Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. Here’s a run through of the Tools Galore session.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 4, 2012

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. Your tools are defined both by the goal of what you want to do, but also by the people – are they tools that that audience uses and likes?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

There are bound to be many, many versions of this blog post as people from around the world start investigating the tool and sharing their impressions. As always, when it’s just the first trickling of people joining up, the way the tool is used, the depth of some functionality, and the technical issues are all a bit out of proportion.

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JUNE 6, 2011

Content Map Template: [link]. Tools and Apps to Energize Your Base. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Community Map Template: [link]. Metrics Template: [link]. Listening Dashboard: [link]. Books & Collections. We Are Media. Social by Social. SOCIALMEDIA NONPROFIT tweet Book01. Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

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). Step 3: Identify the tools. Content Mapping. >> Step 1: Identify all the content.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 5, 2013

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. check your website analytics to see which social platforms are sending traffic to your campaign page and follow the links to the people sharing your content.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Often in these chats, participants discuss the online tools they are using and new platform functionality, all with the hope of finding ways to increase community engagement. So when Scoop.it , a new content curation platform, hit the web recently, the #CommBuild network seemed like the perfect place to try it out.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2012

You know more about the tools. Assuming you know the most about these tools means you have the opportunity and responsibility to share your knowledge and help the community be as savvy as you! There are mind-boggling reports and stats our there that show just how much time many of us are spending [wasting?]

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2011

." eAdvocacy Readiness Assessment – A terrific round up of resources from Aspiration – if you're looking to get started with or ramp up your online engagement efforts, check out these tools first! "Welcome "Welcome to the pre-release version of Aspiration's eAdvocacy Readiness Tools.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. There are two types of media we will look at here: direct and indirect content. Direct Content. Indirect Content.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 28, 2012

IAVA’s #gosilent campaign is a terrific example of social campaigning because it uses tools and tactics that make it easy for the organization to track, measure, and evaluate success – in real time and after the campaign is over. Sharing across platforms – Instagram and Foursquare. Did you #gosilent?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Description : This all-day workshop starts with the real foundation of social media engagement: community and content. Understanding who you are working with and the kinds of content you want to create and share, will help you then build engaging and valuable social media channels. Topic : Social Media Done Right in 30 Minutes/Day.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

There are many free online website and content creation tools available. Creating a space where you can collect and aggregate the news, content, and updates of your movement is important for people to better understand, follow, and join you. One key element is the use of an online homebase. Brought to you Live.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Content Map template (remember to recreate your own as everyone is looking at this template and probably doesn’t want to delete to all your content if it is saved publicly!). Tools and Apps to Energize Your Base – notes from the recent Women Who Tech telesummit session. How to create a Listening Dashboard.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

It’s now been a few months and I wanted to check in on the status of the platform, the impact it’s had on communities using the tool and organizations supporting those groups. It was easy to update / add content to. We also consulted with people in the Chain Reaction network. What did you like best about Ning previously?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 21, 2010

Grizzard Communications Group – Free social media tools & the ‘experts’ who can’t answer “How?&# – Eric has a great list of free social media tools to help you find content, monitor trends and much more! "In

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

When you bring the Internet, online social tools, mobile technologies, and all the rest into the equation, you do not fundamentally change how communities organize or make change. Basically, online organizing tools have leveled the playing field between for-profit and nonprofit groups, as well as between organizations and communities.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

Using tools that allow reposting, sharing, emailing and so on will give anyone the options they want to push your content around the web for you. Sometimes what you want to do and the tools at your disposal just don’t match. The value of the tool grows as people value the tool and add more content.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 21, 2010

For example, there are others creating or sharing content specifically about tech, like ComputerWorld, UKRiders and CharityWebForum. There are organizations creating content like NAVCA, NCVO, LASA with the Knowledgebase, and KnowHow NonProfit. rich content that’s unique. But what is missing from everything that exists?

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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. What tools could help? This is where you’ll use the tool cards. CDSI Game – Tools. Presentation: Community-Driven Social Impact.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 24, 2011

Using content to fuel community engagement. Contests to encourage content sharing. About the CommBuild Chat: These monthly chats originated out of the #4Change network and are open to anyone interested in learning and sharing about building community, on and offline, with the use of social media or other technology tools.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2009

If you give them tools for taking more control of their lives, they will pay you back in attention, support and even hard cash. Think about mindset, language and skills before you think about tools, features and screen designs. Don’t jump for the tool. The 45 Social by Social Propositions. People want control. Know your limits.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 11, 2010

It’s because this is another example of how our tools are defining community. ( Last month’s post focused on that topic using Causes, Ideablob and Ning as references for the conversation.) This is where we really start to touch on the issues around the tools we use defining how we can build and connect with our communities.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2013

Which tools do you use? 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. What’s more, thinking more like your constituents isn’t difficult. Try this: Stop working for just five minutes.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 16, 2009

The free and accessible site draws together a range of social media tools for people who want to change the world. Through Louder you will be able to create a microsite for your campaign with the most used ‘change-tools’ the web has to offer. I like that Louder… lets you create and distribute content all over the web.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

Some of the questions raised in the webinar chat focused on the role of public media organizations as content creators and how community-driven engagement fits in the work they do. How is your station creating ways for the community to actually inform the services or programs or content you provide and create? Content Map Template.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 12, 2008

We have seen plenty of mashups where a website is able to push together a mapping tool, some public data, and user-created content like comments. 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. I love them! Community Movement.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 6, 2010

Monday’s post focused on the content; Wednesday’s post looked at fueling comments. There are so many tools out there designed to plug right into a site – what have you used or seen that you recommend adding here? Tags: blogging community webtools blog redesign extras feedback redesign tools widgets wordpress.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

That's what happened with the Art Project—a new tool we're announcing today which puts more than 1,000 works of art at your fingertips, in extraordinary detail." – "The rise of social media has led to an exponential proliferation of content online and widespread demand for tools to filter that information.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

—– Tools for listening: Goodbyebuddy – find out when people aren’t listening to you any more. Not about follower numbers, but about engagement and content. Check out listening tools at: [link]. Listen first and discover where the conversations are! Learn what people want to hear. Set up alerts and so on.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 9, 2010

Last week’s posts had three topics: Content , Comments and Extras. Categories and Tags : Using content categories like (presentation, case study, opinion and so on) can help people find the type of content they are after, as well as categories and tags that indicate topics, conferences and tools. Look for that!

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Question 1 : asked about migrating a community from one tool to another, specifically from listservs to a website/forum. These monthly chats part of the #4Change network and are open to anyone interested in learning and sharing about building community, on and offline, with the use of social media or other technology tools.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 4, 2010

Monday’s post focused on the content you’re after and want more of – if you missed it, you can read the post and weigh in with your feedback. Focus: Content that’s conversation worthy. How would you like to be able to find conversations or follow them either on the blog or using other platforms tools?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

For the last week, there’s been a rich discussion about Causes and the way that it abruptly, without much notice, left MySpace (deleting all of the related content, connections, communications, etc.). (To Unbalanced “strategies&# - organizations have fallen victim to the “all eggs in the same basket&# trap.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Here are two DIY guides for content and community mapping , you can do by yourself or with your whole organization: [link]. Squarespace. For a step by step guide to setting up your listening dashboard , visit: [link]. For a presentation about blogging, facebook and twitter for blind or partially sighted people , visit: [link].

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2012

Schipul, a web marketing agency based in Houston, Texas, announced yesterday during the 2012 South by Southwest Interactive festival that Tendenci, a content management system (CMS) will be released as an open source solution. Tendenci was developed by Schipul especially…. Tech Talk at SXSW.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2011

This means users can share content publicly with subscribers (and privately with their direct contacts). One of the new changes to Facebook is the expansion of Insights, the Facebook analytics tool. One of the biggest changes shaking up Facebook users is the introduction of the Subscribe option.

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