Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 9, 2009

While the 2008 Women Who Tech TeleSummit was a smashing success with over 650 women including Arianna Huffington and Joan Blades defying the stereotype that the tech world belongs to pocket-protector toting guys hooked on sci-fi and video games, 2009 will be even better. We want to hear about it. Submit your panel ideas at here. Who was Ada?

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Technology Pledge Tech Info 100

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2009

Last night I had the privileage of attending the awards ceremony for JustGiving ’s CEO Zarine Kharas who was awarded the RSA’s 2008 Albert Medal for ‘democratising fundraising and technology for charities’ During her excellent presentation, I started thinking about this new world we live in. Photo: Howard Lake.

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Causes Conversation Award NTC 100

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

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). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Web ROI Bookmarking Phase 108

Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 13, 2008

I started 2008 in Cape Town, South Africa with the simple goal of working fulltime on Social Actions by July 1st. Use the widget below to donate to support Social Actions in 2009, or click on the ’share’ link in the lower right corner to put the widget on your blog, website, etc.

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South Africa Widget Africa Canada 100

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Posted on Stanford Social Innovation Review’s Opinion blog. Despite this, less than half (48%) of the 187 charities that were surveyed as part of nfpSynergy’s Virtual Promise (2008) report said that their organization used social networking websites. This post originally written September 8, 2009. Visit the original post here.

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Online Social Network Facebook Charity 126

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Also posted on the Frogloop blog for nonprofits here. They accepted questions via Twitter and then had an expert reply via the White House blog. Very cool project from 2008: Twitter Vote Report. What is difference between a blog, social media tools, and websites? Helpful resources on Twitter: Pew Internet report.

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Tools Tech Map Case Study 100

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. Now for indirect content or Mash-ups. Reports of violence and of peace efforts could be placed via the web or mobile phone.

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Disaster Social Media Haiti Media 206

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

data from edison research from 2008 on podcasting listenership. Blogging - if you blog about your sessions it helps Google pick it up; also gives people opportunity to comment and talk back. RSS - the tool that lets people get the updates, just like with blog updates. Check out their postcasts: Corey: 501c3cast.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 20, 2011

In 2008, Aashika graduated from the University of California, Berkeley; she is now working on her Masters in Philosophy in Development Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK where she’s a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar. WordPress is an open source blogging platform that lets you have any number of authors.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

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). Since 2008, non-profits have cracked the $1 billion mark for online fundraising. In 2010, the average online gift jumped up to $91.94."

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Egypt Web Tunisia Model 122