Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of December 9th). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Get the Tagline Database and Report!"

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Care2

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

We knew the event would get a lot of public attention so a few months ago, my organization had a brainstorm about it. Earlier this week, the world turned 7 billion. Yes, 7 billion people. It’s a strangely large number that can freak people out and put them to sleep at the same time.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

The last few years, though, have been dramatically impacted by the real-time web. The real-time web is a paradigm based on pushing information to users as soon as it’s available, instead of requiring that they or their software check a source periodically for updates. We can’t only invest in a product.

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Philanthropy Social Media Media Social 244

Top Nonprofits

MARCH 4, 2021

As soon as people go online, whether it’s on their phones or computers, they are instantly bombarded with organizations and companies vying for their attention. Be sure you use it to its maximum potential and provide all of the information your supporters should pay attention to.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

Treesaver is a new open source web platform for publishing that uses the new HTML5 standard to create narrative experiences—with text, pictures and video. It works on any device that has a web browser. actually a terrible way to put content on the web. that no one is paying attention. The PDF is. egypt.see3.net/.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2010

Session: Making it Real: Getting Project Management Right for Content Management Web Projects & That's Not Funny: Using Humor in Online Communications. Too many people fear their website redesign or implementation projects, especially in the relatively unknown realm of Open Source CMS systems. Website - [link].

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 1, 2007

May 1, 2007 Jon Stahl quotes a comment by Ethan Zuckerman about “shiny&# – the over attention to cool and groovy web 2.0 Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Too much “shiny&# ? functionality. Not always, but often.)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Write and run web crawlers and scrapers for data collection. We use free and open source software whenever possible, but we're pragmatic and work with what our human rights monitoring and advocacy partners need, so our environment is a pretty eclectic mix. Data archeology: recover data from ancient files in odd formats.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 clearly has had the lion’s share of attention for a while, but who knows how long this will remain. But in the meantime, social bookmarking tools are I think a useful part of Web 2.0. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 11, 2007

The striking thing: open source software wasn’t on their list. And that’s because in the enterprise world, for the most part, open source software is a given part of the mix. I really do hope that the CIOs of the world pay attention. { I really do hope that the CIOs of the world pay attention. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Microsoft Fails to get ISO fast-track for OOXML September 7, 2007 For those of you that pay attention to open standards, this is old(ish) news. I’ll keep you posted. { I’ll keep you posted. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 15, 2007

Solidariti has a great discussion and graph of Web 2.0 Some other great tidbits: Also in the Web 2.0 Kivi, of Nonprofit Communications tells us why organizations should pay attention to how we want to be listed. Nancy Schwartz, of Getting Attention tells us how best to get people to fill out surveys. Be Helpful.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

This year, for the first time, IDPD is commemorated with supporting sub-themes (see the full list here ), to draw attention to key issues that come into play in the intersection of disability and development processes. The theme of IDPD 2011 is “Together for a better world for all: Including persons with disabilities in development.”

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I’m reading this book at the same time as I’ve been working on the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. I’m realizing that all of the justifications for why I am so into open source and free software is right here in this book! It gets chewy, for sure, but it feels like every chew is worth it. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Nancy Schwartz of Getting Attention has some great examples (that I’ll be using really soon!) Katya gives us a “Craigslist&# of social marketing principals. Good stuff! Beth Kanter digs deep to try and figure out how to pull RSS content into Facebook I review Facebook’s new ad platform. for writing one-page fact sheets.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 24, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Vendorspeak August 24, 2007 One of the things I’ve noticed recently is that my blog is getting the attention of software vendors. I guess that’s a good thing. Maybe it means I have “arrived&#.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

I think that it is certainly possible to disseminate some guidelines (that some people will pay attention to) for the use of the nptech tag that could increase the signal/noise ratio. Technorati Tags: nptech , tagging , folksonomies { 1 trackback } Beths Blog 01.08.07 at 5:46 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth 01.08.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

One of the fundamental economic characteristics of Web 2.0 It’s only by aggregating those contributions on a massive scale – on a web scale – that the business becomes lucrative. Privacy Suck: Not so long ago, there was a little hiccup in Web 2.0 at 9:46 am Web 2.0 goodiness. Be Helpful.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

It's this dillema that Nancy Schwartz , consultant and blogger at Getting Attention , will take on at her 2009 NTC session, The Open Source Brand in the Age of Being Everywhere. Your supporters can now easily spread your message, and just as easily market it. social media nancy schwartz 09NTC.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

In addition to the detailed review of 11 systems -- including both proprietary and open source -- the report provides some helpful overview for approaching the CMS evaluation process in general, as well as some recommendations for making your selection process more focused and effective.

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Review Guide Comparison Open Source 72

Care2

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Sometimes you only have moments to get people’s attention before they move on. In our mobile, social, always on, multi-screen world it’s important to ensure that your for that your organization’s home on the web is robust, well designed, and well-built. At a minimum, test the site on iphone, ipad, and Android phone.

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Websites Plugin Test Feeds 73

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 20, 2016

Every marketer understands the challenge of competing for attention among a sea of content with limited resources. Join the open source culture. The open source culture allows many organizations to use the innovations and labor of others and in turn contribute your own organizational strengths and capabilities.

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Marketing Nonprofit Open Source Museum 40

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

Getting Attention talks about boosting blog coverage – it can have good offline benefits for your organization. Generative Transformation talks about what leadership is , and means – particularly that it means self-awareness. A Girl’s Guide to Managing Projects has a nice post about what Project Managers do all day, anyway.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

Despite the narcissism and deficit of attention in my generation (as far as you know I'm still 29), I still believe this is an achievable goal. Ehren Foss has a decade of diverse technical experience with web programming, database administration, and many of the open source tools that help make the web an amazing place to work.

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Social Media Tools Media Social 81

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. Thousands of reports were placed via SMS.

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Disaster Social Media Haiti Media 206

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

In open source news, ZTE announced two smartphones that run Firefox OS 1.3, the Open C and the Open II. Zuckerberg has partnered with Samsung, Nokia, Opera, and others to bring more affordable web access by way of smartphones. What mobile trends are capturing your attention? Image 1: miuet.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I started to do databases for organizations, and then, in 1999, I flew headlong into web application development, which became my specialty and mainstay until I took a break to go to seminary in 2005. I put in a few networks in the late ’90s (ugh, really, I pulled cable.) At first, I liked it a lot. Be Helpful.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 8, 2016

But a newbie to web design and management may be asking themselves “what CMS should I be using?” As 2017 quickly approaches here’s a brief look at the Content Management Systems leading the web design and management market. Like WordPress it’s an open-source platform, allowing users to modify and share code freely.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2011

As community member and Executive Director of Knowbility Sharron Rush points out , a culture of accessibility requires "open hearts and minds, the ability to listen and look in new ways, the willingness to lay aside basic assumptions, and a true commitment." And it's free, to boot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2009

On YouTube the attention span is very short 15 hrs of footage uploaded every minute. grab attention quickly. Gave a great simple definition of open source software: access to code, users modify, anyone can redistribute, public collaborative development. It will be launching in a few days. psa don't work. David Greenberg.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Forum One created all of the site's branding elements, developed the site's information architecture, designed its visual look, and built the site using Drupal, a leading open-source content management system. The data and content were provided by policy staff at the University of Wisconsin with support from Burness Communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

In December, Fast Company published an article called " The Most Influential Women in Web 2.0 " featuring about a dozen amazing women who work in the Web 2.0 is an online engagement strategist for World Resources Institutes and in her spare time writes a blog about using metrics for nonprofit web advocacy. Laura Lee Dooley.

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Technology Companies Netsquared Social Media 75

NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

The disaster in Haiti is a perfect example of these changes: the impact of the Real-Time Web and the power of our phones. Reports of violence and of peace efforts could be placed via the web or mobile phone. What we often think of as "social media" has given way to a larger movement, known as the Real-Time Web.

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Haiti Disaster Social Media Media 82

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Nancy raises a few questions about whether a distributed presence for organizations - splitting the attention of members between an organization's web site and social networking profiles is a liability or an asset. Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools. Her selection criteria.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

I argue that while folksonomies are changing the way we interact with content, people, and organizations, they are still a long way from helping us optimize our consumption of the ever increasing amount of content and media on the Web. The semantic web and the continued evolution of search, data design, and user interface design will help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

In " The Social Web Ain't Rocket Science " Worldchanging blogger Jon Lebkowsky reminds us that blogs, wikis, and social networking sites may not be appropriate for all nonprofits and that hype and pressure shouldn't drive adoption decisions or they may not be successful. And if Web 2.0 generators.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

We discuss issues and trends in modern web technologies that help your organization achieve more with less. Grab your audience with something that commands attention â?? Think back to your school days, and which teaching style was most likely to keep your attention long enough to learn something â?? both electronic and print.

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