Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 1, 2009

Here are a few ways to get you diving in: Twitter. Want to find new followers and receive useful statistics to improve your Twitter usage? It’s easy to use: all you have to do is follow the Mr. Tweet twitter account and messages will be sent to you via DM. Twitter Karma. Try it out yourself!

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Definitely keep it on brand for your nonprofit, but your goal is to make them feel warm inside. Your mailed welcome kit could contain: A holiday-themed letter from the Executive Director, signed and with a short, handwritten personal note, such as: We thank you for choosing to give to our organization! Be sure to tag them all!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Almost a year ago, I got a phone call from James Leventhal who follows me on Twitter. He is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum , and an expert in using social media in a museum setting. The configuration of the physical space definitely enhances learning. ArtsLab SF View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Care2

JANUARY 17, 2012

To be in the drawing, all you need to do is write a comment on this post (a relevant one, please), and then click the button to share the post via Facebook or Twitter before midnight on Jan. And his tips for using Facebook, Twitter, blogs and email are up to date and first rate. It obviously was written to make us laugh while we learn.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 18, 2017

It’s a perfect definition for the sector and the people who power it. But it’s not enough to understand the definition and it’s always helpful to see how others in the sector tackle these issues. Anne Wallestad , BoardSource, Chapter 2: Board of Directors. Anne Wallestad, BoardSource, Chapter 2: Board of Directors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2009

Submitted by Susan Tenby, publisher of Online Communities for Social Change Today I had several discovery moments of serendipitous learning via Twitter. I am noticing lately, that I am hearing all my news before it even hits the web, let alone TV, via Twitter. suzboop on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The Pew surveys point out these benchmarks: • Nearly 20 million of the 225 million Twitter users follow 60 or more Twitter accounts and nearly 2 million follow more than 500 accounts. People are using social and Internet platforms – many of which have immense amounts of unstructured and often shallow information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2010

That’s simple, but wise advice from the definitive nonprofit social media strategy manual, “ The Networked Nonprofit.” Twitter = 827. Percentages were in the teens for those who heard about the event via television, radio, newspaper, Facebook/Twitter and friends). Do what you do best and network the rest.”. Facebook = 21,865.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

By Wendy Harman, Social Media Director, American Red Cross. In the midst of inexplicable tragedy, my personal definition of the social web got rocked. We have a robust social media presence on all the sites you'd expect: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and our blog. social tools + people = lives saved. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Grantees get better results integrating Facebook, Twitter, and other social media channels best practices and measurement. Content Curation on Twitter. Next Bruce Lesley gave a virtuoso case study of how he uses Twitter to curate news articles and resources related to children’s issues. What happened next was wonderful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

It’s either “crowdsourcing is the answer to everything” –or it’s a complaint that social networks like Facebook and Twitter are just “too full of chatter.”. We’ll focus on the fancy tools of mapping and graphing; we’ll have debates about terminology and definitions. All of this is very important. Paula Goldman.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This project has identified the following definitions of success: A Peer-to-Peer Learning Exchange. These definitions have informed the curriculum, instructional design, peer learning design, and how we will measure and learn along the way. It Isn’t Enough To Tell People About Best Practices: Hands-On, Brains-On.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits February 14, 2008 These are tidbits of things I’ve gotten recently from vendors, or gotten via feeds or twitter. Some definitely cool stuff I’ll have to have a look at. {

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

and his new media director Candice Dayoan presented to October’s Online Community Meetup in San Francisco on how a candidate can use new media to raise awareness and get the message out, as well as test the message and make adjustments based on constituent feedback. Chiu crushed this one out of the park."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Return on Investment is what many executive directors may be thinking when social media strategy comes up. But I urge you not to think of ROI in this limited, narrow way … ROI has a much broader definition than “Show me the money! KD Paine’s Twitter Measurement List. They want to know: How much will it cost?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2021

Before you start writing a tailored cultivation and solicitation plan for each major donor prospect – which is something you definitely must do – first you need to: Qualify your donors. If you’re the executive director, and have no development staff, perhaps you’ve got 7.5 But they are BIG steps that will yield BIG results.

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Achieve

AUGUST 18, 2020

You’ll definitely need the right tools for the job. . Promoting your auction on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram will be crucial for reaching your followers and expanding your audience. Will you incorporate other virtual elements, like live-streamed programming? Pay particular attention to these two channels: . Social media.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2006

It’s definitely worth a read. Seth Gottlieb (a fellow Western Mass person) has a great post on his blog about how to go about looking at the communities around open source projects. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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NTEN

JUNE 3, 2009

When we started, NTEN focused on circuit riders, accidental techies (aka "Program Assistants") and IT Directors who were helping nonprofits get constituent and donor data off of index cards and into databases -- or at least spreadsheets! Well, there's still that. We even came up with a book for that! ).

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

He definitely is "character approved" in my book. What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger. In the process of doing so, I happened to stumble across the following short video about one of our forums keynote speakers, Charles Best. Take a minute and check it out!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

We have a mix of staff who dived into social media long ago (see our business innovation blog and green business twitter feed ), and others who have maybe sort of heard of Twitter. If you’re considering running this game yourself, definitely check out what we learned ! We could have refined the structure of the two days.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2009

who is the Law & Technology Director at Fenwick & West LLP (F&W), a Silicon-Valley-based law firm. Maybe all that's needed is to insert the word and definition for social media. (I'm not a lawyer, so this isn't legal advice and I'll leave that question to the legal department!) Brownstone, Esq. Smart Colleague: Nope.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Bring your questions for this one-hour interactive event hosted online at TechSoup.org, and use #NPLive to connect on Twitter. Prior to that, he was the assistant director of the Online Leadership Program at Global Kids, where he spearheaded innovative education projects using virtual worlds, games, and social media, targeting at-risk youth.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

So this is definitely a tool to watch. at 10:36 pm I played with it here: [link] Seesmic is to youtube, as twitter is to blogging. It’s still in “private&# beta (ask for an invite, you’ll probably get one – I did.) You can share these Blists. good2gether is an interesting concept. Watch the demo.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

There is a Google group (called Social Network Portability), that you should definitely join if you are at all interested in these issues. I linked to a great thought piece a while back on opening up the social graph (that is, your network of friends.) Jon Stahl pointed me to a great article , also about opening up the social graph.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2012

Director of Idealware. She said that, while there are definitely some organizations that are using them effectively, in general "there's a limited audience that knows what to do with a QR code and is willing to do it." See the Twitter discussion from the NTC session by searching for the hashtag #12NTCmobileprograms.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Rule of thumb: projects that haven’t had minor releases in a year or more are definitely in danger of becoming projects that are no longer under development. Depending on project, going from x.2 3 might be a major or minor release. Going to a x.0 0 release – for example from 2.x is always major.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

SaaS is not, by definition either proprietary or open source. at 3:23 am I think your definition of SaaS is aspirational rather than factual. You are not obtaining the software, and whether or not you can see the code, or modify it, is really not the key issue here. But the real story is much more complicated. 5 friarminor 09.30.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

It’s definitely worth a listen. There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source. There is a podcast with a group of women developers that was recorded during RailsConf. There is a part two coming, I understand. Also, I’ll be moving this blog soon – probably next week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

He said that in the first month of this experiment, he got two phones - one was really urgent and the other he had to give a lecture to the person about the definition of urgent. But how about using Twitter as a feedback tool ? Some things I learned: Twitter is loved by google - updated rapidly. Casey posed for a photo.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

You can also use Twitter. I’ll keep an eye on Twitter as well. That alone, I don’t know how you do that and then all your other awesome, you know, fundraising and client work, but it definitely has helped out a lot of organizations raise over $1 billion, and is just a delight to listen to. But say hi. Was that it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This project has identified the following definitions of success: A Peer-to-Peer Learning Exchange. These definitions have informed the curriculum, instructional design, peer learning design, and how we will measure and learn along the way. We were able to thoroughly document the exercise here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

Quick definition Cloud computing is basically running applications on the web via “Software as a Service (SaaS)&#. So I’m going to try and lay out the details of what cloud computing is, and how it’s useful for nonprofit organizations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2007

Shell sessions are basically not doable, unless I am amazingly patient – the 4 second latency is definitely a problem in that case. YouTube ain’t bad. It even snowed a bit – and everything seems fine. But it didn’t stay good. About 5:00, the bandwidth hit the floor. It bounced back up a couple of times.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

at 10:56 am Dear Michelle, You definitely have a great sense of humor! I’m taking time off to work on science fiction writing! { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Deborah Elizabeth Finn 08.01.07 I think that the whole LOL* lpidgin phenomenon is based on a very specific sort of fun.

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Media Cause

APRIL 13, 2023

Late last year, we saw a lot of skepticism around Twitter post-Elon Musk acquisition. Our recent blog on the state of Twitter aims to help ease those fears, and we hope to do the same with this piece on TikTok. But what does this all really mean for the platform, and how does it affect your marketing plans? Kristen Friedel, Sr.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Welcome your new Penguin overlords ;-) 2 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07 at 7:57 pm You make some very good points and I think I will “go Ubuntu&# too. have you thought about which laptop might be best to load Ubuntu up on? Music converters: [link] [link] [link] 3 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07

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