Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2010

It was a really rich discussion – thank you to all those who joined in, shared, asked questions, and contributed! Some of the examples and recommendations from this month’s chat included: UN Food&Ag Org (FAO) has done a great job with their Share Fairs – sharing the discussions and training on and offline.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Rapid advances in digital media and technology are changing how we connect to information and each other. org inspired him in ways he never imagined." New networks are emerging everywhere. ."

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Yesterday, I attended — and live tweeted (#baruchnp) — an interesting panel discussion at Baruch College here in New York, “ Social Media and Technology: What Nonprofits Need To Know.” Deanna asked a great question in response, “How do we move from abundance to being relevant? Comment away…. You can read all the details here. ].

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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., for the last five years or so).

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

(It took me about 8, but I kept checking how many people were watching my fundraising video in between questions.). We'll release the results at the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Francisco. If you have any questions or comments about the survey, please email Rachel Weidinger. > Take the Survey !

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Most charities and many libraries have part time or accidental techies taking care of their technology. Is it any wonder that proper technology planning is something we have a hard time getting to? Conducting a technology assessment and inventory of current software and hardware assets. How do you currently use technology?

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Every day, people ask, and get answers to, questions about best practices , professional development , just - in - time technical info , whimsical resources , legal issues , and many other questions related to librarianship. Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Some are huge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

In turn, I suggested that we have a conversation with the nonprofit technology community with Holly Ross at NTEN as host. Holly started with a great question, "What's in the DNA of each of these orgs that allows them to embrace this change and experiment?" This conversation took place yesterday.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Twitter and Nonprofits April 10, 2008 This actually was a post to the Progressive Exchange discussion list. There is no question that you will get out of twitter what you give. 5 Erin 04.30.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

One of the questions that came up during a discussion of concerns at the beginning of the day, was "We have 5,000 friends on Facebook, now what? Deepen relationship through custom apps that improve on org activites (event fundraising, petitions). technologies are only as good as the people (and activists) behind them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

At the same time, volunteer service organizations need to rethink how they work and what technology they use. The question is what can volunteer coordinators – those who are tasked with the work-a-day chores of volunteer engagement – do to help bring about this transformation? Share it in the comments. Do you have one?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2011

Up to you & the culture of your org- maybe add initials. I think you do need basic social media guidelines for your org. Look to other orgs for examples. Think about and decide who will have ownership of your orgs official social media outposts. to help with your orgs early efforts. Have the convo early.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Every month NetSquared volunteers hold free or low cost educational events for people and organizations who want to use technology for social good. Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions. Orlando, Florida: Grow Your Organization Using Technology in 2015.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

And that’s another question that I get, I’m not, you know, by any means an expert in, in business and an expert in this kind of law. I just think non-profits, if they are getting questions from their stakeholders, they need to be very transparent. I also don’t think they need to be split up. Let’s be real.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2010

My post is copied below but you can read it and join the network of readers/commenters on the Frogloop site, too! The first step here is to create processes within your organization that are collaborative by nature so that when any new projects (whether they are collaborations—with other orgs, etc.—

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

You found you had a knack for technology and you became your org's go-to person for computer problems. People kept seeking you out because, instead of acting like the stereotypical IT guy, speaking only in tech-ese, you answered their questions and helped them feel a bit less intimidated by tech tools. What training is required?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Katrin 10.23.06 Part Vb:APIs October 20, 2006 This morning, I sat in on the " Great Open API Debate " hosted by NTEN.

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NTEN

JULY 24, 2009

You can see their tagline and Nancy Schwartz 's comments -- oh, and submit YOUR ORG's tag line -- here ! The 1300th submission to the Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Awards is the Louisiana Association of Nonprofit Organizations (LANO). David Neff 's Lights.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What do web stats mean, anyway? The question I want to ask is, what do web stats really mean, anyway? 10 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Allan Benamer 09.18.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

1) Intangibles often come in the form of stories or anecdotes about the technology value and if used along with numbers can help make the case. The discussion around trying to quantify it - can lead to productive conversation about why the technology is important to mission. could actually. help win this thing.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 31, 2019

I’d poured through the various comments on the questions I asked for your predictions of the next decade. He never did it for anything that matter, because middle schoolers rarely allowed Dad’s to decide anything important. But I still remember watching the coin, and wondering, and waiting. But the responses depressed me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

My question: Network for Good's recent Wired Fundraiser report talks about "superactivists" or the nonprofit equal of Seth Godin's Evangelists. Ben Greenberg from Physicians for Human Rights asked a couple of really great questions. So this leads me to a recent discussion thread on the NTEN discuss list the other day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

She proposes several different times, leave your preferences in the comments. Bev Traynor builds on the list here and reflects on how it isn't quite a yes or not question. Comment, Blog it, tag it NpTech, and/or start a blog over at the Netsquared site. The proposed call agenda is here. Have an opinion on any of these topics?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Flickr Photo: Illustration of Participant's Learning Questions Earlier this month, we piloted the first two-day workshop on social media strategy and tools for NTEN 's WeAreMedia project. While some of the questions were about the how to implement tactics, a number were focused on the challenge of transfer. Set up a Facebook Page.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. An important aspect of this is the opposite question: why do people stop making donations? Currently (on my lowly grad student budget), I only give money to one nonprofit org. The more our communications become technology driven, the greater impact in-person contact can have.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond," I wanted point to a new (to me) UK nonprofit technology blog discovered via a comment to my post about technology stewards and also weave in some more notes on UK examples. Miles Maier is blogging at the London ICT Champion and he left a comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Via Laura Quinn at Idealware comes a pointer to a research paper titled " Technology Motivators and Usage in Not-for-Profit Arts Organizations " that comes from the Systems Synthesis Project course at the H. In the comments, blog readers share their experiences. What do you think? Do you have advice? Pulling my hair out!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

" Marc responded to my comment/question on the post about he finds the time to experiment. " In the case of LLS's use of myspace I feel like part of the experiment is figuring out how an org (vs. Now, I have no idea what the context was like for educational technology conference where Nancy was working.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. After a brief hiatus from blogging, the studio 501c blog with some great advice for nonprofits on how to explore org.20

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

This week I wanted to get a bird's eye view of nonprofit blogging from a nonprofit technology assistance provider (people who work with nonprofits on technology/capacity building issues). They should belong to listservs, comment on community bulletin boards. I wish I had a good answer to that question.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 21, 2008

That's the question the Nonprofit Technology Conference session, "The Seven Things Everyone Wants: What Freud and Buddha Understood (and We're Forgetting) about Online Outreach," tried to answer. They are collecting questions from supporters about Darfur to include in the video. * One commenter wrote, "I hate these commercials."

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Care2

MAY 31, 2007

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)

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Care2

MAY 29, 2007

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)

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Care2

JULY 24, 2007

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) Response: Should you social network?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Technology planning in nonprofits is too often thought about in terms of how many computers we need and the IT staff to maintain them from the basement of the organization. But technology is critical to an organization's success: all staff depend on it to deliver programs, communicate the organization's mission, raise money, etc.

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Care2

AUGUST 7, 2007

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) Response: Should you social network?

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