Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

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). There are so many other tools and platforms that are exciting, innovative, incredibly engaging, and beautiful. " Check it out! " Check it out!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2009

How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live - TIME - There's a great article in Time about Twitter, and what the community of Twitter users has done to make the tool more than first meets the eye. "In "Enrich your experience of the N2Y4 conference by getting the information you want from the social media streams.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 13, 2013

You're probably already familiar with TechSoup's great blog posts on fundraising, like Fundraising: The Tech Tools You Need and 19 Effective Fundraising Ideas from Nonprofit Pros. We've compiled some of the best articles, blogs, and webinars from our partners in Canada, Australia, and the global NetSquared Local groups.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2009

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). Managers find social media important and organizations are generally enthusiastic. However, the efforts are far from organized and strategic.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 17, 2009

Ready.gov Launches Social Media Preparedness Initiative - "The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Ready Campaign, in partnership with The Advertising Council, is introducing a series of new social media tools today to further engage Americans in taking steps to prepare for emergencies.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

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). It got us using social media in a way we hadn’t before, and our supporters loved it. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! There's going to be a Netsquared Meetup (recommendations for restaurant or location are needed) How will your nonprofit avoid the Meatball Sundae? Social Media: Adoption, Strategy, and Measuring Success ZUP4Nonprofits has a two-part post ( pt. Wonder if smashups are eligible?)

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

Last month, TechSoup and TechSoup Romania's hourlong tweet chat explored content curation and the best tools for it. You may already be using content curation tools if you visit the web on a regular basis. The most basic and commonly used tools include RSS readers, alerts, bookmarking sites, and Twitter lists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

The focus is how to effectively integrate social media channels and measure and learn. Two grantees that work on Children’s Healthcare at the national level and have experience using social media as part of an integrated campaign were co-presenters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. The summaries will be briefer, focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. Collective bookmarking is an extremely powerful learning tool!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 It includes case studies, tools, and how-tos. tools to capture and share knowledge from nonprofit gatherings. tools into your PR messaging?

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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.). As she says, it combines social bookmarking, feed reading, and the casual interactions of Twitter into something that works somewhat like mailing list, but doesn't add to your email overload. A: They talk about tools!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

nonprofit leaders , including Daniel Ben-Horin, founder of CompuMentor who predicts, "Successful nonprofit players in the social media space will those who understand the opportunity without being seduced by it." For social media and technology predictions, here's a few from the Read/Write Web. bubble would burst.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. NetSquared Community. for the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) beginning on May 29th. Like last year, conference participants are introducing themselves on their NetSquared Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Last year, I couldn't decide and ended up writing the look back as a lessons learned, a personal New Year's resolution post, and a round up of what nonprofit folks had on their minds as they entered 2008: Four Lessons Learned: Social Media and Nonprofits Meme: I listed four lessons learned and tagged four other people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

2005) Susan Tenby's response to the question, " Why I use Tags " shows progression from retrieval, to social bookmarking, to sharing with others - on a personal level. Netsquared Tagging and Bookmarking Net2Learn Center and site search using word " tagging " Also here. " Keeping found things found.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

Take for example, the netsquared conference. tools, but what happens when you have a group of people who may not be? Flickr streams have also been used to document informal gatherings in a playful and creative way -- see these examples from N-TEN and Netsquared's Net Tuesday gatherings. and I knew where I could find it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. " What do you think about measuring social media? Tools and Strategy Google Earth for Green Activism. Social Bookmarking. NTEN's Call for NTC Sessions - Deadline October 24th.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

I bookmarked in delicious a post by David Weinberger saying blogging is Web 1.0 On Netsquared , there was a recent post about Bioneers and some thoughts about a session about online tools and mobilizing. with a rhetorical question, "Do you agree with his point ?" Leroy's point: In order for our brave new Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Overview slides of what is Web2.0 ( remix from Social Media and Nonprofits Presentation) Core theme Listening - Responding to what people are saying about the topic or the program. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Step 5: RSS As Information Coping Tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I finally got to meet Jayne about a year at the netsquared conference. 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?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

group" about tagging and social-bookmarking. In the comments, I prodded her to share some of her experience about using tagging as a tool to share resources in a community of practice context. She recently posted about a demonstration she gave during a meeting with members of the "Dutch ???e-collaboration???

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 20, 2009

Social media brings thousands of ppl w/diabetes together at the SAME time | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org - Manny Hernandez (@askmanny on Twitter), the creator of TuDiabetes.com has shared a great case study on the NetSquared Community Blog about how they have used social media tools to bring a community together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

That was the conversation in the nonprofit, nonprofit technology, and social change social media space. nonprofit technology thought leader Marnie Webb created the NpTech Tag as a way for nonprofit techies to share bookmarks on del.icio.us. That discussion generated some good tips for using Digg (as well as other tools).

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