Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

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). Which provide the strongest features for website community features, workflow, or ease of maintenance? Who Tweets? Get the Tagline Database and Report!"

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

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). E-Commerce News: Customer Loyalty: If You Build a Branded Online Community, Will Customers Come? "Open source software exists in the computer industry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2005

Currently, blogs are measured in systems like Technorati or ranked in PubSub by links or by number of subscribers to a feed in Feedster. It's influence and connection within a community. This is not only important to bloghers, but also niche communities such as nonprofits and nonprofit technology bloggers as well.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 10, 2012

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). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Along with updates to the four systems we reviewed in the past, we’ve added seven new open source and proprietary systems to provide nonprofits with a much broader scope of the types of systems available to them. One of the areas we focused on was constituent interaction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

Michael’s guest post explains more: A Better Way to Produce Reports Nonprofit Annual Reports , guest post by Michael Hoffman, See3 Communications. Treesaver is a new open source web platform for publishing that uses the new HTML5 standard to create narrative experiences—with text, pictures and video.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. site in which people could interact and collaborate with each other to create a virtual community. In the end analysis, nonprofits and NGOs build communities and are sustained by communities. What Is Web 2.0? Citizen journalism.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 23, 2011

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). The checkins functionality in the Ushahidi Platform is one of the first open source checkin products that crosses multiple mobile platforms.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2009

UniversalGiving is making great impact on communities around the world, both in the work, funds or volunteer efforts contributed to individuals and groups via their platform, but also in effectively and passionately empowering donors and volunteers to contribute.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Michele Martin is thinking a lot about how to sustain online communities , and has some really interesting tidbits to share. Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. { I wholeheartedly agree. The Donor Power Blog shows that to give, is to receive.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

With the GPIO, programmers have made it possible to do everything from automate your home to feed your dog. Raspberry Pi Beginners takes you from opening the box it comes in to configuring it to starting basic projects. Power source. hardware open source' Power ratings. 300 mA (1.5 700 mA (3.5 600 mA (3.0

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

Debra Askanase, Founder, Community Organizer 2.0 Develop a sense of community on the website. Open source. Open Source – API. Goals : develop a sense of community, create on-site engagement. Implementation : livestreaming, Facebook event plugin, Twitter feed. Create on-site engagement.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. CheckFacebook :: checkfacebook.com. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

NetSquared’s Global Community Builder , Amy Sample Ward, will be at the NTC this year to connect and collaborate with friends, colleagues and new faces in the sector. My Twitter feed will have quotes, notes and links. How many staff use your online community space in their work? NetSquared Office Hours. 3:00 pm - 5:00pm.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Platforms break open! October 15, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. Be Helpful.

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NTEN

AUGUST 6, 2012

And if you need a little inspiration, then look no further than your fellow NTEN community members, some of whom have recently received recognition for their work. Socio-economic variables can be extracted from the ACS directly into a Shapefile for mapping or other forms of analysis and modeling. and James L.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.) And I’m not entirely clear yet how many should be jumping on this bandwagon to either do fundraising or community-building. Be Helpful.

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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.) To some extent it also depends on how open the CMS is with regard to extensibility.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

The community showed me a need for what I built, so I used this momentum as an opportunity to take what I built to the next level. ″, that focuses on open standards and linking data. Many of us are aware of open source software and open architecture, but open philanthropy doesn’t exist yet.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

NTEN member organizations US Fund for UNICEF and Feeding America discuss their experiences so far with this online media investment. While we're handing out congrats, nice work, EchoDitto , on the new open source Mother Jones website. Speaking of turning to online media, has your organization invested in online banner ads?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Michelle most recently published a white paper in collaboration with NTEN called " Let's Talk: How Open APIs Can Change How Nonprofits Manage Data " It is a topic of critical importance in the nonprofit tech space. She is also the coordinator for NOSI - Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. The paper is a must read.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

It provides for me a sense of community, and a sense of what people I know and care about things I care about are talking about (in a certain realm, on other realms, not so much). Should the communications person use twitter to connect with other nonprofit communications professionals? Sure, why not. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

I don’t want to start a race to the top of the Nonprofit 25 – where organizations start spending more time worrying about their position on that list, and less time feeding people. Allan says: Granted, web site stats will not tell me anything about how many hungry people a nonprofit feeds. That dog won’t hunt.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Most recently, Michael Gilbert pointed me to a very good whitepaper by Nancy White about blogs and community. She has some interesting things to say about the emergent properties of blogging communities. I think the community aspects of blogging were somewhat unexpected. It’s worth a read. Which is just fine.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

social network and community sites. When the nptech tag started one of the ideas was to gather enough data to look and see what words people were using to describe, say, open source (open source, floss, foss, open source software) and then use those words to inform a taxonomy. What do you think?

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Audacity (open source software for Windows, Linux, or Mac) and Garage Band (Mac only) are two of the most common tools podcasters use. After the mp3 file is complete, you need to upload it to a hosting service and add it to your podcast RSS feed. Marketing and Distribution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

Paul Webster from the National Association for Voluntary and Community Action a partner with the ICT Hub pinged me about his blog. Some more examples and resources from the LASA list: Sean Kenny points to an example of publishing content with RSS feeds. All by next week! Every section of the website can be subscribed to individually.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

If you're still not sure where cast your votes and want to check out what others think about the projects, take a look at the community slate of recommendations and elsewhere on the Web. Ten Tech Proposals Empowering Human Rights, Local Leadership, and Community Education is. Open Source Software is Fair Trade !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2006

The Art Museum Social Tagging Project is a group of art museums is looking at integrating folksonomies into the museum Web by developing a working prototype for tagging and term collection, and outlining directions for future development and research that could benefit the entire museum community. tools (like flickr Tag Fight.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. If you are interested in community plumbing, here's rough diagram , although it might have changed since a few days ago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

NetSquared Community. Rory Gale has a nice post called " Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause " BrandtobeDetermined posts about a UK outfit store that ripped off someone's flickr photos and the community response. Peter Dietz has an article explaining why we need group fundraising RSS feeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Democracy in Action Blog tells us how to use tagging and widgets to share jobs in their community. NetEquality provides resources for nonprofits government agencies, communities, housing authorities, and CDCs to install their wireless networks. ActiveCollab an open source project management tool. Details are here.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is for volunteers, webmasters and administrators of associations, clubs, charities, communities and other groups. Find a spokesperson or facilitator who is familiar to your audience; ideally, someone who is perceived as a colleague or fellow member of the community. Non-profit Communications. online community.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" The key to growing your online communities is through growing your social capital. Whitehouse.gov 2.0:

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" FL: What else can we expect to see as a result of Convios Open initiative?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Also, building your own social network and growing and supporting a community takes work and relationship building to be successful-- whether you to do it on Facebook or your own site. The NOSI Choosing and Using Free and Open Source primer is on the ICT Hub Knowledgebase!

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Until recently, these tools were too complicated and expensive for most nonprofit staff to use.

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