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. On Twitter , look up hashtags that your community uses and follow them to track conversations. Here are some Twitter-specific tools: Twitalyzer. Creating Buzz. hashtags.org.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 15, 2022

Social listening is the process of tracking online conversations in order to better understand what people are saying about a given topic. By tracking relevant conversations, you can get insights into the demographics of the people most interested in your cause as well as the topics they’re talking about. Twitter Listening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2012

I’m headed to Rwanda to participate in a training for the ACE project, a network of African Women’s Leadership organizations in the Sub-Saharan region. Over the next two weeks, I will be sharing what I learn about the connections of networks, networked approaches, and social media for Women’s Rights NGOs in Africa.

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Forum One

JULY 11, 2023

Meta launched its response to Twitter last week, Threads. To put this into perspective, this growth rate makes it the fastest-growing app ever (even faster than ChatGPT, TikTok, and Instagram), and this massive rush of users brings Threads’ audience size to nearly 30% of Twitter’s total audience of around 330 million.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 28, 2020

At an in-person, live event, networking often just happens. These impromptu networking opportunities are not possible at a virtual event. It can seem difficult to think of networking ideas for your virtual event, but we’re here to help. Virtual Networking Ideas. Virtual Scavenger Hunt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Dan Michel, Digital Marketing Manager, Feeding America Twitter: @dpmichel. I thought it would useful to have a more in-depth conversation in the Zoetica Salon with Dan so we could delve into KPIs for social media. One KPI ( Key Performance Indicators ) they use for their social media strategy is share of conversation.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 26, 2014

And what’s this I hear about teens leaving Facebook for other social networks, is this true? On when the best time is to post to your social media feeds, check out this inforgraphic for more detailed information about that. 23% of Twitter users make less than $30,000 per year. But what social platform are they on the most?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Note from Beth: I’ve learned a lot about how to cultivate your professional network so it returns value by reading Porter Gale’s Your Network is Your Networth over the summer. It is about how you cultivate and develop your network. The other day I witnessed the result of feeding and tuning a network.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Unsurprisingly, other networks followed suit. From Twitter to Pinterest to Instagram to LinkedIn, social networks are becoming environments where video content not only thrives, but is expected. Another consideration is that around 80% of videos in social feeds are watched with the sound off. Timeliness Is Everything.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2014

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. The short version is, Facebook has the ability to make you feel good or bad, just by tweaking what shows up in your news feed.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

KD Paine and I had the pleasure of interviewing the Arlene McCrehan social media team at Goodwill for our soon to be launched book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Goodwill uses measurement and learning in its evolution into a networked nonprofit. One of their newest experiments is a Twitter campaign, #150jobs.

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TechImpact

JUNE 18, 2014

While it’s true social media’s an important component of a successful content marketing strategy, we’re here today to clear up a few misconceptions about the various social networks, and the impact they have on your nonprofit. Social media feeds are about creating meaningful conversation and connections with people.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 21, 2021

During isolation, many people reported that it was nice to feel like someone is having a conversation with you, about topics you find interesting. These rooms can be open to everyone, limited to just your followers, or closed for invite-only conversations. Enter: Clubhouse. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

This week we've had a lively discussion about Module 2: Participate in the Conversation. I've been observing how he uses the Chronicle of Philanthropy's Twitter Feed to participate. How is the Chronicle using Twitter to participate? Our use of Twitter has evolved considerably over the past few months.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 16, 2012

She is the founder of Feed Me Darling, a business that helps professional women eradicate food cravings and gain lasting control over emotional eating. Feeding people. The fourth blogger in this run of the Have Fun, Do Good guest post series is the delicious Meg Worden (I say delicious because I love her e-cookbook, Salad Alchemy).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2021

That said, the number of businesses fighting for their attention in their inboxes and on their news feeds may have left them feeling a bit fatigued. DonorPerfect will scan your donors’ email addresses and pull links to their pages into their record and even allow you to interact with them on Twitter while you use DonorPerfect.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2019

While Facebook and Twitter may be waning a bit in popularity and usage, visual storytelling platform Instagram keeps growing in engagement and daily time spent on the site. . Mobilizing your individual supporters to leverage their Instagram networks to raise money is a great way to reach new donors. Well, it depends!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2008

I met Ian Kennedy who is the product manager at MyBlogLog, a blogger social network. " An activity stream is a feed of recent activities by your blog friends on various social networks - blog posts, new photos, bookmarks on Delicious, Facebook updates, Twitter updates, etc.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

We've been reflecting on all the great conversations we had with people from around the country (and around the world) on how new media is and/or might enhance their work. . Is it simply the number of followers you have on Twitter, or how many people "like" you on Facebook? Conference on AIDS. Plan ahead. Make it personal.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

By now, you've probably heard all the benefits of building a social media presence on Facebook or Twitter. So what's the secret to maintaining a popular Facebook profile or Twitter account? Not sure if your followers are paying attention to you on Twitter? Want to get started on Twitter but don't know where to start?

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 20, 2021

But, just because your attendees aren’t in the same room, it doesn’t mean that you can’t bring them together for a conversation. Not only can live chat be used to boost networking opportunities between attendees, but it can be a way for attendees to interact with presenters and speakers. Create Networking Opportunities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Twitter Lists: A Natural Evolution of Internet List Culture. It also enabled the WWW Virtual Library to scale in terms of server capacity and allow for a distributed network of volunteer librarians. Twitter lists lets you curate your followers and keep connected to smaller affinity groups of your choosing. Gopher Screen Capture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2008

It gives an opportunity for the audience to have a conversation with audience around programming. She also mentioned how they were beginning to experiment with Twitter. They are setting up twitter accounts linked to programmatic areas and affinity groups. She talked about the Panorama project on their site. It's a talk show!"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Since I’m working on an array of subjects over the past five years, I have a lot of them in my RSS reader and Twitter lists or I find them via keyword scans.) Key skills and tools may include search on Google, social media channels, and bookmarks. It gave me space to give social media use some mindful attention.

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Media Cause

APRIL 2, 2021

This builds trust and a sense of belonging among a network of people with shared interests, all while deepening an authentic relationship between brand and supporter. If a current event is happening, it’s important to decide if and how to enter the conversation. You can then create a process to regularly observe these accounts.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. New networks are emerging everywhere. What is this new network-centric world?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 23, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Today, on every measure of growth and engagement, Twitter is growing at a record pace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 20, 2021

But, just because your attendees aren’t in the same room, it doesn’t mean that you can’t bring them together for a conversation. Not only can live chat be used to boost networking opportunities between attendees, but it can be a way for attendees to interact with presenters and speakers. Create Networking Opportunities.

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Whole Whale

MAY 12, 2020

You can also use your business page but the reach will be more limited as will the conversation lift. Each person sends hundreds of emails a week to people in your company’s immediate network. Our podcast became a quick way to learn about the complex issue and was shared significantly on Twitter. Cast Feed Validator by Blubrry.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

I want to keep these chats associated with the #4change network so that more people can find and participate, we can more directly share across other topics, and these chats can stay bundled together with anything/everything else that comes next in the growth and evolution of #4change, whether as part of the larger Internet4Change or not.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 19, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. It's about having a CONVERSATION with people who care about your work and can help you reach your goals.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. PDT Beth and Allison will celebrate with a virtual book party on U-Stream and Twitter (#netnon). At 4:00 p.m.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2015

Cause awareness days can be very powerful for fundraising because social network communities are highly likely to promoting your nonprofit on cause awareness days. Experiment with at least one new social network. Also, now ten years into social networking, online communities are becoming more niche-oriented and mobile.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. to quickly share links to blog posts, advocacy and fundraising campaign on social networks. However, just today a.ly

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Photo by Andy Field I think Chris Brogan said that the secret to Twitter is listening (or search), not blasting your message out. I'm starting with Twitter (don't know what Twitter is? How is the conversation around your organization, issue area, or program changing? How many feeds? Are you currently on Twitter?

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The increasing popularity of social networking, blogs and social media on the web validates this point nicely – People are talking about you, but is your nonprofit listening to them? We can respond, participate in a conversation, build relationships with others, debunk a rumor or correct misinformation, help someone out, and much more.

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