Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 4, 2009

Social Actions’ Change the Web Challenge is about building innovative tools to help people find and share opportunities to take action on the Web sites, blogs, and social networks that we all visit everyday. We want you to dream up a new tool to help people find and share actions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I join as many social media sites as I can and try to spend time learning each community so I can offer advice to others on how to engage with them. Right now our organization gets more than 20% of the traffic from the surplus of social media sites we are on. Related Links: Book Research & Interviews. ?Book Book Tour?. ?Book

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

Thanks to the Social Web, there is no shortage of possible topics for your nonprofit to blog about. Share and Comment on Breaking News. One of the more effective ways to generate buzz for and traffic to your blog is to tap into the breaking news cycle. Interview Experts. Post Calls to Action.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Who maintains your social media campaigns? I am a full-time employee of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, and as the Social Media Manager I manage all the social networking efforts for the organization. 1) Using Google Analytics to track referrals to www.pancan.org from social networking outlets. (2)

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2014

That was the logic Lauren Bush Lauren articulated in a 2013 interview about FEED, a for-profit entity she founded that creates simple, eco-friendly tote bags whose price covers the cost of donating school meals to children in Rwanda via the UN World Food Program” What Solutions Are Hiding In Our PDFS? – eMarketer -.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Thanks to the Social Web, there is no shortage of possible topics for your nonprofit to blog about. Share and Comment on Breaking News. One of the more effective ways to generate buzz for and traffic to your blog is to tap into the breaking news cycle. Interview Experts. Post Calls to Action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

There was a great question about social networking and representing one's organization posted on the Social Networking Affinity Group at NTEN by K.E: I was just reading an interview with The Nature Conservancy's Jonathon Coleman on Treehugger. so our online efforts dovetail with what we???re re doing offline.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Thanks to the Social Web, there is no shortage of possible topics for your nonprofit to blog about. Share and Comment on Breaking News. One of the more effective ways to generate buzz for and traffic to your blog is to tap into the breaking news cycle. Interview Experts. Post Calls to Action.

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Whole Whale

MAY 12, 2022

Philanthropy News Digest. Skoll Social Edge. Nonprofit Network Job sites. Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) Jobs Board. Publications + Social Networks. Nonprofit Industry News. Full list of 39 Nonprofit Job Sites. Foundation Job sites. Draper Richards Foundation. Robin Hood Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2006

I interviewed Tuesday Gutierrez from SaveGuimaras over at blogher. And, she interviewed me for Oh My News ! So, stay tuned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2007

Eric recently emailed me to tell that he has put down his video camera down and is trying his hand(rather mouth)at some Larry King-style podcast interviews. ll interview five of them ??? This week, I???ll Eric mentioned in his email: The results were quite interesting, with a number of common characteristics emerging.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

E-Commerce News: Customer Loyalty: If You Build a Branded Online Community, Will Customers Come? – "Despite the enormous popularity of peer-to-peer social networking, the adoption cycle for branded online communities has been relatively slow. " What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2011

It is process o f organizing, filtering and “making sense of” information on the web and sharing the very best pieces of content that you’ve cherry picked with your network. In the post I referenced a video interview with Robert Scoble by Howard Rheingold that Mari Smith highlighted in a google + post.

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NetWits

MARCH 7, 2011

There are a ton of great activities, networking opportunities and sessions focused on the non-profit space this year – one of which Blackbaud will be moderating. It should be a great conversation between (check out the panelists below) social networking providers and their non-profit users.

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Care2

AUGUST 27, 2011

Tracy Sestili over at Social Strand Media has a helpful post on how nonprofits can use Facebook and not just to talk about themselves. Don’t just post a link to a news article, read it and ask a question about their opinion. It’s a social network so have some fun with it (i.e. Here are a few of her tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

1) Downer News Cycle: Last week, in an interview with NPR , I pointed to the long cycle of bad news we had experienced over the summer as one possible reason the Ice Bucket Challenge had so much appeal. What can or cannot be reproduced? (1)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2016

You may be familiar Goodwill as a place to shop, but the nonprofit does much more including helping people find jobs. In honor of Labor Day, Goodwill launches the #LaborofLove Campaign this week. I interviewed Beth Perell, VP of Communications and Information Management to learn more about the campaign strategy and goals.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

We're doing this by setting up a social network for attendees, by blogging and twittering about the event, and by aggregating news and video and photo feeds from the event. See how it is unfolding here in Kuwait: GDN 2009 Conference social network. Google news feed about the event. Technorati Tag: GDNET09.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Within hours, Planned Parenthood sent a fundraising email out to its network, asking supporters to replace the money that Komen had pulled for breast cancer screenings for low-income women. As the news traveled from email boxes to social networks to mainstream media, activists, men, and women expressed their outrage.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 23, 2014

The Nonprofit Quarterly shared an interesting story from the National Desert News about the benefits of mobile access for homeless populations. The article interviews R.D. She was able to connect with Invisible People , a nonprofit that has used social networking to reach out to homeless populations.

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Care2

MARCH 20, 2013

What do news organizations like CNN and health advocacy organizations like the Susan G. This is a significant failure on their part and is one of the key concepts discussed in the new book Social Change Anytime Everywhere that I co-wrote with Amy Sample Ward. Komen Foundation have in common?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2013

Facebook’s new Internet.org initiative is a big news item in NPTech and global digital inclusion news. Internet.org also plans to develop leaner apps for e-mail, search and social networks that will be very low-cost or free. Connectivity Is a Human Right.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2007

Kiva.org has already had a very big year, funding about $9 million worth of loans so far, and having been featured in the mainstream media including the Wall Street Journal , New York Times , Oprah and on ABC News. I discovered this when I clicked on Skeeboo Tammas's profile while chatting with him in Second Life.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

With more Americans getting their news through social media, video content provides an opportunity to grow your audience and make your story heard. Two-thirds of Americans get at least some of their news on social media and those platforms prioritize video content because it commands attention.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 7, 2009

I use the Facebook Twitter application so my tweets also show up in my news feed on. They have recently added a social networking component, so feel free to friend me there as well. If you have suggestions for people I should interview, let me know.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 6, 2011

Through pages, you can publish content that will appear in the main news feed, send messages and other notifications to a large list of fans, and create interactive content. Some options include videos, podcasts, interviews, polls, insightful status updates, and more. Need help improving your social media skills?

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

Spotlight/Profile, Interview. Announcements, Breaking News, or Events. Nonprofit Online Advertising Online Advocacy Online Fundraising Online Marketing Social Networking Technology Trends Web 2.0 Cycle through a combination of blog authors and guest bloggers from within your organization, board members, influencers, etc.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

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Care2

APRIL 22, 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!" DZ: Is there more than one person that tweets for your organization?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take. The system has three components: The Image Tagger -- Volunteers sort through news photos coming out of Haiti and categorize (tag) them with keywords like “adult, child, alive, deceased.” Their mother might be in one of those photos.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2011

Peter Deitz is a long-time member and contributor in the NetSquared (and TechSoup) community; he started the NetSquared Montreal group and his Social Actions project was a winner in the 2008 N2Y3 Mashup Challenge. This post originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog and was authored by Amy Sample Ward.

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Tech Soup

JULY 30, 2012

Share links to breaking news (ideally with your take on it), articles highlighting your nonprofit, or media about your cause. And, for an inside scoop on Facebook's outreach to nonprofits and causes, read Beth Kanter's blog post on her interview with Libby Leffler of Facebook. Celebrate your milestones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I wrote a reflection on an article in CNET called " Crowded Roads Ahead for Charity 2.0 " based on an interview with Toby Daniels of Think Social and Scott Harrison of charity:water. I absolutely agree on the need to work in networks of organizations.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2008

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 HSUS winner (we picked) was featured on our website and social networking sites.

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