Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 17, 2010

As soon as Facebook launched Community Pages , I knew this day coming. My gut told me the prompt for authentification would arrive at 10,000 fans, and indeed on June 14, 2010 when the Nonprofit Organizations Facebook Page hit 10,004 fans I received a “Facebook Warning&# email from Facebook: Hello, Our records indicate that you are currently the admin of a Facebook Page with a large number of fans, Nonprofit Organizations.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2010

This morning I had the great opportunity to present to the Next Generation Philanthropy course, a part of Institute for Philanthropy, here in London. It was a diverse set of participants and we probably could have talked all day had they not had a full day’s program to get through! The talk: My talk may not be as easily captured in the slides as some of my other talks are since this was a smaller group and I had the time to dive into each example and discuss it with the participants, inste

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 15, 2010

I'm now on the road for more than 5 weeks on combo business trips and family vacation. DC this week and Geneva next week (international copyright). As I headed out the door, I ran into Scott Rains and we had a picture taken of Scott in his Brazil jersey (after the U.S., I'm a big Brazil fan too). Scott is helping with the Bookshare volunteer community as a Benetech Fellow.

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NetWits

JUNE 14, 2010

I speak with organizations every day who recognize the need to redesign their website but rarely realize the benefit of doing a content inventory on their existing website. When you think about it, before you know where you’re going, you need to know where you’re at.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2010

An online database of Twitter Apps called oneforty currently lists almost 2,900 third-party Twitter Apps. While some nonprofits have been early adopters of Twitter Apps, the vast majority are not. They may not even know the tools exist. Once you start browsing around and experimenting, you’ll quickly come to realize that there are a phenominal number of free Twitter tools now available to nonprofits – that can also be used to improve website, e-newsletter, blogging, and social media

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 18, 2010

I often talk about individuals when I’m discussing the way social media can be used to support organizations. Why? Because social media may be about networks, communities, and collaboration; but it is only possible because of the dynamic and powerful tools individuals are using. Social networks are built from all the content individuals share.

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NetWits

JUNE 17, 2010

How important is the internet? How important is the internet to you as a nonprofit? Currently, three quarters of Internet users worldwide visit a social network or blog while online — a 24% increase year over year according to the recent study by Nielsen. Then there’s the staggering statistic about there being over 2,000,000 (yes, that’s over 2 million) Blogs on the Internet.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 15, 2010

Kivi Leroux Miller, author of The Nonprofit Marketing Guide: High-Impact, Low-Cost Ways to Build Support for Your Good Cause, believes that storytelling is one of the most effective yet underused marketing tactics for nonprofits. She devoted a whole chapter to storytelling in her new book, and provides ten tips for better interviews in this guest post.( read more ).

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

Meyer Memorial Trust is a private foundation in Oregon, USA, that has a pioneering spirit and is always up to something new, different, and meaningful – plus it is quite near to my heart. I worked for the Chalkboard Project fresh out of university, a nonprofit organization founded and fueled by Foundations for a Better Oregon, a coalition of foundations in Oregon focused on collaborating to make a meaningful impact to issues in Oregon – in the case of the Chalkboard Project, that foc

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2010

You are invited to a virtual book launch party ! Join Allison Fine and me on June 21st at 1-2 PM PST/4-5 PM EST for the launch of The Networked Nonprofit published by Jossey-Bass. If we get a pre-order for 100 or more copies of the book, we’ll jump in the pool (with our cloths on – we aren’t Esther Williams look a likes!). We’ll do this live on camera (but get out of the pool off camera).

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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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JUNE 16, 2010

Charlene Li Since Anna and I are in DC doing recon for 11NTC (you're coming, right?), we're doing our best to take advantage of all the awesome that DC has to offer. Lucky for us, our great pals Maddy and Lindy at Social Fish organized a Buzz 2010 breakfast with , who wrote , and who just released her latest book, Open Leadership. Like us, Charlene thinks that leadership isn't just at the top.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 17, 2010

WildApricot.com is excited to announce the launch of a new blog – Association Ideas @ Wild Apricot – focussed on the challenges faced by volunteer and small-staff organizations such as membership recruiting, event management, and how technology is changing the role of associations.( read more ). Tags: General News Associations General non-profit interest Wild Apricot online community.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2010

Ben Matthews has just announced the launch of CharityComms 2020 , an initiative that Bright One has been spearheading in partnership with CharityComms, the professional body for charity communicators. In Ben’s words: CharityComms 2020 is a presentation where key figures in charity communications have teamed up to produce a snapshot of the most significant communications trends of the coming decade.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

Networked Nonprofit: Care2 Webinar. View more presentations from womenwhotech. You are invited to a virtual book launch party ! Join Allison Fine and me on June 21st at 1-2 PM PST/4-5 PM EST for the launch of The Networked Nonprofit published by Jossey-Bass. Yesterday, Allison Fine and I, along with colleagues Danielle Bridiga and Marc Sirkin gave a Care 2 Webinar on the Networked Nonprofit.

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JUNE 15, 2010

My pals, Beth Kanter and Allison Fine , have a new book coming out early next month, The Networked Nonprofit: Connecting with Social Media to Drive Change. Wahoo! They'll be talking about The Networked Nonprofit at a free webinar, produced by Care2 , on Thursday, June 17th at 2pm ET/11AM PT. To register, click here. Five lucky participants will win free copies of the book!

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 17, 2010

New sharing features in Google Docs are rolling out this week that not only make it easier to share your documents, spreadsheets, and presentations online but also give you more control over who you’re sharing those materials with and how.( read more ). Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Google Docs.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

Last week, I had a fun time moderating the June #4Change Twitter Chat on Online Community Building. Thanks to all those who participated or followed along, and to those who will join the conversation now! This wrap up will highlight some of the insights and resources shared during the chat, but, if you’d rather, you can review the full transcript.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

One of the big themes in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , is the importance of experiments and not to frame them as success or failure but as learning. Please join me on June 21st from 1-2 PM PST for the virtual launch of The Networked Nonprofit where Allison Fine and I will talk about social media experimentation and other themes from the book.

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Care2

JUNE 17, 2010

The ecosystem of nonprofits is exploding, yet the problems society faces are larger than nonprofits, said Allison Fine, on the Care2 webinar The Networked Nonprofit. The solution? Networking. This was one of the key takeaways during the webinar presented by Fine, Beth Kanter, Danielle Brigida of National Wildlife Federation , and Mark Sirkin of Austim Speaks. “Nonprofits are fortresses trying to manage the message.

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JUNE 15, 2010

Today’s post comes from Skip Weisman of Weisman Success Resources, Inc. Skip helps business leaders create “Champion Organizations” with improved personnel, productivity and profits. During a lunch meeting with a new client I learned he was becoming increasingly frustrated with senior team members and frontline employees who: Wer e not taking responsibility for their jobs.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2010

Earlier this year I presented at the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference and knew I’d have the chance to see many friends and colleagues again, and meet new ones! I also had just three hard copies of Social by Social left and thought I’d create a giveaway for Social by Social. One of the winners was Eric Pratum of Grizzard Communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2010

You are invited to a virtual book launch party ! Join Allison Fine and me on June 21st at 1-2 PM PST/4-5 PM EST for the launch of The Networked Nonprofit published by Jossey-Bass. Today, Allison Fine and I, along with Marc Sirkin and Danielle Brigida did a free webinar for care2 about The Networked Nonprofit. Watch for the link to the recording and slides – I’ll share it in a more detailed post I have for Friday, but I wanted to capture two ideas that struck me.

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Care2

JUNE 15, 2010

There’s a ton of apps and social platforms for nonprofits and do-gooders to sift through these days. Not only can it be overwhelming to determine which ones are useful, sometimes it’s a challenge to decide “is it really worth my time?&# Here are three apps that are worth checking out and keeping an eye on. The Extraordinaries. The co-founders of The Extraordinaries , Jacob Colker and Ben Rigby, have been an integral part of the nonprofit community for a few years.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2010

TechSoup's product donation program includes easy-to-use Flip Video cameras that allow you to share your library and community stories. Attend this free webinar on Thursday, June 17 at 11 a.m. Pacific time and find out how public libraries are using this technology as a tool for making connections, recording library events, and sharing knowledge. Flip Video's simple camcorders can be used by people with any level of video experience to create, edit, and share movies.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

I’m here at #KMUK10 , also known as the Knowledge Management UK conference. David Wilcox will be spending the day helping show folks understand and get started with various social media tools. I wanted to share a few notes that struck me from Lee Bryant of headshift out of his opening talk. From Lee Bryant: KM = sense making. We are currently suffering from filter failure; which means the need to help people navigate and work within this world is really huge; we need skilled sense makers

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2010

Yesterday, an advanced copy of our book, The Networked Nonprofit , arrived. My son, Harry, who is in video making summer camp, decided to make a little movie of me opening the book! Today, I taught a workshop in Santa Cruz hosted by the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz and supported by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. I, of course, raffled it off in exchange for people filling out index cards with their planned first steps into social media.

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JUNE 17, 2010

Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg fired up the death of email debate at the Nielsen’s Consumer 360 Conference Yesterday. She said only 11% of teens email daily and that they are using SMS (or Twitter) and social networks for communications. Interestingly, despite all the protests against Facebook’s privacy policy she also said that people entrust their personal info with social networks.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 18, 2010

As you may have noticed, Daniel Ben-Horin (one of TechSoup's CEOs) @DBenHorin and thirteen of the TechSoup crew were in Brussles from May 31 until June 4 for Foundation Week and posted a lot of great info from the sessions to this blog as well as other social media. I followed the action by reading blogs, watching videos, and especially following along on Twitter with the hashtag #foundationweek.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 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 June 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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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 17, 2010

If you're my friend on Facebook , you've probably seen photos of my testing out recipes from a new vegan cookbook, Viva Vegan!: 200 Authentic and Fabulous Recipes for Latin Food Lovers by Terry Hope Romero. Let me just start by saying that all of the recipes I made from Viva Vegan! were delish. They even passed my Colombian husband's taste test. So far I've made Quinoa-Corn "Chowder" with Limas and Ají (above), Colombian-Style Red Beans and Arroz con Coco (right), Costa Rican Refried Rice and Be

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