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American College of Preventive Medicine’s Annual Conference

Amy Sample Ward

Location : San Antonio, TX. Description : Social media tools allow for people to connect: broadcasting messages to real time communication, online networking to offline collaboration. Date : February 19th, 2011. Topic : Social Media in Disaster Response. Related Links : Conference website.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Today I’m in San Antonio, Texas, for the American College of Preventive Medicine annual conference. My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future.

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Happy New Year: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This year I took off a full two weeks during the holiday, spending time with family on the Big Island on a coffee farm and mostly offline. I also gave a plenary talk at AFP in San Antonio, Texas. ” I will blogging about the use of online social network tools and techniques for effective professional networking.

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Happy, Healthy 2016: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the US, I gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in Iowa, San Antonio, Iowa, Tahoe, Palm Beach, Miami, and San Francisco on networked leadership skills. I was honored to lead a featured season at the United Way Leadership Conference on Networked Leadership and teach many workshops networked leadership skills.

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