Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 29, 2010

A recent comment from Ichi (working on social media for good in Japan w/ SocialCompany.org ) asked after the tools I was using on this blog to bring in comments via Twitter. Automatically retrieve Twitter Replies and/or Twitter Retweets to your Blog’s Posts. Tags: blogging howto plugins twitter wordpress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

NpTech Conversations. Twitter's CEO has learned that short is sweet, flexibility is essential, and applications shoudl work so that people don't have to be at their computer all day long. Nate Ritter gives a brilliant example of how Twitter could help save the lives of missing children. So, you want to build a MashUp?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

I've been asking myself how can we leverage the addition of nonprofits and charities on the Twitter Suggested User List? I followed the ant trails to the Chronicle of Philanthropy blog post today asking the question, Should Twitter Recommend More Charities? saying that Twitter was now a “king maker”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2009

Youth Haven't Adopted Twitter in Drives. On Sunday, if you were tuning into Twitter you might have noticed the TWTRCON tag trending. The tweets were from a business conference focused on Twitter. Some Twitter Tidbits plucked from the TWTRCON stream (and beyond). I have it on video). ease up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2009

It got me thinking about managing multiples: multiple twitter accounts, multiple people tweeting from one account, and how do you tweet a network of affiliates or a movement. There are no official rules, although there is some great advice in the O'Reilly Twitter Book on this topic for corporate examples.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 10, 2009

Where: Twitter (search for #4Change ). Starting the Conversations. Unfortunately for me, I will unable to join the chat this Thursday; so, I’d like to offer some conversation starters now to get you thinking of questions, ideas, and stories you want to share! Join the Conversation. Details: Date: August, 13th.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

A little while ago, we got a question from a client about Twitter. They have the basics down pat: they know the lingo, and they understand the importance of conversation. But they were curious about what kind of content they should tweet, and how to strike the right balance between carrying on conversation and self-promotion.

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MARCH 31, 2012

On Twitter The NTC conversation on Twitter is already picking up speed. You can follow along with this handy hashtag guide: #12NTC: The main tag for the conference. We’ll show the Twitter stream as we play the music in the Grand Ballroom before plenaries and lunches. All session tags start with #12NTC.

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MAY 8, 2009

Folks used "09ntc" as the primary tag when publishing information and media about the conference online. All Delicious-ly tagged 09ntc. Twitter #09ntc conversation stream (it's still going!). David Neff posted lots of notes, video, and conversations around the ntc. Google Blog Search for all 09ntc.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 7, 2009

Where: Twitter (search for #4Change ). However these conversations are less international and therefore less effective than they could be. We need a platform for light-weight, easily-organized and openly accessible conversations involving people from numerous countries. Twitter, I believe, provides us with such a platform.

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Sure they have tweaks in technology to work through to make stream organization and circle management more intuitive. Established social sharing model (blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, etc.): I might segment my content by category or tag. I can even try and hide content based on category or tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

During the past few weeks, Twitter has been down or out due to stress. To learn more about Twitter scaling issues read this interview by Jesse Stay. In the last few weeks, there has been posts about how conversations have shifted to FriendFeed. In addition, a lot of ad hoc conversation and informal resource sharing unfolded.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

The Net2 Secret Plan from Marnie Webb NpTech Tag New Year's Reflections, Predictions, and Best Ofs What are some of the ways that the social web marks the New Year? The main reason I'm still tagging is for retrieval when asked for a resource on and to write this summary. On blogs, comments are the conversation.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2009

You can follow the session on Twitter at: [link]. I’m going to be helping the panel by moderating the Twitter conversation and pulling questions out from the stream to ask the panel. Tags: beth kanter sxsw events. Holly Ross - NTEN. HOW TO PARTICIPATE.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The cards and other props are there to stimulate conversation – and that always works. The official Twitter stream is cr_event , and you should be able to follow tweets tagged #cr09 through a search here. Tags: events chainreaction conference cr09 event game london socialbysocial. Follow us, too! socialbysocial.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The cards and other props are there to stimulate conversation – and that always works. The official Twitter stream is cr_event , and you should be able to follow tweets tagged #cr09 through a search here. Tags: events chainreaction conference cr09 event game london socialbysocial. Follow us, too! socialbysocial.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2009

Photo by Esparta A few weeks ago I did a book giveaway for the Twitter Book. Readers from nonprofits who wanted to a chance to win a copy of the book had to leave a comment saying how they were using Twitter and how they hoped to improve their results. Here's my shot at the answers: How is your organization currently using Twitter?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2009

This is my first time attending the huge event and I’m already quite overwhelmed by all the people and conversations converging around me. You can always reach me on email or Twitter - or follow this blog and my Twitter stream for updates. Tags: conference sxsw events. Let’s connect! Saturday, March 14.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

To dive into the conversations about Causes, visit my earlier post , or posts by Marshall Kirkpatrick , Ivan Boothe , Beth Kanter , and Joe Solomon.). The most important parts of the conversation around Causes do not actually focus on Causes, specifically. Tags: community issues challenges competitions shutdown socialmedia.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 19, 2010

The hashtag, as defined by Twitter , was created because Twitter provided no easy way to group tweets or add extra data. Since Twitter did not develop this capability into its system, the community came up with their own way: hashtags. A hashtag is similar to other web tags: it is metadata that helps add tweets to a category.

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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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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Live: Participatory Events, Webinars, Conversations, Local and Global. Tweetchats — A TweetChat room opens with a hashtag like our recent #NPtagging conversation. Anyone who uses the designated tag on Twitter automatically becomes a part of the ongoing global conversation on that topic of interest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

The messages included pleas for support or retweeting the news, but beyond that the stream included pleas from people on the ground in Haiti asking for emergency assistance or letting loved ones and friends know they’re okay. Tags: Conferences Experimentation. Hope you will too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. Set up a twitter account. Don't forget to sign up the feeds on the agreed tag. Photo by SpacePotato.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

To dive into the conversations about Causes, visit my earlier post , or posts by Marshall Kirkpatrick , Ivan Boothe , Beth Kanter , and Joe Solomon.). The most important parts of the conversation around Causes do not actually focus on Causes, specifically. Tags: community issues challenges competitions shutdown socialmedia.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 14, 2010

A video that actually empowers constituents to take action and interact with your organization is key to a conversational video. . Then you can think holistically about the content and how your video can create conversation. . Feedback can also come in the form of video conversations. Convey real purpose. Define the need.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 23, 2010

I’ve used it in conferences where you want to be able to pool resources, slides, and conversations into one place. Tags: webtools 10ntc review the extraordinaries tools twitter. But what about the use in emergency response or breaking news? What do you think? What would you improve and what did you like best?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 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. Anecdotely, I see a lot of blogs and Flickr photo streams, some YouTube and Vimeo use. " Check it out! ."

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2009

How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live - TIME - There's a great article in Time about Twitter, and what the community of Twitter users has done to make the tool more than first meets the eye. "In "In short, the most fascinating thing about Twitter is not what it's doing to us.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Check out her live tweet stream and the highlights from the conversation. It’s Time to Focus on Volunteers’ Results - Philanthropy.com - Evan Hochberg has a terrific post on Philanthropy.com starting an important conversation on what to do about all this focus on volunteering and service. "Government,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2010

Take Twitter for example. It is an in-person meeting of Twitter users. The benefits of hosting a Tweetup include deeper relationships, lead generation, or more exposure. It can be a good way to meet your Twitter followers or identify who in your existing audience is using Twitter. What’s A Tweet Up?

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Whole Whale

MAY 12, 2020

Remember to tag the guest and any companies mentioned to increase the potential for engagement and comments. You can also use your business page but the reach will be more limited as will the conversation lift. MAKE sure to tag the guests or anyone you think might find the episode. Personal LinkedIn. Auto-post on Social.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

A key point about how difficult it is for most non-profits to shift from message delivery to conversation and advice about being patience. Tag your post with "net2thinktank." Alexandra Samuel has a great idea for using twitter - provide updates on how you've changed the world! " Nonprofits and Web2.0 mean for you?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2009

The goal is to use the power of "Social Influence" via Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Blogs and other online media to raise an unprecedented amount for our fund benefiting The Humane Society, LIVESTRONG, Oxfam America and WWF from June 1st until August 28th, 2009." " Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2009

I threw the urls into a google spreadsheet and started to browse the Twitter streams to get a better understanding of the content shared. (It In an earlier post , I found the following types of patterns related to content shared on Twitter. . The next step was look at the Twitter profiles. It wasn't useless babble !).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. Just A Few Good Resources Plucked from the NpTech Tag Stream and Kikino. How To Feed Your Blog To Twitter shows you an easy way to stream a presence on twitter and if you don't know about Twitter, read the 12-Minute Guide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2009

A few weeks back I met Melinda Venable, Associate Director Digital and Ethnic Media at Resource Media who told me about the ClimateChangeUS Twitter strategy. . The Twitter account was started with a focused goal of raising awareness about the release of the Global Climate Impacts in the United States report last June.

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