Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 8, 2009

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). Tags: roundup bookmarks discussion facebook fundraising google gov2.0 Thus today’s announcement is a very big surprise.&#.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 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). This map shows some of the sites where Oxfam is providing water and sanitation, as well as employment through the cash-for-work program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

A few months ago, I listened in on a Google Hangout with Eugene Kim and Dave Gray where they discussed the question “Is documentation learning?” For example, with board thing, we all have control over organizing and taking notes on the “sticky notes” – and was interesting to see our emergent collaboration.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Web analytics can help reveal how much traffic your site is getting and how people are finding it. You can also use analytics to see how long people are staying on your site and which pages are the most popular. Google Analytics Academy. It's designed for beginner to intermediate users of Google Analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

With that in mind I’d like to share 4 Keys to Building a Successful Web Site based on similar tactics we’ve deployed on this blog. Then use what you learn from them to grow your site! Think about how you could use Google Analytics – learn from the content you’re publishing to promote your nonprofit's fundraising event.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2020

By Grant Hensel , CEO of Nonprofit Megaphone – an agency that specializes in Google Grant management for nonprofits. Nonprofit Megaphone is Google Certified and supports over 300 nonprofit clients. What is the Google Grant? Example Use Cases: Google Grant Case Studies. A Real-Life Example.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

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). One of the findings that stood out to us: Only 40% of respondents reported that their organization has some type of formal technology plan.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

She now uses Google Search, reads her news online, sends and receives email, and even uses Facebook to check-in with family and friends. These are the tools that I used to get my Grandmother started: Google Search - So simple! Silver Surfers - This site aims to help British over 50s get the very best from the internet.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 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). However, these two alternative structures of human organization can interact in a variety of ways, both mutually beneficial and destructive.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 29, 2016

You’ve got the usual list of suspects at your organization: the online engagement tool, a blog, social media platforms, and a website. Don’t have time to click through hundreds of links on your site to see if they still work? Use the W3C Link Validator to scan your site for broken links so you know what to fix. Neither do we!

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Care2

JULY 14, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Bonus points! Easy to Moderate* 9.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

The purpose is to call attention to the problem of Information Overload, how it impacts both individuals and organizations, and what can be done to lessen its impact. Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions. If you are not reading blogs and web sites in an RSS Reader , make that your New Year's resolution.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

They originally wanted to organize a conference to convene social innovators and social entrepreneurs on the nonprofit tech cutting edge to see what everyone was doing. The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. Google Maps. What Is Web 2.0? Citizen journalism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

It has a clean interface where you quickly search, scan, and click through blogs, micro media, news, forums, social bookmarking sites, social networking sites, and other sources that are talking about you. I used to just get Google Alerts via email, but found that didn't catch everything. What tools are you using?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

apps out there, and beginning to try and use them to create content and organize my life, I have come to the following conclusion: the apps are great, but integration still sucks. These are sites that are simply aggregators of the blogs of those involved in a particular open source project (like, in this case, women involved in Ubuntu ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

2 ) that discusses how to lay the groundwork for board signoff on an organization's social media in initiatives. I Collaborate blog has a post about how to lobby for skype in your organization, if you're working internationally. ") Okay, now we're onto fondling APIs, google's to be exact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Bonus points! Easy to Moderate* 9.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Listening Listening is knowing what is being said online about your organization and your field. It becomes part of your organization's culture. It can be hard to retool an organization's culture to do listening as a daily part of the work flow, particularly if it isn't valued or there are concerns about negatives.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

Dropbox sits nicely between formal, full featured project communications tools such as Basecamp (which we also use), Central Desktop , or Google Apps and Docs. Google's new Cloud Connect is not ready for prime time. Notes and Bookmarks After starting and stopping for years, I have come to embrace Evernote.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

What are people already saying about my cause, or organization? Search on Google , Google Blog Search , Technorati , Twitter Search , and Social Mention for your cause, the name of your organization (if you have one), and the URL of your website (if you have one). Facebook , Ning ) Social bookmarking (i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Your organization has identified a social media objective, audience, strategy, tools, measurement, and experiment. Your organization may be skeptical about the value of listening through social media channels. You may need to begin with a small, low-risk listening project and share the feedback with others in your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

The goal is to encourage nonprofits to make New Year's resolutions to that help them more efficiently and effectively move people to support their organizations. Think about what is most effective for your organization's goals, mission, and capacity. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us

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Care2

MAY 21, 2009

“If you don't brand yourself, Google will brand you,&# says branding expert Sherry Beck Paprocki. How can your organization effectively brand itself and get on the radar? Photo sharing sites like Flickr. Tagging on social bookmarking sites like delicious, Digg, etc. Think about it. Tweets on Twitter.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

But if your organization decides to blog, and you want to make it easy on yourself, install Wordpress on your hosting account, or go to WordPress.com and set up a free blog. at 9:24 am Hey, I found your blog while searching on Google your post looks very interesting for me. I will add a backlink and bookmark your site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Set up Google Alerts to follow what's being said about your organization and cause online so that you can act on what's being said, join the conversation and build your community. Post that video on your website, any major sharing sites, and social networks -- then encourage people to share the videos far and wide!! Johannes).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

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). Tools and Strategy Google Earth for Green Activism. Google has been reaching out to nonprofits for its Google Earth product over the last few months.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 17, 2012

Its formatting includes bold, italics, underline, font color, alignment, bulleted and numbered lists, tables, bookmarks, comments, footnotes, endnotes, track-changes, word count, find and replace, and more. View help files (launches web browser to help site). Create a new document (Word and Excel only). Duplicate an existing document.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

2005) Susan Tenby's response to the question, " Why I use Tags " shows progression from retrieval, to social bookmarking, to sharing with others - on a personal level. Plan to use eventually to share resources with clients that aren't on the official web site.). " Keeping found things found. Organizational Level.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2005

In a recent post I claimed that tools like social bookmarking and tagging might be making waves among the technoscenti, but they are not high on the nuts-and-bolts priority list of the typical non-profit. Eventually, you will be taking this stuff for granted, just like a text search on Google. social bookmarking. Look it up.

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See3

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Some of what they found was on the low end — such as 17% of people using shared bookmarks (sites such as Del.icio.us). But we also have 60% personalizing their home pages and 85% using most-emailed articles links on news sites. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest?

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Word of mouth, etc. Blog Searches: Technorati.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

While google and yahoo have blog search features, Technorati is the considered the recognized authority on tracking blogs, It finds out who is saying what right now and is currently tracking over 75.2 You can find out what other people are saying or thinking about your topic, community, organization, program or issue area.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Michele Martin points to a new feature in google news that can spark conversations. a leading provider of software and related services designed specifically for nonprofit organizations, has announced that it has acquired privately-owned eTapestry, based in Indianapolis, Indiana. Social bookmarking in plain English!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2008

Slide 2: The National Wildlife Federation is one of the largest conservation organizations in the U.S. We are such a big tent organization that covers so many issues that we are looking for ways of broadening our audience. The more thumbs, the greater the traffic the site receives. Look at it as patient money*.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

He offers courses, consulting, and coaching to transform your organization and your leadership. Nonprofit organizations have a lot of challenges relating to fundraising. Some organizations use donor perks or benefits to do this. Don’t forget the legitimizing effect of being a part of a nonprofit organization.

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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 Katrin Verclas at NTEN is in love with Google Analytics V2 and so is Laurie Quinn. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Comparing 5 Ways To Tag Videos hit dig popular. without leaving the virtual world! The big question, what about that other 41% ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

In the early 1980s, I began writing software programs for friends in various nonprofits organizations located in an office building where I rented office space. Gradually and actually pretty much by accident other organizations found us and we eventually had a very diverse clientele. I first met Michael by googling for myself and whoa!

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