Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 6, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. 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). Does your organization have a blog?

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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. 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). Million in donations for charities this past winter.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 15, 2009

These are some links I wanted to share from April 15th. The three winning innovations will share in prizes totaling up to $700,000 USD to support their next phase of advancement and implementation." " Does social media help you find a job? Tags: roundup bookmarks. Find me on Delicious for more! Check them out!

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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. 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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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2009

These are some links I wanted to share from May 6th. However, many women in technology and social media still face a digital ceiling." " Nonprofit Social Network Survey | Common Knowledge - "Learn how commercial social networks and house social networks fit into your nonprofit's online ecosystem.

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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. 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). Open Philanthropy is about sharing. The time is now.

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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. 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). " Is Your Organization Human Enough for Social Media?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 9, 2009

These are some links I wanted to share from June 9th. 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! Tags: roundup bookmarks. Find me on Delicious for more!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 23, 2009

These are some links I wanted to share from June 23rd. 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! " Is Twitter a Social Network? Offer a mix of tangible and social benefits.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

These are some links I wanted to share from October 20th. " Craig Newmark: A Nerd’s Take On The Future Of News Media - Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist.org, has a great post on Huffington Post - it's applicable to all those creating content, sharing news, and pushing information out via online platforms. "There

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

These are some links I wanted to share from May 14th. New ‘WSJ’ Conduct Rules Target Twitter, Facebook - The Wall Street Journal circulated a newly compiled list of "professional conduct" covering social media, social networking, and so on. Tags: roundup bookmarks. Find me on Delicious for more!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2009

These are some links I wanted to share from June 16th. The goal is to use the power of "Social Influence" via Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Blogs and other online media to raise an unprecedented amount for our fund benefiting The Humane Society, LIVESTRONG, Oxfam America and WWF from June 1st until August 28th, 2009."

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

on the Social Web must come to an end – that until we start paying for premium services ( and staff time ), nonprofits will continue to be at the mercy of for-profit revenue models and non-existent customer service, but that’s another blog post. Your lists will also appear in the Interests section of your bookmarks.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 8, 2009

These are some links I wanted to share from July 8th. We like to report on innovative technologies through blogs, video, podcasts and social networks." " Tags: roundup bookmarks. Find me on Delicious for more! Film Passes are now on Sale! - "Lights. On July 31st and August 1st at 7pm, Lights. ."

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2010

Everyday, we find great resources on the different uses of technology and social media in the nonprofit sector. We bookmark them, note them, share them, tweet or retweet them, and sometimes, we even blog about them. Tags: Online Fundraising Social Networking Tech Planning Using the Web and Internet.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

" Have Fun • Do Good: 6 Ways to Use the Web to Find a Nonprofit Job - Britt Bravo has a great run down on using social media tools in your job search - seems to be a topic on a lot of people's minds! The Future of Branded Content Conference | Social Media Explorer - Jason has a great post about content.

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Care2

APRIL 18, 2011

For $9 a month, PostRank will measure how engaging your blog or web content is. Do your website visitors find your content compelling enough to comment on and share on social networks? Postrank will show you who they are on the top 20 social networks. Postrank Analytics. Do you know who they are?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2011

It is process o f organizing, filtering and “making sense of” information on the web and sharing the very best pieces of content that you’ve cherry picked with your network. In the post I referenced a video interview with Robert Scoble by Howard Rheingold that Mari Smith highlighted in a google + post. curators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

It’s been an exciting endeavor and given us a lot of insight into using social media for nonprofits and fundraising! Our main goal is to help you learn how to leverage our technology and the tools that make up social media. 3) Make Your Content Easy to Share. You don’t want to make it hard for your readers to share, do you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

" He uses the ten things in ten minutes meme and writes the Ten Web 2.0 Truly embrace social networking by encouraging your staff, your volunteers, your donors and your Board to join Facebook or Myspace and teach(!) Collective bookmarking is an extremely powerful learning tool! them how to promote your cause.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

In January, we shared some statistics on the explosive use of mobile devices and how important responsive design has become for mobile commerce. Now we’d like to share why mobile sites have gone from a “nice-to-have” to a “must-have” for nonprofits. break, surfing the web on your smartphone.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2013

Social media and community staff rely on RSS readers to find interesting and share-worthy articles for Facebook or Twitter. iOS, Web) has only been available for a few days, but it is already getting rave reviews. praised Digg Reader for its clean, minimal design and rich social media features. Digg Reader.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." The buzzword then was Web 2.0, which heralded a new, participatory web culture. Online social networking was just being born. What Is Web 2.0?

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Care2

JULY 14, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Easy to Moderate* 9.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

My Grandmother also has a whole network of friends who are at various stages of computer use/online adoption. Recently, she asked me if I could share any resources for her and her friends to be able to network, learn and socialize on the internet. Getting Social. Thanks for sharing this resource, Sarah Marston!

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2006

As I've mentioned in previous posts, I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that is helping to bring the social web to nonprofits & NGOs by sharing stories and building tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

So, I spent some time reading through the proposals and bookmarked the ones I voted for. If either of my two panels are accepted, I’ll be designing some fun, full room interactive learning experiences that will be intended to shake loose peer learning and shared insights. The Potentials and Pitfalls Of Using Web Analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Easy to Moderate* 9.

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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. Drew McClellan and Gavin Heaton have never met each other, live in opposite parts of the world, and shared a few commonalities that seeded an idea. 400 words ??? on the topic of ???conversation??? conversation???

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 1, 2009

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. Social Actions. Social Actions is an aggregator of 50+ social action-related sources across the web. Communities. Happy searching!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

FriendFeed is in a category called digital lifestyle aggregators that let you aggregate all your various feeds and share with your friends. And for expert level knowledge, read these blog posts about FriendFeed that Louis Gray has bookmarked.). In addition, a lot of ad hoc conversation and informal resource sharing unfolded.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Don't set up a presence on every social network in the world all at once. . Use Help Applications That Streamline Social Media Tasks. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

If the idea of creating a social media plan sounds scary to you, just think of it as: 10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project. What is the goal I'm trying to achieve by using social media? Build web traffic? How much time do I have to spend on social media?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Nancy raises a few questions about whether a distributed presence for organizations - splitting the attention of members between an organization's web site and social networking profiles is a liability or an asset. Network-Centric Advocacy blogs points to a new feature at Alex's Lemonade Stand called "From the Mail Bag."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

The array of social media can appear to be very complex. But social media and social networks respond to the same needs that drive people; the need to connect with one another in meaningful ways through conversation. That allows us to work in this networked way. What are they doing on the social web?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2017

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. Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter are for social networking.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

Over the past year, I''ve had a hazy sense that the social web is transitioning from a text-based to visual medium. Facebook shifted its design to focus on photo and video-sharing in response to data showing that this content is shared way more frequently than text and links.

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