Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Here’s the dashboard from The Extraordinaries of our 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference session today: Bringing Community Organizing Into Online Campaigns – [International Ballroom C] (#co2oc). Who: Speakers: Amy Sample Ward | Netsquared; Debra Askanase; Ivan Boothe. When: 1:30 p.m.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Notes: In June 2010: 253,360 new users joined in Romania – Coming in 3rd in the world for adoption for the month. In July 2010: 1,555,360 total number of users in Romania. The slides are below as well as some notes.

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

By Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN. Every campaign, every organization, and really, even every individual engaging with others online has a set of tools and techniques they've learned from and rely on every day. When it came to blogger outreach, a Google Doc was the preferred and successful tool.

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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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NTEN

JULY 30, 2010

and geo-locating tools and their potential for nonprofit application, so we. Amy Sample Ward is great at aggregating news and notes about nonprofits. s 2010 Top Small Workplaces. Even on vacation, Beth Kanter manages help nonprofits become. more tech-savvy! How does she do it? Why, by inviting guests. Her latest weekly.

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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. There were 6 open source (or sort of open source) tools that showed up on this survey. 201 out of 665 users used these 6 open source tools.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Date : November 15th, 2010. Description : Social media tools provide a lot of opportunities to make local, offline connections and build community. Tags: 2010 presentation presetnation small business social media webinar. Location : Online. Topic : Social Media Basics.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

" 3 Powerful Social Good Trends in 2010 – Ben Rattray, the founder and CEO of Change.org, has a great piece on Mashable showcasing the three trends he sees coming in 2010 for the social change sector. There are so many other tools and platforms that are exciting, innovative, incredibly engaging, and beautiful.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Date : November 16th, 2010. Topic : Tools and Options for Selecting Social Media for Your Organization. Description : The hardest part of getting started with social media is figuring out what tools your organization should use. I’ll contribute to this webinar as a guest speaker weighing on tools and options.

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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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NTEN

MARCH 5, 2010

The March 501 Tech Club in NYC will be a panel on " Texting for Good: Trends, Tools, and Tips for Nonprofits " with Katrin Verclas (MobileActive) , Jed Alpert (MobileCommons) , and George Weiner (DoSomething.org). Deborah Elizabeth Finn announced the prototype of a tool that will search and. Full details and RSVP here.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

." ChatRoulette : Web Ecology Project – "This paper represents an initial study of ChatRoulette.com, conducted between February 6th and 7th, 2010 by researchers in attendance at Web Ecology Camp III in Brooklyn, NY. We sampled 201 ChatRoulette sessions, noting characteristics such as group size and gender.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Need a primer on social media online tools for nonprofits? I have to say, I'm really thankful for nptech rockstars like Amy Sample. Ward who not only works hard to have her listening scope tuned to tools. via Twitter, and people-to-people fundraising tools. tool to explain what it is. participants.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

First, use the Google AdWords keyword research tool to do some analysis for words and phrases you’d like to rank highly for in search results. This tool will crawl and evaluate your website for a lot of the key elements you should be monitoring. At Blackbaud we saw our non-profit customers send over 1 Billion emails in 2010.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2010

The 3rd annual Women Who Tech TeleSummit will take place on September 15, 2010 from 11AM EDT to 6PM EDT , with over 800 women from across the US and abroad in the non-profit, political and business world and featuring an incredible lineup of thought provoking panels featuring technology change makers. I have two comp tickets to give away.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared's Global Community Development Manager will be on Twitter @ amyrsward and @ NetSquared as well as this blog and her personal blog. Live-streamed events. Sessions as webinars. Follow in social media. Billy Bicket, NetSquared's Director, will be on Twitter @ billyb and this blog.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 13, 2013

You may well have pressing needs to budget for like upgrading from Windows XP and Office 2003 before April 2014 and getting newer IT equipment, for instance from TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative , that already has Windows 7 and Office 2010 installed. online magazine.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

At the end of 2010, I started having a weekly, 30-minute skype call with my friend Vanessa Rhinesmith. Find and talk to others using the same tools. Coming together to talk about tools with others who use them can also mean a louder, more unified voice in requesting changes to those tools. There is no agenda.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 15, 2007

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. 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! That part looks very interesting.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 15, 2010

This post was written by Amy Sample Ward and was originally posted on the NetSquared Blog. Submissions close January 22, 2010. The third Digital Media and Learning Competition , from the MacArthur Foundation, is now accepting applications. Learn more and apply today!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. It eventually garnered 45,000 users who took advantage of the easy-to-access tool to place reports. Costs & Benefits.

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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? Big thanks to Debra Askanase , Megan Keane , Laura Norvig , Claire Sale , Amy Sample Ward , Mera Szendro Bok , and BJ Wishinsky for their contributions to this post.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 20, 2010

August 2010 – Community Builder Chat Wrap Up. September 2010 – Community Builder Chat Details. tools and tactics that build a loop between offline and online activities. The goal of this chat was to set some of the ground work for us to build on going forward. This time we’ll explore 1.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

I've heard Jamie Notter (and others) decry this staple of association board meetings as a tool whose time has come and gone, but it wasn't until I read the treatment of it in Humanize that I really understood what he was talking about. But dare I start with the endlessly controversial subject of strategic planning?

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Increased use of productive meeting tools, such as consent agendas (60%), web-based board portals (37%), and telecommunications (47%). Sixty-two percent of respondents felt that the board was ‘well informed” or “very well informed” of its responsibilities” as compared to 58% in 2010. Increased accountability and self-assessment.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2020

Social media and online giving both increased six percent between 2010 and 2018. The benefits of using digital tools such as social media are plentiful. On the other hand, direct mail decreased by 26 percent.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2010

From the newest member of the #4Change team, ChristinasWorld : In the wake of South by Southwest in Austin, and in anticipation of some exciting social media and social change gatherings coming up on the 2010 events calendar, we thought it could be useful to explore How Social Media Can Enhance Events as the topic for the March #4change chat.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Notes from the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference for: Who : Speakers: Susan Tenby | TechSoup Global; Janet Fouts; Kira Marchenese. —– Tools for listening: Goodbyebuddy – find out when people aren’t listening to you any more. Check out listening tools at: [link]. Learn what people want to hear.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

." Thanks to Stacey Monk for the tip that Animoto let's nonprofits apply for free pro accounts – looking for a tool to help with your video storytelling, multimedia fundraising and more? Check out Animoto!

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NTEN

MAY 26, 2011

Check out the 2010 Annual Report in video ! Our friends at NPower Northwest shared some exciting news about more free tools for nonprofits: Microsoft hopes to help your organization tell stories with free Windows Live. VolunteerMatch has a great example of sharing an annual report in a pretty cool way: through video!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 16, 2008

I think the explosion of open source CMS tools has really given the sector a chance to dissect and grasp the issues around open source software much more than ever before. 2 Amy Sample Ward 01.17.08 My feeling from watching the conversations within the NTEN community is that people DO understand the acquisition costs of FOSS software.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

What is advice for entrepreneurs in 2010. Be sure to catch Petra’s blog (in Dutch, so use a translation tool like Google Translate) or follow her on Twitter. What will the world look like in 25 years. Why social innovation benefits from social media from sociaal ondernemen on Vimeo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Amy Sample Ward shares her first reflections and critique of the platform and wonders what’s the point? About $500,000 came from unnamed individuals in the early days and in September 2010, Omidyar Network announced a grant of up to $750,000. By November 2010, Jumo noted in a New York Times article that they’ve raised $3.5

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

He wanted to know how to get his kids access to tools that were affordable for them to create and edit media. But their number pale in comparison to, say, the plethora of, say, network sniffing tools, for instance. This feels like a different part of the digital divide.

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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? Big thanks to Debra Askanase , Megan Keane , Laura Norvig , Claire Sale , Amy Sample Ward , Mera Szendro Bok , and BJ Wishinsky for their contributions to this post.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

millions PCs in Q4 2010. Millennials want basic information and tools for action. 79% of respondents volunteered in 2010, and they prefer to do it in groups. Using a mobile app allows you as a nonprofit to have a tool where you can push messages out about how to volunteer/give, what the impact is, etc. Why mobile?

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