Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

I’m really excited and honored to be speaking today at the SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, TX, on a panel with Beth Kanter, Dave Neff, Holly Ross and Kari Saratovsky. We’ll be facilitating a conversation, more than doing a formal presentation, and will focus on the power of crowdsourcing (using our own case study from conducting the Social Media for Social Good case study competition) and the application of social media in nonprofit program delivery.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2010

I’ve been doing a bit of playing around with Drupal 7 in my copious spare time (not a whole lot of that!) I’ve also been keeping track, a bit of how the development process is going, and what things will look like. One thing to say – it feels like as big an improvement as Drupal 6 was to Drupal 5. Of course, mostly, Drupal is only as good as it’s contributed modules (that’s a bit more of a stretch, now, because many of the key contributed modules, like CCK, are now

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NCE Social Media

MARCH 18, 2010

Here’s a video that explains how to set up an event on Facebook at a fairly basic level. If you’ve done this previously with with success, please feel free to share your experiences in the comments section. Tags: Education and Training Facebook Video events facebook.

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NetWits

MARCH 18, 2010

We Can End This is a yearlong initiative focused on sparking innovation and broader engagement in the movement to end hunger in America. It's official kickoff went down at South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive 2010 much like the Pledge to End Hunger did in 2009. On top of unvailing the new movement at SXSW a new website was launched and a frontpage promotion was put on Mashable.com.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2010

This is cross-posted from the #4Change blog here. From the newest member of the #4Change team, ChristinasWorld : In the wake of South by Southwest in Austin, and in anticipation of some exciting social media and social change gatherings coming up on the 2010 events calendar, we thought it could be useful to explore How Social Media Can Enhance Events as the topic for the March #4change chat.

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VisionLink

MARCH 18, 2010

'Responding to revised specifications from HUD, we are pleased to release a revised Quarterly Progress Report. The logic tables have been updated to the revised specifications, ensuring accurate and useful reporting tools for Homeless Management users. There is more! We have also improved the data set up process for HMIS records related to the QPR, and cleaned up several data entry steps.

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NetWits

MARCH 19, 2010

As companies are increasing their focus on doing good , it only makes sense that everywhere you looked at SXSW Interactive this year, people were talking about do-gooding. Twitter’s Evan Williams was expected to talk about a new ad platform during his keynote interview, but instead talked about his company’s values, with #1 being “Be a force for good.”.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 17, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of March 17th). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. 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).

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VisionLink

MARCH 18, 2010

'We are very pleased to welcome Jobs for the Future to the VisionLink network of partners across the United States and around the world. Jobs for the Future identifies, develops, and promotes new education and workforce strategies that help communities, states, and the nation compete in a global economy. JFF is the authoritative source for best practices, policies, and research across a wide range of workforce and educational issues.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 18, 2010

Google Voice's attempts at transcribing voicemails never fail to entertain. The actual message from my husband was: "Hi honey, it's me. Call me back please. Thank you." And Google Voice thought he said: tee hee. Permalink.

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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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NCE Social Media

MARCH 17, 2010

First, I want to acknowledge that there are now 83 Arc-related groups on Twitter. At the Arc of the US Convention in Albuquerque in 2009 you could count them on one hand. That’s impressive adoption of this emerging technology in the past 16 months. I want to share with you a story that happened to us in Pittsburgh last week. Our internet connection went down on Monday, March 8.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2010

Mark Horvath, known as " HardlyNormal " on Twitter and who is a tireless advocate for the cause of homelessness, was the winner of the SXSW Pepsi Refresh Challenge. Gary Vee , a social media celebrity champion and many others, helped this cause win the contest and receive a grant of $50,000 for Invisible People TV. Mark uses social media to tell the story of homeless people in America.

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VisionLink

MARCH 17, 2010

'Thanks to a wonderfully coordinated effort (no pun intended) by both the national CAN staff and VisionLink''s development, Q&A and Help Desk staff, the new national Coordinated Assistance Network solution has been released across the Web. This major rebuild provides client I&R and case management portals which match the FEMA disaster regions, communication tools that support both nation-wide messaging and disaster specific needs, and extraordinary security and permission tools that prov

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 14, 2010

Yesterday and last night, we had some nasty storms. Woke up this morning to blinking clocks, which means we had a short power failure at some point. I don't shut my iMac down at night because that's when backup jobs run. The not even 2 year old iMac is connected to a UPS battery backup. When I went to the computer this morning, it was shut down.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

The program book has gone to print, the Miss Piggy costume has arrived, and the registration numbers keep rising. We're only 20 days away from the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference -- but who's counting? Just like in past years, we'll be kicking off the 10NTC with the Science Fair. This opening reception provides an opportunity to network with nptech professionals while checking out the over 100 exhibitors showing off their latest and greatest offerings to the nonprofit sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2010

. The Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) is to nonprofit techies what SXSW is to social media professionals. Translation: You have to go! I've been going before the NTC was the NTC. This year's conference will celebrate the 10th Anniversary. Woo Hoo! While the registration is affordable, when you add the travel and lodging, and it is stretch, especially if you're just starting out.

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 17, 2010

If you don’t have mad PhotoShop skillz, if you don't want to install new software, or if all you need is a quick photo clean-up or fancy effect – here are three free online image editing tools you may want to give a try.( read more ). Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Blogging images application.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 14, 2010

Yesterday and last night, we had some nasty storms. Woke up this morning to blinking clocks, which means we had a short power failure at some point. I don't shut my iMac down at night because that's when backup jobs run. The not even 2 year old iMac is connected to a UPS battery backup. When I went to the computer this morning, it was shut down.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

The program book has gone to print, the Miss Piggy costume has arrived, and the registration numbers keep rising. We're only 20 days away from the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference -- but who's counting? Just like in past years, we'll be kicking off the 10NTC with the Science Fair. This opening reception provides an opportunity to network with nptech professionals while checking out the over 100 exhibitors showing off their latest and greatest offerings to the nonprofit sector.

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Care2

MARCH 19, 2010

It was a sunny SxSW Saturday last week where people came together for Zoetica Media 's brunch and brainstorm session -- with one nonprofit in mind: Safe Place. Community and a Strategic Starting Point. The goal was to look at Safe Place's community, internally and externally, and offer a strategic starting point for this nonprofit's social media plan.

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 18, 2010

Suppose you’re writing about Earth Hour (this year it’s 8:30 – 9:30 pm on Saturday, March 27th). You want a picture that attracts the eye and helps your readers to see at a glance what your blog post is about — stars? candles? a city skyline before the lights go out? — but you don’t have the time or opportunity to go take a photograph. No problem. Stock photo sites often have great deals on low-cost images for your blog or website. but what if your budget is a big fat zero?

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Forum One

MARCH 18, 2010

As I blogged previously , I've been at South by Southwest Interactive these past few days. For me, one of the most valuable sessions was " E.R. 2.0." The session featured a facilitated conversation about how hospitals and health care providers are using new media and social networking software to support their primary objectives — treatment, research, education and outreach, and patient-provider communication.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

David Geilhufe, NetSuite, Inc. Simply put, the cloud by its very nature offers you better, more effective software solutions while saving your organization time, money and effort. Cloud solutions increase the probability of success and reduce the costs of failure. They support and extend the larger trends that are shaping both charity and business operations -- whether those trends are flex time, impact measurement, real time data, or open APIs -- and allow you to gain the benefits of those larg

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Care2

MARCH 18, 2010

SXSW was a total whirlwind filled with some of the biggest thought leaders discussing social media (of course) but also about the power of online fundraising and crowdsourcing. While many nonprofit campaigners didn't make SXSW this year, we at Care2's Frogloop and some of our guest writers attended several sessions. What were the key take-aways at this years conference?

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 15, 2010

Data? Metrics? Analytics? It doesn’t have to be scary-hard to deal with, even if you’re a small nonprofit’s part-time fundraiser who’s just kind of figuring it all out as you go along. Analyze This: A Nonprofit's Guide to Event Fundraising Analytics is a truly useful free ebook for nonprofit event fundraisers, written by Jono Smith (formerly of Network for Good) for Convio and Event360 , that shows, step by step, how you can use the data collected from your fundraising events to create more succ

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Forum One

MARCH 17, 2010

Reflections on community at SxSW. Andrew , Bill , and I just got back from the South by Southwest Interactive Festival , where we spent nearly a week drinking from the proverbial technology innovation firehose. We attended numerous panels, connected with colleagues and friends on nonprofit technology and social good, and had skillets of queso in between.

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MARCH 18, 2010

David Geilhufe, NetSuite, Inc. Simply put, the cloud by its very nature offers you better, more effective software solutions while saving your organization time, money and effort. Cloud solutions increase the probability of success and reduce the costs of failure. They support and extend the larger trends that are shaping both charity and business operations -- whether those trends are flex time, impact measurement, real time data, or open APIs -- and allow you to gain the benefits of those larg

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 15, 2010

Last month I reconnected through Twitter with a woman I used to babysit, Caroline Colom Vasquez of Paloma's Nest. Not only did she grow up to be a lovely young woman, she also makes beautiful "handcrafted modern heirlooms" like Hearts of Gold , Good Eggs , and Text Bowls. To celebrate this fun re-connection, we've decided to do a little giveaway of her TODAY I WILL. fill in the blank tiny text bowl.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2010

A green IT travel reduction practice that has been getting more and more adoption lately are virtual conferences. NTEN , for instance, is starting to do more of them. Virtual conferences are basically talks or presentations streamed over the web to be watched or heard in real time or sometimes at viewer convenience. They're usually in the form of a string of presentations over the course of a few hours to as much as a full day.

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Forum One

MARCH 15, 2010

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Aid Information Challenge on Friday at the Word Bank. It was a great discussion that brought together a mix of people from different disciplines interested in open data and transparency's capacity to make aid more effective. Thanks again to the World Bank for hosting, and to the Development Gateway for all they did to make it happen.

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