Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Nonprofit Technology Link Love July 30, 2008 Here are posts from a small sampling of bloggers I regularly read: Holly Ross shows her geek cred in a great post about DNS.

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MARCH 23, 2009

Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2009. Already Twitter, Facebook, and the rest are revolutionizing the business and marketing of social impact. Please register and join us as we learn and engage about the use and misuse of Twitter, Facebook, and the rest. Location: MIT room 3-270 (click for map). Register: to save your spot.

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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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MAY 8, 2009

Flickr: Chad_Norman The 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference was a blast, but it sure felt like a whirlwind of information and people. Twitter #09ntc conversation stream (it's still going!). Amy Sample Ward logged some great notes on her blog. All Delicious-ly tagged 09ntc. Google Blog Search for all 09ntc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2007

and although the sample sizes were small, and not representative of the nonprofit sector as a whole, the people surveyed seemed to like the open source tools available. We really can’t draw any conclusions from this – the sample size was small, and, as I mentioned, not representative of the sector.

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JANUARY 13, 2010

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). This is the Top 10 list of the best social campaigns featured on Osocio in 2009. " Deadline: January 31, 2010.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

I’ve now seen two posts (one from David Gielhufe , and one from Lobo of CiviCRM ) suggesting that I dismissed the extremely positive results for the open source CRM tools (particularly CiviCRM) because the sample wasn’t large, or representative of the sector. It wasn’t scientific, and the sample was about.05%

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MAY 16, 2011

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). Demand Dignity is an economic, cultural, and social rights campaign for the organization and the online platform, DemandDignity.org, was launched in May 2009.

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DECEMBER 24, 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). Download the December 2009 version of this list here. " Read all of the lessons Carol learned – and I'd love to hear what you learned! ."

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NOVEMBER 25, 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). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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DECEMBER 9, 2009

Date: December, 10th 2009. Where: Twitter (search for #4Change). If you want to contribute to the conversation, you’ll need to have a twitter account (it’s free). To follow the conversation (whether you are planning to contribute or not), use [link] or another application to search on Twitter for #4Change. Feeling brave?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

This is what I think: Convio should partner with neutral players to underwrite benchmarking studies that get data from a much wider sample of organizations than just their clients. What do you think? Everyone (including them) gets better data. Time will tell. { Time will tell. {

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OCTOBER 25, 2016

Within the study, surveys are deployed monthly to 350 unique millennial respondents each month from March to November, with the final sample totaling 3,150. Finally, Achieve will conduct in-depth personal interviews with a sub-sample of survey respondents to expand upon and validate survey responses. Download the. casefoundation.org.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

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). – Pew Research Center – "Eight percent of the American adults who use the internet are Twitter users. Who Tweets?

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JANUARY 20, 2012

In 2009, for example, two trapped girls in Australia chose to post to facebook for help rather than dialing emergency numbers directly. Their Tweetsgiving campaigns were fundraisers benefiting Mama Lucy’s school in Tanzania and connected the students to their supporters through Twitter. Another great example is Epic Change.

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AUGUST 4, 2009

Now is the time to help choose the local organizations that will benefit from the twitter-powered organizing and convening. Follow the chatter on Twitter. Twestival Local aims to support not-for-profit organizations through global events on 10-13 September 2009. Check out Twestival Local.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 13, 2008

These are my links for December 12th through December 13th: Have Fun • Do Good: 2009 Career Coaching Discount for Have Fun * Do Good Readers - If you are looking for some career coaching, Britt is an excellent coach! PR Squared: Twitter is a Wonderland - Great overview of the power of networked communities to do great things.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 15, 2007

A couple of annoyances: the documentation for the APIs aren’t up yet, and the sample code they are going to publish is in C# and Java! It seems like it will start out with a local query system, then will be opened up to allow third party development of data analysis tools. That part looks very interesting.

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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 Twitter is perfectly suited to translate historical narratives into the realm of social real-time presence."

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JUNE 1, 2012

Since 2009, our survey has asked nonprofit leaders to indicate what management actions they are taking to cope with the recession. In both 2009 and 2010, nonprofit leaders told us that they were "engaging more closely with the board" by increasing the number of annual meetings, sharing new types of reports, or in other ways.

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OCTOBER 5, 2009

" I loved Marnie Webb 's thoughtful and personal take on why Twitter is different than other online social networks and why you should go for a dip, titled " A Skeptic's Guide to Twitter." " Convio released a report ranking the highest online-donating cities in 2008 and 2009 year-to-date. 500|5000 list.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 17, 2009

The initiative is an extension of Resolve to be Ready in 2009, a nationwide effort designed to encourage individuals, families, businesses and communities to take action and prepare for emergencies in 2009. Well, as always, Common Craft have created a video to help explain it "in Plain English."

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FEBRUARY 9, 2009

These are my links for January 16th through February 6th: How Twitter is Being Used By Companies | Mobile Technology in TAFE - Great post from Sue Waters about how different companies are using Twitter. Interesting to compare different styles and approaches. Here are some thoughts to help improve your back and forth."

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Amy Sample Ward praises the campaign for what it's doing right, and offers some thoughts on how other organizations can learn from it and tweak it for their own. Speaking of Amy Sample Ward , congratulations on your SSIR top post in. She gives examples -- Holly Ross is cited for her Twittering and. getting a lot of attention.

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JUNE 29, 2009

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. Tags: challenge events 12for12k fundraising nonprofits twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

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. Social Change Anytime Everywhere by Amy Sample Ward. The other day I witnessed the result of feeding and tuning a network.

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JANUARY 9, 2009

Women Who Tech TeleSummit: April 2009. The second annual Women Who Tech TeleSummit (which will take place in April 2009) is looking for panel suggestions. You can also follow WWT on Twitter and join the Women Who Tech Facebook group. Ada Lovelace Day: March 24, 2009. For more info check out [link]. Who was Ada?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

The NonProfit Times just announced its 2009 Power & Influence Top 50 , an annual list of the most influential nonprofit leaders in the sector. I agree with Amy Sample Ward , who tweeted " I'm putting I know Holly Ross on my resume ". You rock Holly!

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NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Next week, participants will share what they are grateful for through Twitter and other online media and attend gratitude parties around the world. Scheduled for November 24 – 26, 2009 , the 48-hour event created by Epic Change will encourage participants to express their thanks using online tools and at live events.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. That’s why the Atlanta councilman used twitter!

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FEBRUARY 27, 2009

These are my links for February 19th through February 27th: How the National Wildlife Federation Uses Twitter | Tweeterism - Danielle Brigida is a superstar, works for National Wildlife Federation as the Operations Coordinator. Here's an interview with Danielle on NWF's use of Twitter. " - it's true!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 16, 2008

2 Amy Sample Ward 01.17.08 I mean – we want to be responsive and fair and listen to feedback openly, but I think at the end of the day the old saying is true. You can’t make everyone happy all of the time. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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MAY 18, 2009

Here are highlights from the web of NTEN members doing their, you know, NTEN-type awesomeness: NARAL-Pro Choice America launched a contest on Twitter last week: submit hashtag (#) ideas for aggregating the discussion around "the Supreme Court battle that's just around the corner." Thanks, Peter!

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JANUARY 24, 2012

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). An increase in email use, however, was visible in the 55+ age group, who used web-email 15% more in 2010 than in 2009.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

." Non-profit’s Twitter Interview Questions | twitter-interviews | interviews TechnicaVita Social Media Advice - Does your organization use Twitter? John Carnell, from BullyingUK or @johncarnell on Twitter, is helping organizations share their twitter experiences with each other in this interview series.

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OCTOBER 28, 2009

Anyone can be a landowner of this prime real estate just like the creators of Twitter whose property reportedly has a one billion dollar valuation. 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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OCTOBER 28, 2009

Anyone can be a landowner of this prime real estate just like the creators of Twitter whose property reportedly has a one billion dollar valuation. Conference 2009 - O’Reilly Conferences, May 19 - 21, 2009, San Jose, CA - Check out the video and presentation slides, too! "Indians As we inch closer to Web 3.0,

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