Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). " My favorite lesson? You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2011

This way, you can build community amongst your volunteers with a private group for sharing lessons, build momentum during a campaign with all your organizers posting to one stream, or create a dynamic blog for your organization with all kinds of media and posts. You do need a Twitter account to use it.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 24, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Social helps you be your own media.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2009

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

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 31, 2012

The Sesame Street show teaches basic lessons through stories of characters in typical situations and common scenarios. Neither Cookie Monster nor Sesame Street would ever really sing the words as they are written to “Call Me Maybe,” but the “Share It Maybe” lyrics are aligned with the lessons (sharing is good!),

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

." Non-profit’s Twitter Interview Questions | twitter-interviews | interviews TechnicaVita Social Media Advice - Does your organization use Twitter? John Carnell, from BullyingUK or @johncarnell on Twitter, is helping organizations share their twitter experiences with each other in this interview series. .

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

The lessons in social media are especially important for organizations working with the public, whether it’s public service or opinion. Over half of the organizations surveyed reported that they do not use Twitter and do not intend to, with only 24% reporting use of the tool. What do you think?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 9, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 17, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Selma vets and young activists must share lessons. Submit a question by Thursday, March 18th and 10 questions will be answered by Jordan and Kristy.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). This month's Net2 Think Tank asks you to share a lesson learned from online fundraising."

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Web Broadcast Arts Bookmarking 120

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 24, 2010

Results & lessons learned. People follow people on Twitter, we have dozens of friends in Facebook, read many blogs, we take an idea about the people we admire, that surprises us, which enriches knowledge. Who or what topics have been more interesting in the TalkingAbout series? as a backdrop. Passes from 2.0 Web: [link].

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 23, 2009

" Is Twitter a Social Network? The key lessons she includes are: 1. We think it helps paint a picture of what worked particularly well and what could be improved in future challenges — both here at the Case Foundation and at other organizations experimenting with similar online competitions." What do you think?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 21, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Web Bookmarking Social Media Austin 126

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 10, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). In Silicon Valley, they say they celebrate failures and their lessons as key to a culture of innovation and success.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 19, 2009

You can also connect with Oakland Local on twitter and facebook. The site offers forums, a directory of 320 local nonprofits and a blog directory of 180 active local bloggers! Getting Local. There’s a lot of very cool activity happening lately around local websites.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

Last March I met Joe Solomon and the Social Actions team through twitter. Do you have any lessons learned or stories you can share with other social entrepreneurs? Tapping into the (right) community is also an important lesson I learned this time around. Where did the idea for OpenAction begin? What else are you working on?

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Web Bookmarking Case Study Map 114

Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). " Read all of the lessons Carol learned – and I'd love to hear what you learned! NonProfit 2.0 Unconference is coming to Washington, D.C.,

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Web Bookmarking Social Media Advocacy 114

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 13, 2009

So you’ve heard about Facebook, Twitter, and other online social networking sites. tools or looking to share your social media successes and lessons learned, please stop by and add your voice to the conversation: [link]. You know your organization should use social media, but you’re not sure where to start. Have any questions?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

I wanted to use today to focus in on a question recently posed by my good friend Joe Solomon on Twitter : What are the nonprofit/orgs that are working 2 wire the green movement, like what @ netsquared does 4 nonprofits, @ sunfoundation for politics; which orgs are working to expose data, leverage soc media, connect the orgs together?

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2010

This website has been a great place for me to post ideas and share lessons learned, store content from presentations, and share resources. And, I hope it will come as no surprise to any of you when I say that I’m hoping to make it an open process! I want to ensure that what you all are saying gets a lot more visibility.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 29, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Even though the authors (Kathy Baughman and Steve Hershberger) are focused on for-profit brands, the lessons ring true across sectors. "If

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Haiti Web Bookmarking Case Study 114

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 11, 2011

One of the biggest lessons from my experience running contests and watching the crowdsourcing phenomenon expand online is that if you don’t have access to a tipping point of people, you won’t get the responses or participation you’re after. If you have, you certainly aren’t alone.

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Contest Platform Proposal FAQ 137

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Amongst 11-25 year olds, Facebook is trailed by Bebo (28%), MySpace (25%), Twitter (12%), MSN (9%), YouTube (2%) and “other” (4%). What lessons or examples do you want to share? So, throw a party or two, and have fun! What do you think? Comment here, or visit the original post at SSIR here.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

And that’s an important lesson to learn. What we saw was that by 9 pm on January 12th we were able to launch the program and for the next thee days people only found out about it from Twitter and facebook and so many shared it. Don’t expect to snap your fingers and have people praise your brilliance.

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Discussion Generation Donor Structure 211

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

We can see (and learn a valuable lesson about) the way current ecosystem of social media works in regards to transparency, data, and community. What’s this mean to you as an activist, supporter, volunteer, changemaker, entrepreneur, innovator or *insert preferred title* online? Well, it means a lot.

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Myspace Causes Philanthropy Offline 108

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

You can read the summary of how the free agent community came together to self-organize and create a public action as well as a full report of the lessons learned and reflections on the #TakeBackThePink campaign in this public google doc. 10 Lessons from Community-Driven Organizing. What do you think? Would love to learn from you!

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Reflection Doc Lesson Cancer 150

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

What : This is a chance for local organizers to share stories and lessons learned and network with those considering starting a group. I will also be using Twitter and blogs during the event: Twitter @amyrsward and @NetSquared as well as this blog and the NetSquared Blog. Local Community Organizers (#localco). When : 10:30 a.m.

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NTC Netsquared NGO API 126

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Have you tried a Twitter campaign with donations per tweet? What lessons would you share – what questions would you like to ask Sloane? Has your organization looked to partner with another organization or a company (the way the Dan Marino Foundation partnered with Samsung – with dedicated matching funds) for a campaign?

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Interview Pledge Foundation Campaign 184

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

As for tactics, well, we mostly relied on “proven” or “successful” efforts; lessons learned from other organizations working in an analog paradigm like government, unions, and churches. Analog Tactics. We sought out case studies or examples that reinforced much of how we already operated.

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Slides Nptech Digital Case Study 213

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 28, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). The JustGiving team is always great about sharing stories, lessons, and insights – so I'll be watching to see how this new tool goes!

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