Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

The 13 winners were selected from 60 finalists drawn from 1,702 nonprofit taglines submitted to the 2009 Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Awards competition. A great tagline can help people find you, too! 2009 TAGLINE AWARD WINNERS. 2009 TAGLINE AWARD WINNERS. Big History. Arts & Culture: Big Sky.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2009

"As “Government 2.0&# becomes more and more popular, especially here in the Washington area, there seem to be an increasing number of people calling themselves social media or “Gov 2.0″ How will the Geoweb change and evolve as indigenous peoples begin to participate? ″ consultants."

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2009

"As “Government 2.0&# becomes more and more popular, especially here in the Washington area, there seem to be an increasing number of people calling themselves social media or “Gov 2.0″ Conference 2009 - O’Reilly Conferences, May 19 - 21, 2009, San Jose, CA - Check out the video and presentation slides, too! "Indians

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

It indicates that the people you surround yourself with define you and determine your character. Like Achieve, Qgiv exists to help people fulfill their passion to make a difference. Given that they were the children of the financial crisis of 2008-2009, they didn’t have the income to support significant giving.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

This week - September 14-21, 2009 - we’ve asked individuals to step up and make a difference by using the Web to better their community. The Mozilla community has a history of changing the world – and the Web – in all kinds of amazing ways. What is Mozilla Service Week? Learn more about finding a project, here. Create a Project.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Hire the Right People. The HR Council for the Voluntary and Non-profit Sector has a guide to "Getting the Right People" nearly as comprehensive as its name, while Bridgestar manages to fit its advice into one (very long) page. Which means it has to keep adding people at a ferocious pace." Keep Your Best People.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 21, 2010

Top 5 Lessons Learned in 2009: Participant Fundraising. I have a history with your organization. What started off as a means to stay connected with people and share content, has transformed the way we interact with each other. What worked for your organization in 2009? The 5/50 rule. No, I expect a little more from you.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Her career has been dedicated to connecting people and places through performing arts . Selected in 2009 as one of Puget Sound Business Journal’s Women of Influence and nominated in 2015 as one of Metro Vancouver’s YWCA Women of Distinction in the category of arts, culture, and design . Kelly Tweeddale. Executive Director.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

That said, people love Facebook. I have been in trainings where if I even hint that perhaps Facebook is a little over-rated, then eyes glare, people shift in their seats, and I have recollections of a few people even walking out. You can not directly email Fans, er people who “Like&# your Page (silly).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

You can access a MySQL database via many many different drivers that people have written for just about any programming language. Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). It has a very long history, though, since it is based on Borland’s InterBase codebase.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

You can access a MySQL database via many many different drivers that people have written for just about any programming language. Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). It has a very long history, though, since it is based on Borland’s InterBase codebase.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 15, 2011

My parents realized that my cultural heritage would mostly be a footnote in history text books throughout my formal education, would be under-represented or poorly represented in the media, and would generally be misunderstood by many. Ethnic identity and personal wellbeing of people of color: a meta-analysis. Witherspoon, D.,

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Care2

JULY 13, 2012

Mobile apps are an interesting way for museums to advance their educational missions beyond people’s expectations. The iPhone version, released in January 2009, built on an earlier mobile site targeted at feature phones that launched in 2007. Louis apps by Missouri History Museum. Here are a dozen of our favorites.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This simple concept is a winner because it enables those people who are most passionate about your cause to connect with individuals who were previously unreachable to your organization. In 2009, Project Bread used a bowl-a-thon to raise more than $14,000! In 2009, the event was in five cities, and raised nearly $600,000.

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

2008 was a benchmark year in online fundraising history as Obama won the presidential election with 87% of funds coming through social networking. In 2007 when the platform launched, Causes grew in popularity and awareness as people used their Birthday Wish to raise money for their favorite nonprofit.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2013

day adventure in which teams of adults--75 people, of whom about half are museum professionals, half creative folks of various stripes--developed an experimental exhibition around our permanent collection in our largest gallery. People talked about the camp as Project Runway for museums.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

Department of Commerce (NTIA) stimulus grants in 2008 and 2009 and so it has had no government funding and has been struggling to successfully get off the ground. The main purpose of the toll free number is to direct people to free computer and Internet training classes in their area. People like Jeff Hancock of Adapt∞Impact.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 22, 2009

"It's been said that our true calling in life is where our heart's greatest gladness meets the world's deepest need." --First Lady Michelle Obama at the 2009 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. The story of progress in this nation has always been the story of people who chose - in times of trial and struggle - to serve it.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2009

Geekdad reports that Microsoft will discontinue Encarta at the end of 2009. Some people have responded to the news with little more than bemusement that Encarta lasted as long as it did, and many have pointed to Wikipedia as Encarta's killer and successor. Encarta itself has a strange and fascinating history.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2009

It is, perhaps, a sign of the times that on Thursday, May 28 2009 the US Congress is going to clean out its closets and hold a discarded electronics collection event for the first time in its 220 year history. The event will be on Thursday, May 28 from 8 a.m.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2011

We discuss it in one of my graduate seminars, but a blog post is probably a good place to gather up people's reactions in the comments section. If our goal is to communicate clearly, then nonprofit sticks because most people know what we mean when we use it. A long history of political philosophy gives us a couple other options.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Let's take a look at the brief history of fundraising on Twitter and lessons learned. What seem to work was: Some influential people responding publically that they had donated. The short time period helped build momentum and a forward moving campaign that people wanted to be a part of.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

When you open the path, people flood in. Captured people like we've never seen before. They are at the heart of how so many people in my community define themselves. So often in museums, we assuage ourselves with the idea that in the digital era, people will still visit museums because they want to see "the real thing."

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Tech Soup

MAY 22, 2012

Despite the large drop for International Affairs organizations, since 2009 nonprofits in all verticals have seen double-digit growth with International Affairs organizations leading the way, realizing 75 percent growth. How many people visit your organization’s website each month? Look at Web Traffic. Follow Up Relentlessly.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

How many people hear that word and think it is just as generic as the word community? We have community groups, schools, local leaders and people at every age, interest, and skill level. All those people and groups have just as many different goals, small and large. Have people heard of 350.org What is a movement?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

The deadline is March 5, 2009. Ten people are awarded the prize yearly. Aside from online paid advertising, Civic Ventures’ Campaign team is using social media to reach new people and generate more applications this year. Since 2006, the Purpose Prize has received approximately 1,200 applications a year. Awards Trends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

The following is a talk I gave about ROI for Social Media at the 2009 Social Tech Training in Toronto, ON. The audience was a group of 90 or so people from Canadian non-profits. Take a minute and jot down all of the breakthroughs in communications history you can think of. This is why history needs you. Measure THIS!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

I tweeted and Facebooked a request for friends to suggest things I could resolve to do over the course of 2009. I met many new people and learned a lot about technology and community, but the learning wasn''t the point, enjoying the resolutions was. Back in 2008, I devised a plan to outsource my New Year''s Resolutions.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Platform values are most obvious in the TOS (see Facebook's history.) How do you connect with other people, and why? Disclosure: In August 2009, CoTweet paid me to write a casestudy for them.). With instructions to sit at a table with people I didn't know, I recently cheated. But other values are also discoverable.

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Care2

APRIL 14, 2009

Even something small could lead to something big if you know the networks of the people in your ecosystem. April 14, 2009 | Anne Dougherty Jen Excellent counsel. no matter what the tool (id forgotten about the flash movie magic wands) its still ALL about the relationship and being relevant to people. April 15, 2009 | suzi w.

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Indigenous Peoples’ Day is celebrated across the United States on the second Monday in October and is a Federal Holiday as of 2021. The day celebrates and honors the cultures and contributions of Native Americans and Indigenous peoples. Columbus vs Indigenous Peoples’ Day Holiday Timeline History.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2008

In the nonprofit and philanthropy world, like the economy in general, the outlook for 2009 is rather bleak. A group of nonprofit and philanthropy pundits have offered their views on the impact of the economy on the nonprofit sector. Certainly history can provide plenty of examples of this type of civil withering.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2009

Main | The ROI of Social Media » Friday May 29 2009 Is Direct Mail Really Headed for the Exit? Friday, May 29, 2009 at 09:41AM | by Allyson Kapin In the next five years, money spent annually on direct mail will decline by as much as 40%, from $49.7 Furthermore, many people view direct mail as “junk mail.”

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

Surprise, surprise, a lot of people were searching on keywords like “register to vote” in September and October, and we got our highest numbers yet. People who are searching for issues that we work on might not find our website in their first page of organic search results, but they may well see one of our Google ads.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Why should institutions engage with people in this way? A lot of these projects are about getting people to be more social and active in museums. The Museum 2.0 The Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

The total readership from 2010-2012 was more than double that of 2007-2009 (and has been flat since 2011). At the same time, the blog continues to introduce me to extraordinary people who enrich my life and work in many ways. I''ve struggled with some of the "celebrity" aspects of having a big audience. To me, Museum 2.0

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

During the calls, speakers talk about what is going on in Sudan at the moment, and what actions people can take. Key Points: The violence in Darfur is part of a history of violence in all of the Sudan. The solution to the violence in Darfur is to unseat the National Congress Party (NCP) though elections by the Sudanese people.

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