Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. " The Battle Against Info-Overload: Is Relevance or Popularity the Best Filter? I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

We experimented with “Conversational Case Studies&# and found that conversation in the comments helped improve the richness of the final report. Recently, I began experimenting with pushing the kind of info usually relegated to final reports out across multiple platforms. That model uses social media a mechanism to give feedback.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Books needed for elementary students). Add them in the comments section for all the socla media world to benefit from. . $5 to feed a family dinner) Event registration/Ticket sales Ask for specific in-kind donation (ex. Volunteering Online volunteer form Open committee roles Next volunteer opportunity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

” Lots of comments pros and cons. Tablets are more like reading a book or watch TV. It is the same title of Raine’s recent book. Also, Randi Zuckerberg is working on a book on the impact of ”networked people” called “ Dot Complicated “). Lots of chatter beyond the Reddit community.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

If you want good info, there is a great book by a fellow Linuxchix , called “ Beginning GIMP &# by Akkana Peck. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Dustin J Mitchell 01.17.08 GIMP is a very full-featured image manipulation program. Just about all of what Photoshop does, it does. Oh, and one more thing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Look at ohloh.net – they have great info on most projects – how many developers, lines of code, how active development activity is. Rule of thumb: projects that haven’t had minor releases in a year or more are definitely in danger of becoming projects that are no longer under development.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 20, 2010

One great piece of this experience is the ability to vote and comment on proposed panels. Here's the panel description for more info and to vote. Here's the panel description for more info and to vote. Beth Kanter ( @kanter ) has a session proposed based on The Networked Nonprofit , a book she co-authored with Allison Fine.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

So people who were in my gmail address book, and in Spock, got a request for trust from me, not knowing where it came from. Spokeo takes your gmail, aol, or yahoo address book and, looking at a wide variety of web 2.0 at 6:28 pm { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Caroline Meeks 12.17.07 I joined Spokeo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

In the comments of a Read/Write post, Vanderwal.net also observes this problem. Some of the best info I come across is flowing through Twitter and I stamp it for later, but I am missing an easy means to get back to it. Amy and I have noticed how our usage of RSS and social bookmarking seems to be less.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Deanna Zandt , Media Technologist, Consultant, and Author of the forthcoming book: Share This! How do we make info relevant and interesting in people’s lives?” Allison made a great point in response to this topic and reiterated her earlier comments about taking down the walls and letting it blend. Comment away….

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

Note , this was adapted from the book Social Change Anytime Everywhere by Amy Sample Ward and I. How do think your target audiences will prefer to get info for this initiative? Create a broad annual online marketing calendar, which lays out the major marketing initiatives, campaigns, and priorities for the entire year.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

It gives you all of the necessary stats: page hits, visits, referrers, some nice geographical info, etc. 7 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Dru 08.05.09 Google Analytics is also free. You can follow 10 sites instead of one. And it does all of the same stuff, except better. 7 Amit Ahuja 05.25.10

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 18, 2014

Part of how we recoup some of our costs is through families and friends who can afford the resources who purchase the informational books from our webstore along with other awareness items. Shipping made easy – Easily integrate shipping with every major carrier and provide tracking info to customers. What tools did you use?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

She and I have have linked to each other’s blog posts and commented on each others posts over the past three years. Those funds allowed us to pay for the pre-prep for the wordless book that’s the centerpiece of The Born2Fly Project—illustrations, design work, professional scanning, and a lot more. 3. Don’t focus on your goal.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

There those who say the perpetrator(s) didn't just hack one account at a time , but rather, hacked into one person's account that then gave access to anyone connected with that person via phone book, text, or email. My colleague Ariel has more info on staying safer online and how pledging to do so is the first step.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 29, 2009

It's my "artistic rendering" of one of the most inspirational participatory projects I know of--the Bibliotheek Haarlem Oost book drops. Haarlem Oost is a branch library in the Netherlands that wanted to encourage visitors to add tags (descriptive keywords) to the books they read. Read the original post on this project for more info.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

This is also a good time to remind all nptechies about our free e-book, The Resilient Organization: A Guide for Disaster Planning and Recovery and also the Mobile Beacon post: Preparing for Disaster and Tech Planning. The FCC ruling opened a four-month public comment period, after which it will take a final vote on net neutrality.

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NTEN

JULY 17, 2009

We also talked over a few things that we can do better: Program Book: We hear you - less paper! You said we can cut speaker and attendee info as long as we have it online. We invite you to ellaborate and join the discussion in the comments. We had some good laughs remembering the fun we had at the 09NTC.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2015

Leave your answers in the comments below. When visitors to your website share credit card info or other sensitive information, they can feel more secure knowing that they're actually sharing it with your organization and no one else. It's been a really busy year, with nine new vendors in the TechSoup catalog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Technorati Tags: databases , opensource { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike S. at 9:58 am Thanks, much, for that info, Mike. The others are most likely of interest to pretty small niche groups, for specific kinds of projects. at 6:42 am Hi Michelle,? You might want to take another look at Ingres.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Technorati Tags: databases , opensource { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike S. at 9:58 am Thanks, much, for that info, Mike. The others are most likely of interest to pretty small niche groups, for specific kinds of projects. at 6:42 am Hi Michelle,? You might want to take another look at Ingres.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2009

I've included a sampling below, and hope that you'll add other events in the comments. One of the events listed is an exhibition of photos at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris from the book Celebrating Women by Paola Gianturco (who I interviewed in October 2007). You can find UN-related events on WomenWatch.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Nonprofits are charged much lower rates (see comment below.) at 9:18 am { 18 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Tracey Grant 08.17.07 In your above comments, you have quoted our standard, list rates for ReadyTalk services. Feel free to drop us a line at info [at] yugma [dot] com. Drop by [link] for more info.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

If you are a provider, please feel free to email me if you want more info or help and support in moving forward. I’m really interested in helping technology providers get up to speed, so that the amount of support available for nonprofits using Linux (and open source in general) increases.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

" came from a comment left by Gavin and summarized in this post. Now, how is this different from, say, using your OutLooks address book and sending off mail merge email? Of course, the more efficient approach would be to get people to add the info themselves directly into a wiki. This lead to a bunch more leads.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

favorite books related to your cause; recipes; things to do on the weekend, etc.). by running an online quiz that requires players to give you their contact info in exchange for the opportunity to play, to share the results, or be eligible for other benefits). It could be a white paper, “how-to” video, tip list or recommendations (e.g.,

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

10 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Allan Benamer 09.18.07 And I’m not suggesting that it’s necessarily possible, especially as site stats become more public info, that organizations can, or should control stats. Holly doesn’t think so, and I don’t either. { 3 David Zeidman 09.18.07

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Books are a distant second at 61%, and a majority of Americans find print and broadcast media and the Internet to be not trustworthy." It makes us uncomfortable with opening museum content up to comment, tagging, and alterations by visitors. I'm reading a book of essays about how to teach written by teens. Be personal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

While Kari was sitting next to me in my home office, her colleagues Kristin Ivie and Sokunthea Sa Chhabra were in the chat room engaging with the audience, watching the "social stream" (comments from Twitter and the chat) and forwarding questions to Kari to ask live via AIM. Leave me a comment!

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

But most importantly, I want to recommend and encourage all of you to chat in your questions and comments throughout the next hour or so. I’m a huge fan of the book “Essentialism.” Brian: So another book recommendation I’m a raving fan when it comes to “Good to Great” by Jim Collins.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The app claimed to help you manage your contacts, but it actually shared your phone's location and address book— without permission. When I entered my Facebook log-in info, it provided a checklist of settings to check up on, such as blocking friends' apps, staying out of ads, and closing old sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

To follow the Twitter stream or ask questions or make comments, use the #ROI hashtag. Traffic, comments, tweets and other means of engagement to record. asked our chapters if it was valuable to them in telling their story and getting info out, made adjustments based on their feedback. . Session Content 1. We made adjustments.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

Yelp - for finding reviews and other info on all kinds of businesses. PDF Expert - for commenting on PDF documents on a tablet. app - for reading books and documents on a phone (any platform). Good Reads – this is a social media for books app. Skype - for instant messaging and also video calls.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

at 11:56 pm { 8 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Joe 11.06.08 Example: Author hasMany Comments, Author hasMany Article. Viewing the Author page one should be able to see Related Comments and Related Articles. at 6:56 pm Top 10 blog posts of 2008 :: Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 12.26.08

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 22, 2010

I also like his powerful statement that: "Everything you say or do or dont say or dont do communicates something" Posted by Eric Jacobson at 1:14 PM Labels: Books For Managers , Communications Skills , General Management Skills , Leadership Books , Leadership Skills , Management 1 comments: Dalon said.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

This information can be presented in a variety of formats, including news, video, white papers, e-books, infographics, case studies, how-to guides, question and answer articles, photos, etc. Show us some examples in the comments or ask any questions you might have. Why is Content Marketing Important? Your Turn What’s your take?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 20, 2012

If you don't want to enter your personal info into a random site, you can use fake data and then download the PDF document for a reference to create your own letters. Unlike the Direct Marketing Association it is a refreshingly straightforward process for not having those huge ,obsolete ad books delivered to your doorstep.

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