Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

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). It's left some nonprofit professionals wondering whether these types of contests are a good idea." " Check it out! " Check it out!

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

The 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference is off to an terrific start. Just click the "Share" button to add it to your site, blog, Facebook or Twitter feed (among other sharing options). . Ladies and gentlemen, I can proudly report that we are on a roll. . Spread the Word. We're at 5% of our goal already!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Recently, my social media feeds have been anxiety producing, if not downright depressing. Quit Facebook or other social media? Blogger Vu Lee, who wrote the forward to The Happy Healthy Nonprofit , offers up 9 tips for self-care , including downloading a chrome plugin that replaces 45 with photos of kittens. What to do?

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NetWits

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Did you notice something toony about Facebook last weekend? In an effort to raise awareness for child abuse, thousands of Facebook users changed their profile photos to one of their favorite childhood cartoon characters (full disclosure: mine was Underdog.) Stimpy, Smurfette, Foghorn Leghorn, Betty Boop – they’re all there!

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

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). " How Useful is Social Media to Nonprofits? The big question nonprofits ask is, how useful is social media?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants November 19, 2007 Today, it’s my turn to host the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. I wholeheartedly agree. I’m a real fan of Craigslist.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2010

The 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference is off to an terrific start. Just click the "Share" button to add it to your site, blog, Facebook or Twitter feed (among other sharing options). Ladies and gentlemen, I can proudly report that we are on a roll. Spread the Word. We're at 5% of our goal already!

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 23, 2011

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). " How to collect email subscribers on your Facebook Page – Have you added a custom welcome page and/or email sign up form to your Facebook Page?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

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). "I outlined the value of planning and evaluating your nonprofit marketing in a recent post, and clearly hit a nerve. What do you think?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 31, 2010

Last week in my post, Keeping Your Balance While Helping Haiti , I suggested that you research organizations working in Haiti that you would like to support by donating, volunteering, or helping in some other way throughout 2010. CARE is a humanitarian nonprofit that works in poor communities. They focus on women and children.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

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). Rather than having their apps be based on FBML, Facebook has now switched over to iframes. ' There are two responses I usually give here.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

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). An increase in email use, however, was visible in the 55+ age group, who used web-email 15% more in 2010 than in 2009.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

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). "How do you get 50 authors prepared to manage 15 Facebook pages in less than 2 months with a team of 4 people? Women Rule the Philanthropic Roost!

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2010

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). "Show why Earth's not effed" and get inspired from the stories of those making change. "" OPEN CALL: Do Nonprofits Make Films?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

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). Submissions close January 22, 2010." Digital Media and Learning Competition: Applications now open! Thanks for all that you are doing, ARC!

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2010

A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources and other goodies. Effective data visualization is the future of nonprofit storytelling. XKCD has finally updated its Map of Online Communities , showing the size of Facebook relative to its smaller brethren. Read more posts on our blog. "Farmville is so huge!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Anyone can set up a profile for an organization (it prompts for an EIN number ( but not required ) and Facebook account url) and you can opt to be the administrator. But it’s also the latest online creation of Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 8, 2009

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). Nonprofits can expect 60% of their donations to come in between Christmas and New Year’s.&#. Thus today’s announcement is a very big surprise.&#.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 21, 2010

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). Are these changes good for nonprofits bottom line too? The jury is out." "What is social interpreneurship you ask? " Join the converstaion!

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

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). One of the findings that stood out to us: Only 40% of respondents reported that their organization has some type of formal technology plan.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

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). The Wikimedia Foundation, which finances and oversees the nonprofit site, received a $1.2 These are some of the common refrains I hear from nonprofits.

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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. What does this mean for the nonprofit sector? This breaks the whole thing open.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What is private? Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), What is public? 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 ThomasT 06.11.08 2 admin 06.11.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Note from Beth: Last month, we did a Networked Nonprofit session at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service. Recently I got my first full-on blast of the Networked Nonprofit at a session the authors presented at the 2010 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. He offered to write a guest post.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2010

Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. Simple Security for the Nonprofit IT Professional. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 13, 2010

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). "Zoetica serves nonprofits and socially conscious companies with top-tier, word-of-mouth communication services. " Deadline: January 31, 2010.

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Care2

JUNE 18, 2011

As savvy marketers and nonprofit campaigners know, numbers can be sliced and diced. For example, the latest ComScore study says "Facebook now reaches 73% of the total U.S. We really need to have a better Facebook strategy for our own organization." Facebook has 150M U.S. A Facebook page can replace your website.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 12, 2010

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). Twitter, Facebook and Google tools have already been used for market research, sales predictions and targeted advertising.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2011

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). For many nonprofits, it’s far more obvious that such tools can be useful than how to use them. Event management? How about fundraising?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

The Facebook of February 2010 is quite different from the Facebook of 2009 especially when it comes to Facebook Fan Pages. More are seemingly showing up in the News Feed > Most Recent view, but definitely not all. It used to be a feed of Status Updates from Pages you were a fan of. It’s gone.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

I hope it's a fun read for anyone either looking to redo their own small nonprofit brand, or who wants a deeper dive on what we did at Fight Colorectal Cancer. An example of our early "brand" circa 2005 Like everything else that has gone well in my career, it started with a NTC (Nonprofit Technology Conference).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

On November 16, 2010, Minnesotans will take part in Give to the Max Day. This incredible online fund raising event raised more than $14 million last year, and we’re hoping to raise the bar higher this year by engaging more than 40,000 donors to donate to any of Minnesota’s more than 26,000 nonprofits using GiveMN.org.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How do you keep up? And, in a bigger picture way, how important do you think it is for people who work with nonprofit organizations on technology issues to keep up? How do you keep up?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

I have been mulling this post over for months, and with some recent changes made by Facebook, the time has come. Some of the opinions I express below I have had for a while and speak to them in my webinars and trainings, but some are so recent that I am still in the stage of “Seriously Facebook? That said, people love Facebook.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

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). In 2010, we enter in to a new era of social media marketing, one based on information, rationalization, and resolve." Check it out!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

The Zoetica Salon is a free online space for informal peer learning about nonprofits and social media. It is a place to share resources and ask and answer questions. Many nonprofit social media managers shared tips and advice. Photo by M. Schenekenberg. Measurement Challenges. How do you analyze your social media data?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Platforms break open! October 15, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. Extensions are ways to connect the Convio app to other Web 2.0

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