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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AUGUST 11, 2010

The title of this blog post is of course a wildly inaccurate claim. All communications were strictly limited to my blog, Twitter and Facebook. Beth Kanter and Allison Fine, the authors of The Networked Nonprofit that inspired this experiment, wrote an Assessment and Reflection Report on America’s Giving Challenge 2009.

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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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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

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). Look no further!

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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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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

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. – Pew Research Center – "Eight percent of the American adults who use the internet are Twitter users.

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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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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!).

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

These are my links for January 16th through February 6th: How Twitter is Being Used By Companies | Mobile Technology in TAFE - Great post from Sue Waters about how different companies are using Twitter. Want to pick out just the noisiest conversations online about your brand?

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Care2

APRIL 22, 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!" Deanna Zandt (DZ): How long have you been on Twitter? What inspired you to join?

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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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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.): It’s okay, it’s a blog post. That post is just as much about him as this blog post is about me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2013

An online conversation led to a phone call, and in March 2009, Beth arrived here for what was originally envisioned as a nine-month Visiting Scholarship. Maybe you saw it (#thebetheffect was trending on Twitter). If not more so. Thanks to Beth, we all crawled…or maybe we inched into using tech strategies and tools. Then we ran.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

If you are interested in technology, sustainability, and collaboration, then Jean's for you: "Technology consultant, entrepreneur and thrivability theorist Jean Russell joined Jerry Michalski's August 3 Yi-Tan Conference Call for a conversation about thrivability as a conceptual replacement for sustainabilty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

In ongoing conversations with John Gautam on Twitter, I've learned more about how their overall social publishing strategy which balances their curated content or "branded" content with community conversations to co-create social content. See this blog post from Creative Commons ).

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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

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

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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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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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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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 8, 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. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of December 8th). Sitting right there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2009

A few weeks back I met Melinda Venable, Associate Director Digital and Ethnic Media at Resource Media who told me about the ClimateChangeUS Twitter strategy. . The Twitter account was started with a focused goal of raising awareness about the release of the Global Climate Impacts in the United States report last June.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2009

The goal is to use the power of "Social Influence" via Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Blogs and other online media to raise an unprecedented amount for our fund benefiting The Humane Society, LIVESTRONG, Oxfam America and WWF from June 1st until August 28th, 2009." " Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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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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JANUARY 29, 2009

But I love Twitter and I am finding time for it and I want to explain why. What Twitter is, actually, is an adult conversation. I have met amazing people on Twitter and it has become my go-to resource for questions big and small. I even found the Wovel on Twitter! Which brings us to Twitter.

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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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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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