Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

Details: Date: May 12, 2009. To join the conversation and be the first to receive registration information on the Women Who Tech event please sign up for our mailing list. ( Send an email or leave a comment below). Location: global (telephone and web). Panels: See the list of panel sessions here. Why Women Who Tech?

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 10, 2009

As a way to hold on a bit longer to 2009, this Net2 Think Tank asks for your best blog post from the year. We know you wrote about some really interesting things, shared great ideas and even captured conversations and presentations on your blog or website this year. Share your best blog post from 2009 one more time!

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Download the December 2009 version of this list here. in January, we're hearing from sources close to the project.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 13, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. This is the Top 10 list of the best social campaigns featured on Osocio in 2009. It's a must-read! "Collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I've had a post in draft for a couple of weeks now about some personal/professional goals or my New Year's resolutions for 2009. I read Chris Brogan's " Your 3 Goals for 2009 " and I loved his process. Think of how you want to be successful in 2009. I have years of blog content and resource collections.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

I’m so thrilled to share the news with you all that my blog post, Online Community Building: Gardening vs Landscaping , was the most popular blog post on the Stanford Social Innovation Review’s opinion blog in 2009. Check out the Top 5 SSIR Blog Posts!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2008

Click to see a larger image This is a cool visualizations of trends for 2009 in different sectors. It reminds me of the Conversation Prism from Brian Solis which was inspired by Darren Barefoot's " social media starfish " that he created for his book " Getting to First Base " which was a remix of Scoble's white board.

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NTEN

MAY 8, 2009

Flickr: Chad_Norman The 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference was a blast, but it sure felt like a whirlwind of information and people. We're lucky that so many attendees took photos, blogged, and tweeted to capture and share their conference experiences. Twitter #09ntc conversation stream (it's still going!). Thanks, everyone!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Circuit Rider School June 11, 2007 Way back when (last month – I’ve been busy) Deborah Finn blogged about the "New England School for Circuit Riders."

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources across the web ever day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of November 25th).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

A 2009 study study by HubSpot found that not having uploaded an avatar decreases your followers by up to 80% and my guess is that the data from that study still speaks true today. Unless you are only on Twitter to have private conversations with only people you know, then do not protect your tweets. 5) Using all CAPS.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 24, 2008

I got to see lots of people that I only see once a year (or even less often,) I got to meet a lot of new people, I had interesting and deep conversations, and I got to hear a lot about what people are thinking about the nonprofit technology field. And I’m already looking forward to NTC in San Francisco in 2009! {

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Should all nonprofits have a blog? Can having a blog benefit your organization? Below are eight benefits of having a nonprofit blog. Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. Blog posts, on the other hand, can be written in 15-30 minutes. Blogs can help you work faster.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. and join HandsOn Network and your community in leading deliberate dialogues that turns conversation into action.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2009

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. I'm sure there are some resources, conversations and pointers in here that are new to everyone.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

I spent the weekend queuing up posts for my forthcoming blog-cation--nine weeks of guest posts and reruns from the Museum 2.0 I''ve never taken a break from blogging before. Every week for almost seven years, I''ve made sure to get new content up on the blog. And that got me thinking about why I blog in the first place.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 17, 2009

The initiative is an extension of Resolve to be Ready in 2009, a nationwide effort designed to encourage individuals, families, businesses and communities to take action and prepare for emergencies in 2009. Social change takes more than social media | Rootwork - If you don't read the Rootwork blog already, you should.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

I started a little Twitter conversation about it, and people seemed intrigued. BlueAvocado is a new online blog/magazine/website specifically for folks who work in and with nonprofits. As a funder, you can put up RFPs (at a cost), and people can apply directly online. It looks interesting, and potentially useful.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources across the web ever day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. "Global Entrepreneurship Week takes place from 16 – 22 November 2009. " Download the report! . "The

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 16, 2008

Of course, one can’t base anything on two forum comments, but I wonder if we haven’t turned a corner in the conversation. My feeling from watching the conversations within the NTEN community is that people DO understand the acquisition costs of FOSS software. Comments? { 2 Amy Sample Ward 01.17.08 3 Beth Kanter 01.20.08

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Well, they launched a new search tool today that could help you "discover particularly interesting conversations or people in your networks? Want to pick out just the noisiest conversations online about your brand? How to Use the New FriendFeed Search for Social Media Intelligence - ReadWriteWeb - Have you tried using FriendFeed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Submitted by Britt Bravo, publisher of Have Fun • Do Good Should all nonprofits have a blog? Can having a blog benefit your organization? Below are eight benefits of having a nonprofit blog. Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. Blogs can help you work faster.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of March 30th).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

There are substantive conversations that happen, and real information gets shared. Since I already was a facebook status addict, once I learned that I could basically make twitter my one-stop status shop (put it in my blog, on facebook, wherever I wanted) that seemed to make sense to me. 1 trackback } Web 2.0 1 trackback } Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

I know that for people who work in real offices, with real other people, IRC is a difficult tool to use – because it takes you away from the environment you are in, and makes it hard to be a part of multiple conversations. On the other hand, a lot of people are IMing, and tweeting, etc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

An interesting conversation ensued on the list – with some arguing that this was a problematic thing. Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), I actually thought this could be quite useful for organizations to figure out how to allocate sparse resources in the Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

They also launched their blog. at 5:38 pm I just found this very interesting blog entry about MPower , which I found via a comment on Alan Benamer’s blog. at 5:39 pm @Thomas, I had a detailed conversation with the MPower folks – I’ll be blogging about it later. There will be penguins!!

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 16, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of May 16th).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free as in “Free Kittens&# April 23, 2007 Deborah Finn pointed out this good post in a blog I have never read: ALA Tech Source. She’s ahead of me since she actually reads librarian blogs. .&#

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Judi Sohn

JULY 3, 2011

I left Web Worker Daily in 2009 in no small part because I was bored out of my mind with the content I was producing/editing. Established social sharing model (blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, etc.): Robert Scoble doesn’t get it yet, as evidenced by his latest blog post: Why yo daddy won’t use Google+: no noise control.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Seesmic is a video conversation site. at 10:36 pm I played with it here: [link] Seesmic is to youtube, as twitter is to blogging. As a nonprofit, what you would do is set up a profile, and I imagine tags or keywords would indicate where your link would show up. It’s an interesting concept. I think like a lot of Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

First off, a tip o’ the hat to NTEN for organizing this, the participants of the panel for an interesting conversation, and Mark Bolgiano from the Council on Foundations for awesome moderation. This conversation would not have happened a couple of years ago, and that it is happening now is great (late, but great.)

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of December 9th). Who Tweets?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

There was an interesting mini-conversation, which, in retrospect, I really wish I’d had a chance to explore more, about the supposed "egalitarian" nature of free and open source software development. This was the most diverse crowd I’ve ever talked with or been in for an open source conversation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

I had a brief conversation by email with Cory Doctorow , a science fiction author who is also a copyleft activist, who releases everything he writes with a CC license. Also, I’ll be moving this blog soon – probably next week. I decided to move both of my blogs off of typepad, and to other platforms. That feels good.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Back Channels, Workflow, Data, Twitter, and me March 13, 2007 I read Beth’s recent blog entry on Twitter , and of course, the neo-luddite in me said “waste of time!&#

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. An increase in email use, however, was visible in the 55+ age group, who used web-email 15% more in 2010 than in 2009.

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