Amy Sample Ward

JULY 19, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. 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). What do you think? Great slides.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2011

In the post I referenced a video interview with Robert Scoble by Howard Rheingold that Mari Smith highlighted in a google + post. I’ve been experimenting with Scoop.It , a bookmarking and curation tool. It allows you enter your sources – specific blogs or keyword searches and easily add them to nicely formated stream.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

She now uses Google Search, reads her news online, sends and receives email, and even uses Facebook to check-in with family and friends. These are the tools that I used to get my Grandmother started: Google Search - So simple! Getting Social. It was developed to provide a Social Network geared towards Mature Adults and Seniors.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Search on Google , Google Blog Search , Technorati , Twitter Search , and Social Mention for your cause, the name of your organization (if you have one), and the URL of your website (if you have one). How much time do I have to spend on social media? What social media tool(s) should I use?

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Comment on other blogs. Make it easy to comment. It's ok to have comment moderation, but don't make people register. Tell Google you have a blog. Provide a way for people to easily share and bookmark your posts by using something like AddThis or Add to Any. Link to other bloggers in your posts. Have a blogroll.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

.&# I’ve been giving some mindful attention to my system for professional learning online, using social media – and blog reading habits are definitely a part of that system. 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?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Google Reader. Google Alerts. Social Mention. Google Alerts. Social Mention. You can monitor social networks and YouTube for mentions of your organization and issue. Social networks. How to Listen on Social Networks by KD Paine. Using Delicious to Bookmark mentions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Use your blog or twitter or whatever tool to solicit practical ideas on how to use social media to make connections. Set up Google Alerts to follow what's being said about your organization and cause online so that you can act on what's being said, join the conversation and build your community. Lisa Neal ) 2. For many in the boomer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

There was much speculation as to whether they mover to Jaiku (with its newly minted Google money), or Pownce, BrightKite, Tumblr, plurk or FriendFeed. And for expert level knowledge, read these blog posts about FriendFeed that Louis Gray has bookmarked.). Reed Stockman shared Is Social Networking/Causes the Next Big Thing?

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See3

OCTOBER 7, 2007

RSS feeds and blogs, article comments, social networks… it’s all increasingly important. Some of what they found was on the low end — such as 17% of people using shared bookmarks (sites such as Del.icio.us). Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest?

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Leave comments on blogs. Word of mouth, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Twitter is the Second Highest Referral After Google.

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See3

DECEMBER 12, 2007

Because we believe that increasingly we will be seeing engagement move to these social networking models and away from email. Share and Enjoy: 4 Comments comment Social Networking News for Myspace / Facebook / Etc. » Why you need social media marketing. [.] … sucks. Christopher S.

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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. Google extracts the pagerank, a measure of how important a page is, from our (implicit) linking and clicking behavior.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Phillip Smith has a thoughtful post called " Social tech meets the Social Innovation Generation " The Nonprofit Eye blog writes about leadership challenges in the nonprofit sector. Michele Martin points to a new feature in google news that can spark conversations. Social bookmarking in plain English!

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

When David explained that each of the Holocaust Museum’s myriad comment boards, blogs, and online forums is moderated by a staff member, the audience turned a little green. If reviews include incorrect information, add your own comment giving helpful information about hours, prices, and new cool things people might like.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Share breaking news within your field Chances are someone on your staff is already bookmarking and forwarding news stories about your issue each day. allow comments. Example: Anyone can publish a blog post on the NetSquared Community Blog and Social Actions' social network, my.socialactions.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. With one billion active monthly users, Instagram is a very powerful social network used by nonprofits worldwide. People had joined the social network primarily for the visual experience – not to read. Write Good Captions. Create and manage ads.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Last week I joined Ello , a new social network that is ad-free and allows users to opt out of some data collection and tracking. It’s feels like a combination of Twitter (say hello and share what you are up to), Tumblr (longer form posts, photos, gifs), and Google+ (a bucket for friends and a bucket for noise). Learn more.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

For mobile social networkers, Viddy is a must-download. TwtPoll enables nonprofits to create polls that can be shared on Twitter or any any other social network. into “Stories” that can then be easily shared on social media and embeded on websites and blogs. USTREAM :: ustream.tv. Quoto :: quoto.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Annual Calendar of Social Good and Cause Campaigns :: nonprofitorgs.wordpress.com/annualcalendar. Clipix makes bookmarking a.k.a.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. 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). " Where do you get your news?

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Carie opened with an intro to social media. She says social networks are “not just a bunch of lonely teenage boys.” 84% of people comment, 82% message others, and 39% create content. She notes that people really rely on social networks for influence on decision-making.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

It goes into the topic of social networking analysis.huh? Going on with the traffic metaphor, there was a comment that building traffic takes time, " particularly from RSS subscribers who must be convinced that the blog is worth investing the time to read and therefore subscribe." Google Analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Last year at Princeton, we added a Google Map for people to geotag their home location , an invitation to share photos of the number “15? (it Pathable- A Conference Social Network Site. Our conference planner told me earlier this year about Pathable a company that provides a social network site for your conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

For example, on npdigg you can comment and talk about the resources. people my discuss or talk about a resource via a blog post or the notes field in a social bookmarking tool. simplify the software setup for your social network. This happens with tagging communities, but it is distributed. Sites like Ning.com.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" said Greg Elin of the Sunlight Foundation. said Greg Elin of the Sunlight Foundation.

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