Amy Sample Ward

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Facebook Campaigning in Romania

Amy Sample Ward

It was so much fun and it was an amazing experience to work with people like Chris Worman and meet with so many local nonprofit and community changemakers. I also had the chance to provide a couple presentations to the NGO track, one focused specifically on using facebook for campaigning in Romania. I’d love to hear how it went!

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How To: DIY Community & Content Mapping

Amy Sample Ward

Over the last few of years I’ve had a the opportunity to work with a team of intelligent and thoughtful colleagues, speak at conferences, and collaborate with other facilitators and community builders. More and more often, I get asked at conferences or on the blog for more information about how to create a community map or content plan.

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License your photos and more on Facebook

Amy Sample Ward

Because I want people to know that I expect them to share things they find interesting, or to help further the conversation but that in sharing, others need to keep the content free, too. Because Creative Commons licenses help creators, sharers, and readers enjoy online content respectfully. Why Use Creative Commons in Facebook ?

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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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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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DIY Community Engagement Metrics

Amy Sample Ward

We covered how to do Community Mapping (identifying the segments and goals of the community), Content Mapping (creating a plan for which content goes where, and why), and Data Tracking (pulling all the numbers together). Here are some questions that can help get people talking to start sharing the groups they work with.

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

Amy Sample Ward

I had planned to take the day off from work to remember and reflect on the service of those in my family (my grandfather, now passed), and in my community. Sharing across platforms – Facebook. Both of these actions make it clear and easy for people to learn more and take action while still playing by the rules of Facebook.

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