Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I describe Social Actions as an aggregation of actions people can take on any issue that’s built to be highly distributable across the social web. In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

At Candid, we have been able to track down this information using a combination of automated and manual searches. For MacKenzie Scott’s grantmaking, we’ve also supplemented our data by manually searching social media and organizational websites. Our automated tool “reads” about 300,000 media articles each day. Grant size distribution.

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Candid

JULY 27, 2022

We review the flurry of news stories, press releases, and announcements, and we actively search websites to identify and record grantmaking data. Because of the challenges of aligning public promises with later grant dollars , Candid aggregates pledges and grants separately in our analyses. We recommend that others do the same. .

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NetWits

AUGUST 5, 2009

We recently talked about how to Set up Your Social Media Listening Dashboard with the goal of getting you to run some basic searches on various social media web sites and aggregate them into an iGoogle Dashboard. Doing this makes it simpler for you to monitor and take action on the things being said about you.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 27, 2022

Feedly.com is a tool that helps search and organize news across many different outlets. This can be used to quickly aggregate relevant news in the sector and show a summary to the CEO for quick reactions. This will also allow some privacy for the CEO if they don’t want to share their full profile access. Rev.com or Otter.ai

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2012

A curator needs to have superb social media monitoring and listening skills — that means knowing the right keywords on the topic and sources, agility with “ aggregator ” tools, and the daily discipline of foraging for the best content and evaluating your finds before sharing. Bundlepost is my perferred aggregation tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

One of the points he made during our planning call is that in order to curate, you need two sets of tools – news discovery and curation tools. News discovery tools select and aggregate content based on keyword searches, but give a higher signal to noise ratio than general keywords searches or general news sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2014

News discovery tools select and aggregate content based on keyword searches, but give a higher signal to noise ratio than general keywords searches or general news sites. Searches: When you spot the awesome, spend time looking for more content and context to add to it. Take Crowdtangle as an example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2012

One of the points he made during our planning call is that in order to curate, you need two sets of tools – news discovery and curation tools. News discovery tools select and aggregate content based on keyword searches, but give a higher signal to noise ratio than general keywords searches or general news sites.

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TechImpact

MARCH 19, 2014

Active gathering is when you search for content to solve a particular problem. Passive content gathering is when you are working throughout the week, aggregating links, content and information as you unintentionally stumble over it. Both strategies can be used effectively depending on what the goal and content of your newsletter is.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2022

Their page links to various donation forms that support a specific location or program and can be easily accessed from their main webpage–page visitors don’t have to search for very long to find out how to make a donation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 13, 2009

When you want to find a way to volunteer, the first step is to search for volunteer positions using services that aggregate volunteer listings, or to search on nonprofits' sites for listings, but what if you could create your own listing of services that you'd like to give to nonprofits, and they could search for you ?

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Whole Whale

MAY 26, 2022

This led to the search for another helpline for such emergencies. The Inclusivity Tool can help aggregate mentions of “911,” so you can adjust the language if it makes sense. This is evident from the research findings published by PEW.

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Forum One

MARCH 9, 2023

Think of Google search, and natural language processing; the ability to make sense of varied phrasing or word choice, that in aggregate can be processed. Also prediction services, for things like weather, or event attendance, can help users predict that something seen in the past will happen again.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 3, 2010

There are various tools for hyperlocal searching, and one I’m looking at recently is called Sency for Cities. I think there’s a lot of potential for hyper local search and the power that comes with geo-tags/data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

People who can touch API's out there have been fooling around with trying to extract data from the NpTech tag for analysis as well as think about ways that we can make the data that has been tagged more filtered via social search, collaborative filtering, and whatever else. Michele Martin's NpTech Search.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This includes things like file downloads, form interactions, video views, and site searches. Your aggregate-level data will still be saved, but event-level data, such as file downloads, will only be kept for 14 months. Built-In Tracking: GA4 includes robust tracking right out of the box, with no additional customizations needed.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Search for a payment processor that integrates with software tools like your: Nonprofit CRM Fundraising software Accounting software These integrations will ensure seamless, secure data transfers and simplify your fundraising process. Use third-party software review aggregators to get insight from real customers. Read reviews.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 16, 2009

Using Twitter search or other tools, you can watch news and updates about the election in Iran by using #IranElection; or, find interesting people to follow and connect with using #FollowFriday to peruse the recommendations that pile up on Fridays. Brainstorm lots of questions but pick a few.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2010

The complete chat is aggregated here. You’ll notice that the application they’re using allows them to pull out the moderator’s tweets on the side. A couple of Twitter moderator techniques I used to try to get some deeper insights from the discussion: I had a search open on #sm73 the whole time.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

If you only have ten prospects, for example, you can find out a fair amount about these folks simply using search engines. Of course, if you have 500 prospects, you may want a more cost-effective research method. Remember, we’re talking fundamentally about a screening tool.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 10, 2009

Where: Twitter (search for #4Change ). And here are some examples to consider: SocialActions – a great example of social media powering the sharing and aggregation (and thus the collaboration and partnership) of social action opportunity portals all over the world. The next #4change chat is this Thursday – I hope you can join us!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

style and tolerance for change, I decided to do a seperate action learning experiment on my own dime and reflect in real time along with doing the work: What are some useful techniques social search techniques that might yield richer leads and connections? What thinking shifts are needed to make your social search more successful?

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NTEN

JANUARY 31, 2013

Tis the season: the season for Google Flu Trends to demonstrate the power of aggregated search data. A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources and other goodies. So, if you were procrastinating on getting that flu shot, well. maybe procrastination isn't such a bad thing. But please, at least wash your hands.

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Forj

JUNE 7, 2021

However, as you begin searching for your association’s next solution, you’ll quickly come across a new option on the market— learning experience platforms (LXPs). Because the LXP acts as an aggregation tool, a wide variety of content is always made available for learners. Even further, should you invest in one? Driven by the learner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

Filtering: These fools let you filter and sift through social streams based on keyword searches and allow your sort based on different criteria. Aggregation: These tools aggregate sources/content on a central site. Examples: DataSift and Research.ly. Curation: These are curated sources by communities and networks of people.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 1, 2009

If you work for the Red Cross, as an example, you can search in Causes for “red cross&# and find groups that are focused on the Red Cross but also those focused on specific disaster relief efforts and international projects. Social Actions is an aggregator of 50+ social action-related sources across the web. Happy searching!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites. There were also many sites so a searcher would have to go through several and sort through the many different search protocols and syntax. Thousands of reports were placed via SMS. More and more, now we can.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

The tools are getting better and better, and one of the hallmarks of Web 2.0 – the APIs, make it all the more simple to aggregate all of someone’s online content. 2 trackbacks } Change » Blog Archive » Profile aggregators 12.18.07 As a search engine, users never have to sign-up to get value from Spock.

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Classy

MAY 6, 2021

Facebook Pixel provides third-party data through putting a cookie on a user’s browser that can then match searches back to a user’s Facebook data. . In addition, big platforms like Google and Facebook may also start to help with data analysis by aggregating their large data sets for organizations to see trends within their smaller data sets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

He is hoping it will work like Katrina Aftermath , with aggregations of content generated by the public, news orgs and govt agencies. Inspired by the Twitter feed that Nate Ritter set up to aggregate news during the San Diego Fires in the Fall of 2007, Joe Solomon (aka EngageJoe) set up GustavFeed on Twitter.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Content strategy is an aggregate of a few best practices—equal parts planning, delivery, and consistency. To execute on content strategy means to consider your processes for content creation, search engine optimization (SEO), user experience, and more. It’s how you plan for and produce your message.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

register to volunteer and can simply search through the database to find either local opportunities or virtual opportunities (work that can be. Volunteers can search as broadly as "within 60. miles of me" or a more specific advanced search. 50 per zip code to boost your search visibility. done from a computer).

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NTEN

MARCH 11, 2011

With dozens of sites to search through, the odds of actually connecting with someone were tough. Within a week came the Katrina People Finder , aggregating data into one central location. It was amazing, and also amazingly confusing.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

This brave new world of touchscreens, aggregated data, and pastel AJAX-based social networking sites, is partly fueled by consumers' desires for faster, lighter, and often cheaper (if not free) technologies. This is the second in a fantastic series of guest posts by the authors of Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission. read more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Search engine optimization. There is a balancing act of how you facilitate that without controlling it. It's how you use the conversation to generate, aggregate, and facilitate social content. Kristina Halvorson has a good definition: Content strategy plans for the creation, publication, and governance of useful, usable content.

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NTEN

MARCH 5, 2010

Deborah Elizabeth Finn announced the prototype of a tool that will search and. aggregate questions and answers regarding nonprofit management. Full details and RSVP here. help from Third Sector New England , Social Actions , and the Boston Foundation, a first. prototype focusing on Massachusetts nonprofit organizations will be.

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