Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of April 2nd). And they're winning.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of April 8th).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

But the exchange prompted some reflection on how I use Feedburner. What is the quality of the conversation in the comments? What did you learn from the conversation? Reader Bookmarking: This is bookmarked content for later retrieval which is some indication of reader value. . Did anything surprise you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2006

Jillaine Smith has a great post where she shares her personal learning journey (and frustrations) about "trying to integrate the use of blogging, tagging, technorati, social bookmarking, blah blah woof woof. One value of a blog is at least I captured my reflections from several months ago and a workflow diagrams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

"   I've been trying think through a benchmarking process that would identify metrics to track, how to track, and how to reflect on the data to make improvements in your blog.   Reader engagement consists of metrics for: Conversation (commenting). Reader Sharing (bookmarked items).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Arts Wire was patterned after the Well and was designed as an online conversation community for artists and arts organizations. Or participating in the online conversation on Arts Wire. I used the chat as a backchannel and invited people to add questions or comments as we went along. 09 was the first version I used).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2011

I want to be able to bookmark or pick things out from the stream that I want to go back to so the items don’t get lost. Also, there’s search yet. Dave Gray shared this reflection where circles can go and they hint at other potential nonprofit use cases for donor cultivation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

On the side, by personal email I was sharing interesting links, articles, and conversations with people who I thought might be interested. The reason I think this is a classic Internet story is that 90% of the ongoing cost of publishing that blog is my own cost of staying informed and reflecting on what I learn. It hones my thinking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

The Net2 Secret Plan from Marnie Webb NpTech Tag New Year's Reflections, Predictions, and Best Ofs What are some of the ways that the social web marks the New Year? As we move into 2008, one last reflection, what are you lessons learned about Nonprofits and Social Media ? Thoughts, leave them in the comments. Let's take a look.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2007

I've been reflecting on some of the points made about the pros/cons of the NpTech Tag and the comment that Laura Quinn left here. of our connected conversations and resource finds. of our connected conversations and resource finds. For an experiment, here's some conversation questions about the NpTech Tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

And for expert level knowledge, read these blog posts about FriendFeed that Louis Gray has bookmarked.). In the last few weeks, there has been posts about how conversations have shifted to FriendFeed. In addition, a lot of ad hoc conversation and informal resource sharing unfolded. Follow the poweruser of FriendFeed, Louis Gray.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

In some ways, I found using it counter-intuitive to my thinking and reflection process. " I created a mindmap of Peralty's step-by-step framework to help me reflect on my steps. Many times ideas for topics come from reader comments. I found a few features annoying, most notably the lack of flexibility with the templates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs track blog conversations and respond. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together. Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Openness - ????A It's messy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

The Cross Blog Discussion of the NpTechTag has generated some comments and blog posts that I've summarized below. However, in the comments, readers point to the benefits of a folksonomy and suggest that combining the two approaches can lead to a best-of-both-worlds outcome. How are they different from taxonomies?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

What I need is your input -I'd love to hear about your social media "adaption stories" - please leave me a comment. As Wendy Harman, Red Cross Social Media Manager, observes, "When Katrina hit, we knew people are talking but we’re not listening to conversation. We don’t really care about views as much as we care about comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

There are many sparks for conversation about the points raised. Michele Martin points to a new feature in google news that can spark conversations. " and reflecting on a recent article in Wired. Social bookmarking in plain English! Good discussion in the comments too. Ruby Sinreich's Advocacy 2.0 NpTech Talk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I'm really glad that she sent me this email because I had bookmarked one of her recent commentaries on nonprofits and online social networking. be on the lookout in any OSN platform they use for someone commenting about your organization, positive or negative, and to let you know what's being said.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

What is the quality of the conversation in the comments section? What did you learn from the conversation your readers started? Reader bookmarking This measures whether readers are bookmarking your content for later retrieval which provides some indication of how much they value it. Do they include tips?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

I look at several metrics proposed by Avinash Kaushik These include author contribution, audience growth, conversation rate, and authority Then I look at the amount of time in my work flow and reflect on productivity. And, as stubborn as it sounds Mr. CEO, you don’t get money out of a conversation. Twittered - for velocity.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

So send in your questions and comments along the way. I’m going to share some website tweaks to help you boost your conversion rate for online gifts. It needs to be conversational. ” That’s a beautiful way to reflect on their kindness. . There’s a chat box. There’s a Q&A box.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

using CoverIt Live) to capture everything- I am more interested in the types of posts our Conference Bloggers created that had reflection and analysis (and criticism, we want that too? Not only does this save paper, it saved a lot of work for the poor office aide who had to decipher hand written comments and enter them in a spreadsheet.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed. 54 Comments Rob Bowker wrote: Hi Steve, applied for the ffg accounts only to find a colleague had already registered with ctx and was away on honeymoon. link] I’ll be bookmarking you!

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