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New on SSIR: #4Change Examines Social Media for the Climate Change Movement

Amy Sample Ward

“Social media is a storytelling tool, it’s let voices effected by climate change be heard around the world&# (@ amysampleward ). The power of social media and the authentic storytelling that takes place is in the opportunity for people to inspire other people to take action, which leads to lesson #2. Lesson #1: Voice.

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Crowdsourcing: Community vs Crowd

Amy Sample Ward

I think you create balance by focusing the competition on the stages of: Open door policy for contributing/submitting. Here’s 5 key steps to mapping your work towards metrics: Problem : Be as specific as possible, focus on the problems you will be addressing directly (not just changing the world). Embrace storytelling.

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Women Who Tech Telesummit: Tools Galore Panel

Amy Sample Ward

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. Google’s Mapping tools include: Google Earth. Google Maps & MyMaps.

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The afternoon featured six mini-workshops that drilled down in the use of the tools such as Facebook , Blogging , Storytelling , Listening , Twitter , and Social Media 101. (The Sit down with my executive director to discuss a process for a social media policy. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections.

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Tools Galore in Online Communications - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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In just 50 minutes Laura Quinn of Idealware , Natalie Foster of the DNC and Rebecca Moore of Google Earth Outreach talked about a ton of great tools to ramp up nonprofits online campaigns ranging from Wikis to Google Earth and Twittter. The new map galvanized the community because they were able to really understand the impact of the plan.