Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

I was interviewed recently by Petra Kroon , a blogger focused on social media and entrepreneurship in The Netherlands, in which she asked some really great questions, including what I thought the trend would be for social entrepreneurship in 2010 as well as where we may be in 25 years. Find out more about the conference here.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 19, 2010

This is the topic that covers whether or not it's risky for you to put your data on someone else's website that you don't have any direct control over. This week we're featuring an article by TechSoup Global's expert in data security, Richard Collins. Richard's article is entitled Security in the Cloud.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 22, 2011

You can also read the first post, TechSoup Global: Teaching CSOs About the Cloud , and the second post What Is the Value of the Cloud for CSOs in the Developing World? Information held by and about a CSO in the cloud can be requested by governments for a variety of reasons and this can be done without the CSO's knowledge. read more.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Blog Action Day is an annual event held every October 15 that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. If you haven’t seen it, check it out here ! What’s Blog Action Day? That’s huge!

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

This is a guest post from Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared’s Global Community Development Manager.&#. Two weeks ago , Causes, the application that lets individuals and organizations campaign and fundraise, removed itself and all Causes-related content/data from MySpace. First, let’s start at the beginning: Causes Leaves MySpace.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. Currently in beta, TwitSprout also allows you to easily convert your Twitter data into a PDF-format for easy sharing with others. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Elliot Harmon, regular TechSoup blogger and staff writer, was chosen to " Blog [His] Way to Hyderabad " for the Ashoka and Lemelson event, Tech4Society , taking place in Hyderabad, India this week. Thanks to a series of happy coincidences, I got to spend today at NASSCOM's India Leadership Forum (they're TechSoup Global's partner in India).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

USA for UNHCR created the Blue Key campaign as a way to drive awareness of this global issue in the US. That is where the Blue Key Champion strategy came in; to bring on board US-based bloggers who are active online, and cause-passionate, to help spread the word and, hopefully, get more keys ordered. Why important?

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 25, 2012

But I’m a first time blogger here, so before I invoke that well-worn (but apt!) On a global scale, uploads of podcasts and YouTube views exploded, blogs, webinars, and apps all began to be consumed in substantial volume, and a short time later, social media began to show signs of becoming a business imperative. Here’s why.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Beth''s Blog recently featured a guest post by Christian Arno, Using Social Media Internationally: How Not to Get Lost in Translation , full of useful tips for anyone with a global audience. No matter where you are, there''s still a week left for you to hone your social media skills during Social Media September.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2005

Source: Global s Online, Rebecca MacKinnon. From a post on Global s, Rebecca MacKinnon writes "These guys are basically the dream geek team for free speech on line. " This is very important work they area doing, particularly for bloggers in countries like Cambodia. I'm also wondering who are the women doing this work?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2017

The inaugural edition of the 2017 Global Trends in Giving Report will be released on September 12, 2017. Based on the survey responses of 4,084 donors worldwide, the report summarizes donor data across six continents about how online and mobile technology effects giving. The report will be released in English, French and Spanish.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

As bloggers and others give it closer scrutiny, we're hearing a debate about which Facebook App is better? It helps bloggers remember and use the best writing techniques. JournaMarketing tells us why it isn't important to get every blogger's attention online. Convio or Causes? This week was Blog Action Day for the Environment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

Many of us are familiar with the term " Social Graph " defined as the global mapping of everybody and how they're related. Our biggest challenge as bloggers was getting off the soap box and into a facilitation role. It is also useful to see quantitative data. Backtype has also launched another tool called "Back Tweets."

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

This one comes to you from Kevin Lo of Techsoup Global. ] . This brave new world of touchscreens, aggregated data, and pastel AJAX-based social networking sites, is partly. crowdsourcing , you will find analyses and opinions from bloggers and writers just by. New applications and technologies. information that is available.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

I like to think of it this way: Organizations may have the research or data, the capacity and staff, to identify problems and opportunities, to build messages, calls to action and campaigns. Actions and messages were contextualized based on the issues and discussions taking place at both the global and local level.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

I started blogging in 2003 about nonprofits and social media and started second blog about Cambodia, “Cambodia for Kids” after the arrival of my daughter, Sara and discovering that there was a vibrant community of bloggers in Cambodia. It was terrific to see Tharum who was one of the first Cambodia bloggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2008

I captured data about the flow of donations from my twitter campaign in October in spreadsheet, but wasn't sure how to diagram it. This gives me some inspiration. If we are four of the top causes to get the most unique donors, we'll win $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation as part of America's Giving Challenge.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2017

“Sticking to the basics, getting those calls to action right and having clean data, those are the important things. Start tracking your organization’s data. Media are the everyday bloggers, local groups and traditional media. Launching a successful campaign is a complicated task. Her first tip? Use the tools you already have.

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2009

In the case of Daniel Ben-Horin, the 2009 recipient and co-CEO of Techsoup Global , it's both. The 2009 award went to Darius Jazayeri, the 31-year-old developer behind OpenMRS , an open source application used by health clinics and hospitals on five continents to keep, share, and track medical record data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2007

I asked him if he would be a "guest blogger" here and he granted me permission to repost. I look forward to their growing participation in our global nonprofit technology community, as we all have much we can learn ??? John posted a marvelous report on the NTEN listservs about what he learned. and teach ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Rolling your own social network wrapped with your organization's branding, data, and integrated into an organizational site will provide more control. First, neither site has all the custom features, branding, or data integration that many organizations want. NpTech Global Kabissa joins Aid for Africa for the third year running!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Photo from LolNPtech.org (Registration is here ) Mashups, Meatballs, and New Orleans Do you look at all of the data available online, and imagine ways to combine and connect it to increase awareness about an issue? Intel unveiled its support for the Global Education Alliance's pilot program to create an education framework in Rwanda.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Read More » Local Government Web Managers Notes: Responding to Economic Uncertainty Michael Walsh in Influence 18 May 2010 In the past few months, world-wide political and economic uncertainty has shaken global confidence, which in turn has resulted in continued market instability and volatility.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

I understand that to have a well read blog most bloggers are working very hard to specialize and target a subject area and become an expert. Data interoperability is the thing that is going to take the entire global research community to the next stage of information navigation and retrieval. Tagging is a small part of that.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 13, 2011

It references a very interesting-looking book called More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty by Yale researcher Dean Karlan. What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger. In case anyone is interested.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation. Adding a new data point to it. Start by genuinely complimenting the blogger in some way and point out where you do agree. Getting the software set up is easy and it is free, using blogger.

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Forum One

APRIL 19, 2006

Read More » Local Government Web Managers Notes: Responding to Economic Uncertainty Michael Walsh in Influence 18 May 2010 In the past few months, world-wide political and economic uncertainty has shaken global confidence, which in turn has resulted in continued market instability and volatility.

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Forum One

APRIL 19, 2006

Read More » Local Government Web Managers Notes: Responding to Economic Uncertainty Michael Walsh in Influence 18 May 2010 In the past few months, world-wide political and economic uncertainty has shaken global confidence, which in turn has resulted in continued market instability and volatility.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country. Global Tweets :: globaltweets.com. In just a few clicks your supporters can donate a tweet or status update to benefit your cause (see The Global Fund ). Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 30, 2005

Read More » Local Government Web Managers Notes: Responding to Economic Uncertainty Michael Walsh in Influence 18 May 2010 In the past few months, world-wide political and economic uncertainty has shaken global confidence, which in turn has resulted in continued market instability and volatility.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

Read More » Local Government Web Managers Notes: Responding to Economic Uncertainty Michael Walsh in Influence 18 May 2010 In the past few months, world-wide political and economic uncertainty has shaken global confidence, which in turn has resulted in continued market instability and volatility.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Craig Wing An electrical engineer, MBA student, South African of Chinese descent, founder of not one but two companies, world traveler, former missionary, and current blogger, it's pretty hard to keep up with Craig Wing, let alone categorize him. She has focused on data analysis of human rights violations that occurred in Columbia.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2013

Join me, Allyson Kapin, Co-founder of Rad Campaign and Blogger-in-Chief of Care2''s Frogloop blog and Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director of NTEN for this free webinar. and serves as the Blogger-In-Chief for Care2''s top-ranked nonprofit communications blog, Frogloop. Don''t worry though, we can help you change that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

NMC Future Symposium explore applications of techology that could impact issues of global importance over next five years or more. Global Voices Bloggers Mentor Others. I think it is really cool that Tharum, a Cambodian Blogger, is mentoring a Danish blogger launching a climate change blog! What was most sexy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Last week, there was a useful exchange on the NTEN Affinity group for Nonprofit Bloggers around the question "What metrics do you use to measure success for your blog?" I'm remembering something that I heard Robert Scobel say at last year's Global s Summit in London. " What about out-bound and in-bound links?

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