Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 29, 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). But the real question is this: Are brands providing meaningful and engaging experiences to their customers through their online communities?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. 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.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 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). Beth Asked a Question « A. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

The Net2 Secret Plan from Marnie Webb NpTech Tag New Year's Reflections, Predictions, and Best Ofs What are some of the ways that the social web marks the New Year? What are the nptech social media needs for 2008? I am wondering how all relates to the NpTech tag community and what it means. Let's take a look.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Nancy White answers a question posed by Laura Whitehead " Getting the most from social media for nonprofits: what would you recommend? Guess you can't have too many social bookmarking applications.) The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. "as part of a LASA Panel she is planning.

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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. Ruby shares her 10 Questions video. Here's how you can participate in 10 Questions. Social Bookmarking. from Tim Davies and Practical Participation.

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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. " And now, you can bookmark Second Life locations (called slurls) into del.icio.us The big question, what about that other 41% ? NetSquared Community. Momentum is building.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

Let's begin with big picture question that Gavin raised: What purpose do folksonomies serve? Alf Gracombe (a relatively new in the nptech blogosphere and whose blog looks promising) suggests that the debate reflects the shifting paradigm away from the more traditional content taxonomies to the emerging folksonomies on today???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

The NPTech Blog Chatter Confessions of a non-profit IT director blog rasied ruckus with his proposal for creating a closed forum and new NTEN Affinity Group : nptechhelp. A new service called Qunu that uses IM to match people who have software or tech-related questions with experts who are passionate and willing to help.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 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). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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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! tags: nonprofit nptech ). The questions folks asked at the end were terrific!

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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). Vivanista Hosts Question Session « Vivanista | Living Well. Doing Good. If she can’t answer it she’ll find an expert who can!

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 9, 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). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 13, 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). It's a question people are at great pains to answer, yet social welfare programs around the world are still plagued by error and abuse.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 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). This 82-page report answers these questions and many, many more! Who Tweets? Which provide the most flexibility in setting up your website?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

So, I turned that question to my friends and the NetSquared community, and got some really great responses that I'd like to share with you. Browser Bookmarks - To start with, I created bookmarks for my Grandma to be able to access her favorite sites without having to use Google Search or remembering the URL. Getting Social.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 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.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

The report starts out by summarizing the top 10 questions marketers have about using social media. It looks like these marketers have the same questions you have. . The top 3 questions Social Media Marketers have: . These are probably the most common questions for us in the nonprofit sector, as well. Where do I start?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2008

It's double work -- if I read a friend's tweet or if I ask a question and get a response, I bookmark the tweet url into del.icio.us That's where I initial thought the idea #nptech on twitter might be something to explore. However TweetScan is just as useful for tags like nptech. How can the two impulses be combined?

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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. I found it because I have an RSS feed for a twitter search on the nptech tag. And then I remember answering a similar question during the Convio Webinar last week. The worst thing you can do is ignore people who ask you questions or share comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2006

Go to del.icio.us , a social bookmarking or tagging tool, and create an account (if you don't already have one). This lead to us some deeper reflection questions: Is popularity (frequency of the number of people who bookmark a link) an indication of quality? Technorati Tags: nptech , cp2 , cop2.0 , net2 , delicious , tagging

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

Use a social bookmarking plug-in like Add This so people who like your work can easily share with their network. Not sure what Social Bookmarking is? Check out a great video by Common Craft : Social Bookmarking in Plain English. Have questions? Check out How to Use RSS in Sphere. Not sure what RSS is? Why Add This?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

He was pleased again to hear about the nptech, too. The tags you use to describe something should be intuitive so you can recall the bookmark. Weinberger started the next question off with ???You???re When delicious tells you the number of people who bookmarked, I hate the way it looks. t be bookmarked. It doesn???t

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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. The class story is the nptech community and Never Again. " Tagging "So I can find it later." " Keeping found things found.

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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. It made me think about the whole question " Can blog conversation be facilitated ?"

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2013

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?” Each team member places relevant elder justice and elder abuse articles and online mentions from the web into NYCEAC’s private Delicious bookmarks.

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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 with a rhetorical question, "Do you agree with his point ?" " I never expected that anyone would take the time to reflect on that question, let alone lead me towards understanding. Categories: net2 , nptech

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

It also includes related information, such as your password reminder questions, and general secure notes. Notes and Bookmarks After starting and stopping for years, I have come to embrace Evernote. Evernote is a different way to bookmark sites than, say, Delicious.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

So to answer your question, when these connections have been weakest, that's when my blogging has flagged. Your question, about how may sources I read, gets at the heart of Nonprofit Online News and my own information consumption patterns. That raises a question: Are you working on a book? (BK:

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Word of mouth, etc. Leave comments on blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Here's a summary of the distributed conversations, some context, and some questions. nonprofit technology thought leader Marnie Webb created the NpTech Tag as a way for nonprofit techies to share bookmarks on del.icio.us. And Jonathon Colman created the NpTech FriendFeed Room. To get a zeitgeist of nptech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2005

I also have some questions about to best organize my collection, but I think this will come as I use it more. I looking at it like my browser bookmark and I like to organize things into folders. Technorati Tag: nptech If this leads to me wanting to return to the blog on a regular basis, I add to my bloglines account.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

If you have questions about tagging or want to share your organization???s s experience (good and bad) with social bookmarking, the NTEN Affinity Group , NpTagvocates, is a great place for discussion with your peers on these topics. 2) Bookmarks can???t Social Bookmarking. Some of my thinking has definitely evolved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

This illustration along with the notes tool in flickr shows how the NPTech Meta Feed 2007 Version 1 - which is an aggregated feed of all sources that people tag resources with the nptech. Note, a few other folks have created their own variations of a NpTech pipe ). So, the Nptech tag is jumpstarting this digg community!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 17, 2007

I’ve also noticed how most people in the nptech world who experiment with this stuff have moved over to Facebook. One of my questions is whether or not they dedicate any time to LinkedIn, or other networking sites anymore, or has Facebook become the one they spend most time on. These are questions that are yet to be answered. {

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2005

This is the question I hear most often about blogging, both from other technology vendors and from non-profit staff: How do you decide what to write about? Distill your notes, scribbles, and bookmarks into entries in your topic list. Tags: nptech , blogging , CMS , content But selecting the tool is just the beginning.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) said Greg Elin of the Sunlight Foundation.

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