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How To: Create a Listening Dashboard for your Organization

Amy Sample Ward

This month’s Net2 Think Tank question asks, “How do you stay up-to-date online?&# There are so many blogs, news sources, and conversations happening at the same time, every day, and the chances that you’ll be able to find them all without trying is pretty unlikely. Getting Started. Finding Feeds.

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Guest Post on Frogloop: 5 Tips for Running a Competition

Amy Sample Ward

This doesn’t mean you need to be promoting the competition as much as it means you have ample resources already on your website, blog, group, or wherever you’re hosting the challenge, so that people looking to learn more can do so without emailing you! Has your organization run a competition online or offline?

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Great reads from around the web on August 23rd

Amy Sample Ward

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). " How to collect email subscribers on your Facebook Page – Have you added a custom welcome page and/or email sign up form to your Facebook Page?

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Great reads from around the web on March 30th

Amy Sample Ward

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). " Simple Nonprofit Donor & Volunteer CRM & Email Marketing | Wishery – "Running a non-profit is hard work.

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New on SSIR: You can has memesez?

Amy Sample Ward

That song, “Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen, quickly also became the soundtrack to an Internet meme —that is, an idea that spreads online (“ I Can Has Cheezburger? Everyone involved in an organization and everyone online is, actually, human, and fun is a good thing. ” is one of the more famous).

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Great reads from around the web on May 17th

Amy Sample Ward

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). We invite you to let us know about any problems you encounter by emailing tools@answr.net. It’s time we stop blindly believing in mythology.

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DIY Community Engagement Metrics

Amy Sample Ward

Even though much of these will be online social technologies, don’t forget about the offline spaces, too. Interest in our example program has grown with # of inquiry calls/emails. Step 3: Identify the tools. Newsletter subscriber numbers are not growing. Community: Participation at the recent event was high at # of people.

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