Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Blogs, wikis, social network platforms, forums, chats: aka user generated content, conversations, communities. Emergent, peer to peer conversations and sharing of knowledge. Sustainability depends on knowledge; social media facilitate knowledge production, processing and distribution. What is social media? - Jon Lebkowsky.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

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. As an excerpt on your Facebook feed, and clicking through to read the rest. Blogs facilitate conversations with supporters and potential supporters.

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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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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. Facebook Strategic Objectives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

They become a source for journalists to quote, have conversations with professional colleagues, or directly engage with stakeholders. His photo and commentary and use the hash tags facilitates visibility and connection to this audience target. Relevant: It meets the target audiences needs. Visibility: It makes them visible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

These services are powered by the RSS feeds that each network offers to its users and makes following activity across sites easier and in one spot. It is also good for conversation around resources or crowdsourcing research. Tags: friendfeed. How To Use FriendFeed To Keep Up On Nonprofits - (Netsquared).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. rah rah session - it is going to provide an introduction and conversation starters to help the people in the room decide whether or not Web2.0 The point is the conversation is important! They need to know what questions to ask and what conversations to start.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

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. As an excerpt on your Facebook feed, and clicking through to read the rest. Blogs facilitate conversations with supporters and potential supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs track blog conversations and respond. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together. Guide your students to conversations and resources. Openness - ????A It's messy.

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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 very first seeds of content and conversation have started and much more will happen along the way leading up to the April, 2006 f-2-f conference. This site, and the Net??

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Last year, I facilitated a version of the Social Media Game for Packard Grantees as part of a convening on Network Effectiveness in Washington, DC. We have a mix of staff who dived into social media long ago (see our business innovation blog and green business twitter feed ), and others who have maybe sort of heard of Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I have some static resources there, several dynamic resources (like syndicated feeds of certain categories of my Furl archive and the main column of posts or articles. I set them up with a nice looking site, ancillary services like a traffic monitor, email-subscribe service, RSS feeds and explanation, syndicated headlines from elsewhere, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

Supporting these visionary leaders, raising the profile of their work and facilitating collaborations and sharing has allowed many to pursue a life of changemaking, scaling their impact and, in many instances, affecting national policy and changing the lives of thousands in their communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Hard data points: Look at the feed subscribers trends from Feedburner and unique visitor trends from Google Analytics. What is the quality of the conversation in the comments section? What did you learn from the conversation your readers started? Is there a conversation happening between people who comment?

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DECEMBER 10, 2010

Processing a credit card transaction or facilitating a financial transaction will always have a cost. Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader. Something like that would truly be getting it right.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 5, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of January 5th). More Startups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2009

Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail Note from Beth: In 1993, I worked as the "network weaver" for an online network for individual artists called "Arts Wire" where I facilitated online conversations, provided technology support and training. Tags: Art Sector Arts & Technology guest blogging. It’s written in my performance plan!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

The panel format was conversational. There are social network applications designed to facilitate free agent fundraisers, for example Facebook Causes Birthday Campaign and some of the earlier experiments over at Social Actions. Right before SXSW, Tide launched a campaign that benefited a charity, Feeding America.

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