Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 10, 2010

I immediately downloaded the Apps for the social networking sites that I regularly use as well as the few Apps that were available from the nonprofit sector. The mobile web is exploding – especially for social networking sites. All bookmarked on my iPhone. Love my iPhone.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2015

After a decade of embracing new social networks as they rise in popularity, in recent weeks it became clear that it was time to reassess the value of being active on so many social networks and to prioritize the social networks that most benefit Nonprofit Tech for Good. Quit a Social Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

I'm drilling down into the concept of " streamline " to brainstorm 52 ideas to help make your organization's social media strategy and use more effective and efficient. Why Your Nonprofit Should Streamline Social Media Social media is still relatively new. Why the number 52? Good for you! Great work.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Each radio program/live call allows 5,000 listeners and topics range from social media to philanthropy. Based in the U.K.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Your lists will also appear in the Interests section of your bookmarks. As all good social media managers know, diversify your bran d and time spent across multiple social networks. According to Facebook Help: When you create a list, you’ll see the best posts from that list in your main News Feed.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 1, 2009

But what about taking an inventory of your social media tools? Delicious / Bookmarks. If you use Delicious , the social bookmarking tool, you can view all of your tags and how many items have been bookmarked to each of them. Tags: strategy analysis evaluation social media. Happy searching!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The Need for the 4Cs Social Media Framework. Over the last year, I have had to explain how social media works to diplomats, defense officials, and academics and students focused on fields as diverse as international affairs, management and sociology. The first reason is the excessive focus on specific social media tools.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2014

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). ” Which Social Networks Are Growing Fastest Worldwide? Is For-Profit the Future of Non-Profit? – eMarketer -.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

Prior to the holidays I ignored them because I just couldn’t stomach “yet another social network.” So, what made me go check it out? Ironically, it was my post “ Reflection on Networked Professional Learning &# where I linked to a post on Social Networks from Stephen Downes.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

As social media grows in popularity, one fact cannot be ignored: if used well, it can generate impressive amounts of traffic and increase engagement around your cause or organization. These overall strategies aren't anything new in the marketing world: social media is just a new way to do old business. Know Your Goals.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

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). They often failed to deliver on key social capital improvements such as improving trust between residents or fostering a greater sense of belonging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

She has a social media elevator pitch just in case she runs into one of the senior managers. But when you're just starting out, organizational culture can get in the way of embracing social media. See this IBM Social Media/Corporate Culture Case Study ). What's important is a social media policy.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2010

Everyday, we find great resources on the different uses of technology and social media in the nonprofit sector. We bookmark them, note them, share them, tweet or retweet them, and sometimes, we even blog about them. Tags: Online Fundraising Social Networking Tech Planning Using the Web and Internet. read more.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 21, 2010

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). As social networks try and become profitable they are experimenting with new ad models and trying to drive more traffic to increase ad revenue.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

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). Almost twice as many users got news from a mobile device compared with 2010, and almost three times as many got news from a social network."

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

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). Digital Media and Learning Competition: Applications now open! Thanks for all that you are doing, ARC! " My favorite lesson? . "This

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

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). If you’re a social person, it means you like to spend time with other people. ""

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

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). " Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media – frogloop – "Can I be honest? However, just today a.ly shortener called vb.ly

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The final installment of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays tweetchat series, an interactive companion to its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , covered the topic of tagging. Tagging, a feature found across many social media channels, is used to help surface content during searches.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 19, 2010

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). As she notes, her example has luck but it is an example of a growing model of a changing world. What do you think? Great slides.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

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). The 2010 Social Networking Map / Flowtown (@flowtown) – I love maps and I work in social media; so I always love the maps of social media!

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Care2

APRIL 18, 2011

One of the big questions I often get asked by nonprofit campaigners is “how do I know if our blog and social media are succeeding and resonating with people?&# The very first thing that nonprofits should do is setup a tracking system to measure their blogs and social media. Great question. Do you know who they are?

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

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). " Read all of the lessons Carol learned – and I'd love to hear what you learned! Unconference here: [link].

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 2, 2009

These are my links for December 14th through January 2nd: 5 TED Talks on Collaboration and Communities | Social Media Trader - I am a huge fan of the TED talks and enjoy taking a break now and then to watch one just for a bit of passion and motivation. Tags: roundup bookmarks. Here are five talks on collaboration.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 20, 2009

Social media brings thousands of ppl w/diabetes together at the SAME time | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org - Manny Hernandez (@askmanny on Twitter), the creator of TuDiabetes.com has shared a great case study on the NetSquared Community Blog about how they have used social media tools to bring a community together.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 6, 2011

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). " Target community for best return on social media efforts – My recent interview with the Nonprofit Business Advisor is out!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 23, 2009

Exploring Social Media for Social Good #FindingTheGood - Have you been following Mashable's Summer of Social Good? This week they are rounding up and highlighting examples of social media use by WWF, The Humane Society, Livestrong and Oxfam America - plus, you can add your organization to the list!

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

One of the most common questions I'm asked as a social media consultant is, "Which tool is the best?" If you have a do-good project, or a small nonprofit that you want to promote, fundraise for, or build an online community around using social media, your first step is to create a plan. Raise awareness? Build web traffic?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2010

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). " Social Media –– Revolutionary Movement or Enabler of “Slacktivism&# ? Do you have insurance? Where do you stand?"

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

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). – "Despite the enormous popularity of peer-to-peer social networking, the adoption cycle for branded online communities has been relatively slow.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 2, 2010

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). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. " Have you tried Jumo? ."

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 16, 2010

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). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. You get on. And you fall.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2012

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). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

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). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. " Check it out! " Check it out!

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 2, 2009

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). " Is Your Organization Human Enough for Social Media? — SocialFish – "Social media can be overwhelming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Don't set up a presence on every social network in the world all at once. . Use Help Applications That Streamline Social Media Tasks. Create Good Social Media Habits. Make Time for Reflection.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

New ‘WSJ’ Conduct Rules Target Twitter, Facebook - The Wall Street Journal circulated a newly compiled list of "professional conduct" covering social media, social networking, and so on. Tags: roundup bookmarks. Take a look at their entire list!

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