Amy Sample Ward

MAY 11, 2009

At NTEN’s ‘09 Nonprofit Technology Conference a couple weeks ago, I participated in the Ignite Presentations which was a load of fun. Tags: events issues 09ntc innovation net2 netsquared nten. An Ignite presentation is a five minute presentation, with 20 slides that change automatically every 15 seconds.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

You’re probably asking for an amount that’s a stretch for you and it’s going to bring up all kinds of personal issues for you, especially if you have a negative mindset around money or wealthy people. Otherwise, it’s just a fun meeting. There’s nothing wrong with fun, but you need to be strategic in your work.

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Greater Giving

MAY 28, 2021

Throughout the program, they continued to hold raffles and a silent auction was opened prior to the start of the program so guests could explore the offerings and tag items with alerts so bidders wouldn’t miss bidding on their favorite prizes. The Results.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 14, 2009

She even crowdsourced some of the responses via Twitter - a fun way to get a bit more brain power out of the process of blogging! Tags: issues otherblogs adoption social media. She deals with these five questions: It’s not safe! What about the BU Craigslist killer? What if our biggest rival pretends to be us online?

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

No other platform offers the same huge global reach for promoting awareness of important, yet suppressed, issues. This campaign shows the power of social media for spreading awareness of important issues, rather than just for increasing donations. WaterAid’s campaign aimed to make a serious issue more fun.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

Tag friends in a post or comment on one of your posts. Tag your account in a story. This will ensure that your contest guidelines are watertight to avoid any rule-breaking issues. For many people, part of the fun of attending an event is documenting and sharing that experience on Instagram. Follow your Instagram account.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

MAY 12, 2020

The issues non-profits and charities deal with are normally very serious, and it can difficult to find fun in their work. Participants then had to tag some friends and challenge them to do the same. Non-profit campaigns don’t need to be upsetting! Here are 6 non-profit campaigns that took a more lighthearted approach.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Tags: events issues digitalengagement digitalinclusion socialbysocial. Here’s what came out of each session: Session #1 Word Cloud: COMMUNITY. What’s of interest? Existing Communities. Stereotypes. Individual Level. Participate. Creative Approach. Visible Benefits. Session #2 Word Cloud: Relevant Content. Individuals.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Tags: events issues digitalengagement digitalinclusion socialbysocial. Here’s what came out of each session: Session #1 Word Cloud: COMMUNITY. What’s of interest? Existing Communities. Stereotypes. Individual Level. Participate. Creative Approach. Visible Benefits. Session #2 Word Cloud: Relevant Content. Individuals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. Serious reflections from Phil Klein and some fun. Just A Few Good Resources Plucked from the NpTech Tag Stream and Kikino. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Since we moved over here just 3 months ago, I knew that my birthday wasn’t going to be spent with all my friends from home (we are going to travel a bit though, so it’ll still be a fun day!). just after sending in the message about the issue, he let me know they were aware of the problem and were working on it 2.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 24, 2009

Not a fun Friday. And it appears some posts have formatting issues now they didn’t before. I opened a support ticket after the site was restored, and a few hours later got this response: I consulted with our admin staff about this issue. Tags: WordPress Blogging. I couldn’t log in to wp-admin. Was I hacked?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Oakland Local is a news & community site for Oakland, CA, USA, focusing on social justice issues including climate change, air quality, food access, arts as activists, and identity, race & ethnicity. It is fun and interesting work and I’ll probably be blogging more and more about it soon. Oakland Local is launching today!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

The resulting curriculum which will live on this wiki and will also cover important organizational adoption issues, strategy, ROI analysis, as well as the tools. lends itself to having people discuss these issues--i.e., That way these issues are framed as discussion topics that might invite more participation. Set a time-frame.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Create lists so that you can easily add people as you connect with them, and set your privacy settings to some secure options like none of your photos or photos that you are tagged in are visible to people in your “work only” list. After all, some of this is supposed to be for fun, right?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 5, 2009

The “Swine Flu” scare was fun, wasn’t it? This umbrella organization would require time for consideration and input from its members and wouldn’t necessarily be in-tune with the communities or cultures actually touched by the issues. This, again, holds true for organizations working on social change issues. Check it out here!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. Marshall Kirkpatrick points us a tag 'PrezConference" for YouTube users to record their questions for the candidates on YouTube. For others, the concept of ???public public information??? The 5 Site Guide Web 2.0

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 18, 2017

OpenAIR is an online event that provides mission-based organizations both with a new, professionally designed, accessible website that accommodates all visitors, and with expanded awareness about accessibility issues. It's a lot of fun! The event is open to nonprofits, NGOs, charities, schools, and others.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 4, 2009

As you can see from the summary sheet above - click here for larger - the sequence was: we all brainstormed the characteristics of a south London borough, with its share of unemployment, health and housing issues, transport problems plus some very positive community activity on the arts front. Social by Social game cards.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 3, 2009

Along with all the usual preparations any parent of a 13 year-old goes through, we are also dealing with a Bat Mitzvah child with Autism going to a school where her classmates (and party guests) all have similar issues. Turns out that she has all sorts of issues with her feet and balance. Tags: Life. Is this another false start?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

It can be fun to do on your own (like at NTC 2011 ), but it can have real benefits for your organization too. Is it to bring attention to a certain issue? At my organization, we try and limit our live-tweeting to cover events that align well with our key issues and messaging. Tag Team. Tags: NPTech NTEN.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2010

Something I like to encourage when this is a constraining issue, is for groups to create a new title that the collaboration or partnership can use to describe the work. —– Thanks again to Allyson Kapin and the Frogloop blog for providing this fun opportunity to guest post ! And what’s the comeback line?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Says Giller, “Environmentalists will lecture you much about how the polar bears on the Arctic ice cap are so hopeless that you’ll want to jump off the iceberg yourself or ignore the issue. We view our social media channels as a fun on ramp to our ladder of engagement. It means we have to be nimble and responsive.”.

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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. Security issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2009

(You can follow on Twitter – @djwesto and @t­_box , and of course @15andcounting) We exchanged resources and opinions at a furious and fun pace. . She got me started thinking along this line at a networks meeting where she was encouraging the branding of issues, instead of specific organizations. Tags: network effectiveness.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

You can learn more about the workshop and the issues seniors face with social media in the interview below. Here is a fun video from a class they taught here at CCTV the following year. Tags: interview communitys resources seniors social media. As a result, we have grown a vibrant and diverse online community.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

Last week, I had a fun time moderating the June #4Change Twitter Chat on Online Community Building. Note on platform : During last week’s Twitter chat, not unlike previous chats, we dealt with some major issues around lag and load time. From @winwinapps: Make it fun. real time, and 2. co-created. From @neddotom: recap 1.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Pick one social networking profile and keep it entirely for fun and your personal life. Whether you want to use Facebook or another social networking site for fun, I strongly recommend keeping one profile where your personality can really come through. Tags: Uncategorized Facebook MySpace Twitter. This an important one.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 19, 2009

These social change projects rely on communities coming together to succeed (whether they are identified by a shared geography, issue, cause, or personal characteristic) in making a real difference in our world. Tags: community future obama socialchange mlkday events. Yes We Can.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

You are a non-stop roller coaster of fun and effective things that we get to learn from. Who would have thought that a bunch of folks from all over the world, working on all kinds of issues, and with nothing in common except a tendency toward the geek would be able to do so much? Tags: Data Leadership NPTech NTEN. I'm thankful.

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NTEN

MAY 24, 2010

Now the fun starts: the public debate. Here are a few recent resources on the topic: The New York Times does a great job summarizing the issue and why it's so important. Tags: free press Leadership net neutrality savetheinternet. The Washington Post takes a different view altogether. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2010

Britt Bravo's Have Fun, Do Good Blog. It is designed to do more than deliver content on the issue of hunger in Central Texas, it also has interactive components such as a game featuring a virtual "Kitchen Cupboard," where users can stock their kitchen shelves with healthy, non-perishable food items they've caught. Great NonProfits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. What fun is that for me or them? Here’s where I had a lot of fun pulling up screen shots of participants Web and Social Media outposts. Connecting With New Colleagues. Conversational Key Note.

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Forum One

AUGUST 11, 2009

Second, the Sunlight Foundation hosts a series of Apps for America contests inviting web initiatives addressing public policy issues. Contests are also great for participants because they can push innovation, assist marketing, and are fun. Tags: Collaboration. The first of these attracted 45 entries (Forum One came in second!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Mark is calling attention to our issue in an innovative way and is someone we need to connect with. We’re on the same team, we’re trying to call attention to the same issue. I hope you’ll spend the three minutes to watch and listen to the video – both Mark and Christian articulated the issues so well.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 2, 2007

I promise in April I’ll be right on time (oooohh, that could be fun, April Blogtipping on April fools day …) By the way, I think blogtipping is a great idea for our sector, and it’s a great way for me to think more about all of the blogs that I read. I like JP’s take on the development side of nonprofit issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2012

Participants’ willingness to put these kinds of issues on the table furthered everyone’s learning much more than if I had formulated the questions. We’ve all found that this “anytime, anywhere” professional development is incredibly valuable, accessible and fun for the 200+ members of the Book Club.

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