Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

It was a rich discussion and it doesn’t stop here – use the link below to review the full transcript and share your discussions points or ideas in the comments. What are examples of, best practices for, or learnings from engaging community members around various kinds of media, like videos and pictures instead of text?

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NetWits

APRIL 10, 2011

That got me thinking more about how we, in the non-profit space, should look to learn from examples, trends and best practices found outside of our sector. of non-profits were able to raise over 10k through Facebook in 2010. I’d love to hear your thoughts, examples, experiences in the comments below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 11-15, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. Nonprofit social communications wizards share examples and tips to get your fans mobilized for action. If your panel isn’t on the list, add a link and title in the comments.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

To help me take full advantage of all of these wonderful support systems, I decided to hone my goals down to 3 Big Vision Goals for 2010, 3 Big Vision Goals for each season, and 3 Big Vision Goals for each lunar cycle (New Moon to New Moon). For example, how would you know if you'd achieved "Have more work/life balance."

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Here are the details: @BrandsConf is a new event taking place in early December 2010 that will explore the “Humanization of Brands” and the underlying effects this is having on business. Date: December 2, 2010. If you’d rather send an email instead of leaving a comment, that is always okay too! Read more.].

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NTEN

JULY 30, 2010

Join fellow NTEN members Jon Stahl and Chris Tuttle in the comment discussion! s 2010 Top Small Workplaces. Please share examples, templates, or links to other resources online regarding nonprofit. Leave a link in the comments here, or add on the community calendar here:[link]. Congratulations! hosting companies.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Nonprofits that have been using Facebook for a year or more consistently comment “OK… Facebook is great, but how can we take our Facebook Page strategy to the next level?&# For example, the “Get Involved!&# See www.nonprofitorgs.mobi as an example. Ironcially, in 2010 your going to see MySpace on that list.

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NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2012

14 million Americans scanned them in June of 2011 , and there was a +4500% increase in use from 2009 to 2010. Check out the slides from our presentation, Scanning for Good: How Nonprofits Can Use QR Codes – there are a bunch of examples in the second half of the deck. Share what you’ve learned in the comments below!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

I recently caught up with Mazarine and asked her, “If there was one example or story you could share that exemplifies why you wrote this book, and a few examples of the kinds of content and resources included in the book, what would it be?” In 2010 I completed my book, the book that I wish I had had when i first started.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Another good reason for nonprofits to use FOSS January 6, 2008 This is an amazing example of the kinds of flexibility that is difficult or impossible to get with proprietary software.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 4, 2010

I can’t wait for your feedback, comments, recommendations for further improvements, and general reaction; but first, I need to share some thank yous and some background for all those who have followed this process. NOTE: I’ve only been able to archive 2010 and 20009 so far, but all presentations will be in this format very soon.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Alanna 09.05.08 If someone releases a “Chrome minus Google&# – that is, a version of Chrome with all of the “phone home&# code completely eliminated, then I’ll think about using that version, just to see what it’s like. Otherwise, fuggetaboutit. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 18, 2007

I have a few comments. Those shine as industry-standard examples of how open API s need to be distributed. I looked over Allan Benamer’s post on the Convio and Kintera initiatives, I looked harder at the Convio Open and Kintera Connect docs, and I also had a chat with some Kintera folk. He’s right.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

’&# She gives some great suggestions and examples Joanne Fritz talks about three big mistakes – outdated information, insufficient contact information, and outdated design. at 11:56 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Michael 07.31.08 She makes some great points, and gives good tips to make changes.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2006

I’ve been learning about some interesting examples of the use of APIs in nonprofit organizations, as well as learning what vendors (both proprietary and open source) are thinking about the issue. If you have any API wisdom, examples, strategies, what have you, that you’d like me to hear about, please drop me a line.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

My role has been to gather up the use cases (specific examples of translation processes). That’s been a very interesting process, and we have been generating some good examples that will be really helpful in the process of figuring out what tools are present that can do what’s needed, and what gaps exist.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Minor releases are, for example, when a project goes from 2.2.3 0 release – for example from 2.x When was the last release? How much time generally passes between major or minor releases? Depending on project, going from x.2 3 might be a major or minor release. Going to a x.0 is always major.)

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Take a look at the examples on the G-team page and let your imagination run wild." I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. " MLK2011 – Join Us Live!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

&# With all of the amazing examples of really great free and open source software, here is an example of one that just isn’t what it should be. { at 8:42 pm { 6 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Holly 02.29.08 So it’s an example of where proprietary lock-in really is crushing FOSS.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Nancy Schwartz of Getting Attention has some great examples (that I’ll be using really soon!) at 11:01 am { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 david 11.19.07 Beth Kanter digs deep to try and figure out how to pull RSS content into Facebook I review Facebook’s new ad platform. for writing one-page fact sheets.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2010

Earlier this year I presented at the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference and knew I’d have the chance to see many friends and colleagues again, and meet new ones! I also had just three hard copies of Social by Social left and thought I’d create a giveaway for Social by Social. The size: Yes! Too much information – noted!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Katrin over at MobileActive.org weighs in , and I agree: So what does this mean for the ‘mobile for good’ field? We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

at 7:04 am { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 08.14.08 BTW, do you know of or have an example from your clients where they have thoughtfully considered a facebook strategy or using these tools and it really wasn’t the right fit? however, as you all know so well, I’m a realist. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

So, here is a real life example of someone with a measly 195 records in her contacts database. 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Kevin Mark 07.09.07 July 9, 2007 So I talk a lot about both open source software, and the preciousness of one’s own data. I rail against vendors who promote lock-in. at 9:36 pm Indeed!

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 3, 2010

Share your ideas now: You can share your ideas about the topic as well as any resources, case studies, examples, research etc. by leaving a comment on this blog post. Date : January, 14th 2010. social media change campaigns (specific nuances). change campaigns vs political campaigns (similarities vs differences). Stay on topic!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 19, 2007

There will be detailed case studies in the new primer, but what’s been striking to me is how many examples of this there are out there. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 07.20.07 This is a model that is impossible with proprietary software. There are all sorts of worthy candidates! {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. Other examples include desktop applications that allow uploading photos to flickr. services, like del.icio.us, google, flickr, and many, many others, and use and manipulate this data to their own ends. Or any other interesting combination of things.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 11, 2010

We (the two partners of OpenIssue ) shared a cab from the Atlanta airport to the hotel when we arrived for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference. This blog series is all Beth Kanter’s fault. We were chatting with her about what kind of work we do, and she asked “do you do social CRM?&# facebook scrm socialmedia twitter.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

at 3:45 am { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 07.07.08 But there are successful counter examples. 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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

There are a few examples of SaaS that are based on open source projects, although most SaaS are proprietary – the code is never meant to be released. at 11:01 am { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Joe Baker 09.24.08 For example, we (DonorPerfect Online), use Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for the database engine.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. The 2010 Social Networking Map / Flowtown (@flowtown) – I love maps and I work in social media; so I always love the maps of social media!

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. February 12, 2010, and promises to be "more than just a conference on the next generation web." "This month, we bring you some great examples of how non-profits are using wikis. NonProfit 2.0

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

But this one resonated clearly, as I got 75 retweets and 61 comments. And here are a few suggestions from commenters. Dan Hicks suggested: Build #PositiveAction training—as defined in the 2010 Equality Act—to make a 'pipeline' to begin to address under-representation. And set the right example by not doing it yourself, either.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

They do a good job of using examples for each of these things (like why Southwest Airlines is so successful, and why the Kidney Heist urban legend sticks so well, among other stories. It uses examples and such, but it is not anywhere near as engaging and readable as “Made to Stick.&# 2 Alan Weiss 10.23.07

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. campaigning resources and info – "Twitter is growing at gigantic rate, experiencing 1,500% growth in the last year (for more stats see The State and Future of Twitter 2010). ."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

But first, a great example of Web 1.0 7 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Dru 08.05.09 vs Web 2.0 – I wanted to talk about Google Analytics. I found this by way of one of my favorite new blogs, Lifehacker. Lifehacker is great, and shares some of my ethos about technology. 7 Amit Ahuja 05.25.10

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia. Technorati Tags: media , opensource , economics , peer2peer { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 John Powers 11.16.06 Thanks for the comments! I found it through Beth’s Blog.

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