Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 13, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. This is the Top 10 list of the best social campaigns featured on Osocio in 2009. One of these campaigns will become the Osocio’s Best Campaign of 2009." " Deadline: January 31, 2010.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

This week, I asked the question: What is the biggest mistake a nonprofit can make with their website. He has some good ideas and suggestions about how to be transparent as an organization through the website. 5 trackbacks } Nonprofit Communications » Blog Archive » Worst Nonprofit Website Mistakes?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Website: pancan.org. Comments and Likes on Facebook and LinkedIn postings, retweets and replies on Twitter, and comments on YouTube videos), (3) increase in fan base on the social networking outlets. Averaging 200 interactions per post on Facebook (this includes comments, likes and wall posts). Organization Size: Medium.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 10, 2009

As a way to hold on a bit longer to 2009, this Net2 Think Tank asks for your best blog post from the year. We know you wrote about some really interesting things, shared great ideas and even captured conversations and presentations on your blog or website this year. Share your best blog post from 2009 one more time!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 22, 2010

In 2008, many of the friends of the Nonprofit Organizations MySpace migrated over to Facebook, then in 2009 and 2010 a good number of the new fans came from @NonprofitOrgs on Twitter. One website may lose its popularity for the next, but I have found that your friends, fans and followers move with you to next one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I've had a post in draft for a couple of weeks now about some personal/professional goals or my New Year's resolutions for 2009. I read Chris Brogan's " Your 3 Goals for 2009 " and I loved his process. Think of how you want to be successful in 2009. A Guide to Creating a Minimalist Website. The Blog Usability Checklist.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Also, it coincides with a new installation of Drupal for my consulting website , using the same basic template (called “ Blueprint “). September 22, 2008 I changed my Word Press theme, mostly because I was getting a bit tired of the old one, and wanted something really simple.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Fundraising Sources for Social Entrepreneurs – December 2009 Edition – "Each month Ashoka compiles a list of fundraising and other resources for Ashoka Fellows. Also available in French and Spanish)."

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

Be sure to visit both her website and her blog. Debbie and I have known each other since 2009, when we worked together virtually for MicroMentor, Debbie on the West Coast, and me in the Midwest – and Debbie has appeared here on my blog many times over the years, sharing insights about marketing and leadership.

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

If you’ve seen some other good nonprofit infographics, then leave a comment. Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader. A lot of good information about how donors research their giving to nonprofits.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

I do hope folks will comment if they know something about these, or have an opinion. BlueAvocado is a new online blog/magazine/website specifically for folks who work in and with nonprofits. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Tim Shih 04.22.08 ReviewBasics is a collaborative editing and reviewing tool.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

But I help them plan their technology initiatives (a new database, a new website, etc.,) For another client, I helped them vet vendors for their new website, taught them the difference between Joomla, Drupal and Plone, and I helped free them from a vendor who was particularly egregious in their hosting charges, among other things.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2008

It’s really simple to use, and one doesn’t have to have links on your website, etc. This seems like something many nonprofits might want to try out. Hat tip to Jon Stahl for the heads up. { Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. So for this post, I'd like to share 5 fundraising trends that we saw emerging in 2009 related to fundraising and social media and that will most definitely continue to have impact in 2010."

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 16, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. it takes them to this Quora page where they can comment or ask a question about the campaign. I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

at 11:42 am { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Dave Copeland 08.12.08 Our Plugin for the Confluence wiki already operates like this; if you’ve bought the plugin, you are completely independent of our website. at 5:17 am TechSoup Blog 09.16.09 at 9:04 am Why Should Nonprofits Care About Cloud Computing?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

It basically eliminates comment spam, which, as you probably know, is the bane of bloggers everywhere. Because WordPress is so easy to use, people have twisted and turned it to make regular websites. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 DennisVega 09.30.09 I doubt you’ll look back. { Keep up the good work!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What software freedom means to me June 25, 2008 I got some interesting comments on the last post about Linux desktops. The old site is still up on the Wayback Machine. I co-administered that box for a few years.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

We might be able to build the most wizz-bang amazing website ever (in a technological sense) but if we haven’t really thought about how we moved through the project, never evaluated how the project really went, and didn’t learn from the process, in the end, the project wasn’t the success it seemed to be.

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

60) Search « Care2 Adds Two Experts to Nonprofit Services Team | Main | Year-End Fundraising » Tuesday Jan 06 2009 Defining a Nonprofit Websites Google Analytics KPIs (Part 2) Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 12:43PM | by James OMalley In part 1 of this series, we discussed how to correctly install your Google Analytics.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. at 8:35 pm Where’s your tatoo? Available online at [link].

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Qgiv

MARCH 8, 2022

I was the sole designer for many of the websites I worked on with the marketing agency and so I felt this ownership over the projects. I became much more interested in who was using the website, why they were using it, and how. That ownership changed my definition of what “design” even meant. Conclusion.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

7 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Thomas 03.20.08 Despite claims of access to a robust user community, there’s no sign of such on their website. at 5:38 pm I just found this very interesting blog entry about MPower , which I found via a comment on Alan Benamer’s blog. There will be penguins!!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

First, links for the day: High Tech Trash – it’s an in depth photo essay and interactive feature on the National Geographic website. I wish all a holiday season full of fun, quality time with family (chosen or otherwise), and joy. {

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 13-17, 2009 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. And, if you submitted a nonprofit panel - and I managed to miss it while scanning 1200 in ten minutes - please add the link and description in a comment. Please try to vote for as many nonprofit panels. To vote: 1.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

What are your nonprofit resolutions for 2009? Convio just released a helpful guide for nonprofits appropriately titled, " Nonprofit Resolutions That Make the Difference in 2009 ". Convio lays out simple steps to creating a website that is easier to navigate and more useful to your target audiences.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

If you want to try and get a small website going for your organization – Joomla is a good place to start. It will take some time and effort to get a site up, but that’s standard for any website. 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Leo Germani 01.30.08 Mambo is way less popular than Joomla at this point.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

at 1:35 pm { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 PW 10.03.07 From a developers prospective, Vista is much better than OS 10 – Microsoft even gives away basic development tools like asp.net and visual studio on their website. So what am I going to replace my current phone with? The iPod is a rip off.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Check out the website. How do you go about finding out whether it’s the right software, and whether the project has a healthy community, since you don’t want to adopt a project that doesn’t? Make sure that the features that it outlines there match your requirements. See if they have good documentation.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Which provide the most flexibility in setting up your website? Which provide the strongest features for website community features, workflow, or ease of maintenance? Which are easiest to use?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 3, 2011

Internet trolling has become so widespread and ridiculous that I (and many others) don’t even look at blog or Facebook Status Update comments anymore which defeats much of the purpose and the power of social media for social good. Block, delete, ban, report, and move on. Indeed, I struggle with it often.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2006

2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Dustin J. at 12:10 pm It doesn’t freak you out that: * Chase’s website runs on IIS? Even the big guys, with big budgets, mess up sometimes… It also means at least these guys are running windows. { Mitchell 12.16.06 Chase’s QA/QC can miss something like this?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I have a new endeavor (see the last post ) that needs a new website, and I figured, why not? I hear that all of the “ cool chix &# use Drupal, though (Linuxchix is about to launch it’s new Drupal-based website.) Technorati Tags: cms , drupal , joomla { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Photopoppy 04.17.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2006

In the process of reinvigorating the NOSI ( Nonprofit Open Source Initiative ) website, I took a look at the Primer on open source software I wrote eons ago in Web time. It’s funny, I write a lot here on my blog, and I forget how much I enjoy technical writing (or semi-technical, in this case.) That’s a good thing.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 13, 2010

As donor acquisition declined from 2005-2009, peer-to-peer fundraising was one way to find new donors. They offered tiered prizes, hosted a special breakfast for top fundraisers and listed them on their website and in emails. All of these incentives helped increase event revenue from $100,000 in 2008 to $180,000 in 2009.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

60) Search « The Joys of Google Grants, Part 2 | Main | The Joys of Google Grants, Part 1 » Sunday Feb 01 2009 Nonprofit Resolutions That Will Make A Difference in 2009 Sunday, February 1, 2009 at 08:56PM | by Allyson Kapin What are your nonprofit resolutions for 2009? com , Inc.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 8, 2009

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. 2009 Year-End Fundraising Guide – Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media – frogloop – “Is your nonprofit sending out 8-10 online fundraising appeals this holiday season?

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