Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2011

From 2009 to 2010, the open rate for organizations of all sizes and sectors declined by 12% on average. Meanwhile, unsubscribe rates held steady from 2009 to 2010. Source – keep track of how people signed up or what topics brought them to your list so you can target content and make your kinds of communication relevant.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

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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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

There are two types of media we will look at here: direct and indirect content. Direct Content. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Indirect Content.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

I recently caught up with Mazarine and asked her, “If there was one example or story you could share that exemplifies why you wrote this book, and a few examples of the kinds of content and resources included in the book, what would it be?” In 2010 I completed my book, the book that I wish I had had when i first started.

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Gyrus

MAY 12, 2016

Employees with busy schedules or the ones who are always on-move have the luxury to access training resources at any time, from any place. Smaller sized content also enables them to absorb and retain the training courses in a better way. Creative content is required to enable new and refreshed learning experience to employees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Yesterday I had the pleasure of participating in the final #zoogood Twitter chat of 2010. I’m in learning mode, so this post is a quick summary of insights, questions, and resources. Larger organizations may have the capacity and resources to make a bigger investment. The Increment Steps To Impact.

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Achieve

AUGUST 5, 2022

There are thousands of online resources and services that streamline all parts of the process, whether it’s designing your logo, making the merchandise itself, or. Fortunately, there are many resources out there to guide you through the creative process. Custom merchandise sales are a popular and. accessible fundraising idea.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Recently, I've been thinking about the launch of NTEN's newest resource: NTEN:Change, A Quarterly Journal for Nonprofit Leaders. With support from Google, we were able to launch this new resource and provide it for free to the nonprofit community: [link] But What’s New About This Publication? The content?

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

What kind of content should they be sharing over Twitter and Facebook? ” How much time should you spend on social media if you have limited resources?” Engaging Content is King. Do you like to read boring content that puts you to sleep? Content gets read and shared at an incredibly fast pace.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

Comments on the FCC's Accessibility Plans (June 2010) My main recommendation to the FCC is to be more ambitious about accessibility. For each American who has a disability that affects access to information and communication capabilities, there are tech solutions that could be delivered through broadband to make that resource accessible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

But if you want to get even deeper insights, do an in-depth review of a similar nonprofit’s practice – whether it be broad – such as digital marketing techniques or narrow such as analyzing specific techniques as part of a content strategy. Social proof is particularly powerful when famous people are setting the example.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

The current trend is away from the Apple iOS 2010 look with things like fancy drop shadows to the simpler Windows 8 'flat design' Flat design features contrasting colored simple icons to identify the sections of website. I like the Full Plate Living site as an example of that design concept. Additional Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

To generate a robust profile, your organization should be able to plug in existing social media presences (Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Blog RSS Feed, Etc) so it seems to favor organizations that have already established a social media content strategy. By November 2010, Jumo noted in a New York Times article that they’ve raised $3.5

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See3

MAY 28, 2007

One way to get people to create content for you is through contests. In the nonprofit world we also have contests and at See3 we have become “the contest people&# helping organizations conceive of and execute user generated content contests. The current Heinz contest is a great example.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 26, 2012

“In our 2010 Nonprofit Governance Index, BoardSource found that 90% of the boards with a structured orientation process were rated as effective, compared to only 67% of the boards without such a process. “Board manuals can be a key resource in facilitating the work of a board member. Board Manual. Board Contract.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

—– Over on the NetSquared platform right now we are in the midst of the 2010 FACT Social Justice Challenge. I serve as the Community Development Manager for TechSoup Global’s CDI (Community-Driven Innovation) program, which includes managing community and content strategy for NetSquared.org.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Even if they do, it takes developer time to write the code to do the integration, and that may be resources that a nonprofit doesn’t have. All of these strategies take time and resources, but of different kinds. Some take internal staff resources (especially the Manual strategy.) What’s involved in this? All-in-one.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Chapter 3 is a discussion on Peer production – it talks about how it is that people have come together to collaboratively create software and content – basically, knowledge production. He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

In 2010, TechSoup's GreenTech initiative held a travel reduction campaign that we called our TeleGreen Your Work. For example, for every short-haul round trip on an airplane (for example, New York to Chicago or Frankfurt to London) you don't take, you'll save the environment around one half of a metric ton of CO2.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The cloud’, when discussed in terms of computer systems and resources, is a symbolic expression that refers to networked computer hardware, data storage, data access, business and technical applications, and computing power that are not managed directly by end-users. Okay, so what exactly is ‘the cloud’?

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NTEN

JUNE 19, 2014

We can take spontaneous action wherever and whenever we want to do so." • The 2010 Haiti earthquake brought mobile giving into public consciousness, citing strong percentages of people who have given via mobile who say they now prefer giving that way…but there are few mobile channels that allow and inspire us to give. •

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

I have always been proud to support WWT both during the telesummit and during the rest of the year with other offline meetups, online content, and more. WWT 2010: Apps and Tools to Energize Your Base. You can see an example of a dashboard by visiting my public Nonprofit Tech Dashboard. View more presentations from womenwhotech.

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See3

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

phenomena of portable content and user generated content is just the transition to something deeper. So, for example, I go to Blockbuster’s site and Facebook knows this and next time I am on Facebook I am getting Blockbuster promotions. You can read more about Facebook’s system here.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

This Winter, Luminate Online will officially support HTML5, allowing organizations to select this new DOCTYPE when building out content. ” 2) Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS). By doing so, you'll then be able to push the envelope with mobile-friendly and other new-fangled webby goodness.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Before exploring the questions around limitations and needs, I want to share a couple examples of things happening right now to remind us that even though it will take a lot of work, and honestly a good bit of time, that we are already moving. A year later, in 2010, it was even bigger. How does movement building really look?

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See3

MAY 9, 2007

and losing control of content. How do we take advantage of user-generated content and user-controlled forums such as MySpace and YouTube without totally losing control of our brand? Even the presidential campaign of Barack Obama, which has put big resources into these issues couldn’t escape serious problems. Not happening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Aside from the Jetson metaphors, I have to start to thinking about content. After watching almost all the Jetson's episodes on YouTube, I thought I better start to dig into the content. Some of the future has already arrived, so may be talk about those examples. Crowdsourcing is another example of working in a networked way.

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See3

AUGUST 6, 2007

I have been writing a long time about how advertising is changing, how you the fundraiser or the marketer must adopt the new paradigm that entertains, shows instead of tells, and meets people in their communities with content that interests them — and allows them to contribute to the conversation.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

If a capital campaign is on the horizon for your organization, Aaron Bishop and Brian O’Neil will share strategies and resources available to confidently predict your project costs and resources needed. There are so many resources available to ensure that your organization has a successful campaign. Just sharing an example.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Do you need software to manage volunteers and human resources? Human resources software can save you time, reduce paperwork, and help you get rid of paper HR files once and for all. In that case, be sure to ask for examples of work they’ve done in the past. Does your organization have a website?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Just because organization 1 gets 45,000 unique visits per month, and organization 2 gets 3,000 means nothing in relationship to the impact that organization has in the world, or in relationship to how it uses its resources. What content does the best? It’s called leading by example, try it, you might like it.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Do we need more user generated content? Sure, we'll need resources to get our work done. I proposed a panel for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference. I have a fantasy that we can chew on this and create some resources for our fellow changemakers. I sat with super smart Amy Mueller and Thomas Knoll. Of what sort?

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See3

SEPTEMBER 24, 2007

Our friend Alia McKee from Sea Change Strategies wrote a blog post about nonprofits using video and gave some great examples. So while we don’t yet have all the metrics we need to show that video will actually improve/increase fundraising online, we know that this is the content people are gravitating towards.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

In my recent chapter “Managing Fundraising and Building Communities Online” in the book Internet Management for Nonprofits (Wiley, April 2010), I write in depth about one method to tackle the subject – what are organizations across the country doing? The e-mail is updated with a new story each month to keep the content and news fresh.

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See3

JULY 12, 2007

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman JUL 12, 2007 How many site visitors do you have?

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Daniel Hartman MAR 27, 2008 NTEN Does Web 2.0

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EveryAction

OCTOBER 12, 2022

For more great resources, staffing to help you thank your donors, or even a coach to inspire more ideas, visit www.hireafundraiser.com or book a free 30-minute consultation. Impact: Send a Donor Impact Report highlighting their past giving and share examples of tangible successes that they helped create. Erik Rubadeau, Yeeboo Digital.

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