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. Tags: interview issues.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 7, 2015

The Nonprofit Tech for Good blog recently named Safe Night , an app produced by Caravan Studios (a division of TechSoup Global), as one of six clever mobile apps created by nonprofits! Blogger Heather Mansfield notes that only 39 percent of apps are opened 11 times or more, and 20 percent are only opened once. spanhidden.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2012

Pierre Khawand is a guest blogger with more than 20 years of experience in the software industry. He is the author of the popular Less-Is-More Blog on the People-OntheGo.com website. You may have heard about the cloud , the "next big thing" in computing, virtual storage, sharing, and Internet technology.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 25, 2008

There are some other interesting moves outlined in that great post by Marshall Kirpatrick, my currently favorite ReadWriteWeb blogger Android for the masses, iPhone for the rich? Read an interview of an Android developer. That’s a great step. It’s an interesting question, what Android might (or might not) turn out to be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2011

The article goes on to explain that while repressive regimes around the world may have fallen behind their tech-savvy opponents, many governments have begun to climb the steep learning curve and turn the new Internet tools to their own, antidemocratic purposes. From Crisis Mapping Egypt: Collection of Maps.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2010

As a tech guy who also plays a social entrepreneur, I often get asked by my SE buddies about what are the practical use of a tool like Twitter. As it turns out, BBC journalist Peter Day did an extensive radio interview of the three social media panelists (and me) at the Forum in Oxford. Coincidence? You decide!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Twitter and Facebook, but with Skype Out, Email Rules A few nptech bloggers are experimenting with Twitter and seeing some of the benefits. Non-Profit Tech Blog lets us know that project agape (Facebook causes) now at 2.5 He did a video interview with Dirk Slater , too! Maybe next week we'll see photos from BarCampBlock ?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

On July 9, 2009 I interviewed David about Spot.us Below is an edited transcript of the interview which you also can listen to online , or subscribe to via iTunes. We also did an interview with the reporter to get a feel for what went into the reporting. I was a tech reporter. for the Big Vision Podcast. Cognitive surplus.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

SocialButterfly took the bloggers listed on my post, Changebloggers List + Wanna Meetup Up? The Seasons Fund for Transformation , who I posted an interview with on Friday , supports social change organizations that are incorporating inner work into their outer work. The Changeblogger movement is growing! Changeblogger meetup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

4) Get To Know Your Audience: We don’t always have the ability to do in-depth participant surveys or interviews prior to a training to understand in great detail what participants know and feel about the topic. A good opener will also help you as the trainer to better understand the people in the room and adjust accordingly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2008

I actually got a chance to meet Ben face-to-face at a recent Berkman Center Thursday Bloggers meetup. We did a quick chat interview: What was the purpose? We need to let people figure out how to make use of the tech for their real needs. He kindly gave me permission to share it with all of you.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 7, 2011

The fifth guest blogger in my Have Fun, Do Good series is Emily Goligoski. She produces tech entrepreneurship content for the organization Women 2.0 Emily is a w riter and digital strategist who blogs as TheSanFranista. and teaches yoga in San Francisco. You can follow her on Twitter at @emgollie.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Phillip Smith has a thoughtful post called " Social tech meets the Social Innovation Generation " The Nonprofit Eye blog writes about leadership challenges in the nonprofit sector. The Nonprofit Tech Blog is asking a question via LinkedIn - "As a donor, if you had one wish for the nonprofit sector, what would it be?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Here's a terrific article from the Nonprofit Communications blog called " 10 Ways Communicators Can Stay Productive" and from the Blog Bash event here's some tips specifically for bloggers on productivity. The Non-Profit Tech Blog interviews Scott Crowder, Kintera CTO. (If The big question, what about that other 41% ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2005

I volunteered to do this sort of blogging in the hopes it would give me an excuse to approach celebrity bloggers and talk to them for a few minutes. Miriam who is leading the session just sent along an email with some key points that will be covered, including a great tutorial about tagging by my favorite ed-tech blogger from Singapore !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

VTVigils VT Vigils VTvigils.org is a project of a diverse group of national campaigns and organizations not affiliated with Virginia Tech. Trish Perkins offers up a list "cool free tech tools." The "invited live bloggers" are Susan Herr , Tactical Philanthropy , Worldchanging and Lucy. " Have any to add?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

I'm trying to get some links assembled in one place for the Berkman Thursday evening bloggers meetings where we will discuss nonprofit blogging. Blogrolls or linkblogs of nonprofit bloggers ( Deborah Finn's Blogroll or Marnie Webb 's sidebar). NTEN/NTC Conference Bloggers. What does the nonprofit blogosphere look like?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2007

By the time you read this post, I will be crossing the International Dateline enroute to the first Cambodian Bloggers Summit in Phnom Penh. (No, Through a strange twist of fate, I connected again with Kalabird one of the first ex-pat bloggers from Cambodia that I discovered in 2005 because of her amazing photographs in flickr.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 7, 2012

Extended versions of stories you already tell in abbreviated form: people your organization has helped, backstories on issues, extended interviews with volunteers, etc. How to guides for volunteers. Action kits for activists. See this recent tweet from the White House, linking to a #longform article about the Joplin tornados.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

That's Allan Benamer who writes the Non-Profit Tech Blog. That is, until he emailed the above photo to accompany this interview with him (see below). I've always wanted a nonprofit tech job and one of the first I had was as webmaster of the California Courts back in the mid 90s.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 16, 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. Youth Venture has also produced two e-books with featured and interviews on the inventors and their ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Allen Benamer of the Nonprofit Tech Blog says " Support Idealware !" Andy Carvin and Jonnie Goldstein interviewed a person from one of two projects based in Cambodia. Ten Tech Proposals Empowering Human Rights, Local Leadership, and Community Education is. Water Words That Work - an excellent nonprofit video blogger.

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Forum One

APRIL 28, 2010

This year's event was held in Atlanta from April 8 - 10, and over 1,400 nonprofit tech folks attended. We've provided training on how to interview subjects, tips for photographing and video-recording, as well as best practices for writing strong stories that encourage and elicit action. As always, the event was a blast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

Later that summer, I had the honor of being interviewed by Ponzi at BlogHer. I can't begin to express my gratitude to Chris and Ponzi and the whole gnomedex family for making this conference experience incredible for me - it ranks on my best ever list of tech conferences. s very difficult to decide which to attend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2005

" Here two nonprofit bloggers, Marnie Webb and Nancy White, talk to each other for the first time in real-time. Having my second glass of wine, I was ready to start my person on the street interviews which are reported in the next couple of posts. You could hear "I read your blog, I'm so glad to meet you."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Here's what some nonprofit technology bloggers posted - Paul Lamb , Allison Fine , and Deborah Finn. General conclusion: culture shift before tech adoption, keep it simple, small steps, and focused on real needs. (It Today is Stop Cyberbullying Day. There's a lot of resources, ideas, and discussion over at Stop Cyberbullying Site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

The following is a talk I gave about ROI for Social Media at the 2009 Social Tech Training in Toronto, ON. Here's a great interview that I did with Elana Wolowitz from Wellstone Action on their use of Twitter. What about blogger outreach? Measure THIS! Social Media ROI View more presentations from Deanna Zandt. Good question!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

The blog is a pretty new thing to me and I get a tremendous amount of value out of the blog through connections I've made with other bloggers talking about the same things that interest me. How do you see gift economies operating in the nonprofit open source community, the nonprofit blogosphere, and nonprofit tech community in general?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Here's one from LOLNPTECH.org and Little Dishes 2 from the Non-Profit Tech Blog. Britt Bravo has a terrific interview with Chris Messina and Ivan Storck of Citizen Space about Green Coworking. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Green Technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

Recently, I discovered Sarah Davies of FreedomforIP and after listening to her elevator pitch online from the IgniteSeattle event, I asked her for an interview. Get tech saavy. They work on copyright reform, bloggers rights, and all sorts of things that keep the internet free and transparent. Thanks for interviewing me, Beth!

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Today, an interview with staff from a museum with an incredibly healthy attitude towards experimentation with social media. Three things stand out in this interview: Like the Brooklyn Museum , COSI’s social media strategy is focused on local community connections, not national outreach. I think, sadly, that we all know the answer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

I did an interview with Michael back in May, 2005 and it is just fascinating to learn about his content gathering process. I want to find Nonprofit tech resources beyond the America's borders, I also start searching on Itrainonline , DigitalDivide Network , or Development Gateway ICT section. NGO/NPTECH Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

It notes, "Maybe the answer is an intermediary b/w tech and design volunteers and the non-profits they???re Check this recent interview to learn more about Jonathan's secrets to using social media tools for success. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Some long time favorites: Nancy White is my go to guru on all things facilitation and has been for more than 10 years! Michelle Martin who writes the Bamboo blog was one of the first bloggers I connected with that was interested in peer learning, reflecting, and training design. Working in Cohorts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

As Jeska Linden, Community Manager, for Linden Labs, said in her recent interview with me, "This isn't for all nonprofits." I've been able to connect with well-known people in the educational tech field and have a conversation with them. A time investment of more than a few hours.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

You can learn a lot about that more through this informative interview by The Buzz Bin with Steve Bridger on the Buzz Director. Nonprofit Software Earlier this month, Convio alerted its nonprofit clients of an Online Security Issue as reported by the nonprofit tech blog (be sure to read through the comments), NTEN and TechSoup blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I first "met" Marshall when he left a comment on my blog about the interview with Marnie Webb. I was curious by how he described his work: "blogger coach to nonprofits." So far, I have interviewed people who I have met face-to-face or have known through my work in the nonprofit tech field.

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