Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 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). Though the social networking behemoth continues creeping toward 700 million global users, six million Americans quit the site in the month of May.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

And although that number includes a lot of fly-by-nights sites and those who don’t have staying power, blogging—especially via a WordPress site, an innovator and leader in the technology—is still a force to be reckoned with on the Internet. Keep your WordPress site simple to navigate and explore.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 8, 2010

Not being able to organize/sync bookmarks was a bit of a deal breaker. Frankly, the way Google does "beta" it's more like the dev version is the beta while the beta is a release version. Google Apps friendly. XMarks: Chrome Mac still doesn't allow for reorganizing bookmarks. Too much updating.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

Some newbie spammer posted a message on my site that shows the contents of their spam merge database. In my opinion|Personally|In my view}, if all {webmasters|site owners|website owners|web owners} and bloggers made good content as you did, the {internet|net|web} will be {much more|a lot more} useful than ever before.|

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2010

You may already know you can use Google Analytics to track your Google AdWords campaigns. Makes sense: Google would integrate puppies into their products if they thought it would help. [Ed. Forget the technical details, because Google provides a tool you can and should use to create the tracking links for you.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 10, 2015

You’re probably thinking “oh look, another blog post on responsive design with statistics and flashy words like “optimization” and “analytics”—I better bookmark this one and read it sometime…” Before you bookmark this post for “later” reading, however, I would encourage you to pause for a moment. What did Google do?

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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

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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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?” David Lavenda wrote this excellent article in Fast Company about the history of the Post-It notes and their potential for becoming a killer innovation technology.

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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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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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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2009

UK and Europe developer camp and user meetup | CiviCRM Community Site - "The developer camp is aimed at those that want to learn more about CiviCRM from the people involved in it's development. " Tags: roundup bookmarks. " Tags: roundup bookmarks. These are some links I wanted to share from May 6th.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 27, 2009

I’ve been working for C3 fulltime for four years, and it’s been a while since I made the decision to shed most of the “Mom&# stuff from the site. For my email address, I added judisohn.com as a domain in Google Apps, along with all the necessary MX entries on my MediaTemple hosted domain. Anyone know?

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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). 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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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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Robert Weiner

APRIL 19, 2009

BookmarkBridge — Keeps bookmarks in sync between multiple browsers: [link]. Google Desktop — Use Google to search your desktop files: [link]. Google Talk — An alternative to Skype, but only for 1 to 1 calls: [link]. Ad-Aware — Anti-spyware and malware tool for PCs: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2005

Via Ida Takes Tea , just discovered Google - My Search History. Takes the place of looking in your browser history through a slew of google searches for that great site you forgot to bookmark. Information overload effects memory and this tool from google is ginko biloba.

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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). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. And it's fun!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

The tools include Google Analytics, PostRank, Feedburner, and others. Hard Data Points: Look at the Feed Subscribers trends from Feedburner and Unique Visitors Trends from Google Analytics. Reader Bookmarking: This is bookmarked content for later retrieval which is some indication of reader value. .

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 29, 2016

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. Do you already know that your site is responsive, but you’re not sure how a particular post or page is looking? Google Webmaster Toolkit.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

If you are not reading blogs and web sites in an RSS Reader , make that your New Year's resolution. Set up a social media dashboard with google apps for your listening, separate it from your work email and tools. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us Are you impulse adopting tools?

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Care2

JULY 14, 2009

RSS Feeds: Add an RSS feed to your blog and news sections so people visiting your site can subscribe to your feed and stay updated on your nonprofits latest news. I like Google Feedburner because it gives visitors a choice to subscribe via RSS or email. tracks data such as click-through rates, geographic locations, etc. Bonus points!

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. social bookmarking (now called Delicious ) by using their APIs on the site. (An An example of an API is when you put a Bing or Google Map on your website.). Google Maps. Citizen journalism. Podcasting. Wikipedia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Nancy raises a few questions about whether a distributed presence for organizations - splitting the attention of members between an organization's web site and social networking profiles is a liability or an asset. ") Okay, now we're onto fondling APIs, google's to be exact. "as part of a LASA Panel she is planning.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

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 ). Second, is bookmarking. But I’m really getting toward the end of doing double or triple bookmarking. It lets you bookmark to multiple sites with one click.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

Reader Sharing (bookmarked items). engagement) to leave a comment or write your own blog post responding to someone else's, for example, than it does to just click on a post to read it, or click a button to bookmark it. And as readers start to respond -- commenting, tweeting, bookmarking, etc., Should also note, re.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

He also pointed me recently to a tool called CoReap ( www.coreap.com ), a social search and bookmarking add-on for your web browser. If you bookmark web sites and web pages on a regular basis, or do team research on the web, then CoReap is just the tool for you! and then of course getting enough colleagues to use it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

RSS Feeds: Add an RSS feed to your blog and news sections so people visiting your site can subscribe to your feed and stay updated on your nonprofits latest news. I like Google Feedburner because it gives visitors a choice to subscribe via RSS or email. tracks data such as click-through rates, geographic locations, etc. Bonus points!

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 20, 2009

It’s tons faster, especially for heavy sites I live in like Salesforce and Fever. Rather than an intrusive pop-up to add a new site, the request is just under the tab bar. Xmarks: This keeps my bookmarks in sync across all my browsers across multiple machines and platforms, including my VMWare Fusion virtual machine.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 20, 2009

It’s tons faster, especially for heavy sites I live in like Salesforce and Fever. Rather than an intrusive pop-up to add a new site, the request is just under the tab bar. Xmarks: This keeps my bookmarks in sync across all my browsers across multiple machines and platforms, including my VMWare Fusion virtual machine.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

There was much speculation as to whether they mover to Jaiku (with its newly minted Google money), or Pownce, BrightKite, Tumblr, plurk or FriendFeed. And for expert level knowledge, read these blog posts about FriendFeed that Louis Gray has bookmarked.). To learn more about Twitter scaling issues read this interview by Jesse Stay.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

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. Where will people be redirected to if they come to a site that no longer exists?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Google Reader. Do search at site for the first time. Google Alerts. URLs for your blog, web site, online community. Google Alerts. Your tools are social bookmarking and the excel spreadsheet and, of course, your brain. Using Delicious to Bookmark mentions. WeAreMedia Tool Box: Social Bookmarking 7.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

If you are not reading blogs and web sites in an RSS Reader , make that your New Year's resolution. Set up a social media dashboard with google apps for your listening, separate it from your work email and tools. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us Are you impulse adopting tools?

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