Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 29, 2010

There’s been quite a lot of talk in the last year about the opportunities for fundraising online, generally, as well as the best practices for organizations leveraging social media for campaigns (as well as the idea to use free tools to raise money in hard economic times). Fact : 400,000 users have contributed to a cause at least once.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

—– Google+, the social network launched by Google nearly 5 months ago, has recently opened up the platform to organizations and brands with a profile type akin to the options for individuals and Pages on Facebook. Here are a few reasons why using multiple social networking platforms doesn’t just mean you repeat your effort.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

For the last week, there’s been a rich discussion about Causes and the way that it abruptly, without much notice, left MySpace (deleting all of the related content, connections, communications, etc.). (To Unbalanced “diversity&# - by focusing on just one platform, organizations limit the audiences they connect with.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

For the last week, there’s been a rich discussion about Causes and the way that it abruptly, without much notice, left MySpace (deleting all of the related content, connections, communications, etc.). (To Unbalanced “diversity&# – by focusing on just one platform, organizations limit the audiences they connect with.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about the issues highlighted by Causes leaving MySpace and ideablob suddenly shutting down. Greenpeace International on facebook. When visiting the Greenpeace International facebook page, visitors see the Take Action tab as default, instead of the typical facebook wall or information pages.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 25, 2011

There’s a lot of Google+ euphoria right now and postulations of Google+ being a Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn killer. No doubt Google is a great company that provides an astounding amount of free, exceptionally useful tools to nonprofits, but a Google-only Social Web? Make a commitment to diversifying your brand online!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Social media is described in terms of the mission, not the tools. Says Tom, "We don't talk about Facebook or Twitter. We talk about how using the tools expands our mission." We created a platform for folks to have a dialogue in the way they want. We help guide it." Sometimes before they ask. We support it, guide it.".

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

We provide a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights. Here’s a run through of the Tools Galore session. See the slide deck below and notes from the panelists: WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

The newest report, out today, focused on the use of social networking platforms by young people who are/aren’t also involved with charities. Amongst 11-25 year olds, Facebook is trailed by Bebo (28%), MySpace (25%), Twitter (12%), MSN (9%), YouTube (2%) and “other” (4%). The Research. What It Means. Secrets, secrets are no fun!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Facebook: facebook.com/taprootfoundation. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? Megan: MySpace was probably our first introduction to social media, but not sure the year we created the account. What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Blog: taprootfoundation.org/blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 10, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology LinkedIn suits up December 10, 2007 LinkedIn, the serious MBA wielding brother to the Facebook fratboy and the MySpace rockergrrl, is really putting on the suit now. It’s an interesting strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

Social Networking and Web Tools for Chicago Nonprofits. You already know Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn et al???now The majority of the room had experience in social networking sites and tools, both personally and for their organization. They got feedback from users - wanted their own web sites on the platform.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Continuing on last week's discussion about Causes leaving MySpace, TechSoup's own Amy has written an interesting guest post on Sean Stannard-Stockton's Tactical Philanthropy blog. She gets at some of the big questions nonprofits should be asking about the tools we're using. It's definitely worth the read.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

We've compiled a list of Tools and Resources to share with participants, and thought that you might enjoy seeing it as well. Tomorrow, October 18th, Eric Leland of Leland Design , and I will be presenting about, "Internet Strategy on the Cheap" at the San Francisco Bay Area Nonprofit Boot Camp.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.) Facebook has quite the motivation to keep people on Facebook, and keep the eyeballs there, because of their revenue model, which is ad-based.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2008

I thought Peter was saying Twitter will replace Facebook/Myspace or social networks. But as Charlene Li and Josh Bernhoff point out in their new book it is important to think behind the new tool - and to ask the larger question - how do you evaluate new technologies as they enter the landscape?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2007

tools and websites. video and photo-sharing sites like Youtube, Flickr, Dailymotion; blogging platforms such as Blogspot, Livejournal, Typepad and Wordpress; social networking websites such as Facebook, Orkut, MySpace, Wikipedia, VoIP services; etc.); the crackdown on web 2.0 websites (e.g. the crackdown on web 2.0

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Care2

JULY 24, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Tips for Promoting a Cause on Facebook If you build it, will they come?

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore View more presentations from Amy Sample ward.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

At AIDS.gov , our mission is to provide access to Federal HIV and AIDS information through a variety of new media channels, and to support the use of new media tools by Federal and community partners. Is it simply the number of followers you have on Twitter, or how many people "like" you on Facebook? Make it known.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Analytics tools. how to integrate tools without reinventing the wheel. use monitoring tools. Listening tools: Netvibes. So, I’m going to trouble shoot and just take some live notes here and post them as soon as possible. Here goes… Take aways: How to use listening. The right metrics. industry benchmarks.

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Care2

AUGUST 7, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Tips for Promoting a Cause on Facebook If you build it, will they come?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. Michael Stein has an interview with Jonathan Coleman about his success building a donor base on Facebook. It's a platform that facilitates in-kind contributions of services. Which one worked best?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

There were a number of questions related to tools and tactics that I couldn't answer off the top of my head - so I decided to crowdsource them on Twitter asking for answers in the comments. How often should an organization post to Twitter or send out updates on Facebook? Thank you Kevin! Quality is more important than quantity.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Other providers, such as Blackbaud may follow their lead. If youve ever used My Yahoo!

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

Another point Brian made was that perhaps Facebook and Myspace are not for your organization. His thoughtful response: “I know a bunch of people have tried (and there has actually been some discussion within the NTEN blogs and community about it) to use LinkedIn as a fundraising platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

The Digital Diner has an excellent post on photo management tools and the limits of consumer projects in an enterprise setting. It may be the basics not social networking tools.) Tools and How They're Used. Ning is a platform that allows you to create your own social networking site. Philthanthropy. Goodness2.0 ?

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Care2

JUNE 5, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Websites like Facebook, MySpace and YouTube are among the top 10 most trafficked sites in the US.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Here are five reasons why: 1) Blogging allows your nonprofit to have a consistent stream of fresh, timely new content to Tweet, post on Facebook, etc. While that’s still true, blogging as a tool for nonprofits needs to be re-evaluated in 2010. Social media is content driven. That’s especially true on Twitter. Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. A section of the e-newsletter entitled “Resource Spotlight” features a new tool in each edition. A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Other platforms like Java and Flash could end up being (once again?) A vulnerability across a variety of browsers and platforms, a clickjacking takes the form of embedded code or script that can execute without the user's knowledge, such as clicking on a button that appears to perform another function. the culprits.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Platforms like Genius Rocket and NetSquared provide nonprofits an opportunity to crowd-source a communications or technological need. Today, it's becoming standard practice to communicate with supporters using tools like Flickr, MySpace , Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. Four years ago, web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

I really like the idea of using online organizing tools to bridge the gap that many in politics and media tell us are unable to be bridged, and to provide a way for folks to "meet" one another virtually in a way that reduces anxiety and amplifies commonality. At its most basic, PledgeBank is a positive peer pressure tool.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

They even created a Facebook application. We started slowly with the MySpace page , and we started in earnest with Flickr. MySpace is, but Facebook isn’t. We get so much spam on MySpace, whereas on Flickr and Facebook and the blog we never get spam. Using existing tools to run your site allows for plug-ins.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

create and manage a Facebook group or page, or a MySpace page. experiments in social networks like those performed by the Brooklyn Museum via their Facebook applications and video contests or by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in their Google Earth work and myriad comment boards. This pretty much requires dedicated staff.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2008

Some of the most popular are LinkedIn (a professional network), Facebook (social and professional), and MySpace (anything goes). The exhibition uses the stories of three remarkable children in history as a launching point for a platform on which kids and families can make “promises” for how they will impact or change the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Fellows make use of blogging, social networking, photo and video sharing tools to build communities of support for their host organizations so donors can follow their work and directly share in the accomplishments. Check out their MySpace page. You can also make a virtual gift on Facebook through Changing the Present.

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