Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

The Value-add of Crowdsourcing: For me, the two biggest reasons to include crowdsourcing in your strategic design of community building or contests are: Crowdsourcing invites diversity by encouraging anyone with an idea or interest to participate. You can see the full collection, and how they were voted on by the community here: [link].

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Community Case Study Haiti Social Media 207

Care2

AUGUST 12, 2012

Your web traffic, sign up rates, media coverage, and donations level out pretty quickly. You can also plan photo and caption contests on Facebook, Pinit contests on Pinterest, organize protests, and house parties, Fundraising appeals. And of course don’t forget to map out your year-end fundraising campaign.

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Campaign Support Strategy Contest 71

Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2014

The organization submitting the story with the most innovative and effective usage of a donated TechSoup product will receive the UnoBook tablet AND will be featured as the “Tech 4 Faith” story for an entire month on our Local Impact Map (LIM). Poke around the map and see for yourself. Interested? b) Void States.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

The organization with the most innovative and effective usage of a donated TechSoup product will receive the Lenovo IdeaPad AND will be featured as the "Youth Impact" story for an entire month on our Local Impact Map (LIM). Poke around the map and see for yourself. Click here to read the full story pictured above.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Poke around the map and see for yourself. Even if you don't win this month, we would still love to place your organization's story on the Local Impact Map. Sponsor may, but is under no obligation to, post the winning stories on the Challenge web site (or to otherwise use the stories and/or creative works). a) In General.

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Forum One

AUGUST 24, 2009

Over the past month, I had the privilege of being the Forum One Project Manager for a fun, open-source web application development contest: the Apps for America 2: Data.gov Challenge. We conceived "DataMasher" -- a web application that allows users to "mash-up" two sets of state data using an operator of their choice.

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America United States Flash Open Source 55

Classy

JULY 14, 2021

The Collaborative used virtual networking happy hours, gamification and contests, and attendee-to-attendee live chat to facilitate this. Map Out Your Email Strategy in Advance. “ Ahead of the event, we mapped out our email marketing strategy and made sure it coincided with our social media and blog strategy.

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Virtual Professional Marketing Fundraising 105

NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Along with 3 colleagues, we volunteered to develop an entry for the Apps for America 2 contest , sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation. The team conceived "DataMasher" -- a web app that allows users to "mash up" two sets of state data. Data is the next buzz-word after Web 2.0. Because data is powerful!

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Data API Mashup Contest 82

Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2013

Check out the winners of SlideRocket's Nonprofit Presentation Contest for great examples. ReadyTalk : ReadyTalk’s web and audio conferencing tools let you stay connected with your digital storytelling team and supporters. Use Esri’s geographic information system software to create maps that tell your story.

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Digital Story Adobe Tools 55

Forum One

DECEMBER 30, 2010

It’s a great example of how web technology and online tools are changing the game for childhood health advocates across the country. The site is a toolkit of free online services for child health advocates, including a map of the obesity prevention movement , customizable widgets, cell phone tools, and blogger outreach services.

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Gift Childhood Hunger Law 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

is a web-based digital photo sharing application that uses tags to facilitate finding people and photos. t simply about putting your photos up on the web for the world to see. Full Stop Campaign - google maps and flickr mashup. Creative Commons Swag Contest and I won! Freedom from Oil Flickr Photo Contest.

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Flickr Comment Resource Contest 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. Amy Sample Ward , filling in for Britt Bravo, writes about several awards and competitions including the UK Catalyst Awards and Simon Fairway's pointer to the digital makeover contest.

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Nptech Social Fundraising Plugin 50

See3

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Here’s a video that Nerdette from NotMyGal filmed of that panel (yup, that’s me listening in the background): Jen mentioned to me after the panel that NARAL Pro-Choice America is a prime example of an organization that is getting Web 2.0 right with their FreeWillPower campaign.

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Social Network Conference Blogger Artist 45

NTEN

MAY 4, 2009

Social Actions' Change the Web Challenge was a contest to create innovative web applications and widgets, using Social Action's API, that promote opportunities to take action all over the web -- with $10,000 in prizes! Thirty-five developers submitted web applications to the Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

She shares some of the internal conversation her colleagues on staff and their differing views: It took a little more work to convince my co-workers [about web 2.0 For me, the web and 2.0 What does web site stickiness mean in the context of Web2.0? Steve Anderson continues his series on donation process maps.

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Social Network Nptech Tag Summary 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

While some of the measurement concepts for social media remain the same as traditional Web analytics, there are some new ideas to embrace. The next iteration of a photo contest, LOL Seals. They've recently implemented an online photo contest that combines wisdom of the crowds with person to person fundraising.

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Story Learning Organization Metrics 72

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

If you are a visual/spatial type, check out their route on a Wayfaring map and their flickr stream. Hurry the contest deadline is August 17th! And, finally, this podcast from the Gender and the Social Web panel at netsquared conference. Check out the flickr stream here.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

As I sit here avoiding the completion of the rest of the powerpoint slides for next week's Circuit Rider Conference in UK session I'm leading with David Wilcox called " Demystifying Web 2.0 I asked Miles this question: There's a lot of media attention being paid to "Web 2.0" Understand how web 2.0 Sustainable?

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

The model for disseminating web content is evolving. Our latest Web Executive Seminar, “ Web Sites without Walls ,” featured four speakers who are helping change the landscape for content sharing. government to run a “ Show Us a Better Way ” contest. It also allowed the U.K.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

We're working with most web savvy audience. We announced a contest to create a game to address issue in Sudan. They can enter their map, their country, airports, demographics, etc. We decided to follow our artists and engage the audience on this issues. College students have led the fight on issues. Technorati Tags: 06-g4c

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest. Web Worker Daily describes five new jobs of the Web2.0 He also shares some process maps for donor management. (If Mossberg called " Web Video Beyond YouTube." CEO Kintera steps down.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

The social web makes it easy for your find people with exactly the same passion. Business Opportunities Web Blog Network. So, don't forget to include a link back to your blog your web site. Don't forget to include a link to your web site or blog (if you have one, but wait a minute.see next step). Hiring people.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We went from technology belonging to the IT staff, to new media belonging to the young intern, web savvy communications officer, and so on. From another perspective, there’s the side of our data that translates into APIs, maps, and info graphics. Community-sourcing is when you launch a contest or campaign to your community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

Amy Sample Ward and Holly Ross came up with the " Social Media for Social Good Case Study Contest " and did all the heavy lifting to make it happen. The maps are made by community members. I also promoted the session to people in my network who were not attending SXSW to participate via the hashtag, an example of real time web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Over a century after its inception, over 52,000 people in 1823 places across 17 countries participated in the Christmas Bird Count – using email, web sites, and social media tools. Ushahidi is an open source platform that facilitates crowdsourcing through the use of SMS/cellphones and online mapping. 2) Crowd Creation.

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Measure Fund Impact Minnesota 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

American Open Challenge is GlobalGiving's second online giving contest. You can read a case study about the winner of the first contest here. Okay, with all these contests perhaps you're worried about Cause Fatigue. Here's a systems way to think about the impact that such contests can create. Projects working in the U.S.

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Nptech Social Media Ning Media 91

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

As some of you know, part of my work is being the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that facilitates the adoption of social web tools by nonprofits and NGOs. Wikipedia defines a mashup as, "a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool."

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Mashup Netsquared Challenge San Jose 40

Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The majority of the executive departments and agencies opted to meet this requirement through the implementation of an open government public web site built on the IdeaScale platform. Standing User Experience & Design Resources for Web Pilots. In a Web 2.0 Vote for this Idea]. Department of Defense/USAID.

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Ideas Share Disaster Government 47

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

A little birdy told the web team "We should use a twitter stream". Carie Lewis, Humane Society of the US Carie's poem is about the Humane Society's experiments with photo contests and how to use metrics to improve your social media strategy. Spay Day Photo Contest Page LOL Seals 4. increase transparency about disaster response.

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ROI Social Media Slides Media 76

NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

OneWebDay provides an opportunity for communities to celebrate the power of the Web for positive change, to take action to protect what they value most about it, and to educate the public and policy-makers on the social, economic, and political impact of the Web. This year's theme -- One Web. Happy OneWebDay!

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Web Los Angeles San Diego Milwaukee 36

Care2

MAY 4, 2009

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) A solid Web site is a key (and maybe the No.

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Social Media Online Communication Media 76

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

It launched in October of 2007 with a very simple and understandable idea: to produce a global map of pieces of art made with stones on beaches. The project has not had any heavy marketing campaigns or contests associated with it. The World Beach Project does not exist in the V&A Museum. No one likes to have their time wasted.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Provided you set aside the time to explore and experiment, your nonprofit can use the tools listed below to significantly improve your web and email communications and your social media campaigns. BlueHost is w low-cost web and email hosting company with excellent customer service and free SSL Certificates. Social Media.

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Resource Tools Free Online 279

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2018

Provided you set aside the time to explore and experiment, your nonprofit can use the apps and tools listed below to significantly improve your web and email communications and your social media campaigns. Web & Email Content. Internet Archive Wayback Machine :: archive.org/web. Social Media. Buffer :: buffer.com.

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Mobile Tools Free Online 261

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 2, 2017

Provided you set aside the time to explore and experiment, your nonprofit can use the apps and tools listed below to significantly improve your web and email communications and your social media campaigns. Web & Email Content. Internet Archive Wayback Machine :: archive.org/web. Social Media. Buffer :: buffer.com.

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Mobile Tools Online Stats 273

Forum One

AUGUST 26, 2009

I'm very excited that our Datamasher web site is one of the three finalists in the Sunlight Foundation's " Apps for America 2 " Contest! Datamasher is a web site where anyone can "mash-up" two sets of Federal data about US States to create a custom indicator, which can then be viewed by all on a State-by-State map or chart.

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