Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 3, 2009

"we20 meetings will create people plans, policy plans, business plans and other plans on local, national and global issues. " Tags: roundup bookmarks. Facebook | we20 - the best reason to get your friends together this year - Do you know about the we20 project? A great example of organizing on the social web. "we20

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

Time to start thinking of us as partners in your quest for global domination of the Internet, not just puppets. All the major case studies are about large national and international organizations, and their success on Facebook has a lot to do with their brand being well known. This is a new policy development.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2010

It’s the nation’s leading progressive advocacy and campaign training program and it’s quietly and forcefully redefining the way campaigns are run and social change happens. — Global Neighbourhoods – When everyone wants a bit of the social media juice, having a strategy and usage policy become even more important.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Policy-oriented organizations have long produced dizzying amounts of statistical content. In the past, rows and rows of data would die a quick death in thick policy reports or inscrutable spreadsheets. At the heart of most issue-focused policy and research is data analysis. Kurt Voelker, Forum One Communications.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2010

This week, several TechSoup Global staffers are participating in Foundation Week in Brussels. Tags: Event. This post comes from GuideStar International chair Buzz Schmidt. Originally publised on the GuideStar International Blog.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2010

Several TechSoup Global staffers recently participated in Foundation Week in Brussels. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is an international convention setting out the civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights of children. Tags: Event. This post comes from executive assistant Janet Yao.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 15, 2009

They're debating climate change agreements and working to create a new set of global policies to help reduce climate change and its many negative impacts. Elliot wrote about the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 and it's potential importance to nonprofits on Blog Action Day in October.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Ranger Rick, the persona of the National Wildlife Federation , has been banished from Facebook! Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. Found via this post tagged nptech by Meghan. " I agree.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

national experience. The Amazon Text-to-Speech issue This one has gotten a lot of press, especially since the National Federation of the Blind and the Reading Rights Coalition has formed to fight the soundproofing of books on the Kindle2. be against duplicating in the world a policy approach that is used here with great success?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2013

I found out about how big a deal Glasspockets is when I attended a local Foundation Technology Affinity Group (TAG) meeting of Northern California foundation techies who kept talking about Glasspockets projects like the hGrant Online Reporting Project , and the Transparency Talk blog. ” by TechSoup Global’s Kyle Reis.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

There are TONS of climate activisits and organizations on Twitter - spreading news, policy alerts, new developments, and ideas. This is a great example of providing a real, authentic voice to a global issue. How could the platform also integrate policy items as well as education and action items to get people involved?

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

and around the world, many organizations (especially ones with Enterprise IT Departments) harbor serious reservations with respect to workplace use of external social networking sites by employees: Deloitte : 6th Annual Global Security Survey found that 53% of its respondent businesses (i.e. Acquisition Controls.?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 14, 2009

We have a global economic meltdown. And we have this thing called the global climate crisis. We have political leaders with an active interest in changing the status quo— for finding innovative and scalable solutions to the challenges facing our cities, states, nation and the world. I thought that would be news to you.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2010

The conference, "One Year After Cairo," brought in scholars and political experts from all over the world to discuss policy, politics, socio-economic conditions and business from all walks of the Muslim world, including Farah Pandith , Special Representative to Muslim Communities, from the U.S.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

As always, there’s plenty more news like how Facebook’s news feed policy is not good news for charities, how smartphone kill switch legislation will affect your organization, how things like your own perspiration will run your phone someday and some more NPTech quick hits. Facebook’s Problematic News Feeds.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Actions and messages were contextualized based on the issues and discussions taking place at both the global and local level. You want to be weary of hero worship in a movement, but that’s addressed by constantly changing out the spotlight – shining a light on people, partners, organizations and policy makers, actions local and global.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

That estimate comes from Noy Shoung, deputy general of human capacity building at the government's National Information Communications Technology Development Authority ( NIDA ), the government agency that oversees the country's telecommunication policy. Technorati Tags: cambodia nptech Maybe Tharum might be interested?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

David Saski from Global Voices summarized her presentation: Dee Dee's 10 minute introduction to why she blogs and what she got out of it put a big smile on my face. Yet, quite contrast to another view of mine, Cambodia is not in a very need of BLOG or modern Technology while more than half of the nation???s Cross posted at BlogHer

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

Readers are asked to go to Starbucks and ask for a cup of fair trade coffee to see if Starbucks sticks with the policy advertised on their web site: They will French press a cup of Fair Trade coffee for anyone who asks for it. View the National Memorial for the Mountains on Google Earth. Other tools used: * Starbuckschallenge del.icio.us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

Each story enters a Sense Making System (a web service and software provided by Cognitive Edge, a global network of practitioners dedicated to helping create meaning and sense in complex situations). We can see the larger regional or national view. . Tags: engagement guest blogging. Then what it means is extracted.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 20, 2008

Now, a day and two thousand miles from the closing ceremony, I realize I was lucky enough to participate in a very special kind of conference, one which deals specifically with the global politics of science centers. Casual discussions were steeped in government policies, national literacy rates, and worldwide attitudes towards science.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

Temra Costa's book, Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat features the stories of over 30 women and how they are changing our food system for the better as farmers, educators, mothers, chefs, businesswomen, and policy wonks. It's an eye-opening thing, college. You are exposed to new information. They traveled. It's pretty amazing.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 9, 2007

I talked with Jodie Van Horn, a campaigner for Rainforest Action Network 's Freedom From Oil campaign, and the coordinator for Plug-In Bay Area about the plug-in campaign in the Bay Area as well as the national Freedom from Oil Campaign. Below is a transcript from the interview, which you can also listen to on the Big Vision Podcast.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

Consider, for example, exhibits on global warming. But visitors aren't making national policy; they're learning. Tags: informatics design. Content-wise, we are so interested in connecting the dots that we don't allow the kind of open-ended exploration that Name Voyager provides.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

Also, I would pay attention to the titling and tagging of videos when you are uploading them. This Is Why Im Hot" instead of "Global Warming is Serious") or interesting tags can increase the number of people who click on your video. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply. Often, an effective title (e.g.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

Also, I would pay attention to the titling and tagging of videos when you are uploading them. This Is Why Im Hot" instead of "Global Warming is Serious") or interesting tags can increase the number of people who click on your video. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply. Often, an effective title (e.g.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Without getting too deeply in the weeds, 21st Century Skills is a phrase that has gained a lot of traction in US policy circles around education and workforce development. Tags: evaluation children's museums exhibition design professional development.

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Forum One

APRIL 27, 2009

Last weekend I had the pleasure of attending the 6th annual global health conference sponsored by a dynamic young group called Unite for Site at Yale University. They provide a number of free software tools for policy and decision making. Tags: Global Health. Bobby Jefferson of Futures Group International talked about ?Building

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

But the one universal global thing is that data, data is just bad. It’s a donor management software policies and procedures template that Bloomerang and I kind of co-created and worked on together. So some things you can do is NCOA, National Change of Address on your database. So this webinar is absolutely critical.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

She’s one of our great forward-thinking people at TechSoup Global. She just did a presentation to the Gates Global Libraries Working Group in November 2013 on the top tech trends for libraries. It is a large nonprofit and the largest funder of legal aid for low-income Americans in the nation. Peter Campbell. John Merritt.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 19, 2021

And I started a young professionals board, the National Women’s Political Caucus of Metro St. This is from my experience working with a young professionals board, being a millennial and serving on them, as well as, especially, I founded a young professionals board for the National Women’s Political Caucus of Metro St.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Panelists include: Susan Pointer, Google’s Director of Public Policy & Government Relations. Annabelle Sreberny, Professor of Global Media and Communication, School of Oriental and African Studies (with special interest in Iran, bloggers & social media). Kevin Anderson, blogs editor of the Guardian.

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