Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 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). The only question: Is it a mere glitch or a natural extension of Apple’s policy that is generally indifferent to nonprofits and philanthropy?

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Web Contest Philanthropy Bookmarking 180

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 20, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! And it is a simple (and small) survey upon which this blog is based.

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Research Arizona Philanthropy Relationship 74

NTEN

AUGUST 14, 2014

NTEN Member and Social Media Strategist, Lyndal Cairns , moderated the panel, and helped put together this blog post. Feedly : a news aggregation app that pulls feeds from news sites and social media. Social media policy Pinterest board curated by NTEN Member, Debra Askanese. Paul Neighborhood Network.

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Social Media Platform Strategy Media 74

Care2

AUGUST 17, 2011

After months of wandering you’ve made it to the (nonprofit blogging) promised land! You convinced the bigwigs to let you start a blog for your organization, you recruited peers to join you as staff bloggers, you’ve set clear guidelines , and shared some creative blog post ideas for your staff to draw from.

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Mind Share Tips Blogger 72

EveryAction

AUGUST 25, 2022

In this 6-part blog series, we’re highlighting key digital features your organization can start implementing now to boost fundraising this fall. And, lastly, the information you collect with your advocacy forms should feed into your unified or highly-integrated CRM in order to tailor the messages you send your advocates in the future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Today I discovered the Fight Hunger's Click to Feed a Child. I'm also curious about a few things: The click to feed application - I tried to add it to my profile, but there was a glitch. It is a Facebook application that I can click on and it takes over to the web site campaign where I can click and their sponsor donates.19

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

This is the eighth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. In fact, according to the Global NGO Technology Report , 27% of nonprofits worldwide have an official policy to allow staff to work on their LinkedIn Profiles during work hours.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

They have heavily promoted Facebook on their websites and blogs, at events and conferences. The answers are always the same: 1) From this blog. I track my blog traffic and very little comes from Facebook. This is a new policy development. asking their supporters to “Become a Fan!&# on Facebook. Not even good.

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ROI Integration Question Facebook 241

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 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). How to Prepare Your Community for a Major Change « The Community Manager – "Change: it’s the one constant in life.

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Web New York City Bookmarking Philanthropy 137

NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Policy-oriented organizations have long produced dizzying amounts of statistical content. In the past, rows and rows of data would die a quick death in thick policy reports or inscrutable spreadsheets. At the heart of most issue-focused policy and research is data analysis. Feed your raw data to world.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 5, 2009

Yet many organizations don’t pay enough attention to the care and feeding of their databases. Without policies, procedures, training, management, and ongoing attention, databases will become filled with inconsistent, unusable data, and data will be scattered hither and yon in spreadsheets, shadow databases, and desk drawers.

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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). As ImpactMax writes so beautifully, tying individual stories to overall contextual problems and societal issues can really change policies.

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Web Bookmarking Contest Storytelling 126

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). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Web Wikipedia Bookmarking Wiki 114

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 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). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

Web 114

Web Bookmarking Copyright Photography 114

ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 22, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! posted by Mark Hager, Ph.D. Research Friday: Really, Your Tax Exemption has be.

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Research Arizona Files Philanthropy 40

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Part III: Blogs, Podcasting and Vlogs September 27, 2006 When I start out these series, I seem to have an idea in hand about how to organize them, which, invariably, gets rearranged in the course of writing. So, here’s the post about Blogs, and their follow ons: podcasting and vlogging. Blogging is old hat. Such is life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Stephen Downes summarized my post on Social Media Metrics and Measuring Blog Outcomes and added some commentary. My post wasa riff on evaluating the effectiveness of blogs, and in particular, a set of metrics from Avinash Kaushik: "Raw Author Contribution (posts and words in post). Would that be better?

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Metrics Technorati Measure Reflection 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2012

I had some privacy concerns and also it felt like it would require feeding another channel – why bother when I already had a brand page. I’ve changed my mind. My brand page for my blog has specific objectives and I mostly post practical and useful material about how to use social media effectively.

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Facebook Change Profile Impact 112

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

I originally wrote this post for the NetSquared Blog. Earlier in the month I taught a Nonprofit Blogging 101 workshop at the 2008 Making Media Connections Conference. How do we decide if our organization should have a blog? How do we decide if our organization should have a blog? What questions and answers would you add?

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Question Blogger Nonprofit Comment 45

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 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). Fine Blog – "The Case Foundation has just released an evaluation of their innovative “Make It Your Own&# program. ."

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Web Bookmarking Evaluation Lesson 120

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2014

Here’s a story about the CEO of the ACLU of New Jersey and how he uses Twitter to reach out to the press and policy makers and the questions he and his staff answered. Here’s another example about a nonprofit CEO (Helen Clark of UNDP) using Twitter to engage audiences about policy.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

I'm in Kuwait for the 10th Annual Conference of the " Global Development Network ", a "global network of research and policy institutes that work on facilitating and applying research to policy development and practice." It's a three-day gathering of economists and development policy experts from almost every continent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

One of the things I've been wanting to do for a while is review my blog content for the year and select the "Top 10" posts or the "best of" posts. Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. You can actually go back and review your entire feed.

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ROI Widget Metrics Cambodia 50

See3

OCTOBER 7, 2007

RSS feeds and blogs, article comments, social networks… it’s all increasingly important. If you have been reading this blog, then you would not be surprised. All Rights Reserved Sitemap • Privacy Policy • Newsletter Sign-Up • Contact • About Us But guess what the largest number of all was?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2014

I found a blog post called “ The Dangers of Organizational Amnesia ” by Darcy Jacobson. During the keynote Q/A, there were many questions related to an organization’s social media policy and all staff participation and of course related to legal compliance.

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Conference Grant Network Learning 110

Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Tokenism: According to Merriam-Webster, tokenism is “The policy or practice of making only a symbolic effort.” You can share it far and wide—in your newsletter, on your blog, as a video on social media … the possibilities are almost endless! If the story is on the long side, it’s best to link to its place on a blog or elsewhere.

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Storytelling Guide Nonprofit Story 52

Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 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). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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eBook Web Open Source Bookmarking 108

Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2011

The webinar explained how each social media tool can be used effectively, how to use the right medium to reach your target audience, and how to manage social media policy for your organization. As we can see, the most widely used social media site is Facebook, and in last, blogs. Beth Kanter's blog: Beth's Blog.

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Social Media Volunteer Media Management 44

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 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). — Global Neighbourhoods – When everyone wants a bit of the social media juice, having a strategy and usage policy become even more important.

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Web Bookmarking Twitter Social Media 114

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

I don't know if I'm still shaking from the excitement or the hour long multi-tasking frenzy of listening to a live audio feed, seeing a blog.tv although there was a little bit lag, there was not a major crash and the audio feed was perfect - kudos! My Live Blog post with notes from the event. Virtual to Reality Blog.

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Virtual Philanthropy Foundation Second Life 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Having a structured way to collect and analyze qualitative insights can not only help with designing a social media engagement policy, but also harvest insights. Correcting Misconceptions and Improving Customer/Stakeholder Relations The AirForce Blog : The image above is of the US Air Force Blog Assessment and Engagement process.

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ROI Examples Results Social Media 91

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2009

Quentin Young, Founder, and Margie Schap, Executive Director Health & Medicine Policy Research Group.    Her organization was formed 27 years ago by an activist group of clinicians, social scientists, health care executives and policy analysts to advocate for health equity and improved public health.  

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Facebook Illinois Learning Policy 69

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. The Red Cross swiftly write an apology on its blog, using humor. The parade of bad news: gun violence, hurricanes, earthquakes, nuclear war, fake news, and more. What to do? The response?

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Social Media Examples Practice Media 80

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2010

Networked Nonprofits spell this out in their organization’s social media strategy handbook and policy guidelines and encourage personal exploration and learning. It’s one thing to have it written in a social media policy. Sometimes that happens by writing a blog post which take me 30 minutes.

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Social Media Media Social Contest 92

Forum One

OCTOBER 13, 2008

Our Web Executive Seminar last month featured a terrific case study by District of Columbia CTO Vivek Kundra on the DC Data Catalog -- an archive of over 200 data feeds. We've blogged about Kundra's presentation previously, but now his slides are available for the first time (with audio). I've embedded them below.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 26, 2009

For a local perspective, peruse the list of food bank blogs. Mary’s Food Bank Alliance in Phoenix White Center Food Bank Blog Cross-posted from BlogHer.com. If you'd like to learn more about national and global hunger issues, check out the national and international organizations listed below. food bank hunger food stamp blogger

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Hunger San Francisco Challenge New York City 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

Bethany Deines and Betsy Woods Last month, shortly after Trust Agents by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith was published, there was discussion on nonprofit blogs about how to apply some of the principles to a nonprofit context. Does your hospital have a social media policy? Yes, we do. The only concern was potentially violating HIPPA laws.

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