Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2010

Stacey Monk and I exchanged messages last week, brainstorming the idea of pulling bloggers together to support Beth’s birthday campaign. To recap : the methods for sharing and promoting the campaign were also designed to create easy ways of measuring participation and impact. Amy (& Stacey). Lesson #5: Say thanks!

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 22, 2020

the technology that helps raise awareness of the cause. Depending on the cause you’re working on, as well as the size of your nonprofit, you should include one of these methods to see if you’ve met your goals: Narrowing down the mission statement. the donors who can also be seen as customers ? Author Bio.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reflection and Evaluation March 10, 2008 Michele Martin, one of my fave bloggers, has a great post today on Reflective Practice.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2014

Norman Reiss, Project Manager, Technology, Center for Court Innovation. Steve Heye, Manager of Technology, The Cara Program. Paula Jones, Director of Technology, North Carolina Center for Nonprofits. Alex Kadis, Technology Manager, Repair the World. Graham Reid, Information Technology Manager, Catholic Charities Society.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Technology at the Margins: How IT Meets The Needs of Emerging Markets by Salesh Chutani, Jessica Rothenberg AAlami, and Akhtar Badshah. Digital activism is defined by the Meta-Activism Project as “the practice of using digital technology for political and social change.&# More about the book here. 6. ShareThis!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2005

I'm working with an afterschool program/ctc lab to develop an instructional technology plan. In addition to the traditional methods of integrating technology, I want them to explore some simple ways to integrate these new tools such as tagging and blogging without running away screaming.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2011

Technology and social networking means, according to Paynter, “Community has never before been more important for organization success.” Meanwhile, Care2’s blogging network is comprised of 80 bloggers writing compellingly about a multitude of causes that matter to its membership.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 29, 2011

The TechSoup team is composed of Susan Tenby , Online Community Director; Evonne Heyning , Interactive Media Producer; Rik Panganiban , Nonprofit Commons Online Community Manager; Michael DeLong , Online Community Manager; Kristy Graves , Social Media Specialist; Susan Chavez , Blogger; and Alexandra (Ale) Bezdikian , Online Community Coordinator.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 17, 2016

Not too long ago, connections were forged outside of technological communications and maintained via sheer will. Bloggers just like myself are sitting there tormenting their brains in an effort to say things that impact you more than the person before them. ​. What Makes Social Learning so Interesting?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

So, the Sharing Foundation has continued to use our method of getting donated laptops in the US, refurbishing them, and getting them to Cambodia. Even better, the green laptops would match the video blogging kits that Ryanne Hodson and Jay Dedman brought over the month before I brought the same kits to the Cambodian Bloggers Summit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Mazur uses technology,a web-based monitoring system where students submit answers to questions about the reading prior to coming to class. first met Juanita Brown who created the method through my blog in 2006. The last question asks students to tell Mazur what confused them. Techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

I'm going to the Cambodian Blogger Summit in a few weeks. My first exposure to "unconferences" or Open Space Technology was during a week-long arts and education professional development seminar in 1997. This is a great method for peer learning. What is the best blog platform for mobile bloggers?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2006

It talks about the disparity of audiences between the so called A-List and other bloggers. Which would be just fine, because it would let blogging become what it was always destined to be: just another digital technology and method of communication, one with plenty to offer but no particular claim to revolution. February, 2006.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

Peter's analysis of my "method" made me stop and take a look at what my "method" really is because, certainly, it has not been strategically planned out or even really considered until now! I started using Twitter on September 24, 2008, and my first tweet was, "Working on two new loan requests on Lend4Health."

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2005

on the Nonprofit Community It's happening in TechSoup: a five-day online post-fest October 24-October 28 Join CompuMentor's community engagement program director John Lorance and a host of leading Web technology advocates as they demystify Web 2.0 Eddie Codel , social networking technology advocate and Webzine conference organizer.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MAY 9, 2006

Just a few days ago I pointed you to the EFF Legal Guide for Bloggers. In my first post of the year , I shared my thoughts about using Scrum, a project management method intended for software development projects, to manage other types of IT efforts. Here are a few updates to topics I've written about in the last while. Legal matters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

From Flickr User Philswin2003 The above flickr photo is from the Nonprofit Software Development Summit and some flipchart notes illustrating what's going on right now: inspiration, matchmaking, and practical methods! nonprofit technology. Tools Creating Passionate Users Blog asks " Are our tools making us dumber ?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Via Laura Quinn at Idealware comes a pointer to a research paper titled " Technology Motivators and Usage in Not-for-Profit Arts Organizations " that comes from the Systems Synthesis Project course at the H. " The 1cent thoughts on NPTech blog muses , "Is technology the step child of older organizations?

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

My social marketing colleague Craig Lefebvre, who has a blog ( On Social Marketing and Social Change ), asked me to expand some comments I had made on the Social Marketing Listserve as a guest blogger. Perhaps most of your target audience members are not technologically savvy and don???t This would make a great blog post!???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

After studying irrigation and soil and water conservation, which pays attention to the interface between social systems and irrigation technology in developing countries, she worked for ten years in Africa. " Later, her work brought her to Mali, where she advised on participatory methods. Technology. Practical examples.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 8, 2020

The organization will often do something to facilitate the raising of funds, but the exact method of how is up to the individual fundraisers. Whereas traditional peer-to-peer methods will focus on one single event, such as a run, the DIY model does not,” writes Henry Vashon, a blogger at Draftbeyond. Trends in DIY Fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

Some people choose one site or method to connect with others, while others are "network weaving," jumping from one site to another. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. And if you???re re enjoying this blog, please consider subscribing for free

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Nonprofit technology, and more! Its 45 workshops, seminars and lectures explore internal and external strategies, systems, methods, best practices and successful examples. It will bring together the practitioners, scientists and creative minds of behavior change to discuss the science and technology of change. Technology.

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

sessions at NTEN, Nonprofit Technology Conference in New Orleans last week. This is something we have been working on at See3 – methods to build a network of influencers in the social networks who will carry your torch. I went to several Web 2.0 It was amazing how many there were, sometimes even two at the same time.

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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. Why are people religious about technology? Or rather, why do people group themselves religiously around technology? Technology isn't supposed to be religious. I've been doing some reading recently about 2.0

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The idea of using the Internet to aggregate a crowd to fund a project is a modern complement to, if not a full-on replacement for, traditional fundraising methods that are aging badly in the non-profit space. Look for bloggers both locally and nationally who are covering your space that may be interested in writing about you.

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Byte Technology

MARCH 29, 2016

The first two are incredibly easy to set up, they both accept a wide variety of payment methods and each works across more than 100 different currencies. And both are ideal for people who sell something through their website, especially bloggers and other web-based professionals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation. When you take the time to comment on a post, you become part of the blogger's community and if you are writing a blog, they will most definitely read your post and perhaps become a reader of your blog.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

They don’t have a huge technology staff or flashy initiatives, but they have done many smart, simple projects that have caught my eye. What can we do to grow Columbus as a tech hotspot and energize kids about technology?” We would have never touched these folks in our traditional methods. They regularly ask, “How can I help?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Craig Wing An electrical engineer, MBA student, South African of Chinese descent, founder of not one but two companies, world traveler, former missionary, and current blogger, it's pretty hard to keep up with Craig Wing, let alone categorize him. Firestone grew up on a small farm in Vermont, and has always been interested in agriculture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

I may just be cynical, but I’ve seen too many technology providers claim that their tools will help organizations raise money, engage volunteers, mobilize action, or generally address organizational challenges in ways that only the internet is suited to do. Its not about the technology. Let’s review: Its not about the technology.

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Gyrus

APRIL 12, 2018

Technology. We have grown up in an inclement technological landscape, seemingly with the devices themselves. Due to our inclination to excel on the technological front, millennials need access to learning on a variety of platforms. What Are Millennials Strengths? Putting It All Together. Fourthly, and finally; challenge them.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Whatever your passion – from mapping urban trees to advising nonprofits or building apps to make information more accessible – tune in to your ever-active nonprofit technology community to be inspired and stay connected! The report is a product of the Technology for Engagement Summit which convened early this summer. Interest piqued?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

She writes: I love how social technologies allow us to discover more beautiful voices and empower people. I'll stop now, but if the students taking this class want to connect with people who work with nonprofits and are using social media, my birthday party has a terrific list of 66 bloggers to connect with. I'm going to twitter more!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

Photo by James Jordan I'm actually in the clouds, flying to California on Virgin America using the (not free) wifi listening to Mark Pesce's keynote via Mike Seyfang delivered the other day at Connecting Up Australia the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Australia (see web site for details). I keynoted the conference last year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

I've also been looking at examples from the corporate sector like the POST method from Forrester and thinking about adaptions for nonprofit. Or, if you are considering a blog, find out who the key bloggers are in your topic area. This will allow you to observe what your audience is saying in their natural environment.

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