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Facebook Campaigning in Romania

Amy Sample Ward

I also had the chance to provide a couple presentations to the NGO track, one focused specifically on using facebook for campaigning in Romania. The Local Philanthropy Workshop: Facebook Campaigning in Romania. When it comes to campaigning on facebook, the real question is page vs group. I’d love to hear how it went!

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Relaunching: A place for conversations, content, and more!

Amy Sample Ward

These three columns let visitors dive straight into content they are most interested in, like presentations (notes, information, links and slides), roundups (compilations of interesting content and conversations), and event popular blog posts (this is decided based on blog posts with the most clicks and visits). About the Redesign.

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Mastering Social Networking as a Volunteer

Amy Sample Ward

The session focused on using core social media platforms Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to raise awareness and inspire others as a volunteer. Creating Great Content. When it comes to creating great content, there are four important elements, especially with social media, as you can see in the image at the top of this post.

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Security and Control: Early thoughts on Google+

Amy Sample Ward

With all of that as a grain of salt to this post, I want to share a few reflections focused on security and control – the items touted ahead of launch as the elements positioning Google+ on the other side of Facebook. Making the options for backing up and downloading your content and data explicit.

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Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America spread #GoSilent across the web for Memorial Day

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Sharing across platforms – Twitter. IAVA have made it clear from the thank you page that they are concentrating their efforts on Facebook and Twitter where they have a large community and many people and many different organizations will also be promoting Memorial Day activities. Sharing across platforms – Facebook.

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3 Ways to Use Social Media in Your Next Fundraising Campaign (and free ebook!)

Amy Sample Ward

Your website is your kitchen, where you can prepare the snacks, make the punch, and arrange all the utensils; in other words, that’s where you can create and store all your content. For example, start following the common hashtags, watch for popular retweets on Twitter, and check out the commonly shared images and liked Pages on Facebook.

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Four Recommendations for Personal and Professional Branding

Amy Sample Ward

—– Who are you friends with on Facebook? Similarly, Google+ allows you to filter general actions or content as well as post-by-post content to certain groups. According to Farra and Danielle’s survey respondents, Twitter is the top three platforms for both personal and professional use.