Amy Sample Ward

JULY 16, 2009

Using Twitter search or other tools, you can watch news and updates about the election in Iran by using #IranElection; or, find interesting people to follow and connect with using #FollowFriday to peruse the recommendations that pile up on Fridays. What do those # mean? Never underestimate the technology.

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JULY 17, 2007

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2007

Last week, we had a NpTech Conference call (see Marnie's notes here and my stabb at a summary here ) During the call Nancy White mentioned "social search" and later she forwarded this note about a Yi-Tan tech community call on the topic today. Social Search is: people helping people find stuff.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

A story about Rapleaf in Clickz (a newsletter for online marketers) says this : Rapleaf allows you to quickly and inexpensively find out the social networking footprint of those you’re marketing to. Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.),

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NOVEMBER 15, 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!" So, which one social network should you consider for your next campaign?

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NOVEMBER 15, 2007

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JULY 26, 2007

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Listening by using rss feeds helps refine their services and help stay sharp and connected to experts in the field. Once people understand the value of the listening, you need to figure out what you will listen to. It's important search for the basics or what we call "ego searches." Use Your RSS Reader Like A Rock Star.

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AUGUST 12, 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!" ” Whereas Web 1.0 had a PC centric approach, Web 2.0

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FEBRUARY 3, 2008

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MAY 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!" Blog Searches: Technorati. You can also setup a RSS feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Since I’m working on an array of subjects over the past five years, I have a lot of them in my RSS reader and Twitter lists or I find them via keyword scans.) Key skills and tools may include search on Google, social media channels, and bookmarks. What role does social media play in it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

RSS readers worked for us in the early phases of social media, but as more people are connected through social networks and sharing and publishing information, there is more and more information out there. Curation: These are curated sources by communities and networks of people. What is the solution?

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Online social networking was just being born. Technorati (the first blog search engine at that time). Here was the Philanthropy News Network announcement of the project: "TechSoup NetSquared, the project to increase nonprofit effectiveness through Web-based social tools, has added a case study section to its website. 'Net2

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2008

The Social Opportunity. You Need Social Networks. Visibility Through Search. One of the messages that came through from this group of experts is that social media can give you a lot of return for your investment.    Where does social media time/money fit within the overall web marketing budget? 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Storyfy — Storify is a way to tell stories using social media such as Tweets, photos and videos. You search multiple social networks from one place, and then drag individual elements into your story. Use the dashboard to manage an unlimited amount of sources (websites, RSS feeds, specific social media accounts, etc.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

As Pudding Relations suggests "Take a look and see if you can use it to enhance your own thinking around social media with, ahem, military precision.". Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center is listens by searching for discussions about blood donations in their local area says Courtney Martin. World Institute.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

There’s some much of it that it is now measured in exabytes which is equal to a quintillion bytes. The creation and sharing of content on social media and social networks is contributing to this information overload. A Few Good Starter Tools. You also have to know your sources!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

I brainstormed series of equations or theories that represent best practices that nonprofits are using to implement social media. Social Media and social networks allow for the quantum effects, paired elements at a distance. My own feeling is that social media is not a either/or to email or search engine optimization.

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MARCH 23, 2009

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FEBRUARY 7, 2009

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JANUARY 4, 2010

Danny Sullivan, a search engine expert analyzed another chart by Factual that showed additional stats but without exact percentages. 19% of sites have an RSS feed. *6% . *2% of sites display both a Twitter and Facebook link. After reviewing the charts he estimated about: *20% of sites use Flash. *19% 6% of sites show a sitemap file. *1%

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MARCH 15, 2009

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FEBRUARY 3, 2008

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

If after asking yourself the 10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project, you've decided that a blog is good tool for you, consider incorporating the following 10 elements of an effective nonprofit, or do-good blog into your blogging strategy: 1. Make it easy to subscribe Have an rss feed.

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JUNE 5, 2009

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OCTOBER 7, 2007

RSS feeds and blogs, article comments, social networks… it’s all increasingly important. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Avenue A/Razorfish, the high-end web ad agency now owned by Microsoft, did a little study of these so called Web 2.0

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

It also provides a way for users to learn about the staff and volunteers that make up your organization’s network. Organization’s can add their blog or website’s RSS feed to automatically stream news content to their Company page.

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JUNE 26, 2009

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MARCH 3, 2009

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JANUARY 6, 2009

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

I'm fascinated by social networking and am interested in finding ways for museums to appeal to all types of people. Then set up an account for your museum and follow a few other museums as well as people in your target market using a search for location or interest keywords. Will it be another RSS feed?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Use search and social media to get better ideas for engagement. I've seen a bunch of presentations and survey research in the last couple of there's been a lot of talk about social listening and search optimization in the NPO space for the last few years. Our Current (Limited) View of Search and Social.

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MAY 8, 2009

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JANUARY 19, 2009

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DECEMBER 12, 2007

Because we believe that increasingly we will be seeing engagement move to these social networking models and away from email. Share and Enjoy: 4 Comments comment Social Networking News for Myspace / Facebook / Etc. » Why you need social media marketing. [.] … sucks. Link to the original story.

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