Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Reports of violence and of peace efforts could be placed via the web or mobile phone. Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits August 13, 2008 I love these tidbits blog posts. These look like pretty interesting, and useful applications. But, anyway, I’m not putting the silly badge in the sidebar, sorry.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 12, 2012

Microsoft Lync is one of the least understood Microsoft product donations in the TechSoup catalog; however if yours is a larger organization that already runs on Windows Server 2008, uses Office Professional Plus 2010 , and has multiple offices or lots of work out in the field, it's definitely worth looking at. Why Lync Is Green Software.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. The disaster in Haiti is a perfect example of these changes: the impact of the Real-Time Web and the power of our phones.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

June 24, 2008 I’m doing a webinar on Linux Desktops next month, and it’s making me think a lot about my own experience using Linux on the desktop, and where I think things are going. The eePC is a great example, as are cell phones, media players, etc. This is where Linux will shine. 3 Seth Schneider 06.24.08

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

The technology scene today is distinguished by the growing connectivity among devices, mobile phones, the PC, and the browser, which enable people and organizations to access information, communicate, and collaborate in more powerful ways. This new paradigm offers great potential to improve how we all work.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

The technology scene today is distinguished by the growing connectivity among devices, mobile phones, the PC, and the browser, which enable people and organizations to access information, communicate, and collaborate in more powerful ways. This new paradigm offers great potential to improve how we all work.

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2013

Established in 2008 as a collaborative response to the growing number of complex elder abuse cases in NYC, the NYC Elder Abuse Center helps professionals, organizations, and systems prevent elder abuse and improve their response to it. These cloud applications enable the team to work efficiently.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Jim Craner , MapTogether.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Now, it is looking like the emerging killer apps may be messaging apps that text directly to stakeholders' mobile phones. This has been a steady upward trend since 2008. Here are a few new things we could be doing with our phones and tablets in 2016. a-month phone service or home broadband — their choice.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

It’s quite interesting, and it deals with the audio over phone issue (which is a major snag) by dispensing with two-way audio entirely, and just using one-way audio. Nancy, What *I* want to know is whether this screensharing application will share Linux and Mac desktops! Karel Lukas [link] 4 Nancy King-VP Marketing 08.17.07

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

2008 was a benchmark year in online fundraising history as Obama won the presidential election with 87% of funds coming through social networking. Causes is the largest Facebook fundraising application and most nonprofits are likely familiar with it. ” Globally, people have more access to phones than the Internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Christian also sent me some links that answer an earlier question I've had, " How Can We Use Cell Phones to Bring Web 2.0 " I have heard of interesting examples using mobile phones getting RSS feeds from blogs. to places without high speed Internet access like Cambodia ?"

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Published Friday, June 06, 2008 8:13 PM by Rebecca. June 6, 2008 10:41 PM. June 8, 2008 11:03 AM. Wild Apricot Updates - June 2008. Facebook Applications for Your Non-Profit Page. application. June 2008 (9). May 2008 (9). April 2008 (14). March 2008 (15). February 2008 (15).

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Tech Soup

JULY 20, 2011

Trends in mobile phones , social media , cloud computing , open data , e-government and e-governance , new applications, and open and developing Internet standards have increased the importance of ICT to multiple actors, which include CSOs. International Economic and Policy Stakeholders Recognize the Internet’s Increasing Role.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Jim Craner, MapTogether.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

During the intervening two years, we have entered the “post-PC” era in which laptop and desktop computers are being superseded by tablets, phones and other mobile devices. From 2007 to 2008, the Community MAR program had a 57 percent volume increase worldwide. Jobs was as usual quite prescient.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Many of these organizations continue to see 2X to 3X the daily traffic of average days in 2008. (A Email and direct mail from nonprofits have virtually the same influence on consumers' decisions to give at 27% and 28% respectively -- email closed a 10% gap from 2008 to 2009.1. To get your invitation visit [link].).

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sgEngage

AUGUST 15, 2023

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. Need a list of scholarship recipients who graduated from Harvard between 2008 and 2018?

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Care2

JULY 24, 2007

The technology "enables anyone to build any application that.Facebook could build." " The result has been innumerable neat applications that allow you to give free gifts to your friends, watch videos on Facebook, and even manage an imaginary stock portfolio. As you can see from the data, some will get lucky.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

A 2008 update on these initial reports, User Survey Analysis: Secondary PC Market Offers Growing Opportunity , continues to support both the supply and demand growth projections. From 2007 to 2008, the Community MAR program had a 57 percent volume increase worldwide. In the recession year of 2009, order volume increased 16 percent.

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Care2

AUGUST 7, 2007

The technology "enables anyone to build any application that.Facebook could build." " The result has been innumerable neat applications that allow you to give free gifts to your friends, watch videos on Facebook, and even manage an imaginary stock portfolio. As you can see from the data, some will get lucky.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

But, maybe you've done some of that thinking and implemented a few focused social media experiments in 2008 and have gleaned some insights. Use Help Applications That Streamline Social Media Tasks. Amy Sample Ward lays out a 5 things to think about before you get into the execution of a social media strategy for the first time.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

The last two weeks of the contest, Amy and 10 others worked 8-10 hours a day blogging, emailing supporters, making phone calls, and recruiting teens and college students to help them towards gathering donations for the Cause. The photos application came just last week. February 19, 2008 | Rob Pierson Hi. Oh the hours!!

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

The last two weeks of the contest, Amy and 10 others worked 8-10 hours a day blogging, emailing supporters, making phone calls, and recruiting teens and college students to help them towards gathering donations for the Cause. The photos application came just last week. February 19, 2008 | Rob Pierson Hi. Oh the hours!!

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Care2

JULY 10, 2008

Take the time to have your ED or CEO pick up the phone and give them an unexpected call to thank them for being such a fantastic online fundraiser. Salesforce actually publishes their API and encourages companies like mine to develop great applications that extend the core application. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

I started using Twitter on September 24, 2008, and my first tweet was, "Working on two new loan requests on Lend4Health." I engage with lenders, curious observers, and loan recipients wherever they are, and wherever they feel comfortable, whether it be Twitter, email, phone, Facebook, or in person. As such, I have chosen option #2.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

Commit to taking three small actions towards your big visions by a certain date when you will meet/talk on the phone/connect by email again. If you've already got an idea for an organization you'd like to create, the deadline for Echoing Green's 2008 Fellowship applications is December 3, 2007. Get together. Do your actions.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Election 2008 is remarkable for so many reasons. As agents of social change, there is a great deal the nonprofit sector can learn from Election 2008. Go Mobile: Mobile applications have surged in this 2008 and some predict it will make the difference in the election's outcome. For the first time in U.S. Tools you can Use.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

But I’m here to tell you that mastering interactive calendars or sending photos on cell phones isn’t rocket science. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Plus, in our society, it’s tough to collaborate. We reward winners, not team players. The combination is enormously powerful and it is the future of social change.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Should nonprofits focus on giving through iPhone applications? Should Apple allow donations to nonprofits in their iPhone applications? Even the most downloaded iPhone applications reach a small percentage of users. They really are applicable to anyone wanting to handle donations on behalf of nonprofit organizations.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Apple's MacBook Air is generally considered to be the first ultrabook and has been around since early 2008. Windows Phone 8 Smartphones. The Nokia Lumia 900 (above) is the flagship phone for both Microsoft and Nokia to compete with the Apple iPhone and Samsung Galaxy. Microsoft has been busy this year.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2010

2010 : mobile social media augmented reality location-based services gesture-based computing semantic web 2009 : mobile cloud computing geo-everything (similar to location-based services) personal web semantic-aware applications smart objects 2008 : grassroots video collaboration webs (collaborating on the web) mobile broadband data mashups collective (..)

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

So there are applications being developed in real estate that will use the blockchain for voting, for healthcare, for finance, which is different than just money. Most people agree that Bitcoin was in some ways a reaction to the financial crash of 2008 and sort of this pervasive distrust of the banking system and global finance.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

When I wrote about this in 2008, I focused on the question of how to design exhibits to be optimized for "pointiness." A visitor could register her phone with the museum, so that her number is uniquely associated with her personal profile.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

That said, the longer I work in the online world the more I realize how much of old-school, direct mail techniques are applicable to online marketing. And make sure you are looking at all data – online, in the mail, on the phones, etc. November 6, 2007 | Karen Copyright © 2008, Care2.com at least for the time being.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

That said, the longer I work in the online world the more I realize how much of old-school, direct mail techniques are applicable to online marketing. And make sure you are looking at all data – online, in the mail, on the phones, etc. November 6, 2007 | Karen Copyright © 2008, Care2.com at least for the time being.

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