Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 18, 2010

A free agent changemaker having success fundraising with Twitter. I thought that the Twitter feed @abolishcancer, which is the entire org, except for the blog, would be strictly focused on developing a following that had one thing in common- to fight cancer. Tags: case studies fundraising cancer health twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

While I was there, I got a tour, visited some classrooms, and talked to a few students. In one classroom, I queried the students about their social media use. None of them had heard of Twitter, let alone used it. I thought it would have been a cinch to get my wired family twittering like parakeets. Maybe Twitter isn???t

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. Participants will share what they are grateful for through Twitter and other online media and attend gratitude parties around the world. What is Epic Change?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. Participants will share what they are grateful for through Twitter and other online media and attend gratitude parties around the world. What is Epic Change?

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

And that’s just on one channel; think about Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, TikTok, and more. Challenges: In a challenge fundraiser, participants volunteer to complete a pre-determined task, record and share the challenge on social media, tag the next person to complete the challenge, and, of course, submit a donation online.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 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). " Twitter tactics – Louder.org.uk The Wikimedia Foundation, which finances and oversees the nonprofit site, received a $1.2

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 13, 2008

Pacific is First to Integrate Facebook and Twitter into e2Campus Emergency Notification System - Pacific University, in Forest Grove, OR, USA, is the first university in the US to integrate Facebook and Twitter into the emergency response system for alerting staff and students in times of emergency.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Last year, bloggers big and small raised $270,000 to provide 65,000 students with the resources needed to learn. This year, Twitter has joined the fray. At Socialbrite, we’d like to call on our readers to support students in public school classrooms in low-income areas. The cool part?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2009

Students experience the interdisciplinary and collaborative development of user interface solutions in international software projects while getting into FLOSS development." " Tags: roundup bookmarks. These are some links I wanted to share from May 6th. Find me on Delicious for more!

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

You can follow her on Twitter at @tseelig. Connect and combine things in unusual ways Example: She gave her students an assignment to combine two household items and create something with a new function. But if you asked, "Why do we use name tags?" Seelig shared 9 things she believes can increase your creativity: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2010

This type of encouragement actually backfires, since it leads students to see mistakes as signs of stupidity and not as the building blocks of knowledge.&#. I finally had the right audience to share the c-word on Twitter mistake story that I had read about over the summer thanks to Wendy Harman. Tags: Experimentation Failure.

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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). 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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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 28, 2008

I actually didn't know, so I asked my Twitter network. Twitter is a micro-blogging and social networking tool. Thanks Twitter pals! More Twitter suggestions since I published this post @helenrf of Reach Further teaches writing online with Moodle, but also suggests WordPress blogs and forums. Tags: askbritt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2010

They had started using Twitter about six months ago and found one of her new Twitter followers was Kate Specchio (@ ecsfoundation ), co-founder of Morris County-based The Emily C. Through their conversation on Twitter, Amy recognized the potential for working together. Tags: Capacity. Specchio Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Guest Post by Claire Williams, Twitter. Here at Twitter, we believe in being a force for good. If you’re really excited, you can even buy Fledgling wine – the wine Twitter and Room to Read made together to support Room to Read. I then went on to lead social innovation at Twitter; she went on to study medicine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

Let’s consider the list of most used forms: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google+ (assuming all continues to go well), LinkedIn, FourSquare, Gowalla, StumbleUpon, Tumblr, and your own site. This is a big issue for teachers who don’t want to friend their students for obvious reasons. I found it overwhelming!

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Earlier this week, I first learned about Amit Gupta and his story from a twitter post. There is also a hashtag dialog on Twitter under the tag #iswabbedforamit. Jennifer and the Stanford student team are dedicated to getting 100,000 people signed up for the national bone marrow donor registry. Guest Post by Porter Gale.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Anyone can be a landowner of this prime real estate just like the creators of Twitter whose property reportedly has a one billion dollar valuation. The students sent their first tweets from the TweetsGiving classroom built from your gratitude." " Tags: roundup bookmarks. As we inch closer to Web 3.0,

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Anyone can be a landowner of this prime real estate just like the creators of Twitter whose property reportedly has a one billion dollar valuation. The students sent their first tweets from the TweetsGiving classroom built from your gratitude." " Tags: roundup bookmarks. As we inch closer to Web 3.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2011

In early January, the American Museum of Natural History announced that it would hold a Brain Tweetup for 75 of its Twitter followers. En route, I caught myself making sideways glances at their name tags, perhaps wondering if we followed each other on Twitter. Notes from a Tweetup by Jay Geneske.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Even better if you can tag the individual or do their Twitter handle. In this Twitter example below, the school is also encouraging the alumni network to RT this alum’s accomplishment. Be sure to use compelling photos and other visuals. Notice the engagement in the comments, with people tagging each other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I follow Vicky Davis's blog, CoolCat Teacher Blog (one of my favorites, in fact her feed is in my "Circle of the Wise" folder) and she is also a twitter contact I follow. Lately, almost all her twittering is about her new obsession, the Horizon Project as well as a few blog posts. How were the tagging standards developed?

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NTEN

JUNE 17, 2009

Normally, I'd include NTEN member accolades in my weekly round-ups, but there were just so many NTEN folks represented on Mashable's list of the 75+ Environmentalists you should follow on Twitter , I figured it merited its very own post. The Student Conservation Association : @the_sca. The Wilderness Society : @wilderness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2008

I'm remembering some tagging ice breakers I've used both online and offline that incorporate the concept of social bookmarking and tagging that I've used. Pistachio (Laura Fitton) recently asked for suggestions about assignments that could be given to a college class to help students "get twitter."

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Now, many see the downsides, including crushing student debt along large numbers of credentialed people with few open jobs. Unlike medicine, which graduates slightly more students than residency seats, museum studies programs graduates scores more students than spaces. Like medicine, we, in effect, have few job openings.

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Forum One

JUNE 16, 2009

In 2008 TwitterVoteReport attempted to provide real-time election monitoring as US citizens posted voting experiences to their Twitter feeds. Twitter and social media hacktivists are once again changing the landscape. Qualities that make Twitter seem inane & half-baked are what make it so powerful.? Twitter: #iranelection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2009

By chance this morning, I discovered the blog of my one twitter followers, Sumitroy001 who works with ngos and social media in India. The goal of this course is to expose students to visualization methods and techniques that increase the understanding of complex data. Tags: visual thinking.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 15, 2011

Disclaimer Wednesday, June 15, 2011 Making the Play: Successfully Engaging Youth Within the Nonprofit Sector posted by David "DJ" Heyward , American Humanics Student / Team MPhasis Coach Many of us in the nonprofit sector work specifically with children and young adults. How does your nonprofit organization engage youth?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

The movie also includes a mostly true scene featuring Zuckerberg’s anger-fueled all-night coding and hacking session at Harvard which produced Facemash , a site allowing viewers to vote on the attractiveness of female students which yielded 22,000 votes in one day, demonstrating the incredible coding abilities of then 20-year-old Zuckerberg.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

I still don't know of that many nonprofits using Friendfeed , though, whether as an overall tool or for joining the "nptech" community conversation ( "nptech" is a tag that Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, and others have been using to tag nonprofit technology resources on delicious, twitter, etc., One of those venues is Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

Where together with their partner, Net Impact , EDF embeds trained MBA students who identify energy efficiency improvements that can cut costs and reduce emissions. Strategy documents are put in google documents or blogged, they ask for feedback via Twitter. Tags: transparency. This is an open and transparent network.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Even better, nonprofits are giving back to the web analytics community because our experienced analysts work directly with “student learners” so that they can gain valuable “hands on” interaction with web data. . Joining Analysis Exchange is completely free and the entire process takes about three weeks beginning to end.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2010

Harvard University did an experiment with having students use it to explore the campus. In another curious social networking twist of fate, a colleague introduced me to Matt, who is his spare time is wrote a novel on Twitter. (I Tags: location. Or you could have your supporters add nonprofit locations and tips to Foursquare.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 20, 2013

For a while now, social media’s no longer seen as simply a fad of teens and college students. We shouldn’t see the same post each day on our Facebook timeline or Twitter feed. Anyone with an internet connection uses social media in one way or another–and that isn’t likely to change any time soon. Avoid Monotony. Share and Share Alike.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Then be sure to tag it "stopcyberbullying" so we can aggregate it. -. Talk with your families, your colleagues, your students, your neighbors - we could all benefit from. of everything that's been tagged "stopcyberbullying. people contribute their own content and tag it, the number of resources will.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 25, 2014

Did your donation dollars allow schools to bring students to your educational programming for free last year? Tag your targets in your CRM so you send them specialized messaging or, if you don’t have that information, send mission focused messaging to targeted zip codes or to attendees of programming that attracted a younger audience.

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