Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources across the web ever day. – "Despite the enormous popularity of peer-to-peer social networking, the adoption cycle for branded online communities has been relatively slow. " What do you think?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. I've heard Jamie Notter (and others) decry this staple of association board meetings as a tool whose time has come and gone, but it wasn't until I read the treatment of it in Humanize that I really understood what he was talking about.

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Care2

JUNE 17, 2010

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. Furthermore, in August 2009, 276.9

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 29, 2009

This is a national competition to encourage people to use their personal and social networks to help win cash for their favorite nonprofit. The contest runs through November 6, 2009. Tools Web 2.0 Tags: Online Fundraising Online Fundraising Social Networking Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 Spokeo takes your gmail, aol, or yahoo address book and, looking at a wide variety of web 2.0 I did set a pretty high bar a while back for the next social network I’d join.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

It’s important to note that the time requirements for each tool are fluid and are always changing from week to week, but the estimates do provide a framework that will help you draft a realistic social media manager job description and decide what social media tools your nonprofit can utilize based on your capacity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Submitted by Jordan Viator, of Connection Café Hundreds if not thousands of online tools are available to help nonprofit organizations with online communication. Amid his top picks, David harped on a few tools and sites in particular David's top picks include: Social Networks. File Sharing. User Experience.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 8, 2009

We're traveling to London and Cambridge in July 2009 as part of Innovation UK. We like to report on innovative technologies through blogs, video, podcasts and social networks." I love posts like this because I always find at least one new tool to play with and test! " Facebook Users Are Getting Older.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? The 1 st tool was MySpace back in 2007. What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Which tool has been surprisingly useful in getting out the word about your organization and its programs? gid=104492. Summary of ROI.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 9, 2009

." Look beyond the label - Refugee week 2009 - Interested in light-weight online campaigns that can really get people's attention and start conversations? Social Networks Around the World - Check out this great visualization of users on social networks around the world from ReadWriteWeb.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

These span the range from tools I use every day or every week, to tools use more occasionally, but depend on. Open Source Tools. WP as a blogging tool rocks my world, and although I certainly could move blogging to Drupal, since I seem to be becoming somewhat of a Drupalista, it’s just not worth it. SaaS Tools.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

We provide a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights. Here’s a run through of the Tools Galore session. See the slide deck below and notes from the panelists: WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Submitted by Steve MacLaughlin, publisher of Connections For a while now I've been talking with a lot of nonprofits about using social media and social networking in their organizations. Déjà Vu All Over Again Web 2.0 in 2009 reminds me of Web 1.0 Lots of tools. Silo Syndrome And just like with Web 1.0,

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2009

A lot of people have been talking about this animation (mildly off-color language) created by Michael Edson for WebWise 2009. In the animation, Web Tech Guy announces at a museum staff meeting that he's put the museum's collection on FlickTubeFaceSpace.com and enabled tagging and comments for the museum's Web site.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

June 10, 2008 Today, someone on the progressive exchange list asked about a tool called Rapleaf. A story about Rapleaf in Clickz (a newsletter for online marketers) says this : Rapleaf allows you to quickly and inexpensively find out the social networking footprint of those you’re marketing to.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

The last few years, though, have been dramatically impacted by the real-time web. The real-time web is a paradigm based on pushing information to users as soon as it’s available, instead of requiring that they or their software check a source periodically for updates. Philanthropy has been able to move into the real time web, too.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

November 21, 2007 Beth’s wonderful post about a decision tree for whether or not an organization should get into the social networking business had a link to a comment about OpenSocial. What really matters is an open social network, built using open protocols and documented, published standards.

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Care2

JULY 17, 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 works sort of like an online mortgage calculator.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 4, 2009

NetSquared currently has 3 open Challenges, calling for innovators and change makers around the world to submit ideas for Web and mobile-based technologies for social change. I recently sat down with Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody , and asked what he thought about the impact of the social web on innovation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

The next set of modules, that are more tool based (with case studies) are next to be developed. A note : Most people will notice that I have pretty much lost my curmudgeonly approach to social media. Not only are Gen Y and Millenials engaged in these social networks, but a wider and broader range of people are.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Basically, it means that the data that you put into social networking sites, like profiles, social graph (those who you are connected to,) media, etc. I’ll be doing an entry soon, sort of “how social networks could use open standards 101.&# These include Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and many others.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Google has a number of partners, including social network sites like LinkedIn, Friendster and Ning, as well as Salesforce, which does have very interesting implications given the increasing use of Salesforce in the nonprofit sector. Basically, if the more social network sites that adopt OpenSocial, the more open the whole thing gets.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Apparently, the data stays in the container (the social network site) and probably can’t move beyond it. We don’t want to have the same application on multiple social networks. We want applications that can use data from multiple social networks.

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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. One example recently was I post I wrote about a Twitter tool.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

I’ve critiqued Twitter and social networks in general. But, the biggest reason that I’m twittering is that as the Coordinator of NOSI , I’m experimenting with Web 2.0 I think given the audience that NOSI is reaching, and wants to reach, a concrete, well thought out Web 2.0 1 trackback } Web 2.0

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AFP Blog

MARCH 10, 2009

This link provides easier access to the underlying stories.AFP > Resource Center | Resource tools > Tapping Into Social Networks—Raise Funds, Build Community: "Tapping Into Social Networks—Raise Funds, Build Community(March 9, 2009) This week AFP featured social networking/web 2.0

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The first from Philanthropy Action , has the depressing title, " Social Networking and Mid-Size Nonprofits: What's the Use? " The survey is based on responses from about 200 mid-sized nonprofits (defined as having revenues between $1 and $5 million annually) between July 2008 and March 2009. Tools Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

I think people are finally realizing that the current state of affairs – where we can pump data into Facebook and other social networks, but not get data out of them, is untenable. There’s a poll on mashable.com , where the sentiment is most certainly heavily in favor of Facebook opening up the social graph.

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Care2

JULY 26, 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 works sort of like an online mortgage calculator.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2008

Beth Kanter asks whether or not we can add some more steps to Chris Brogan’s fabulous 50 steps to create a social media presence. Beth is, of course, THE web 2.0 and social network guru for the nptech community. Amy is a great source for nptech tips of all types.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. and our own Social Source Commons , are a different animal.) Your pictures, videos and everything else is stranded in a walled garden, cut off from the rest of the web. 3 KJ 08.09.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

I think that Twitter is, in many ways, a harbinger of the future – I think eventually, a lot of things that happen between people over the net will work a lot like twitter, even if it’s not actually twitter – social networks carrying short snippets of people’s thoughts, ideas and events. 4 James Young 04.15.08

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Tweetsgiving is using micro-blogging tool Twitter to raise money for a classroom in Tanzania. Tags: Fundraising Online Fundraising Online Fundraising Running Your Organization Social Networking Using the Web and Internet. Along the way, they're also compiling a log of what Twitter users are thankful for this year.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 18, 2007

I decided to try out facebook when I kept hearing about the integration of other social networking sites into facebook. I’m still not convinced by any of these social network sites not directly linked to content (unlike del.icio.us or flickr) – but it’s fun to play with, anyway.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology An interesting call from danah boyd February 8, 2008 Those of you steeped deeply in Web 2.0 She’s a brilliant academic who studies social networks. know danah boyd.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

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 works sort of like an online mortgage calculator.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 19, 2009

Hundreds if not thousands of online tools are available to help nonprofit organizations with online communication. Amid his top picks, David harped on a few tools and sites in particular. Social Networks. Social Networks. Have any personal favorites in the way of online tools for your nonprofit?

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