Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 6, 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 January 6th).

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 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 January 24th).

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 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. People who benefit from spreading your idea, not people who need to own it." Which are best/worst?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 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 October 18th). Do you have insurance? "Saw

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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). " My favorite lesson?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 21, 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. "What is social interpreneurship you ask? Have real pictures and have real conversations.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 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. It's left some nonprofit professionals wondering whether these types of contests are a good idea."

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 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 is an updated version of XKCD's Map of Online Communities; with updated numbers and networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2011

I’ve noticed on Google + that it is useful participate in the threads of other people’s posts where good reflective conversations are happening related to topics and ideas I am interested in learning more about. Ask clarifying questions, provide links to useful links that answer someone’s questions. #

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

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 25th).

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 12, 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 April 12th).

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 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. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of December 2nd). " Have you tried Jumo?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 9, 2009

Reboot Britain - David Wilcox, Andy Gibson and I are going to faciliate another round of the Social by Social Game at Reboot Britain - I'm really looking forward to the innovative ideas groups come up with! The way we choose tools based on our networks/friends' choice is really clear when you map it like this!

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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

JUNE 23, 2009

Aardvark - Take a look at this tool that leverages the extended networks we all have to get answers to questions that you may not know who to ask, but your network does! It's an interesting idea and I'd love to talk to people or organizations that have used it - have you? " Is Twitter a Social Network?

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

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 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 25th).

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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

DECEMBER 2, 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 December 2nd).

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 1, 2009

so it’s a good idea to log in and see if you are using the applications as best as you can be. Delicious / Bookmarks. If you use Delicious , the social bookmarking tool, you can view all of your tags and how many items have been bookmarked to each of them. the names of your organization and programs/projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

This book was published through a social networking process - very interesting. conversation??? The resulting book, The Age of Conversation, brings together over 100 of the world??? He also pointed me recently to a tool called CoReap ( www.coreap.com ), a social search and bookmarking add-on for your web browser.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

It gave me space to give social media use some mindful attention. To much product-driven learning, and I don’t discover new ideas. One is left-brained and the other right-brained. What role does social media play in it? Too much serendipity and I don’t feel like I accomplish anything.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The first C, Content, refers to the idea that social media tools allow everyone to become a creator, by making the publishing and distribution of multimedia content both free and easy, even for amateurs. Collaboration can happen at three levels: conversation, co-creation and collective action. The First C: Content.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Focus on the social channels that work with your brand. When it comes to social, you can’t do it all. Commit only to a certain number of social networks that you’re going to be able to manage well. Think about the type of content you have to share and which social channels are most appropriate for that type of content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Your organization has identified a social media objective, audience, strategy, tools, measurement, and experiment. You know your first step is listening, but before you jump into a river of conversations and keywords and even before you touch the tools, you need to be ready to listen. Social networks.

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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. In my communication workshops, I still find that nearly every nonprofit organization is rather afraid of the idea of blogging. It builds connections with clients and collaborators.

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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. Tyler Willis ) 7.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

So a conversation is happening, in a session, or in a plenary, and people are talking about that on another channel. Sounds like a reasonable idea. IRC has always seemed to me to be one of the best ways to do that, but IRC is, well, passé these days, it seems. But why don’t I sign up for a Twitter account, and, well, Twitter?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

I use an RSS reader to aggregate articles to read, a bookmarking tool (pinboard) to save links of interest, and conversational tools (Twitter and Facebook) to share. In contrast, many of the people I work with use visual social media formats as their lead tools for creating, sharing, and consuming information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. " What do you think about measuring social media? Need to catch up last week's ROI conversations so you can jump in - start here. I wholeheartedly agree ! generators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

But over the past few months, I have noticed, like Amy Gahran , that as I've engaged more in using Twitter, I'm connecting with resources and people more on Twitter than with social bookmarking tools. How do we continue to connect and have a conversation facilitated by different social media tools? What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

There's a lot of resources, ideas, and discussion over at Stop Cyberbullying Site. If you're at the conference, hand me an index card the URL of a web resource that you discovered in a session or informal conversation, write a brief description, and hand it to me while at the conference. Update your bookmarks: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I'm really glad that she sent me this email because I had bookmarked one of her recent commentaries on nonprofits and online social networking. Her piece begins with a simple definition of online social networking tools and asks: What's the appeal? social media, or social networking tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

social network and community sites. It would based on an analysis of all the "words" or tags that people have used to describe resources also bookmarked with nptech. Join the cross-blog conversation! He observes that folksonomies are in the early stages of development. Sort of an emergent taxonomy.

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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. Why not provide a space for them to share their ideas and resources on your blog? Take it a step further and share their news story links on your blog. allow comments.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 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. Great idea! Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of July 1st).

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 16, 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 August 16th). You get on. And you fall.

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