Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 16, 2010

We heard from many people that there were too many holiday deadlines at work to make the chat so be sure to add your thoughts to the comments here after reading the archive to join in! And Claire Sale shared the British Red Cross guidelines: The British Red Cross values comments both complimentary and critical.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2009

The big ah ha for me during our reflection that was that effective online collaboration tools for working in a networked way can't have top-down control interaction design. This gets in the way of everyone being able to do a little bit of work. It's your professional social network or a network of organizations or typically both.

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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. In order to do this, they need to work with free agents, hyper-connected individuals who are passionate about social change, but don’t work within institutional walls. What works?

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2010

We're excited to be partnering with GreatNonprofits and Guidestar on their 2010 GreatNonprofits Science & Technology Campaign -- and not just so we can pick up a few reviews for NTEN. But then, you ARE doing good work, so the occasional, inevitable comment troll will be drowned out by all the folks who know you best.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Them's fightin' words to a lot of commenters. We think it's unethical that this crazy yo-yo guy hasn't been worked into a fundraising campaign. Regular readers of this space will know there's a growing consensus that technology is physically changing the ways our brains work. He will seriously blow your mind.

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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). Take 15 minutes each workday to work on book/e-book outline. Complete outline of book/e-book.

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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. These are all aspects of our work that have changed dramatically and rapidly. Date: December 2, 2010. Read more.]. Session details.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. And, if you submitted a nonprofit panel - and I managed to miss it while scanning 2200 in ten minutes - please add the link and description in a comment. What are these new competitions about—are they working?

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Wild Apricot

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

For the shortest month of the year, February is shaping up with a pretty good selection of free online training opportunities for folks working in nonprofits and associations. Keep an eye on the comments here for additions and updates, too! read more ).

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Comments and Likes on Facebook and LinkedIn postings, retweets and replies on Twitter, and comments on YouTube videos), (3) increase in fan base on the social networking outlets. Averaging 200 interactions per post on Facebook (this includes comments, likes and wall posts). I track the ROI a few ways. (1) Summary of ROI.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 13, 2014

Now that it's time to upgrade from Windows XP (it’s retires in early April 2014), you may well be wondering how much of your current software and hardware will work on Windows 7 or Windows 8.1. I tested it on a classic Windows XP computer , a Dell Optiplex GX 280 from 2005 and it worked fine. We also have both Windows 8.1

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 17, 2008

This year, I’m much more clear about the directions my work is going in, and what I’m looking for at NTC. I’m looking forward to it. I’m on the Evaluating Open Source panel, with Laura Quinn and Catherine Lane, which should be great. And of course, there is Penguin Day !! And I hope to bring home a penguin!)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2008

April 23, 2008 NTEN is doing some great work getting information about the use of different kinds of tools in the sector, and how people are using them. and how they like them. They are doing a CMS satisfaction survey, and the more info that they get, the better. So go rate your CMS ! {

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 20, 2010

The goal of this chat was to set some of the ground work for us to build on going forward. August 2010 – Community Builder Chat Wrap Up. September 2010 – Community Builder Chat Details. Share your ideas or responses in the comments here to keep the conversation going until the next chat.

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NTEN

MARCH 31, 2010

Slackers, rejoice: hard work may be overrated. Post the things that inspire you in comments, below, for a special section next month. There are at least " Five Reasons Why Your Company Doesn't Need a Social Media Policy " But just in case, here's a new online tool that can help you create one. It's make-you-cry funny.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Hopefully that will change in 2010! I would greatly appreciate you checking out the new site on your mobile phone and letting me know how it looks in a comment below. Nothing fancy, but it works! Currently, 4.1 billion text messages are now sent daily, but few of those are coming from nonprofits. Suggestions?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I’d been working with Drupal for NOSI (we’ve had the site in Drupal for a while now,) but I’d never installed and configured and messed with Drupal from scratch, so I did that. I’m quite excited about really getting my hands dirty working on some plug ins, or some such, really learning the ins and outs of Drupal.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

And I get to highlight the work of some of my favorite bloggers, too. at 12:13 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 robert guinto 04.19.08 Recently, in working with a number of our domestic violence organizations we came up with a logo for the message.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 9, 2007

1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 10.12.07 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 10.12.07 You deserve to be proud of this work! at 11:01 am Congratulations! at 11:01 am Congratulations! Excellent resource.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 5, 2010

I’m getting my bags packed to fly to Atlanta for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference and discovered that I have 4 copies of Social by Social left – and I’m going to give them away! This work is still pretty new and there isn’t a simple model to follow. To win a book, simply leave a comment with: Who you are.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 7, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Please take the NOSI survey January 7, 2008 In my work with NOSI (the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative,) I’ve become really interested in how FOSS is used in nonprofit organizations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

It’s a lot more than price – it’s quality of work, whether you like their previous work, their overall reputation, as well as their fit with you as an organization. { at 11:56 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Michael 07.31.08 Check This List 07.28.08 Check This List 07.28.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 18, 2007

Asterisk is the open source PBX application that works by using VOIP. You choose the House or Senate committee you want to call, type in your phone number, and Committee Caller will sequentially dial each member of the committee so that you can leave your comment. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Ed Dodds 12.29.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 18, 2007

I have a few comments. From both a business point of view and from the point of view of how our sector should work to heighten transparency in society at large, there’s no reason to limit the ability of coders to learn about and discuss the API at hand. Those shine as industry-standard examples of how open API s need to be distributed.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 8, 2008

Thanks to twitter (hat tip to marshallk ), I learned about today’s big news: Google, Plaxo and Facebook joined the Data Portability working group. Update: LinkedIn, Flickr, SixApart and Twitter have now joined Dataportability.org. This is, of course, great news. But the real question is: will this actually result in data portability? {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2008

In general, the phone actually works quite well. But getting them onto the iPhone, or getting them to work, is sometimes a pain. The iPhone 3G had some compelling features and 3rd party apps (like Pandora , which, I have to admit, is about 1/2 the reason I got the phone.) So, I got one, about two weeks ago.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

Although the breaks I take during my work day don’t look like this, I liked this cartoon. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Sue Bennett 09.11.07 He even asks “What would Jesus do?&# O’Rielly has a new online series about Women in Technology , with some really great articles. Worth a read!

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Eric Lanke: Stop Calling It Strategic Planning – "So I'm working my way through Humanize, and like most everyone else, I'm really enjoying it. ." " Is email going out with 2011?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

She’s worked in development offices of all sizes and has recently put her years of experience and training down on paper in The Wild Woman’s Guide to Fundraising. No one in my family has ever worked at a nonprofit, and we definitely don’t have a tradition of giving to causes in our family.) Free Book Giveaway.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 26, 2008

I won’t be blogging here, and I know that my work will be cut out for me in terms of catching up when I land. Taking a slow, leisurely drive. 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

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

It’s cross-platform (available on all platforms) and works really well (the old player was a bit buggy, but those have been really smoothed out, of late.) And it makes disseminating your organizational videos easy as well. It is, I imagine, what the future of television will be. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 11, 2007

Some nonprofits fit into this category, but most nonprofits that I work with don’t. Think big companies, lots of bucks, lots of boxes. I think sometimes, interesting things come out of that watching. For instance, Gartner’s top 10 technologies to watch in 2008. It’s not a strategic technology to watch, it’s old news.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Michelle, the consultant March 27, 2008 Someone mentioned to me that from what I write on my blog, she wouldn’t know what it is that I actually do in my consulting work. Gotta work on that.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2011

Read the post below or visit SSIR to read and comment with that community. Online fundraising revenue grew overall by 14% between 2009 and 2010. How are you working to build trust with your community? My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review is up.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

There are a number of factors at work. I have said many times that I wouldn’t Twitter. I’ve critiqued Twitter and social networks in general. So what’s the story? Michelle twittering? So, if you want to follow me on Twitter, please do. { 1 trackback } Web 2.0 So, if you want to follow me on Twitter, please do. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

I do hope folks will comment if they know something about these, or have an opinion. BlueAvocado is a new online blog/magazine/website specifically for folks who work in and with nonprofits. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Tim Shih 04.22.08 ReviewBasics is a collaborative editing and reviewing tool.

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