to those who have already voted or commented!

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India Network Netsquared Offline 126

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Net2 Think Tank: Online Fundraising Lessons Learned | NetSquared – "The Facebook application Causes recently announced it hit the $20 Million mark in donations. That’s not a believable theory of change.

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Web San Francisco Bookmarking Org 114

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2010

Photo by HeyDee Almost a year ago, Allison Fine and I finished a reflection paper on the lessons learned from the first America's Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation. So, go join the conversation in the comments over at the Case Foundation blog. Tags: america giving challenge.

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Case Study Social Media Conversation Studies 89

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Though many orgs flaunt their “lessons learned” they are not all written down, distributed, or accessible depending on the enterprise architecture. Too often, these lessons end up on individuals’ computers, shared drives or locked away in portals and are not shared in order to prevent repeated mistakes.

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Change Case Study Org Lesson 102

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. " Tags: roundup activism bookmarks casestudies community data entrepreneurship journalism list lists maps media networking postalicious resources socialentrepreneurs socialmedia strategy volunteering.

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Web Bookmarking Case Study Map 114

Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. " Read all of the lessons Carol learned – and I'd love to hear what you learned! I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. NonProfit 2.0

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Wikispaces Wiki Web Unconference 111

NTEN

MARCH 28, 2011

Hopefully, this means that all of the posts I haven't yet found will be added in the comments and we can all create a comprehensive list together. Please just drop it into the comments so we can all check it out! And, here are all the photos on Flickr tagged "11NTC" ! If I missed your blog post, I'm sorry!

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NTC NTEN Doc Conference 99

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2008

And according to a comment from Laura on this post , once it reaches $5,000, they will receive the first $5,000 match. Laura left a comment describing the vision for micro fundraising. I can't wait until these fundraisers share their lessons learned. Tags: twitter.

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Twitter Campaign Fundraising Lesson 88

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2011

For example, Jay Baer’s and Amber Nashlund’s new book, The Now Revolution , uses Microsoft’s version of QR codes called Tag technology , so readers can scan pages and get additional bonus materials on their phones. QR codes are popping up in school lesson plans, like this arts lesson plan.

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South Carolina San Francisco Chad Museum 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

The conversation provides a lot of good lessons for companies wanting to embrace selfish giving without cause washing. I think there are some good lessons and perhaps some best practices about how to manage an angry crowd before it escalates or goes viral. Tags: fundraising2.0 to give away $5 million dollars this holiday season.

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Learning Contest Lesson Philanthropy 100

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

So, because one user wants to visit your forum and leave a comment only one time, creating only a temporary connection, that doesn’t mean that other users do not visit it and get/give value to that forum in a long-term way. Once again, I guess the lesson is to keep being human! Individuals influence networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Drop a comment or link back and I'll round it up for next week's summary. Marnie Webb (who appears to be blogging a bit more these days since she switched to a MAC ) tagged an interesting article from the Wall Journal that asks " Is there a numerical cap on how many friends we can have? I don't speak or read Japanese.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

To see another work in progress, go over to MIchael Gilbert's The Authentic Organization blog where he has turned the comments feature on and is writing his next book in a fishbowl! There is a fairly large educator community on Second Life and the lessons learned are starting to appear in the blogosphere. More information here.

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Forum One

JULY 13, 2009

s donating money, commenting on a blog post, downloading a new report, or contacting a member of Congress. ?Use Tags: Strategy. (The most important action they can take is to sign up for your email list.) ?Never Never point an email campaign message to your homepage?send send users to an action page.? Use the word ?please?

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Campaign Support Build Lesson 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2009

She summarizes five key lessons from early adopters in the nonprofit sector. In the comment, there is a hearty debate going on about whether Alexandra's premise is spot on or not. There's a lively discussion in the comments. Tags: misc. What's your take?

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Social Media Conversation Media Social 50

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 21, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. " Tags: roundup bestpractice bookmarks campaigning community list lists nonprofits nptech organizing postalicious resources socialmedia sxsw tools.

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Web Bookmarking Social Media Austin 126

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 29, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Even though the authors (Kathy Baughman and Steve Hershberger) are focused on for-profit brands, the lessons ring true across sectors. "If Among marketers, this term is more prevalent than Frisbees at a dog beach.

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Haiti Web Bookmarking Case Study 114

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

In the Assessment and Reflection Report, the authors bring other good lessons and note that “Some like Atlas Corps recruited 150 ‘Campaign Captains’ before the contest started. There were 44 followers that used the #floodofsupport hash tag or linked to the Crowdrise page or blog post. The lessons for arts organizations.

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Nashville Twitter Blogger Contest 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. A Brief History of Hash Tags Chris Messina ( @chrismessina) is credited with starting hashtags and has written about how to make them most useful. That's, of course, if the tag used is unique enough. I think it takes more a unique tag.

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Twitter Foundation Effective San Diego 95

Get Fully Funded

APRIL 30, 2010

Lesson learned – include the information in the text of the email for people on the go. Please share your lessons learned with the rest of us. Click on the comment link and tell us what you’ve learned. Tags: Communications/Public Relations General Fundraising nonprofit fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2010

Geoff Livingston, my colleague at Zoetica, has a post in Mashable today on Five Social Media Lessons from the Haiti Earthquake Relief. He describes how with the widespread adoption of social media in the non-profit sector, people’s ability to act and support communities in need like Haiti has only been increased.

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Haiti Volunteer Disaster New York 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Right after Thanksgiving, TechCrunch published a guest post called " The Secret Strategies Behind Many Viral Videos " which unleashed a record 491 comments because it described some unethical practices. There was also a follow up post here. The other is a blog post from Collactive called Ten Tips To Spice Up Your YouTube Video.

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YouTube Video Tips Lesson 50

ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

This “free” price tag makes Salesforce a service that should seriously be considered by any small to medium nonprofit. We probably would have made several choices differently as a result of lessons learned from this extremely useful resource. Share some of your experiences below in the comments section!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Like all good stories, they story of Ushahidi holds several different lessons: People want to do somethiung to make the world a better place. The trick for creating new social media is to use those lessons to eight the odds in your favor, rather than as a set of instructions that guarantees success.&#. Tags: Books.

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Participatory Lesson Social Media Review 95

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 15, 2011

This organization uses sports, specifically basketball, as a vehicle to help youth get motivated in school and learn life lessons while at the same time producing some seriously great athletes. After we establish these principles, we can begin to teach them real life lessons that theyll use over and over again.

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Teach Arizona Philanthropy Children 81

Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Last week, I met up with some friends for lunch and got a lesson in relationship-building from a 3 year-old. Hit the comment link and share your thoughts. Tags: Donor Relations Major Donors donor conversations. We’ve met fairly regularly for the past few years and one gal usually brings her son Paul.

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