Amy Sample Ward

MAY 16, 2011

Open Source Zanby Announcement | Zanby.com – I'm so very excited to see this group/community platform go open source! 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).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2009

In the realm of things in my life that this blog is meant to cover, I have two passions: data, and moving data around, and open source software. I’ll always be talking about open source software, particularly as it relates to web applications, but more generally as well.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Shareable: The Open Source Guitar – So many good pieces to think on from this post (thanks for sharing it with me, Billy!) eCampaigning Ideas | Advocacy Online – "This year's edition of eCampaigning Ideas includes eight great case studies put forward by groups using our software in a number of countries worldwide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2013

The idea is simple – by open sourcing her materials, she hopes to inspire more colleges to incorporate courses on philanthropy in their curriculum. Stanford University lecturer Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen teaches students at Stanford about how to master philanthropy. 3) Giving 2.0:

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 19, 2007

First is the wholesale movement toward the three major open source CMS platforms/frameworks, Drupal , Joomla and Plone. There will be detailed case studies in the new primer, but what’s been striking to me is how many examples of this there are out there. And so the feedback cycle keeps going. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2013

The webinar provided case studies of how one nonprofit and one library created storytelling cultures within their organizations. The case studies were presented by Zoe Blumenfeld, communications manager for Global Fund for Women , and Viktor Sjöberg, digital services librarian at Escondido Public Library.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

The next set of modules, that are more tool based (with case studies) are next to be developed. Of course, I’ve been a wiki fan since the very beginning, and I haven’t lost the desire for true data portability , and open source alternatives to the current social networks. Be Helpful.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 17, 2021

Object Sync for Salesforce is an open-source WordPress plugin that provides a GUI to map and sync data between Salesforce objects and WordPress content types. Case Study: Custom integration in action. Solution: WordPress Object Sync for Salesforce. For any supported WordPress content types (e.g.,

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Care2

MAY 8, 2012

The panel on Changing the World with Open Source will discuss how open source is literally revolutionizing the world and offer some great case studies on how the wikimedia foundation used Drupal and CiviCRM to raise $16M online. Register now! AFP TechKnow – June 4-5th.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 17, 2009

open source applications for helping make the government more transparent from Sunlight Labs. The report was commissioned by the Vodafone Foundation and is packed with useful case studies and supporting data. " Apps for America Contest - Check out some of these really innovative (and cool!)

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Care2

JULY 11, 2013

They also provide great case studies that are applicable to other nonprofits. For example, one of the case studies that Amy Sample Ward and I profiled in the mobile section of our book Social Change Anytime Everywhere was about “Missed Calls” as an organizing strategy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

There is an interesting case study of the marketing of Tampax and Africa on the Cause Related Marketing Blog. What are “influencers?&# Read the blog entry. It’s pretty interesting. Marketing and Fundraising Ideas tells us about how not to ask for a major gift. Be Helpful.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2009

As readers of this blog probably know, I’m really excited about the work Social Actions is doing to help connect the sources of actions and opportunities across the web to push them further. Social Actions is “an open source database of actions people can take on any issue.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

Elaina Todd, an environmental planner who develops social marketing campaigns with the nonprofit conservation group Rare, is profiled in our most recent case study for Benetech’s Miradi software. Miradi, is used by nature conservation practitioners around the world to design, manage, monitor and learn from their projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

We experimented with “Conversational Case Studies&# and found that conversation in the comments helped improve the richness of the final report. Culturally, it’s an invitation for private foundations to become more open source. That model uses social media a mechanism to give feedback.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 20, 2016

An in-depth guide related to the target issues they care about, tools or templates, case studies, and ebooks are all great examples of this. This kind of content gets shared and spreads the word, and it keeps people opening your emails, and even looking forward to them. Join the open source culture.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I know that’s one more thing in a long list of considerations (and it’s generally more important to think about for the CRM – the CMS, if it is modern, and especially if it is open source, will provide few barriers to integration.) at 3:50 pm CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) 01.26.09 7 Jon Stahl 01.20.09

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. Here was the Philanthropy News Network announcement of the project: "TechSoup NetSquared, the project to increase nonprofit effectiveness through Web-based social tools, has added a case study section to its website. 'Net2

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Note from Beth: Since the concept of working in Networks is can be hard to explain to newcomers, learning from case studies, stories, and examples can be illuminating. In the morning, each of the ten case study presenters gave a 5 minute “teaser ” about their case study or what one presenter called “showing a little leg.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2005

Some resources that I recently blogged at Cambodia4kids blog, may be of interest here: International Open Source Network : An online comunity of open source advocates working in the Asia-Pacific Region. A case study is also available. Blogs and Development Thinking from the World Bank.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Case-Studies: Three Stories of HR Management, plus a closer look at one small organization's migration of mission-critical data to a new database in the cloud. In the current issue you'll find: " How Your Organization Can Embrace Data--And Use What it Can Teach You ," by KD Paine, measurement expert and author.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

Jeff Howe, author of Crowdsourcing , defines it as: The application of Open Source principles to fields outside of software. United Breaks Guitars is just one recent case study of crowds being evil. The effective use of social media tools is like a double espresso shot to your regular coffee.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Two tools include: Tags: Case Studies Conferences Online Advocacy Social Networking Technology Web 2.0 Idealware.org has reviews of many of these tools as well. Email is a critical channel.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

Open source. Open Source – API. The reasons are sourced from blog, news, or case study posts from a network of American Red Cross sites. While reviewing websites, we specifically looked at the different types of social media organizations were integrating into their websites. Authenticate.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

and Sahana Foundation (which hosts a free open source disaster management system), have changed the way disaster relief is being done all over the world. Online tools like Twitter , Ushahidi , Google Person Finder , CrisisMappers , and the work of nonprofit organizations like Crisis Commons. The account is managed by @KevinSage.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Where else can you get a steady diet of online seminars from experts in the field, covering topics from virtualization , to optimizing your Google Grant account , to running email campaigns , to setting up an open source website -- all with you and your nonprofit in mind? If Obama did it, so can you, right?)

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

As I read case studies, blog posts and participate in sessions, I imagine replacing the term "social media" with "direct mail" or "email marketing." Ehren Foss has a decade of diverse technical experience with web programming, database administration, and many of the open source tools that help make the web an amazing place to work.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Read the full case study here. You can read the full case study here. To get started and to review more case studies, visit: [link]. Idealware.org has reviews of many of these tools as well.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

And there are, for sure, some interesting case studies. I’d be really hard pressed to suggest that they spend much of their meager resources on that. I know that people are doing fantastic work around the ways in which social networks can be powerful tools. Be Helpful.

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NTEN

MARCH 6, 2015

Also announced was the winner of this year''s Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest , an annual award of a $10,000 cash grant to one individual who has created or led an effort to create an open source software product of significant value to the nonprofit sector and movements for social change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

This was a misperception and they used that to go out into the field to educate folks. You can find more examples and case studies in this white paper. He suggested the need for open source licenses for data and research should be available openly within a year. IssueLabs is a great start.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2005

just the other day I found an excellent case study on the Khmer Open Source Localization project. For months, I've been tagging urls that I found interesting about Cambodia into delicious with the cambodia tag and checking what else was tagged. Usually it was not much or crap. But this has changed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

As reported by the Executive Director of N-TEN, Katrin Verclas earlier this week, The Antonio Pizzigati Prize was awarded to George Hotelling , an open source software developer who built CitizenSpeak. You can read case studies here. But a big congratulations goes to Jo Lee. - How did you hook up with George Hotelling?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

So, it's due time to give shout-outs where shout-outs are due: Members converging online: Care2 , Allyson Kapin , and the National Women's Law Center , all NTEN members, offer a great case study on using Google Grants. Shannon Turlingtion blogs about wikis , Open Source, and changing the way we "manage" participation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

I can think of two organizations that I’ve worked with, which are, in a sense, case studies for why to have a blog, or not to have a blog. All of these are good questions, and will be totally different for different organizations. Organization 1 is a medium-sized mental health organization in a smallish city in the Northeast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

A short case study about the Nature Conservancy uses e-metrics. Ivan Boothe from the Genocide Network has a case study of how his organization used Reddit to drive calls to the Hotline. Enjoy this post about nonprofit open source software. Here's your chance to vote on sessions and suggest speakers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Social and Nonprofits ROI: Case Study Slam submitted by Beth Kanter Using a poetry slam format, each panelist will present a five-minute poem or story about how their organization has successfully implemented a social media strategy experiment and how they considered the ROI. To vote: 1. Create an account. Vote for the choices below.

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