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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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. curators.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

55% of social networking happens from a mobile device. Donors are following their favorite charities on Facebook, Twitter, and other social sites. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2008

I met Ian Kennedy who is the product manager at MyBlogLog, a blogger social network. MyBlogLog recently implemented a new feature called " activity streams." Ian spoke on a panel called Social Networks and the Need for Feeds at Graphing Social Patterns. Just some more to ponder.

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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. Moderate* 10.

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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. Moderate* 10.

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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. Source: Quick Draw Comics - John Weeks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Truly embrace social networking by encouraging your staff, your volunteers, your donors and your Board to join Facebook or Myspace and teach(!) Post that video on your website, any major sharing sites, and social networks -- then encourage people to share the videos far and wide!! them how to promote your cause.

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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. KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools.

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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 ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Social Bookmarking. Life Stream. Community Building and Social Networking: You build relationships online, nurture a community, engage people and inspire them to take an action, or raise money using social networks and apps. Social Networks. you work in. Tools: Monitoring. RSS Readers.

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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. Beth Dunn asks "Do Social Networks mostly promote inclusion or exclusion?" How do you make easy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

In " The Social Web Ain't Rocket Science " Worldchanging blogger Jon Lebkowsky reminds us that blogs, wikis, and social networking sites may not be appropriate for all nonprofits and that hype and pressure shouldn't drive adoption decisions or they may not be successful. Social Bookmarking.

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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 Allison Fine writes an Op-Ed piece on the SF Chronicle entitled " A New Bargain: YouTube Politics."

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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. This one via NTEN and Neighborhood Networks Conference and this one via the nonprofit blog exchange. Most of the links identified have flowed through the NpTech Tag stream but nice to revisit them! Social bookmarking in plain English!

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

thrives on a constant stream of new applications and products. They don't just keep bookmarks, they Digg things and save them to del.icio.us. Does my virtual pet really need a social network? If we want to work with directors, trustees, and other skeptics to evolve museums and other content providers alongside Web 2.0,

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 16, 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. You get on. And you fall.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Pathable- A Conference Social Network Site. Our conference planner told me earlier this year about Pathable a company that provides a social network site for your conference. We are seeing a great stream of tagged flickr photos from the conference - more than 2400 at last peek. Live Video Streams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Do you employ a social networking or online outreach strategy that engages your regular readers and enables new readers to discover you? Here's a few examples: Delicious Badge : I use this widget to publish my social bookmarking bookmarks on my blog. Social Networking Tool or Service. links though.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

That takes some of the duplicates out of the tag stream. So, while it may appear that this user is tagging all this material, it is the sum effort of the community of taggers who contribute to the stream. people my discuss or talk about a resource via a blog post or the notes field in a social bookmarking tool.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Vinepeek posts a continuous stream of newly-posted Vines in realtime. Most nonprofits have not yet embraced Twitter’s new Vine App , thus they may not have an understanding of how to record and broadcast the world (and social good) in six second bites. For mobile social networkers, Viddy is a must-download.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Annual Calendar of Social Good and Cause Campaigns :: nonprofitorgs.wordpress.com/annualcalendar. Clipix makes bookmarking a.k.a.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Clipix makes bookmarking a.k.a. It’s a throwback from social networking circa 2006. Based in the U.K.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Clipix makes bookmarking a.k.a. It’s a throwback from social networking circa 2006. Based in the U.K.,

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