Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2011

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).

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 23, 2009

Why Non-Profits Are So Good at Social Media - Conversation Starter … - Alex Samuel, the CEO of Social Signal, has a great post on the Harvard Business Review discussing why nonprofits are early adopters/good with social media. Tags: roundup bookmarks. The key lessons she includes are: 1. Embrace emergent value propositions.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 10, 2009

Fission Strategy | Fast Company - Based on recent studies about Internet and communication technology use or adoption, the Digital Divide doesn't seem to necessarily be disappearing. Check out the news to learn more and download/read the discussion paper to join in! The Death of the Digital Divide–Or a New One?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2006

Jillaine Smith has a great post where she shares her personal learning journey (and frustrations) about "trying to integrate the use of blogging, tagging, technorati, social bookmarking, blah blah woof woof. I realize now that I didn't adopt all those things all once! into my efforts to publish a professional blog."

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2009

" The Forrester Blog For Interactive Marketing Professionals - Forrester "found that technologies trigger changes in consumer adoption, and brands will follow, resulting in five distinct waves…" You can check out the 5 eras of the social web along with recommendations for "brands" preparing for the future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Momsrising is an early adopter of online tools currently exploring the Google + platform and discussing it in team meetings. Nonprofit organizations that have been early adopters of social media are exploring, like Momsrising, carefully. During the Webinar, I polled the group’s general approach.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

My Grandmother also has a whole network of friends who are at various stages of computer use/online adoption. Browser Bookmarks - To start with, I created bookmarks for my Grandma to be able to access her favorite sites without having to use Google Search or remembering the URL. Getting Social.

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Tech Soup

JULY 30, 2013

Adopting BYOD practices will make for a more flexible workplace and allow your staff and volunteers to work from their preferred devices. Analyst firm eMarketer predicts that mobile payment adoption will increase as these issues are addressed and improved upon. Students can actually rent textbooks and read them on the tablet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us Are you impulse adopting tools? Use these filtering tips to make your social bookmarking and RSS reader more efficient. by habit or just the resources you actually need to retrieve?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2011

I want to be able to bookmark or pick things out from the stream that I want to go back to so the items don’t get lost. Also, there’s search yet. Google started with the asymmetric model of sharing first because it is hard for people to grasp. Source: Quick Draw Comics - John Weeks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2006

Some of the questions they hope to learn in the evaluation are: Our main objective is to determine whether social bookmarking tools can be useful to our employees. Are people more likely to copy or view the most popular bookmarks (hence making them more popular)? Are people more likely to use tags others have already adopted?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

Amy and I have noticed how our usage of RSS and social bookmarking seems to be less. His point 5 is something that sounds like a dream come true to me to monitor Twitter for NpTech related items I know I'm not alone in finding it much easier to share information over Twitter than by blogging or tagging in a social bookmarking app.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Social Bookmarking. Mashable recently posted this index of over 180 tools for use with del.icio.us , the popular social bookmarking site. I've only looked at a few of these, but have completely adopted Better Gmail , a repackaging of several earlier Greasemonkey scripts for use with Gmail. Email Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Second Wave Adoption Check out Nancy White's Second Wave Adoption thats creating waves in the educational technology and nonprofit technology blogosphere. " If you have thoughts about Second Wave adoption of Web2.0 They understand what's needed to encourage adoption. It launches with an 11/11 orientation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Laura Lee Dooley shared this example (bookmarked posts of people talking about her organization fed into Wordle). They have an extensive social media participation policy that has helped spur adoption internally. Their community now knows that they are listening and the conversation has changed from talking to how we help you.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

Please—you were an early adopter. Or, maybe you bookmarked it and still can’t sort through your tabs. It’s a social bookmarking tool that comes with annotated notes, tags and links so you can save, organize and discover new content. You’ve got social media covered. And Twitter? You could do 140 characters or less in your sleep.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2010

His recent post Why User Competencies Matter in Social Design was a major breakthrough for me and circled me back to Jennifer Aaker's research. In designing for social participation, Adrian Chan urges us to consider user goals and needs — even interests, features, functionality, and adoption.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

Object Based Social Sharing VS Social Graph Sharing : Objects are things like photos, bookmarks, slide decks, or in the case of Quora, questions. It looks like a good resource for professional networked learning and as adoption grows it might be a place to engage and developed deeper relationships with supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

2005) Susan Tenby's response to the question, " Why I use Tags " shows progression from retrieval, to social bookmarking, to sharing with others - on a personal level. Posts/Discussions on the topic: Jilliane's Post - Tagging for Nonprofits : Reflections on learning to tag and nonprofit capacity to adopt this new technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Social Media: Adoption, Strategy, and Measuring Success ZUP4Nonprofits has a two-part post ( pt. Speaking of Google, check out this new doc uploader and this bookmark service that aggregates all social bookmarking sites in one click (for those of us tool fondlers who need more than one tool for each type. asks Rich Reeder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us Are you impulse adopting tools? Use these filtering tips to make your social bookmarking and RSS reader more efficient. by habit or just the resources you actually need to retrieve?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

A few days ago, I got a ping from Deborah Finn via a social bookmarking service with a pointer to the same book - " Nonprofits and Technology: Emerging Research for Usable Knowledge " One of the chapters is called "Geeks for Good: Technology Evangelism and the Role of Circuit Riders in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The Non-Profit Tech Blog drills down deeper on the limitations and suggests waiting before adopting. Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. Social Bookmarking. A terrific step-by-step guide guide called Social Bookmarking with del.icio.us

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

1 trackback } Bookmarks about News 11.09.08 MPower Open is now on Sourceforge , they released their product under the GPL v3. These are good steps forward. It’s going to take some real elbow grease of reaching out to people who might begin to form the kernel of a development community to get that going.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 28, 2014

Even if you do not read the entire paper, hang onto this or save it as a favorite bookmark, as it will provide some important information for you to reference as you build out your prospect management capabilities in the coming months and years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

Engagement on PostRank is calculated with a number of metrics including commenting, clicks, sharing on google reader, retweeting, and saving on social bookmarking services. The top ranked content was on strategy including metrics, adoption, and overall strategy.

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OCTOBER 7, 2007

technologies to see about rates of adoption. Some of what they found was on the low end — such as 17% of people using shared bookmarks (sites such as Del.icio.us). Avenue A/Razorfish, the high-end web ad agency now owned by Microsoft, did a little study of these so called Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

I bookmarked in delicious a post by David Weinberger saying blogging is Web 1.0 How to help npos think about this in a way that leads to thoughtful adoption? with a rhetorical question, "Do you agree with his point ?" for lack of a better word) can facilitate for nonprofits. Poking around J. Kill Cyberspace?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2020

Driving in-person actions such as adopting an animal . As the rules sometimes change, it can be worth bookmarking the Google Ad Grants compliance page to keep up-to-date with any shifting rules. If your organization is an animal shelter, for example, you might have an “Adoption” campaign. Examples include: Adopt a dog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

adoption strategies ( remix from Association 2.0). Tagging and social bookmarking can be useful techniques to easily share your information resources with colleagues or co-workers. is a popular social bookmarking manager which allows you to bookmark a web page and add tags to organize and retrieve your bookmarks.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2005

I think this is the reason I instinctively identified Ajax as someting my users would care about, and why I've not been as vocal about tagging or social bookmarking, for example. We're talking innovation here, and adopting anything new comes at a cost. And probably your executive director doesn't want to either. I've tried. So is web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Update your bookmarks: [link]. General conclusion: culture shift before tech adoption, keep it simple, small steps, and focused on real needs. (It Random Thoughts on Life and Work points us to an excellent resource on wiki adoption patterns. This queen of typos enjoyed that post quite a bit! It's moved. What did you learn?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

group" about tagging and social-bookmarking. One of her points resonated with some other reflections I'm seeing on this side of the pond from early adopters in the nonprofit space in using tagging for resource sharing. Not the early adopters suffering from Alzheimers ) What's their secret? e-collaboration???

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

Likely many nonprofits don’t use emojis because they are posting to Instagram from a third-party tool on a desktop (not recommended, unless it is Busi n ess Suite ), thus be sure to bookmark Emojpedia.org for easy access to copy-and-paste emojis: 5) Embrace the “Link in Bio” strategy and “Swipe Up” links in Stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

The main correction that I offered was for nonprofits to adopt a news page format, with reverse chronological entries linking to deeper content on site and elsewhere online. Recently, I commented on a Alexandra Samuel's blog who writing on tagging and social bookmarking I read regularly and it started an extended conversation.

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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. I think there are ways to design and deploy limited experiments or action learning around these tools - and take incremental steps towards adoption.

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AUGUST 13, 2021

This feature was introduced back in 2017 as a way for users to bookmark posts for later viewing. There are a few reasons why each of these posts merit being saved for later: There’s too much content to be consumed in one sitting, so the user bookmarks the post to come back to view or read more at another time.

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