Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

—– Over on the NetSquared platform right now we are in the midst of the 2010 FACT Social Justice Challenge. NetSquared supports the community at the intersection of technology and social impact in a few ways, including open innovation competitions. Tip #2: Pay attention. Are people having trouble participating?

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 21, 2010

A similar chicken-or-the-egg conundrum was the conflict of creating one central space vs creating a presence across the social web, where a community builder would concentrate on pulling people in vs pulling together content across the network respectively.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2011

Social media in disaster response. Journalists using social media in Egypt. Trimet misses the bus on social media. . $100,000 in 3 Days: Interview about #TeamAutism. National Theatre screws up, what we can learn from mistakes. American Red Cross Twitter Mistakes and Fundraising. Atlanta Councilman chooses Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2008

If you've been reading this blog, you know that last week I started to work with NTEN on a social media and nonprofits curriculum development. " Response from Holly Ross: We're trying to first engage the social media "experts" to share their knowledge so we can design a curriculum that addresses the social media "novice."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2006

Interview and session notes with Leesa Barnes Planning a Killer Podcast - pointers to marketing data and planning howtos. Some additional resources: My various notes and resources : Steve Berlind from ZDnet at PodCamp talking about gear and uses my flickr photo in his column! There was incredible knowledge sharing.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2011

." How can I organise social reporting from events? | ICT-KM of the CGIAR – "Over the last couple of years, whenever we have been involved in social reporting at the Share Fairs, conferences, workshops and smaller events we have attended, we have noticed similar challenges and successes. Event management?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2012

" Sharing photos online – a decision matrix for non-profit organizations : Social Media 4 Good – "Many non-profits, NGOs and International Organizations are of two minds when it comes to sharing photos on the internet.

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NCE Social Media

JULY 12, 2012

Pinterest is a social media pinboard now used by more than 10 million people per month. Since I wrote about Pinterest earlier , I wanted to share a video about how to set up and use Pinterest. If you’re interested in the demographics, more women than men have started use it. Now how can your organization use it?

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 23, 2011

. … Part 1: T… – Lithosphere Community – "Michael was voted a 2010 Influential Leader by CRM Magazine for his work on predictive social analytics and its application to Social CRM. Of course, I will compare and contrast them to the new kids on the block (i.e.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 31, 2012

My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review opinion blog is up! This meant fans could share it on social media sites like Facebook, where it’s easy to share images. You can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR blog or below.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 25, 2011

Description : This session is targeted at beginner and intermediate knowledge or experience with Twitter and other social media platforms. Topic : Using Twitter to Recognize Volunteers and Build a Following.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 19, 2011

Description : Social media, online campaigns, and community engagement can be tricky things to dive into and do well without measuring, monitoring and evaluating. Date : January 19th, 2010. Location : online with Nonprofit Webinars. Topic : Do-It-Yourself Community Metrics. But what to measure? How to evaluate?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2011

" Videos Posted by Non-Profits on Facebook: Non-Profit Resource Center [HQ] – Looking for tips and resources for building up your organization's presence on facebook?

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 24, 2012

To gear up for our session on "Mixing Business and Pleasure: Managing Your Personal Brand in Social Media," we asked nonprofiteers (readers like you!) to respond to a quick survey about their own behaviors. We heard from 209 nonprofit staff, consultants, and the people who love us–and some of the results suprised us.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 16, 2011

Demand Dignity is an economic, cultural, and social rights campaign for the organization and the online platform, DemandDignity.org, was launched in May 2009. Since then, the site has collected 57,384 comments, or “voices,&# from people around the world, via SMS, Twitter, and on the Demand Dignity website. "

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

Even though much of these will be online social technologies, don’t forget about the offline spaces, too. This means identifying the spaces, platforms, and applications where each group congregates and where you can communicate with them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Note from Beth: I’ve known Simon Mainwaring for several years and have been a big fan of his social good work with corporations. As more corporations commit resources to social impact work, they are being forced to define their sustainability, cause marketing or Foundation work in similar ways. com for details).

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NCE Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2009

Conversely, though, there is no social obligation to follow everyone who follows you. Tags: Education and Training Microblog Tools howto twitter. This is a basic premise, but nothing demonstrates more that you are a twanker than following no one back. And if you can, try to make it more than just 10 people. Reply to @ messages.

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NCE Social Media

MARCH 14, 2011

is a web-based tool, that is free, that you can use to create a daily paper of your Facebook and or Twitter feeds. The paper could also have a morning and evening edition or be weekly. You may also even set up a paper for a specific hashtag or keyword that is of interest to you such as this one. You may also have multiple papers. I like Paper.li

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 20, 2011

—– Aashika Damodar & collaborative technology for social impact. I didn’t want the spotlight to go dark on Aashika and her work, though, so am posting it here! Please share it with your networks! Every day I field questions from organizations and community groups looking to use facebook, Twitter or YouTube.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review is now up – you can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR blog , or check out the repost below. I then opened Tweetdeck, a desktop application for managing Twitter and other social platforms, and watched the stream of content from Twitter flowing by.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 28, 2010

YouTube Goes Fully Social And Challenges Facebook | Community Organizer 2.0 – "Today, YouTube announced that every single YouTube channel now comes equipped with a moderator feature. It’s an incredibly exciting step to see YouTube becoming fully social.

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