Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 4, 2009

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! Twestival Local aims to support not-for-profit organizations through global events on 10-13 September 2009.

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NTEN

APRIL 3, 2009

The New York Times continues to produce great examples of interactive maps. We have a thing for maps, it's true. IdealistNews.org aims to be the Digg , er, Reddit of social news sites, while Academic Earth wants to be the Hulu of education. Read more posts on our blog. Here's one visualizing the recession.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

According to the American Red Cross , A recent Red Cross survey asked 1,058 adults about their use of social media sites in emergency situations. There were also many sites so a searcher would have to go through several and sort through the many different search protocols and syntax. Citizen-Powered Response. Indirect Content.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Today's Blog Action Day 2009 ! Amy Sample Ward recaps the lively discussion and shares some excellent resources like this Climate Debate Map , the Drupal.org profile of TckTckTck and the Climate Lab Wiki. The annual event's focus this year is Climate Change, an the issue that will impact all of our lives.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Jim Craner , MapTogether.

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We have done our best to clearly map out the fees and strengths of each platform to help nonprofits find the best fit. That means custom fundraising pages, embeddable donation forms for your own site, text-to-donate functionality (with live display for sharing your progress bar at live events), live event ticketing, and peer-to-peer options.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Jim Craner, MapTogether.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The first step is mapping your network so you understand the connections – hubs and influencers. And, then it is an ongoing activity of f eeding and tuning your network as Howard Rheingold says it in this still very relevant article about building your professional network on Twitter back in 2009. Copyblogger.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Google Earth Outreach from Rebecca Moore: Google’s mapping tools may seem like an obscure tool to use in your work but these aren’t traditional maps: the new generation of mapping technology is fully interactive, enables storytelling, and more. (Did Google’s Mapping tools include: Google Earth.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Users can, for example, subscribe to feeds of crime incidents or view a Google Map of construction projects completed in 2009. One suggestion, Vancouver: add a crime map. Users can grab the last two years of restaurant inspection results and use mapping software to plot after-school programs.

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Forum One

AUGUST 24, 2009

In celebration of the release of Data.gov, the Sunlight Foundation sponsored this coding showdown that asked entrants to make a useful web or iPhone application using at least one data feed from the new Data.gov site. The result displays in table format as well as visualized on an interactive, "heat," Flash-based map of the United States.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 16, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! I’ve given approximately 2,900 hours of work for America since 2009.

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

60) Search « Care2 Adds Two Experts to Nonprofit Services Team | Main | Year-End Fundraising » Tuesday Jan 06 2009 Defining a Nonprofit Websites Google Analytics KPIs (Part 2) Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 12:43PM | by James OMalley In part 1 of this series, we discussed how to correctly install your Google Analytics.

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Care2

JULY 13, 2012

The iPhone version, released in January 2009, built on an earlier mobile site targeted at feature phones that launched in 2007. iOS/Android: This app truly takes history outside the walls of the museum by mapping several hundred historic photos across St. The Monterey Bay Aquarium clearly takes this approach seriously.

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Care2

MARCH 23, 2009

Avoid using image or flash-based navigation in your site. This will make it easier for search engines to crawl and understand your site. Its also typically easier for site visitors to use and is more accessible. An XML sitemap can provide search engines with important information about your site and improve your search rankings.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 27, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! It was completed and published in November 2009. Click here to download a PDF copy.

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NTEN

MARCH 12, 2010

That there is no reason not to do a lot more video in 2010 than they did in 2009. Budgets, time, and staff priorities can’t be an excuse because there are always ways to get it done if you have the road map. Tags: 10NTC michael hoffman NPTech see3 Social Media Web Sites Communications. Twitter: @michael_hoffman.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

I’m not going to go through everything they said at all – I think a recording will be available on the NTEN blog or site at some point soon, I expect. There was also a backchannel chat room, which was really useful and interesting. (I I hope NTEN can post the transcript.) It seemed that only Blackbaud had APIs you have to pay for.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

I have been near Camden, Maine for the past few days at the PopTech 2009 Fellows Program as part of the PopTech 2009 conference ( streaming live ), which starts on Wednesday. PopTech Slides View more presentations from kanter. PopTech is an amazing blend of people, ideas, and projects. Paula Kahumbu – WildlifeDirect Nairobi, Kenya.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Disclaimer Friday, June 10, 2011 Research Friday: Really, Your Tax Exemption has been Revoked?

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

CrisisCamps first emerged from a meeting in DC in 2009 in which several dozen local engineers, nonprofit executives, disaster coordinators, and public sector executives got together to brainstorm better, faster disaster coordination possibilities. CrisisCamps is not a rogue example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

created to mark their 2009-2010 Season of Belief.  A Google maps, Twitter and Foursquare mashup that show’s where your event participants are checking in on a map and what they’re  talking about). Create a custom “leader board” to display on site at an event you are holding (e.g. A 3 day walk).

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

CrisisCamps first emerged from a meeting in DC in 2009 in which several dozen local engineers, nonprofit executives, disaster coordinators, and public sector executives got together to brainstorm better, faster disaster coordination possibilities. CrisisCamps is not a rogue example.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

She re-mapped the data in Google Earth and shared the new map with community members, local politicians, and presented it at the community meeeting to a much different response. The new map galvanized the community because they were able to really understand the impact of the plan. Read the full case study here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

I’m betting that in 2009, many folks will move from shared hosting to VPS servers. This is an awesome cross-platform mind mapping tool. It’s a really great tool for creating very rapid mockups of sites that you are working on. I am administering and/or responsible for a couple of Virtual Private Servers that use it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

Through a suite of online tools—including a social networking site, online training, do-it-yourself content, and a Google-map mashup—KaBOOM! In 2009, a dollar spent by the organization on online tools helped to improve 10 times as many neighborhoods as a dollar spent on playground equipment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

On January 1st, I wrote about my goals for 2009 using Chris Brogan's process of selecting three words or larger concepts to frame them. Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. If you are not reading blogs and web sites in an RSS Reader , make that your New Year's resolution. Check in once or twice a day.

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

April 27 , 2009 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM 1. April 27 , 2009 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM 3. Thanks to the Internet, open data efforts, and open source software projects, a variety of free and low-cost tools are now available that allow NPO/community group staff to dive into mapping. April 27 , 2009 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM 5.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us!

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Connection Cafe

JULY 24, 2009

On the heels of the NTEN webinar on Community Building and Management showing nonprofit organizations how to socially enable their missions, Carie Lewis of the Humane Society of the United States has launched the TAFA Online Community for the 2009 Taking Action for Animals conference. The Community Dissected (elements of the page).

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

By hard coded, I mean in the legal policies you've adopted, the features you've released and prioritized, your data taxonomies, your site map and information hierarchy. Disclosure: In August 2009, CoTweet paid me to write a casestudy for them.). Platform values are most obvious in the TOS (see Facebook's history.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Submitted by Alan Levine, publisher of CogDogBlog Since it is already a week in the rear view mirror, this ought to be my last post about the 2009 NMC Summer Conference. Last year at Princeton, we added a Google Map for people to geotag their home location , an invitation to share photos of the number “15? (it

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Disclaimer Friday, March 18, 2011 Research Friday: "Really, How Many People Volunteer?"

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

He also shared an interactive map on his website so people could track the road trip’s progress visually using a tool called Track My Tour. The UnRoad Trip - In summer 2009, Boaz Frankel undertook trip around the United States in 100 non-automobile forms of transportation and The UnRoad Trip was born.

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2009

In just 2 days, we'll be opening up the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference with the Science Fair ! You can see all the virtural exhibit booths at NTConnect.org , the conference's designated social networking site, provided by Acteva. Stop by booth 19 to get on the map and on the road to a sustainable future with Mysamaris.

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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. The sites attract millions. In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. It was organized by Ed Schipul. Bring your yoga mat!

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 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. The sites attract millions. In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. It was organized by Ed Schipul. Submitted by Doug Ulman.

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