Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 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). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 25, 2020

Start a live feed with a video that talks about the opportunities at your event, ask the audience specific questions, and encourages them to respond in the comments. These meetups will show people just how easy it is to connect in this format and eliminate any concerns they may have in that regard. .

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CauseVox

MARCH 9, 2021

You create hype around them. One clear way to do that is to include information about impact in your donation tiers. There are so many ways to describe impact. It’s up to you to show that recurring donations hold a special place in your fundraising strategy. How do you tell your donors that recurring donations are important?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2016

I was out hiking in the Santa Cruz Mountains this weekend, sans wifi, so I was not paying attention to it until I got home and saw mentions of it in my Facebook feed from technology observers like Jeremiah Owyang and Robert Scoble. It has brought augmented reality to a mainstream audience , with millions downloading the app and playing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2016

In the last six months, as SnapChat hype has escalated, the list of early adopter nonprofits has started grow , it isn’t huge yet. But as John Haydon points out, the nonprofits that are using it are very creative. For example, I noticed this in One Campaign’s Instagram Feed and started following them.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 22, 2014

When they join the event, it’ll show up in their friends’ news feeds. You’ve hyped it up and congrats are in order, because the big day is finally here. And now that you have a registration page, make sure to create an event on Facebook. That way, people that are already signed up can say they’re coming on the social media site.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

However, to stand out from the other nearly one hundred million Facebook Pages vying for likes, comments, and shares, your nonprofit needs to excel at Facebook to ensure News Feed exposure. Their experience of your page will occur primarily in the News Feed. First impressions are important on social media.

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Achieve

MAY 22, 2016

Couple that preference to do good with new technology tools to feed on that impulse to act for others, and it seems like a perfect storm of taking our interests to action for causes. Yet we don’t see the hype and desire matching the action necessary for social change. That’s why we need you.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2011

My belief (no facts, just opinion ) is that there is a lot of hype about relatively small-scale nonprofit commercial initiatives. " discussion in "Nonprofit Nation" The dollars change over the decades, but the percentages really don't. Research Friday: Really, Your Tax Exemption has be.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

though is more hype than useful. Sure, I’d love to see more nonprofits move from sending their newsletters out by email, to getting them into an RSS feed, which I can choose to look at, or not. I think that a lot of Web 2.0, particularly RSS and folksonomies, are aspects of Web 2.0 Some of Web 2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Charities outside the US can set up a profile. To generate a robust profile, your organization should be able to plug in existing social media presences (Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Blog RSS Feed, Etc) so it seems to favor organizations that have already established a social media content strategy. Is Jumo Worth The Hype?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

There is some ROI, but there is also a lot hype about Facebook. Facebook doesn’t want a bunch of free agents out there cluttering up the News Feed, so Pages must now be authenticated/authorized. They should have an “Official&# Facebook Page. After the Page is set-up it takes very little time to manage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

Kevin Gamble who reads more feeds than I do tweeted about this blog post by Stow Boyd. Technology providers also try to avoid getting seduced by the hype cycles. How short was the hype cycle of MySpace? Now, this post comes bubbling up from my network and it is exactly what I want to chew on. tool after Web 2.0 Of YouTube?

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Achieve

MAY 21, 2019

Without them, your speakers have no audience, your caterers no one to feed, and your sponsors no one to advertise to – and that would be a nightmare! A “hype” or “sizzle” video embedded into your email can help build anticipation for your event and encourage new attendees to get in on the fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and networks. Not buying into social media/Facebook hype. The summaries will be briefer, focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

I listened to the audio feed of him talking to the kids, answering their questions. It has been hyped. (See the recent article by Ali Levine " Talking with Young People, Not At Them " I was able to attend the event, but through the New Media Consortium campus because adults are not allowed in the Teen Grid. I think that???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

tools are the right fit for their organizational goals and if so some first steps to have a conversation and not get seduced by the hype. One of the reason's I learned that David was writing about this topic was that I also follow an ego feed. An ego feed lets you easily track who links to you so you can read the post and respond.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Facebook isn't just all hype. In addition, find ways to seed your feed with external content that is interesting and relevant to your audience. Still, many of them let you post updates and read your feed. It's an extremely popular site with over 100 million U.S. And its users are groupies not casual fans. Pick Your Instruments.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

October 15, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. Deliver, don’t just hype - of course, marketing is important, but when the rubber really has to meet the road, be there with more than vaporware. What’s to lose?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

I don't know if I'm still shaking from the excitement or the hour long multi-tasking frenzy of listening to a live audio feed, seeing a blog.tv although there was a little bit lag, there was not a major crash and the audio feed was perfect - kudos! I just came from an historic and ground breaking event. The John D. and Catherine T.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

Known for having higher engagement than other social media, Instagram is evolving and it is becoming increasingly more difficult for nonprofits to get exposure in the Instagram Feed. In most cases, your avatar should not include text as it would be too small to read in the Instagram feed on a smartphone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

" As a marketing person, I would be annoyed if every promotion was successful and extremely hyped but did not somehow lead to a sale. Several days later, Jonathan Colman set up a digg and announced it in the NpTech Friend Feed Room. This would fulfill my need "to belong" and be recognized. 4) PayPal was an enabler.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 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!" The Mobile Web for Good: Hype or Reality? Can Social Media End Racism? All rights reserved.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2007

There’s no RSS feed. It is true that the Eliasson application doesn’t fit the standard definition of a blog: it does not present content in a chronological order nor can it be accessed as a feed. The Eliasson blog doesn’t look like a blog. There are no posts. It’s just a glorified comment board!” And isn’t that what this is all about?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Her blog is filled with insightful pieces that cut through the hype of new technologies and often ask the hard probing questions that haven't been asked. It's a good excuse to read lots of other people's blogs, and feed into the general nptech blogosphere, which is fun. It's really a soapbox, honestly.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 12, 2020

Provide captions for audio and video feeds, and provide descriptive audio for visual elements. If you build hype early, that momentum will only grow. Cramming your schedule exclusively with CIS gender white males may alienate some of the people you are hoping to attract. Use clear language and large, easy to read fonts.

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CauseVox

MAY 11, 2023

A Different Kind of Chatbot: ChatGPT Lately, there’s been a lot of hype around ChatGPT. Google Cloud Natural Language Google Cloud Natural Language is a text analysis tool that allows users to extract insights from unstructured data, such as social media feeds and emails.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Neff and Jordan Viator -- had the great opportunity to lead a session entitled " The Real Housewives of Social Media " Funny Photoshopped pictures were displayed of us, we sported aprons to hype the theme, and we shared information and case studies on various aspects of social media campaigning.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 13, 2021

Once you create a website that’s memorable and user friendly, you can use it to effectively promote events and campaigns by posting regularly on your blog, adding a live social media feed on your homepage, and creating dedicated pages or microsites for particular events and campaigns. Word of Mouth.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 12, 2020

Provide captions for audio and video feeds, and provide descriptive audio for visual elements. If you build hype early, that momentum will only grow. Cramming your schedule exclusively with CIS gender white males may alienate some of the people you are hoping to attract. Use clear language and large, easy to read fonts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Rather than comparing Woolworth sit-ins to the much-hyped Twitter Revolution, finding the latter coming up wanting, and stopping there, Gladwell might have given some space in the New Yorker to dig a little deeper to find examples of folks using technology to organize in intriguing, successful ways. Every day I see their faces in my feed.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 29, 2021

So you can kind of get them hyped up about your next event. So get them hyped about your upcoming event. Were you able to feed local families? Tell them how many animals they are going to feed. If your goal is retention, you want them to sign up to participate in that next event. You’ve showed them their impact.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

But there is a lot of hype regarding Web 2.0, and I want to talk about that hype, and talk about the possible pitfalls of jumping on the Web 2.0 I’ll then talk about blogging, podcasting and vlogging, which I think are probably the most hyped, and potentially least useful for nonprofits to jump into without a lot of thought.

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