Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 4, 2011

Topic : Social Media Done Right in 30 Minutes/Day. Description : Even if you have only 30 minutes for social media in each day you can use these methods to be strategic and make the most of your engagement. Content map template: [link]. Date : August 4, 2011. Location : New York, NY.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 3, 2010

Earlier this month, the Connected Generation conference brought lots of folks from organizations and direct services groups, as well as practitioners, educators, and researchers together in Bristol, UK, to talk about the use of social media in youth work. Connecting to Youth: Leveraging social media for work with young communities.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The webinar was designed to offer an overview of the basics, best practices and examples of successful social media integration. Social Media for Small Enterprises. Here are two DIY guides for content and community mapping , you can do by yourself or with your whole organization: [link]. Squarespace. Anything else?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 26, 2010

It was an introduction to social media, especially focused on what organizations (regardless of size) can start doing today. I had a bit of fun with it, especially with the pictures on the slides, by using a party metaphor: Social Media for Organizations: Enjoy Your Own Party! Questions and Discussion.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 18, 2009

Social media, as many have said time and again, is only part of your campaigning, part of your fundraising, and part of your communications. These 5 Steps are intended to help you create a successful social media strategy, but as you will see, they focus on your organization’s overall strategy!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2012

By using strategic methods, it’s possible to have maximum social media impact in minimal time. Participants in this session will learn that through methods such as content planning and listening online, and that by interacting rather than broadcasting, they can accomplish an impressive amount in just 30 minutes a day.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

What : An important part of your social media strategy should be listening for people and organizations who are talking about the issues you want to discuss.How do you know which networks will be most effective to reach your goals? Not about follower numbers, but about engagement and content.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

The creation and communication of this knowledge occurs in social networks of relationships, empowered by social media. Join us for a discussion and exploration of how social media are being used to accelerate our transition to a global sustainable culture. Jon Lebkowsky - Social Web Strategies.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 4, 2010

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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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

Today was the first webinar in the Storytelling & Social Media series from NTEN and TechSoup Global. Today’s webinar focused on the building blocks of social meda; things like tagging, RSS and how to get started finding the conversations taking place online. Here’s my slide deck: Social Media Building Blocks.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 4, 2012

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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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Topic : Community-Driven Planning: Creating a Social Media Strategy. Description : This all-day workshop starts with the real foundation of social media engagement: community and content. Topic : Social Media Boundaries: Personal/Personnel Policy. Topic : Social Media Done Right in 30 Minutes/Day.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2011

Social media in disaster response. Journalists using social media in Egypt. Trimet misses the bus on social media. Twitter (from We Are Media). How to make quality content on Twitter. . $100,000 in 3 Days: Interview about #TeamAutism. National Theatre screws up, what we can learn from mistakes.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

“ 72% of the 209 respondents describe their approaches to personal/professional use of social media as either ‘blended’ or ‘segmented by channel’ ” Facebook friends aren’t created equal; or, rather, Facebook gives you the options to treat your friends differently. Set your own tone!

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 6, 2011

" Target community for best return on social media efforts – My recent interview with the Nonprofit Business Advisor is out! I talked with Kelly Sullivan about some of the most common mistakes or myths nonprofits have about social media, as well as opportunities to get started strategically. " Free music.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

We’ll be facilitating a conversation, more than doing a formal presentation, and will focus on the power of crowdsourcing (using our own case study from conducting the Social Media for Social Good case study competition) and the application of social media in nonprofit program delivery.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Colin told me that they recently held a very popular social media workshop for seniors at Cambridge Community Television ( @cctvcambridge ) but that it is a topic that would benefit from more coverage – so, I asked if I could interview him! Social media is a perfect compliment to our public access television channels.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 24, 2011

Using content to fuel community engagement. Contests to encourage content sharing. Social media in CRMs. Some of the topics from the chat include: Engaging specific ethnic groups/communities. Engagement for advocacy vs non-advocacy organizations. Hyper-local communities. You can read through the full archive here.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 21, 2010

Social Media’s Changing Landscape to Make A Profit – Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media – frogloop – I'm really looking forward to this conversation – what do you think? "Admit Have real pictures and have real conversations.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 3, 2011

With this in mind, we asked questions in 3 primary areas: content- “what kind of stories do people like?&#. social media “how can we use social media to engage people in our project?&#. Here is a run down of questions we asked and the way people responded around the world: Content. Social Media.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

." [Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: National Wildlife Federation – Here is a terrific interview with my friend and colleague Danielle Brigida of the National Wildlife Federation – she discusses both the tools she uses and the lessons she's learned from managing the social media presence for the NWF.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

Making the options for backing up and downloading your content and data explicit. Privacy within the platform can be on a content by content basis. You can click through to the actions and content without changing the page you are on – just flipping through the popup notification window itself.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

" Complex and Contradictory: A New Way to Think of Digital Activism | The Meta-Activism Project – "The effect of digital technology on political contention is neither good nor bad, it is both. Yes, the Internet can help activists mobilize and re-frame public issues. It can also distract citizens and feed apathy.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2013

Multichannel strategies are your keys to creating campaigns, content, and calls to action that meet your supporters where they are and encourage them to support your organization. Extra: Listen to this podcast with Alison Fine, Allyson Kapin and I discussing why charities should use more kinds of social media.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Most organizations have a call to action, a campaign, or a fundraising push to promote on Facebook and other social media. This means users can share content publicly with subscribers (and privately with their direct contacts). Calls to Action. You can now see beyond the Likes and comments on your page.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2010

The presentation focused on 4 strategic steps, 3 sets of best practices, and a few case studies for creating programs, services, content, and campaigns in a community-driven process. Presentation: Community-Driven Social Impact. I had a 90-minute workshop which was broken into two parts: a bit of presentation, and a bit of game time.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 1, 2012

Core elements included using the Razoo giving platform, content best practices, online storytelling, social media strategy, and donor cultivation. In the report, Geoff describes the training this way: The training program treated the giving day as an exercise in best practices.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2011

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. Is your organization considered a content curator?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 4, 2009

My colleague, friend, and collaborator David Wilcox just posted about the social collaboration game we are going to be putting on at SHINE derived partly from the social media game and from our work on the Social by Social project. A bit like social media game meets Social Innovation Camp , in miniature.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2009

Lately, I’ve heard from many organizations that they are on board with social media and excited to be finding, connecting with and engaging their communities online. Topic: How can nonprofit organizations successfully manage multiple entry points for social media engagement?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2012

on social media platforms like Facebook each day. When you post a call to action for people to share a message, be sure to include reference to how they can do so; or if you are asking people to create content themselves, be sure to provide instructions and examples to help them respond to your call.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

The social media/technology landscape in Romania is very interesting – with a diverse set of issues, struggles and opportunities. What kind of content do you already have that you could reuse (videos or interviews from events, data or research, etc.) Test Drive It. That’s right, I really said that.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

Nonprofit tech experts team up to help others master ‘social tools for social change’. Eight leading experts in social media and nonprofit technology have joined forces to create Socialbrite.org, a hub that showcases social tools for social change.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 18, 2010

I often talk about individuals when I’m discussing the way social media can be used to support organizations. Because social media may be about networks, communities, and collaboration; but it is only possible because of the dynamic and powerful tools individuals are using. Case Study. I want to share that story!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

What’s the point in using “global” tools (social media) for local organizing? And in each local place, people are on different types of social media, some of which are global in scope. From @winwinapps: The fact that social media is forming networks and connections allows local to have more global influence.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

We Are Media is a terrific resource for anyone looking for tips, examples, case studies and information on using social media in a nonprofit organization. Now, the content from We Are media is available to you in a brand new “ Choose Your Own Expert &# format. REGISTER HERE! The Format. REGISTER HERE!

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 5, 2009

Full Circle Associates » How I use social media - Here is a great post from Nancy White discussing how she uses social media. While the exact formula behind the front page remains unclear, its contents are clearly changing minute by minute. ."–David Cohn, Founder, Spot.us.

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