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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Peer-to-peer class campaigns (at least for recent classes) seem like a natural for social media, and I expect we'll start seeing them. Tags: Fundraising Online Fundraising Social Media. I spent the last 3 days at the CASE District VII conference, for schools in AZ, CA, Guam, HI, NV, and UT.

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MAY 25, 2007

I have the honor of leading a workshop for documentary filmmakers. My workshop is called the "Social Media Game: Market yourself and your film using blogging, tagging, wikis, photo sharing and social networking sites." It marks the first time I'm incorporating Twitter in a presentation.

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OCTOBER 28, 2009

I really wanted to attend the " Social Networks Friend for Foe? "at Barely a week goes by that I don’t see at least one status update or tweet from a nonprofit colleague lamenting a hacked personal account, including email, Twitter and Facebook. at UC Berkeley earlier this month, but unfortunately had a conflict.

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DECEMBER 9, 2007

What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? The workshop was an all day workshop , with an opening presentation followed by small group exercise. Before I went on Twittered. What worked? What didn't? Observations.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Colin told me that they recently held a very popular social media workshop for seniors at Cambridge Community Television ( @cctvcambridge ) but that it is a topic that would benefit from more coverage – so, I asked if I could interview him! Social media is a perfect compliment to our public access television channels.

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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? As we move into 2008, one last reflection, what are you lessons learned about Nonprofits and Social Media ? Let's take a look. How do you make easy?

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FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Last week, I did a workshop for a board of a secondary school interested in taking the first steps into social media. In one classroom, I queried the students about their social media use. None of them had heard of Twitter, let alone used it. Maybe Twitter isn???t ll twitter, ???I???m supercommunicators,???

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 19, 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. What do you think? Check it out!

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OCTOBER 26, 2010

Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit and Social Media workshop at the Independent Sector Annual Conference “ Forging A Stronger Future Together &# in Atlanta. Silo Busting: Ironically, I had two people in the workshop who worked for the same organization, but had not met each other!

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OCTOBER 6, 2007

The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. Michelle Murrain adds that she won't sign up until the content is more compelling and the social graph is open. Tag your post with "net2thinktank." And now for a chuckle from LOLnptech about twitter.

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AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Two nptech events were visible in the NpTech tag stream, the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life Launch Party and the Net2 meetup in Houston.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Blogger relations (not to be confused with blogger's relationships like I'm describing above) that is blogger outreach came up as a topic in a workshop I did on social media and the arts last year. Some of this applies to twitter as well. Saying thank you Twitter is easy with a retweet. Tags: relationships.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Despite a broken toe, I facilitated a workshop on Social Media for CEOs of nonprofits and foundation. The Portland Arts and Culture Social Media Convening Workshop. The workshop was a discussion, tweet-festival, and social media community-building exercise. Networked Nonprofit at PRSA in Washington, DC.

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JULY 4, 2011

Unless you are an Internet personality, an organization with a full-time community manager or a professional online content publisher, there is not enough time to succeed in the multitude of social networks AND manage your own social content. Source: Mary Joyce, Digital Activism Workshop - E-Mediat Project.

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OCTOBER 6, 2010

I’ll be on the Twitter back channel following the #netnon hashtag from the Independent Sector Conference in Atlanta.). Networking: Weaving Online and Offline, Strong Ties and Weak Ties. I have been experimenting with how to deliver “networked&# presentations and workshops.

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OCTOBER 8, 2010

On October 21, from 3:30-6:00, I’ll be leading a Networked Nonprofit workshop at the conference. In the for-profit sector, we’re seeing more and more senior managers turn to social networks to keep up with their employees as this study indicates. Tags: Conferences.

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MAY 20, 2010

Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. I started my talk with a story about why I liked Twitter: It allows me to connect with people in my professional field and have a great conversations or ad hoc collaborations that improve practice.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2010

She reminded everyone of the upcoming Nonprofit Technology Conference taking place in Atlanta from April 8-10, which you can follow by searching for #10NTC in Twitter, as well as through NTEN's live streaming and blogging of the event. Tags: Social Networking. Episode 22: Susan Tenby from TechSoup.

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JUNE 25, 2012

I feel the learning is richer and more sticky. Peer exchanges help participants not only form good habits, but they also naturally start to collaborate and work in a networked way. Networked NGOs and Social Media Integrated Into Organizational Communications. Day 2: Integrated Social Media Strategy.

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AUGUST 31, 2009

Our use of social networking has exposed many cultural differences within our organization. Naturally, my colleagues and I have taken the lead in establishing our organizational presence on sites like Facebook, Twitter, Ning and posting to our blog. These two differing cultures recently came to head over social networking.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

Danielle Brigida, NWF Social Media Outreach Coordinator ( @starfocus on Twitter) Note from Beth: In the coming weeks, we're peeking over the shoulder of nonprofit social media practitioners to learn about their work flow and techniques. For nonprofits, that means moving from the transactional to the constant relationships.

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JUNE 28, 2010

I attend a lot of conferences , but mostly as a keynote speaker, workshop leader, or panelist. She trains, coaches, and evangelizes internally on how to use social media. She has also been training staff in the disaster response department who in turn used tools like Twitter on the ground from Haiti. They had social content.

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JANUARY 12, 2008

As a result, I'm publishing a briefer than usual edition of the NpTech Tag Summary because I can only get to fast loading blogs and web sites. and social networking tools? It is important to think about the benefits, objectives, and audience before jumping on the social networking bandwagon. I noticed Soup.io

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

We chose two specific social media networks, Facebook and Twitter, to assist us. Because of this, we updated our website’s budget page and created a shorter url ( cmlibrary.org/budget ) that was easy to distribute through social networks. Tags: NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2009

tags: listening socialmedia ). This is a draft for a listening curriculum that I will be doing for the first time as part of WeAreMedia Workshop later this week. I will also be teaching this workshop for nonprofits in a number of other locations in the coming months. Social Mention. Twitter Search. Google Alerts.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2009

AARP California Twitter Account Last week at the WeAreMedia Workshop, someone asked a question about babyboomers and social media use. Is it only younger people who are using social media. Some recent studies on social media and social networking use and baby boomers show that more and more are adopting social media.

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APRIL 23, 2008

The above slide show was created based on all the information I gathered from my network below. I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. | View | Upload your own. Everyone is a Curator.

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APRIL 11, 2010

In the early days, the event offered a small selection of consulting, on-site training, or actual hardware or local area network auditing projects. We also offered workshops back at the conference location to handle the overflow demand. Tags: 10ntc. We always managed. More check-ins at Omni Hotels Powered by Whrrl.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2011

The webinar, hosted by Jayne Cravens and Erin Barnhart , focused on four tools to use with volunteers — Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and blogs — with an emphasis that the recommendations could be adapted for any social networking tool, including those that may replace these four as most popular in the future.

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DECEMBER 16, 2008

How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Media Genius View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: nonprofit socialmedia ). Here are my slides from the Convio " Social Media for Social Good " for tomorrow. This idea came to me from Twitter. Is there a creative thinking challenge?

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APRIL 11, 2008

For the two months leading up to my brief vacation, I've been doing a lot of training and presenting - chewing on some lessons learned from the America's Giving Challenge , Social Media ROI , and Cute Dogs. In May, and June, I have workshops and presentations to do and want a chance to reflect and muck around inventing.

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OCTOBER 31, 2007

It meant that I missed what Joe Casco had to say about Social Networking Fatique - I hope he blogs it). David Tames and I did a session called crash course on social media tools for filmmakers. I was little nervous because I haven't presented on that topic and hope to develop it into a workshop session geared for nonprofits.

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APRIL 16, 2009

You need to get the big guns involved and the only way to do that is to find the sweet spot between outcomes or goals and demonstrate how the social media strategy supports that." Take for example, the steps outlined in this " Twitter for the Workplace " article. Tags: change management. What are the benefits on the other side?

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MAY 19, 2008

Conference Tag: CU08 ConnectingUp Conference Warning: I am live blogging these notes as the conference unfolds. This year's program is heavily weighted to the "social web" and nonprofits. Doug mentioned attending the NTC/NTEN conference in New Orleans and had RSS and Tagging ringing in his ears. Mike Seyfang responded.

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JANUARY 29, 2009

Flickr Photo by Cursed Thing Last year at this time, I was in Austin, TX doing a keynote workshop for Legal Services Corporation on the ROI of Nonprofit Technology. If you can demonstrate this (like Dell’s million dollar sales in Twitter) tout this loudly to management. Nonprofits have the Social Network Calculator from Care2.

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JANUARY 1, 2009

Social Media Audience Research and Social Network Analysis: I've been tracking social media research snippets for a while, but not in a very well organized way. Mapping Metrics to Social Media Strategy: This wiki will be retooled to go deeper in more specific metrics linked to strategy. I wrote the chapter on ROI.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

run a Twitter feed. These are arguably the most time-consuming of the "cheap" time options, but if you have staff members who are already using these social networks, you can quickly broadcast out to a large group of people (like Twitter) at infrequent points, and provide a place for that group to meet and interact with each other.

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