Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 17, 2009

Silos Culture Inside the Walls of Nonprofits Prevent Effective Social Media Use - Beth Kanter's post about internal silos in nonprofits reminds me of a post and the ensuing conversation that happened in the comments on my blog about a month ago. open source applications for helping make the government more transparent from Sunlight Labs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

So a conversation is happening, in a session, or in a plenary, and people are talking about that on another channel. My workflow does involve the web, for sure, but I can only keep up with so many social networking sites of varied uses (social bookmarking, social networking like Linked in, community blogs etc. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

He finds blogging valuable for the same reasons I do, although I love the way he phrased it: I'm really hooked on the idea of blogs all being linked together into one big mega-conversation. e.g. is it correct to have an email conversation like this and then go blog about it ? (I I probably will anyway!). it will come I'm sure!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. Need to catch up last week's ROI conversations so you can jump in - start here. Social Bookmarking. Enjoy this post about nonprofit open source software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

It would based on an analysis of all the "words" or tags that people have used to describe resources also bookmarked with nptech. It's a taken a long time but I bet there's enough data in the nptech tag on a combination of bookmarking systems to do a little crunching and get at some of those commonly used terms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

A few days ago, I got a ping from Deborah Finn via a social bookmarking service with a pointer to the same book - " Nonprofits and Technology: Emerging Research for Usable Knowledge " One of the chapters is called "Geeks for Good: Technology Evangelism and the Role of Circuit Riders in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

" And now, you can bookmark Second Life locations (called slurls) into del.icio.us Webinars about personal fundraising (with Kevin Bacon) and Open Source Software (Michelle Murrain) over at NTEN next week. It's prompting some conversation in nptech space and beyond. without leaving the virtual world!

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 11, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of October 11th).

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of February 24th).

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

This came particularly frustrating when I started an Ello account for our web agency @RadCampaign so we could share fun photos and musings related to open source and philanthropy. Then select the last checkbox Categorize as: Social , and check the box Also apply filter to matching conversations. Here is what they said.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

That was the conversation in the nonprofit, nonprofit technology, and social change social media space. Here's a summary of the distributed conversations, some context, and some questions. nonprofit technology thought leader Marnie Webb created the NpTech Tag as a way for nonprofit techies to share bookmarks on del.icio.us.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Democracy Lab : DemocracyLab is an experiment in direct democracy, powered by open source software, and built on the idea that technology can empower us to harness freedom of speech and the power of the vote to solve today’s most challenging problems. You should too. helps you keep tabs on the U.S.

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