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Try Qriously for free: Real-time data for your organization!

Amy Sample Ward

I contacted the Qriously team to thank them for access, and to ask if there was a way I could get a few more organizations connected to give it a try. How the question will help inform your work. I had so much fun, in fact, that I shared screen shots and some thoughts around the way organizations could put a tool like this to use. (If

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New on SSIR: How to Build Trust with Your Community

Amy Sample Ward

Instead, make your information – both qualitative and quantitative – easy to find and digest on your website. I’m sure you have a Contact Us page. Further, how about program information on your website – does it include mention of which staff actually work on those programs and how to connect with them?

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. The same with live information, personal stories from witnesses, and so on.

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SXSW: Future of Social Networks

Amy Sample Ward

You can see the session information here. Contacts - who you know? have to trust someone with your content, contacts and stream in order to get the kind of data back that you want/need. Presentation by Charlene Li at SXSW. “Social networks will be like air.&#. Activities - what do you do? 2 sets of rules/standards.

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Great reads from around the web on March 2nd

Amy Sample Ward

CTK Foundation Grant Award: Social Media, Technology, and Poetry for the Soul | Community Organizer 2.0 – "I was contacted by my colleague John Haydon last week to write about an interesting foundation grant challenge by the CTK Foundation. " Pew: Open government is tied to higher levels of community satisfaction | Gov 2.0:

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Predictions for 2009

Amy Sample Ward

Mashups of applications and spaces, not just information. We are going to see tools developed that provide a space to interact with your contacts and content in new ways. The mashups that will come out in 2009 are going to be ones that create hybrid spaces in between the different tools we are already using.

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2009 eCampaigning Review Released

Amy Sample Ward

Only 43% of actions linked to background information. People may worry that if someone clicks on an action button, say, on your homepage, and then you provide them links to more information about the topic of the action, that they will click away and never actually complete the action.

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