Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2009

Whether it’s a Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad, or whatever, you have access to built-in web analytics or the option to use Google Analytics. Setting up Google Alerts for the blog address and title will help you catch whenever other bloggers or organizations mention the blog on their sites.

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ROI Metrics Case Study Student 135

Connection Cafe

APRIL 27, 2009

The first full day of NTC 09 kicked off with a special dance (mad props to @ntenhross ), a great keynote and a session full of Google representatives spreading the (free!) The session covered four different programs Google offers at no cost to the nonprofit community. Google AdWords. tech love to the nptech community.

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Map Google Grant Video 32

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What OpenSocial Means November 1, 2007 The buzz of the blogosphere is the announcement of Google’s OpenSocial. Marc Andreessen, who is, of late, connected to Ning, has a great blog entry with details.

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Ning API Open Source Social Network 100

Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

TOOLS AND RESOURCES Places to find reviews of tools and training TechSoup [link] Idealware [link] Aspiration [link] CompassPoint [link] NTEN [link] Web Site Hosting Electric Embers [link] Pair Networks [link] Thinkhost [link] Domain name registration MyDomain [link] Register.com [link] Network Solutions [link] CMS (Content Management System) Drupal (..)

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Skype Resource Internet Tools 40

Connection Cafe

APRIL 17, 2009

Published on Wordpress and Typepad and others Insights from nonprofit sisters and brothers Keeping my online strategy from going to the dogs These are a few of my favorite blogs. One of my favorite series of posts this year was from Robin Reed of the National Women's Law Center about optimizing Google ad campaigns. It's Friday!

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Oracle United States Typepad Feeds 45

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Thinking Strategically About Social Media.

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ROI Cambodia Widget Metrics 50

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

In recent years Google, Bing, Ask.com, etc. SEO experts and spammers got so good at utilizing meta tags to manipulate search engine results that Google and others have now changed their search “spiders” to look for keywords in page titles, not meta tags. 2) To improve your search engine results. This was a real opener to me.

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Social Media Media Myspace Typepad 206