Whole Whale

MAY 2, 2024

Meta descriptions and tagging Interns can be given assignments to clean up tagging and past content on platforms like YouTube or Pinterest which will help discoverability. Have the intern map the steps involved so your team can review at a bird’s eye view. Have interns handwrite thank you notes to VIP members of the community.

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International Program Ideas Data 98

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

You can see the full collection, and how they were voted on by the community here: [link]. The Value-add of Crowdsourcing: For me, the two biggest reasons to include crowdsourcing in your strategic design of community building or contests are: Crowdsourcing invites diversity by encouraging anyone with an idea or interest to participate.

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Community Case Study Haiti Social Media 207

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Technology and Community: Strategic Options for Movement Building. How many people hear that word and think it is just as generic as the word community? To that end, siloed brands are replaced by unifying goals that rally more than select individuals but entire communities. The full keynote and presentation are below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2010

I've had some posts in pipeline following up on social media metrics and the Chase Community Giving Contest second phase, but wanted to share these two stories from Haiti from on the ground and a bird's eye view. Tags: maps. Earthquake Aftermath in Jacmel Photos by Andrew Bigosinski, Director of Ciné Lekol. Crisis Camps.

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Haiti Map Volunteer Tech 96

Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Recent evidence from the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) indicates that grantmakers are asking the same questions with slight differences across funders, wasting a significant amount of a nonprofit's time during the application process. Collaborative Partnerships and Community Support (5 percent). How to get started now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

See larger image here: Map from: Waddell, Steve. A lot of the ideas resonate with using online social networks and social media effectively for nonprofits, especially in the larger frame of movement building. One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques.

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Map System Profit Guatemala 86

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Written by Seema Rao I've written about Community Engagement often on my old blog, Brilliant Idea Studio. Last March, I wrote up some general notes about community engagement based on a mind-map I did at a #MuseumNext talk. Sometimes community engagement might be used as the term for bringing in new audiences.

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Community Museum Summary Classes 37

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 21, 2010

This afternoon I had the pleasure and honor of spending a few hours with members of the Charity Technology Trust/Charity Technology Exchange team, part of the TechSoup Global network , exploring their options for creating programs or services to build and foster community throughout their network. Who is the community?

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Case Study Studies Charity Community 162

Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2010

The people at AidData (a program of Development Gateway ) have teamed up with the World Bank Institute to complete the first stage of a groundbreaking geocoding project (Mapping for Results Initiative). Tags: International News. It is hoped that the project will go a long way towards ensuring that aid goes to those that need it most.

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Map Project Data Indonesia 62

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

Last week, I had a fun time moderating the June #4Change Twitter Chat on Online Community Building. But for now local is still something I use a map and a tank of gas to determine the limits of. From @jonasthanatos: Can communicate effectively. is persuasive, convincing, has charisma. That was not particularly successful.

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Community Build Local Los Angeles 132

Tech Soup

AUGUST 26, 2010

Maps are everywhere these days. For organizations, using your data to create maps to show your users, supporters, and funders is an important way to visually demonstrate a problem you're working to solve or your impact on a community. Geographic information system (GIS) software takes mapping to a whole new level.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2009

An early adopter of social media, the Lance Armstrong Foundation leverages social media to engage, connect, and celebrate its community. The LAF uses its Facebook fan page and Twitter profile as a way to directly connect with cancer survivors on a personal basis and animate the community.

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Social Media Community Cancer Media 94

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. listening has been to the community and to the quantitative results. Tags: events liveblogging 09ntc beth kanter conference metrics strategy. Can’t wait! be more intentional.

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Social Media Map Strategy Media 102

Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2010

Miller-McCune has a story this month on geographic information system (GIS) mapping and the growing role it's playing in city-planning advocacy ( via ). Tags: Digital Divide Online Activism Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 One organization used GIS to correct a decades-old disparity in water services. Tools Web Building.

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Map Web Advocacy Profile 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

The above map that Chad explains gets at it. This is a community of practice that is most likely using social media/networks to accomplish this. Tags: facebook netaction network effectiveness scholar. In other words, I'm curious what their process or system is for " listen, learn, and adapt."

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Offline Map Activities Active 67

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

The 2010 Social Networking Map / Flowtown (@flowtown) – I love maps and I work in social media; so I always love the maps of social media! Here is an updated version of XKCD's Map of Online Communities; with updated numbers and networks.

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Web Bookmarking Case Study Map 114

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

My slides covered the tools and apps for the back stage side of energizing your community. Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. Community Mapping.

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Tools Tech Map RSS 162

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 18, 2011

Mapping Trends in Philanthropy « NathanielJames.org – "Philanthropy is changing, and I want to contribute to creating the best of all possible worlds for the social sector. Today, I’m launching a series on Mapping Trends in Philanthropy, to share what I am learning and invite a conversation with leaders in the field.

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Web Taxonomy Philanthropy Bookmarking 123

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 3, 2010

. —– I truly believe that in all communications, information sharing, marketing and even community building there is a natural balancing between more-and-more-global and more-and-more-local. Get connected – be part of the community yourself by connecting with other organizations, community leaders, and individuals.

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Local Global Tools Case Study 143

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

What you are looking at is a tag cloud created with Be The Media Project description and the highly addictive WRDL (hat tip to Tom Watson ). So, is this a community or a network or something in between? A few weeks back, Nancy White put a parking lot for the question " Where is the magic between communities and a network?

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Network Community Module Map 50

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. This proved to the Ushahidi team that their tool would be valuable to communities around the world. I will explain the use of mapping, fundraising, and crowdsourcing.

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Disaster Social Media Haiti Media 206

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Oxfam in Haiti – Google Maps – This is a great example of how you can use a tool like Google Maps to tell a story and provide easy access to information – great job Oxfam! "Oxfam This map shows some of the sites where Oxfam is providing water and sanitation, as well as employment through the cash-for-work program.

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Web Haiti Bookmarking Map 111

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2009

So, your effort to address the needs of your community through a new water or sanitation project is going to be evaluated by a group of people who have been through doing the same thing in their communities. You can go to a map and see what's already been done in the district. Apparently this happens a fair amount.

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India Map Proposal Project 113

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Building a Community Across Platforms. Most commonly, communities form around an issue, a cause, or even a campaign on many different types of social media, and stretch across platforms. However, the real challenge is creating community across platforms. However, the real challenge is creating community across platforms.

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Proposal Louisiana NTEN Map 134

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Once I started clicking around and adding Gadgets and experimenting with Buzz, Reader, Themes, Maps, Gmail, Google News and hopefully soon Google Voice , it was immediately clear that I was going to start using iGoogle and Gmail much more often. Tags: Google Google Buzz Social Media iGoogle.

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gMail Social Media Create Myspace 205

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

The mashup was a map showing where people were volunteering in near-real-time. The community showed me a need for what I built, so I used this momentum as an opportunity to take what I built to the next level. The real value to organizations is that they now have a dynamically updated map they can embed on their web site.

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Interview San Diego Map Mashup 123

NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Any community, online or otherwise, is about communication between individuals. As such, when it comes time to create or grow an online community, tools that allow for and encourage communication and interaction are vital. When this happens, the community rarely benefits from the resulting application.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2009

org Facebook community has thrown their weight behind the Maldives President by leaving comments on his Facebook page. Then click here to start a Vigil this weekend -- and add it to the global map of thousands (<- there may already be one!). Tags: maps netaction.

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Offline Maldives Action Web 93

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 26, 2010

Earlier this month, I had the great pleasure and honor to lead a webinar with Lori Jacobwith ’s community. I’ve also blogged before about how to map your community and content. Thanks again to Lori for inviting me to participate and engage with your community – I had a blast at the party.

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Social Media Media Organization Slides 123

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 4, 2009

Vote for your local organization: Some cities have already chosen the organization and others need local people to vote, so use the map on the Twestival site to find your city’s Twestival page to learn more! Tags: community events fundraising local online fundraising twestival twitter. Check out Twestival Local.

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Local Map Guidelines Twitter 100

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 5, 2010

Last year, using the theme of gratitude and TweetsGiving, Epic Change catalyzed the global community to help build a school in Tanzania. How You Can Share: Visit [link] to see the heartspaces already popping up on the map from around the world. Use #tomamawithlove in Twitter. Create a heartspace and share your story!

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Tanzania Children Campaign Twitter 137

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

I love maps and the stories they can help us tell. Check it out: "We're building the first up-to-date, interactive map of today's changing nonprofit landscape. If you're a member of the foundation or grant-making community, engaged in nonprofit work, or just interested in mapping and social change, please join us!

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San Francisco Web Bookmarking Map 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

I interviewed technology practitioners from the poverty law community about how they approach ROI and significant technology systems investments like client databases, document assembly systems, or video conference systems. You have to set up a framework at the beginning - hence the vital importance of a strategy map. Do you agree?

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ROI Results Community Online 66

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

social network and community sites. Laura Quinn outlines the process of how a folksonomy be developed into a taxonomy: "So for instance, because it's so easy for users to tag things with free-form keywords, let them do so. "It seems to me that the tag is not that useful ??? I wonder what we can learn from them?

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Guidelines Nptech Folksonomy Tag 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine, we provide an overview of mapping your social network in Twitter and other sites using some of the social network analysis tools available. . Otherwise, you waste a lot of time creating meaningless, but cool maps. When you map your network, it tells you a story.

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Analysis Social Network Social Media Network 96

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 15, 2010

As hand-held mobile devises connected to the internet spread to cities, villages, remote communities around the world, we need to continue finding ways to use these tools to make a positive impact. The first step in making change in your life, local community or world is to learn. Tags: blogging campaigns. Hulhumale Maldives.

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Action Maldives Oman Malaysia 147

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

After reading a list of corporate social media strategists and community mangers compiled by Jeremiah Owyang , she wondered if there was a nonprofit list? Tags: wiki working wikily. This tweet from Patty Campbell caught my eye. Yes, there is! I'd like to see the list organized by different segments. Spread the word #wearemedia.

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Social Media Wiki Media Social 96