Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

"An Offering to the PHP Gods" Alexandra Samuel just coined a new word, bloggespondence , for the back and forth conversation we've been having about social bookmarking from our respective blogs. Sometimes these folks also need a method to share their bookmarks with other staff members in the organization or at remote sites.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2010

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. I’ve been thinking about that question a lot. " Why Do You Participate in Twitter Chats? ."

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 9, 2012

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. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of May 9th).

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 29, 2010

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. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of January 29th).

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 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. Vivanista Hosts Question Session « Vivanista | Living Well. Doing Good.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 11, 2010

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. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of June 11th).

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

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. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of January 15th).

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources across the web ever day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of November 24th).

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

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. Join us on the 21st at 4 eastern/1 pacific for questions and answers about the book The Networked Nonprofit.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources across the web ever day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Beth Asked a Question « A. Global Entrepreneurship Week – This week is Global Entrepreneurship Week!

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2010

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. The question, says Nancy Lublin, is whether such so-called slacktivism really works.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 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. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of March 2nd). Accidentally, of course.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 10, 2012

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. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of July 10th).

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2010

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. "Dina Rickman posed a question to me this week about the role of a reporter in our current networked age.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

This example can be applied to many situations, whether it's malicious comments on a blog, bad behavior in a forum, etc. The Three Branches of We.Gov | techPresident - "There’s a very interesting confluence of conversations taking place at the moment on the topic of how technology is changing politics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2011

. #2 Learn: The learning happens through interacting and commenting. Someone will share something, and you can ask a follow up question or read the comments of others. I try to slow to down and summarize the best concepts, ideas in a blog post. But before I can do that, I need to capture or bookmark the best stuff.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 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. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of June 13th).

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

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. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of May 17th).

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

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. " That is a question most nonprofit folks can answer pretty easily.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

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. This 82-page report answers these questions and many, many more! Who Tweets?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

It’s always a little weird to talk over the phone and not be able to hear or see those you are presenting to, but everyone was really great with comments and questions and responding online so I knew I wasn’t talking to myself! The questions folks asked at the end were terrific! tags: nonprofit nptech ).

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

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. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of June 6th).

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 13, 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. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of September 13th).

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 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. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of April 8th).

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JULY 20, 2013

I {couldn’t|could not} {resist|refrain from} commenting. Saved as a favorite|bookmarked!!} .| Saved as a favorite|bookmarked!!}, {I really like|I like|I love} {your blog|your site|your web site|your website}!| I’m {book-marking|bookmarking} and will be tweeting this to my followers! Some {very|extremely} valid points!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

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. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of February 23rd). Check it out!

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2010

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. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of December 15th).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

What is the quality of the conversation in the comments? What did you learn from the conversation? Reader Bookmarking: This is bookmarked content for later retrieval which is some indication of reader value. . Remember bookmarked items can also influence your blog traffic (positively). Are there patterns?

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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. Jillaine's post has sparked quite an interesting conversation in the comments. " we had a few months ago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

  Reader engagement consists of metrics for: Conversation (commenting). Reader Sharing (bookmarked items). engagement) to leave a comment or write your own blog post responding to someone else's, for example, than it does to just click on a post to read it, or click a button to bookmark it.

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JANUARY 14, 2013

Risa sums up the value of a collaborative approach: "Our staff conversations about ways to utilize social media are creative and energizing. They tackled tough questions such as: “we’ve never put together a podcast, how will we practically make this happen AND work through the learning curve?” work must be spread among staff 2.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

While waiting for my plane this morning before dawn, I scanned my Twitter stream thinking that a jolt of caffeine and Twitter would wake me up while I did my morning 20 minute information grazing routine, finding good stuff, retweeting, bookmarking and sharing. She recommends that you don't just look at numbers, but ask questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Debra has posed a very good question frame in the comments: Does the blog offer consistent insight and education about an area I want to learn about? I use knowledge trees, outlines, and focused thinking to identify what I need to learn and questions I need to ask. This is the listening and scanning I do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

On the side, by personal email I was sharing interesting links, articles, and conversations with people who I thought might be interested. The online conversations that are starting around those issues are very exciting. So to answer your question, when these connections have been weakest, that's when my blogging has flagged.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

And for expert level knowledge, read these blog posts about FriendFeed that Louis Gray has bookmarked.). In the last few weeks, there has been posts about how conversations have shifted to FriendFeed. In addition, a lot of ad hoc conversation and informal resource sharing unfolded. Follow the poweruser of FriendFeed, Louis Gray.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

I happen to catch the question above from the Idealist. And then I remember answering a similar question during the Convio Webinar last week. If you want learn the fine art of having a conversation on Twitter, follow and observe the masters. It's like starting a blog without first following and commenting on others blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

User generated content is also at the core of citizen journalism, the notion that amateur users can perform journalist-like functions (accidentally or otherwise) by reporting and commenting on news. Collaboration can happen at three levels: conversation, co-creation and collective action. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation.

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