Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 4, 2012

And the content – is that a platform or application that supports that kind of content? When sharing messages, use LinkedIn’s filtering options for location and job field to refine your recipients list to those more applicable. So, what is the content you want to share? Mastering social networking as a volunteer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

RSS in Plain English and Uses For Nonprofits. Jason Zannon at DIA points to Commoncraft's brilliant " RSS in Plain English " Screencast. Michele Martin has an excellent post about how to make the most of Netvibes, an RSS reader, for nonprofit applications such as advocacy, marketing, and customer service.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Some of the key attributes that you may want to include: a welcome page/message that highlights who you are and the calls to action – remember that it’s more important for people to take the action related to your campaign than it is to only join your page/group.

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

What do you do when a favorite web application goes away? Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Twitter RSS application social media. That’s what some 4000 users of TwitApps are wondering, now that the Twitter-to-email tool is being dropped by its developer. This kept me off twitter 24/7. I was emailed all replies. I suggested.(

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

These are Application Programming Interfaces, and they are a relatively new part of the way that Web 2.0 Like the freedom that RSS gives to end users in terms of getting the data that you want in your hands, to read when and how you want it, APIs give programmers (and, at times, end users) the freedom to get data from Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

Quick definition Cloud computing is basically running applications on the web via “Software as a Service (SaaS)&#. That includes applications from Google Documents, to Salesforce.com, to Gliffy.com , (the service I used to create that graphic.) Also, you can access the applications anywhere you go.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

Today’s webinar focused on the building blocks of social meda; things like tagging, RSS and how to get started finding the conversations taking place online. Some of them, along with my answers, include: How much time a day do you spend reading (RSS feeds)? Here’s my slide deck: Social Media Building Blocks.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 9, 2009

" New Fundraising Tool for Your Cause: Donor Choices – Causes Exchange Blog - Have you used Facebook's Causes application at your organization either as part of a campaign or general awareness/fund raising? " Third sector infrastructure organisations Social Media Map - RSS Feed - TALK Project - TALK - This is SO cool!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits June 11, 2008 The Tides Foundation is accepting applications for the 2008 Antonio Pizzigati prize , a $10,000 annual award for outstanding contributions to software in the public interest.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2011

The web interface is great, as is the desktop applications. I use Google Reader for RSS feeds, and TweetDeck , or, more recently, HootSuite for Twitter (I really like the tabbed interface of HootSuite. And, it’s open source, and isn’t even that hard to get set up and running. Evernote rocks my world.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Tim says: If all OpenSocial does is allow developers to port their applications more easily from one social network to another, that’s a big win for the developer, as they get to shop their application to users of every participating social network. We don’t want to have the same application on multiple social networks.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide. Katrin over at MobileActive.org weighs in , and I agree: So what does this mean for the ‘mobile for good’ field?

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NetWits

JUNE 20, 2011

Subscribe to the RSS feed ›. They can also post in the discussion board or write a review of your Page (if applicable). This is a guest post by the one and only Nonprofit Facebook Guy – John Haydon (also a good buddy of mine). Make sure to check out his blog [link].

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 1, 2009

Way more folks subscribe to C3’s content via email as compared to Facebook, Twitter and RSS feeds combined. What I want is an application that has the look & feel of Panic’s Coda, but is specifically designed for email. Contrary to what the bloggers want you to believe, email is not dead. By a very wide margin.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

The salient quote: Why not roll your own social network, include the OpenSocial API, and have applications, groups, widgets and portals to your site in any number of the “OpenSocial” platforms? It seems to me that many organizations are going to have very similar needs in terms of kinds of applications. Anyone interested?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

Firefox, is, of course, the FOSS application that is on more desktops than all the others, combined. But I have to say, I still prefer the way Safari handles RSS. Although among browsers, its market share is still way behind IE – but that’s mostly, of course, because IE is the default browser for every windows machine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2008

For novices just starting to explore social media, I recommend google alerts as the first listening step because they didn't have learn another application (RSS Readers) to get started. I use google alerts, but always wished they had an RSS option. I get way too email that I can barely keep up.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2008

Adobe (yeah, Adobe ) joined the Linux Foundation , and released a Linux alpha of Air , their new application platform. { It’s still mighty small (still around 2%), but Linux Desktop market share grew from 40-60% (depending on who you ask) from last year.

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Tech Soup

JULY 12, 2013

The 7131 series is mostly suitable for auditoriums, conference rooms, stadiums and other large areas and it gives the best throughput for voice, video and cloud based applications. RSS(remote site survivability). Here is a table that you can refer for comparison: Features. 300 series. 7131 series. Interfaces. 10/100 Base-T.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Use Help Applications That Streamline Social Media Tasks. If you are not reading blogs and web sites in an RSS Reader , make that your New Year's resolution. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. Use these filtering tips to make your social bookmarking and RSS reader more efficient.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2006

Just like evaluating a company that releases as specific application that you are interested in, understanding and evaluating the community around an open source project can be quite important.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 18, 2007

Asterisk is the open source PBX application that works by using VOIP. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The power of open source VOIP December 18, 2007 Today seems to be Asterisk day. What is Asterisk, you ask?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Things that make me feel better December 14, 2006 As someone who has developed web database applications for clients, I always hate when they get errors. Things like this make me feel so much better.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

It allows you to access 16 entities within the Kintera application, including lots of data about contacts, plus data about appointments and tasks. One of my favorite quotes in the Connect documentation is this one: “As long as you can invoke the API over HTTP, your application can be Microsoft, HP, IBM, Novell, Oracle, even Sun-based.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

These posts on open source applications are so helpful. Update: I’ve been using it now as my default browser for the last day or so, and it is really growing on me. { 1 trackback } Boy in the Bands » Blog Archive » Because the power of the Internet increases as people get connected. at 7:46 am Just wanted to say: thanks.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2008

Komen for the Cure, for their Salesforce-based application formerly known as Aikido, presently known as Common Ground. Beth is, of course, THE web 2.0 and social network guru for the nptech community. Allan Benamer talks about Convio’s new big client, Susan G. I trust Allan’s gut instincts about CRM technology.

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NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2011

—. If you haven’t already, please consider subscribing via RSS or eMail to receive fresh content on a regular basis. —. Causes was the very first application built to work with Facebook a few short years ago and now they’ve seen 30 Million dollars raised for 27,000 non-profits. Think about it for a second.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Because these applications are not proprietary, and anyone can get their hands on them, and install and use them, this means that nonprofits get the benefit. This is going to make these projects better, and make support for them more available.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

It’s a LAMP stack application. The admin interface is nice looking, and fairly intuitive. The surveys could stand some graphic design help, but you can design templates for it. Worth a look if your organization does surveys. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 20, 2008

And note: this application is not HIPAA compliant. Through our health offering, our users will be empowered to collect, store, and manage their own medical records online.&# Sounds pretty interesting, but hold on a second. Before you sign up, read the privacy policy carefully. Here’s why.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 16, 2007

Most of the 10 are applicable to nonprofit organizations (I’d skip the “Offshore work&# tip.) He has a recent article in “ Director Magazine &# which is a UK-based business magazine (no, I don’t read it, I just got the link from his blog,) entitled 10 tips for reducing burgeoning IT costs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2008

I said: I will not be buying an iPhone until they sell an unlocked version that doesn’t need to be hacked to use third party applications. I swore up and down I wouldn’t get one. Well, the iPhone 3G changed the equation, some. The iPhone 3G does have 3rd party apps, but they have to be vetted, etc. by Apple, which is a mixed bag.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

These look like pretty interesting, and useful applications. But, anyway, I’m not putting the silly badge in the sidebar, sorry. MPower has started to generate some community-driven development. But I still haven’t seen much activity on the sourceforge page, nor does it seem that the code for these new projects is available.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

I get to use my expertise in web application development, but not have to do any web application development (which feels to me a lot like having my cake and eating it too.) And, I think I also get to educate the varied vendors and developers I’ve been in contact with.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 9, 2018

You can also access your newsfeeds and establish RSS feeds for keywords. The application, which is a product of Salesforce , focuses on B2B marketing and offers an automated solution so you don’t have to worry about precisely when or to whom you’ll be sending your marketing materials.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

These model collaborations were selected from a pool of over 800 applications from around the country. No one said collaborating is easy, and a whole section of the Collaboration Prize application is dedicated to “challenges along the way.&# However, we still have much to learn. Check it out!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 15, 2007

Basically, third parties will be able to build applications which will allow two-way communication into the platform. The Connect platform is a set of APIs, starting with the contact and payment sets of entities, that will allow access (via SOAP 1.1) to the data in the Kintera platform. The APIs will be without cost.

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