Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 13, 2010

Transformative Collaboration « Alison & Associates – Alison Rapping has a terrific, comprehensive blog post today all about jump starting collaborations. "Collaboration. Collaborations are going to be a driving force in building stronger relationships and stronger communities. It's a must-read! "Collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Photo by Adamgn NTEN opened up the registration for the 2009 NTC Conference. I also organize the annual Day of Service This year it is in San Francisco.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 18, 2009

Peter Campbell writes a compelling post on the Idealware blog about the updated metrics that GuideStar, Charity Navigator, and other organizations recently announced. include NTEN member organization Idealist.org. There's still time, but it's running out! Thanks, Convio! Thanks, Peter! Did your org make it? I think you made Holly cry.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

On Thursday, I attended the unconference/open space portion of SOCAP09 (Social Capital Markets 2009). What's the best platform to use for online collaboration? This post is cross-posted on my personal blog and on the NetSquared Blog. Here is what you missed, so you don't have to regret not having gone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2014

I’ve been going every year since 2009 to cover the event on my blog. Out of all the amazing speakers and discussions , I was lucky enough to sit down with Barb Newhouse, President & Chief Executive Officer. And, our entire organization kicked into high gear.” Says Barb, “All of sudden it went crazy!

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Today's Blog Action Day 2009 ! Social Network Collaboration : Focus the Nation *, 1Sky , and Energy Action Coalition have decided to bridge their social networks onto one platform called The Climate Network using the community software tool Zanby. No data is shared between organizations unless the user agrees to it first.

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Qgiv

MARCH 8, 2022

Sandra: If you’re good at your job, there’s always a path to leadership within the organization. Jess: Our core values at Qgiv foster an inclusive and highly collaborative environment, specifically our values of respect and openness. The redesign was a product of so much feedback, research, data, collaboration, love, and sweat.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2017

Keep in mind that many of the most complex and intractable social issues that nonprofits face can only be effectively addressed by collective impact, via collaboration among organizations or even across sectors. Are they the best possible actors for the mission the organization seeks to achieve? Who is involved? Bradach, J.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Do you have a branded online community for your organization or project? We have compiled this list through interviews with public- and private-sector leaders; analysis of initiatives, organizations and government programs; reviews of industry and mainstream news coverage; and submissions from thousands of online participants."

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

The fact that more of us are doing our computing in the cloud means a lot more than infrastructure and energy savings for our organizations. It means we have the opportunity to collaborate like never before. As the web opens up, the difficulties in sharing data are dissolving.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 18, 2017

A study cited by Nobel (2015) showed that individual donors are averse to funding organizations with high overhead rates. Building the infrastructure needed to properly support an organization as a whole is vital to the entity’s sustainability. Grantor agencies also eschew funding these necessary expenses. Increase board engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Marty Kearns has set up a collaborative paper and discussion on a wiki. You can find the paper along with some draft prescriptions for organizations. It will be the only growing market in 2009. It's part of the Foundation Center's aggregated page of articles, podcasts, data, and resources that Focus on the Financial Crisis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Whether it is a network of organizations or individuals, the handbook provides a wealth of theory and practice on build, manage, and fine tune a network. Way back in 2009, when I first Peter and Madeline, we brainstormed some questions about the strategic use of social media to build a network.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

I worked for the Chalkboard Project fresh out of university, a nonprofit organization founded and fueled by Foundations for a Better Oregon, a coalition of foundations in Oregon focused on collaborating to make a meaningful impact to issues in Oregon – in the case of the Chalkboard Project, that focus was on public education reform.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2020

Once you have looked out for the safety and well being of your employees by implementing work from home, social distancing, and community hygiene, it is critical that you turn your attention to your organization’s future fiscal health. percent in 2009. This was especially true among organizations lacking diversified revenue streams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Many nonprofits, particularly smaller organizations, say their biggest challenge to using social media effectively is that they don’t have the time or staff. So, I contacted the Food Bank and proposed we collaborate. Sue has also collaborated on social media activities with the food bank.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it? I learned a lot.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

If ten similar nonprofit organizations came together to build a system that would work for them, they each would get 10 times the software that they could afford individually. But they are so busy living in that mentality of scarcity and competition, that they can’t do that kind of collaboration. So it doesn’t happen.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 4, 2009

It is barcamp style, so come with your questions and topics you want to talk about; come meet lots of others interested in leveraging mobile technology for change and collaborate! In short, Mobile Tech 4 Social Change camp is: A one-day event in London on May 23, 2009 at Vodafone. More information is below - REGISTER here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2012

With the launch of “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” co-authored with KD Paine , we thought we do a reprise of our popular panel in 2009, “ Social Media, Nonprofit, ROI Poetry Slam.” In 2009, the “Social Media ROI Poetry Slam” SXSW lead to a book “Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.”

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 13, 2008

years, I have been working extremely hard to build an organization from scratch that makes it really easy for people to find and share opportunities to make a difference. The organization, now called Social Actions , has experienced a tremendous boost in the last twelve months. fundraising campaign started: For the last 2.5

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

So I’m going to try and lay out the details of what cloud computing is, and how it’s useful for nonprofit organizations. As the bandwidth available increases (via FiOS , and other methods) cloud computing will get even more attractive to organizations and people. at 5:17 am TechSoup Blog 09.16.09

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 16, 2011

We are also launching a community to encourage software developers to collaborate with us to evolve and improve the Zanby codebase. " How To Use Hashtags on Twitter to Spread, Share and Organize Information | Movements.org – Looking for a resource on hashtags, what they mean, how to use them, and how to really get value from them?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

November 21, 2007 Beth’s wonderful post about a decision tree for whether or not an organization should get into the social networking business had a link to a comment about OpenSocial. It seems to me that many organizations are going to have very similar needs in terms of kinds of applications. Anyone interested? That was all.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

ReviewBasics is a collaborative editing and reviewing tool. They have released two studies, one on the “wired wealthy&# and another which is a “nonprofit benchmark index&# study – basically providing some benchmarks for organizations to measure themselves against, traffic, email newsletter click through rates, etc.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 4, 2009

Now is the time to help choose the local organizations that will benefit from the twitter-powered organizing and convening. Vote for your local organization: Some cities have already chosen the organization and others need local people to vote, so use the map on the Twestival site to find your city’s Twestival page to learn more!

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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. I couldn’t stomach looking at even one more new social networking/collaboration site that no one would care about in 6 minutes, much less 6 months. The bottom line allows the organization to serve more.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Many volunteer managers cite recruitment as their greatest challenge; however, Brudney and Meijs (2009) contend that “the preoccupation with recruitment distracts attention and resources from the management and retention of volunteers” (p. We welcome your comments and feedback. Sources: Brudney, J. and Meijs, L. 38(4), 564-581.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Increasingly, organizations are also using software as a service, virtualization, and other remote computing techniques to support remote staff and increase collaboration across their sectors. Over the last couple of years, our IT Staffing reports have found that nonprofits are hosting their own software and services less and less.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Taproot connects nonprofits and other social change organizations with skilled volunteers sharing their expertise pro bono. There is a silver lining; a bright light is shining on how essential it is to support these organizations. The need for services is skyrocketing while sources of funding and resources are being hit.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 3, 2009

A great example of organizing on the social web. "we20 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 These are some links I wanted to share from March 3rd.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Launched in 2009, the third match day will happen on Wednesday, November 16th. So far, the Give to the Max Day events in 2009 and 2010 have raised $14 million and $10 million respectively, more than in any other community. As a nonprofit organization ourselves, we have our share of fundraising asks out there. What is GiveMN.org?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

How is it being organized? On February 12, 2009, Twitter users will meet up in over 100 plus cities to socialize offline, meet other Twitter users, enjoy some fun, have a few drinks, and raise money for charity: water. Decentralized event organizing, it's grassroots and anyone can organize a local event.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

The client is quite knowledgeable about their organization, mission, and goals for a project, but often not knowledgeable about technology. Reading, research, collaborating with others, getting my hands dirty with servers and code, playing with new applications and new APIs – all of those things keep my technology expertise fresh.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2011

But many causes and organizations are finding that it’s a lot harder to get picked up in the local paper and/or the national news than it used to be. So long live new media, which places your nonprofit organization in the driver’s seat. Flickr Photo by Yandel. Content is King. Tailor the Tool.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2012

Since then, we’ve been using these data to share key nonprofit sector trends on issues like the rising demand for services, shrinking government support, and the precarious financial health of organizations. Since 2009, our survey has asked nonprofit leaders to indicate what management actions they are taking to cope with the recession.

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