Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Social networks and social media has busted out of the marketing communications and fundraising silos and changing the way nonprofits deliver programs, manage, and even govern. governing through networks. Fast forward to 2009, Wendy led a process internally to create a social media guidelines and operational handbook.

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Network Nonprofit Guidelines Social Media 173

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2009

BE a Government Consultant and Use Social Media: A Guide | Social Media Strategery – Here's an interesting post from Steve Radick about 10 ways to be a good government consultant using social media. "As " Tags: roundup bookmarks. These are some links I wanted to share from October 28th. ″ consultants."

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Tanzania Web San Jose Government 105

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2009

BE a Government Consultant and Use Social Media: A Guide | Social Media Strategery - Here's an interesting post from Steve Radick about 10 ways to be a good government consultant using social media. "As " Tags: roundup bookmarks. These are some links I wanted to share from October 28th. Find me on Delicious for more!

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Tanzania Web San Jose Government 105

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

One is on the idea of government 2.0, or government-as-a-platform. The second is on whether the net is better for campaigning than governing. She has trained thousands of causes in effective marketing and media relations, and her marketing materials for nonprofits have won national and international awards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

Speakers: Douglas Thomas, USC Center on Public Diplomacy Hardy Merriman, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict Stephen Friedman, MTV U Douglas Thomas: We're closet gamers. Hardy Merriman - International Center on Nonviolent Force more power - strategic nonviolent theory. Technorati Tags: 06-g4c Will clean up later.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 10, 2009

But what would happen if funders thought of themselves primarily as performance investors and relied on a mix of internal, external and independent researchers to prove program effectiveness?" " FutureGov Network - Carrie Bishop's at the Google Local Government event in London today and tweeting and blogging from inside.

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Web Bookmarking Delicious Government 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 20, 2010

Universities and government labs encouraging their technology transfer offices to make social licenses of new technology. Wealthy country governments (and their corporate constituents) being more open to limitations and exceptions treaties and policies at the World Intellectual Property Organization. *

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Across the ocean and the international date line, there is an organization doing amazing nonprofit technology work -- Connecting Up Australia. Tags: conference connecting up australia aspiration cu11 11ntc. Scholarships are return economy class airfares from the. of $500 in local currency towards accommodation and meals. How amazing.

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Technology Australia Registration NTEN 93

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

This summer, the Financial Times of London ran a very interesting profile piece on the founder of ESRI , the company that makes professional mapping software that has been so useful to nonprofit environmentalist organizations like Conservation International and international relief organizations like the Pacific Disaster Center.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

This historical ruling has established forced disappearance as a crime in Guatemala and provided government prosecutors with a key legal precedent needed to investigate higher ranking officers for their possible role in the case. Tags: HRP Guzmán impunity HRDAG human rights Guatemala. You can read more about the verdict here.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 29, 2010

million documents in the archive produced from 1960 to 1996 contain critical information about police operations during Guatemala's 36 years of internal armed conflict during which an estimated 200,000 people were killed or disappeared. Tags: Guzmán archive National Police Archive human rights trial Guatemala disappeances.

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Guatemala Statistics National Analysis 145

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

This week, TechSoup Global/Guidestar International's Keisha Taylor has been participating in the Internet Governance Forum in Vilnius, Lithuania. Tags: Event. Read all of Keisha's blog posts and follow other coverage on the IGF social reporting aggregator.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 27, 2017

The government also became much more involved in social and cultural welfare programs. In 1969, the Tax Reform Act gave us Section 501(c)3 in the Internal Revenue Service Code, which said that every charity in the U.S. This gave them greater voice in the government. Don’t be afraid of Uncle Sam.

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History Learning Organization Vietnam 60

Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. Open Government Data. 7 Ways Companies Are Using the Government's Open Data. It originally appeared on NetSquared.

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Data Campaign Storytelling Social 52

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 7, 2009

However these conversations are less international and therefore less effective than they could be. From new forms of political campaigning in the United States, experiments in e-government and civic participation in England, from the fight against internet censorship in Australia and New Zealand and from start-ups in Canada and France.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. Counterproposals have been made, governments have been engaging with rights holders, consumers and NGOs (or not!)

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Accessibility Global Copyright Law 133

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 9, 2009

However these conversations are less international and therefore less effective than they could be. From new forms of political campaigning in the United States, experiments in e-government and civic participation in England, from the fight against internet censorship in Australia and New Zealand and from start-ups in Canada and France.

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Conversation Australia New Zealand France 100

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 17, 2009

Silos Culture Inside the Walls of Nonprofits Prevent Effective Social Media Use - Beth Kanter's post about internal silos in nonprofits reminds me of a post and the ensuing conversation that happened in the comments on my blog about a month ago. open source applications for helping make the government more transparent from Sunlight Labs.

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Web Bookmarking Chicago Delicious 100

Robert Weiner

JANUARY 22, 2010

Complaints from internal and external audiences will be frequent, perhaps the norm (until people get so fed up they no longer bother to complain and simply work around you). Tags: Advancement Services. You'll spend all your time fighting fires and won't be able to get to anything that's not an emergency.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2010

Even though Singapore is far more developed in terms of economic measures than our last location, Hanoi, Vietnam and it has a government that is very hands-on in addressing social issues, the NGOs are still very active and in need of resources in both funds and IT capacity. Tags: Digital Divide Event International.

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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 Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. For others, the concept of ???public

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Social Network Nptech Tag Summary 50

Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 8, 2009

According to Mark Rovner and Alia McKee of Sea Change Strategies who led the recent webinar Procrastinator’s Guide to Year-End Fundraising with Kathryn Powers of Conservation International and moderated by Eric Rardin of Care2 and Rebecca Higman of Network of Good, this tactic has been helping organizations raise a lot of money.

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Web Howto Bookmarking Google 102

Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Heading Tags. Image Alt Tag. Internal Link Building. This is because the closer your keyword is to the title tag the more weight it carries with search engines. You won’t always be able to include your keyword at the beginning of the title, but at the very least you should include it within the <title> tag.

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Beginner Digital Marketing Guide 91

Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2007

It’s called Tag this Image! Tagging,” or assigning descriptors to pictures, websites, and other content on the internet, is a huge trend in 2.0. with web pages, or on blogs with posts, tagging makes organization of items and search of them easier. Tagging is useful. Separately at your own computers, you tag images.

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Game Tag Fun NSF 20

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

We discussed Chafee, especially in the context of the Amazon text-to-speech brouhaha, and the proposed international treaty that was tabled at the WIPO SCCR meeting in Geneva last month. Of course, if there is an international treaty on the topic and the U.S. These seems to be an important part of international copyright law.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

I was honored to be invited to cover this year’s Global Philanthropy Forum , a community of donors and social investors committed to international causes. 3) Social Network Analysis of the #GPF13 tag during the discussion created by Marc Smith. Kirkpatrick gave an overview of how data is being used for international development.

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Philanthropy Global Data Indonesia 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Instagram, the popular Millennial photo sharing site, is gaining traction with world leaders, government leaders and nonprofit executive directors. His photo and commentary and use the hash tags facilitates visibility and connection to this audience target. Visibility. Specialization.

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Personal Create Photography Museum 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2009

. International Planned Parenthood Federation has an office on an alley in the Bermondsey section of London. The 15 refers to both the fiscal promises made by governments in 1994 at the International Conference on Population and Development ( ICPD ) and the age of the young people who need these services, who were born that year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

It made me think of the phrase "Opening the Kimono" which is a vivid metaphor for organization transparency, sharing internal processes with the outside world. Some questions: What does transparency mean from a marketing/fundraising perspective as well as institutional/governance perspective? Tags: transparency.

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Social Media Open Case Study Meme 74

DNL OmniMedia

JUNE 8, 2023

Whether you’re a government organization, professional association, international corporation, or nonprofit, events can be a major factor in your success. To identify native solutions, look for the “Native App” tag under “More Details” on the app’s Salesforce product listing. Understand your event’s needs.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2010

Our incredible staff there have worked with corporate partners, trusted foundations, and key government agences in Poland and throughout Europe to expand the reach and benefits of technology for NGOs and social sectors. Tags: International News.

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Poland Global San Francisco People 43

Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

For more: International Fundraising on The Baudcast (Podcast). NCVO is a highly effective lobbying organisation and represents the views of its members, and the wider voluntary sector to government, the European Union and other bodies. Birthday Cause Wrapped Up. Social Networks for Fundraising. Learn more about the NCVO here.

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Social Media Interaction Government Case Study 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

But even more fun was this video interview with the good folks at the Gifts In Kind International who I ran into in the lobby and they pulled out their copy of the book and shared a few thoughts about they’re applying the ideas. Tags: Housekeeping. The Portland Arts and Culture Social Media Convening Workshop.

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Network Japan San Antonio Portland 95

Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

Establish a Commission to study and improve how the federal government, nonprofits, and the private sector work together to meet national challenges effectively. Support short-term international service opportunities and strengthen the Volunteers for Prosperity program, which supports short-term international service opportunities.

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America National Service Americorp 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Yesterday at the Packard Foundation, as part of a series of "deeper dives" to learn about networks and social media, Eugene Eric Kim of Blue Oxen Associates gave a talk about "Networks in an International Context." . Networks in an International Context. His slides and my notes and reflections follow. 1) Everybody is People.

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Forum One

MARCH 8, 2009

web projects we think the federal government should fund. By civic infrastructure we mean online services which: -help people and government understand and address important social problems; -will be a platform to support or catalyze the innovative work of others to address these problems; -will provide benefits very broadly ?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

For government, they offered reams of paper showing that they were following the letter of the law in the use of their grants. Much of this had to do with the tradition(s) charities inherited from both government and from their own forbearers. Tags: NPTech NTEN transparency Fundraising. July 4, 2010 [link] ; and Golding, Bruce.

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