Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2010

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). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 1, 2015

Please consider bookmarking the Donor Data Management Dictionary. Many of the definitions in this article are found in, or are closely related to, reference sources readily available on the Internet, such as www.wikipedia.org and www.reference.com. Is more data jargon giving you a headache? Big data – [big DAY-tuh], noun.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 12, 2015

The 32 nonprofits were bookmarked for a donation and selected because they were effective at grabbing my attention and sparking an inspiration to give through their tweets. The last time Nonprofit Tech for Good donated to a large volume of nonprofits – $25 to 28 nonprofits – 27% of the donations failed due bugs.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2009

" Definitely worth a read - another reminder why building a strategy for engaging your community is the most important part, BEFORE you dive into the tools. Tags: roundup bookmarks. Based on these questions, I’ve assembled a “resource page&# for you, which I will updated as needed." "What’s a Shespotter?

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2023

A sponsor who provides monetary donations or in-kind donations like services or a venue can be listed on all the marketing materials…banners…bookmarks…t-shirts and so on. Community/Fun Events are great for corporate sponsors , too. Because these events often attract the community at large, the right sponsors are usually happy to participate.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 1, 2009

Spring cleaning definitely applies to your Google Alerts! Delicious / Bookmarks. If you use Delicious , the social bookmarking tool, you can view all of your tags and how many items have been bookmarked to each of them. Google Alerts. Have your key public-facing staff members changed?

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Definitely keep it on brand for your nonprofit, but your goal is to make them feel warm inside. A tiny, inexpensive gift, such as a bookmark, sticker, or magnet. So, don’t buy a bookmark with your logo on it just so you can check “gifts for donors” off your to-do list! Welcome new donors into the fold New donors are special.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

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). It's something that I try to tackle by having a clear personal definition, for my own word choice. Social Citizens Blog | Immerse. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Some awesome tool resource pages where you'll find links to simple definitions, tips and tutorials, and some tools. Social Bookmarking. We've come the close of the first week's round of We Are Media Toolbox fun. What do we have to show for it? This week we worked on listening and participation tools: Monitoring. RSS Readers.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Browser Bookmarks - To start with, I created bookmarks for my Grandma to be able to access her favorite sites without having to use Google Search or remembering the URL. While not specific to older people, it's definitely a useful resource. (As Getting Social. Thanks for sharing this, Rich Quick !

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

Tweet chat participants were in near agreement in their definition of content curation: judicious selection of information to tell a story. The most basic and commonly used tools include RSS readers, alerts, bookmarking sites, and Twitter lists. What Is Content Curation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2006

But the fruits of my labor has gotten so much richer with the integration of social networking tools, particularly social bookmarking services. Look at the bookmarks of folks who first tagged an item that is popular. I also look at the bookmarks of first taggers of resources that I find particularly useful. The first was Steve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Since I’m working on an array of subjects over the past five years, I have a lot of them in my RSS reader and Twitter lists or I find them via keyword scans.) Key skills and tools may include search on Google, social media channels, and bookmarks. This is the listening and scanning I do.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 7, 2017

Definitive Timeline to Master Follow-Up with First-Time Donors. Bookmark this page as you’re determining your donor relations strategy and keep all of these essential resources at your fingertips. Nonprofits Fail at Following Through and It’s Time to Fix It. How to Combat the Excuses of Poor Nonprofit Follow-Through.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

I've definitely added that link to my social media metrics personal learning space ) She recently pointed to a blog post called " Ten Ways To Measure Social Media Success " by Chris Lake. number of Facebook fans, Twitter followers, Digg links, Delicious bookmarks, and referrals from social media sites, plus existing website traffic).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The second reason is a clear definition of what social media is, even within the social media community. However, very few people use these terms precisely and almost nobody agrees on the exact definition of these terms. Mastering each tool individually seems like a lot of work and a lot of people give up even before they begin.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

For step-by-step, go-at-your-own pace tutorial documentation, definitely try ScreenSteps. Notes and Bookmarks After starting and stopping for years, I have come to embrace Evernote. Evernote is a different way to bookmark sites than, say, Delicious.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 28, 2005

It can be browsed, bookmarked, and searched with ease; and, if paired with a program like JAWS or Kurzweil, easily lends itself to annotation and outlining. A Bookshare text is a book without barriers in more than one way. It can be read in large print, with synthesized speech, or in refreshable or embossed Braille.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

The tags you use to describe something should be intuitive so you can recall the bookmark. When delicious tells you the number of people who bookmarked, I hate the way it looks. If just one other person bookmark, it shows a link. His definition of tag spam: A bookmark with 1,000 different tags. t be bookmarked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

An interesting point about using MySpace: "It can definitely be used for recruitment and as a mass communications tool, particularly for younger voters who tend to use email less. Tagging and Social Bookmarking Social Bookmarking Showdown is a quick overview/review of the major social bookmarking services.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2006

I just checked back to where I bookmarked the Yahoo announcement a couple of days ago in del.icio.us; at the moment 2888 other people have also bookmarked it. The library is all cross-browser tested - a "graded browser" policy described in the documentation that lays out the Yahoo definition of "multi-browser support."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Social Bookmarking. For each page in the tool box, we've broken down the tasks as follows: Revise the 1-2 sentence definition that describes the category of tools (5 minutes). We've narrowed down the categories to the ones that many nonprofits are already using and organized them so they relate to key themes of the Tactical Track.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2006

The exercise went something like this and it struck me that if I ever taught a workshop on how to use tagging that I would definitely do something like this, tailored to the group's interests of course. Go to del.icio.us , a social bookmarking or tagging tool, and create an account (if you don't already have one).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

I came across Jeremiah Owyang's definition of online community -"An online community is: Where a group of people with similar goals or interests connect and exchange information using web tools" and it defines the tagging community.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2005

social bookmarking genre, has been acquired by Yahoo. Search team - they definitely get social systems and their potential to change the web. del.icio.us , Joshua Schachter's killer app that created the entire web2.0 Looks like this "emerging" technology, as some like to call it, has emerged. We're excited to be working with the Yahoo!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

A few days ago, I got a ping from Deborah Finn via a social bookmarking service with a pointer to the same book - " Nonprofits and Technology: Emerging Research for Usable Knowledge " One of the chapters is called "Geeks for Good: Technology Evangelism and the Role of Circuit Riders in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

Gavin's post does a great job explaining the definitions and the advantages of a taxonomy over a folksonomy. It would based on an analysis of all the "words" or tags that people have used to describe resources also bookmarked with nptech. How are they different from taxonomies? Sort of an emergent taxonomy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

Buzz in NpTech space -- from blog to blog to tagged bookmarks. I lost count after ten in terms of the number of Disney Movies incorporated into this brilliant Disney mashup, a Fair(y) Use Tale that pushes the definition of fair use, directed by Eric Faden and came out of Stanford University's Fair Use Project Documentary Film Program.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Share breaking news within your field Chances are someone on your staff is already bookmarking and forwarding news stories about your issue each day. Your blog shouldn't include only news about your organization, but it should definitely include some. Take it a step further and share their news story links on your blog.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2005

Here's what I mean: John Hagel in a post last week offered a tentative definition of web 2.0 I think this is the reason I instinctively identified Ajax as someting my users would care about, and why I've not been as vocal about tagging or social bookmarking, for example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

When you take the time to comment on a post, you become part of the blogger's community and if you are writing a blog, they will most definitely read your post and perhaps become a reader of your blog. Tagging and social bookmarking can be useful techniques to easily share your information resources with colleagues or co-workers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 6, 2005

Writing up a nonprofit profile only takes 15-20 minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

A definition of screencasting, with real examples. All the research is done, you'll find links to my bookmarks on delicious). #2 A recording of your , the image on your screen, and some additional elements, screencasts are perfect for explaining how-to's for your applications and other specific, tactical uses. Top Three Takeaways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2005

Hey, this will definitely reduce my RSI injuries and save me some time! I looking at it like my browser bookmark and I like to organize things into folders. So I added the three blogs that I had been reading by clicking through them regularly from links I put on my own blog which I had thought was pretty cool. Where can I find them?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

I also bookmark posts that reference the project using a unique project tag. Adapt The definition of adapt is using insights to make corrections to improve results the next time around. The point is - you need to steal five or ten minutes from the doing to reflect in action. Pick the right ones! . Numbers alone are meaningless.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I'm really glad that she sent me this email because I had bookmarked one of her recent commentaries on nonprofits and online social networking. Her piece begins with a simple definition of online social networking tools and asks: What's the appeal?

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 2007

But in the first 6 months of 2007, I was experimenting with social networking and bookmarking tools on Green Brooklyn, including and especially the Care2 News Network , and saw such a great result that I decided that I needed to redesign everything ASAP.

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