Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 23, 2011

Facebook vs. Twitter vs. … Part 1: T… – Lithosphere Community – "Michael was voted a 2010 Influential Leader by CRM Magazine for his work on predictive social analytics and its application to Social CRM. " Library Value Calculator | Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library – I love this!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

The messages or story is created and shared: Metrics are related to the process of producing or sharing the desired message or story. The story is shared via an intermediary – journalists, bloggers, or influencers: Metrics reflecting the sharing of the message with the target audience.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

I was interviewed recently by Petra Kroon , a blogger focused on social media and entrepreneurship in The Netherlands, in which she asked some really great questions, including what I thought the trend would be for social entrepreneurship in 2010 as well as where we may be in 25 years. Find out more about the conference here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

A Cycling Blogger @ fatcyclist sent the Manager of Lance Armstrong’s racing team @ johanbruyneel a resume. The story only gets better from here. You can follow the story at www.fatcyclist.com , or you can just go join the people making it happen by donating here or here. A bit more on how the story unfolds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2015

In 2010, I had an opportunity to do a Networked Nonprofit workshop in Kenya. Zawadi asked Jadudi’s favorite blogger, Jackson Biko, to publish the story on his blog , and developed a social media crowdfunding strategy to engage the public and drive traffic to the blog. We did a little coaching.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

LABB created an Oil Spill Crisis Map in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. The organization got started when a group of Kenyan bloggers led by Erik Hersman began doing online mapping of violence reports after the 2008 Kenyan election. The name Ushahidi means "testimony" in Swahili.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Raegan Payne , author of The Good Muse , who is trying to volunteer for 50 organizations before 2010, and blog about each experience. The site also shares other economic, environmental and socially themed stories like: Home Green Home by Amy Gregg of Mom Go Green. How to Go Green by blogger Nadine Weil of Heart of Green.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

The Daily Show remembers the important stories of 2011 so you don’t have to. . That said, way back in September 2010 I wrote a blog post on how to launch a TV station for your nonprofit using UStream (alternatively LiveStream has gained considerable market share). Wrap your head around the Cloud.

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See3

JANUARY 21, 2008

Beth Kanter , friend and blogger, is raising money for the Sharing Foundation, which supports kids in Cambodia. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2010

In February 2010 I organised an event called Follow a Museum , this was prompted by the low number of followers which I felt most museums had on Twitter and simply aimed to boost those numbers. On December 8, 2010 , conductors from around the world will come together to engage with fans, first-timers and complete strangers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Share Your WE Volunteering Story Microvolunteer in Minutes What Blogs and Sites About Volunteering Do You Recommend? Plan Your 2010: Craft Inc. And 3 new posts on the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship blog: Handmade Nation: Watch It, Gift It, Love It! and Craft Inc.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Whether quietly spearheading some of the world's most groundbreaking scientific and medical research or not-so-quietly leading revolutions on the battlefield, our history is ripe with stories of ferocious, adventurous, enlightened, and persistent women. Tavi Gevinson is an American writer, fashion blogger, and magazine editor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

We also identify a monthly theme to discuss in more in depth. We want to distinguish the salon from the informal knowledge sharing that happens daily on the web or behind pay walls by offering a regular synthesis of the stories, knowledge, tips, resources, and wisdom shared in real time in the salon. This conversation was started by.

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See3

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

A common story is one where a blogger posts something and then regrets it. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Here’s what Yahoo! They take the post down.

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See3

AUGUST 31, 2007

It has the petition right on the home page, a URL that’s easy to remember and fits the content, the video as the center of attention right next to the form, only a few links on the page, clear and concise content, a push to get bloggers like me to host the video to get more views, and a coordinated strategy with multiple organizations.

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

Stacey does feel that it's a useful and simple tool that can help spread your story, but had there not been volunteers in the public relations industry involved in the group, she may not have made the time to use the platform. When it came to blogger outreach, a Google Doc was the preferred and successful tool. Infrastructure.

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JANUARY 30, 2008

I was turned on to this blog by a friend and then given it to review as part of the Nonprofit Blog Exchange , which introduces nonprofit bloggers (like me) to other nonprofit bloggers through our work. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! It’s fantastic.

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See3

MAY 25, 2007

And this pressure from the bloggers acts as a feedback loop to the press, a loop that we never had before. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest?

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

Her take-aways from that activity are that internally, people love the feedback from bloggers, and externally, people love to know that you care. It took her 7 months to establish relationships in the Digg community sufficiently to get good results (ie, popular stories). You need a strategy for your video and your call to action.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Webstats alone do not tell the story and to look at them without some knowledge about what we do and how we do it, is silly, as even Allan would concede. It WILL get less traffic, though likely very important traffic from other bloggers and organizations who will pick up the idea (that would be called ‘organizing’).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

When I was in Cambodia last summer, John hosted a blogger’s meet up. When learned about Giving Tuesday , he offered to share an inspiring story about giving back. Give 10 Every Day: An Inspiring Story of Giving Back – Guest Post by John Weeks. So just what is “Give 10”? So you decided to test it out.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2012

Here's what happened: In 2010, amidst severe financial woes and declining audiences, the Museum of Contemporary Art in LA (MOCA), hired Jeffrey Deitch, a NYC gallery owner, to be their new director. It's wild to see so many bloggers and museum directors and critics weigh in. In some ways, this debate is fabulous.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

A year later, in 2010, it was even bigger. I’m talking to organization that have inspiring stories, are doing incredibly important work, and have very real opportunities for the community to join in action. They don’t focus on a dollar number, they focus on the women’s stories and communication all that they wish they could do.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

In reference to a nearly insurmountable financial challenge from 2010, one respondent shared that, "We survived almost 4 months without our major income source from the [local government] by laying off 2/3 of the staff and operating on minimal expenses.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

The world doesn’t need another blogger, right? The main idea was to put a human face to your organization’s mission to better tell your stories and successes. While that’s still true, blogging as a tool for nonprofits needs to be re-evaluated in 2010. There are currently 133 million blogs worldwide.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

But for the second largest Internet company in the world with 2010 profit estimates to be between $1-2 billion, is that enough? Facebook tends to leak information that only keeps bloggers and nonprofits guessing and confused. Alright… thanks Facebook. I just don’t think so.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2012

I raised money through my blog and later on Twitter to send a young women, Leng Sopharoth to college from 2006-2010. I got recognition from BusinessWeek and the story was shared in this post. I met Leng in 2007 and recorded this interview. Leng graduated from college and is married. My children will meet her for the first time.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

At the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference, we -- Carie Lewis , Beth Kanter , David J. The Strategy by David Neff of Ridgewood: Ingenious Communication Strategies If 2009 was the year everyone and their mom jumped into the social media pool, then 2010 is the year of strategy. BAM, time to tell the story. Be transparent.

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OCTOBER 22, 2007

HSUS ran a video contest during the outcry over the Michael Vick story that received 22 submissions, over 43,000 views of the contest intro video (featuring Hulk Hogan) , and garnered 2,000 new list members. Carie and Tim say customize and personalize each message to bloggers, warm them up, and sell your story.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Sunday, September 19, 2010 Do you have a brand strategy? A fellow Blogger, Debbie Laskey, shared these keen insights with me: “A brand strategy is the ultimate business strategy and often the least understood." Keys To Telling A Good Story In Your Presentations. Honor The Legacy Of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 28, 2010

World Go Vegan Week (October 24-31, 2010) seems like a perfect time to highlight the sixth contributor to my series of guest posts by bloggers talking about how they have fun and do good. And finally, 17 years after going vegetarian, I finally lived up to my own ideals and became a vegan. We're talking snail mail here.the Dark Ages.)

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MAY 11, 2007

But your job in the nonprofit is to make it easy, to give them the tools to tell the story in the way you want it told, to have compelling photos and media materials that they can use, to easily provide links for others to donate. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today!

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 5, 2011

In 2010, Carlo made a commitment - to give to a different charity each day for an entire year. He blogs about his choices, twitters his journeys, and shares stories with his Facebook fans. Though, after reading Carlo's story, I am certain I can make a change in my own life as well. Thats 365 charities in 365 days.

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