Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 29, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 6 of the recently released book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Go to “People” and search individually by name, or import your contacts from your e-mail address books. Automated tweets just clutter the feed, and many people find them annoying.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

Within Media Cause’s Creative, Brand, and Design team, one of our favorite things to do— besides creating incredible work for our clients—is sharing inspirational and educational resources with each other: articles, POVs, webinars, classes, books, case studies, blogs, tutorials, cheese. Just wanted to see if you were paying attention.).

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

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Socialbrite

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

But when you send cold emails to individual leads, you can use their name, reference their professional career and even mention causes they’ve listed on their LinkedIn profile. Army Reserve Puerto Rico, reads a book to children during a storytime event. The key factor to a successful cold email campaign is personalization. .

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Here are even more blog posts, articles, and event recaps to get you started: Facebook uses an algorithm called EdgeRank to determine the makeup of each user's news feed. The guide also includes a handy, downloadable cheat sheet for reference. TechSoup's Social Media Resources. So you mastered social media?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

I've never been referred to as an comic strip character. (It Allison Fine in her book Momentum notes: "Listening requires genuine interest in what that person is saying and a willingness to change as a result of what was said." Add the feed to your RSS Reader. Follow the feed and leave comments when mentioned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Congrats to Allison Fine for the Terry McAdam Book Award. " (At first, I thought the title might refer to Electric Sheep Company , a big player in virtual worlds, and that it would lead to some more reflections on the MacArthur Foundation's recent Philanthropy Event in Second Life.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Here are even more blog posts, articles, and event recaps to get you started: Facebook uses an algorithm called EdgeRank to determine the makeup of each user's news feed. The guide also includes a handy, downloadable cheat sheet for reference. TechSoup's Social Media Resources. So you mastered social media?

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

I'm giving a talk about blogging at the meeting of the Marin Branch of the California Writers Club tomorrow at the Book Passage in Corte Madera. Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez Books: Dirty Girls Social Club, Playing with Boys, Make Him Look Good, Haters. Barbara Ehrenreich Books: 18! You can see them all here.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 3, 2006

But pretty soon find yourself lying in bed at night wondering about the best format to use to feed data to the web page. But before long you'll get fed up with the tediousness of parsing individual data elements out of the raw XML feed. XPATH promises a way out. Still seems pretty complicated?

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 13, 2011

So, I was immediately interested when a link to an article, titled " Good Intentions vs. Good Results ," popped up on my Twitter feed. It references a very interesting-looking book called More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty by Yale researcher Dean Karlan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

   Several people pointed to Cynthia Derosier, author of The Surfer Spirit Book and recently published The Survivor Spirit : The Beauty, Passion, and Power of Breast Cancer Survivors.     What is your new book about?   I asked folks who was doing interesting social change work with Aloha spirit.  

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

While it may be ideal to have a fully integrated setup, a good stepping stone is one that feeds data directly to the CRM but appears to use the same CMS as the rest of the site. For a business with a need to invoice and have a product book, I’ve looked at ZohoCRM and like it, but don’t see references to any integration with a CMS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

Wikipedia's definition of widget also points to some popular, cultural, and technical, including: A comic book character and copyrighted image. A reference to gadget in the Delta Airlines Logo. There are beer widgets that create foamy heads in a canned beer, with the first one patented by Guiness. What problem does a widget solve?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

According to Tara Hunt , author of a fabulous social media marketing book called The Whuffie Factor , there are a few things that comprise your, or your organization's, social capital: Connections: Who do you know? You can then save those searches as RSS feeds, or in the application you use for Twitter. That's not all! Good question!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A nonprofit organization that provides support for homeless in Northern, CA found references to homeless people on restaurant blogs and used what they learn for a fundraising campaign. news or web feeds ???? or software that gathers all the news feeds in one place where you can scan/read them quickly. Consuming Reading Feeds.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Download a copy of the full report as a PDF file from Imagine Canadas online reference library: Effective knowledge transfer & exchange for nonprofit organizations : a framework (PDF) Fataneh Zarinpoush, Shirley Von Sychowski, Julie Sperling. Nicks Book Blog. logs and evaluation forms â?? Toronto : Imagine Canada , 2007.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I refer to her as Number 2 in the project. I've been in conversation with some people who I know and trust here in Pittsburgh, and also in some other cities, but it's a slow process, and I'm OK with that, because I have this wonderful project and it's feeding my soul. I hope it's feeding the souls of other people. Oh, thank you.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Actually, I think that the two of you combined now hold the record for the most books written by a Bloomerang webinar guest. If I was in the office, I would hold up Harvey’s great new book on monthly giving, which is behind my desk and really awesome. So monthly giving if you’re interested in that, please, get that book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Will you buy my book ? Stuffing your basket with books? You thought (and rightfully so): “Why is this lady, who I do not know, asking me to buy her book? Maybe it wasn’t you, per se, who penned the pitch, but organizations send out appeal letters all the time that are just as creepy as my request for you to buy my book.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

And her social media feeds are full of polished, highly personalized content, which is good for everyone. I had never been to LACC before, but I was referred by one of my neighbors for a neurological consultation. I visited my doctor who referred me to LACC for diagnosis. “Fundwriter helps me do my best work.”

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

With an integrated campaign, your donors and prospects will connect with your Ask as they see the same message in their inbox, their mailbox, and their social media feed. Ask donors to contribute to your food pantry so you can feed 100 new families going through tough times. And you need lots of warm touches in between the Asks.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

I’ll keep kind of half an eye on the Twitter feed as well. It was getting in the way of me booking those face-to-face meetings that I loved so much. . So it turns out we humans are hardwired with what neuroscientists refer to as a negativity bias. She wrote a great book called “My Stroke of Insight.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2018

Note from Beth: In my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout, we discuss how to create a culture of wellbeing to encourage self-care. At Firespring, we have a daily meeting we refer to as our Firestarter. I’ll be doing a free webinar hosted by Firespring on avoiding burnout on Feb.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

I’ll keep kind of half an eye on the Twitter feed as well. It was getting in the way of me booking those face-to-face meetings that I loved so much. . So it turns out we humans are hardwired with what neuroscientists refer to as a negativity bias. She wrote a great book called “My Stroke of Insight.”

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

When it comes to innovation in civil society, there is nothing that can match the speed and ingenuity of communities that come together to make a change, develop a tool, or feed a need. Not exactly a simple circle, but a cycle that after a few steps feeds back to the beginning. I like to refer to that as finding the sweet spot.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2008

This week, we're covering the second objective in Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff's book Groundswell : talking (chapter 6). The next level is to produce your own talk, via profiles on social networking sites, a twitter feed, flickr group, blogs, podcasts, or online video. Tags: Book Discussion: Groundswell web2.0 marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2009

The Twitter Book - A Sneak Preview View more presentations from oreillymedia. Rheingold says that success on Twitter boils down to: It comes down to tuning and feeding. The feeding part is what you tweet. How does what your feed your Twitter networks support your social media objectives?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

She joined Benetech so she could learn more about Bookshare and how it is making books and periodicals more accessible to people with print disabilities. He’s working on the new Bookaccess program – and he’s working on Benetech’s larger mission – “Raising the Floor,” a phrase that refers to making technology accessible to all.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 11, 2012

This post was authored by Beth Kanter, author of the new book Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , and creator of Beth's Blog , where she writes how networked nonprofits leverage networks and data for social change. Register to join us for the free talk and check out when her book tour will be in your area.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Why Apple isn’t the Nonprofit App Grinch Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on December 10th, 2010 Nonprofit social media expert Beth Kanter isn’t happy with Apple at the moment. Something like that would truly be getting it right.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 30, 2022

Try to represent different aspects of your brand in your logo like in this example: The Feeding America logo is a great example of how to use graphics to optimize your brand identity. The connecting letter I in Feeding and America represents the network of food banks around the country. Books, colored pencils, and mousepads.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

There is a new site, called " Campus Reader " which aggregates feeds from college news sources. So if you are a hardware geek, expect to pay MS every other time you get a new motherboard Is this referring to activation? I like it. Anyone for "Nonprofit Reader"? Yahoo and Microsoft have Google Envy. Is this news? {

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Unique Visitors & Feed Subscribers). " That's a hard question for me to answer because as Kaushik notes and all of us bloggers know all too well -- many analytics programs do not track RSS feeds. The dramatic rise a year ago was I consolidated several RSS feeds so Feedburner was reporting aggregate statistics.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2008

Set up Yammer to host an internal, private free Twitter feed for your institution. Some operations teams use a log book to keep staff updated on the activities of the previous day, but too many rely on word-of-mouth and lose the opportunity to document institutional history and convey knowledge from staff member to staff member.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

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