Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 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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Web Bookmarking Twitter Social Media 114

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

5 Ways to Collaborate on Documents Online in Real Time - London Net Tuesday's upcoming event on 3 March focuses on online collaboration tools and strategies. Here's a great review of some of the tools available for shared documents. Tags: roundup bookmarks. " - it's true! ." " - it's true!

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3rd Sector Labs

JANUARY 16, 2014

The platform is a suite of fundraising tools designed for smaller organizations, clubs and associations – the sort of nonprofit that doesn’t have a large budget and leadership is primarily volunteer based, so it turns over frequently. It’s useful to bookmark a few performance tips posts for easy reference.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Bonus points!

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Marketing Widget Adwords Listserv 70

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Bonus points!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

I recently discovered a blogging work flow tool called Zemanta , that according to its web site. That way I can really understand if this tool would help me save time or bring traffic. I also wondered "Can a blogging work flow tool really help you improve the quality of your blogging?" Why or why not?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

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. What do you think?

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Hunger Web America Case Study 120

Tech Soup

AUGUST 13, 2013

You're probably already familiar with TechSoup's great blog posts on fundraising, like Fundraising: The Tech Tools You Need and 19 Effective Fundraising Ideas from Nonprofit Pros. If you haven't already, be sure to bookmark TechSoup Canada's excellent blog on nonprofit technology. TechSoup Canada. NetSquared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

" It is a stern warning to avoid falling into the trap of playing with the tools first without thinking of strategic outcomes. So, now we've given ourselves permission to get our hands on the tools. Because at some point, you need to learn how to use tools effectively and efficiently. Tools: Monitoring. you work in.

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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). By providing tools and support for people with ideas, the group hopes to empower Americans to change the world, one project at a time. But hold on.

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Web Paypal Influence Teen 105

Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

social bookmarking (now called Delicious ) by using their APIs on the site. (An Most of the content was (and is) user generated. "Similar to their corporate counterparts, nonprofits are discovering that they can increase their effectiveness while maintaining lower operating costs by utilizing Web-based and open source tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The first reason is the excessive focus on specific social media tools. Many first-timers are introduced to social media via specific tools. Many ’social media experts’ who are practitioners rather than thinkers also focus on specific tools. My own approach to social media is both tool-agnostic and terminology-agnostic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. The tools include Google Analytics, PostRank, Feedburner, and others. Next, you need to know the right metric(s), the tool or combination of tools to collect the data, and how the tools measure the metric.

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Metrics Social Media Strategy RSS 81

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

All the traditional fundraising tools (phone-a-thons, direct mail) are. To-do: Map out a social media posting strategy designed to generate donations. Don’t make givers bookmark your site. With last minute gift. donations (think Heifer International) and reminders that givers can. midnight on New Year’s Eve.

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Turkey Fundraising Phone Mobile 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

It includes case studies, tools, and how-tos. tools to capture and share knowledge from nonprofit gatherings. tools into your PR messaging? Something to read before jumping into using the tools. Yet another great example of using Web2.0 This one is from the UK and from a conference called " Take Back the Web."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

(And for expert level knowledge, read these blog posts about FriendFeed that Louis Gray has bookmarked.). Not everyone is thrilled with FriendFeed, some say it is just generates noise and is a parasite. The formal experiment I designed involved asking people to pick a useful post from the list of FriendFeed bookmarks in del.icio.us

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Windows Phone 8 , Microsoft's next generation mobile operating system, has improved backup features from Windows 7. This includes your SMS conversations, apps and app settings, call history, photos, theme, and Internet Explorer Favorites (bookmarks). You can change your backup settings by going to Settings > System > Backup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

tools to obtain better results.??? is still too far away from broad usage by presenting a tool relying solely on emails, which has enough capabilities. Also, pointed to some threads about filtering: The question of relevance of all this user generated content was rarely discussed. how to best combine all these web2.0

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Reflection Bookmarking Aggregator Lesson 56

Connection Cafe

JUNE 10, 2015

You’re probably thinking “oh look, another blog post on responsive design with statistics and flashy words like “optimization” and “analytics”—I better bookmark this one and read it sometime…” Before you bookmark this post for “later” reading, however, I would encourage you to pause for a moment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

During the Webinar, I polled the group’s general approach. Momsrising is an early adopter of online tools currently exploring the Google + platform and discussing it in team meetings. Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner co-founder of Momsrising and Bruce Lesley, President, of First Focus share their approaches.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2010

Generate the Tracking URL . Forget the technical details, because Google provides a tool you can and should use to create the tracking links for you. Bookmark the page. Click "Generate URL", and use the result as the hyperlink in your messaging campaign. Turns out, it's really easy.

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Track Analytics Google Campaign 68

NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

We're all just learning about this, actually -- which is why the nonprofit community should be excited about getting in on the ground floor with these marketing tools and strategies. " My answer: a resounding YES! . Too often, we in this sector think we're automatically at a disadvantage. I thought that was amusing.).

Social Media 54

Social Media Lesson Marketing Media 54

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Jono Smith, VP of Sales & Marketing at Event 360, states: "When we think about social media, it is focused on people using tools to share content and have conversations online. There's no cookie-cutter approach that will work: even though the tools are similar, your communities are not. Don't jump the gun."

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Social Media Effective Media Fundraising 69

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2005

In addition to the traditional methods of integrating technology, I want them to explore some simple ways to integrate these new tools such as tagging and blogging without running away screaming. Use of tags to organize and bookmark Internet Resources related to subjects. for Educators. Put it on the list to explore.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Election Day Debriefs What we can learn about online politics from the 2006 Campaigns from e-politics offers some lessons and takeaways about social networking and other traditional technology tools deployed for political campaigns. CHBN provides a free service for broadcasting member-generated political video content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. tools can provide quick and dirty market research tools or the ability to do an environmental scans for strategic planning. Step 5: RSS As Information Coping Tool. Eating Fabulous Step 2: Thinking Outloud. An example?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

generators. Tools and Strategy Google Earth for Green Activism. Social Networking Fundraising Success article describing how different nonprofit organizations are using social networking sites to tap into a whole generation of new supporters. Social Bookmarking. And if Web 2.0 pushes your buttons, why not push a few Web2.0

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Word of mouth, etc.

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Track Social Media Media Advocacy 41

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

I bookmarked in delicious a post by David Weinberger saying blogging is Web 1.0 On Netsquared , there was a recent post about Bioneers and some thoughts about a session about online tools and mobilizing. But in general, the thinking around tech and activism is very partitioned.

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Web Hype Bookmarking Delicious 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

The Cross Blog Discussion of the NpTechTag has generated some comments and blog posts that I've summarized below. The new generation of social web sites coming online are only beginning to understand how to organize and present this content to users. either as a category of stuff or as a retrieval tool." But give it time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

It is really bizarre, but this afternoon I've been struggling with the notion about the connection between individual adoption and organizational adoption of social media tools like Facebook or others. tool after Web 2.0 Kevin Gamble who reads more feeds than I do tweeted about this blog post by Stow Boyd. Of YouTube? Of Facebook?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

The Digital Diner has an excellent post on photo management tools and the limits of consumer projects in an enterprise setting. Update your bookmarks: [link]. General conclusion: culture shift before tech adoption, keep it simple, small steps, and focused on real needs. (It It may be the basics not social networking tools.)

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Nptech Tag Ning Machinima 50

Care2

MARCH 28, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" You can bookmark the calendar view at [link]. I hope you find the calendar useful.

Calendar 28

Calendar Social Media Advocacy Case Study 28

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2008

This case study is by Danielle Brigida from the NWF and her experience using Digg and StumbleUpon for generating traffic. It's part of my job to investigate the best tools for engaging potential activists and members. Some great insights. The rest of the case studies are here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

As the chief listener for the organization, Wendy honed her listening literacy skills using free tools like google alerts, technorati, RSS reader, and delicious. Because of the volume and using free tools, Wendy had to do a lot of heavy cut and paste to analyze, summarize, and distribute the information. Identifies influencers.

Story 72

Story Learning Organization Metrics 72

Care2

DECEMBER 4, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" As for the newly re-designed grassroots greening website loaded with networking tools?

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Blogger Social Media Site Advocacy 28

NetWits

JUNE 7, 2011

This study reveals that 31% of website referrals are from the “sharing&# of your content; including social networks, blogs, and email–and bookmarks. Here are some quick takeaways to consider: 1) The Ease of Social Sharing is Important. 2) Search is Still King. clicks and 1.7 clicks, respectively. 5) More is More.

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Studies Share Stumbleupon Digg 258