Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 7, 2010

—– If you’ve been on facebook at all in December this year, you may have seen something happening to all your friends – their pictures changing to their favorite cartoon characters! Did you change your picture – why or why not? This is when I really started paying attention. What do you think?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

million grant from the Stanton Foundation to work with academic experts on Wikipedia articles related to public policy, which could include everything from political theory to legislative history and issues such as health reform and science. But what is in it for campaigners trying to bring about social change?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

A search engine that “knows millions of things&# about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.&# Twitter Mosaic :: sxoop.com/twitter.

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Last week I defined skills management by referencing and summarizing an existing Wikipedia article. ” Again going to Wikipedia, here’s how it defines skill. . ” Again going to Wikipedia, here’s how it defines skill. In other words the abilities that one possesses.

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NetWits

MARCH 10, 2012

According to Wikipedia … “Content marketing is an umbrella term encompassing all marketing formats that involve the creation and sharing of content in order to engage current and potential constituent bases. If you want to reach people in this ever changing, online and social world you’ll need great content. What’s content marketing?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2012

By far the most recognized wiki is Wikipedia. Wikipedia would not be possible without the support of its volunteer contributors, who help keep the site's content current. By relying on volunteers, Wikipedia can draw on anyone to share their knowledge on a topic, check facts, or accurately translate content. Building a Wiki.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

If not, make sure to check out his blog and what Wikipedia has to say about him. Godin says that nonprofits are resistant to change and slow to adopt social media as well as the free online tools available to them. You might be thinking to your self, “Why is Frank asking me this?”

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

According to Wikipedia , “A disruptive innovation is an innovation that creates a new market and value network and eventually disrupts an existing market and value network.” to a Gen Z-er and you’ll see just how quickly their eyes glaze over – a sign that disruptive innovation results in swift and permanent change. . A census year.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It evolves to meet our changing needs, to fit our changing lifestyles, and to integrate into the way we do our work. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing. (You Direct Content.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

When they first launched, Facebook Community Pages briefly had check-in functionality and were thus created when a Facebook user checked-in to to your nonprofit for the first time, but when Facebook Places Pages were launched the process by which community pages are created changed. Step 2 :: Find your Facebook Community Page.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A search engine that “knows millions of things&# about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.&# TwitSprout :: twitsprout.com.

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M+R

JULY 10, 2023

I often tell folks that making a practice of self-editing is a great way to level up : finish your draft (email appeal, social media post, video script, or whatever else), walk away from it for a minute, and then go back and make changes as an editor would. This doesn’t mean you need to turn your copy into a Wikipedia article.

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Gyrus

JUNE 14, 2016

If your organization demands an immediate change, an external time component in unnecessary, and the inevitable reception of a bill to reflect that proposed demand can be completely averted. a))” [Wikipedia] GyrusAim has developed a feature for supporting compliance with Title 21 CFR Part 11. Beal, Vangie. "What 14 June 2016.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world. Rapid advances in digital media and technology are changing how we connect to information and each other. What does it mean for community change?" The way we engage in public dialogue, coordinate, solve problems—all of it is shifting.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 29, 2010

From Wikipedia : Customer relationship management is a broadly recognized, widely-implemented strategy for managing and nurturing a company’s interactions with clients and sales prospects. There are good arguments for why social media will radically change standard CRM practices. That was the question I cam to this issue with.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." Wikipedia is a community, Craigslist is a community, Moveon.org is a community, eBay for crying out loud is a community. " The year was 2005. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 21, 2011

There’s a great Wikipedia article to do the work for me. Amazon and Barnes and Noble were all geared up for a big fight, until a number of things happened to change the equation. I won’t go into exhaustive detail here on the wide variety of readers and formats. What I want to talk a bit about is what’s next.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Examples: YouTube, eBay, Wikipedia, Google. Examples: Wikipedia. there a high degree of facilitation that’s involved; there’s a natural fear from the service side of fear from the outside, so there has to be real facilitation to get sustainable change and not just reaction. Increasing return systems are: digital.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Did you know that there are over 156 million public blogs, according to Wikipedia. For example, if you were an environmental organizations working on climate change issues you would use key words such as global warming, renewable energy, etc) as much as possible. How do you make your blog stand out? Frogloop's got you covered.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Wikipedia gives you a fairly verbose definition , the dictionary gives a similar, but less wordy definition that I think is simpler to grasp. “An Ecosystem thinking may change the way you approach your work. When you think about it, the idea of an ecosystem can be applied to many things in life. What’s an Ecosystem? Think LIVESTRONG.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Wikipedia came up with a great idea , one we encourage you to steal. By now, you've surely heard his thoughts on death as "life's change agent". If you like your stories in bite-size, infinitely repeating packages, GIF.tv will keep you occupied for seconds at a time. Lots of seconds. It's like Halloween candy for your soul!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

I found this wonderful comic on Mashable “ The Field Guide to Procrastination ” that identifies 12 different methods for work avoidance or procrastination, defined in Wikipedia as “ putting off tasks for a later date.” ” We all do it. I have done conference calls on my mobile phone while walking.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

.&# He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia. He spends a fair bit of time talking about the Wikipedia model, and how, basically, amazing it is.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Wikipedia Searches for ALS : 2.89 I think what is most captivating, and something that Slaughter and I discussed, is the statistic on Wikipedia searches. I asked ALS about how the unexpected funding changed things. Facebook: 440 million users uploaded IBC videos with over 10 billion views. Twitter: By August 29, the IBC had 4.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2011

Yi-Tan Community hosts a weekly 40-minute conference call about navigating change in technology and society. It isn’t because the beta is limited to people in the US, because a number of nonprofit technology colleagues did not get an invitation. That will change as Google+ opens up. Jerry Michalski is the moderator.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2015

Change the typeface to Open Sans Light , the size to 72 pt , the anti-aliasing to Smooth , and the alignment to left. Enter a hex value of 275664 to change the color to charcoal gray. Bonus: We changed the anti-aliasing above to Smooth. Click View > New Guide… Select Vertical and enter 185 px. Click the Move Tool.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2017

Let’s consider how much has changed in tech over the last 4 years: Since 2013, we’ve seen the adoption of the smart phone, the start of smart watches, selfies, and touch ID. Apple watches have added GPS and health tracking capabilities. And perhaps most notably, 2013 was also the beginning of responsive design (Mashable).

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Achieve

JUNE 2, 2015

Did you avoid the Wikipedia entry? Today’s world is ever growing and ever changing. Think about the last time you pulled up your search engine of choice. When you typed in your query and hit “search,” how did you decide which entry to choose? Did you bypass the options that looked like advertisements?

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Wikipedia provides a good formal definition : “Web accessibility refers to the practice of making websites usable by people of all abilities and disabilities. By their very nature, nonprofits exist to make the world a better place and to create positive social change.

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Forj

MARCH 7, 2018

Wikipedia ? The microlearning movement recognizes this fact and it is changing eLearning in positive directions. Unless the adult learner is motivated by a designation, a degree, or the learning exercise is required, he or she expects the learning format to be entertaining and to the point.

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Care2

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Chances are most of them are reactive, which can leave many small online teams scrambling to react to news, legislation or changes in bills. Be honest, does your nonprofit create online advocacy and fundraising campaigns that are reactive or proactive? The oldest Millienials are approaching 30 and the youngest are about to be teens.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

Reveal Change Many of the stories we'd like our site visitors to understand are centered on revealing the truth behind a situation. The truth can become obvious when you reveal the change in data in a visual way. Look how elegantly they tell the story of the need for fresh drinking water, and the difference their prorgrams are making.

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Gyrus

APRIL 19, 2016

In the digital world, one can turn to a blog, Wikipedia, social media platforms, online knowledge forums, videos, etc. With the changing work environment and compliance requirement, your LMS should scale to meet the needs of larger and varied workforce as well as evolving training requirements. and get informed on just anything.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 22, 2007

Fixing Wikipedia Articles link [via Michael Gilbert's weekly Nonprofit Online News] More and more often we find that wikipedia is the first place we are pointed to when seeking information about a person or organization online. Suppose you look up your NPO and find incorrect information in the article? That's what this piece is about.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2013

Check out the NetSquared blog to keep on top of the gossip and reporting from our network: Burlington’s Amanda Levinson reports on Amy Sample Ward’s presentation about her new book “Social Change Anytime Everywhere” The Weather Gods tried to stop the event, but Vermonters are tough! Wednesday, June 5. Thursday, June 6.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Wikipedia offers this one : Intelligence has been defined as the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. Human intelligence is driven by the need to adapt to changing circumstances.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2011

are changing. Here are some key highlights from The Changing Demographics of America by Smithsonian. It's also interesting to note that, according to Wikipedia, Hawaii, New Mexico, California and Texas are already majority-minority states. The changing demographics of the U.S. I encourage you to read the entire article.

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