Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. " Tags: roundup bookmarks casestudies community contest facebook fundraising list marketing nonprofits postalicious resources socialmedia strategy technology trends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

I still don't know of that many nonprofits using Friendfeed , though, whether as an overall tool or for joining the "nptech" community conversation ( "nptech" is a tag that Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, and others have been using to tag nonprofit technology resources on delicious, twitter, etc., Tags: friendfeed guest blogging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2010

Last week’s case study about how the Students for Free Tibet vets participation generated some great responses and advice in the comments from Wendy Harman , Red Cross and Stacey Monk , Epic Change, both veterans of online fundraising and voting contests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

Photo emailed from Cambodia by Elephant, Sharing Foundation 's in-country director In this post, I share some learnings as a free agent fundraise r (an individual who uses personal fundraising to raise money for a charity) who is leveraging their personal network to support a nonprofit's programs that help children in need.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Analytics vs Site Meter September 18, 2006 Yes, I promise, the post on tagging and folksonomies is coming. Google Analytics is also free. But first, a great example of Web 1.0

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Connection Cafe

JULY 25, 2014

Here’s what your membership or donor benefit structure might look like today: Free admission. Free Parking. Did your donation dollars allow schools to bring students to your educational programming for free last year? Let’s continue the conversation in the comments below or on twitter @laurabeussman.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2009

Please leave me a comment with your story. These schools are also more likely to research students online via social networking sites. Using free tools to listen is good if you're just getting started. Tags: listening. What is your organization's return on insight from listening?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 25, 2014

Here’s what your membership or donor benefit structure might look like today: Free admission. Free Parking. Did your donation dollars allow schools to bring students to your educational programming for free last year? Let’s continue the conversation in the comments below or on twitter @laurabeussman.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

The Microsoft Imagine Cup is a student competition to create innovative IT projects and ultimately bring those ideas to market. Very sophisticated for a student team. The FCC ruling opened a four-month public comment period, after which it will take a final vote on net neutrality. All comments are publicly viewable here.

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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. A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Guide your students to conversations and resources. It's messy. Hiring people.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2009

You can participate in this experiment from anywhere in the world (I’ll be in Seattle at the zoo with a group of grad students). We’ll be tackling tough questions around how to design elegant, physical substantiations of virtual functions like tagging and personalization. Tags: Quick Hits professional development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Allan Benamer weighs in with some observations after wading through the comments over at the Netsquared site and pointing to Holden from GiveWell to be the most salient point. Open Content for Nonprofits Open Content discussion continues with some comments from Michael Stein (east coast) about Laura Quinn's post last friday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

and, if you linked and I don't have you on radar yet - leave me a comment). Mongkol, a Cambodian college student who is studying in the US on a Fullbright Scholarship and knows the importance of a college education had this to say. Should have set up a campaign tag to track blog posts, etc. The campaign tag is: sopharath.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Over the last year, I have had to explain how social media works to diplomats, defense officials, and academics and students focused on fields as diverse as international affairs, management and sociology. Tags: ROI. The Need for the 4Cs Social Media Framework. The first reason is the excessive focus on specific social media tools.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 17, 2007

You can use it to create your own narrative experience, and you can also allow other users to comment on and add their own commentary to the images. They are committed to making this technology accessible (and free!) Tags: storytelling Technology Tools Worth Checking Out web2.0 to educators permanently.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Skill-sharing free schools. This list is by no means exhaustive: please add your favorites (especially non-American ones) in the comments. It's run by Jon Rubin, an artist and professor of social practice at Carnegie Mellon, and his students. Tags: Unusual Projects and Influences. Community science workshops.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. I was amazed at how closely the results of the focus groups matched up with the findings from UC Berkeley's Digital Youth Research project , which offers both a white paper and incredibly useful book for free download.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2005

HTML code doesn't phase me as I've had over ten years playing with it, but it seemed like a lot of extra work (find the image url you like, cut and and paste it into the tag, and if the size isn't write -you're out of luck). Another question I had: What is the easiest way to make a hard copy "Class Book" of student blog?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Nell will be responding to comments on this blog and can also be reached here. We’re building new cataloging software that we eventually hope to provide free of charge to jumpstart other collections. Some of the new volunteers are high school students, others are college professors.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

Or produce an art exhibit with elementary school students. Both of these projects offer gifts at levels below $25, but they're "free" for the project (membership in the museum's case, digital thank you's and behind the scenes blog access for the socks). Tags: marketing fundraising business models. Or sail around the world.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

The student community? Be free, nearly free, often free, or free for locals. While free admission has not been shown to shift the overall demographics of museum visitors on its own, it sets an expectation that this is a place you can use whenever you like, for as long as you like. Which community?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2008

commented that the demographic of people who are involved is much broader than you’d think, including lots of families looking for a fun, educational, free activity. refers to are dog tags with unique serial numbers on them that geocachers can use to track items easily online. The process is somewhat involved, but fairly simple.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

Interplast , an international humanitarian organization that provides free reconstructive surgery in developing countries asks their surgical volunteer staff to upload posts to the blog from their worksite. You can also use reader comments, or posts by volunteers or constituents in grant applications. Tags: blog nonprofit.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

When we did the final evaluation for the project, one comment from the teens really surprised us: they complained that it felt like we were "hiding" the goals of the project from them in the first of three weeks. The teens were free to be as creative as they wanted, without limitation of specific requirements or criteria.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2009

Earlier today, the CFM offered a free webcast of Jane McGonigal’s talk on gaming, happiness, and museums. Matthew Jenkins commented: "Still don't grasp why is creating sustainable world happiness the primary mission of a museum? Tags: Technology Tools Worth Checking Out game. But others weren't so sure. What about learning?"

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Even though we’ve had an account for over two years, we only became serious with our Instagram strategy last spring and have seen a rapid growth in engagement from students and local brands. Let Students Run Your Instagram Account. And the best part – this idea came from a student. Regram Photos.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

First, if you don't know what the heck I'm talking about, please enjoy (and comment on, if you wish), this explanation (requires speakers). There's an infinite amount of free materials to start with, an eclectic set of tools to manipulate them, and a bizarre world of user-created objects on which to build. First, let's talk process.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 4, 2007

You may need to create a free Gamasutra account to read part 1 and part 2.) The first one opens with these comments: If I have an all encompassing desire for any computer game I play or themed attraction I visit, it is this: Take me to a place that: Lets me go somewhere I could never go. Tags: storytelling design game.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2010

As noted last week , the vast majority of participants got involved for just a few minutes at a time--the time required to read and comment on a blog post or a tweet. Participants included museum professionals, academics, students, and a few folks from related fields (community centers, arts management). Who Participated and Why?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Here's her advice for educators, students, and parents on how to stop Cyberbullying Today!: After joining, post hyperlinks or review and comment on the resources of others, join the conversation. Take some of the free lessons at Wired Safety. SHARE - Plan to show this video to your students.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

In April, I gave 13 UW graduate students a simple challenge: make an exhibit that gets strangers to talk to each other. Last month, student Nicole Robert wrote about the concept for Advice: Give it, Get it, Flip it, Fuck it. The exhibit experienced low traffic overall in an odd area of the UW student center.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2009

This guest post was written by Nicole Robert, a graduate student in the course I’m teaching at the University of Washington on social technology. As a graduate student in a museum studies program, I have learned how to develop an exhibit based on a collection of objects or a specific story. What’s the content? What’s the message?”

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Why do Imagine Cup students develop more field-based IT innovation in 9 months than nonprofits in 5 years? The first 5 thoughtful comments to this post on how your organization's IT strategy excels or struggles to meet your organization's mission will receive free access to the recordings (a $99 value)!

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Outreach Let’s say you run your museum's education department, and you have two vans that go out to schools to do in-classroom programs exposing students to museum content. How important is it that some of the students at participating schools gain heightened awareness of the museum and physically show up one day?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

You buy a season pass, whose sole benefit is free admission for the year. The ticket price dropped over repeat visits until the sixth experience, which was free. where the first three visits are free, and then you have to either become a yearly member or pay per visit. Consider the season pass. Premium features. Which leads to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

We also used free services like Google Groups and Clicky. If we’d provided people with somewhere to comment or share their thoughts–or even to suggest how the donations should be used–we’d have had more raw material for the campaign and could play back these comments to the online community that was discussing it.

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