Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

The social media/technology landscape in Romania is very interesting – with a diverse set of issues, struggles and opportunities. What kind of content do you already have that you could reuse (videos or interviews from events, data or research, etc.) MoveableType. Squarespace. Prepare to Change Directions.

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Forum One

MAY 11, 2009

I have recently participated as a speaker at several press events: a traditional press conference with newspaper reporters; a recorded over-the-telephone radio interview; and a call-in event for bloggers. Tags: Communication Environment Issues. Sending out a recording of this event, via MP3, was clearly a good idea.

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Forum One

MAY 11, 2009

I have recently participated as a speaker at several press events: a traditional press conference with newspaper reporters; a recorded over-the-telephone radio interview; and a call-in event for bloggers. Tags: Communication Environment Issues. Sending out a recording of this event, via MP3, was clearly a good idea.

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BoardAssist

APRIL 15, 2014

Last month we turned to fundraising guru and guest blogger Gail Perry for advice on how to make your board members a little less BORED. If your board meetings are regarded as an unpleasant obligation, it’s time to bring a fresh perspective: board meetings are an opportunity to exchange ideas, resolve issues and deepen commitment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

This social media push drove even more traditional media outlets to cover the issue and to showcase Dawn. For example, NPR saw her post on the MomsRising blog and did a long interview with Dawn about her experience of sharing her health care story with the President that aired across the nation on Election Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 21, 2005

Mean was only recently introduced to blogs and the organization got the idea of doing a blog projects from one of Cambodia's better known bloggers, Ex-King. We did started this email interview several weeks ago after I first heard about his project. The trainings were held in different Community Information Centers in the provinces.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

– "This interview is part of our "Social Citizen Sightings" series, in which we highlight how people are using their creativity, idealism, and digital fluency to support their causes every day. And I was glad to see Chuck raise the issue." Social Citizens Blog | Immerse. I couldn’t agree more with Katya.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2008

Alex Steed is the blogger at Make Something Happen Blog, the blog of the Point. Alex is doing interviews, articles, and roundups. I was just interviewed ! From The Point's About page : The Point is a website for organizing group actions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2007

The KM4D Journal is produced by the KM4Dev-community and I was honored to participate on the editorial team for the the recently published issued on " Stewarding technologies for collaboration, community building and knowledge sharing in development. The issues contains articles, case studies, interviews, and community notes.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

For Fiver, this means pulling client testimonials from thank you letters written by program participants or through phone interviews with families. Seek to understand what drew them to get involved with your organization and issue. This introduces new donors to the community and educates them about the issue and ways to get involved.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

On July 9, 2009 I interviewed David about Spot.us Below is an edited transcript of the interview which you also can listen to online , or subscribe to via iTunes. It's easier for people to get really passionate about national issues, but local issues are just as important. for the Big Vision Podcast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

To top it off, I did an interview with Wendy Harman from the Red Cross about her recent experience using Twitter and other tools to spread buzz for campaign - Social Media Roadblock. I also knew that it would take too long to get all the proper approvals in-house for a press release issued on the wire.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2011

There are a few issues with trying to follow the issue directly via the hashtag. From Crisis Mapping Egypt: Collection of Maps. The #jan25 Twitter hashtag also has examples of the State Department’s Arab Twitter Diplomacy. It is a firehouse, uncurated list. How to contextualize it?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2010

Although I've been a sponsor of a "sister" for the past two years, and am familiar with the organization's work, to prepare for the interview I read her riveting memoir, Between Two Worlds. You can read a transcript of my interview with Zainab Salbi here. You can read a transcript of my interview with Lisa Witter here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

I am pleased that students who were somewhat limited in their exposure to multiple points of view on issues and culture are now being introduced to them and like this are broadening their horizon. What advice would you offer other bloggers who are just getting started? See what and how bloggers write.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2007

Personal bloggers, of course, are wise to exercise caution about what they write about as Pamela Ashlund suggested in an interview I did with her last year. Earlier this week, Extension professionals discussed some of the issues in a chat: I never talk about work. Two nonprofit bloggers are: Pulling My Hair Out Today I Cried.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

SocialButterfly took the bloggers listed on my post, Changebloggers List + Wanna Meetup Up? Who is already working on this issue who you think others should support? Rather than tag specific bloggers, I say, if you're inspired, pass it on! The Changeblogger movement is growing! Changeblogger meetup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

Nonprofit Leadership Blogger Rosetta Thurman. We kicked off the conference with an interview style keynote about the Networked Nonprofit, moderated by fabulous Shireen Mitchell (aka digitalsista ). The best part is when the audience joins the conversation. That was the gift of attending Nonprofit 2.0

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Provide a link to a page with bios for bloggers. If your blogging platform doesn't allow you to do that, have bloggers include a one-line bio at the end of their posts. Link to other bloggers Use Google Blog Search , Alltop and Technorati to find blogs that write about similar topics to yours. Interviews (written, audio, video).

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Below is an edited transcript of an interview from October 11, 2008 with Cami Walker, the founder of the 29-Day Giving Challenge, which you can also listen to on the Big Vision Podcast. In the interview, Cami mentions that she is writing a book about the 29 Day Giving Challenge. I was in this place of lack, stuck in a place of lack.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2008

I actually got a chance to meet Ben face-to-face at a recent Berkman Center Thursday Bloggers meetup. We did a quick chat interview: What was the purpose? So, I imagine the adoption issues are similar to moving to intranet, wikispace, or basecamp to manage team or internal communications. More thoughts here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Dee Dee is one of two women on the five-person Clogger Team responsible for organizing the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. Viirak interviewed her during the video blogging workshop) She presented in the morning of the first day about why blogging has been useful to her. On the right, is Sopheap who I interviewed for BlogHer.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 7, 2012

Nonprofits struggling to communicate complex issues in 140 characters can benefit from deploying e-books and other long-form content as part of a thoughtful mobile and social media strategy. A well formatted ebook has none of those issues. E-books and e-readers are a growing part of the attention ecosystem. Who is reading?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2007

"[S]top thinking about how crazy the times are, and start thinking about what the crazy times demand."-- Seth Godin A couple weeks ago blogger Latoya Peterson posted her 2008 Activist Resolutions on Racialicious. Power is on my Big Vision Podcast dream interview wish list, if anyone knows her and can provide me with an introduction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

My background is in campus organizing, and in helping college students connect with others working to create social change across perspective, issue, approach, and geography. How can PledgeBank help me and other bloggers change the world? Tell me about you. how and why did you get involved with PledgeBank ? What's your background?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2007

Readers of this blog might recall that John and I got a chance to do some training session in the UK last January and I did a video blog post interview with him. I asked him if he would be a "guest blogger" here and he granted me permission to repost. John posted a marvelous report on the NTEN listservs about what he learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared. is coming " Bloggers go to the SF Symphony! Once you've done this a few times you'll find you can use it on the fly when you get into those disagreements about interface design issues within your department." NpTech Software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

I'm trying to get some links assembled in one place for the Berkman Thursday evening bloggers meetings where we will discuss nonprofit blogging. Blogrolls or linkblogs of nonprofit bloggers ( Deborah Finn's Blogroll or Marnie Webb 's sidebar). NTEN/NTC Conference Bloggers. What does the nonprofit blogosphere look like?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

On a blank piece of paper write (without editing) a long list, or create a mind map, of all of the issues that are important to you ( i.e. health care, education, foreign policy, the arts, crime, poverty, animal rights, environment, local politics, organic food). You can be as general or specific as you like.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. " He describes some of the work flow issues related to nonprofit using Facebook causes.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 9, 2006

My March post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs , seems to have been helpful to folks (it even got translated into spanish by a blogger in Spain, so I thought I'd share my list, originally posted on NetSquared , of 7 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Podcasts. This is great if your founder, or director, is a strong and inspiring speaker.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Submitted by Kari Dunn Saratovsky (@socialcitizen), publisher of Social Citizens An interview with Facebook’s “in-house sociologist” Cameron Marlow, appeared in last week’s issue of The Economist and has since created an interesting debate about the value and depth of our online social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

As you'll note from that article, Nedra has also been exploring Second Life and we bumped into each other at the TechSoup space there where we completed our interview. I also discovered during our interview that Nedra plays the cello !) Take for example her write up on Games for Change. Why did you start blogging?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2006

As if you don't get enough of my holding forth here, Marshall Kirkpatrick interviewed me the other day for Techsoup's Netsquared project, and posted it here. Around the same time, Marshall also posted an interview with Beth Kanter. You can read the interview here. It was a really enjoyable, rambling conversation.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

As the issues became more public and more people started looking for others and taking action, it was necessary for an organization to form that could provide some of the infrastructure and administration of the community and it’s work. But, the organization remained community driven. And everything was shareable, collaborative, contagious.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Marketing, Fundraising, and Philanthropy So far, there will be at least four bloggers live blogging at the Council on Foundations conference. The "invited live bloggers" are Susan Herr , Tactical Philanthropy , Worldchanging and Lucy. What about other conference attendees who might also be bloggers? And here's a Web2.0

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