Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

The Hatcher Group , a Maryland-based public affairs and communications firm, released a great report this past Fall called New Media & Social Change: How Nonprofits are Using Web-based Technologies to Reach Their Goals (PDF). One organization had particular success using Twitter to facilitate its state policy work.

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Forum One

MARCH 18, 2010

" The session featured a facilitated conversation about how hospitals and health care providers are using new media and social networking software to support their primary objectives — treatment, research, education and outreach, and patient-provider communication. Tags: Influence Events Internet Strategy Social Media.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

The cards were tagged with various legal structures, so that, for example, you knew that endowments only work for financing non-profits, stock options are only applicable to corporations, and so on. Tags: business models. And what about the B Corp? We spent even less time talking about this during the workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2009

One successful YouTube video, even if it moves people while they are watching it, does not facilitate this engagement. One of our biggest viral video hits was this video for the Maryland State Teachers Association. Tags: vlog. It can be part of a strategy toward engagement, but it cannot be an end in and of itself.

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See3

JULY 14, 2009

One successful YouTube video, even if it moves people while they are watching it, does not facilitate this engagement. One of our biggest viral video hits was this video for the Maryland State Teachers Association. Tags: Video youtube see3 social media advocacy. You don’t want to be a one-hit wonder.

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