Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. obama reach vs local reach. Think like a rocket scientist, document or journal your learnings. Any resources to move from national to local? Can’t wait! industry benchmarks.

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Social Media Map Strategy Media 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

The idea was that if we knew each other’s knowledge and skill related to the project, it can help everyone can be more effective in delivering the social media training because one person or team doesn’t need to know everything. I created the above visual using wordle to represent our collective knowledge and skills.

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Network Build Exercise Map 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

For this project, participants were carefully vetted, avoiding organizations that were in a leadership transition, had other organizational priorities to address or did not have the capacity to apply the skills or knowledge. Her knowledge of the country and the culture made it easier to localize the curriculum.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 113

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

I was fascinated by the project’s innovative approach to collecting, sharing, and connecting people through locally-produced media. We consider anything intended for public consumption to be “published,” so while our collection is very broad, we draw the line at correspondence or personal journals. Geography is fluid, though.

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Chicago Library Public Culture 48

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

As more and more politicians dive into the world of Social Media, the way we communicate and interact with our local and national representatives is changing. Lessons in Local Tech: Sustainable Food 2.0 submitted by Rachel Weidinger, Common Knowledge. Are you eating well? ACLU-WA's Drupal redesign!

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Comment Open Source Social Media Drupal 50

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I’m in Austin, TX, today engaging with librarians, digital curators, and technologists working at the nexus of communities and knowledge at the Electronic Resources and Libraries annual conference. Why focus on that instead of content, or knowledge or information or anything else? Why Community? So, why community?

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Library Model Adopt Community 241

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Epidemiologists watch for blips in Google queries to localize flu outbreaks; economists use them to spot shifts in consumer confidence. The Open Knowledge Foundation is a great advocacy charity in that field. Jake Porway talks about the project in the short Wall Street Journal video, Big Data and Nonprofits.

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Data Disaster Map Organization 66