Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Facebook was just getting its first venture funding, YouTube was just starting, and Twitter was still a year away from being founded. Technorati (the first blog search engine at that time). Wikipedia is a community, Craigslist is a community, Moveon.org is a community, eBay for crying out loud is a community. Google Maps.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

They have since published a report on The Real-Time Web and Its Future. The Real-Time Web: it's more than just immediate delivery of Twitter messages to an always-on mobile device, disrupting the concentration that civilization is based on and bringing a rush to crazed social media addicts obsessed with the hottest new buzzwords.

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Care2

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Now answer this, how much time is your organization spending on reaching out to Millennials (people who were born between 1981 and 2000)? Be honest, does your nonprofit create online advocacy and fundraising campaigns that are reactive or proactive? The oldest Millienials are approaching 30 and the youngest are about to be teens.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 30, 2015

The real-time, in the moment nature of social media increases the likelihood that donors will be inspired to give to your nonprofit on cause awareness and giving days provided that your nonprofit knows how to promote them effectively. Cause awareness and giving days can be very powerful for online fundraising. 18: Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Here are some of the stats: Youtube: IBC Videos Watched 1 BILLION+ times = one of the biggest video phenomenon in the history of the Internet. Facebook: 440 million users uploaded IBC videos with over 10 billion views. Wikipedia Searches for ALS : 2.89 Wikipedia Searches for ALS : 2.89 million Twitter mentions.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Maybe you’ve also taken the next step of strengthening your stakeholder community by engaging in back and forth dialog online – whether in existing social spaces like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, or in a custom built online community. Are you ready to take your community to the next level of maturity? Some are huge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Facebook - to stay connected / reach out to potential supporters. Wikipedia - editing articles of films, events, and organizations that we are closely linked to in order to mention our affiliation with them. YouTube - to host trailers and clips of the films we work with. Building an online presence on Social Networking / Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

We need to make the time to blog after hours. Doing a blog involves additional time and energy and some of us won't have this time available. Social Networks: Facebook, Myspace, and many more. He told the story of the founding of wikipedia and the meaning of the Hawaiin word - quickly, quickly. What is Web 2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

On the day that I submitted the final manuscript of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits to McGraw-Hill, Facebook launched Timeline for Pages. There was no time to get in any more final edits and I feared that the book would be terribly out of date by the time it was released. and Web 3.0.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 23, 2022

That’s usually when they start complaining and say that Giving Tuesday is a waste of time. They ARE wasting their time by showing up at the last minute, lamely posting a link asking for money. That gives you enough time to think things through and dig into the details of your campaign, like: 1. They shouldn’t even bother.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A directory of quotes by famous people, this websites list thousands of inspirational quotes useful for Tweeting and Facebook Status Updates. This site provides an incredibly useful breakdown of Facebook users by age, gender, and location.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. However, some nonprofits feel that Second Life is a waste of time and resources. And, Rob gives us a second example of nonprofit organization on Facebook. Christine.Net attended the Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Ranger Rick, the persona of the National Wildlife Federation , has been banished from Facebook! They need your help to bring back Ranger Rick's profile that was recently taken down by Facebook Staff. Help bring back Ranger Rick's profile Email: appeals-comment@facebook.com and ask them to let Ranger Rick exist on Facebook!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The third C, Community, refers to the idea that social media facilitates sustained collaboration around a shared idea, over time and often across space. Since social media encompasses many different types of tools, and each tool has specific characteristics and a steep learning curve, a toolkit approach can quickly become overwhelming.

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Whole Whale

JULY 10, 2021

Facebook : Facebook events can be created from pages but don’t have the same impact of landing on your supporters work calendars. While creating a Facebook event is smart, do it in addition to the above, not instead of. Participate, but don’t let this take too much time! Check your reputation. Timebox it.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

was coined in 2005 and has a Wikipedia page and several bloggers, conferences, and active debates surrounding it. Are the debates about what applications to use and which are a waste of time? These products are entirely virtual and are distributed virtually, so the time from launch to editorial review is instantaneous.

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Care2

JULY 10, 2008

Our clients have the freedom to leave at any time if they are unsatisfied for any reason. Ask about security: are they PCI Compliant (you can look this up on Wikipedia), and if so what level? The best spend as much time reading about Google, FaceBook, and Apple as they do reading the Chronicle of Philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

I discovered that if you google the word "Beth" my blog comes up first in the search results - most of the time. Occasionally, the "Beth" entry for wikipedia comes first or Beth Israel Hospital. Today, a youtube video called " Kiss Beth " appeared third.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A directory of quotes by famous people, this websites list thousands of inspirational quotes useful for Tweeting and Facebook Status Updates. This site provides an incredibly useful breakdown of Facebook users by age, gender, and location.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web. Aradium is a new service that enables nonprofits and small businesses to create and host online stores inside of their Facebook Pages. Facebook Page Barometer :: barometer.agorapulse.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web. Listeners opt-in to receive a phone call at show time and no dial-in is required.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A directory of quotes by famous people, this websites list thousands of inspirational quotes useful for Tweeting and Facebook Status Updates. Listeners opt-in to receive a phone call at show time and no dial-in is required.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

When a trend takes shape in the big city (for instance, for-profit companies), it often takes some time for ?it The giant, ubiquitous donate button (see Figure 1) is definitely something we’ve borrowed from the for-profit “Buy Now” button; I don’t see it going away any time soon. Borrowing For-profit UX. nonprofits).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A directory of quotes by famous people, this websites list thousands of inspirational quotes useful for Tweeting and Facebook Status Updates. This site provides an incredibly useful breakdown of Facebook users by age, gender, and location.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

The most well-known example is Wikipedia , a user-generated encyclopedia which boasts over 6 million entries written and edited by about 30,000 volunteer participants. Wikipedia has become one of the top ten most-visited websites worldwide and is the only one in the top ten that is a non-profit initiative.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

The core idea was brilliant: a list of GPS coordinates throughout the US and western Europe was released on the web, along with dates and times. When people went to the right payphone at the right time with the right puzzle message, they received a call from an actor portraying one of the fictitious characters in the game.

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See3

AUGUST 6, 2007

wikipedia b. Meet people where they are, don’t make MySpace people come to Facebook or try to create groups that cross network platforms. Kimberly Clark makes Kleenex and they heard that Kleenex was going to be shooting a commercial in Times Square. Communication grid so people can talk to each other eg.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2009

On sites like Wikipedia and YouTube, the ratio of spectators to producers is even more pronounced; on sites like Flickr or Facebook, the ratio is lower. And yet ironically, we spend most of our time with participatory projects accentuating how open they are. 1% is a pretty exclusive club.

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