Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. I wrote about the potential for aggregating RSS feeds of giving opportunities in a blog post called, Why We Need Group Fundraising RSS Feeds. They were talking about API’s.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2013

” This isn’t the first time the nonprofit community has been screwed by using free tools own by corporations. I’ve been using Feedly since 2008, when Kevin Gamble from the Extension community mentioned it during an online workshop that I facilitated. I tend to do this one or two times a year.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

It’s an interesting time, and there is a good question – is this something nonprofits should jump on? That shows up in user’s news feeds, and in their profile. Also, if a friend agrees, their activities around a particular product (like, say, a movie rental) will show up on their news feeds. Well, it depends.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Their search for a vendor came at a very difficult time, as the pandemic and its effects were just beginning. Time was of the essence, as they had an annual event and email and social media campaigns that needed both the website and donation platform in place to succeed. The Solution. It’s great when the stars align.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 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!" November 20, 2008 | Jordan Viator Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

August 5, 2008 I have been thinking for the last few days about what it means to “keep up&# with the technology field, particularly ‘net technology. They don’t have the money, time, or culture for that kind of thing. Plus I hope to be that expert, or close to it, when the time does come!) ;) 4 Beth Kanter 08.10.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. Setup of all three has a one time fee.

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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. at 6:45 pm » SaaS vs. Open Source » Audio Books 10.07.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 2, 2007

I promise in April I’ll be right on time (oooohh, that could be fun, April Blogtipping on April fools day …) By the way, I think blogtipping is a great idea for our sector, and it’s a great way for me to think more about all of the blogs that I read. I think it’s a great idea, although I’m one day late.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. It uses sources such as how many delicious bookmarks, incoming links, how many times mentioned on Twitter, how many comments, etc. You can actually go back and review your entire feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2009

What's interesting about this Twitter account is that it isn't an automatic feed that streams links to their own reports. They also tweet about real-time impacts, which usually is extreme weather and how that fits within the pattern of global warming. Source: Compete Media Trends for 2008 .

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

revealed that while overall fundraising was down 2% in 2008, online fundraising. month of December accounted for 21% of the transaction volume in 2008 -- but. It's definitely time to start thinking about your end-of-year e-mail. will feed you. article published in our September newsletter , Blackbaud's Steve MacLaughlin.

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Care2

DECEMBER 5, 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!" link] Regards, Mark South December 5, 2008 | Mark South Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 22, 2008

Reddit.com , a social news site, is pairing volunteers with nonprofits between now and February 14, 2009 as part of its Feed a Need project. Nonprofits can submit their organization's name to be considered for volunteer time through the Feed a Need site. reddit volunteer online web

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

Yesterday, they published the list of organizations that have lost their exemption from paying income tax due to failure to file required reports in 2007, 2008, and 2009. And, for what its worth, Arizona organizations are getting new charitable exemptions all the time, more than 800 of them in 2010 alone. This is great news.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Many years ago before the digital cameras and children, my husband used to spend many hours combining two past times: birding and photography. Over the holidays, I took an all too brief social media break to spent time with family. This is the listening and scanning I do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Last week I started looking into alternatives to Feedburner to track RSS subscribers because Chris Baskind's post, " Is It Time To Let Feedburner Burn? 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. And that's why I read my sever logs.

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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). You should be looking at monthly trends over time. Hard Data Points: Look at the Feed Subscribers trends from Feedburner and Unique Visitors Trends from Google Analytics. If not, why? If no, why?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

Tony Karrer suggested that the approach of aggregating the RSS feeds of blogs, adding in semantic tagging, keyword search and browsable index might help. He set up an experiment with feeds from nptech bloggers. To be clear Nptech Bloggers is a point of departure. You get summaries and then it takes you to the source. Communication.

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See3

JANUARY 21, 2009

From today’s NY Times. Akamai, which helps companies meet demand for their online offerings, worked with media companies like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Viacom to stream live video. It reported a record-breaking day, feeding up seven million video streams at one time.

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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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Forum One

JUNE 16, 2009

In 2008 TwitterVoteReport attempted to provide real-time election monitoring as US citizens posted voting experiences to their Twitter feeds. Five years ago, CNN and 24-hour news channels and personal blogs captured US citizen dissent at the 2004 Presidential election results (or lack thereof).

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Need some new inspiration in your feed reader? I hope next year at this time, all six on this list will still be going strong and accompanied by a chorus of new voices. One last new blog, this time from Jaime Kopke, the smart cookie behind the Denver Community Museum. Want something a little geekier? Poesy-Praxis.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2019

There’s no time like the present to improving your donor retention rates. ’ This takes more time initially, but it produces the levels of support and advocacy we really want for our organization!” Their donor file has quintupled since 2008. So let’s get started, right? Joyaux , ACFRE, Joyaux Associates.

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Care2

JUNE 5, 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!" The total amount of money raised online increased by 26 percent from 2007 to 2008. Consider this.

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Care2

MAY 9, 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!" May 9, 2008 | Kaya Matteo Thanks for sharing. All rights reserved.

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Care2

MAY 8, 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!" May 9, 2008 | Kaya Matteo Thanks for sharing. All rights reserved.

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Care2

DECEMBER 28, 2008

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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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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!" VeriSign) This is one of the best reports Ive read in a long time. Thanks for spreading the word!

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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!" VeriSign) This is one of the best reports Ive read in a long time. Thanks for spreading the word!

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2014

There’s no time like the present to improving your donor retention rates. ’ This takes more time initially, but it produces the levels of support and advocacy we really want for our organization!” Their donor file has quintupled since 2008. So let’s get started, right? Joyaux , ACFRE, Joyaux Associates.

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sgEngage

MAY 10, 2011

Their ability to reach and engage high affinity supporters will help their efforts over time. Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

But it’s also the latest online creation of Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. By November 2010, Jumo noted in a New York Times article that they’ve raised $3.5 Who Chris Hughes brought in Kirsten Titus as Managing director of Jumo.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Election 2008 is remarkable for so many reasons. For the first time in U.S. 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. Tools you can Use.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Her thoughts on Apple’s ban on donations in iPhone apps recently appeared in The New York Times. The Right Donor Data Transfer There is a lot of time and attention on what goes into getting someone to make an online gift. I definitely don't think mobile donations, and mobile solutions are a waste of time.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Survey participants will form a panel over time, allowing for trend comparisons among the same organizations. Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader. sectional studies.

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