Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

We all know that there are hundreds, thousands, even an infinite (at least seemingly) number of social media resources for nonprofits or social impact groups. Well, Idealware has just taken it a step further by launching a Social Media Resource Library! Go dive in!

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

We all know that there are hundreds, thousands, even an infinite (at least seemingly) number of social media resources for nonprofits or social impact groups. Well, Idealware has just taken it a step further by launching a Social Media Resource Library! Go dive in!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2020

The first blogging platform, Blogger , launched in 1999 and it signaled the birth of the Social Web. Blogs were most often written in first-person, more than 1,000 words, and many nonprofit blogs of the past embraced the concept that a blog post had to be published daily for the blogger to be taken seriously.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

We’ve been talking to folks from some of the 350,000 congregations around the country and have been hearing that they’d like more coverage of IT resources for religious oriented charities on TechSoup. Her office provides resources, staff trainings, and coordinates state events for 200 churches around the state.

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Care2

JULY 13, 2011

You're happy with the new blog design, you understand the platform you've chosen, you've gotten sign-off from above to move forward, and you've signed a surprising number of your staff up to serve as regular bloggers. Here are some of the key lessons we've learned at Rad Campaign through blogger orientations and trainings we've run.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Gretchen Jennings convened a group of bloggers and colleagues online to develop a statement about museums'' responsibilities and opportunities in response to the events in Ferguson, Cleveland and Staten Island. We are a community of museum bloggers who write from a variety of perspectives and museum disciplines. Here is our statement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Last year, I marked the date with the above photo and a post with tips for cultivating bloggers and how it was like a long term relationship. Blogger relations (not to be confused with blogger's relationships like I'm describing above) that is blogger outreach came up as a topic in a workshop I did on social media and the arts last year.

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Donorbox

MAY 6, 2021

In recent years, organizations around the world have been using “influencers” — fitness gurus, beauty bloggers, fashionistas and others — to supercharge your fundraising.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 31, 2010

Here are several resources I thought you might be interested in. One of my favorite authors and bloggers is Seth Godin. If you know of other really interesting resources I can share, hit the comment link and let me know. If you know of other really interesting resources I can share, hit the comment link and let me know.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 22, 2009

VolunteerSpot named it’s top 29 nonprofit bloggers to follow on Twitter this week and guess who made the list? I post inspiration, information, and links to resources, similar to what you’ll find here on my blog, but slightly different. Tags: Internet Resources social media blogging Twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 25, 2015

The nonprofit sector has a large community of technology bloggers committed to helping nonprofits stay current on emerging trends in social media, online fundraising, and mobile technology. There are these 35 nonprofit marketing blogs and these 25 must-read nonprofit IT blogs as well as these 8 great nonprofit resources.

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Byte Technology

JANUARY 12, 2017

One of the biggest obstacles bloggers encounter—whether they’re on the WordPress platform or not—is how to create content that is based on currently trending topics. Fortunately there’s help in the form of tools and techniques that make the whole process considerably less painful for the blogger. Google Trends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2007

Cambodian young people are joining the global conversation in the blogosphere and sharing their perspectives through different forms of grassroots citizen's media thanks to the efforts of a dedicated team of Cambodian bloggers. Learn about and document how the blogging team is doing outreach and encouraging new bloggers and share on my blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 22, 2013

However, as LinkedIn, Blogger and Myspace all celebrate their 10-year anniversary this year, nonprofits have now had a decade to study and experiment with social media and create systems for successfully launching and tracking the value of their social media campaigns. That said, congrats to the early adopters!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

He told me about his elearning learning portal that might not only solve my blog categorization and finding issues, but also do it for a community of bloggers who write about a particular topic - say nptech and nonprofit bloggers. That's a river of blog resources, why add to it? My problem has been retrieval. Communication.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Luckily, our members have the resources and knowledge to make it all possible. It's time to think about creating a Google+ circle for nonprofit resources. has identified 22 must-circle bloggers and resources on Google+. Have more news to share? Drop us a line or include your links in the comments!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

” In other words, nonprofits many not necessarily get better fundraising results if they use celebrities or a-list bloggers to promote their cause if there is not an engaged community. One of the stories in the white paper was about a campaign on Facebook Causes to raise money for a new children’s hospital in San Francisco.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Blogger relations (not to be confused with blogger relationships like I'm describing above) that is blogger outreach came up as a topic in a workshop I did on social media and the arts earlier this week. Don't have your office intern hapzardly send out a canned pitches, get to know the bloggers first.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 20, 2010

I wasn’t convinced at all that the world needed another blogger. Nonprofit bloggers should think of themselves as reporters, and a very popular blog is always a report back on an event complete with a photo slideshow or video. Allow guest bloggers to share expertise and experience. Share resources. Write your own.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2007

On Friday, I co-presented the video blogging presentation at the Cambodian Bloggers Summit with Virak , Cambodia's first Cambodian video blogger (I think). I did a lot of preparation for this workshop to document as much of the how-tos and resources because I only had 30 minutes to present. The curriculum is here.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2007

For resources on the struggle against the repressive military government in Burma in the US go t0 the US Campaign for Burma. To track Burmese bloggers, at home or abroad, keep your eye on Global Voices. Among other things, he points out the YouTube channel of video's from the Burmese struggle.

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Donorbox

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Many freelancers, bloggers, and YouTube influencers make a significant part of their revenue from these sources. Referral and affiliate programs have become all the rage in the modern economy. If you’re […].

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NTEN

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Luckily, our members have the resources and knowledge to make it all possible. It's time to think about creating a Google+ circle for nonprofit resources. has identified 22 must-circle bloggers and resources on Google+. Have more news to share? Drop us a line or include your links in the comments!

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 19, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. 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). " What do you think?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

The easiest way to conduct these interviews is through e-mail or over the phone, but for the enterprising blogger with a penchant for journalism, in-person interviews provide the opportunity to get action photos and video interviews. Allow Guest Bloggers to Post Commentary and Share Their Expertise. Share Resources and Useful Tips.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Initially a reluctant blogger, I launched Nonprofit Tech 2.0 The easiest way to conduct these interviews is through e-mail or over the phone, but for the enterprising blogger with a penchant for journalism, in-person interviews provide the opportunity to get action photos and video interviews. Share Resources and Useful Tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

These are two photos of me and Tharum Bun , a Cambodia blogger I met via our blogs back in 2003. In 2005, we got a chance to meet face-to-face in London at the Global Voices Blogging Summit after I transitioned from being the Cambodia bridge blogger. The plenary and big sessions were thought-provoking as they were inspiring.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. Through a lot of hard knocks & sleepless nights, I learned three important lessons that help me maximize my time and resources in a small shop that has big aspirations. This is when you’ll be able to sleep at night knowing you’re maximizing all your resources to help move the organization forward!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

The choice of digital channels through which to tell an organization’s story depends on the intended audience, on the channels with which members of that audience are known to engage, and on budgetary and resource constraints. The selected channels make up part of an organization’s Digital Storytelling Ecosystem.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Link to resources In your blog posts, make sure to reference other pages on your blog. More Resources There is a wealth of further resources on this topic, and you don’t have to go too far to find them. Search for the topic you’re writing about and see what already exists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

Julia Smith, who blogs at the idealist and was in the room asked "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?" There are lots of twenty-something bloggers and gen-y bloggers. He is a terrific blogger, knows his beat, and very generous too.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 11, 2010

One of the reasons is that there are a number of really good bloggers out there who know the field far better than I’ll ever be able to. I would argue that Beth Kanter is the best social media blogger there is in the nonprofit space. You don’t hear me talking much about social media. And, it’s her birthday!

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 30, 2006

Here are some of the tips they gave for other disaster relief bloggers: Tips from Grace 1. Because your readers are looking to your blog for authentic places to give their time and resources to, you need to be sure that your sources are authentic. It would be a great way to mobilize the power of women bloggers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 23, 2012

As a follow-up to Google+ Best Practices for Nonprofits and 22 Must-Circle Nonprofit Bloggers and Resources on Google+ , below are 22 nonprofits that are regularly using Google+ effectively to engage and inspire the Google+ community. As traffic continues to grow , new tools and functionality are added almost daily.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 10, 2018

She regularly provides useful tips and resources to the nonprofit sector through her blog, #501SocialBlog. Guest Blogger Bio: Julia Campbell has run her digital marketing consulting business for almost a decade, focused exclusively on mission-driven organizations. That’s just for pinning clothing and home improvement ideas, right?”.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

My guess is that many of those bloggers and journalists have reconsidered now that the initial buzz and euphoria about Google+ has subsided (especially considering that the Google+ brand profiles haven’t even launched yet). They also own Gmail, Android, Blogger, Picassa, and YouTube (just to name a few).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

My guess is that many of those bloggers and journalists have reconsidered now that the initial buzz and euphoria about Google+ has subsided (especially considering that the Google+ brand profiles haven’t even launched yet). They also own Gmail, Android, Blogger, Picassa, and YouTube (just to name a few).

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