Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

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

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Don't Automate All Your Facebook Posts Facebook actually treats posts from third-party apps differently, and they could be lost in your community's news feeds. This would seem to be a no-brainer for encouraging engagement, but there are nuances for what kinds of questions will facilitate the best conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Note from Beth: Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating two workshops on becoming a Networked Nonprofit: Effective Social Strategy for nonprofits in Santa Barbara hosted by the Fund for Santa Barbara. We hope our suggestions will spark ideas for additional hooks to feed your content strategy and engage your audience.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 25, 2020

A virtual event means that those face-to-face interactions will not be possible but that does not mean that you can’t facilitate and encourage networking all the same. . Start a live feed with a video that talks about the opportunities at your event, ask the audience specific questions, and encourages them to respond in the comments.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 28, 2020

Event gamification elements, like a virtual scavenger hunt, can go a long way to facilitating networking at your virtual event. Over time, group members will naturally start to connect with one another, reducing the need for major facilitation or oversight. Virtual Networking Ideas. Virtual Scavenger Hunt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

is a web-based digital photo sharing application that uses tags to facilitate finding people and photos. And, what if you could subscribe to an RSS feed so anytime a new picture was added about a topic you care about, were studying, or writing about - it would come automatically to you? Leave a comment with a url! It isn??????t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2012

Commenting on the posts in other aligned partner’s Facebook pages. I had some privacy concerns and also it felt like it would require feeding another channel – why bother when I already had a brand page. I’ve changed my mind. Measure Networked Nonprofit. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 8, 2011

Recently, I interviewed the facilitators of " Third Generation: Nonprofit | Business | Relationships | Evolved ," a special three-hour workshop hosted by the National Bank of Arizona and organized by the ASU Lodestar Center. Also, the caliber of other workshop facilitators was definitely a plus!

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2011

You can find websites with practical ways to facilitate community interactions, or ask colleagues at other nonprofit organizations for tips. Posted by ASU Lodestar Center at 12:16 PM Labels: Asset Based Community Development , Chandler , community , Hannah Humphrey , nonprofits , Public Allies , social media 1 comments: George King said.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

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

MARCH 3, 2011

(#11NTCbrand) Social Media and Contact Relationship Management – the New Mix (1:30-3 pm Friday) - Ironic that I'm writing about this session as I'm watching the live feed o f Salesforce making social media announcements in New York City. Steve Spiker and Steve Backman are facilitating this session with me. I love it.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 25, 2020

A virtual event means that those face-to-face interactions will not be possible but that does not mean that you can’t facilitate and encourage networking all the same. . Start a live feed with a video that talks about the opportunities at your event, ask the audience specific questions, and encourages them to respond in the comments.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Not only can you share organizational news as it happens, you can also comment on how breaking news in the world relates to your cause, or organization. Use a service like Feedblitz or Feedburner Email to facilitate readers' subscribing by email. As a mention in your Twitter feed, and clicking through to read the rest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2011

I’m also a champion for the Blue Key Campaign which is using a Facebook Group to coordinate and communicate around our work supporting the campaign. Last year, Darim Online used a Facebook Group to facilitate a virtual book club for the Networked Nonprofit. Finally, events, like docs, also have a comment stream attached.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). Hard Data Points: Look at the Feed Subscribers trends from Feedburner and Unique Visitors Trends from Google Analytics. What is the quality of the conversation in the comments? Are they tips?

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

I'm in Kuwait for the 10th Annual Conference of the " Global Development Network ", a "global network of research and policy institutes that work on facilitating and applying research to policy development and practice." Google news feed about the event. See how it is unfolding here in Kuwait: GDN 2009 Conference social network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Not only can you share organizational news as it happens, you can also comment on how breaking news in the world relates to your cause, or organization. Use a service like Feedblitz or Feedburner Email to facilitate readers' subscribing by email. As a mention in your Twitter feed, and clicking through to read the rest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

This year my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation includes training, coaching, and facilitating peer learning sessions for grantees on using social media effectively, becoming a Networked Nonprofit. It has been incredible laboratory to put the big ideas in the book in practice. Rinse and repeat.&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

A (blog) conversation strategy is how you support and nurture a conversation on your blog in the comments. It is a combination of how you will comment on other blogs, how you track the conversation, and how you respond to comments on your blog. So, what's your replying to comments technique or strategy? Respond quickly.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Make it easy to subscribe Have an rss feed. If you are using Facebook, share your blog's feed in your Facebook news feed with the Notes application. Facilitate commenting Allow commenting. Moderate your comments if you are concerned about inappropriate remarks, or spam. Respond to comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. How Feeding America Uses KPIs to Measure Social Media. Watech4good Summit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2007

I've been reflecting on some of the points made about the pros/cons of the NpTech Tag and the comment that Laura Quinn left here. What if we thought of the NPTech Tag as a way to aggregate and facilitate a more focused distributed conversation and the summary is, well, a summary. Do you subscribe to the feed to find resources?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

His photo and commentary and use the hash tags facilitates visibility and connection to this audience target. Here is an observation about noticing Chuck Close’s art in Instagram feeds and sharing a work from the Met, with some commentary. Please share the URL in the comments and I’ll add it to the list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

It is one of a number of "life streaming applications" where individuals and organizations who are active on the social web can port their activity across social networks into one, easy to follow, read, and comment activity stream. With Twitter becoming more mainstream , perhaps we'll see more activity on FriendFeed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

From Comments as Group Discussion by Skelliwag. In the early days of social media, when blogs were the centerpiece of the conversation graph, we focused on using our blogs to promote conversation and community in the comments as David Wilcox and Michelle Martin. It also returns the search results and you can grab an RSS feed as well.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2013

Many thanks to Andrea Berry ( Idealware ), Lindsay Bealko (Toolkit Consulting), and David Krumlauf ( Pierce Family Charitable Foundation ) for planning the session and facilitating the discussion. This means it can feed more children, protect more endangered species, or find more beds for people in need. No budget for technology?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

In any event, I have a lot of other skills and knowledge besides databases and coding: skills and knowledge in teaching, in writing, in working with organizations, in facilitation, in religion and spiritual practices, and in working with people, that I want to use now. 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele 03.19.07

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Forum One

DECEMBER 16, 2008

A few of the things the Obama technology plan calls for (see the whole plan ), and some of the related examples and opportunities we see, are: Making government data available online in universally accessible formats to allow citizens to make use of that data to comment, derive value, and take action in their own communities. Steven Clift.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Charities outside the US can set up a profile. To generate a robust profile, your organization should be able to plug in existing social media presences (Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Blog RSS Feed, Etc) so it seems to favor organizations that have already established a social media content strategy. What is Jumo? by Steve MacLaughlin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

" She gives examples of the listening deficits, but also the ways that social media tools can facilitate listening. Add the feed to your RSS Reader. Follow the feed and leave comments when mentioned. News Feeds. s Quick Guide for RSS Feeds for Educators - has advice on setting up search terms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

In the comments of Nancy's post, she has teased out a definition: Technology Steward The person or persons who take active leadership in the selection, configuration, support and maintenance of technologies to support the ongoing activities of their community along with developing and nurturing the practices for using those technologies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

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.) which is exactly the point that several commenters to an earlier post made here and here. which then helps the organizations do the work that creates the change.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2008

A couple weeks ago I asked you and the Have Fun * Do Good Facebook group for suggestions for Changebloggers, people who are using their blog, podcast or vlog to raise awareness, build community, and/or facilitate readers/listeners/viewers' taking action to make the world a better place. Should it be virtual, or in person?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

" She gives examples of the listening deficits, but also the ways that social media tools can facilitate listening. Add the feed to your RSS Reader. Follow the feed and leave comments when mentioned. News Feeds. s Quick Guide for RSS Feeds for Educators - has advice on setting up search terms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

conference, will help non-profit organizations move into that world -- byte by byte, blog by blog, RSS feed by RSS feed. The community is facilitated or sparkplugged by Chris Locke. as the space will be provide a platform and catalyst for the doers -- if I'm correct from reading the comments attached to David's blog post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2007

I am also so excited that the there will be a breakout session titled "Gender Blogging" facilitated by Srei Saat and Sopheap Chak. (I Feed your ego with RSS by Life Hacker. I'm very excited to be teaching Web2.0 and video blogging to Cambodians and a delivering a keynote! and logo for the conference flyer and t-shirts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation. Leave a comment on a post. milllion blogs.

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