Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Doing Good. ’ Well, now’s your chance!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Facebook’s organic reach is equivilent to sending 100 donors a fundraising email and having 98 of them classified spam and consequently blocked. That’s a wasted use of time and resources and that’s how many nonprofits are feeling these days about Facebook. Don’t. Just block and forget.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

For organizational reasons, you could opt to use the Gmail e-mail account that you created for your nonprofit when setting up your Google account for all social media and mobile technology accounts. It will help you centralize all your efforts and reduce the amount of spam and notification e-mails sent to your work e-mail account.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

MySpace was and still is (for some) the easiest social networking site to grow a community quickly. As a regualr MySpace user, there is no denying that MySpace is more diverse than any other social networking site. MySpace is also the number one accessed social networking website on mobile devices today.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

The same is true for volunteers, whose social networks could potentially provide some serious peer-to-peer fundraising boosts to your campaign. Tip: Once you feel you’ve compiled all of the resources in your inventory, collaborate with members of your nonprofit staff at-large and executive leadership to assign value to each asset.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

A good CMS should also include a built-in Spam filter to keep obviously unrelated content from cluttering your comments sections. Laura Quinn is executive director of Idealware, a nonprofit that provides thoroughly researched, impartial and accessible resources about software to help others nonprofits make smart decisions.

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DECEMBER 12, 2007

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman DEC 12, 2007 Why you need social media marketing.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2011

Technology and social networking means, according to Paynter, “Community has never before been more important for organization success.” As the community has grown, it became ever more important to generate revenue to ensure the capability and resources necessary to serve its members.

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Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2011

It is considered a wise practice to not post too many updates on your page in one day as it could be construed as spamming and drive followers away. As far content, it is not only advisable to post your own organization's content but to offer up other content and resources that might be of interest to followers.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content? Social Networks & Twitter from Natalie Foster: Two Principles: 1. The trust that comes with using social networks (engaging people you know, who engage the people they know, and so on) is what creates the power of using social networking tools.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

YourVersion and LazyFeed are two real-time discovery services that unearth blog posts, web pages and other resources about topics of interest to users. They are like broad, topical, personalized blogsearch with good spam control. Real-Time Discovery. These services are fun and useful. Real-Time Relationships (And Up-selling ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning. NetSquared.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

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!" What does this mean for you? To create a new comment, use the form below.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Moderate your comments if you are concerned about inappropriate remarks, or spam. Ask readers to share opinions, resources, and content (blog posts, photos, audio, video). You'll build community and provide a useful information filtering service for your readers. Facilitate commenting Allow commenting.

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Care2

MAY 14, 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!" Email open rates declined 1%, compared to a 3% decrease between 2006 and 2007.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

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!" It has become a great resource and many people are flocking to it on a daily basis.

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Care2

AUGUST 14, 2007

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MAY 15, 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!" spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

The nonprofit sector is the long snail - helping the 99% of nonprofits that are providing 50% of the services to obtain the resources. Networked For Good - Have shifted from just providing services. Six Degrees of Separatio: Cult of celebrity, user-generated content, online giving, and social networking.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

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!" It has become a great resource and many people are flocking to it on a daily basis.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. billion monthly active users , Facebook is the largest social network in the world. Without a doubt, your nonprofit’s donors and supporters use Facebook on a regular basis and thus Facebook should be your first priority in your social media strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. With one billion active monthly users, Instagram is a very powerful social network used by nonprofits worldwide. People had joined the social network primarily for the visual experience – not to read. Write Good Captions. Not anymore.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

A place that blogs, that engages in social networking sites, that tries experiments, and reports about all of it honestly. Were they really using it as a post-visit resource? Spam, obscenity--they just aren't an issue at all. We get so much spam on MySpace, whereas on Flickr and Facebook and the blog we never get spam.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

One of these days I need to find the resources to document this in a way that might be useful to other people. (I All of them are kept as part of our resource database. They are both spam magnets and I have enough trouble dealing with email spam as it is. Actually, Jon Stahl was very excited about this too.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Provided you set aside the time to explore and experiment, your nonprofit can use the free or low-cost tools and resources listed below to significantly improve your digital marketing and fundraising campaigns. Newsletter Spam Check :: mail-tester.com. Social Media. Accessible Social :: accessible-social.com.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2012

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

for a while, people meant ‘facebook’ although that’s a social network of people you already know. What Twitter isn’t… Twitter isn’t a message board, or a social network of people you already know… So, is it a community? safe from spam attacks. safe from offensive material.

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Care2

OCTOBER 3, 2007

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!" » Tuesday Aug 08 2006 Spam Filters Arent Blocking my Emails, Are They?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2009

CNET's Caroline McCarthy published an article called " Crowded Roads Ahead for Charity 2.0 " based on an interview with Toby Daniels of Think Social and Scott Harrison of charity:water reflecting on how the landscape has changed for fundraising on social networks.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

I want to tell you about Nonprofit Tech For Good , a great nonprofit technology news resource. These services, by-the-way, are different from spam filtering services like Postini , GFI.com, or Spamcop. is collecting vast amounts of information from social networks and email accounts to look for terrorist activity.

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See3

OCTOBER 29, 2007

While there are people who use YouTube as a pure social network, the majority of YouTube users are passive viewers of video. So connecting through the traditional social networking type of connections doesn’t have the impact on YouTube as it would on Facebook. In this way, no one would mistake their opt-in for spam.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 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!" 6) Social networking is fun – no doubt about it.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 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!" Online social networks in general? For example: Mobile devices?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

One of the questions: How to address concerns about privacy, security, and avoiding spam overload that comes with social media and social network sites? He points out these problems with current social networking practices. (1) Understand how privacy controls work on social networks.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 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!" Online social networks in general? For example: Mobile devices?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2014

The app won't broadcast your location on other social networks (like Facebook). You can only follow people you're already friends with on social networks. Users of the app were treated to some porn spam messages in their feed. More Resources. 3D Printing Goes Mobile. Why is this app a big deal?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

A list of tools and resources for Democracy Building and Civic Engagement from the Berkman-Sunlight workshop. The Network-Centric Advocacy blog says thank you to the Integration Proclamation that might help progressive organizations reach the Holy Grail: getting the technology groups use to work together!

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