Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Probably middle of 2008. As a proof of concept, we took the RSS feed of the New York Times and filtered it for keywords related to her organization’s areas of interests, I think we used Yahoo Pipes to filter, it might have been FeedRinse.com, but that’s not hard to do in many different ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Of course, you can't know - nobody knows but Google. In the early days, it was a small company focused on making it easier for publishers to manage their RSS feeds, and for people to use them. Chris notes that FeedBurner is now Google AdSense for Feeds , and says "users is slowly being converted to the new identity.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

I don’t want to start a race to the top of the Nonprofit 25 – where organizations start spending more time worrying about their position on that list, and less time feeding people. Allan says: Granted, web site stats will not tell me anything about how many hungry people a nonprofit feeds. 6 Katrin 09.19.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

I use furl to keep pages that have content that I absolutely want to keep, in case the site goes away (furl could go away, of course, so maybe I should save that stuff to my hard drive – they have a cool export feature.) Bookmarking saves me time, for sure. 3 Beth 09.27.06 at 9:17 am Thanks for this informative article!

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

The data were collected in the summer of 2009 by asking people to reflect on their volunteering during all of 2008. On one of the pages, amid all the charts on who volunteers and what they do, is a big banner depicting the following result: "33 percent of Arizona adults volunteered in 2008." One in three. But is it right? One in four.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). Analyzing Your Blog Content With Metrics and Insight Of course, you need to set overall goals for your blog and understand your audience. Feedburner doesn't provide those. Visitors are people who visit your blog.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Sarah Sheard sheard at 3MilSys.com November 17, 2008 | Sarah Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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MAY 22, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" But the key take-away from the Marketing Sherpa course was to never rely on instinct alone.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" But the key take-away from the Marketing Sherpa course was to never rely on instinct alone.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" If you are carrying a lot of inactive addresses the average value will of course be lower.

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Care2

MARCH 25, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" If you are carrying a lot of inactive addresses the average value will of course be lower.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Sarah Sheard sheard at 3MilSys.com November 17, 2008 | Sarah Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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MARCH 4, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Of course, we had no budget for this. March 4, 2008 | Carie This girl is on the ball!

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Of course, we had no budget for this. March 4, 2008 | Carie This girl is on the ball!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and networks. Sort of a 2008 version of build it and they will come syndrome we saw in the 1990's. I hope to go deeper on one theme rather than cover many resources superficially.

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Care2

MAY 7, 2007

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MARCH 26, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" “Of course, things got a lot worse in the fourth quarter, so these trends might not hold up.”

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" September 4, 2007 | Margaux OMalley Copyright © 2008, Care2.com com , Inc.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 8, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" February 8, 2009 | Allyson Kapin Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved.

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Care2

AUGUST 17, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" September 4, 2007 | Margaux OMalley Copyright © 2008, Care2.com com , Inc.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Copyright © 2008, Care2.com 60) Search « How can nonprofits make money off of this?

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See3

MARCH 12, 2008

Specifically, the new APIs allow Web developers to: * Upload videos and video responses to YouTube * Add/Edit user and video metadata (titles, descriptions, ratings, comments, favorites, contacts, etc) * Fetch localized standard feeds (most viewed, top rated, etc.) Of course, it is not exactly free. YouTube is now a platform.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Never miss a post by subscribing to frogloops RSS feed. All rights reserved.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" February 19, 2008 | Rob Pierson Hi. We had $94,000 donated before the top prize was announced.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" February 19, 2008 | Rob Pierson Hi. We had $94,000 donated before the top prize was announced.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Never miss a post by subscribing to frogloops RSS feed. ” Post your comments!

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Care2

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" November 25, 2007 | Freddie Sirmans Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Its also dependant on timing.

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Care2

JULY 10, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Copyright © 2008, Care2.com 60) Search « A. What’s your sign? All rights reserved.

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JUNE 13, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Heres a heck of an example of the type of video nonprofits can use to promote their cause.

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 2007

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

1stfans is a new kind of membership launched on January 3, 2009 that combines in-person meetups, private groups on Facebook and Flickr, and a private Twitter feed featuring work by original artists (for more background, check out Will and Shelley's blog posts and videos ). T he Twitter Art Feed features a new artist every month.

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Care2

JUNE 13, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" June 30, 2009 | Andi Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Reader Comments (7) Excellent stats Allyson.

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AUGUST 7, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" A couple of Care2 staff favorites, of course, include the Care2 Stickies and Petitions.

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Care2

JULY 24, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" A couple of Care2 staff favorites, of course, include the Care2 Stickies and Petitions.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" September 14, 2007 | TheMySpaceConsultant Copyright © 2008, Care2.com How about Digg ?

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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. And of course, the campaigns themselves are using network centric tools to activate a grass roots base. But of course mapping has gone public. For the first time in U.S.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 11, 2009

I chatted with Bryant in early February about his new cookbook, food justice, how to eat cheaply in tough economic times, and course, the yumminess of food! At the end of 2008, I initiated a new project called the Grow. I think if people default towards health food supermarkets, then of course it's going to be a lot more expensive.

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