Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2011

SXSWcares , co-branded as SXSW4Japan, was a campaign that rallied the SXSW community to raise awareness and harness support for disaster relief. That morning, I saw the jaw-dropping photos and videos from the Japan tsunami disaster. In the end, it raised over $120,000 from 1500+ donors. —– Were you at SXSW this year?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

During 2010, I been able to read, blurb, write reviews, do blog giveaways, or author guest posts and interviews for a lot of terrific books that would be useful to nonprofit professionals in the social media, marketing, and ICT areas. Deanna Zandt is a blogger who writes about social media, civil society, and activism.

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Forum One

APRIL 28, 2010

We've provided training on how to interview subjects, tips for photographing and video-recording, as well as best practices for writing strong stories that encourage and elicit action. Have everyone buy into the idea that storytelling matters!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

" Rolf Kleef has looked over the list to identify " facilitator projects " that give people the tools to improve their own situation in their own way. Andy Carvin and Jonnie Goldstein interviewed a person from one of two projects based in Cambodia. Water Words That Work - an excellent nonprofit video blogger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

How would you organization cope with a natural disaster? What if we were to audio and video record interviews with politicians and put them on the web? Disaster Relief: Described their efforts for Tsunami and Katrina and mentioned efforts for Burma and China. Priscilla has a set of simple guidelines for the bloggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

What have women bloggers who work in the nonprofit technology space been talking about this past month? A few posts on mobile activism Sparechange blogger, Nedra Weinreich writes about two social activism strategies using mobile phones designed to involve young people.

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