Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

A day of on and offline events spanning the globe celebrating the Web. bringing attention to issues and work on digital inclusion. OneWebDay opens up techie conversations to everyone. Today is OneWebDay ! This year’s theme is One Web. Creating for All. Are you having a OneWebDay event today?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 3, 2010

weeks offline with friends and family for the holidays. I’ve also been thinking quite a bit about what’s to come this year and wanted to stat a conversation openly here with all of you. What tools, strategies or issues do you want to discuss? Tags: collaboration community 2010 goals planning.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2009

We all know from offline life experience that you don’t just schedule a meeting, but you have to show up and contribute for the meeting to be successful; you probably also have action items that come out of the meeting that people work on individually and that also draw them back together for another meeting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2009

I asked my Twitter followers for suggestions for questions , I tweeted the key points from the conversation yesterday. About the issue of fatigue. He suggests that organizations forget that they're on the Internet and think about what their strategy in offline terms. Think like an offline community grassroots organizer.".

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 3, 2010

You can check out the post and conversation there , or read a copy of the post below. According to the Pew Neighbors Online study recently released, 27% of American adult Internet users (or 20% of adults overall) use “digital tools to talk to their neighbors and keep informed about community issues. I’d love to hear it!

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

It’s something I can only wrap my mind around by talking to others and hope that this is a chance to further a very important conversation. and so… The Conversation. There are many who approach the online landscape with very different views than their offline business decisions. Well, it means a lot.

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Myspace Causes Philanthropy Offline 108

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2009

You can read the post and participation in the conversation on the SSIR blog here! The piece is reposted below: Have we replicated our offline social dynamics and barriers online? The issues our social service agencies and social benefit organizations are dealing with offline, in local communities, are showing up online.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 18, 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. What is your conversation strategy? I'll be there and hope you will be, too.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 9, 2010

You can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR blog here , or read the copied post below. As organizations or community builders active online, working to practice and create quality engagement, we are often trying to guide, collect or herd conversations and interactions into spaces that we have created or monitor closely.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

For those that follow the #4Change twitter-based chats, this is a post recapping and highlighting our latest conversation on social media application in the Climate Change movement. Note: the @names provide links to the Twitter users who made specific comments, just in case you want to connect and continue the conversation!*.

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Social Media Change Media Lesson 145

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 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. Interested to hear how organizations are dealing with this issue! What tangible results are people seeing from it?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Part of my role as the Global Community Development Manager at NetSquared is to support and grow our offline organizers from around the world. This offline network, called Net Tuesdays, balances the work we do online to connect all those working at the intersection of technology and social impact. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

we're mobilizing a global conversation about the various forms of. Then be sure to tag it "stopcyberbullying" so we can aggregate it. -. Have an offline conversation with someone about it. no way we can do justice to the issue in one day, we've set up this online. more about the issue.

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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

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Blog Action Day is an annual event held every October 15 that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. Blog about Climate Change and start a conversation ( register your blog to show up on the Blog Action Day website ).

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yesterday was the 3rd annual Women Who Tech Telesummit , bringing together over 600 women (and men) from for-profit and nonprofit organizations and technology start, connecting developers and techies with those new to the field, igniting conversations and long-term collaborations. What about risk management issues around geo-social tools?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

My conversations so far for February are all focused on the role of nonprofits online. I would LOVE for you to get in on the conversations, too! I think it’s an interesting topic and wanted to continue the conversation here with you! Join the conversation on the SSIR blog! Tag your blog with “net2thinktank”.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 11, 2009

are vested in the social issues they work towards ending in such a way that they require those issue to persist. You can find previous blog posts (with great conversations in the comments) here , here and here. There is so much talk both online and offline, from inside organizations and from outside, that “nonprofits are broken.”

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Listening: hearing what people are talking about your issue or sector. ARC - gather data every morning and share with organization via email; issues that seem sensitive or are newsworthy will contact subject matter experts to follow up. Are there ways of catching offline datapoints? use monitoring tools. know your keywords.

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Social Media Map Strategy Media 102

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 24, 2010

What’s the difference between online and offline marketing – or is there one? If you put aside basic resource issues of time and money, I think fear is actually one of the biggest obstacles. How can readers learn more about your work, your book, and follow the conversation?

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Interview Marketing Guide Attitude 140

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! Tags: community issues causes data facebook future myspace openweb ssir. This may not seem too terribly interesting or scary, but let’s take a closer look. What it Means to Individuals.

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Myspace Technology Causes Social Network 158

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! Tags: community issues causes data facebook future myspace openweb ssir. This may not seem too terribly interesting or scary, but let’s take a closer look. What it Means to Individuals.

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Myspace Technology Causes Social Network 158

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Let’s start at the most fundamental place for this conversation. For this conversation, and those to have over the course of the next two days together at least, let’s work from the place that a movement is larger than coalitions. What is a movement? How many people hear that word and think it is just as generic as the word community?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

This post is really to start a conversation. Here are some things to help get the conversation started if the above didn’t already give you something to say. This is a great example of providing a real, authentic voice to a global issue. What do you think? And I really, really, REALLY want to hear what you think.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Creating an environment for learning in public means that it is okay to say “I don’t know” about an issue or problem and to ask others what they think. We are also learning in public when we engage in in-depth conversation whether it is offline or online, for example in the comments of a blog post or asking questions on Twitter.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

But I do love to share my ideas and experience with others and hope this is an opportunity to start many new conversations both with readers here and participants at the seminar. where are they online already and how do they want to interact with you online (is it in the same spaces or different ones, is it conversations or promotion, etc.)?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

A few days ago, I asked for some stories " What is the value of listening through social media channels for your organization? " I wanted to see examples from nonprofit organizations engaged in listening and conversation and the value it has to their missions, programs, or marketing efforts. This requires engaging in a conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Says Giller, “Environmentalists will lecture you much about how the polar bears on the Arctic ice cap are so hopeless that you’ll want to jump off the iceberg yourself or ignore the issue. grist.org’s key results are: Footprint: The reach of their activities, both online and offline. Or as Giller says, “The planet will get it.”.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

However, you’ll want to log in more frequently to make necessary adjustments and maximize conversions. Account management and reporting: A properly-structured Google Grant account will run 3-5 campaigns at once to drive conversions. Google recommends you log in at least 1-2 times a month. Landing page redesign. Reporting and analytics.

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Grant Google Management Guide 52

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The photo or video taken on a phone and then posted to the web can change the conversation, alert news media to issues or new developments, and change the course of response. For example, if a family is looking for their missing mother, they can use the search engine to find images that volunteers have tagged with “adult” and “female.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

However, most of the donors were definitely social media contacts with whom I have had more in-depth conversations. There were 44 followers that used the #floodofsupport hash tag or linked to the Crowdrise page or blog post. The hash tag spread fairly well in the first couple of days, after which it dropped significantly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

The new framing for this familiar issue is one of balance. The day ended with a conversational keynote with Tony Hsieh on Zappos culture of happiness. I enjoyed the conversational approach. Tags: Information Coping Skills streamline. Soren Gordhamer, Wisdom 2.0 How does your organization honor balance in the use?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Read the post and join the conversation on the Frogloop blog (or read the post below). And then expect that they will be the ones to point out the issues and things to change. Has your organization run a competition online or offline? Tags: case studies challenge competition frogloop guest post howto tips.

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Care2

MAY 21, 2009

Yes, it’s true and that’s why it’s important for all nonprofits that are advocating for causes to start becoming a part of the conversation publicly and not just behind closed doors or on “the hill.&# Media outlets both online and offline. Tagging on social bookmarking sites like delicious, Digg, etc.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2023

From tracking conversations and donations to event registrations, you can note every interaction you have with a supporter in your nonprofit CRM. Integrations save time and reduce data transmission issues. Here are some questions you may consider asking: Is this software available offline? How often is the software updated?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Today, we had an amazing conversation and interview with Cecile Richards and Tom Subak to learn more about Planned Parenthood 's Social Media Strategy and their movement building techniques. Earlier this week, I gave a presentation to a group of Bay Area Foundation program officers and funders who work on population research issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

They used "tagging" on Facebook to make people aware of the note. The Valley Medical Foundation: This organization provided an example of the personal versus organizational voice issue that social media often brings up. I have people line up from "very comfortable" to "not so comfortable" and facilitate a conversation.

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