Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Today, at the 2011 MyCharityConnects Conference in Toronto, I had a ton of fun leading a session and discussion around making the most of social media in just 30 minutes a day. Tools and Apps to Energize Your Base. Google Analytics for Facebook Pages. Google Analytics for Wikispaces. Social by Social. Networked Nonprofit.

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Robert Weiner

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Unfortunately, RIM bought Tungle in 2011 and it started to decline. TimeBridge looked promising since it integrates with both Outlook and Google. I love those tools, but they don't allow someone to browse my calendar for availability. I've been using Tungle for years to share my calendar with colleagues and clients.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 20, 2010

million grant from the Google Inc. This is the first grant NTEN has received from Google. million grant from the Google Inc. This is the first grant NTEN has received from Google. We’re thrilled that Google has shown its support of the transformative power of nonprofit technology with such a grand gesture.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 20, 2010

million grant from the Google Inc. This is the first grant NTEN has received from Google. With this support, we can provide new ways to help our community connect with each other and learn about the most important technology strategies, tools, and trends. We are all very excited to announce today that NTEN has received a $1.15

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

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. The ToMamaWithLove campaign saw them try some new tools as well as some trusted favorites, even with a budget of $0 and a lot of volunteer time. Infrastructure.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Today, I’m live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit. They are different tools from traditional media and we have to learn how to use it, and not just for marketing. Wendy : The trust I have is that the people that gave that way know how to use Google – we aren’t hard to find.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Originally published in the November 2011 issue of Fundraising Success Magazine where I have written a quarterly column throughout 2011. Though Facebook had gone public nine months previous, Facebook Groups were only just beginning to be used as community-building tools by nonprofits and Facebook Pages didn’t exist yet.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

As leaders at Google for more than a decade, Schmidt, Rosenberg, and Eagle had the benefit of experiencing Campbell’s executive coaching firsthand. Give people the tools, information, training, and coaching they need to succeed. He ran the Google product team from 2002 to 2011. Only coach the coachable.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2011

Date: Thursday, September 29, 2011. Location: Meetup.com Headquarters, 632 Broadway, New York, NY ( Google Map ). Time: 9:30am – 3:30pm. Cost: $149 per person. How to Register: Sign up! View: Training Agenda (PDF). View: Trainings in Other Cities.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

In 2011 I had gotten in the very bad habit of listening to (mostly) CNN in the background while working… all day long. Enter The Colbert Report and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart : VIDEO: 2011: A Look Back. The Daily Show remembers the important stories of 2011 so you don’t have to. .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 4, 2019

As leaders at Google for more than a decade, Schmidt, Rosenberg, and Eagle had the benefit of experiencing Campbell’s executive coaching firsthand. Give people the tools, information, training, and coaching they need to succeed. He ran the Google product team from 2002 to 2011. Only coach the coachable.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 18, 2011

Date: Thursday, September 22, 2011. Location: Volunteers of America Delaware Valley, 235 White Horse Pike, Collingswood, NJ ( Google Map - 7 Miles from Downtown Philadelphia). Time: 9:30am – 3:30pm. Cost: $149 per person. Proceeds benefit Volunteers of America Delaware Valley. How to Register: Sign up! View: Training Agenda (PDF).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2013

The best ever resource and template for an editorial calendar comes from my colleague, Holly Minch at LightBox Collaborative who has been sharing her template in a google document since 2011. This is a great tool to help them do just that, thanks for sharing it! ” – John Kenyon, 2013. You can download it here. Great idea!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 30, 2011

Date: Thursday, October 27, 2011. 300-G East Main Street, Chapel Hill, NC ( Google Map ). Time: 9:30am – 3:30pm. Cost: $149 per person. Location: The ArtsCenter. How to Register: Sign up! View: Training Agenda (PDF). View: Trainings in Other Cities.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Google and the nonprofit community have had a very Jim-and-Pam* relationship over the past two years, as Google has repeatedly extended the end date for donated Google Checkout services but stayed equivocal about whether we can expect to see the free services indefinitely. Tools Web 2.0 Tools Web Building Web Building.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? The 1 st tool was MySpace back in 2007. What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Which tool has been surprisingly useful in getting out the word about your organization and its programs? gid=104492. Please summarize your ROI.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Have you been able to use these tools to raise money online? million dollar budget, around $16,000 has been generated via YouTube’s Google Checkout and other donations via PayPal.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2011

" 2011 donorCentrics Internet and Multichannel Giving Benchmarking Report – "Five years into the research, it is clear that direct mail giving is still the overwhelming majority of fundraising revenue, and organizations must find ways to optimize multichannel giving versus hyper-focusing on internet giving alone. ."

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Official Google Blog: Explore museums and great works of art in the Google Art Project – Take yourself on an art tour using Google Maps! "One That's what happened with the Art Project—a new tool we're announcing today which puts more than 1,000 works of art at your fingertips, in extraordinary detail."

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

The tool is meant to openly share and visualize the operations of World Bank financed activities down to as local a level as possible and compare these with actual need and monitor the effects over time." " 2011: The Year the Check-in Died – "Early last year, "checking in" was the cool new craze.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

Salesforce had acquired collaboration tool company Stypi in May 2012, as well as social media monitoring platform Radian6 in March 2011." " Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings | Official Google Blog – "Search is a lot about discovery—the basic human need to learn and broaden your horizons.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Which tool has been surprisingly useful in getting out the word about your organization and its programs? I also love Twitter, but that’s just my personal obsession with the tool!

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Achieve

MARCH 6, 2023

Another great place to start is good ol’ Google. Leveraging his software background, he built most of the tools his charities used, and in 2011 he launched Handbid at his own fundraising event. If this is your nonprofit’s very first auction, don’t worry. Improve the guest experience through clear communication.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 7, 2011

For the purposes of this blog entry, at this moment in time (early 2011,) LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org are the same. I’ve been using this tool since it actually was StarOffice, more than 10 years ago, when it was first open sourced by Sun in 2000. It reads and writes all MS Office formats (except for Access files.)

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Google Tools Training : Join the Google Team for a training to learn about all the offerings available to the nonprofit community. Social Scene Again, being social may not be new per se, but we like to think the NTC is pretty cutting-edge on how it allows you to connect with other attendees.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 23, 2013

Blackbaud’s just-released Online Marketing Benchmark Study for Nonprofits found nonprofit website traffic was down 14 percent in 2012 compared to 2011. Assuming you’re using Google Analytics*, here are 4 steps you can take: Year-Over-Year Comparison. Setup Google Analytics to do a year-over-year comparison. Examine Visits.

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2013

The Center wanted to expand its reach, connections, and impact using social media and received grant funding in 2011 for social media planning and implementation through 2012. The social media team maintains an internal document within its shared Google Drive folder called the “NYCEAC Internal Resource List.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

If you wanted to gather information that isn’t publically available, you could collect useful data points in a survey using a free tool like Google Forms. Take for example, the NTEN Social Network 2011 Benchmarking Study or the Digital IQ Study of Government Sites. Benchmarking Study by Devon Smith.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The Technology Leadership Academy is a training program designed to help you manage technology and lead others to use tools to their best organizational advantage. Thanks to the generous support of Google, we're able to offer the Technology Leadership Academy at no charge to qualifying organizations. >

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2011

Today, I’m live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit. They are different tools from traditional media and we have to learn how to use it, and not just for marketing. Wendy : The trust I have is that the people that gave that way know how to use Google - we aren't hard to find. So we have to relevant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

” The book offers up advice and techniques on how to make your online channels – email marketing, web site, and newer tools like mobile and social media work together in a sophisticated strategy or your organization to reach its advocacy, fundraising, or community building goals. Hold weekly interdepartmental meetings.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2011

Peter Cheer shares the upcoming 2011 da Vinci Awards celebrating global excellence in assistive technology, slated for September 22 in Dearborn, Michigan. There is also the Accessibility Unconference in Boston on September 17, 2011. Tools for Free. and Ottowa. And it's free, to boot.

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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.” 3) Asynchronous Google Analytics Tracking. Oh, memories. You're welcome.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2016

Launched in 2011, Snapchat is an image and video messaging app that is very popular with tweens and teens and increasingly Millennials and Gen Xers. Be sure to name the image file “your_nonprofit_name_snapcode” so your Snapcode shows up high in Google Image Search.

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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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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Nearly all the major cloud vendor companies like Google, Microsoft, Sony, and Amazon have been hit by hacker attacks that have caused service disruptions. 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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