Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Date: December, 10th 2009. Where: Twitter (search for #4Change). Check out some of the questions we’ll be discussing and resources about the topic here. If you want to contribute to the conversation, you’ll need to have a twitter account (it’s free). Tags: events 4change education twitter. Feeling brave?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

Special musical performances by some interesting guests (under discussion). To make sure you get the latest updates, you can always follow 12for12k on Twitter or the 12for12k hashtag. Its aim is to raise a minimum of $144,000 for 12 charities over the course of 2009, with a new charity being supported every month.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 8, 2009

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). We want to hear your thoughts and ideas on this discussion paper so please add your comments in the ‘Your feedback’ section that appears on each page.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Today's Blog Action Day 2009 ! Here's a few highlights: Social Media and Climate Change : #4Change, the Twitter-based chat, recently tweet-chatted about social media in the climate movement. Online/Offline Integration : If you're my Facebook friend, you know I participated in Climate Ride 2009 , a 300-mile bike ride from NY to DC.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

They can be very complex course management systems which are designed to do things like quizzes and grading (as well as discussions and have places to store course materials.) If your organization does this at all, and you are interested in investigating how to enhance or deliver those learning activities through the web, an LMS is for you.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

But, I’d send the query to both the nptech-related groups (like nten-discuss and nosi-discussion) as well as the Sugar folks – you might get some answers. 2 admin 04.20.08 at 5:54 pm I actually don’t know of a particular community of NP tech SugarCRM folks.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2009

It looks like users can find, read or submit stories and vote on them; have discussions; and generally network. These are some links I wanted to share from June 16th. Find me on Delicious for more! I'm checking out this new "Digg for associations" from Wild Apricot. " Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2011

As Sue tells it, “Inspired, I began to reach out to my personal network on Twitter and Facebook and offline through word of mouth. Here’s one story about how one free agent, a social media savvy volunteer for a local food bank, saw a problem, reached out to her network, and helped solved in collaboration with the local nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

The map above is a visualization of the Community Foundation of Monterey Twitter following using TwitterMap. It is also a fun way to visualize your Twitter network – and there are some great free apps to do that. How do you measure your network to learn how to improve outcomes? NodeXL and Marc Smith.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Send queries to nonprofit tech lists for experiences and information, like nosi-discussion , nten-discuss , riders-tech , and others. Look at ohloh.net – they have great info on most projects – how many developers, lines of code, how active development activity is.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 8, 2009

." Social Media ROI | Janet Fouts - Janet Fouts has a great post discussing ROI for social media use. 40+ Inspirational Non-Profit Website Designs - Is a website redesign in your organization's 2009 plan? " The Collective Power of Individuals - BusinessWeek - Thinking Twitter? "That’s

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 15, 2007

Solidariti has a great discussion and graph of Web 2.0 realm – Cause Related Marketing has an interesting discussion about a new Instant Messenger campaign. I’ve been thinking a lot about different kinds of electronic communications, and what their advantages and disadvantages are.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

like right now, on the Linuxchix IRC channel, we are discussing elections, HFS+ filesystems and terabyte switches.) It is a tool which is used predominantly in the open source world, for developers and users of open source projects to talk to one another, and get support. I use IRC every day. Quasi-social, quasi-professional.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2007

July 6, 2007 Deborah, is, as per usual, diplomatic in her discussion of the site " Sustainable Nonprofit ", which is a new(?) Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology See a problem? Throw a website at it! Thanks for your great insights.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I mentioned this on Twitter. In order to get a clear and complete picture of what is happening with orchestras and social media around the country, I sent around a survey to 53 orchestra marketing, communications and web managers in October and November, 2009. I am doing this to provide the opportunity for feedback and discussion.

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

Tags: Fundraising , Nonprofit Trends , nptech , Online Giving , Social Media , Web 2.0 (..)

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2012

scholar, student, or professional to highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can inform and improve day-to-day. Since 2009, our survey has asked nonprofit leaders to indicate what management actions they are taking to cope with the recession. Welcome to Research Friday ! nonprofit practice.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 18, 2007

From both a business point of view and from the point of view of how our sector should work to heighten transparency in society at large, there’s no reason to limit the ability of coders to learn about and discuss the API at hand. And the big guys have already done this work, check out the way Google and Amazon distribute their API s.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 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!" What are your top nonprofit resolutions for 2009? Need ideas to turn your resolutions into reality?

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Care2

MARCH 10, 2010

This panel will discuss several case studies showing successful fundraising strategies that incorporate Social Media sites like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. 2009 Iran Election: Women's Revolution? Twitter Revolution? This panel will discuss online political activity during and prior to the election.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 21, 2010

Top 5 Lessons Learned in 2009: Participant Fundraising. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube) to promote your event and recruit participants. What worked for your organization in 2009? From these, I pulled together this set of lessons learned. There are so many opportunities to put this channel to good use.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

Folks at NTEN have been thinking about APIs , and will host a discussion about them on Friday. These are using data in your own databases, and grabbing maps from google maps and putting them inside your application. Other examples include desktop applications that allow uploading photos to flickr. But I have a first take.

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Care2

JUNE 24, 2010

“If 2009 was the year of the "tweet", 2010 is the year of the "check-in", said Joe Waters, Director of Cause and Event Marketing at Boston Medical Center on this weeks Live Discussion over at the Chronicle of Philanthropy. What was some of Rosenberg’s key tactics?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 27, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. This week, Ill discuss the second trend, entitled "Technological Advances Abound." Click here to download a PDF copy.

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NTEN

JANUARY 3, 2011

Postpone discussions that could either become emotional or will not further crisis resolution. It's not uncommon for a manager to have a line of folks outside their office wanting to discuss the cause of the crisis. We'll also discuss managing projects that are not in crisis (and how to keep them that way).

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Greg Bloom, Communications Associate at Bread for the City , will discuss two different multi-channel social media campaigns and Jared Schwartz, Online Nonprofit Consultant, will discuss how he recently helped Critical Exposure use crowd-sourcing and social media applications to win an online fundraising challenge. Tweet This Change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

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 more nonprofit focused panels and happily the trend continued at SXSW 2010. In 2008, I was honored to be on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. They want to connect.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Proposed solution: CC developed Red House 2009, which had three event components: Traditional cocktail party for its major donors, Nonevent called Stay@Home, and. It was to serve as the kickoff for Red House 2009 and was hosted by a board member. Results: The concept of Red House 2009 was in sharp contrast to concepts of the past.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 9, 2013

Linton Weeks wrote an article on NPR back in 2009 on microvolunteering , and he said it right: we live in a micro world. Twitter is a microblogging platform, Kayla McKinney previously discussed the trend of microgiving , and now there’s microvolunteering. ASU Lodestar Center.

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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. I’m realizing that all of the justifications for why I am so into open source and free software is right here in this book!

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Care2

AUGUST 24, 2009

For the past three months, Mashable has been using its power of “Social Influence&# via Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, blogs and other online media to help spread the word about the initiative and encourage social media users to donate money to help support nonprofits. You should follow Frogloop on Twitter here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

Note from Beth: Last Spring, Allison Fine and I did an evaluation report for the Case Foundation on the America’s Giving Challenge 2009. If you’d like to discuss it, chip in over at Facebook , or via Twitter using the hashtag #tiptheculture. It’s downloadable as an ePub or as a PDF. By Patricia Martin, 2010.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

Being towards the “completely atheistic&# on your continuum of readers, the discussion of relationships comes pretty close to my idea of spirituality. But I don’t see this blog spending so much time on the surface of things. You explore relationships our interactions with technology. 2 Deborah Elizabeth Finn 01.22.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

And there still are lots of newer software and services that aren’t coming out in Linux versions (for instance there does not exist a decent usable twitter client for Linux – gwitter is not very usable at all, and the others just don’t work.) I plug in in printers and they’re automatically set up. What price Freedom?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The afternoon featured six mini-workshops that drilled down in the use of the tools such as Facebook , Blogging , Storytelling , Listening , Twitter , and Social Media 101. (The Were there conversations taking place between Twitter users that extended the learning or were people mostly parallel online note taking? Some Reflections.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

at 2:36 pm This is actually a topic I’ll be discussing at the NTC this year. At many conference we hear folks discuss the communication strategies, results and benefits but rarely do we hear how it was actually done. Jon Stahl – I never thought of applying for grants to get this project done. 10 Tompkins Spann 01.23.09

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Here's a summary and chronology of blog posts and Facebook and Twitter chatter. 2009 The Year of Perpetual Online Contests : Case Foundation Blog. Kari Dunn Saratovsky recaps the conversation and lets us know that the Case Foundation is planning host an online forum to make room for a discussion about online contest designs.

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