Amy Sample Ward

JULY 30, 2010

Beth Kanter and Allison Fine ‘s book, The Networked Nonprofit , is now out and starting lots of conversations. As such, I knew that their book would be a great resource and part of what makes it so is the inclusion of reflection questions for every chapter. But what’s everyone talking about? Getting Started.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Most of these organizations will be mentioned in the book and hopefully interviewed in coming months (the interviews will be posted on Nonprofit Tech 2.0), but many nonprofit folks have asked that I also discuss and interview small and medium-sized nonprofits that have also been successful at utilizing social media.

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.orgSource

MARCH 4, 2024

Before their book was published in 2005, the authors “studied over 150 strategic moves spanning more than 30 industries over 100 years.” Move Beyond SWOT Sharon explains the book’s premise like this. Members are seeking usefulness at the right price tag. Their research indicates that customers don’t want quantity.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 7, 2009

Thanks to tremendous work by our volunteers, our publisher partners, our proofreading partners and our staff, we've added more than 4,000 books in the last two months and broken the 50,000 titles barrier. Now, I sure wasn't expecting us to add books at this rate! She rained down blessings on the Bookshare team for helping her out.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Last week, I announced that I was going to give away a free hard copy of the Social by Social book. Even if you didn’t win, you can still read the book for free: Read the book online for free at socialbysocial.com. Kim - So excited to get a book in your hands. Tags: socialbysocial book giveaway.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tagging Discussion January 6, 2007 Beth started a cross-blog discussion about tagging and folksonomies, and I thought I’d weigh in. What do those guidelines look like? .&#

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2010

In Grizzard’s new review series, Eric shares a video book review of the book! The design concept was to mimic the orientation of a web page within the book, so you could have comments, information boxes and so on in the side bar with the main column acting as the main content on the page, just like a web site.

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 23, 2010

The website for the new book, The Nonprofit Guide to Going Green describes it as "a comprehensive learning tool to guide nonprofits and NGOs towards becoming greener. The authors are on a brief North American book tour, with stops in Toronto, Berkeley, and DC over the next few weeks: Toronto, Ontario : April 22.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2012

He presented me with a copy of new book, Facebook Marketing for Dummies. Please share in the comments and you could win a copy of John’s book. I ran into John Haydon who helped me with my new Facebook brand page. ” So, I immediately jumped to Chapter 6, “Enhancing Your Facebook Page with Applications.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Related Link: Social Media for Nonprofits Book. Tags: The Book. I am currently experimenting with QR codes and will be rolling the first QR code out at the Los Angeles Kings game on November 27 th. I look forward to seeing how receptive people are to it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2010

Yesterday, an advanced copy of our book, The Networked Nonprofit , arrived. My son, Harry, who is in video making summer camp, decided to make a little movie of me opening the book! Here are a few upcoming book launch events over the next two weeks: June 17, 2010. Virtual Book Launch. San Francisco Book Party.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 16, 2009

Bookshare looks for publishers to partner with us to make books more available to people with disabilities. Hachette Book Group publishes under quite a number of famous imprints, such as Little Brown and Company and Grand Central. Tags: disability Hachette HBG print disabled Bookshare.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

HuffPo recently published my first post, Disabled Students Need Accessible Books. Tags: print disabilities HuffPo volunteer Bookshare. The Huffington Post recently invited me to become a guest blogger, based on a connection to Arianna Huffington from the Craigslist Nonprofit Boot Camp.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2010

Book Party in at the Case Foundation: Who Has Their Hands on the Book. We were in Washington, DC on Thursday and Friday for our book tour for The Networked Nonprofit to celebrate with live and virtual events hosted by the Case Foundation and Chronicle of Philanthropy. Thank you so much for your support of the book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I discovered it because of a charity challenge they're running on Twitter to raise awareness of their book, plus raise some money to help Room To Read. Before I launch into some of my criticism, I want to applaud Hubspot for experimenting with different ways to promote their book and help a charity. 11 cents = $32.78

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2010

The book is a comprehensive collection of philosophy and advice on social media, strategy, brands, and business integration. My favorite part of the book is Chapter 21: The Social Media Marketing Compass: Creating A Social Plan. The book contains a detailed explanation. Tags: promotion. by Brian Solis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Allison Fine and I just submitted the manuscript to the book we've working on for the past 9 months! What’s the end result besides social change, what does the book help the reader or org do? Ah, so a sub-title is designed to sell books. But, seriously, that isn't what the book is about. Would this work? So, help us out.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

We recently updated our book, The Resilient Organization: A Guide for Disaster Planning and Recovery. In this update, we wanted to make sure the information can be read from different devices as an e-book. E-books are essentially like HTML files, with special tags that makes it easy for devices to parse the data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2010

Finally, people really wanted to dig in and discuss the big ideas in the book! She launched a book last month, Open Leadership. Buy Charlene Li’s book (along with ours) – it is important for nonprofit leaders too! Buy Charlene Li’s book (along with ours) – it is important for nonprofit leaders too!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

I think it’s time to write a series of short essays on the struggle for accessible books, starting with this brouhaha. years ago entitled the Soundproof Book. The essence of the Soundproof Book essay was the dueling moral high grounds: author’s rights vs. the right to access. This isn’t a new issue. The ship has sailed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2010

I’m in NYC for the last leg of book launch tour for the Networked Nonprofit. I’m pleased about the positive reception of the big picture ideas and concepts in the book, I’m wildly enthusiastic about hearing from people as they put the ideas into practice ! Tags: Networked Nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2010

If you’re in the Bay Area and didn’t make it to our launch party at TechSoup , there’s a book party in the East Bay on Friday, July 23rd. The staff of Donordigital Bay Area are throwing a #netnon book party. I’ve been enjoying the photos of friends and colleagues with the book popping up on my Facebook Page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2010

You are invited to a virtual book launch party ! Stop by and chat with us on Twitter or watch the live stream. Our party goal: Make the Networked Nonprofit a top ten bestseller in Amazon.com’s business book section. Tags: Housekeeping Networked Nonprofit. I will also be guest blogging in other locations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2010

Over 7,000 people have downloaded the book (you have to fill out a form first) and the reviews have been glowing. Tags: Fundraising Promotions. Allison Fine and I have contributed some tips from The Networked Nonprofit chapter on fundraising. A few of my favorite tips: Ignore your brand guidelines.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

Many print-disabled people (people who are blind, severely dyslexic or a have a physical disability that keeps them from reading regular print books) see electronic books as a dream come true. But, we just saw Amazon fold when the Authors Guild pushed them to turn off the voice of these books: Amazon to flip on Kindle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2009

This is one book that I'm definitely taking with me on the big move, but I'm also giving away a copy too. (I Anyway, this small book about Twitter is packed with simple, practical advice for getting you up to speed quickly. It is one of better designed how-to tech books I've ever seen. Tags: twitter. Conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

I like the microblogging tagging as I have been wanting to add a small set of tags to my 4,500+ favorites I have starred in Twitter over the last 18 months or more I have used the service. Tags are one easy option, if I can get nice mobile access as the food and travel/city relevant info does me more use from a mobile.

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Candid

MAY 18, 2022

About a month ago, Candid was tagged in a social media post from someone who had visited the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Can you tell us about the Foundation Directory book ? Funny story: Right before we were putting the book on exhibit, the Foundation Center and GuideStar merged to become Candid.

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Bloomerang

MAY 19, 2021

Some email providers, like the one I use, Active Campaign , offer customers the chance to book free 30 minute 1:1 coaching session with an expert. . Can you easily add tags to contacts to document their acquisition source or engagement data? If you are new to tagging think back to our office fridge example with canned drinks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

As part of taking a look at movement building , I did a book giveaway for The Blue Sweater by Jacqueline Novogratz. A few months back, Lucy Bernholz introduced me to her book and James Wu from the Acumen Fund who kindly sent me a copy of The Blue Sweater and this profile in the Economist. Tags: Books.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Together we'll be making some awesome wine over the course of a year to benefit @ roomtoread , and with each case sold they'll be able to supply about 60 local language children's books to educate the 300 million kids around the world who can't read. Tags: fundraising2.0 Good wine has never been better!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2007

When I saw that I had been tagged on Nancy White's blog, I left a crabby comment. Books: I used to have impulsive book buying disease. I had more books than bookshelves. Sometimes I get freebies from publishers who want me to review the book. Now who to tag. leave a comment and you're tagged!

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2010

In our quest to shine a light on shine a light on what's going on in green IT for nonprofits, libraries, and really anyone running or working in a small to medium sized office, we'd be remiss to not call some attention to a new book by UK-based author, Mark O'Neill called Green IT for Sustainable Business Practice. Tags: GreenTech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2009

My colleague, Manny Hernandez, has written the "Ning for Dummies Book." . For anyone who works in nonprofits and wants to know the secrets to success of setting up and running a "branded" social network on Ning, Manny's book is your best resource. I'll pick four lucky people will be selected to receive a free copy of Manny's book.

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NTEN

APRIL 10, 2010

Seth Godin's new book Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? Tags: 10NTC NPTech NTEN seth godin. is out, and NTEN scored two hundred copies for 10NTC attendees. Well, you have to do two things: Go over to the CNN court, store, or building and take a picture with some sort of CNN paraphernalia or logo. Enjoy your final day at 10NTC!

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2009

And I found especially interesting his mentioning of "what bibliophiles call book discovery.". He talks about the benefits of both putting book content online *and* also allowing people to engage/comment/mashup the text. This would massively improve what bibliophiles call book discovery. Tags: Communication.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2009

A few months back, Lucy Bernholz introduced me to her book and James Wu from the Acumen Fund who gave me a copy of The Blue Sweater and this profile in the Economist. Since this week's thinking and resource gathering is on movement building, I thought it was appropriate to do a book giveaway. Tags: movement building.

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