Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Well, it’s turning them bald… “The Totally Baldacious campaign is a great way to show your love and solidarity with cancer patients while you help raise awareness and funds for cures. Creating a separate web space isn’t always necessary, but in this example it really works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Note from Beth: The Lance Armstrong Foundation , known by its nickname “Livestrong”, provides a network of support for people diagnosed with cancer and their families. The foundation's mission is to “inspire and empower people affected by cancer” by helping find the information, support, and strength they need to fight cancer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

The Net2 Secret Plan from Marnie Webb NpTech Tag New Year's Reflections, Predictions, and Best Ofs What are some of the ways that the social web marks the New Year? For social media and technology predictions, here's a few from the Read/Write Web. Wendy Harmon gives us a list of her favorite web sites. Let's take a look.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

allow individuals and brands to launch their own Web-based “TV&# channels. Very few nonprofits are currently streaming live programs on Web-based TV channels and if there is one thing I have learned in 15 years of online communications for nonprofits, it’s the early adopters that always win big. Websites like Ustream.tv

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

The advent of the Mobile Web is slowly starting to permeate and transform nonprofit communications. Just like social media transformed the nonprofit sector and how it communicates with its supporters, so will the Mobile Web (even more so). Related Links: [STATS] New Study Shows the Mobile Web Will Rule by 2015. 12Seconds.tv.

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Judi Sohn

JULY 30, 2011

At Fight Colorectal Cancer, we switched from web host email to Google Apps in 2007 and we haven’t looked back. Fight Colorectal Cancer received its Google Grant years ago and works very hard to stay within the program’s tight guidelines, and we were recently rewarded with a Grantspro upgrade. Guess which won?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

But with the plethora of tools available, it can be daunting to keep up with what tools can help your nonprofit organization build a stronger web presence, become more efficient and to know just which tools are easy to start using immediately. Tags: fundraising2.0 guest blogging nptech.

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JULY 17, 2009

Neff is the Director of Web, Film and Interactive Strategy for the American Cancer Society's High Plains division ( www.cancer.org ) and is also the Executive Director of Lights. C-Tools was the first PDA software tool for the prevention of cancer developed by the American Cancer Society, and SharingHope.TV

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

We also know that the distance separating the web and television is narrowing. Your website is becoming a channel and the web is already a hybrid mix of media where video plays a dominant role. You might think of Facebook as an important social network, but it is now also the third most popular video site on the web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2010

Most of all, I like using it to read web content over coffee away from my desktop. This may not require the development of a native app, it could be something interactive on a web site that can be accessed via your iPad. Tags: mobile. In fact, I was able to join LiveStrong's Join the Ride Online Event using my iPad.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

They contain no PVC plastic (polyvinyl chloride) or brominated flame retardants, both of which are commonly used in electronics and generate cancer-causing substances. Tags: GreenTech. Motorola uses eco-conscious packaging. They are not full keyboard smartphones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Ed Schipu l, who grew a mustache for children with cancer last week, created a peavator. Things are slowing down during the holidays , so here's a short version of the NpTech Tag Summary. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Integrate your blog /web site content via Blog RSS Feed Reader. Stand up 2 Cancer. Prostate Cancer Foundation – Athletes for a Cure. They do this with compelling imagery, a simple form and the ability to get to their main web site. Actually, this data will likely help you improve your overall web efforts!

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Care2

JUNE 8, 2009

To mark the launch of Advocacy Online's brand new social networking platform called "jamii" the company is hosting an event in Toronto this Tuesday, June 9th starting at 3 pm about the future of the"social web. Tags: Nonprofit Events. Click here to register. A 5 pm drinks reception will follow t he presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

Change bloggers have some excellent tools at their disposal, like Social Actions widget which makes it possible for any wired passionate soul to highlight causes on the social web. Take for example the breast cancer version I created last week when I wrote about Leah Jones and Her Walk for Breast Cancer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. This will be a conversation that explores the changing media landscape and how the web can rise to the challenge of supporting our communities and their information needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. This will be a conversation that explores the changing media landscape and how the web can rise to the challenge of supporting our communities and their information needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Tobias Eigen from Kabissa presented at the Web2fordev: Remixing the Web for International Development. The Mashable write up has a freudian typo and describes the Cancer Society and March of Dimes as "high-profit" organizations. It's an open source free web meeting service. More from Britt Bravo on Netsquared blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

In December, Fast Company published an article called " The Most Influential Women in Web 2.0 " featuring about a dozen amazing women who work in the Web 2.0 is an online engagement strategist for World Resources Institutes and in her spare time writes a blog about using metrics for nonprofit web advocacy. Laura Lee Dooley.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

(As a side note from personal experience this site also regularly tells you that you may have Cancer!) Claire is a web geek who enjoys finding ways that new technologies can help make the world a better place. Tags: NPTech NTEN. Thanks to my Grandma for reminding me to add this to the list. What else?

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

This convergence is being driven by widespread penetration of mobile devices (up to 4 billion people now have access), advances in software innovation and powerful applications, and the maturation of the internet providing a gateway for "cloud" computing where data and applications sit and run over the web.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

This convergence is being driven by widespread penetration of mobile devices (up to 4 billion people now have access), advances in software innovation and powerful applications, and the maturation of the internet providing a gateway for "cloud" computing where data and applications sit and run over the web.

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NTEN

APRIL 10, 2009

First up: David Neff , Director of Web, Film, and Interactive Strategies for the American Cancer Society 's High Plains Division. Tags: 09NTC community buzz NPTech NTEN nten members Open Source. I'll introduce each member of this year's class of NTENnies in these weekly member round-ups.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Over the past 10 years, the mashup of the web and our personally identifiable data (PID) has grown up. If LIVESTRONG had been able to capture data on everyone who wore their bracelets, they’d have built the largest cancer supporter database in the world. . Tags: Data Leadership NPTech NTEN.

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Forum One

MARCH 6, 2009

Two weeks ago Forum One's Seattle office convened a group of Global Health web communicators and talked in depth about using social media to build connections and awareness. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Tags: Global Health. Roundtable meetings are becoming a way of life in Seattle these days. Seattle Children's.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2009

The panelists or poets include Danielle Brigida (NWF), Wendy Harman (Red Cross), David Neff (American Cancer Society) and Carie Lewis , Humane Society of the US. Tags: sxsw. I've gathered up some of best of the best folks in the nonprofit tech field to share their social media measurement lessons learned.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 30, 2006

Also, rBGH increases a hormone called IGF-1 in cows that is linked to an increase in colon, breast and prostrate cancer when humans have too much of it. When cows have infections, they are treated with antibiotics, which we drink, and those antibiotics can contribute to our being resistant to antibiotics in the future.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. This will be a conversation that explores the changing media landscape and how the web can rise to the challenge of supporting our communities and their information needs.

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JANUARY 29, 2009

URLs for your blog, web site, online community. After trying broad terms and got nothing, they tried phrases like "My elderly mother died of cancer." Tags: listening. Program, services, and event names. CEO or well-known personalities associated with your organization. Other nonprofits with similar program names.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

I need to get my act together for next week's Circuit Rider Conference in UK and a session I'm doing with David Wilcox called " Demystifying Web 2.0 Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. I have one blog post here. Not that I've done that yet) Steve Dowding points to suggests following the.

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MAY 19, 2008

Conference Tag: CU08 ConnectingUp Conference Warning: I am live blogging these notes as the conference unfolds. welcomed everyone "The people on the end of your web site will be informed than the CEO. This year's program is heavily weighted to the "social web" and nonprofits. More Flickr Photos here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2006

The first genre of games that I'm exploring is "immersive web or persistent world or metaverse " or " massively multiplayer nnline game (MMOG) " It's defined as a digital game with a virtual world that is a setting for role-playing, events, entertainment, and other activities. I created an avitar and did some exploring.

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DECEMBER 22, 2006

Every year, there’s a Flash festival/conference, Flashforward , that highlights novel uses of flash in web navigation, art, games, instructional demos, and more. The Hope Garden was set up by BSD Medical, a company in Utah that specializes in a kind of cancer treatment called hyperthermia. Tags: game. But no matter.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Often, an effective title (e.g.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Often, an effective title (e.g.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

Closest thing right now is the attention stream created for the nptech tag community - although the focus is on one slice of the nonprofit sector) There are a few adhoc decentralized nooks and crannies in the blogosphere where you can find listings of nonprofit blogs or aggregated content of interest to nonprofits. American Cancer Society ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

Linden gives the example of American Cancer Society. Rik Riel asked an excellent question and I'm quoting from his notes: I got to ask Mr Fanton the following question: With a few exceptions, the philanthropic world has not been very good about incorporating Web 2.0 tech into their giving practices. and offered an analysis here.

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