Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

Around the time of the Nonprofit Technology Network ’s 2008 NTC conference, an even brighter light bulb went on. I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector. And what would you describe as the social definition of Social Actions API – the purpose?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

Chronicle of Philanthropy has a roundup of predictions for 2008 from. nonprofit leaders , including Daniel Ben-Horin, founder of CompuMentor who predicts, "Successful nonprofit players in the social media space will those who understand the opportunity without being seduced by it." Let's take a look.

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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. SaaS is not, by definition either proprietary or open source.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

In June 2007, I presented my first social media training to a small group of nonprofits in Lowell, MA. At the time, nonprofits were primarily only using Myspace and YouTube. There’s definitely a math to social media synergy, and those that start early have both time and math on their side. ” moment to trickle up.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 5, 2022

They take their knowledge and use it to help nonprofits and schools build their organizational resilience while amplifying their impact. Taproot connects nonprofits and other social change organizations with skilled volunteers sharing their expertise pro bono. Nonprofits are no strangers to crises. LG: Definitely.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What is cloud computing? So I’m going to try and lay out the details of what cloud computing is, and how it’s useful for nonprofit organizations. at 5:17 am TechSoup Blog 09.16.09

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2010

While it is definitely true these sites could be here today, and gone tomorrow, your supporters will indeed migrate with you on to The Next Big Thing. I first got on MySpace in February 2006 when I created a portal to Nonprofit Organizations on MySpace. At the same time I created the Nonprofit Organizations YouTube Channel.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

How should nonprofits position themselves in this ever changing world of technology? To answer these questions and more, we at Smart Online™ used this last quarter of 2010 to try and unravel the ‘Technology Trends for Nonprofits’ in 2011. Engagement is the new Investment: How engaged is your nonprofit? It says that 22.7%

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Rule of thumb: projects that haven’t had minor releases in a year or more are definitely in danger of becoming projects that are no longer under development. Send queries to nonprofit tech lists for experiences and information, like nosi-discussion , nten-discuss , riders-tech , and others. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology New tools February 5, 2008 Last week, I spent too much time watching demos from DEMO , which is this twice yearly event that showcases the most bleeding edge internet technology. Watch the demo.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

There is a Google group (called Social Network Portability), that you should definitely join if you are at all interested in these issues. I linked to a great thought piece a while back on opening up the social graph (that is, your network of friends.) Jon Stahl pointed me to a great article , also about opening up the social graph.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits February 14, 2008 These are tidbits of things I’ve gotten recently from vendors, or gotten via feeds or twitter. Some definitely cool stuff I’ll have to have a look at. {

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2013

Here goes … My experience in the nonprofit sector started a little differently than most. In the early part of 2000, I was working for a large engineering company, SAIC , when I was approached by two coworkers about setting up a technology nonprofit. We had distributed more than 25,000 computers to 1,000+ nonprofits.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology OSS User communities December 12, 2006 One of the things that can make (or break) an open source tool is the community around it. It’s definitely worth a read. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Most often nonprofits want to capture information from web users. In addition, sometimes nonprofits want to expose data from the CRM to the CMS. Even if they do, it takes developer time to write the code to do the integration, and that may be resources that a nonprofit doesn’t have. What’s involved in this?

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JUNE 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Varied and sundry June 1, 2007 It’s been a week of mostly not work, which is a nice rest. It’s definitely worth a listen. That feels good. There is a part two coming, I understand.

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Qgiv

MARCH 8, 2022

Here at Qgiv we have dozens of incredible women to celebrate and recognize—their achievements and hard work have helped advance us as a tech company in the nonprofit sector. That ownership changed my definition of what “design” even meant. I became much more interested in who was using the website, why they were using it, and how.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Why I won’t be buying Leopard November 1, 2007 As many of you know, Apple’s newest version of the Mac OS, 10.5 , shipped just a few days ago. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What software freedom means to me June 25, 2008 I got some interesting comments on the last post about Linux desktops. I left academia to do that sort of thing with nonprofits full time.

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JULY 27, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Odds and Sods July 27, 2007 (That’s Brit/Canadian for odds and ends, if you were wondering.) at 10:56 am Dear Michelle, You definitely have a great sense of humor! Be Helpful.

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MARCH 5, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Satellite Broadband, Day 1 March 5, 2007 Dial up just wasn’t going to cut it. As someone I talked with today said, “with dial up, the internet feels broken.&# YouTube ain’t bad.

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AUGUST 9, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Linux ready for the desktop? And, to answer the question posed above, the answer is, for me, obviously, a definite yes. » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 06.24.08

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BoardAssist

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

When it comes to nonprofit board development, “I don’t have time,” “We don’t have the resources,” “How can I possibly think about strengthening the board when I’m worried about how we are going to deliver programs and meet payroll?” are some of the many excuses nonprofit leaders give for not focusing on the health of their board.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology A goodbye to Facebook and LinkedIn? at 10:00 am It seems to me that open social networking protocols are definitely the way forward. The content centered ones, like flickr, del.icio.us Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Book Reviews October 21, 2007 I read three books recently that I thought would be worth reviewing here. Definitely an interesting conversation to have. I’ll have to look for it.

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APRIL 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Drupal, Joomla and Plone! It definitely focuses a lot on the eye candy, which is nice, actually – I like that the admin interface is pretty. So I like Joomla. I’m not yet sure.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology IP Tidbits August 18, 2005 Here are a few tidbits I’ve come across in the Intellectual Property arena in the past few days. It’s definitely a thing to watch. This is very cool.

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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.) Canonical has a lot of connections in the nonprofit sector. But I think more is needed.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Metaphors October 10, 2006 I’m a fan of metaphors. So doesn’t the metaphor used for that software matter, then, in a nonprofit setting? For the most part, this has been simple exigency.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 If there are specific pages that give you trouble, or if you still find the overall site too slow, definitely let us know and we’ll get on that. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Last week, I had the honor of doing a mini workshop at the annual BoardSource Conference called “Governing the Networked Nonprofit in An Age of Social Media &# where I had an opportunity to share some ideas on social media culture, transparency, and simplicity from the Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What do web stats mean, anyway? Allan says: Granted, web site stats will not tell me anything about how many hungry people a nonprofit feeds. And, I actually hope that doesn’t change.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Life would definitely be easier if there was one piece of software that could do everything we needed it to, from donor management to email blasts. The reality is that most nonprofits use a variety of software to meet their many needs. In 2008, NTEN began asking the community to tell us what they thought of the tools they use.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

I want to share some lessons this celebration of gratitude and giving and the program's approach that I think are relevant to organizing social nonprofit campaigns. Simplicity played a big role in the success of the first TweetsGiving in 2008. Simplicity Rules. It's All About Your Community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The nonprofit presence at SXSW has been growing steadily over the past couple of years. In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. Last year, many more nonprofit panels made it onto the agenda and there was even a nonprofit lounge hosted by BeaconFire. . It was organized by Ed Schipul.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2007

I'll be doing a presentation on a panel at the Museum Computer Network Conference in two weeks on this topic and in early 2008 for the Legal Services Corporation. When I blogged my preliminary thoughts and set up a wikispace , I was seeking a specific nonprofit example to make it more real. I think your pyramid approach is spot on.

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