Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2010

Here are some reflections about how we used crowdsourcing techniques for a very fast-moving campaign and lessons learned that may apply to your work. Some posted to community blogs like NetSquared. To recap : the methods for sharing and promoting the campaign were also designed to create easy ways of measuring participation and impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

Alan Levine also wrote a reflection about wanting to see a resurgence of blogging but also admitting how much fun it is share information via twitter. Hashtags let you do all the things in microblogging that you can do using the methods described in numbers 1 through 4 above.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2007

" Davenport's book was published almost two years ago and is reflection on blogging circa 2004-2005. See Dan Mcquillan's summary over at Netsquared some pointers and good thoughts on Social Media ROI and Nonprofits. She, like me, is less interested in the calculation method. I wonder if Davenport's opinion has changed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. Peter Dietz reflects on the recent launch of Causes on Facebook and digital bumper stickers on Linked In and wonders how other fundraising platforms will respond? David Wilcox riffs on Steve Bridger's shout.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2006

Are blog conversations as satisfying, rich, or stimulating as other methods? The triggers: A blog conversation on Jilliane's Smith blog that became a community blog conversation about nonprofit tagging on netsquared. Or maybe that in itself reflects an underestimation or misperception of blogs by nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

From Flickr User Philswin2003 The above flickr photo is from the Nonprofit Software Development Summit and some flipchart notes illustrating what's going on right now: inspiration, matchmaking, and practical methods! I'm looking forward to reading the reflections next week. nonprofit technology. You can find the columns here: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

There was also a bit of reflection to identify how to efficiently use FriendFeed and determine its value to nonprofit. Some people choose one site or method to connect with others, while others are "network weaving," jumping from one site to another. And if you???re

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