Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

My latest post for the Stanford Social Innovation Review is up and I hope you’ll dive into the conversation with me! A recent event has brought up some huge red flags for me around data, around communities, around social impact, inclusion and even more. First, let me explain what happened yesterday.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

My latest post for the Stanford Social Innovation Review is up and I hope you’ll dive into the conversation with me! A recent event has brought up some huge red flags for me around data, around communities, around social impact, inclusion and even more. First, let me explain what happened yesterday.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? Back in 2006 when I joined the organization we had a MySpace page with 25 friends. From there I signed us up for various Facebook groups and profiles and continued experimenting sites like Change.org and Care2. Are they paid, full-time, part-time?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 4, 2010

These resources are invaluable when looking for quality content to utilize and share on social media sites. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. 4096 Color Wheel : A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, etc. Look familiar to anyone?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 5, 2011

Nonprofits pioneered social media. They were on Myspace and organizing via Facebook Groups years before corporate brands, higher education, and broadcast and print media. That said, the community on Daily Booth has a lot of active teens. It allows you to easily upload and share your mobile photos (and videos!)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

You can access your nonprofit’s profile and the Change.org tool set by signing up for a Nonprofit Admin account. Brand your organization’s profile on Change.org. Nonprofits can easily design their profile on change.org to match their website and other social networking sites. Get active in Cause communities!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Discover Your Groundswell Social Technographics Profile Your Result: Creator. Whether podcasting or maintaining a website, the amount of content you create makes your Groundswell Social Technographic group a valuable target for social media marketers. called "Discover your Groundswell Social Technographics.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

With over 45 million active users worldwide, LinkedIn is a social networking site that is becoming much more than just a place to have a Web 2.0 It’s very active and growing quickly. 3) Use Your Personal Profile to Benefit Your Nonprofit : Post Network Updates about your organization’s work.

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NetWits

MAY 21, 2008

One creative solution is social networking. Social networking technology” is the term used to describe websites that allow members to use their personal and business relationships for networking, hiring, and obtaining references. Typically, we search for a specific profile and reach out to potential candidates through InMail.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2007

She writes about a nonprofit portal in Myspace called Nonprofit Organizations MySpace. It offers tips on how not-for-profits can effectively use MySpace for fundraising and/or campaigning. It looks like a good place to start if you want to find examples of nonprofits with a presence in MySpace and get ideas. Save Darfur.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. Based in the U.K.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

Innovation in online fundraising was driven by the release of new technology, such as email marketing services like MailChimp in 2001, the launch of WordPress ( a content management system now used by 44% of nonprofits worldwide ) in 2003, and social networking websites beginning with Myspace in 2005. 2020 Social Media Size Guide ).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2009

An early adopter of social media, the Lance Armstrong Foundation leverages social media to engage, connect, and celebrate its community. The LAF uses its Facebook fan page and Twitter profile as a way to directly connect with cancer survivors on a personal basis and animate the community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

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. Arts Northfield has well organized collections and sets of all organizational activities. activity works in similar way: pulling out John Collier Jr???s

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Google has a number of partners, including social network sites like LinkedIn, Friendster and Ning, as well as Salesforce, which does have very interesting implications given the increasing use of Salesforce in the nonprofit sector. Basically, if the more social network sites that adopt OpenSocial, the more open the whole thing gets.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Posted on Stanford Social Innovation Review’s Opinion blog. The newest report, out today, focused on the use of social networking platforms by young people who are/aren’t also involved with charities. Read the full press release here or download the Social Media data slides here.) Visit the original post here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2007

I've been doing research for an article I'm writing for TechSoup about social networking tips, tricks, and tools -- once you've made the decision that it is right for your organization, how maintain a socnet presence without it being a huge black hole? Flickr Photo by Mission Control. I've been interviewing colleagues via socnets to find out.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

Essentially, nonprofits have been advertising Facebook to untold millions for free helping it become the powerhouse that it is today – the largest, most active social networking website on the Web. Facebook would do well to follow the lead of Twitter, MySpace and YouTube. I have been working social media sites daily for 4.5

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Care2

MAY 18, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Guide to Online Community Management ReadWriteWeb launched a great report and cool new tool that provides organizations with the latest research and best tips in social media. Social Tech Training The inspiring folks at Web of Change are hosting the second Social Tech Training scheduled for June 10- 12th in Toronto.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

She also just signed a book deal with the tentative title: How to be a Social Capitalist: winning with the currency of online communities. I am curious about how the network activity becomes part of (or relates to) the organizational activity. Of course, the above activities take time to care and feed the network.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits was released in August 2011 and despite the rapid change occurring on the Social and Mobile Web, 90% of the content still rings true. below are 33 of must-read updates to Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. and Web 3.0.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. The summaries are more focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. TechSoup blog profiles Taproot Foundation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits was released in August 2011 and despite the rapid change occurring on the Social and Mobile Web, 90% of the content still rings true. below are 33 of must-read updates to Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. and Web 3.0.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 16, 2007

Thirty-year-old matin is helping to develop a new social networking site for youth activists, MyBLOC.Net. Logo from Future 5000's MySpace page. activism youth social networking In it’s simplest form, Future 5000 is powerful—because you are. I just got goosebumps. Originally Posted on NetSquared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

Social Networking and Web Tools for Chicago Nonprofits. You already know Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn et al???now now hear from homegrown social networks and what they have to offer local nonprofits. The majority of the room had experience in social networking sites and tools, both personally and for their organization.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The short version: Google will announce a new set of APIs on November 5 that will allow developers to leverage Google's social graph data. “We're not going to have people sending electronic hamburgers to each other.” 3) MSNBC meanwhile ran a report that it had purchased social news site Newsvine. The new developer platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

It is really bizarre, but this afternoon I've been struggling with the notion about the connection between individual adoption and organizational adoption of social media tools like Facebook or others. This is the Social = Me First meme , I have spoken on widely. Individuals, notably, adopt them for their own purposes.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2011

On April 14, TechSoup presented a webinar on using social media tools to support, involve, and recruit volunteers. University of Oregon's campus group AHA was mentioned in #techsoup 's webinar on social media for volunteer managing. Social media managers adding their name to a nonprofits page they manage?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I'm really glad that she sent me this email because I had bookmarked one of her recent commentaries on nonprofits and online social networking. Her piece begins with a simple definition of online social networking tools and asks: What's the appeal? social media, or social networking tools.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 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!" world is an active hub filled with influentials. and social media? is a buzzword.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

It’s important to recognize that you will not recruit millions of new people to your organization and raise tons of money just because you have a profile on Facebook, or because your staff Twitters. world is an active hub filled with influentials. and social media? The truth is, Web 2.0 is a buzzword. so important?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

" She points to an interesting web widget from SunLight Labs which adds mini-profiles with links to Member of Congress to your blog or web page when you mouseover the link. Robb Cottingham tells us about a brew-haha brewing in the nonprofit social change space in Canada. Zaadz : MySpace for the Do-Gooder Set.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Social Networks & Twitter from Natalie Foster: Two Principles: 1. Email still gets a good response - if it will best help you reach your desired output, don’t feel obligated to short change your capacity there to try to use social networking or something else. Facebook General Growth data: More than 200 million active users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. Social networking requires commitment -- you can't set up a MySpace profile and then walk away. Go read it. each of various qualities.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

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