Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2012

Tendenci was developed by Schipul especially…. South by Southwest Interactive is a major hotspot for new tools to launch, applications and platforms to find early adopters, and those looking for ideas or suggestions to get recommendations from others already exploring the newest, shiny toys. Tech Talk at SXSW. I’ve been….

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 1, 2012

—– In 2011, Washington, DC, became one of the first major metropolitan regions to host a multimillion-dollar local giving day: Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington. don’t embark on fundraising without a plan for using the funds, we can’t adopt a new fundraising approach without proper training.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 25, 2012

The Social Impact Bond (SIB), developed in the U.K., was recently adopted in Massachusetts. HF 681, March 23, 2011). It will be exciting to see how the pilot for this bond performs in Minnesota and if other states adopt similar legislation. There is a comparable Senate Bill which is not discussed in this blog post.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2011

We aim to reach the the 55,000 Canadians affected by a brain tumour with a variety of tools and technology such as our website and social media communities play a large part in this reach. We have adopted Facebook and Twitter and examine new tools before taking them to assess their usefulness in reaching our community.

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2012

Tendenci was developed by Schipul especially…. South by Southwest Interactive is a major hotspot for new tools to launch, applications and platforms to find early adopters, and those looking for ideas or suggestions to get recommendations from others already exploring the newest, shiny toys. Tech Talk at SXSW. I've been….

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 14, 2012

In April of 2011, a story broke regarding The Central Asia Institute, a nonprofit organization. Increased use of productive meeting tools, such as consent agendas (60%), web-based board portals (37%), and telecommunications (47%). Boards continue to adopt conflict-of-interest policies, whistleblower, and document-retention policies.

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

Carolyn’s Nonprofit Blog was inspired by the many people who have reached out to Carolyn since it was launched in 2011 to ask for advice about becoming a grant writer and nonprofit fundraiser. If you can get “real life” experience with a mentor(s) by volunteering for a nonprofit in the development office, do it! What classes are best?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Beth’s Blog, September 2011. Are there methods and tools in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector for using it effectively? There is not much value in the raw data unless you have the tools and skills to synthesize it. We discussed some of the social media monitoring tools. Beth Kanter, “ Data Informed.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

The tools we develop for that purpose span a range of fields—from human rights , to global literacy , to the environment —but no matter what area we work in, we depend on an IP system that’s friendly to technological advances and to positive social impact. Furthermore, the legality of digital fair use continues to be challenged.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 24, 2011

This is a communique on the current state of cloud adoption in the United States from me, this time. In July 2011, TechSoup.org conducted a survey of nonprofits on their current use of cloud services, their plans for adopting cloud services, their expectations on costs, and their barriers to cloud adoption.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

There is little argument that email and social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are fast becoming mandatory tools for supporter outreach. Here are a few available solutions: Mobile Enable your Online Donation page : This will require help from your website development team or consultant. By Bob Jones, CEO, CharityCall LLC.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

If your organization needs convincing that its time to adopt HTML5, just share the following tidbit from Wikipedia with the powers that be: “According to a report released on 30 September 2011, 34 of the world's top 100 Web sites were using HTML5.” ” 2) Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS). Oh, memories.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Cloud data security and privacy challenges were cited by 27% of respondents as a significant barrier to cloud adoption. Cloud companies probably will go out of business as the industry develops. In February 2011 Google inadvertently deleted 150,000 Gmail accounts due to an internal software problem. What if one of them is yours?

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2013

Also consider the mobile upswing in global audiences worldwide and in developing countries (more than one billion mobile-broadband subscriptions worldwide in 2011 according to the International Telecommunication Union). Don't miss this roundup of tools and articles devoted to web design resources. We Have a Solution.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

This is an update of a TechSoup article we posted online in November 2011. The late Apple founder and CEO, Steve Jobs, famously announced the post-PC era in March 2011 during the launch of the iPad 2. As adoption of mobile devices increases for both work and pleasure, IT will no longer be dominated by PCs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

For more in-depth learning experiences, I do a pre-workshop assessment, but for this mini-workshop I did a living assessment in the room. I unpacked the latter with a series of spectragrams asking folks to share their opinions about whether or not social fundraising as a fad or whether or not dollars raised was the only metric for success.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

The Center was established in 2007 by the Vietnam Scientific Association for Development of Talents, Human Resources. VietNet-ICT also actively participates in policy discussions to formulate laws and policies relating to information, technology, and communication towards sustainable development and equity.

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

Technology for nonprofit development and fundraising is quickly changing. The wide variety of choices and tools to integrate make this field exciting and challenging terrain for nonprofit leaders; we will take your questions in this one hour live interactive event. Pacific time. and Thrasher Skateboard Magazine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

I’m curious to hear from all of you if you’ve developed a ladder of engagement and how it guides your social media integrated strategy – and measurement approach. The grist.org uses a combination of tools to measure along the ladder of engagement, including Google Analytics, surveys, and real-time monitoring tools.

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NTEN

MAY 9, 2011

This shift started fifteen years ago with the widespread adoption of the World Wide Web. In a similar finding, the Pew Research Center reported in January 2011 that among the general public the Internet has now surpassed newspapers as a primary source of news and is steadily closing the gap with television.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

When it comes to innovation in civil society, there is nothing that can match the speed and ingenuity of communities that come together to make a change, develop a tool, or feed a need. Leadership and decision-making come from adoption not from executive authority. Adoption is something we’ll come back to later as well.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2012

This post is the third and final in a series of reactions to Blueprint , a book chronicling the rise and fall of the Dutch Museum of National History (INNL) in 2008-2011. The Vending Machine project was one of my favorites; you can learn more about it here. It was solid: in the 1.5

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Classy

MARCH 29, 2021

We know how it looks, but here at Classy we hold ourselves to the highest standard and feel grateful for the work we’ve been able to accomplish since our start in 2011. We support nonprofits and the social sector at large with our online fundraising tools to accelerate social impact around the world. Levi Strauss. Warby Parker.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

And in each of these we will talk a bit about tools, tactics and strategies. Analog Tools. What this means for tools, specifically, is that we don’t actually like technology. The tools in an analog world fulfilled a specific function but did not influence our planning or programs. Digital Tools. So let’s dive in!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

Building on this concept, Beth asked nonprofit leaders to enter the contest by explaining what their organization’s singular, most important activity would be in 2011 that would at-once drive social impact, engage supporters and increase revenues. I wish you all luck in your 2011 brand journey. SafeAmerica Foundation , Bill Soule.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The big nonprofit tech trends this past year seemed to be in the areas of making websites viewable on mobile phones, using mobile phones more in the workplace, cloud computing, social media fundraising, foundations and Microsoft donations, greater self-sufficiency among NGOs in developing countries, and some cutting edge things like hackathons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

In 2011, Eric Ries published The Lean Startup , which challenges startup and business founders to build and run their companies in a new way – maximizing customer value and revenue while minimizing wasted effort. It’s no wonder why Lean is increasingly being adopted in the non-profit sector. IDEO.org).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The focus has been to develop practice and share insights on networked effectiveness. Over a century after its inception, over 52,000 people in 1823 places across 17 countries participated in the Christmas Bird Count – using email, web sites, and social media tools. Crowdsourcing Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2011

Recently, we adopted a new vision for wish.org and our online channels, including social networks. We typically wrote and packaged wish stories for the website, sponsor and development campaigns, corporate communications, and other channels. Eventually, we anticipate adding these tools to our chapter websites as well.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

We’ve had multiple celebrations of the web in recent years: the 20 th anniversary of the first public web page in 2011 , another 20 th anniversary webpage anniversary in 2013 , and this month, the 25 th anniversary of the idea of the web. We so often mistakenly think of noncommercial technology as an area of slower adoption.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

I keep on telling my story of how I moved between the East and West, between physical environments (architecture, urban design) and virtual (web and mobile development and strategy), between technology and the humanities. As of Febuary 2011 however, they have added a feature that goes a step beyond: streetview history.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

We have certainly seen some examples of maps or charts that the user can interact with, but with the over saturation of static infographic images, 2014 and the plethora of tools emerging that make these options really easy, we will see more organizations using data for storytelling that users can watch, click on, and really explore."

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

Benetech President's Update Winter 2011 I’m pleased to provide you you a detailed update on Benetech for the first time in two years. The human rights team trains groups how to use their number one asset, information about human rights violations, as a strategic tool to advance their social justice mission.

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Tech Soup

JULY 10, 2011

This post was authored by Salem Kimble, social media development manager with BetterWorld Telecom. Easy Access to Tools. Members of our team use different tools and platforms for their jobs, but everyone is connected to Jungle Disk, which allows for instant sharing of relevant files with the rest of the company.

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