Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

My experience since I started working in the social media field is that the failures are where you learn the most as a community manager, a social media manger, a change manger, a professional and as a person. Leaders often blame change managers or teams who do not control the source or circumstances which cause the “failure.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

In order to do this, they need to work with free agents, hyper-connected individuals who are passionate about social change, but don’t work within institutional walls. Our session will explore how and why this needs to change. What are the change issues for traditional nonprofits that want to become “networked nonprofits?

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sgEngage

JULY 18, 2023

Threads, a new app released by Meta, is rushing into the space left by Twitter’s constantly changing policies. By liking, commenting, reposting, or sharing, you and your followers can keep a conversation going across your networks. Modern fundraising depends on meeting your supporters where they are. Sound familiar?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

As this first impression can be hard to change, it’s worth taking your time to think about what you want to convey. You might want to hire a photographer for events, then get participant’s permission to tag them in photos on social media. This will give you a good idea of what’s working and what you might need to change.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Today is Blog Action Day and this year’s theme is Climate Change. Earlier this week, I posted a summary from this month’s #4Change chat that focused on social media in the Climate Change movement. Blog Action Day 2009 will be one of the largest-ever social change events on the web. Take action on Climate Change.

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Communication is the most important tool a project manager and their team has to help clients achieve their goals, especially in the ever-changing landscape of the current workplace. and/or tagging them in comments in your project management tool or shared document. That might include CC’ing them on project status emails.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Don’t be a photo tag spammer either! It’s a good practice to occasionally tag important partners and sponsors in image tweets, but doing so often will only annoy them. followers, can tweet and receive significant engagement (comments, retweets, likes) without having to engage their followers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

Last year, there was an event called "Social Media for Social Good" organized by Jeff Pulver that prompted quite a rich discussion on whether social media for fundraising and marketing can effect real on the ground change. The Social Change Challenge will crowdsource innovative ideas from nonprofits to change the world.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

That changed when LinkedIn was purchased by Microsoft in 2016 for $26.2 Their use of the social network is mostly inconsistent and without strategy – the 10 best practices below are meant to change that. Tagging corporate sponsors and partners. For the first 13 years of its existence, growth was slow but steady. LinkedIn Pages.

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Candid

JANUARY 30, 2023

Before you commit to a complete overhaul of your nonprofit’s branding , make sure you understand what a rebrand entails: Your audience’s perception of your nonprofit will change. Your audience’s perception of your nonprofit will change. Focus your efforts on changing aspects of your brand that your supporters find less appealing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

HP is giving away laptop and printer bundles as part of its HP’s Create Change program which is an example of " embedded giving." That's a buzz word coined by Lucy Bernholz to describe the common practice of building a philanthropic gift into another, unrelated, financial transaction. Leave a comment sharing your "Theory of Change".

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JUNE 8, 2011

This tool scans the pictures you and others post and gives you suggestions on how to tag people in them. Here’s how to change Facebook’s Facial Recognition’s default setting of including you (from Mashable ): Go to your privacy settings. Would it make tagging your consumers, volunteers or staff in photos much easier?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Because the difference isn’t in using the tools per se, we all have the same functionality to upload, tag, comment, etc. Topic: What do you think the role of nonprofit organizations is in the changing world of social media? How do nonprofits convene groups or create content that fits with the changing online environment?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2008

tags: information socialmedia ). On November 24th, I got up at 5:00 AM to skype into the NCVO Information Conference , focused on how organizations can make best use of recent developments in social media to meet the changing needs and expectations of their audiences. tags: km laurawhitehead ). tags: nonprofits socialmedia ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2009

I'm pleased to be part of the "List of Change." If you want to think about ways to improve what we you're doing and our sector as a whole, then come join the List of Change. If you think that this is not a good idea, please share your views in the comments. If you want to participate, you can opt in to List of Change.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 1, 2020

By Michelle Chen is an independent scholar with a PhD in mass communications with a focus on advocacy, activism and social change. COVID-19 obviously changed this dynamic. This is also why campaigns that involve tagging friends and encouraging them to pass on the message are effective. Leverage social information and norms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2007

When I saw that I had been tagged on Nancy White's blog, I left a crabby comment. I've wanted to change to gmail, but need a slow period. Now who to tag. leave a comment and you're tagged! Sometimes when I get overwhelmed, my reaction is to dive into my blog reader. A new form of work advoidance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2009

It's called " 4 Ways Social Media is Changing the Nonprofit World." The post is overview on this theme and I am looking for stories about how your organization's use of social media has changed the way your organization works. Leave it in the comments. Tags: Books. How are you becoming a more networked nonprofit?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

I'm tagging information related to discussion, examples, and comments about nonprofits using tagging (or not using tagging) to prep for upcoming session at netsquared.org with the tag del.icio.us/nptag. What would this visual look like if it was translated into a graphic of nonprofit tagging use?

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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? The main reason I'm still tagging is for retrieval when asked for a resource on and to write this summary. Thoughts, leave them in the comments. Let's take a look.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

But a recent change by Facebook has me reevaluating my frequency in posting. 2) If your Status Updates get very little “Thumbs Up&# or “Comments&# , then perhaps your content also needs to be re-evaluated. It’s also worth noting that more Thumbs Up and Comments = More News Feed exposure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Submitted by Stacey Monk, founder of Epic Change There’s an ever-burgeoning number of forums, chats, conferences, meetups destination websites, competitions, you-name-it, for dogooders. Just yesterday I read a tweet that called the #nonprofit twitter tag a “cavernous echo chamber.” Now don’t get me wrong, I love you people.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

The monthly Community Builder chat series is part of the #4Change community of regularly scheduled chats, bringing together people from around the world to talk about examples, practices, tips and more as we all explore the way technology can be used for social change. Please leave a comment with your idea! When: Date: September 16th.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 13, 2010

The Changing Face of Nonprofits. These are all aspects of our work that have changed dramatically and rapidly. Session: The Changing Face of Nonprofits. If you’d rather send an email instead of leaving a comment, that is always okay too! Tags: events brandsconf conference invitation panel speaking.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 24, 2021

Specifically, mention and tag them if they are on social media. If you decide to implement changes to your program based on feedback, let them know so that they feel they have a real voice in the workings of your organization. Leave a comment and tell us about it. How does your organization keep volunteers coming back?

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

One thing that did ring true is that Facebook is constantly changing, and not every change is award-winning. The latest changes came February 10, when the non-fiction Facebook staff deployed a range of changes to Facebook Pages, including substantial changes to the Pages layout. Two notes before we dive in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

Also, for the past year, I've been summarizing resources being shared through the NpTech Tag, I've felt frustrated that you didn't always know who had contributed the resource and while one could add brief annotations, there was not a space for conversation around those shared items. Can you answer it?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

How has your website changed during the Era of the Social Web? I would greatly appreciate you posting your website link with your comments too. Tags: The Book. Is it staff, or do you rely upon volunteers and interns, or an independent contractor? Are you happy with your website and what you pay for it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

NpTech Tag Skypecast Anyone? Marnie Webb puts out a call for a call next wed, thurs, or friday to discuss in real time the issues that have surfaced around the NpTech Tag. She proposes several different times, leave your preferences in the comments. Change the World! Five Hot Conversations.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2009

The best time to work on becoming a technology change leader is when your organization is not in the middle of a new technology initiative. Laying the groundwork for successful technology change can take a while. Start preparing now by following these four easy steps to become a change leader. Step 1: Become an expert.

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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. Don't forget to sign up the feeds on the agreed tag. Photo by SpacePotato. rethink, reinvent. Tyler Willis ) 7.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2006

Today, over at Netsquared I summarized some of the live blog posts coming from the Web of Change Conference. I did some searches on the conference tag, woc2006 and noticed that the tag is the same for the World Orienteering Championship. It made me think that you have to think a little about choosing an event tag. -It

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

The new site features blog posts relative to mobile technology for nonprofits, a featured nonprofit mobile Website that will change monthly, links to the “NonprofitOrgs&# profiles on the mobile versions of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, etc, and prompts readers to subscribe to receive text alerts from Nonprofit Tech 2.0.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? There's a thoughtful comment from Givewell that points out the work flow involved. Tools To Change the World. Privaterra blog showed up in the tag stream.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Chris then spends about 8 hours per week responding to comments an building relationships with our viewers. He also puts a lot of thought into his responses to all of the YouTube and Facebook comments because he is on the front lines of changing the way people think about wild cats. Tags: Social Media The Book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

" It also made me realize that it should be tag because of sloppiness. That aside, Joistke goes on to reflect on the usefulness of tagging and rss feeds for her work with communities of practices (and by extension - nonprofit organizations.) This is a huge shift RSS/tagging can bring into the workspace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

The Cross Blog Discussion of the NpTechTag has generated some comments and blog posts that I've summarized below. However, in the comments, readers point to the benefits of a folksonomy and suggest that combining the two approaches can lead to a best-of-both-worlds outcome. How are they different from taxonomies?

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