Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 6, 2009

My latest post is up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review opinion blog. You can read the full post and join the conversation on SSIR here. Others see it as specifically applying to online community spaces, like a social networking site. You can read the full post and join the conversation on SSIR here.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 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 September 16th).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 28, 2010

Web 2.0 = Blogs, wikis, and social networking sites. People can post comments and converse with your organization in public for all to see. It’s one person or organization publishing content to many on social networking sites who then re-publish your content to their friends, fans, followers, connections, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Submitted by Steve MacLaughlin, publisher of Connections For a while now I've been talking with a lot of nonprofits about using social media and social networking in their organizations. You can avoid having a conversation. You can even pretend the conversations aren't happening elsewhere. Control of the message.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2010

At this morning's session of short-talk presentations, Can the Internet Fix Politics? Tracking and Visualizing Trends in Social Media. Using visualization software like this can make it easier to listen, find, and track trends around the issues you work on and the conversations taking place across the communities you serve.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 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. to quickly share links to blog posts, advocacy and fundraising campaign on social networks.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Check out her live tweet stream and the highlights from the conversation. It’s Time to Focus on Volunteers’ Results - Philanthropy.com - Evan Hochberg has a terrific post on Philanthropy.com starting an important conversation on what to do about all this focus on volunteering and service. "Government,

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 10, 2010

Adina Levin has an absorbing post this week on the limits of Facebook for community organizing: In Facebook, if you don't know someone already, you might come across them in conversations in the discussion thread started by a friend, or the page of an institution that you "like." What's the difference?

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2010

You've heard the maxims of social media before: "Join the conversation," "Engage your audience," "Be authentic!" — but what does all of that really mean? If you attended last Thursday's free webinar, 10 Social Media Tips & Secrets , you can now answer these questions for yourself. Tools Web 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 21, 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. "What is social interpreneurship you ask? Have real pictures and have real conversations.

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 26, 2009

I’ve just been listening to a podcast of Lee Weinstein’s conversation with public relations consultant Donna Gibbs on how non-profits are successfully using social media right now, where Gibbs shines a light on the social media marketing activities — on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter — of two charities she’s involved with personally.

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Care2

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Social Network demographics can be skewed. What percentage are really “active users&# and communicate via social networks all day? Between 2008 and 2009 the number of users on social-networking and other community sites jumped 31% to 301.5 In August 2009, 276.9 million people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

A key point about how difficult it is for most non-profits to shift from message delivery to conversation and advice about being patience. The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. Tag your post with "net2thinktank." " Nonprofits and Web2.0 mean for you?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

The spontaneous conversations in the halls, are really the reason why we go to conferences, right? That is really the reason we even do face-to-face these days, as much of the content at conferences is pretty much the same conversation again and again, at least in the nonprofit tech world (Twitter or Facebook?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 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 October 18th).

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

My latest post for the Stanford Social Innovation Review is up and I hope you’ll dive into the conversation with me! A recent event has brought up some huge red flags for me around data, around communities, around social impact, inclusion and even more. Do you have ideas or feelings about the questions above?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

My latest post for the Stanford Social Innovation Review is up and I hope you’ll dive into the conversation with me! A recent event has brought up some huge red flags for me around data, around communities, around social impact, inclusion and even more. Do you have ideas or feelings about the questions above?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

Unless you are an Internet personality, an organization with a full-time community manager or a professional online content publisher, there is not enough time to succeed in the multitude of social networks AND manage your own social content. The tag is still active on Twitter and other places. Let’s face it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

This post summarizes the content I shared in my presentation and offers some reflection on the conversational keynote. Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. Conversational Key Note. 3: Use conversation starters to engage your target audience.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 12, 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 12th).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Photo by Terry Bain in Flickr I've been hearing a lot lately from folks who work in nonprofits asking for examples of "social media or social networking policies." But, if an organization simply cuts and pastes a social media policy without the internal culture change, it won't be effective. Internet Use Policy.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2009

Summer of Social Good by Mashable - "Summer of Social Good is the first large scale online charitable campaign to raise funds strictly online through the power of Social Media and the Internet. " Tags: roundup bookmarks. Find me on Delicious for more!

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 7, 2009

And ‘social’ is also used by technologists and the media to refer to the new two-way communications technologies available via the internet and digital technologies. Communications which create society, strengthen relationships, support social interactions. Social media. Social networks.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 13, 2009

This Wednesday, April 15th, you can participate in a free online event and webinar from TechSoup, Basics for Beginners: Getting Started with Social Media Tools. So you’ve heard about Facebook, Twitter, and other online social networking sites. Tags: digital learning events basics newbie techsoup techsoupglobal webinar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Allison Fine and I have been busy working on a book about how social media and connectedness is changing the way nonprofits are creating social change. I spent sometime reviewing what Planned Parenthood was doing on social networks as well as their online presence - so it was good to get the inside story.

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Tech Soup

JULY 9, 2010

TechSoup excels at getting people hands-on with technology, from streaming conversations and webinars to learning how to build new 3D immersive experiences for your causes. Tags: E-Learning Event Online Activism Online Recruitment Social Networking Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 2, 2009

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources across the web ever day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Together, we learned how to connect, share and work together via the internet, without bureaucratic controlling bodies.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 15, 2010

My favorite moments as a presenter are unfacilitated conversations between the presenter/experts and the audience/attendees. Janet's among the best I have found in the field of social media marketing and consulting. She is a social media consultant, and nonprofits are her specialty. Why such a cavalier and reckless approach?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2009

What Are They Talking About: Social Media, Web 2.0 The guide goes in-depth on things the importance of "listening" to social media conversations already taking place, targeting your audience, developing active ideas to join the conversation, producing engaging content, the best ways of distributing that content, and getting social.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Personal computers, cell phones, digital assistants, and the Internet have fundamentally changed how we communicate. But with the Internet now accessible from public libraries, cyber cafés and cell phones, getting online is easier than ever for nearly anyone. Both age groups also view the Internet as an important source of information.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2009

Here's your chance to catch up on the many conversations about tech planning, fundraising, and social networking for your organization. Tags: E-Learning Fundraising Online Seminar Running Your Organization Tech Planning Using the Web and Internet.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites. Examples from Haiti.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Nothing starts a conversation like, well, an actual conversation. When we adopt social media strategies, we often tell ourselves that it's not just about donations, it's about starting a conversation. If your goal is to have a conversation, then why not pick up the phone and have one?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2010

This guest post was written by Xianhang Zhang, a social designer who blogs on design issues here. You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 While "social" is a buzzword that has become nauseatingly overused today, the internet was social to the core from its very beginning.

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Forum One

MARCH 18, 2010

" The session featured a facilitated conversation about how hospitals and health care providers are using new media and social networking software to support their primary objectives — treatment, research, education and outreach, and patient-provider communication. Let me know in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

At that time the Facebook Causes was only two months old and in their conclusion they pointed out that fundraising on social networks was not a silver bullet and that it takes time. . Steve MacLaughlin points out "If the reason why you want to use social networks is just to raise money, then stop now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2008

Geoff Livingston live blogged the Network Solutions Solutions Stars Video Conference -- by a team of Internet marketing and social media rock stars.  The Social Opportunity. You Need Social Networks.   Where does social media time/money fit within the overall web marketing budget? 

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