Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The theme this year of digital inclusion is especially important now as the speed of iteration and advancement is faster than ever and yet there are huge numbers of people without access at all. Share your story (about how you got online, what your first online engagement or activity was, etc.) Don’t assume you know the answer!).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2012

I haven’t been this hooked on a new social networking site since I first got on Twitter in June 2008, and based on recent data released by comScore and Hitwise, Pinterest traffic is soaring. Business always underestimate the fact the nonprofits are some of the most active early adopters on the Web. Repin your first Pin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2013

She discovered people hold two mental headsets around failure – “Growth Mindset and Fixed Mindset.” ” An AAR is an assessment conducted after a project or activity that allows everyone the team to discover and learn what happened and why. How can we improve the activity the next time we do it?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology SaaS vs. Open Source September 24, 2008 I just finished writing a post for the Idealware blog about choosing SaaS vs. Open source. Non Profits should never feel that their data is being held hostage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

The illustration above shows the overlap between people who use LinkedIn and Facebook. In June of 2007, nearly over 35% of Facebook traffic came the 18-24 year old segment, compared to around 22% in June 2008. They started with a survey to examine people's experience using social networks. CANs = Currently Active Network.

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BoardAssist

MARCH 24, 2015

Earlier this year, BoardSource launched Leading with Intent: A National Index of Nonprofit Board Practices , which is a comprehensive scan of current nonprofit board practices, policies, and performance. 58 percent of chief executives say it is difficult to find people to serve on the board — up from 44 percent in 2012.

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Care2

JUNE 17, 2010

Interestingly, despite all the protests against Facebook’s privacy policy she also said that people entrust their personal info with social networks. million people used email in the US and abroad as compared to 229.2 million people in August of 2008 according to the Nielsen Company.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

A large part of the motivation for the Playbook event was to get people engaged in discussing the Obama Administration?s EPA has also apparently trained 60 people to be trainers in online collaboration. Some people asked questions about the role of GSA in establishing policy for Federal agencies on open government issues.

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NTEN

JANUARY 10, 2011

Ted Fickes, Electronic Communications Manager, The Wilderness Society (Central Rockies Regional Office) In September, 2008, Green for All , 1Sky and the We Campaign organized a national day of action -- Green Jobs Now -- to demand progress on green jobs and a green economy. In fact, the bar for activism is higher.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

s needs, knowledge, and the sorts of practices they face on a daily basis is critical in an effective knowledge transfer and exchange activity.". In defining your target audience, too, keep the intended outcome in mind: Which people are actually in a position to act on your information? June 6, 2008 10:41 PM. June 2008 (9).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

At least in Massachusetts, the majority of nonprofits work with network support people who don’t focus totally on nonprofit organizations (there are some wonderful exceptions, however, of companies that focus on the sector.) CentOS conforms fully with the upstream vendors redistribution policy and aims to be 100% binary compatible.&#

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Which, of course, is why many people and many organizations don’t need blogs. The originators of blogging probably thought of it mostly as a way for people to be able to easily update their websites quickly, and provide interesting content on a moving basis. It has really defined policies and procedures.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The concept of distributed ledgers has usefulness outside of its thriving use in financial transactions and currency speculation, and it is actively triggering innovation in healthcare IT. We manage continuing education (CE) credit transactions: a learner completes a CE activity and receives CE credit, or “credit hours,” in return.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

It is nice to arrive on scene where 800 people in modest surroundings are energetically pursuing questions that have to be answered to build a movement. Lucy Bernholz, moderating, said that metrics are the carbon in the ecosystem and the oxygen is the policy frame. She’s launched a policy project you can read about here.

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See3

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

On the one side you have the traditional way to raise money — rich people asking other rich people to give. Lets say I am that law partner and by making a lot of calls I can get 50 people to max out for my candidate. All Rights Reserved Sitemap • Privacy Policy • Newsletter Sign-Up • Contact • About Us

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JANUARY 30, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman JAN 30, 2008 Identity 2.0

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See3

MARCH 18, 2008

The first session is at 10:30 and is called: A New Tool for Online Campaigns: How to Show, Tell, and Activate with a Video-centric Microsite The second session is at 3:30 and it’s all about online video, it is called: The Age of YouTube: Using Video Online to Reach the Masses We pleased to have a special guest at this session.

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See3

MARCH 12, 2008

Here’s the release: Somerville, MA (PRWEB) March 12, 2008 — Firstgiving, a leader in providing Web-based fundraising services for individuals and charities, today announced the ability for its users to add YouTube™ video and Flickr photos to their personal Web pages.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 15, 2023

And you need a way to organize the contact records for the people behind the organizations who apply. The more data that your organization preserves about applicants and grantees, the more your GMS can simultaneously function as a CRM that can actively build reports, generate direct communications with grantees, and export buckets of data.

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See3

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

They understand that an organization, or a campaign, must tell a story to build an audience, and then activate that audience with a compelling call to action. They documented the efforts of their street teams, and made a fun and inspiring piece out of young people advocating their way onto the Today Show. •

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Care2

MAY 31, 2007

60) Search « Care2 Featured in "Greenvertising" Report | Main | Free Range: The Art of Story Telling » Tuesday May 29 2007 Cultivate, Educate or Activate? In the speed-of-light world of on-line advocacy, you cant ignore people when they make an action. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

For many people who find you online, your website is the organization. Your website should tell people who you and what you do. Prioritize your ROI around the biggest impact, whether that’s raising funds, engaging people, or something else. Facebook General Growth data: More than 200 million active users.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

Other interesting findings include: For email newsletters, open rates and click-through rates fell slightly (1-2%) in 2008, though the changes were not strictly statistically significant. Email lists are continuing to grow, though the rate of growth was 17% in 2008. Average gift size across organizations was $71 in 2008.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

According to research by Adobe, only 3 percent of people find charities by following social media links. This has been a steady upward trend since 2008. "Closing the digital divide will take more than one year and more than one policy change. Or the connected fitness and activity trackers, such as Fitbit , which have.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

60) Search « Convio Online Marketing Nonprofit Benchmarks Released | Main | LOLseals: Flickr API Contest Gets HSUS Over 3,000 Entries » Tuesday Mar 25 2008 Whats an Email Address Worth? Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 12:36PM | by Eric Rardin How to Measure the Value of an Online Supporter Over here at Care2 we get this question a lot.

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Care2

MARCH 25, 2008

60) Search « Convio Online Marketing Nonprofit Benchmarks Released | Main | LOLseals: Flickr API Contest Gets HSUS Over 3,000 Entries » Tuesday Mar 25 2008 Whats an Email Address Worth? Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 12:36PM | by Eric Rardin How to Measure the Value of an Online Supporter Over here at Care2 we get this question a lot.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2007

60) Search « Care2 Featured in "Greenvertising" Report | Main | Free Range: The Art of Story Telling » Tuesday May 29 2007 Cultivate, Educate or Activate? In the speed-of-light world of on-line advocacy, you cant ignore people when they make an action. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

60) Search « Email Is Most Popular for a Reason: Its the Strongest Performing | Main | Join WVU for Integrated Marketing Degree Information Session » Wednesday Feb 06 2008 Worldwide Protest Organized on Facebook Wednesday, February 6, 2008 at 10:43AM | by Caitlin Ochs Need more proof of the organizing power of social networks?

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

| Main | Care2 Adds Two Experts to Nonprofit Services Team » Wednesday Jan 14 2009 10 Fast Tips to Boost E-newsletter Performance Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 10:40AM | by Allyson Kapin Let’s face it: People have a love hate relationship with their email. Get Interactive: Ask people to take a poll or share a story.

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See3

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

No one noticed the original post, and few people read the blog, but once they take it down lots of people are interested in what it says. Someone found it archived, reposted it, and now many more people saw it than would have originally if it was left up. Once it goes up, it’s up. They take the post down.

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See3

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

I saw lots of questions about this on the PX list and elsewhere and thought to myself, these poor suckers, they are going to spend lots of time putting this together, will get little response, and people like Beth — with big and active networks — will eat their lunch. They don’t have a chance.

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

If you dont measure results strictly by fundraising -- maybe your results are based on advocacy or branding only -- you can just look at the "cost per friend" or "cost per email name" to compare with the costs of recruiting people elsewhere. Its time to bust out the calculator and have a realistic look. The irony).

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

If you dont measure results strictly by fundraising -- maybe your results are based on advocacy or branding only -- you can just look at the "cost per friend" or "cost per email name" to compare with the costs of recruiting people elsewhere. Its time to bust out the calculator and have a realistic look. The irony).

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Daniel Hartman MAR 27, 2008 NTEN Does Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

The goal is to encourage nonprofits to make New Year's resolutions to that help them more efficiently and effectively move people to support their organizations. But, maybe you've done some of that thinking and implemented a few focused social media experiments in 2008 and have gleaned some insights. Do you have a friending policy ?

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Care2

JUNE 13, 2009

Marlow looked at how often people clicked on their friends news or photos, how often they communicated, etc. “Facebook users with 500 friends actively follow the news on only 40 of them, communicate with 20, and keep in close touch with about 10. Guess what the results were? ” Agreed! Those trends maybe slowing down.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 11, 2009

"I think, in the organizing, and in the activism what gets lost so often is what we're working for. What we want is for all people to have some delicious, amazing, banging food!" He is currently a Fellow in the Food and Society Policy Fellows Program, which is a national project of the W.K.

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