Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 2011

And now the social networking giant is poised to delve even deeper into users’ messaging activity with a new mobile app with SMS-like functionality." Wikipedia Rolling Out Article Rating System – What Do You Think? – "Love it or hate it, you can't say Wikipedia is slow to innovate.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 7, 2010

My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review is now up – it’s reposted below, but you can find the original post and conversation on SSIR. What does this mean for the Child Abuse Awareness Month activities in April – when a specific organization or campaign tries to call on us “for real&# this time?

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Wikipedia provides a good formal definition : “Web accessibility refers to the practice of making websites usable by people of all abilities and disabilities. For a nonprofit organization, perhaps the most important reason for implementing Web accessibility is social responsibility. I’m glad you asked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The Need for the 4Cs Social Media Framework. Over the last year, I have had to explain how social media works to diplomats, defense officials, and academics and students focused on fields as diverse as international affairs, management and sociology. I have found that first-timer find social media confusing because of two reasons.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2020

Catchafire : Time-sensitive requests for short-term projects in our active, virtual volunteer pool can assist with items such as email marke ting setup to spread awareness about health and safety, consultation on remote best practices, and much more. updating relevant Wikipedia pages. . Skills-Based Volunteering.

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Achieve

JUNE 2, 2015

Did you avoid the Wikipedia entry? What many people don’t realize is that.org is an open domain for social good – meaning that individuals, businesses and companies can register this domain, in addition to nonprofits, in order to promote their cause or mission. Think about the last time you pulled up your search engine of choice.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Think about all the emails, social messages, and ads competing for your attention online. Second, social media isn’t enough on its own to expose your organization to a new audience. As it turns out, people are 7 times more likely to visit a nonprofit’s website in a search result then they are through social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

For more details, see this wikipedia entry. It is one of a number of "life streaming applications" where individuals and organizations who are active on the social web can port their activity across social networks into one, easy to follow, read, and comment activity stream.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

At SOCAP13 , a social enterprise conference in San Francisco, I attended two back-to-back conferences on big data with some nonprofit representation. data visualization data nonprofits Social Enterprise SOCAP13' Big data is still one of those concepts that baffle me. How big does the data have to be? Where does it come from?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

But when he gets excited about activity that could benefit the nonprofit technology sector, I listen. What do you think of the Campus Party model? Campus Party organizer Futura Networks also recognizes that a big driver for young techies is…social relevance. He has seen it all. They want their brains to matter.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. My point is that copyright exceptions enable the ebook to deliver far more social benefit than would be practical in an earlier era.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2008

Once we have a definition that we are comfortable with as a good enough starter, we'll post community sourcing on wikipedia. And, with almost 24 more hours, I will resume my normal blogging activity. I will continue to share my lessons about nonprofits using the social web. Here's what Zena is asking: Define community sourcing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2009

The library is a unique, neutral social and cultural space. Our volunteer list is long, but the active volunteers get to know one another virtually very quickly. It is the first library I have worked at that is a social, virtual library—this is library 2.0 It’s free, secular, and encourages people to linger. at its core.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2014

Ok, you’re not *terribly* likely to belt out your birthday or social security number to the mustachioed guy next to you on the bus. According to the brains of Wikipedia , digital footprints* are simply put “the trail of data that is left behind by users on digital services.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

Kropotkin was an aristocrat who, after being imprisoned for his insurrectionist activities, escaped and fled to England in 1876. That I even know of Kropotkin comes courtesy of the Wikipedia entry for the ???gift People who are creating content for OpenContent publications, like Wikipedia. gift economy,??? People who???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Here's the definition from wikipedia: A gift economy is a social theory in which goods and services are given without any explicit agreement for immediate or future expectations. Okay, I did use some of it for my car rental while I was at Hawaii Podcamp and Social Media Club Workshop in Hawaii last month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I just finished a presentation and later this afternoon will facilitate a workshop on strategy which will include the Romanian version of the Social Media Game. Social Media, NGOs, and Romania View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Social Networks: Facebook, Myspace, and many more. The translator is in a booth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

. Yesterday at the Packard Foundation, as part of a series of "deeper dives" to learn about networks and social media, Eugene Eric Kim of Blue Oxen Associates gave a talk about "Networks in an International Context." . The first time open-ended, playful like being on a social network. We knew what was coming.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

I've been working closely with Kevin Lynch, the CEO of the Social Enterprise Alliance, on countering the efforts of Salesforce.com to attempt to trademark the name of our entire field, Social Enterprise. Social enterprise is descriptive. Social enterprise is generic.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

When I created the hierarchy of social participation shown in this diagram, I debated what shape it should take. In Shulman’s article, she points out the folly of a rigid sequential theory when it comes to learning (and my case, I’ll expand that to social engagement). Back to the new Taxonomy of Social Participation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

According to Wikipedia, a griefer is "a slang term used to describe a player in an multiplayer video game who plays the game simply to cause grief to other players through harassment. The act of griefing becomes a sort of fraternity hazing activity. Photo by Peacemaker.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Your organization has identified a social media objective, audience, strategy, tools, measurement, and experiment. Your organization may be skeptical about the value of listening through social media channels. Listening should be linked to real life decisions or your social media strategy objectives. Social Mention.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 6, 2005

Also, we are hosting gatherings for Bay Area nonprofit and web innovators interested in connecting communities for social change the second Tuesday of every month. net2 nptech nonprofit activism volunteer Writing up a nonprofit profile only takes 15-20 minutes. You can check out the ones we've profiled so far here.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

This resulted in us creating a “sneaker-net” approach to providing basic asynchronous ICT services to rural villages: a complete offline Wikipedia that fit on a CD-ROM, and severely restricted bandwidth throttling to allow community radios to access the Internet (via prepaid RBGAN) for $2-3 a day. . Voice remains the killer app.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Based in the U.K., Dipity :: dipity.com.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

From my perspective, it’s all about balance, and having an active ecosystem, with healthy open source options present. From my perspective, the key is openness. Some SaaS, like Salesforce.com, and increasingly the nonprofit CRM SaaS vendors, are open platforms.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Teens are developmentally focused on social identity-building and may feel more compelled to share their voices and express themselves than others than other visitors. Teens are perceived as more interested in technology-mediated experiences and more familiar with social technologies in particular than their adult counterparts.

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Forum One

AUGUST 13, 2006

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Forum One

AUGUST 13, 2006

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. The AFP blog points to a press release from Firstgiving about the launch of a social networking site. Technologies to Recruit, Engage, and Activate Youth."

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

was coined in 2005 and has a Wikipedia page and several bloggers, conferences, and active debates surrounding it. There are still many people out there who don't think it's a good thing to spend lots of time in front of a computer, who are perturbed by the idea of virtual social networks and online communities.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

I am recommending the transcript of Clay Shirky's speech about Gin, Television, and Social Surplus , in which he argues that the next twenty years will be marked by people's slow, incremental, and astoundingly impactful awakening from being passive consumers (of TV) to partly active content creators. But one page!

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

If you want to pitch your story to several news outlets, you need to draft a press release, which you can later adapt for your website’s blog, your email marketing communications, and your social channels. Online sources like Wikipedia can help you find additional publications if you have a broad area. Include digital publications.

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Whole Whale

JULY 10, 2021

What sets Giving Tuesday apart is that the sector is trying to build a new unselfish social habit, which means it will take more nonprofit and company participation to compete with the existing holiday corporate messaging. Use social norms and price anchoring. since 2012, and only continues to grow in reach and influence. Timebox it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

Sites includes Wikipedia , Reddit , BoingBoing , and Global Voices are “going dark” and will black out the Global Voices Advocacy site for 12 hours on January 18 beginning at 8 am. In countries with less independent judicial systems, abuse of copyright law to repress activism is both simple and frequent.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

The back-channel was an especially active and important part of the conference this year. New This Year: Life After Facebook The last couple years at Museums and the Web were dominated by discussion about the need for museums to engage with visitors in new social spaces like facebook, blogs, flickr, and the like. Sharing Authority.or

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