Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world. government is working on a new warning system to replace their oft criticized five-color coded terror index, and according to a new document obtained by The Associated Press, they're turning to Facebook and Twitter." Repair Interview: Joe Solomon of 350.org

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

For example, the American Diabetes Association tend to receive a high amount of engagement for research related posts: While recipe posts on average receive 60%-85% less engagement : Let’s take this research a step further by using Buzzsumo to identify if research or recipes receive the most social shares on the topic of diabetes.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2010

According to Wikipedia , Geocoding is "…The process of finding associated geographic coordinates (often expressed as latitude and longitude) from other geographic data, such as street addresses, or zip codes (postal codes).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Wikimedia is the non profit that operates and manages all Wikimedia projects from Wikipedia to Wikibooks, Wikiversity to Wikispecies.).

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 25, 2012

I've cut and pasted the list of environmental issues from Wikipedia below. Just this morning, I read in Aging As a Spiritual Practice that one of the 8 lifestyle factors that contributes to healthy aging is being nature, so keep on doing those outdoor activities! I'm curious. What environmental issues are close to your heart?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 19, 2010

I already was following RSS and Twitter feeds associated with grammar and writing, but I’m always on the hunt for more. Essentially these are adjectives or prepositional phrases that don’t really have any facts associated with them, but are added simply to be promotional. I can’t help it.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 19, 2010

I already was following RSS and Twitter feeds associated with grammar and writing, but I’m always on the hunt for more. Essentially these are adjectives or prepositional phrases that don’t really have any facts associated with them, but are added simply to be promotional. I can’t help it.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 22, 2007

Fixing Wikipedia Articles link [via Michael Gilbert's weekly Nonprofit Online News] More and more often we find that wikipedia is the first place we are pointed to when seeking information about a person or organization online. But the American Bar Association has built a resource to answer your e-commerce legal questions.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2009

Every year, the American Library Association picks a different theme for the occasion. is what we call social computing, when the content is contributed by the users, like YouTube or Wikipedia. Guest Blog from Amy McNeely, Bookshare Librarian This past week, April 12th through April 18th, was National Library Week. at its core.

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Forj

MARCH 7, 2018

Wikipedia ? Unless the adult learner is motivated by a designation, a degree, or the learning exercise is required, he or she expects the learning format to be entertaining and to the point. Let’s agree on a general definition of microlearning. Microlearning deals with relatively small learning units and short-term learning activities.

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Care2

DECEMBER 8, 2009

According to Wikipedia , giving circles are a form of philanthropy consisting of groups of individuals who pool their funds and other resources to donate to their communities and seek to increase their awar eness and engagement in the process of giving. Connect with giving circles and encourage your members to start their own.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Wikipedia offers this one : Intelligence has been defined as the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. It may be some time before association professionals include all these platforms in business activities.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2011

And every year, the American Heart Association (AHA) utilizes these thinking caps and helps bring critical awareness to kids about fighting America's leading killers - heart disease and stroke. Facebook, iPads, Blackboard, Wikipedia (don't judge me, but there's good stuff there).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2008

A quick trip to the dictionary and Wikipedia: Authenticity refers to the truthfulness of origins, attributions, commitments, sincerity, devotion, and intentions. Transparency is not a term the nonprofit world typically associates with grant-making decisions. But, first I wanted to check on some formal definitions.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 30, 2006

Christine was nice enough to send me a review copy before I left on my trip. It is a big, beautiful magazine printed on thick paper with lots of photos and illustrations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

. Yesterday at the Packard Foundation, as part of a series of "deeper dives" to learn about networks and social media, Eugene Eric Kim of Blue Oxen Associates gave a talk about "Networks in an International Context." . I've gotten into the habit of asking if there will be confidential information shared and what is or isn't bloggable.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

I just returned from the annual ASTC (Association of Science and Technology Centers) conference, where there were LOTS of good conversations and controversy. Or, check out the wikipedia article , which is more readable. But the aspect that most excited me were the discussions about active participation in museums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

There are many other readers - here's a comparison of features from Wikipedia. CEO or well-known personalities associated with your organization. There are different readers that offer diffferent features and almost all are free. Here's a few: Bloglines. Google Reader. Make sure you establish good RSS habits. Persistent Search.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

I was fascinated by our discussion, and Bob came to mind last month, when I was asked to write an article for the Association of Children's Museums quarterly journal, Hand to Hand , about children's museums and Web 2.0. Reprinted with permission from the Association of Children's Museums, Washington, DC.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

The Wikipedia entry on this topic is extensive, and the most common usage in the marketplace is for the socially beneficial flavor of “social enterprise,” not the Salesforce one-year-old marketing campaign. Once universities have courses in a subject area, it would seem clear that the term is quite generic.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Whether on blogs or talk-back walls, people are more conscious about their comments when they know their name will be associated with their work. On the accuracy front, sites like Wikipedia have developed methods of community authoring and editing that make them more voluminous AND more accurate than traditional encyclopedic sources.

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Care2

JULY 10, 2008

Were finding that a lot of fundraising organizations (charities, political parties, associations) need a technology that allows flexible branding, so their donors dont feel theyre being "handed off" to a separate site.but they also need something that isnt too expensive, inflexible, and hard to implement.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

This latest one spotlights the many great interns, associates and fellows that are or were working for Benetech over this summer and into this year. Craig is a summer associate exploring new applications for Miradi, Benetech’s user-friendly conservation project planning and monitoring software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

If you're curious about Occam's Razor, here's a more detailed description or see the simplicity page in wikipedia. Let's take a look at the "Official Definition" from the Web Analytics Association , an association of web analytic professionals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

Allocating sufficient time to the tasks associated with blogging is something we all have to take seriously, though. Then I show them Wikipedia, and I used to demonstrate Wikalong, but the page history of that service is broken and thus so is the wiki as far as I'm concerned. I'd like to help this happen more in the non-profit world.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Readers understand that one era compliments and empowers the previous one and that the set of tools associated with each era are not meant to be replaced by the tools indicative of the the era that follows. The Facebook Community Pages that were created by automating content from Wikipedia have been mostly removed from Facebook Search.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Next week I'm doing a Webinar for Extension Professionals , a remix of 10 Steps to Association 2.0 adoption strategies ( remix from Association 2.0). Wikipedia , the online open-community encyclopedia, is the most well known. which was a remix of Marnie Webb 's Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Change the World. I'm nervous. It's messy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

The same sort of engine which powers Wikipedia can be put to work across a number of different “platforms”. He talks more about the cost of maintaining the cloud: While we might desire to extend our power and capabilities through our networks of hyperconnections, the cost associated with such investments is very high.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

Figure 3: ALS Association Community of Hope P2P Fundraising page showing dollars raised. The cause can either be an actual event, like a run or walk, or it can be “just because,” like an honor or memorial page for a loved one (see Figure 3). Figure 6: The Charity: Water website uses a video to explain “Why water.”.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

Instead of associating content, for example, museum exhibition content, with one location (the museum) alone, you take the content with you and engage with it in other parts of your life. You can read more about the game on Wikipedia , and some commentary on it from Wired.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

In October of 2006, I went to the Association of Science and Technology Centers conference and attended a "hot topics in exhibit design" roundtable where I first heard the question, "What would a wikimuseum be like?" In 2008, I worked with one museum director for whom the word "wiki" is synonymous with "Wikipedia."

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

Maureen Whalen, Associate General Counsel of the Getty Trust, spoke eloquently and somewhat distressingly about intellectual property. The most upsetting moment of the meeting for me was when some participants expressed a willful disregard and derision for participatory scholarship on sites like Wikipedia. Do they want it? Absolutely.

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