Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. 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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Care2

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

took over the world, people were part of smaller online participatory communities called listservs. Yet even after all these years, many organizations still haven’t mastered how to use listservs in building successful and engaging online communities. The biggest barriers groups face is how to structure listservs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

I've been doing Internet skills training workshops since 1995 and way back when I used to do one called "Digital Literacy" which was all about how to use email, listservs, and Internet search functions. I started off with 5 blog feeds and as I discovered other blogs or resources, I added them gradually.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

tools successfully. I think it is a pretty critical marketing practice despite what technology tools you are using. " She gives examples of the listening deficits, but also the ways that social media tools can facilitate listening. Some tools and techniques follow below. Additional Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Email, Facebook, posting to listserves, your website, direct mail—the list goes on and on. Or if Google Analytics is a pain for you, you can track the traffic to each page through a shortening tool such as Bit.ly, which shortens each of the separate URLs and then allows you to view the clickthroughs on each.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

It''s surprising (and a bit embarrassing) to realize how little I engage with tools that appear ascendant broadly and are in constant use by my colleagues. I appreciate these tools--the attractiveness of Instagram, the usability of Vine, the utility of Pinterest. A trend in which I take almost no part. I''m supportive of all of this.

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Our persona for the attendee in our session: The implementation partner just left, and now the nonprofit is trying to live with this tool day-to-day. I wanted to show them just how easy it is to do little things that make a big difference, so they could save their consultant resources for the big stuff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

Even thought I am still reflecting on that Pew report and the comment from Weinberger's blog Even if just 1% of Web users tagged resources with some regularity, they would be creating handholds for the other 99%. Wow, better than a listserv! Nonprofit + Conference produced less than 100 resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Commentary here ) Maybe that's why we've heard rumblings in the blogosphere and on listservs that the YouTube Nonprofit Channel was backlogged on accepting applications. You can find a collection how-to YouTube and Viral Video strategy resources here. Here's a few useful resources on Twitter and Nonprofits. Details here.

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Forum One

JANUARY 27, 2009

Capture presentations made during the event with live embedded audio and share them on a tool like Slideshare after the event. They can house key resources & event materials/background resources, or bulletin boards for ride sharing, or contact information for people coming in from the same city, etc. Set up an event wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Some of the lessons learned include: -Could have provided the Netsquared community with more tools to do their work like listserves, web sites, etc. TechSoup Global could have leveraged its resources in other programs to help with outreach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

This post was in draft because I was starting to devour all the great content on the NTEN Blog , including Marshall's post called " Ten Cool Tools for Working on the Web " and I strongly resisted the urge take Thinkature out for a test drive. "I need a tool that does xyz for abc purpose. Sometimes clarifying questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2009

This evolving wiki is already quite rich in useful resources and at this stage has three areas: A Communities of Practice Bibliography. They've created a tool template and there are over 30 tool categories using the templates. The first is to feed my inner geek who wants to explore the tools and how to use them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. The tools include Google Analytics, PostRank, Feedburner, and others. Next, you need to know the right metric(s), the tool or combination of tools to collect the data, and how the tools measure the metric.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Ning, which lets you set up your own custom social network, has attracted attention for its ability to create communities that are more functional than those created through competing services from Google and Yahoo listservs. The goal of our workshop is to provide media training for nonprofits, including training on using these new tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

If we're thinking of Facebook groups (or listservs for that matter) as online communities, what personalities do you see in the communities you are managing? So, do check out the Audio/Video Edition of the NGO-in-a-Box which includes a collection of Free and Open Source Software tools. You'll also need some video editing software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

tools successfully. I think it is a pretty critical marketing practice despite what technology tools you are using. " She gives examples of the listening deficits, but also the ways that social media tools can facilitate listening. Some tools and techniques follow below. Additional Resources. Ego searches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

GetActive GetsAcquired - By Convio This is big news and it bounced around the nonprofit and progressive blogs, listservs, IM, and emails. If you, like Jon Stahl and many others, are interested in seeing more tools play well together, go sign it right now. tools in their web sites. (see Adoption - Yes or No or Shades of Gray?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

What social networking tools are the best ones to integrate? Out of habit, I started off doing the research in my usual ways - posts to listservs, search engine, private emails, and posts to forums. I would fill in the missing pieces and refine with chacha, serach engines, private email, or listserv queries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

I've been following Carie Lewis's posts on the NTEN Affinity groups as well as other nonprofit tech listservs (yes, I still do read listservs) and caught up with her for an interview. tools for online advocacy. Why did your organization integrate these social media tools - how did you choose specific tools?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Lots of buzz on listservs and twitter about the MacArthur Foundation's $2 Million New Digital Media and Learning Competition. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week. Fundraising and Philanthropy There was lots of praise about Amy Luckey of Blueprint Research and Design's recent article called " Grantmaking 2.0:

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 3, 2011

She is co-moderator of the popular community-led Nonprofit Salesforce Practitioners listserv and will be joining Convio’s Common Ground team as a full-time employee in January 2012. As easy as it is to get around Common Ground, Salesforce can be an extremely complex tool. Never fear.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. " I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. Some more examples and resources from the LASA list: Sean Kenny points to an example of publishing content with RSS feeds.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

There are, however, specific strategies and tools that will position you for success in the hiring process. What capacity gaps can be observed between our current resources and both our immediate needs and our projected future needs? Needs Assessment. Once you have answered these questions, map identified needs across functional roles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

Ever since, our paths have crossed several times in nonprofit technology circles online, most recently via the Digital Divide Network listserv and the online forums at TechSoup. I share ideas and resources on topics related to collaborative e-learning, as well as general sources of interest to online educators. Evaluate it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

And maybe this should not be an either/or question, but most likely resources will dictate that. But these sites have two important limitations that give nonprofits reason to look for additional tools. leading to an impassioned request for best practices for minimizing damage when this security breaches occur on several listservs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Guide your students to conversations and resources. tools can provide quick and dirty market research tools or the ability to do an environmental scans for strategic planning. Step 5: RSS As Information Coping Tool.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

While doing research, I found myself digging back into old arguments on museum listservs about photo policies and I want to add my two (very opinionated) cents on this. How can visitors be "co-owners" of museums if they can't own an image from their experience?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

How does SL compare to these other tools and where does it fit on the gradient? And, how does a virtual world tool help or hinder effective online collaboration or a synchronuous online communication? There is a new tool called SecondTalk that lets you integrate skype with Second Life. Co-editing WHILE discussing a document.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" It’s not our ignorance of tools, but our fear of the unknown that hold most of us back.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

Wendy: We were also very concious about not wanting ExhibitFiles to interfere the ASTC/ISEN listserv. I talked with Kathy Kraft, a fairly frequent participant in the listserv, and she is anticipating that when things come up on the listserv, being able to say, "well, look here on the ExhibitFiles," so it can be complementary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

My social marketing colleague Craig Lefebvre, who has a blog ( On Social Marketing and Social Change ), asked me to expand some comments I had made on the Social Marketing Listserve as a guest blogger. the same tools that companies like Apple or Nike would use. After that, I found myself reading things and thinking ???This

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

This is really talking through what’s the tools in my arsenal that I need to have to prepare that I can be successful in developing my grant strategy? And I want you to think about how much time you can devote, how many resources you’re able to allocate. And resources could be multiple things. It could be personnel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

After much discussion about Etherpad, Piratepad, okfnpad, Storify, and other tools, we settled on good old Google docs. To learn more and stay in the loop with Data Analysts for Social Good, you can join the LinkedIn group and subscribe to the listserv. right here.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 22, 2011

The ASU Lodestar Center Nonprofit News (LCNN) is a free source of information sent to your inbox bi-monthly, and it's stuffed with knowledge and tools. Piper Charitable Trust , one example of a funder who has chosen to play a curator role, also publishes their Piper Bulletin and Piper Notebook , filled with helpful resources for nonprofits.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And my mission is really to educate and empower nonprofit leaders and their teams with the knowledge and tools to scale their revenue and amplify their impact. So ensuring that an organization has the resources it needs to do its work. So feel free to get on our mailing listserv or whatever the real phrase is called and stay in touch.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

Today I’m posting Karen Nyhus ‘ advice, originally posted on NTEN’s nptechconsult forum (for members only) in response to a request for “resources and tips for our nonprofit technology community to help them start things off right in 2007.&# Last week I posted John Elbare’s advice for new nonprofit consultants.

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