Amy Sample Ward
FEBRUARY 1, 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). However, I want to highlight three data points that underscore a critical theme that my colleague David Armano and I detailed in our recent trends deck.
ASU Lodestar Center
JUNE 3, 2011
Backman and Smith have called commercialization a major trend with potentially portentous consequences for civil society. I think it's fascinating how current trends can be at complete variance with reality. The two trends may balance each other out when looking at sector-wide data. It is a fascinating phenomenon.
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Nonprofit Tech for Good
DECEMBER 3, 2020
However, to stand out from the other nearly one hundred million Facebook Pages vying for likes, comments, and shares, your nonprofit needs to excel at Facebook to ensure News Feed exposure. Their experience of your page will occur primarily in the News Feed. First impressions are important on social media.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 30, 2010
Charities outside the US can set up a profile. To generate a robust profile, your organization should be able to plug in existing social media presences (Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Blog RSS Feed, Etc) so it seems to favor organizations that have already established a social media content strategy. Is Jumo Worth The Hype?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 12, 2007
Kevin Gamble who reads more feeds than I do tweeted about this blog post by Stow Boyd. This is much like the motivation that drove instant messaging adoption: another trend that conventional business logic tried to stamp out. Technology providers also try to avoid getting seduced by the hype cycles. tool after Web 2.0
Nonprofit Tech for Good
APRIL 5, 2021
Known for having higher engagement than other social media, Instagram is evolving and it is becoming increasingly more difficult for nonprofits to get exposure in the Instagram Feed. In most cases, your avatar should not include text as it would be too small to read in the Instagram feed on a smartphone.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 27, 2007
Her blog is filled with insightful pieces that cut through the hype of new technologies and often ask the hard probing questions that haven't been asked. It's a good excuse to read lots of other people's blogs, and feed into the general nptech blogosphere, which is fun. It's really a soapbox, honestly. Aye, what a question.
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