Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Another topic that is of interest and can serve as a valuable launch pad for conversations and information, both for Romanian NGOs and organizations around the world, is a blog. But blogs can help your organization in a few key ways: Central Communication Hub. Think blogs are boring? How To Start a Blog.

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MAY 1, 2012

Many government leaders in Rwanda have embraced Twitter, both in the “official’ capacity, tweeting from their Ministry’s profile for formal communication or often from a personally branded profile. There are many women in leadership government positions in Rwanda, and many are on Twitter.

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sgEngage

JULY 18, 2023

By liking, commenting, reposting, or sharing, you and your followers can keep a conversation going across your networks. The functionality is just like Twitter, focusing on short, written exchanges and timely discourse. Sound familiar? Threads is currently available on iOS and Android, without the ability to post via desktop.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 9, 2010

As I recently announced , I’m collaborating with Matt Chevy on a redesign of this website to freshen up the design, make presentations, resources and case studies all easier to find, and surface the rich conversations taking place in the comments. Last week’s posts had three topics: Content , Comments and Extras.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

A (blog) conversation strategy is how you support and nurture a conversation on your blog in the comments. It is a combination of how you will comment on other blogs, how you track the conversation, and how you respond to comments on your blog. Source: Skelliewag. Respond quickly.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2009

My newest post is up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review Opinion blog. Because of search, it no longer matters how many blog posts I write, because search can find the relevant ones for me or my readers. Enter Twitter. Twitter has created the most up-to-the minute archive of conversations around the world.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2010

I’m really excited to [finally] announce that I’m going to be redesigning this blog/website. Right now, this blog could really be categorized as a blog. But what’s really important to me, is that there are A WHOLE HECK OF A LOT of conversations here: there are around 500 posts and over 6,700 comments !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

The other day of I saw the term "Conversation Graph" in a title on a post by Brian Solis. That inspired the above illustration - the social life of a blog post. The Conversation Graph Has Gotten More Complex. From Comments as Group Discussion by Skelliwag.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Why I’m twittering December 7, 2007 Yes, it’s hard to believe. I have said many times that I wouldn’t Twitter. I’ve critiqued Twitter and social networks in general.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

One of their newest experiments is a Twitter campaign, #150jobs. I interviewed Arlene to learn more about they’re measuring their Twitter campaign and what they’re learning. What is the objective of the Twitter campaign? Since 2009, we’ve posted a weekly first-person success story and podcast on our My Story blog.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 25, 2022

However, just because your nonprofit has an active Facebook doesn’t mean you can automatically utilize Twitter or LinkedIn effectively. Get People Talking on: Twitter. Twitter is an opportunity for continuous and open conversation with your supporters. Twitter’s demographics are commonly under 50 and college-educated.

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NetWits

JULY 27, 2012

If you have a link to your Facebook and Twitter at the top of your homepage and your listserve at the bottom, it implies that you prefer to interact with your audience on your social media sites. Include your events, photos, maps, twitter link, polls, and of course, your email list. Include Links to Your Social Media Accounts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2011

Robin shared some of her thoughts in the comments of a recent blog post, and I invited to share her community organizing rules for Twitter. As a community organizer, Twitter makes a lot of sense. Twitter does exactly that. Robin’s 10 Twitter Rules for Non Profits. Twitter is social. Follow Back.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

Peter Panepento, Web Editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy Also blogs at GlobalErie. This week we've had a lively discussion about Module 2: Participate in the Conversation. I've been observing how he uses the Chronicle of Philanthropy's Twitter Feed to participate. How is the Chronicle using Twitter to participate?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

They voraciously consume nonprofit technology blogs and study the mobile and social media campaigns of other nonprofits for inspiration. To add a donate button, e-newsletter, mobile alerts opt-ins, and social network icons to your blog, for example, you need to know how to work with an HTML editing software. Creative Thinking.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 14, 2013

To get started on Google+, The Social Media Hat recommends using the G+ button directly from your blog to share to your nonprofits Google+ network, that way all the +1s transfer to the blog! Start a conversation about your post by placing a question in the post. Continue the conversation after the post. Add a picture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2008

Yesterday, Marnie Webb asked an interesting question about choice of tools - specifically the choice the question of "Twitter or Blog?" It would be hard to answer this as a comment of a blog post too or if someone was doing a quick poll. What types of conversations are they hoping to engage in?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

They recently held a blog carnival and are sharing some reflections. Regardless of the tool we’re using, the team at MomsRising is committed to deepening and broadening the conversation around public policy issues that impact families in our country. MomsRising Health Reform Blog Carnival – September 2010.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 29, 2010

A recent comment from Ichi (working on social media for good in Japan w/ SocialCompany.org ) asked after the tools I was using on this blog to bring in comments via Twitter. Postalicious is a WordPress plugin that automatically posts your delicious, ma.gnolia, Google Reader, Reddit or Yahoo Pipes bookmarks to your blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Back Channels, Workflow, Data, Twitter, and me March 13, 2007 I read Beth’s recent blog entry on Twitter , and of course, the neo-luddite in me said “waste of time!&#

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

I've been asking myself how can we leverage the addition of nonprofits and charities on the Twitter Suggested User List? I followed the ant trails to the Chronicle of Philanthropy blog post today asking the question, Should Twitter Recommend More Charities? saying that Twitter was now a “king maker”.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

published its first blog post. In fact, what I have discovered over the last year is that blogging was the missing piece in my social media strategy. 10 Most Popular Blog Posts :: Year One: Views. 10 Twitter Apps for Nonprofits. Tags: Blogging Social Media. One year ago today Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

It is also a Twitter term that describes a keyword, prefixed by that symbol, that helps people track conversations on Twitter. The HashTags site, a centralized directory of hashtags on Twitter, also offers a good definition: Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

The chat used the #CommBuild hashtag to pull regular and new participants together on Twitter and elsewhere, though we found that having the chats take place on a platform like CoverItLive helped people jump in and follow the conversation and create instant archives people could share and review asynchronously. So, what do you think?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

We've been reflecting on all the great conversations we had with people from around the country (and around the world) on how new media is and/or might enhance their work. . Is it simply the number of followers you have on Twitter, or how many people "like" you on Facebook? Conference on AIDS. Plan ahead. Make it personal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

The title of this blog post is of course a wildly inaccurate claim. All communications were strictly limited to my blog, Twitter and Facebook. Two donors were former colleagues who also have Twitter accounts. I counted most on Twitter followers to spread the word. Here is what he learned. Definitely.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 3, 2010

This post is reposted from the #4Change blog. June #4Change Chat Questions: To keep the two-hour chat on topic, I’ll be helping guide conversation by using some of the questions below to drive us to share ideas, examples and resources. If you want to take a peak at where we may go in the conversation, review the questions below.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. It is a conversation and it is an archive. Twitter beta-tested a spine."

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 16, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. it takes them to this Quora page where they can comment or ask a question about the campaign. Look no further!

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NetWits

MARCH 7, 2011

It should be a great conversation between (check out the panelists below) social networking providers and their non-profit users. Join us as we talk about the latest social good initiatives underway at Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare and YouTube while also seeing how non-profit organizers are using these tools to change the world.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2009

This month’s Net2 Think Tank question asks, “How do you stay up-to-date online?&# There are so many blogs, news sources, and conversations happening at the same time, every day, and the chances that you’ll be able to find them all without trying is pretty unlikely. Twitter Search. Getting Started.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

A little while ago, we got a question from a client about Twitter. They have the basics down pat: they know the lingo, and they understand the importance of conversation. But they were curious about what kind of content they should tweet, and how to strike the right balance between carrying on conversation and self-promotion.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 3, 2010

The January #4Change Twitter Chat will focus on the use of Twitter and other social media tools in campaigning. by leaving a comment on this blog post. Join the Twitter chat: If you want to contribute to the conversation, you’ll need to have a twitter account (it’s free). About the Topic.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2012

Read the post and join the conversation on the NTEN blog. That said, it is best to assume that your community isn’t hip to every trick you’ve found for Facebook, Twitter, and any other site you may use. But operating and communicating as if every commenter is a troll will shut down conversation very quickly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2009

Last week I wrote a post called " 8 Nonprofit CEOs Who Tweet " and the number quickly grew based on the responses in the comments. It got me thinking about managing multiples: multiple twitter accounts, multiple people tweeting from one account, and how do you tweet a network of affiliates or a movement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Free agents use social-media channels like Facebook and Twitter and can create social movements in the palms of their hands. Here’s my picks for SXSW Nonprofit Panels: A Conversation About Change Agents Through Social Media Social media is causing a revolution in how information is shared and communities are formed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2009

to learn more about the methodology) of your twitter friends with search. Marshall's post will shows the top five people I'm having conversations with on Twitter and who respond to me: 1. Gahran has a lot of conversation with a lot of awesome people. Here's a mosaic: Get your twitter mosaic here. Jonathon D.

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