Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2009

This month’s Net2 Think Tank question asks, “How do you stay up-to-date online?&# There are so many blogs, news sources, and conversations happening at the same time, every day, and the chances that you’ll be able to find them all without trying is pretty unlikely. Finding Feeds. Twitter Search.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 16, 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). Look no further!

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Care2

MARCH 8, 2010

In the past year, registered Twitter accounts have grown more than 1,500%, according to Biz Stone, Co-Founder of Twitter. So if you can only carve out 20 minutes a day to follow nonprofit leaders and thinkers discussing nonprofit issues on Twitter, who would they be? Tough question, right? There are so many smart folks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2011

The screen grab above suggests that short posts, posts outside of business hours, posts at the end of the week, and posts that end with a question work best to increase Facebook engagement. So, I not only got more comments, but they added a lot of value. They also can get collapsed in the News Feed (e.g. Ask Questions.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 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). Twitter beta-tested a spine."

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 27, 2022

First, shameless plug for Whole Whale tools that will help a team working to increase a social presence: Linkedin tips article Whole Whale’s Social Media Course NonprofitNewsFeed.com is a weekly nonprofit news feed that can give your team ideas for content for a CEO to react to. Thoughts on Themes/Ideas.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 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). Accidentally, of course.

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Whole Whale

MAY 12, 2020

Remember to tag the guest and any companies mentioned to increase the potential for engagement and comments. Searching on Podcasts.Apple.com and Podcasts.google.com and Spotify can help you create a contact list of potential list of podcasts (quick hack: most podcasts list the <itunes:owner> email in their feed).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

For the past six years I have spent 50 to 60 hours a week utilizing Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Foursquare to promote nonprofits. People either start ignoring your updates because you’re always in their news feed, or they “hide&# you altogether. Not following on a 1:1 ratio on Twitter.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Is it simply the number of followers you have on Twitter, or how many people "like" you on Facebook? With that in mind, the AIDS.gov team compiled some advice about what it takes to use Twitter effectively to engage with our audiences. For example, questions on Twitter can be added to the FAQs your website.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Twitter search is your best friend for finding out what’s going on in the real time conversation world of microblogging. Each of the above will let you search for a word or phrase and then get the RSS feed for that search. To get the RSS feed URL you’ll want to look for something that looks like what you see to the left.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

In this post, we'll discuss the current glamour child of social media, Twitter. Twitter is impossible to ignore. In response to Twitter's influence, we have launched five company Twitter feeds, @ForumOne , @OCReport , @DataMasher , @Legistalker , and @ProjectSpaces (a combined feed is here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2008

I'm not sure what Smith's book has to do with twittering and tagging , but there is a connection. Twitter is the here and now, archiving the past is not built into the design. Twitter helps you connect with people or a community and somehow ignites sharing. Chel Pixel has another method that shared in the comments.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 13, 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).

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

has twitter integration, 3. Even though I’ve selected the topic for this first chat, I haven’t picked the questions that will guide our conversation! Please share the questions you’d like to explore by adding a comment here ahead of time and I’ll use those to feed our discussion.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Disclaimer Tuesday, February 22, 2011 Twitter Dashboards and the Dark Side of Tweeting posted by Kayla L. Scandals have been all-too-common on twitter. Recently, the Red Cross faced this issue when a staff member accidentally posted a (very) personal tweet on the organizations (very) public twitter account. Check it out here.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

It is based on real data pulled from a huge number of Twitter profiles of people who have used Twitter Grader. Twitter grader is a measure of authority and reach of a Twitter user. It is sort of like Technorati for Twitter. 35% of Twitter users have 10 or fewer followers. - It doesn't work.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 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). on Twitter and Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But a good CMS can also facilitate constituent relationships in a number of other ways, including facilitating comments, blogs and social media. A good CMS should also include a built-in Spam filter to keep obviously unrelated content from cluttering your comments sections.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

You are also given the option to disable comments on something and/or disable the option for others to share/reshare what you post. Though, you’ll see in these images (just like on Facebook), that when you comment or interact with a friend’s post, you can then be interacting with people who aren’t in your circles.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 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). Who Tweets?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

I've been observing how he uses the Chronicle of Philanthropy's Twitter Feed to participate. He just doesn't post links pointing to blog posts on the Chronicle's blog, but asks questions, responds to readers, and pointers to other links. How is the Chronicle using Twitter to participate?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 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).

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 17, 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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AccelEvents

JANUARY 20, 2021

This will ensure that all interactions are appropriate and that any direct questions for a presenter or speaker are passed along for a response. Using social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, you can prime the audience and get them excited about what they are about to experience. Gamification. Create Networking Opportunities.

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Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2023

For example, if you can explain that $500 will cover the cost of feeding one person for six months at your homeless shelter, you are more likely to get donors at that level. These exist everywhere, including Facebook, Reddit, LinkedIn, and Twitter where a simple search of “fundraising” yields a plethora of groups and resources.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 19, 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). Become a Bridge Builder.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

That said, I do not cover personal LinkedIn Profiles in my upcoming webinar How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use Twitter and LinkedIn , but LinkedIn Groups and Company Pages are covered in detail in both the webinar and in the book. Maximize the website and Twitter fields. Post Authentic Updates—Don’t Sync with Twitter!

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 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). Doing Good.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 15, 2011

Each post has buttons at the top for people to share it on Facebook, Twitter, via email, etc. Icons for their RSS feed, Twitter feed, Facebook page, and newsletter are featured at the top of the blog. • It asks questions readers can respond to. • It's easy to share. It's easy to subscribe. It uses video. •

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 10, 2020

Run interesting Twitter polls. You can easily make it feel like a community by engaging in the conversations happening in the comments on your posts. Give feedback, ask questions, and make people feel heard. The organization has posted a photo and a question to showcase their interest in the follower’s stories.

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Qgiv

JULY 27, 2021

80% of your posts should add value to your followers’ social media feeds. Julia: There are two pieces to this question. The second piece of the question is, “How do you actually get people to take an action?” If you’re on Twitter, same thing. Summarize it! Do you have any tips around getting people to engage with you?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 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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AccelEvents

JANUARY 13, 2021

With a live video, live audio, and even live comments, your online attendees will see your brand in a different light. Have support staff on hand to moderate any live stream chats, to answer any questions, and to help the presenter with where to go. . Think of your video source as a live feed that is funneled directly to the internet.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2011

Disclaimer Wednesday, June 1, 2011 How to Start a Nonprofit Organization: Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Make the Leap posted by Robert Duea , Professional in Residence ASU Lodestar Center and Pat Lewis , Senior Professional in Residence ASU Lodestar Center So, youre thinking about starting a nonprofit organization. Have questions?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 9, 2012

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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