Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 13, 2008

Roundup: 50 suggestions for how President-elect Obama can use the Internet to govern | Social Signal - Interesting ideas, some more doable than others of course, for how social media could be put to use under the Obama presidency. Check out how Tyson agreed to donate 70,000 lbs of food!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2008

I thought I had posted this case study from the NTC 08 Panel called "Social Media Case Study Slam" already, but looks like I didn't. This case study is by Danielle Brigida from the NWF and her experience using Digg and StumbleUpon for generating traffic. | View | Upload your own. Some great insights.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

One of the most common questions I'm asked as a social media consultant is, "Which tool is the best?" If you have a do-good project, or a small nonprofit that you want to promote, fundraise for, or build an online community around using social media, your first step is to create a plan. Raise awareness? Build web traffic?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2009

This Tuesday The Chronicle of Philanthropy will host another free online discussion about how nonprofits can use social media. Wendy Harman , the social-media manager at the American Red Cross, in Washington, DC.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 25, 2009

If you missed The Chronicle of Philanthropy's June 23 online discussion Using Social Networks to Promote Good Causes , the transcript is now available. Wendy Harman , the social-media manager at the American Red Cross, in Washington, DC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

On Friday, I tripped down the rabbit hole of Google + field test with many other social media early adopters and nonprofit technology (#nptech folks) who were kicking the tires. Google + is Google’s new social sharing platform. The social network market place is already competitive on the second tier below Facebook.

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Care2

JULY 29, 2010

Here is the short list of the social media sites that are included in our analysis: Facebook. StumbleUpon. Match Rate: The anticipated match rate for Social Network Tracker data append is 70% to 80%. Social media is a key space to deepen those relationships. LiveJournal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

The month of October we've been focusing on building out the Nonprofit Social Media Tool Box and awarding t-shirts to contributors! Week Three of the We Are Media Toolbox begins!    We're talking about tools like Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit and others. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Submitted by Steve MacLaughlin, publisher of Connections For a while now I've been talking with a lot of nonprofits about using social media and social networking in their organizations. many organizations are initially focusing on using social media as a communication and awareness tool. Social networking matters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Flickr Photo: Illustration of Participant's Learning Questions Earlier this month, we piloted the first two-day workshop on social media strategy and tools for NTEN 's WeAreMedia project. I wonder whether face-to-face workshop delivery is the best approach for ultimately helping people put a social media strategy into practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Media Genius View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Here are my slides from the Convio " Social Media for Social Good " for tomorrow. Convio asked me to prepare something for organizations that are just getting ready to embrace social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

The slide showing SlideShare's popularity metrics and goals sheds some light on metrics for social media. The last section of the slide show offers ten lessons on social design - for interface designers. Will google set it free in 2007 ? The rest of the slide show talks about four models for popularity.

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MARCH 27, 2008

She asked the audience how many people use formal ROI evaluations with regard to social media efforts. Danielle Brigida from NWF presented a case study on Digg and StumbleUpon. In StumbleUpon, she saw results from being the source of quality, relevant info. ROI” as the title of a session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. " What do you think about measuring social media? A few more good links about strategy for social news sites. NTEN's Call for NTC Sessions - Deadline October 24th.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" But how should nonprofits track their social media? What tools should they use?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg. When someone shares it with them using an AddThis like button on the bottom of the post. When another blogger links to it on their blog. Blogs can increase the search ranking of your website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Social Media tools during your time with The Nature Conservancy. I was (and still am) so convinced that social media and web 2.0 Luckily enough, one of the most interesting parts of engaging in social media is how you can measure just about everything that you do. StumbleUpon. What were the concerns?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

Today, I am moderating a panel at SXSW about Social Media Nonprofit ROI in the format of a poetry slam. A creative report on non-profits, social media, and effective ROIs delivered as poetry slam and expertly judged including interactive crowd participation. SXSW Poetry Slam Slides View more presentations from kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm doing a session at Boston podcamp called the Social Media Metrics/ROI Game. And, above all, the session needs to be a conversation about Social Media, not a lecture. There is a lot of discussion on the topic on web strategy blogs and from social media strategy gurus like Owyang.

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NetWits

JUNE 7, 2011

Takeaway: While Facebook is important for inclusion, it is not the end-all, be-all of social sharing. Interesting to me, though, is that “Other&# (which includes blogging, StumbleUpon & Digg ) and Twitter –mostly open networks–have higher average clicks than private networking tools Facebook and email, at 5.3

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

If you'd like to be eligible to win a free copy of Tamar's book, leave a comment explaining why your nonprofit's community rules and your secrets to success in marketing on the social web. And, if you want to participate in the Nonprofit Social Media community, WeAreMedia , there's a Webinar next week - more here.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

And if nothing else, it's worth a whole lot of social engagement. In the realm of social media, this infographic , Storytelling One Frame at a Time , explores just how photos and videos are ruling social media, and why you should jump on this social bandwagon if you haven't already.

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