Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 8, 2009

" Seeking Grant Money Today: Nonprofit New Year’s Resolutions That Will Make Your Nonprofit A Better One… - If you're looking for some prompts on evaluating strategies and practices, here are some great questions and ideas to consider. Tags: roundup bookmarks. What are the differences?

Bookmarking 100

Bookmarking Delicious Journal Social Media 100

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 10, 2009

How have you made sure to evaluate where or what kinds of tools or platforms your community uses before you choose what to do with your social media strategy? Twtbase currently lists over 500 of them, and I have highlighted five of my favorites for nonprofit organizations and activists…" Tags: roundup bookmarks.

Web 100

Web Bookmarking Delicious Government 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. Or more specifically, the limitations of using tagging in managing large collections of photographs in institutions. Update your bookmarks: [link]. Technorati Tags: stopcyberbullying There's a lot of resources, ideas, and discussion over at Stop Cyberbullying Site. It's moved.

Nptech 50

Nptech Tag Ning Machinima 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

executive summary here ) ContinuousProgress: Better Advocacy Through Evaluation is an online guide to more effective foreign policy advocacy and evaluation. It includes case studies, tools, and how-tos. Yet another great example of using Web2.0 tools to capture and share knowledge from nonprofit gatherings.

Nptech 50

Nptech Tag South Dakota Second Life 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us It can help you evaluate whether a tool is really valuable. Use these filtering tips to make your social bookmarking and RSS reader more efficient. Take Breaks.

Awareness 100

Awareness Tips Social Media RSS 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

number of Facebook fans, Twitter followers, Digg links, Delicious bookmarks, and referrals from social media sites, plus existing website traffic). His post "The Apollo and Dionysus of digital evaluation " talks about finding the right mashup between numbers and stories using mythology metaphors. Tags: socialmediametrics ROI.

Social Media 50

Social Media Media Social ROI 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

I think engagement metrics are far more useful for evaluating reader interest. Reader Bookmarking: This is bookmarked content for later retrieval which is some indication of reader value. . Remember bookmarked items can also influence your blog traffic (positively). Tags: socialmediametrics RSS.

Metrics 81

Metrics Social Media Strategy RSS 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us It can help you evaluate whether a tool is really valuable. Use these filtering tips to make your social bookmarking and RSS reader more efficient. Take Breaks.

Social Media 98

Social Media Media Tips Social 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

Use a social bookmarking plug-in like Add This so people who like your work can easily share with their network. As with number one and two above you get additional statistics from Add This which further helps you to evaluate the impact of your web site and how you can continue improving. Not sure what Social Bookmarking is?

Site 50

Site Web RSS Build 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Some user curate user generated content, by tagging it on social bookmarking websites, voting for it on social voting websites, commenting on it, or linking to it. Although I designed the 4Cs framework to explain how I see social media, I have also found it to be a useful tools to evaluate specific social media initiatives.

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

I used PostRank to evaluate the engagement of posts. Engagement on PostRank is calculated with a number of metrics including commenting, clicks, sharing on google reader, retweeting, and saving on social bookmarking services. Tags: guest blogging. See Allistair Croll's guest post on some tracking techniques). Have a post?

Reflection 76

Reflection Florida Social Media Metrics 76

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

"We can't talk about transparency, accountability and honest evaluation without addressing the contentious topic of failure. Travis August tags this announcement from TechSmith, makers of SnagIt and Camtasia, about Mac development. Most of the links identified have flowed through the NpTech Tag stream but nice to revisit them!

Nptech 50

Nptech Language Summary Advocacy 50

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 11, 2006

Here are a few sites and resources I've found worth bookmarking in the last week or so: 1. I've set up an evaluation site for my office to play with; seems like all the tools you need for a tidy little intranet. Tags: nptech , web2.0 , agile They've been getting a good bit of favorable press. Try out a free beta account!

Tutorial 40

Tutorial Articulate Bookmarking Wiki 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2005

I attended the " Tag You Are It " session at NTC by Ami Dar and Katrin Verclas and was exposed to a lot of new technology tools. I love ( and hate ) how blogs, rss, tags, and these other tools are so right-brained and being able to indulge in some non-linear thinking. Technorati Tag: nptech Who is author?

RSS 50

RSS Content Search NPO 50

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 26, 2007

Similarly, when we receive gifts, we evaluate how well they fit into and enhance our lives. When we receive gifts, we evaluate them. This evaluative quality is missing from the way most of us approach and absorb new technology. And when we stop evaluating technology for its functionality, we stop thinking of it as a tool.

Gift 20

Gift Technology Giving Hype 20

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 16, 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). It contributes to evaluation because it provides data on impact and outcomes that can be used to help assess the performance of the program as a whole."

Web 132

Web Haiti Bookmarking Participatory 132

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Reader bookmarking This measures whether readers are bookmarking your content for later retrieval which provides some indication of how much they value it. Hard data points: You can find out about bookmark saves from PostRank numbers, although the program doesn’t make it efficient to grab data over time. Are there patterns?

Measure 95

Measure Tips Metrics Bookmarking 95

Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 13, 2012

I reduced the above 9-step, 14-page process for my volunteers down to just this single screen they need to fill out from a URL I had them bookmark. If yes, a second decision has to be evaluated: Does the secondary contact have the same last name as the primary contact? Enter Salesforce Visual Workflow. One screen.

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Contact Nonprofit Volunteer Script 232

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code.

Social Media 81

Social Media Media Social Flickr 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

" traffic is an important metric to evaluate a blog. The tombstone generator can be found here (I have a huge collection of these tagged npflickr in my bookmarks. Are blog metrics all about traffic? After all, if no one is reading the blog, there isn't much point to writing it. want to waste some time. don't click here.

Metrics 50

Metrics Web Tools Technorati 50