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Wordpress Extras: My Favorites

Amy Sample Ward

I use this plugin to create my Great Reads posts – it lets me find blog posts, stories, news and anything else online that I think is interesting to the readers of this blog and tag it with Delicious, adding my notes about the link in the field in the Delicious bookmark. Tags: blogging howto plugins twitter wordpress.

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Guest Post: My tips to Have Fun * Do Good

Amy Sample Ward

I like to find ways either in real-time, or after a project, to share. Tags: otherblogs socialchange fun guest post howto.

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How To: Create a Listening Dashboard for your Organization

Amy Sample Ward

This month’s Net2 Think Tank question asks, “How do you stay up-to-date online?&# There are so many blogs, news sources, and conversations happening at the same time, every day, and the chances that you’ll be able to find them all without trying is pretty unlikely. There you go! About Net2 Think Tank.

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How To: DIY Community & Content Mapping

Amy Sample Ward

During this time, I’ve help create community maps and strategic plans with my own team and with many other groups. So, I thought I’d take the time to document my recommended processes here! Tags: resources community content howto strategy. Create a listening dashboard with this step-by-step guide!

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Great reads from around the web on December 8th

Amy Sample Ward

Facebook Will Be Google-able (If Your Profile is Set to Public) – “At Google’s event today announcing a number of fantastic new features, including real-time search, a new partnership was announced: real-time search of public Facebook status updates.

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Designing Programs to Build Community: Case Study with Charity Technology Trust

Amy Sample Ward

For many organizations with a small number of staff, it’s a luxury to have time to sit, talk, and think aloud together. Part of our conversation about who the community was and how it was broken down into groups also included some dedicated brain time about some of the words we were using.

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Guest Post on Frogloop: 5 Tips for Running a Competition

Amy Sample Ward

These are just a few of the questions to consider in real time. Take the finger-pointing as opportunities to fix things in real time! So, whether things are going really well, or not as well as you had hoped: remember that you have the opportunity to improve next time! Are people participating or not?

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