Amy Sample Ward

MAY 16, 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). Since then, the site has collected 57,384 comments, or “voices,&# from people around the world, via SMS, Twitter, and on the Demand Dignity website. "

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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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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Web analytics can help reveal how much traffic your site is getting and how people are finding it. You can also use analytics to see how long people are staying on your site and which pages are the most popular. The lessons include instructional videos along with an activity so you can put your new skills to the test.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

I spend a lot (and I mean a lot) of time trying to figure out how to use social networking, bookmarking and news sites to enhance the National Wildlife Federation's online presence. The tools have changed, but the need for knowing your audience, having an end goal, testing theories, and acting on lessons learned remains the same.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

A pioneer of crowdfunding and online fundraising, GlobalGiving.org is a site to study and learn from. Facebook has the highest ROI and it is worth investing $100-500 in a test advertising campaign for your monthly giving program. To learn more and begin the sign-up process, visit (and bookmark) socialgood.fb.com/charitable-giving.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Donors are following their favorite charities on Facebook, Twitter, and other social sites. content to your social streams that leads to a mobile-optimized site. If your site is slow to. If your site is slow to. Don’t make givers bookmark your site. This is the lynchpin, where everything else leads.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 29, 2016

Don’t have time to click through hundreds of links on your site to see if they still work? Use the W3C Link Validator to scan your site for broken links so you know what to fix. Do you already know that your site is responsive, but you’re not sure how a particular post or page is looking? W3C Link Validator. Neither do we!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Be sure to bookmark this post as we'll be adding more resources as they become available. Microsoft has a variety of resources on its Windows 8 site to help you get started with its brand-new operating system. Technology news sites have been testing and tinkering with Windows 8 for a few months now.

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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.). As she says, it combines social bookmarking, feed reading, and the casual interactions of Twitter into something that works somewhat like mailing list, but doesn't add to your email overload. (Read this ). Want to go even deeper?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2008

I had already been working for NWF on facebook and myspace but I wanted to test out more social bookmarking and networking sites. Slide 5: I decided on these two sites because they increased page views "traffic" I was hoping that I could offer the first handshake to a new audience.

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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. 60) Search « Care2.com

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook are all growing in popularity as referral sites for online donations. Simple and effective tools such as " AddThis " allow online fundraisers to bookmark their online fundraising page quickly across a variety of social media systems. Is it effective?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Some have seen some early benefits of getting web site traffic. Capacity building that takes an incremental approach and is a balance of strategy and action leads to capacity building that sticks. I’m not ignoring it, but I’m carefully establishing efficient habits.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Be sure to bookmark this post as we'll be adding more resources as they become available. Microsoft has a variety of resources on its Windows 8 site to help you get started with its brand-new operating system. Technology news sites have been testing and tinkering with Windows 8 for a few months now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Once you have an idea for the what, subject it to the so what test. Do search at site for the first time. URLs for your blog, web site, online community. Your tools are social bookmarking and the excel spreadsheet and, of course, your brain. Using Delicious to Bookmark mentions. Add a RSS feed to your reader.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 19, 2010

Like any other technophile out there, I'm constantly finding new ways to clutter up my virtual space with gadgets, feeds, and bookmarks. But as producers, do we always understand our responsibility to figure out what our sites' purposes are and to create that experience for our consumers? Author: Brandy Reppy.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

Be sure to bookmark this post as we'll be adding more resources as they become available. Microsoft has a variety of resources on its Windows 8 site to help you get started with its brand-new operating system. Technology news sites have been testing and tinkering with Windows 8 for a few months now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Meanwhile Randal Moss gives us some food for thought about turnover in Social Network sites. For some context, check out this timeline of social networking sites from Dannah Boyd. Tagging and Social Bookmarking Social Bookmarking Showdown is a quick overview/review of the major social bookmarking services.

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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. I took it out for a test drive, initially writing about Zemanta. will save you time and increase traffic. It works on a number of different blogging platforms, including the one I use, typepad.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Social bookmarking in plain English! Web Site Usability, Social Media Engagement and ROI. Web Site Usability, Social Media Engagement and ROI. " If you are wondering about whether you should integrate social features in your web site , here's a good article that explains the benefits. Some very useful posts in there!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

social network and community sites. The new generation of social web sites coming online are only beginning to understand how to organize and present this content to users. It would based on an analysis of all the "words" or tags that people have used to describe resources also bookmarked with nptech. But give it time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

The main correction that I offered was for nonprofits to adopt a news page format, with reverse chronological entries linking to deeper content on site and elsewhere online. It serves as a public test bed for new ideas, at least among those people who listen to me. that really deepen my own understanding of social bookmarking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Blogging, Social Bookmarking, Expertise Matching, and MySpace Looks like Marnie Webb is using Ma.gnolia.com for her linkblog Britt Bravo launched the " Basic Blogging for Women " blog filled with pointers and summaries of advice to get started.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

I’ve tested it. Test, test, test. Test everything in your email. Test every link in your donation form. Test every link on your path to your donation form on your website. You’re going to start writing everything and testing it and scheduling it in October. . So humor me.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Despite the more recent shift of attention to Facebook in the past six months by the nonprofit community, there are still remnants of a goldrush by nonprofits over the last year to build a presence on the uber-popular site. The social bookmarking sites offer this. But was there ever any gold? And is there any left?

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Whole Whale

MAY 8, 2020

Bookmark this handy glossary and have no fear. A/B test . Testing one idea against another amongst split audiences, learning, and implementing the best one into your regular campaign strategy. You can test copy length, images, tone, and so much more. You can test copy length, images, tone, and so much more.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Despite the more recent shift of attention to Facebook in the past six months by the nonprofit community, there are still remnants of a goldrush by nonprofits over the last year to build a presence on the uber-popular site. The social bookmarking sites offer this. But was there ever any gold? And is there any left?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 21, 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. I've done both. ."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Jonathon Colman is the Associate Director of Digital Marketing for The Nature Conservancy, where he works on a team that is charged with the strategic marketing and promotion of The Conservancy's primary web site, nature.org. Even though this comment was made on digg.com and not on our nature.org web site, I???d What were the concerns?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

A few important questions to ask before your consider adding a widget to your blog or web site. Does your web site or blog publish excellent content on a regular basis? Can help you easily link to other sites, content, or individuals. Be sure to test these widgets to make sure they are installed and work. Act 2: Why.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

We’ll show you how to check who’s stopping by your site and how to make your website and posts even more appealing to bring in more visitors. It’s different from direct traffic, where people directly type in or bookmark a website URL to access it. Session duration: Average time spent on your site. What is SEO?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

“Because we raised this $20,000 and have this gallery and classroom space, 200 children from our local special-needs programs are able to do art therapy on site for free or reduced rates.” I personally love using bookmark-type magnet postcard-type, I guess, handouts or alternative needs lists. Ask “So what?”

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

However, neither Carie nor Tim discussed social bookmarking or social news strategies in any depth, and Digg, Stumble Upon, and del.icio.us I hope you can include Oxfam America Unwrapped on your site. Carie opened with an intro to social media. She says social networks are “not just a bunch of lonely teenage boys.”

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 5, 2018

One way to do this is by tracking your keyword rankings and by extension the overall traffic coming to your site from that keyword. This helps me understand what users are searching for when they land on my site. This tells me that users who come to this page may be: Uninterested in the rest of the content on my site.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 19, 2018

That way, your donors can even bookmark the page, saving it for easy access for later. If your school website system allows, create URLs based on the school’s domain that link internally or to an external site. You could even create several URLs targeted to different groups, or to A/B test the effectiveness of your links.

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