Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 2011

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). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Doing Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2011

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. Giuseppe Mauriello’s Social Media Strategy and Marketing. curators. Howard Rheingold’s Infotention.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2009

" A conceptual model of value for social media | Juice Digital - Check ou thte "4 Cs" model developed by Gaurav Mishra: Content, Collaboration, Community and Collective Intelligence, as an example of the progression of what kind of value you can create online for your organization and the larger community.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

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). This project, housed on a social media enhanced micro-site allows people to commit to a year of service via an email sign up. Check it out! "So

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Social Media and Technology: What Nonprofits Need To Know « Nonprofit Communications: Duck Call Blog - I really love the highlights Farra shares from the “Social Media and Technology: What Nonprofits Need To Know" panel she attended yesterday as part of #baruchnp, at Baruch College in New York.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 19, 2010

and Randal Moss, Social Media Marketing Manager, MeadWestvaco. Just as you might tag a Web bookmark in a social bookmarking site such as the now defunct Xmarks.com and Del.icio.us Imagine the ROI you could present back to a sponsor or major donor about how many times people talked about the event online and across streams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2011

Put them on a list, in a circle, or group so you can focus on their stream and not get distracted. Too much “resharing&# simply pollutes your stream and creates noise. Google + offers another layer of complexity because you can refine what you share with whom, although that probably takes more time to think through. #

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

WOMM (word of mouth marketing) and earned media should be key components of any communications plan to market your nonprofit’s website. Add This: A widget that allows website visitors to share your content via 50 social networks and bookmark communities. Moderate* 10.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Share Links w/Brief Comment : This comes from my daily scanning of resources about social media, nonprofits, and philanthropy and picking out five good links and passing them along with a 140 character annotation. These are a few gems that I've bookmarked on delicous and slightly different than those streamed on my blog. (And

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

content to your social streams that leads to a mobile-optimized site. To-do: Map out a social media posting strategy designed to generate donations. Don’t make givers bookmark your site. Donors are following their favorite charities on Facebook, Twitter, and other social sites. If your site is slow to. visitor frustration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

The NTEN WeAreMedia project has been hard at work over the last few months building the house so to speak -- focusing on how nonprofits can use social media effectively. This list isn't comprehensive, it does NOT include every possible social media tool or category known to mankind - there are literally hundreds, if not thousands.

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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. He talks about the importance of Google implementing brand pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2008

MyBlogLog recently implemented a new feature called " activity streams." " An activity stream is a feed of recent activities by your blog friends on various social networks - blog posts, new photos, bookmarks on Delicious, Facebook updates, Twitter updates, etc. Here's a summary of his talk at GSP and video.

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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. I came across this tweet from @socialcitizen.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

You will now receive all of your information concerning your reports in real-time streaming, a feature many of us have been waiting on for years. bookmarking on Delicious & Digg. If so, get ready for a new, redesigned version that is packed with some great features and analytics. emailing to friends. liking your site on Facebook.

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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

JANUARY 27, 2008

Social Media: Adoption, Strategy, and Measuring Success ZUP4Nonprofits has a two-part post ( pt. 2 ) that discusses how to lay the groundwork for board signoff on an organization's social media in initiatives. Guess you can't have too many social bookmarking applications.) "as part of a LASA Panel she is planning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

It is really bizarre, but this afternoon I've been struggling with the notion about the connection between individual adoption and organizational adoption of social media tools like Facebook or others. There is some great thinking about how social media can be used in nonprofits for personal development. Of YouTube? Of Facebook?

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Care2

JULY 14, 2009

WOMM (word of mouth marketing) and earned media should be key components of any communications plan to market your nonprofit’s website. Add This: A widget that allows website visitors to share your content via 50 social networks and bookmark communities. Moderate* 10.

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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. (Read this ). Want to go even deeper?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2011

I want to be able to bookmark or pick things out from the stream that I want to go back to so the items don’t get lost. Also, there’s search yet. Google started with the asymmetric model of sharing first because it is hard for people to grasp.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 9, 2011

Before we jump into the laundry list, Convio's Facebook page is your one-stop shop for upcoming Convio events - bookmark it for future reference! Causebuilding Games: Fundraising & Social Gaming Streams. Tuesday, March 22, 11:30-12:15pm: Navigating the Waters in a Sea of Social Media (PDF).

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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

JULY 20, 2009

John's River that I live streamed with my N95. I went through my rolodex and invited people to submit their best post related to the theme of my blog - how nonprofits use social media effectively. Beth Kanter, Red Cross Social Media Strategy/Policy Handbook. I'm looking for a few good posts on Social Media, ROI, and Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

This is particularly useful if there is a great volume material that has been tagged and could benefit from a more organized presentation than a "messy" tag stream. You can get rich photo streams when participants a) have and use digital cameras b) understand and use tag based photosharing services like flickr. or furl.

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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. A community that forms because they are interested in the topic of the tag and have discovered/follow the tag stream and/or contribute to it. Emily's post ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

The tags you use to describe something should be intuitive so you can recall the bookmark. The other aspect of delicious is that I can participate in a tag stream that is of interest to me. That stream of tags that comes through everyday is very rich and a valuable resource. If just one other person bookmark, it shows a link.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Audience size, breadth, and depth: If your organization has big lists, lots of traffic to your website or blog or social media pages, or big crowds at events, there are many ways to turn this into a donor benefit. Does your organization stream live on Instagram, YouTube, Vimeo, or Facebook? Is there something like this you can try?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Anyone can tag it and add it to their social bookmarking account and get it into the tag stream. Also another blog post about this from E Kim - not tagged with "nptech" but as I pointed out the author doesn't necessarily have the tag the post. Chris Blow has done some analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2005

There was also a look at the differences between spurl, furl, and delicious in terms of clusters, related tags, bookmarking widgets, private tags, etc. If you wanted to sell this inside a corporation, show the tag stream for the tag taxonomy. The stream of interesting knowledge that comes out of it ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Here's two roundups of links about social media and nonprofits. Most of the links identified have flowed through the NpTech Tag stream but nice to revisit them! Social bookmarking in plain English! Web Site Usability, Social Media Engagement and ROI. I so need a better system. Social Web. AFP Blog picks up on some Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

Not attending the NetSquared Conference but want to follow the tag stream? Sort of like a Social Media Amish Barn Raising? Buzz in NpTech space -- from blog to blog to tagged bookmarks. Robin Good's " Ten Ways To Promote Your Business Using Social Media " are very translatable to the nonprofit space.

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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? Social Bookmarking. A terrific step-by-step guide guide called Social Bookmarking with del.icio.us Ruby shares her 10 Questions video.

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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 Head right over to the Social Media Press Release Template from Shift Communications and reviewed by the Getting Attention Blog. " Here's the wiki , blog , and flickr compilations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

We went to a pub with some David Wilcox and Nick Booth, ordered up a few rounds of drinks, and had a fantastic conversation about social media and nonprofits. All the research is done, you'll find links to my bookmarks on delicious). #2 John Kenyon was also at the LASA Circuit Riders Conference in Birmingham with me earlier this month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Social Media I'm hearing some complaints about the distract-ability of social media. JournalMarketing's advice to communicators and execs: Doing new media is more important than learning new media. " And now, you can bookmark Second Life locations (called slurls) into del.icio.us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

Instead, I dip into the NpTech Tag Stream and notice this post from NTEN about a new book about nonprofits and technology. I should be answering my email or at least attempting to get my inbox down to zero.

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