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Predictions for 2009

Amy Sample Ward

Developers, consultants, experts and users all like to weigh in with their predictions for 2009’s big developments, innovations and attempts for the coming year. Yesterday, at Make Your Mark’s Social Media Afternoon, I was asked what my predictions were. So, here are my 2009 Predictions for the Social Web.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people. Citizen-Powered Response.

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2009 eCampaigning Review Released

Amy Sample Ward

I also referenced the report in my latest presentation slides about social media use by individuals in nonprofit organizations.). Only 43% of actions linked to background information. People may want more background information but that’s because they are interested! Download Reports.

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Social Media Gurus Offer Their Predictions for 2009: A Few That Might Resonate With Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Lucy Bernholz has been sharing her predictions for philanthropy and buzzwords for 2009. Peter Kim asked a group of social media experts in business for their predictions about social media for 2009. predicts the shrinkage of the social graph. We'll adopt a less is more approach with our information coping skills.

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How To Put Social Fundraising On Steroids: Community Giving Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How To Marry Social Media with Fundraising. Social fundraising is when your nonprofit integrates tried and true fundraising techniques with social media to inspire your supporters to raise money from their networks on your behalf. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Cultivate and cheer on champions for your cause.

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Social Media Listening: You Don’t To Be Joey Chestnut on the 4th of July!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

His total for the day was 64 hot dogs. In 2009, he won again, beating his own record by consuming 68 hot dogs. It’s the same sort of discomfort that some people feel about approaching the task of listening for learning using the social web. It’s one thing to have it written in a social media policy.

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Becoming A Social Media Savvy Nonprofit, Nurturing A Social Culture Through Personal Use

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The first steps are simple once you have policy/philosophy in place and the right mix of bottom up/top down adoption or acceptance of social media. Here's how the Red Cross handbook states it: Step 1: Get Social Media Savvy Initiate personal social media use: Explore the tools you’d like to adopt by using them in your personal life first.