Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 3, 2009

Nominations open for 2009 Social Innovation Fellowships | The Pop!Tech Tech Blog | Accelerating the Positive Impact of Worldchanging People and Ideas - "PopTech has opened nominations for the 2009 Pop!Tech " Check out the Facebook Group for more information. Tech Social Innovation Fellows program. Check it out!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

The ability to be able to move my social network around wherever on the Internet I want to go is important. My point here was completely pragmatic – if nonprofits have decided to take the OpenSocial plunge, why not share what they’ve done, and collaborate so that many more can benefit. That was all.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

But they are so busy living in that mentality of scarcity and competition, that they can’t do that kind of collaboration. collaboratively developed software, and, really, collaborations of all sorts are limited by this mentality. So it doesn’t happen. This reminds me of a true story.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

But there are other ways to be collaborative; really SaaS is built on collaboration. And with mashups becoming more and more popular, there’s a kind of meta-collaboration at work now too. .’ [Your captcha is asking me to type a slightly naughty word) 2 Mr Web Service 09.25.08 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2009

Students experience the interdisciplinary and collaborative development of user interface solutions in international software projects while getting into FLOSS development." These are some links I wanted to share from May 6th. Find me on Delicious for more! " OpenMRS - OpenMRS - Such a great group doing great work.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Chapter 3 is a discussion on Peer production – it talks about how it is that people have come together to collaboratively create software and content – basically, knowledge production. Watching the collaboration of people across time zones developing these proposals has really been inspiring to me. Thanks for the comments!

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Care2

DECEMBER 28, 2009

As nonprofits scramble to meet their year-end fundraising goals, this is also a great time of year to reflect on what online fundraising and advocacy strategies worked well in 2009. A July 2009 Pew Internet study found there is no digital divide for online when you factor in mobile access. But what's coming up in 2010?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

They’ve just released a beta version (sorry, Mac only, for once) of a new platform for internet video, called DTV. It’s called Orion’s Arm , which is a huge collaborative science fiction world-building project. This is very cool. It makes finding channels with interesting video easy, as well as making channels easy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

In 2009, my three words were: Streamline, Weave, and Einstein. Over the past decade, the Internet and social media have been one of my primary sources for professional learning. The process is simple: Think of how you want to be successful in the coming year. Then, try to think in even broader terms.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2009

Meanwhile, Connecting Up 2009 is going on in Sydney. Jim suggests some ways in which online collaboration can spare both your travel budget and the environment. Tags: Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 We just finished up our Global Summit, it's the last week of the TeleGreening campaign, and we're getting ready for N2Y4.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2011

A jam is an online forum with participation in writing, based on a technological tool that allows the simultaneous interaction among participants located anywhere, provided they have Internet access. Special guests will post initial thoughts and participants will respond with ideas and proposals through typed posts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

This is where the role of nptech peeps like e-riders and so on can help support in an unbiased way to help groups to make the correct and informed choices (which is partly why I personally work with so many different apps). BTW, really enjoying your 100 foss posts… keep it up!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

. :-) I first started doing technology consulting for nonprofit organizations in 1996, with a project for a local public television station ( WGBY in Springfield, MA ), to design a technology center for teachers to learn about technology and the internet, so they could apply that in their classrooms. Can’t you just use categories?

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2009

Here's the official low-down: Get up to speed on dozens of free and open-source projects driving innovation in cloud computing, Web application development, social and collaborative technologies, and more. Social and Collaborative Platforms - Social networks and Web 2.0 developers.sun.com/events/communityone/2009/west/deep_dives.jsp.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The Pizzigati Prize works in the spirit that collaboration, rather than competition, and moves us forward by honoring those who work for social good. Darius Jazayeri (2009), who created OpenMRS, an open source, free, and flexible medical records system that is easily customizable by health providers without the need for programmers.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

Between 2006 and 2009, TechSoup hosted open challenges to identify and provide support for innovative projects that harnessed these and other technologies for social good. The challenges also provided opportunities for collaboration between participants.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 27, 2009

The 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) has begun. Many organizations are looking beyond social networks to create their own private communities of supporters, advocates, or collaborators. The time has come. Sessions have started this morning. Twitterers and bloggers are live - blogging left and right. Designed by Susan Tenby.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Now that we’re on the cusp of a society that has come of age with the Internet and social networks, we need to re-think everything and hone skills to deal with the constant and global scale of connectedness. I had the honor to interview him for this blog post back in 2009 -he’s a fantastic storyteller.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

The people in these organizations know how to communicate and collaborate, and much of this interaction is conducted face-to-face. All of this will be done on your mobile Internet appliance from Starbuck's or Panera Bread. The collaboration tools of tomorrow will need to offer us this same capability. We Need to Have a Meeting!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

4) provide collaborative opportunities within, and between organizations? So, now the question – should a nonprofit organization have a blog? Should staff of a nonprofit blog? Would this help: 1) gain donors? 2) communicate the message? 3) keep stakeholders informed? 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth 09.28.06

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

They have an integrated, cloud-based IT system in which everyone has laptops and merely needs some way to get to the Internet to plug in to 350.org. We use Yammer for internal team communications and collaboration. Our IT budget mainly pays for monthly cloud services fees and Internet service provider charges.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

TechSoup's NetSquared Initiative partnered with the HRC in the first conference The Soul of the New Machine in 2009 to help select a winner in their Mobile Challenge. Connectivity is still an issue in most parts of the world, and we need to think of solutions that account for the lack of access to the Internet.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

With cloud computing, you access your software applications over the Internet using a web browser. Tags: cloud computing Collaboration Infrastructure lucy bernholz Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN Web Sites Program. Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

For websites and secure email, millions of public keys are published online so that people can make secure connections (Martus keys are not published, but they are exchanged directly among users who want to collaborate). showed that thousands of public keys published on the Internet in key servers shared a divisor, that is, p or q.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

With cloud computing, you access your software applications over the Internet using a web browser. Tags: cloud computing Collaboration Infrastructure lucy bernholz Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN Web Sites Program. Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook.

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NTEN

JUNE 9, 2011

Facebook is the noodgiest site on the Internet. Andrew leads teams of nonprofit and technology professionals as they develop internet solutions for marketing, advocacy, fundraising, collaboration, and other purposes. But online communities are just one of millions of destinations competing for your community members' attention.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

What that translates to is that a movement is built on collaboration, incorporates co-design between individuals and organizations, and remains focused, even during an event or campaign, on lasting, real impact. And everything was shareable, collaborative, contagious. It’s deeper than engagement, and longer than campaigns.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

60) Search « 5 Quick Steps to Better SEO | Main | Tech & Style Tips for Conducting Blog Interviews » Tuesday Mar 10 2009 Top 10 SXSW Interactive Panels Your Nonprofit Should Attend Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at 05:27PM | by Allyson Kapin Are you planning to check out SXSW Interactive this year? Whitehouse.gov 2.0:

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

When TV personality Glenn Beck proclaimed in 2009 on the "Fox & Friends" morning show that President Obama was a racist with a "deep-seated hatred for white people," many people were understandably up-in-arms. Organizations can sometimes seize on moments of potential opportunity to begin seriously building a movement.

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NTEN

MARCH 10, 2010

The late 2009 release of the Open Government Directive is really exciting and I'd like to see an analog in the nonprofit community -- an Open Nonprofit Directive if you will, to encourage transparency, participation and collaboration. Gonzo was also a traveling plumber, and that is something I can identify with. Blog: [link].

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

They have an integrated, cloud-based IT system in which everyone has laptops and merely needs some way to get to the Internet to plug in to 350.org. We use Yammer for internal team communications and collaboration. Our IT budget mainly pays for monthly cloud services fees and Internet service provider charges.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

The number and variety of selling opportunities presented to nonprofit organizations, especially through the Internet, is growing rapidly. Started in 2009 in Florida, Clean the World Foundation began as a global humanitarian organization registered as a 501(c)(3). Banks were not lending.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Nonprofit Research Collaborative Releases First Report Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on November 29th, 2010 The Nonprofit Research Collaborative released its first report today. renewed contracts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals about or by folks who work with nonprofits and voting. In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. It was organized by Ed Schipul.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals. In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. It was organized by Ed Schipul. about or by folks who work with nonprofits and voting.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

On July 9, 2009 I interviewed David about Spot.us The big advent of freelancing, since the Internet, is that instead of snail-mailing my story ideas to editors, I would email them. And that's like the great thing that the Internet brought me was email! I often say that, "Collaboration is queen."

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

They were able to use the platform for organizing offline events, finding and collaborating with volunteer organizers, and more. Helpful resources on Twitter: Pew Internet report. There are many people on Facebook; but far more people have the internet and are not on Facebook than those who are.

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