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Socialbrite: Social Tools for Social Change

Amy Sample Ward

Beth Kanter, Amy Sample Ward, Katrin Verclas and John Haydon are among the familiar names in the nonprofit tech sector who are part of the effort. Amy Sample Ward, a strategist who supports and educates clients in the nonprofit and social change sectors. Socialbrite.org is built in WordPress, the popular open source blogging platform.

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Nonprofit Technology Link Love

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Nonprofit Technology Link Love July 30, 2008 Here are posts from a small sampling of bloggers I regularly read: Holly Ross shows her geek cred in a great post about DNS.

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So, You’re Thinking About Blogging? How To: Create a Blog for your Organization

Amy Sample Ward

Some of the leading platforms you may want to consider include (in alphabetical order): Blogger. (There are lots of great posts out there about getting started and selecting a platform, including this one from ProBlogger.) MoveableType. Squarespace. Prepare to Change Directions.

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Five Steps to Finding ROI

Amy Sample Ward

Whether it’s a Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad, or whatever, you have access to built-in web analytics or the option to use Google Analytics. Setting up Google Alerts for the blog address and title will help you catch whenever other bloggers or organizations mention the blog on their sites.

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NpTech Roundup: Grasshoppers and Ants - Social Fundraising Off Season

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. Amy Sample Ward writes about the new plugin launched by Social Actions that will place ???possibly

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Case Study: Tools for Community Engagement

NTEN

By Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN. When it came to blogger outreach, a Google Doc was the preferred and successful tool. They were able to update it at any time with all the information necessary to reach out to, orient, and support bloggers spreading the message about the campaign. Information for bloggers.

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Adding a Blog to Your Website and Promoting It

Tech Soup

Two I’d recommend first are Beth Kanter’s Blog and NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward's personal blog. My web developer colleague and enthusiastic blogger, Bob McDiarmid , told me that a majority of the charity nonprofit websites that he has seen are on either the Drupal or WordPress nonprofit open source platforms.