Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2010

I’m really excited to [finally] announce that I’m going to be redesigning this blog/website. Right now, this blog could really be categorized as a blog. Tags: collaboration issues blog collaboation community design redesign strategy. books/publications, and other resources.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 29, 2010

A big thanks to everyone who contributed a post to this month's Nonprofit Blog Carnival! In her post, Nonprofit blogs: why this one works , Lisbeth of Nonprofit Execs on the Edge points to 2 keys to a juicy blog: a focus on storytelling and blog posts that aren't staff-generated. Nonprofit 2.0 Nonprofit 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2010

Welcome to the new and improved Beth’s Blog ! After almost a decade of blogging and most of it at the same place, I’m starting over with a new platform and look thanks to Allyson Kapin and Jared Seltzer of Rad Campaign. Moving to this new blog put me in a reflective mood. 3129: Total Posts. 7641: Total Comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Last year, I marked the date with the above photo and a post with tips for cultivating bloggers and how it was like a long term relationship. This morning I got a pitch a from someone who wanted me to blog about one of their programs. Even worse, hadn't made the attempt to comment on my blog or refer to any posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

The 8 Random Facts About Me meme is circulating in the nptech blogspace here , here , and here (I got tagged twice already, so ignored it.) But, today, I got tagged again. by CogDog Blog. So, as a prelude to the Cambodian Bloggers Summit , I'm going to tag 8 of them. ve been tagged. Here it goes.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 4, 2010

Great to see two social enterprise bloggers, Kylie Eastley of Tasmania and Tristan Pollock from Minnesota, won Halle Tecco's contest on Huffington Post to go to the Social Enterprise Alliance Summit later this month in San Francisco. Next year it will be in South Africa. This Summit will be my swan song in a leadership role at the Alliance.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 15, 2010

Seven Things Which Make a Blogger Unique. Thousand of blogs are being created every day. That said getting successful in blogging has become a kind of next to impossible task. But still in this article I’m going to cover some of the important factors which according to me play a major role in making a blogger unique.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Gretchen Jennings convened a group of bloggers and colleagues online to develop a statement about museums'' responsibilities and opportunities in response to the events in Ferguson, Cleveland and Staten Island. We are a community of museum bloggers who write from a variety of perspectives and museum disciplines. inclusion'

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 22, 2009

VolunteerSpot named it’s top 29 nonprofit bloggers to follow on Twitter this week and guess who made the list? I’m so flattered that folks find my blog ramblings helpful and worthwhile. I post inspiration, information, and links to resources, similar to what you’ll find here on my blog, but slightly different.

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Judi Sohn

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

I’m amazed that after all these years, no one has come out with a killer offline blog editor for the Mac yet. It seems like there’s more development energy going towards iPhone blog editors than desktop versions. Full of unnecessary tags and other junk that caused all sorts of problems. It’s just gone.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 29, 2009

There’s been a bit of talk lately in the technosphere about the role of blogs in the new real-time web. Louis Gray has a wonderful post on the subject that reflects my own opinion, “Blogging Is Still the Foundation In A World of Streams.&#. I think there’s another benefit to a blog: it’s a mandatory time out.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Today is Blog Action Day and this year’s theme is Climate Change. What’s Blog Action Day? Blog Action Day is an annual event held every October 15 that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. What does it mean that one blog has three times as many users as another blog in the nonprofit tech space?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Read more about it from Green Miles blog and a summary of reactions from other nonprofits here. Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. Please blog amoung yourselves." young people???

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 15, 2010

For Blog Action Day this year, bloggers around the world have been asked to think and write about water. Tags: Event GreenTech. At the Ashoka/Lemelson Tech4Society conference this year, I gained a new understanding of the importance of clean water. Image: Ashok Gadgil patent read more. Image: Ashok Gadgil patent read more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

tags: blogging nptech ).   So, in that spirit,  I'm sharing my presentation from last week which is a case study of my blogging ROI.  I also wanted to blog both Laura's excellent Twitter Digg deck and Jon's concise and smart case study of Digg.   tags: microblog analytics ).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

published its first blog post. At the time I was a skeptical blogger. In fact, what I have discovered over the last year is that blogging was the missing piece in my social media strategy. 10 Most Popular Blog Posts :: Year One: Views. Tags: Blogging Social Media. One year ago today Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 24, 2010

Blog Traffic. I was a reluctant blogger. I didn’t think the world needed another blogger. Blogging was the missing piece in my social media strategy. If your nonprofit is already blogging, plot your stats. If not, here are 5 reasons why your nonprofit should blog. I only launched Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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OCTOBER 2, 2009

He also happened to co-found Pyra Labs, which created Blogger , the blogging tool that popularized the term blog and blogging, and Odeo a podcasting company. Tags: Tools blogger listen odeo pyra twitter. Evan Williams is the CEO and co-founder of Twitter.

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NTEN

MAY 8, 2009

We're lucky that so many attendees took photos, blogged, and tweeted to capture and share their conference experiences. Folks used "09ntc" as the primary tag when publishing information and media about the conference online. All Delicious-ly tagged 09ntc. Google Blog Search for all 09ntc. Thanks, everyone!

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Byte Technology

MAY 4, 2017

Prolific bloggers and those who post lots of articles and prose are often frustrated that the text and visual editors that come standard with WordPress don’t allow for very many formatting options in the writing area. The post Quick Fixes to Common WordPress Problems: Part 2 appeared first on Byte Technology’s Web Design Insights Blog.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

Are you a bread baking blogger who wants to make the world a better place? Sign on up for Breadline Africa's Blogger Bakeoff , a year-long campaign (October 15, 2008-October 15, 2009) to raise 1 million dollars for Breadline Africa's projects by, "baking bread and giving dough." Tag/invite five other bloggers to join the campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2009

Oh my god, how am I ever going to keep up my regular blogging schedule? I could let the blog go dark for a couple of weeks or I could rehash old content, like the "Best of the Beth." Some great must-reads include: Why Guest Bloggers are Great for a Blog. How to Find a Guest Blogger for Your Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

As bloggers and others give it closer scrutiny, we're hearing a debate about which Facebook App is better? See3 Blog writes about the advantages of the Convio Face App (integration with organization's Convio database) and the limitations (can only run one Facebook app at time). This week was Blog Action Day for the Environment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2006

Look at the bookmarks of folks who first tagged an item that is popular. Today's harvest yieled this gorgeous apple photo take by Steve Bridger and his blog - NFP2 - How Not- for- Profits can Benefit from blogs and social media. I've added wandering through delicious. A waste of time you say? First taggers tend to be mavens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

On June 25, 2009, I announced on my blog that I was five days away from a cross-country move and knew it would disrupt my routine, including my blogging routine. I didn't want the stress of writing posts or the stress of having a blog go dark and disappoint loyal readers. I've even lived blogged my vacations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 10, 2010

You need to know basic HTML to utilize the Static FBML App on Facebook, to correctly design your Twitter and MySpace profiles, your YouTube channel, and to create and maintain a blog that is visually appealing and professional. Launch a blog. I launched this blog in September 2009. I was a reluctant blogger. I was wrong.

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Care2

JULY 18, 2011

You've designed and built your blog, signed some of the staff on to help, laid out your blogging guidelines , and even engaged some volunteer blog contributors. Here are some event post ideas you can borrow and adapt to get your bloggers unstuck. 20 Creative Ways to Blog About Your Upcoming Events.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

Last March I was on a blogging panel for an event put on by the Alliance of Technology and Women. To prepare for the panel, I wrote up 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs. You can read Steve's blog at the Eye of Bakersfield. Blogs fall under the category of "social media" because they are, well, social. So here it goes.10

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

The Nonprofit Software Development Summit starts tommorrow and if it weren't school vacation week, I'd be there live blogging it. And, if it wasn't school vacation week, I'd attempt to remote live blog it. Oh, expect lighter blogging this week - it's school vacation week. I hope you'll all do the same.

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Forum One

MAY 11, 2009

I have recently participated as a speaker at several press events: a traditional press conference with newspaper reporters; a recorded over-the-telephone radio interview; and a call-in event for bloggers. Tags: Communication Environment Issues. Sending out a recording of this event, via MP3, was clearly a good idea.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2010

Our very own Elliot Harmon , talented writer , blogger , forum host , poet , and all-around-good-guy was notified last week that he's won Ashoka's "Blog Your Way to Hyderabad" contest. Check out Elliot's winning blog post here. Tags: Acquiring Technology Digital Divide Grants for Technology Staff. We're pleased as punch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2006

I got tagged by three different people for the same blogger meme that swirling around the blogosphere. Here's the meme: Publish five little known facts about yourself, and then tag five of your blogger pals to participate. Here's why I started blogging (Thanks Britt).

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 22, 2010

Have you started a blog for your nonprofit organization and then got stuck trying to come up with content? Invite guest bloggers in – clients, staff, Board, volunteers, and donors. Ask questions in blog posts and invite readers to comment. It’s a great way to encourage people to visit and read the blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. Don't forget to sign up the feeds on the agreed tag. Photo by SpacePotato. rethink, reinvent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

The Net2 Secret Plan from Marnie Webb NpTech Tag New Year's Reflections, Predictions, and Best Ofs What are some of the ways that the social web marks the New Year? The Selfish Giving Blog by Joe Waters gives us some tongue and check predictions about Cause Marketing. Let's take a look. What are the nptech social media needs for 2008?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Two items grabbed from the NTEN Blog. Lauren-Glenn Davitian's " Be the Media -- Free Speech Unfurled " guest post on NTEN blog. Nonprofit Tech Blog points to a new report from United Nations Foundation and The Vodafone Group Foundation, " Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in NGO Mobile Use."

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