Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Are you working on building or supporting community beyond one geographic region? These monthly chats part of the #4Change network and are open to anyone interested in learning and sharing about building community, on and offline, with the use of social media or other technology tools. This month’s chat is for you!

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2011

Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] Our analysis [ from the 2010 Online Giving Study ] showed the following: Fundraising is still about relationships. For example, the loyalty factor for donors acquired through generic giving pages is 66.7%

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NetWits

JULY 12, 2011

In 2010, 78% of nonprofits surveyed by NTEN who had raised money on Facebook raised $1K or less in 12 months. Staff said that Facebook helped build enthusiasm for events when people reposted the info and shared it with friends. Facebook Helps Build Stronger Relationships with Existing Constituents.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

In case you haven't heard, we're not just opening submissions for session ideas for the 2010 conference this week, we're also seeking an NTC iPhone application developed by someone in the community! NTEN members : contact me (Annaliese at nten dot org) to get a special 20% discount , thanks to the folks at O'Reilly!

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NTEN

APRIL 1, 2010

I mean, c'mon, they've got an office building that looks like a picnic basket. Tags: NPTech NTEN Things We Like. Not that it can ever be as cute as this puppy. Well, if you like to lick things so much, why don't you just move to Licking County ? Happy April!

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NTEN

JULY 30, 2010

The Nonprofit Marketing Guide: High-Impact, Low-Cost Ways to Build Support for Your Good Cause , Kivi Leroux Miller. Tags: NPTech NTEN Things We Like. But then, maybe it's time to get away from your computer for some summer reading. No, no: they're all nptech-related. Our list: Zilch: The Power of Zero in Business , Nancy Lublin.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2011

In the newest eNonprofit Benchmarks report from NTEN and M+R Strategies, it’s easy to see what a compelling cause may be to Millennial donors: disaster. Online fundraising revenue grew overall by 14% between 2009 and 2010. How are you working to build trust with your community?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

In my recent chapter “Managing Fundraising and Building Communities Online” in the book Internet Management for Nonprofits (Wiley, April 2010), I write in depth about one method to tackle the subject – what are organizations across the country doing? Tags: Community NPTech NTEN Fundraising. And how do you check results?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference | NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network – Have you registered yet for the Nonprofit Technology Conference? What you'll find there is a vision for this network, a path and a timeline to build it, and an invitation to be part of this movement from the very start.

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NTEN

APRIL 2, 2010

Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. Session: Building Stronger Online Communities Without Losing Your Sanity. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. Session: Building Stronger Online Communities Without Losing Your Sanity & Bringing Community Organizing Into Online Campaigns.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 5, 2009

NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference held each Spring is always THE place to be for nonprofit techies: whether you work in a nonprofit organization or with one, are totally technical or fell into your techie job, like social media or like wiring an office. The 10NTC will be April 8-10, 2010, in Atlanta, GA - mark your calendars now!

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2011

I shared results from the newest eNonprofit Benchmarks Study from NTEN and M+R Strategic Services. From 2009 to 2010, the open rate for organizations of all sizes and sectors declined by 12% on average. From 2009 to 2010, the open rate for organizations of all sizes and sectors declined by 12% on average. Highlights.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 17, 2008

Actually, I didn’t use the Battlestar Galactica expletive , I used the one you’re more familiar with. :-) Convio is launching the new application , built on top of the Force.com platform. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

The Nonprofit Technology Conference ( 12NTC ), organized by the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN), brings together nonprofit leaders from far and wide to learn about the latest in technology that can benefit their organizations and the communities those organizations serve. Basics of Building Your Email List. Mixing It Up!

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? Just two weeks later, having received a ton of thoughtful comments on that original post, her new headline was Join the Monthly Community Building Chats ! How can we keep building this community?

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NTEN

JULY 1, 2010

All entrants will receive a free copy of the fully-updated 2010 Nonprofit Tagline Report in late fall. It's the only complete guide to building your org's brand in 8 words or less, filled with how-tos, don't-dos and models. Everything you wanted to know about the 2010 Nonprofit Tagline Awards.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 10, 2007

I think in some ways, this might decrease LinkedIn’s usefulness as a platform for fundraising or constituent-building by nonprofits (it has always seemed less viable for this than either Facebook or MySpace.) Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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NTEN

MAY 10, 2010

Need to build community? And, if that's not enough for you, we'll be going into greater depth with our 4-part series, " The State of Social Networking in the Nonprofit Sector 2010 " When : Wednesday, May 12th, 11:00 am Pacific / 2:00 pm Eastern Cost: Free! Tags: NPTech NTEN. New fundraising campaing? Try Causes!

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

By George Weiner, CTO, DoSomething.org If you were building an office building for your nonprofit, when would you bring in an architect? This is an obvious choice: when you're actively building something, it makes sense to have an expert on building involved. They demand an in-house tech team. During his 4.5

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Part Vb:APIs October 20, 2006 This morning, I sat in on the " Great Open API Debate " hosted by NTEN. First off, a tip o’ the hat to NTEN for organizing this, the participants of the panel for an interesting conversation, and Mark Bolgiano from the Council on Foundations for awesome moderation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 18, 2007

I wrote a case study about it in the NOSI primer – it can allow for really great flexibility in building phone systems. Asterisk is the open source PBX application that works by using VOIP. And today, I learned about two online tools written with Asterisk, which would have been impossible a few years ago.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

We're only 20 days away from the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference -- but who's counting? The Science Fair doors will open at 3 pm on April 8, 2010 at the OMNI Hotel in Atlanta. Download the NTC app developed by 501 Technology to make the most of your NTC 2010 experience. Looking to build your e-mail list?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

We might be able to build the most wizz-bang amazing website ever (in a technological sense) but if we haven’t really thought about how we moved through the project, never evaluated how the project really went, and didn’t learn from the process, in the end, the project wasn’t the success it seemed to be.

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Daniel Hartman MAR 27, 2008 NTEN Does Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 15, 2007

Basically, third parties will be able to build applications which will allow two-way communication into the platform. Code published in PHP and Python would probably get a lot more people up to speed and interested in building stuff that will integrate with the things that a lot of nonprofits really use. The APIs will be without cost.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

We're only 20 days away from the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference -- but who's counting? The Science Fair doors will open at 3 pm on April 8, 2010 at the OMNI Hotel in Atlanta. Download the NTC app developed by 501 Technology to make the most of your NTC 2010 experience. Looking to build your e-mail list?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

It was, at the time, the only affordable way to do it – there was no broadband, and a T1 was far outside of the realm of affordability for nonprofits. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 24, 2007

It was, a while ago, part of my job to build technology solutions for people. It was also part of my job to give advice where it was appropriate, but I have come to realize, in my current position of being apart from building things, that I had a bit of myopia, as all builders and vendors do. you the picture.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Can we build a library of OpenSocial applications that have open source licenses? Which lead me to think about the idea of open sourcing OpenSocial apps. It seems to me that many organizations are going to have very similar needs in terms of kinds of applications. Anyone interested?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

“If we build it they will come&# only works in the movies. { It’s going to take some real elbow grease of reaching out to people who might begin to form the kernel of a development community to get that going. 1 trackback } Bookmarks about News 11.09.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

cyber world becomes, instead of a bunch of walled gardens where data moves in only very limited ways between them, a fully permeable space where data flows freely, it will be possible for nonprofits to have much greater reach and impact, whether it be for fundraising, advocacy or constituency-building. { In the long term, if the whole web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 6, 2007

But there are a few tidbits that I’ve enjoyed: There is a great Flickr stream building up of photos tagged with “07NTC &# including one of me. And I think most of the bloggers are too busy giving, or going to sessions to blog much. Michael also has a really interesting map of the nonprofit technology space.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

I like building my own systems – I need a new desktop, and I like the idea that I can build my own easily, and get a fair bit of power fairly cheaply. The only thing that will be left is games. It’s been fun, these 20 years with Macintosh. It seems a fitting moment to say goodbye to Apple. {

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? Just two weeks later, having received a ton of thoughtful comments on that original post, her new headline was Join the Monthly Community Building Chats ! How can we keep building this community?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

As part of Microsoft Outlook 2010, features allow people to connect with their Facebook and MySpace accounts (the service already allowed you to connect Outlook to LinkedIn). Which brings us to an important question: Who should build that strategy? Tags: Leadership NPTech NTEN Social Media. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.)

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Care2

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Use your website, in particular, and other Internet outposts as a way to build relationships with donors online. Hint: Build an email list and aggressively market to this list. At Care2, we encourage all of our clients to have a plan in place for building an email list year-round. What this means for you as a nonprofit?

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