Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Twitter's CEO has learned that short is sweet, flexibility is essential, and applications shoudl work so that people don't have to be at their computer all day long. Nate Ritter gives a brilliant example of how Twitter could help save the lives of missing children. It also offers groups where members can share slide decks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

Google + was just one of a series of new releases and changes as part of leveraging Google’s communications products. Let’s consider the list of most used forms: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google+ (assuming all continues to go well), LinkedIn, FourSquare, Gowalla, StumbleUpon, Tumblr, and your own site.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 4, 2012

Yesterday was the 2012 New York Cares Leadership Conference , and I had the distinct pleasure of presenting a session to volunteer leaders and inspiring community members. The session focused on using core social media platforms Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to raise awareness and inspire others as a volunteer. Creating Buzz.

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NTEN

MARCH 11, 2010

Speaker: Debra Askanase, Community Organizing 2.0. Session: Bringing Community Organizing Into Online Campaigns. No one is talking about the relationship between community organizing and online organizing, and yet they are absolutely interrelated. Where can people follow you online (twitter, blog, etc.)? .

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 24, 2012

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). How to Prepare Your Community for a Major Change « The Community Manager – "Change: it’s the one constant in life. Be creative.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 4, 2014

They will be juggling the management of multiple online communities while also listening and watching for event highlights to be summarized and reported on all the while toggling between a PC and tablet or smartphone and numerous mobile apps and web-based tools. People are following the event, not the reporter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

The estimates below allow for the time required to research and create content for your social media campaigns, the actual time spent engaging and participating in your nonprofit’s online communities, and the time necessary to monitor and report ROI. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Creating Video Content : 15 Hours Weekly.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2011

—– Whether you are part of a nonprofit organization, an action campaign, a local community, or a school, you know that it is through stories you can showcase your work, change people’s minds, inspire them to make change, or join you to make a difference. You do need a Twitter account to use it.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

It was so much fun and it was an amazing experience to work with people like Chris Worman and meet with so many local nonprofit and community changemakers. The slides are below as well as some notes. In the slides, I highlighted some of the work of 350.org The Local Philanthropy Workshop: Facebook Campaigning in Romania.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 17, 2010

The December rendition of the SF Online Community Meetup featured Robyn Tippins ( @duzins ) who is currently the Senior Community Manager at Current TV. You can check out more of her background and the agenda here and the Twitter stream at #octribe. Topic 1: Sharing Community Management Strategies and Best Practices.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Description : Social media tools allow for people to connect: broadcasting messages to real time communication, online networking to offline collaboration. Related Links : Conference website.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

You can review the slides below, and click through to slideshare where you can view all of the speaker notes as well. If you want to explore Twitter chats , I suggest checking out what various hashtags mean and use this list for a directory of chats: [link]. Social Media for Small Enterprises. Anything else?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2010

As social media tools like Twitter and Facebook become core components of nonprofit communication strategies, there is a corresponding need to assess how well programmatic messaging and organizational identity are propagating in those channels: “We Tweet; is anybody listening? Presentation slides. Audio recording.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2011

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). " Pew: Open government is tied to higher levels of community satisfaction | Gov 2.0:

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 23, 2010

You can see the embeded versions of the tool on my blog here and here , or you can see examples on the original site for the SXSWi session, Net2 Open Space session, Community Building session, or the Online Campaigning session. Maybe there is also another way to show tweets that the community likes, too – like most RTs or something.

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NTEN

MARCH 9, 2011

Today's tip: meet, mingle, and get to know the members of this awesome community! How you can make the most of it: Bring your name badge, not just because it has your ticket, but because this may be the first chance you have to see all those email addresses and twitter names in real life. Affinity Groups - RSVP in myNTC!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2009

Photo by Esparta A few weeks ago I did a book giveaway for the Twitter Book. Readers from nonprofits who wanted to a chance to win a copy of the book had to leave a comment saying how they were using Twitter and how they hoped to improve their results. Here's my shot at the answers: How is your organization currently using Twitter?

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

Get creative in integrating your text-to-subscribe keyword and short code pitch into photos, slide shows, or even your YouTube Channel banner. When you are checking in to places, venues, and spots on location-based communities, add your text-to-subscribe keyword and short code pitch to status updates and shouts. Use Bit.ly

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

It was much more traffic than I would have ever thought possible, but thanks to the burgeoning “Nonprofit Organizations” communities that I had built on Facebook, Twitter and Myspace, launching a blog was much easier in 2009 than it was when I tried and failed in 2004. That first month Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 19, 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). Marketing for Nonprofits: Want to Build Community Online? Great slides. " Add your thoughts or blog posts in the comments! Check it out!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Create Community Dialogue. Whether you are asking for feedback, sharing stories, or urging people to take action, providing a place for your community to share back with you shows your openness to feedback and interest in the community. Do you have videos, pictures, or slides? Do you have lots of different voices?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

According to PC World , Yahoo will shut down several of its Web properties, including Delicious, according to a leaked Yahoo presentation slide that was posted on Twitter. I queried my friends on Twitter and my library, museum, archivist, and educator colleagues suggested Diigo. I was hoping this was just a rumor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

Ventura County Community Foundation - March, 2013. Community Foundation of Monterey County. The map above is a visualization of the Community Foundation of Monterey Twitter following using TwitterMap. It is also a fun way to visualize your Twitter network – and there are some great free apps to do that.

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NTEN

MAY 8, 2009

Twitter #09ntc conversation stream (it's still going!). Plus, we're posting session slides and materials as we get them. Tags: 09NTC community buzz NPTech NTEN. All Delicious-ly tagged 09ntc. Google Blog Search for all 09ntc. Debra Askanse took great session notes and blogged them. Nancy Schwartz snapped photos and blogged.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

NetSquared’s Global Community Builder , Amy Sample Ward, will be at the NTC this year to connect and collaborate with friends, colleagues and new faces in the sector. My Twitter feed will have quotes, notes and links. How many staff use your online community space in their work? Each slide is displayed for 15 seconds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Followers, Friends, and Fans: Expanding Your Online Community If you aren't on facebook, twitter, friendfeed, technorati, and delicious, should you be? E-Metrics: Followers, Friends, and Fans - Expanding Your Online Community View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: blogging nptech ).

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 11, 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). I use it for all my presentations and it even allows me to share my speaker notes since most of my slides are usually just pictures.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

The day of the panel, I published a blog post that shared our slides, wiki, and resources. Knowledge capture makes it easy to share the learning with others in the community, but as a session designer and speaker – you can also use it to do an “ after action ” review to help you review the delivery and the content.

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NTEN

AUGUST 14, 2014

Last week I got to attend the National Alliance for Media and Culture (NAMAC) and Alliance for Community Media (ACM) ''s first-ever joint National Conference: State and Main 2014 ( #StateMain14 ) in Philadelphia, PA. Community engagement. Mobile Commons : a platform that helps nonprofits reach their communities through text message.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

5:15 PM EST Twitter! and how organizations can effectively use them to build community as well as as how to measure the real ROI???s. Later today, I am speaking on a panel at the WomenWhoTech Conference. Hot Or Not? Panelists share their opinions on the latest trends in Web 2.0 Panelists: Heather Holdridge, Care2.com,

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 17, 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). Her round up includes the slides we used in the session as well.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2010

Offline : you would probably not have someone who’s had no physical connection with your organization be so excited about your work that they design and produce their own fliers about your work and then canvass their local community to raise awareness or your programs. Visit the SSIR blog to comment, or leave your thoughts below!

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2010

But I’d like it to be seen for what it is: there are tons of presentation resources (slides, notes, videos, etc.), Tags: collaboration issues blog collaboation community design redesign strategy. Right now, this blog could really be categorized as a blog. books/publications, and other resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2012

The slides are here. His points were: Each person does a little, the community does a lot. He posts links to his “tribe” on Facebook,Twitter, and Tumblr- His friends “like”, “retweet”, “repost” bythe hundreds…many purchase. Does” is any action – post, like, share, mobile photo,create – expressed via a social voice.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

To learn more about how you can use email marketing to support year-round online fundraising, Ive uploaded my slides to Slideshare. On day 2, I was part of the Visual Communications panel with four panelists (some you might recognize from the NTEN Community!): Id love to continue the dialogue about these two topics!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2012

of their communities. service their community through the use of data. Their slides are also available via SlideShare here. His slides are available on SlideShare here. Download his PowerPoint presentation, Data @NCVO , or view his slides via SlideShare here. help the public. the privacy issues. the privacy issues.

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