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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NetWits

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Here’s a sample for NetWits that I ran a few months back that will give you an idea of what to expect. At Blackbaud we saw our non-profit customers send over 1 Billion emails in 2010. Share what you do and ask for enewsletter subscriptions on social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, etc). Email Communication.

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NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2011

Basically, "churn" is the term used to describe the rate at which subscribers – be they in your email lists, Facebook fans, Twitter followers, etc. The average churn rate in 2010 for nonprofits in our research sample was 14%. Maybe the first question here should be: do you know what list "churn" is?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 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). Here are my top digital storytelling platforms and tools for your nonprofit to try out in 2010." " Check it out! ."

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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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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? How #CommBuild works Each week whoever wants to participate comes to Twitter, searches for the hashtag #CommBuild, and finds a conversation about topics tied to community management.

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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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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. Speaker: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

I have to say, I'm really thankful for nptech rockstars like Amy Sample. via Twitter, and people-to-people fundraising tools. it lately via my Twitter and Facebook networks, mostly from folks I assume. cross between Yelp, Google Maps, and Twitter. Need a primer on social media online tools for nonprofits?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 3, 2010

The January #4Change Twitter Chat will focus on the use of Twitter and other social media tools in campaigning. Join the Twitter chat: If you want to contribute to the conversation, you’ll need to have a twitter account (it’s free). Jump in to the conversation by adding #4Change to your Twitter message.

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Tweeting Raising Awareness, But Not Direct Dollars - The NonProfit Times Oct 1, 2010: "Tweeting Raising Awareness, But Not Direct DollarsBy Mark HrywnaOnly 3 percent of all Tweets by a sample of nonprofits were dedicated to fundraising or solicitation.

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NetWits

JANUARY 25, 2012

Fundraisers raised an average of $32 more in 2010. Those who use Twitter raise 10x more than those who don’t. Make fundraising easy by including sample Facebook posts or emails they can forward to friends. Check out the results …. Power fundraisers brought in over $25,000 more than last year. Tell them you know they’re busy.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2010

If you have any questions, you can connect me directly on Twitter or on email. There are various ways you can follow the NTC online from wherever you are, as select sessions and keynote speakers will be live-streamed, various people will be live-blogging, and the Twitter stream for sessions will be active. Follow the Conference Live.

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Amy Sample Ward

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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NTEN

MARCH 11, 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. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010? Where can people follow you online (twitter, blog, etc.)? .

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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. Twitter: even if you don’t want to engage on it, you need to be listening there. Follow #10ntc.listen on Twitter for links and conversation from this session. Where are the conversations?

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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

AUGUST 15, 2013

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? How #CommBuild works Each week whoever wants to participate comes to Twitter, searches for the hashtag #CommBuild, and finds a conversation about topics tied to community management.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

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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Amy Sample Ward

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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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2020

According to a 2019 Statistica report on social media use, users spend an average of 136 minutes per day on social channels such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat. Social media and online giving both increased six percent between 2010 and 2018. Facebook alone has 2.41

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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. What do you think?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 12, 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). Twitter, Facebook and Google tools have already been used for market research, sales predictions and targeted advertising.

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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. Non-Profit Tech Blog 08.17.07

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 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). 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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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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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 23, 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). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Introducing WebAPI ?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 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). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Check out Animoto!

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Streamlined sidebar : Now that content is highlighted in multiple ways—via the top navigation, footer columns, and so on—the sidebar is freed up to serve as an entry way to other spaces for continued conversation like facebook and twitter, and even an option to jump to the latest comments on the site.

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2012

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. Angela Francis, Senior Associate at Nonprofit Finance Fund , can be reached at angela.francis@nffusa.org and on Twitter @NFF_West.

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Amy Sample Ward

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). " Deadline: January 31, 2010. 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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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 21, 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). "In the last week, I attended both the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference and the AFP 2010 Conference.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 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). We continued in 2010 with a second list, and now we're readying a third.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

It is also true that it was far from a representative sample of people here at the US Social Forum (which is way more female and of color than that group.) This was the most diverse crowd I’ve ever talked with or been in for an open source conversation. That speaks volumes to me.

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Amy Sample Ward

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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