Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

These are my links for February 19th through February 27th: How the National Wildlife Federation Uses Twitter | Tweeterism - Danielle Brigida is a superstar, works for National Wildlife Federation as the Operations Coordinator. Here's an interview with Danielle on NWF's use of Twitter. 5 Ways to Collaborate on Documents Online in Real Time - London Net Tuesday's upcoming event on 3 March focuses on online collaboration tools and strategies.

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Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Google has been offering free donation processing to nonprofits for the past couple of years through Google Checkout. That free service will end on March 1 except for U.S.-based nonprofits that receive Google Grants. Other nonprofits will pay 2% + $0.20 per transaction (but at least there won’t be any monthly, setup, or gateway service fees like others have to pay).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Mpower Open, the vendor who took their high-end CRM/DMS product, MPX , open source last year, has adopted a new name, Orange Leap. They have also released two new products, called Orange Leap and the Guru. The combination of Orange Leap and The Guru are a web-based CRM/DMS and reporting system aimed squarely at Salesforce.com and Convio Common Ground.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

I recently had a great meeting with Terry Farris and Alan Keliipuleole of the newly launched ammado web platform. It’s an impressive web-based application for helping multi-national corporations engage their employees and customers in social sector activities such as volunteering or donating. It’s the brainchild of an Irish tech entrepreneur, Peter Conlon.

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Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

'Thanks to suggestions from the good folks in New York and Texas, we have released a new Presenting Needs tool. Complete with auto gap analysis and reporting! Depending on which switch you want turned on, you can now make identification of presenting needs and met and unmet needs part of your everyday work flow. The new module captures met needs by tracking the classification of any referral you make, and the unmet tool lets you indicate the nature of an unmet need.

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Judi Sohn

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

I’m getting a little tired of companies that should know better using the word “beta&# to mean “we’re not responsible.&#. Google, take the silly “beta&# off of Gmail already. And Adobe, this rant’s for you. I was very excited when Adobe introduced Acrobat.com. I don’t care about the buzzword word processor. What I wanted was a better way to do shared comment reviews from Acrobat desktop software.

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Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Every day it seems like there’s a new article on how nonprofits and businesses can use Twitter for engagement, activism, marketing, and fundraising. Today’s entry comes from the Chronicle of Philanthropy, which published When Characters Count: Advice for Charities on Making the Most of Twitter. Their recommendations include: Do some casual research to learn if people who care about your cause are talking about it on the site.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

What? She’s talking about Blackbaud? Yes, it might be surprising, but I got a friendly email from fellow NTEN Board Member Steve McLaughlin, who also happens to be head of all things internet (more formally, Director, Internet Solutions) at Blackbaud. He gave me a demo and overview of their NetCommunity tool, which has been around for a while, and I figured it deserved a blog entry.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Section 121 of the Copyright Act, also known as the Chafee Amendment (17 U.S.C. Section 121) , defines a special class of organizations known as authorized entities. Quoting from the statute: "authorized entity" means a nonprofit organization or a governmental agency that has a primary mission to provide specialized services relating to training, education, or adaptive reading or information access needs of blind or other persons with disabilities Bookshare represents that it is a 501(c)(3) nonp

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

I recently had the opportunity to speak to David Kinard at Marketing News Radio about the benefits nonprofits can realize through investment in their web presence.

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Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio

The average nonprofit uses five or more different software platforms to create their donor’s journey, making the experience clunky and disjointed. If you want to design a magical online giving experience for donors, making their journey as seamless as possible is key. In this webinar with expert Tim Sarrantonio, you’ll learn the fundamental steps to create an immersive and personalized online giving experience for your donors.

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Judi Sohn

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Shelly Weiler. July 7, 1941 - February 10, 1999. He would have loved living in 2009. DVRs, broadband, iPhones, GPS, 3G, HDTV. All barely ideas when he died 10 years ago today. He’d love them all. And he would have had a great blog. If you knew my Dad, and you’re thinking about him today as much as I am, please help me fight colorectal cancer in his name.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. February’s Net2 Think Tank sprang from an interview with Clay Shirky, the author of Here Comes Everybody. The topic asked: What do you think the role of nonprofit organizations is in the changing world of social media? This month, we also have a book giveaway of a free copy of Skiry’s paperback edition of Here Comes Everybody for one of the contributors.

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Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Idealware just published an article by Keith Heller called Do You Need New Donor Management Software? Keith urges nonprofits to look before they leap into new software, cautioning that "new software may not make anything better — in fact, it could make things worse." He then addresses what new software could do for your organization, as well as "Signs That a New System Wont Cure What Ails You," "Signs That a New System Would be Helpful," and the thorny topic of "

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Photo by Marco Wessel Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending one of NTEN's "Ask the Expert" calls and chats with Wendy Harman who is the professional listener for the Red Cross. She has a social media elevator pitch just in case she runs into one of the senior managers. It goes something like this: " I'm the social media lady who builds relationships with our stakeholders online.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

I’ve been watching with interest the legal controversy over the synthetic speech capability of the new version of the Amazon Kindle, such as the coverage on Boing-Boing entitled Author's Guild claims text-to-speech software is illegal. I think it’s time to write a series of short essays on the struggle for accessible books, starting with this brouhaha.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Should all nonprofits have a blog? Nope. Can having a blog benefit your organization? Yup. Below are eight benefits of having a nonprofit blog. 1. Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. If you've worked for a nonprofit, you know how painfully long it can take to put together a newsletter. Blog posts, on the other hand, can be written in 15-30 minutes.

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Wild Apricot

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

When a series of home and auto burglaries hit the community of Seven Oaks, Florida, last summer, Andy Denbo of EdgeLineTech.com responded by launching a new website, SevenOaksWatch. The site’s main focus was to gather information, keep residents informed of crimes in the neighborhood, and possibly to help establish a community Crime Watch Patrol. Revamped with a members-only login system to ensure its users’ privacy, the website took off — and soon grew into a full-fledged multi-purpose communit

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

These are my links for February 11th through February 19th: Fundraising Kit from Red Nose Day - Check out this fundraising kit from Red Nose Day, complete with ideas, case studies, example forms and more! Hat tip to Tessy Britton! FreshNetworks Blog » Blog Archive » Keep up-to-date with the best in online communities blogging - Today, Communities and Networks Connection launched.

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Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Word 2003 and Acrobat Professional 5 aren’t on speaking terms. As far as I’ve been able to tell, PDFMaker, which provides 1-click integration with Word, is incompatible with Word 2003 and higher. I removed PDFMaker from the Word startup file according to these instructions and no longer get error messages. I can still use Acrobat Distiller as a printer to create PDF output, and use Acrobat Pro to edit the output.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Listen Learn Adapt: The Secret To Nonprofit Social Media Success View more presentations from kanter. (tags: blogs facebook ). These is a rough cut where I've riffed on some of the ideas in David Armano's " The Collective Focus Group:Listen, Learn, and Adapt " and extended them to nonprofits and social media. I was inspired wondered how and if it might translate to nonprofits and social media.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Lately there's lots of buzz about innovative ways that government can use new technologies share data, increase citizen visibility, and promote participation. Our staff and clients are excited by the Obama administration's pledge to promote transparency in government, as well as the DC government's recent innovations with public data. As part of this, Forum One is participating in a number interesting activities over the next few months: First, we're co-sponsoring and attending the Transparency

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

I have a confession to make: I'm rooting for some organization, any organization, to unseat the Humane Society of the United States as the winner of this year's Nonprofit Video Awards. It's not that last year's winning video, " Overlooked: The Lives of Animals Raised for Food ", was bad. Quite the contrary: it was very well made, with important, disturbing, and timely information.

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Wild Apricot

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Networks of networks (or associations of associations) are far from rare, but the Ontario Nonprofit Network is especially interesting in how it helps to build cross-sector alliances. It's all based on the constellation governance model, "a way of organizing a group of interested parties to meet a need without having to create a new organization.".( read more ).

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Visit nten.org/scholarship and donate now to get your vote for Holly’s fate. I mentioned before that Convio, the main sponsor of 09NTC ( the Nonprofit Technology Conference from NTEN ), is matching funds in NTEN’s scholarship appeal. Holly Ross, the Executive Director of NTEN, is upping the challenge by throwing herself into the ring: Visit nten.org/scholarship and donate now to get your vote for Holly’s fate!

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Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

From the Foundation Center’s RFP bulletin: The Tides Foundation Invites Nominations for Award Honoring Open Source Software Developers Who Add Value to Nonprofit Sector. Deadline: March 2, 2009. The Tides Foundation is accepting nominations for the $10,000 Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest. The annual prize — now in its third year — honors a software developer whose work has made an outstanding contribution to the nonprofit sector and to ongoing effort

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Flickr Photo from Ross Mayfield Still reflecting on the question " Are Fundraising Groundwells A Massive Opportunity or Distraction for Nonprofit Organizations?" Found this oldish post in my bookmark collection called Power Law of Participation for social software by Ross Mayfield. When users participate in high engagement activities, connecting with one another, a different kind of value is being created.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Forum One was lucky enough to be invited to the Fifth Annual United Nations' Web4Dev conference , hosted by UNICEF, which brought together global thought leaders and innovators from the United Nations, academia, the development and private sectors to focus on the importance of strategic partnerships, innovation and new technology for achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Here's a provocative question from James on the Social Actions community blogs: What if they don't know about social media? What is the point of a social media strategy if most of your nonprofit's constituents and supporters aren't aware of or interested in new media? So, what is a progressive, hot-for-social-media non-profit supposed to do? Just use email (said with teenage sarcasm)?

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Wild Apricot

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

We've quickly become used to finding free or low-cost web tools and services for collaborating and communicating online, sharing media across platforms, or bringing new interactivity to our websites. Now, as business models change in response to the economic recession, nonprofits' online toolboxes are changing, too.( read more ). Tags: Widgets Non-profit technology Web 2.0 nptech.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

These are my links for February 10th through February 11th: Nonprofit SOS: Advertising on nonprofit websites? - With the economic down-turn, organizations (for profit and nonprofits) are looking at new ways to bring in additional funding and advertising online is an option many are discussing. Kristen Denzer provides an honest view why nonprofits shouldn't sell advertising on their websites.

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