Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Nonprofit Technology Link Love July 30, 2008 Here are posts from a small sampling of bloggers I regularly read: Holly Ross shows her geek cred in a great post about DNS.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2010

I had no idea when I agreed to the mentor gig that there would be something like this I actually know something (a lot) about. It’s great to see someone who is not yet 20 with many creative ideas about how to help, and the drive to make it happen. A veritable intellectual and social smorgasbord!

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2009

“Amy Sample Ward&# or “Billy Bicket&# - putting this in the search term area of the alert means that any time Billy’s name (the NetSquared Director) or my own (the NetSquared Global Community Development Manager) is mentioned online, I will get alerted. With Netvibes you can create tabs to help organize all these feeds, too!

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

However, with a bit of creativity and determination, there are plenty of cheap fundraiser ideas that can help you reach your goals. Affordable Ideas for Your Nonprofit’s Next Fundraiser In this blog post, we’ve curated a list of 27 affordable fundraising ideas specifically tailored for nonprofits.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Speaker: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. The idea of collaboration in this sense can manifest in many ways: adapting strategies to work collaboratively, leveraging platforms that allow for collaboration across organizational lines, creating new and larger demand for open products and services. " test, it's here.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

However, although the format is pretty standard, I’m sure the ideas will be highly creative. The green budget points are for engagement cards, yellow for tools, red for funding. The green budget points are for engagement cards, yellow for tools, red for funding. We’ve tweaked the cards from the last play, as you can see below.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

However, although the format is pretty standard, I’m sure the ideas will be highly creative. The green budget points are for engagement cards, yellow for tools, red for funding. The green budget points are for engagement cards, yellow for tools, red for funding. We’ve tweaked the cards from the last play, as you can see below.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2018

We were joined by a great group of panelists from across the sector: Amy Sample Ward, CEO, Nonprofit Technology Network. If you’d like a quick rundown of the topics covered, we’ve compiled the biggest ideas from the panel discussion. Cheryl Contee, CEO, Fission Strategy, Sausalito, CA. War child UK. Splash.org.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

It was a rich discussion and it doesn’t stop here – use the link below to review the full transcript and share your discussions points or ideas in the comments. Shalena Broadnax: Echoing Green is operating in a relatively new space for us—deepening our online community engagement. Review the full chat transcript!

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Tech Soup

MAY 2, 2013

Hi friends, I've been inspired by this community for a long time - from being mentored by Britt Bravo when first starting a little Net2 chapter in Vancouver (which Elijah van der Giessen and team have turned into something huge and magnificently helpful), to being inspired by Amy Sample Ward to grow conversations and dig deeper.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

John McElhenney - Clear Green Technologies. Started with mega trends of social media and green living. The nexus of social media and green living: brands that combine the two, like good2gether, knowmore, givingpal, justmeans, causecast, kiba, ecoflip, blog action day, donorschoose, changents, wikigreen, greenhome. Jon Lebkowsky.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2009

Yesterday’s post for Earth Day, about social media and the energy/climate change/green movement is already getting some tremendously insightful and interesting comments. So that got me thinking about the idea of cause fatigue. I can’t wait to hear your ideas on this and to share mine, too. What do you think?

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

The idea goes back to 1995, when Alice Waters, the pioneer of the “slow food” movement and owner of Chez Panisse Restaurant, created the first “edible schoolyard” in a vacant lot near the Martin Luther King Middle School in Berkeley, California. A nice idea?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

Use Scientific Methods: These include having a significant sample size, randomly selected groups and some split testing. Here is a case study of Red versus Green. Here’s some more ideas. The focus of your test will be challenging this one thing, everything else needs to remain the same during your testing.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 17, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of March 17th). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

When you approach any of those activities, any of the work we do in this sector, with the idea that truly everyone has something to contribute, the way you speak, the way you interact, and the way you lead changes – and changes into something powerful and contagious. I see this work in public maps like Open Green Map.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. "A recent Reuter’s article: Top Ten Trends in Sustainable Business, focuses on the best trends in “green business,&# I’m struck by how many of the points are applicable to sustainable social media.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Worldchanging: Bright Green: Worldchanging Interview: Jean Russell on Thrivability - Great interview with Jean Russell at Worldchanging! If you aren't using the micro-blogging tool at your organization, you can read some of the interviews with others who are to get some ideas! Find me on Delicious for more!

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. [Ed. Amy Sample Ward” or “Billy Bicket” - putting this in the search term area of the alert means that any time Billy’s name (the NetSquared Director) or my own (the NetSquared Global Community Development Manager) is mentioned online, I will get alerted. You can read all the details here. ].

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

With technology improving, virtual and hybrid events rising in popularity, and new event ideas coming to fruition, it can be hard to determine the best fundraising event that aligns with your audience, goals, and overall mission. 100+ Fundraising Event Ideas to Try Out. Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Global Giving's " Giving Made Green " launched last week and was written up in the New York Times. 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 writes about the new plugin launched by Social Actions that will place ???

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? skip to main | skip to sidebar Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership Welcome! How To Improve Customer Service With The Telephone.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Learn more about how to be "green" at work, and at home, by picking up a copy of The Green Book for $5. Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

Who : Facilitating: Amy Sample Ward | NetSquared; Billy Bicket | NetSquared. This marketplace of ideas will be filled with simultaneous presentations and hands-on demos, and includes the conference’s Opening Reception. Event Space Hacks: Two great ideas, unlimited open dialogue with peers. Thursday, April 8, 2010.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

There's a lot of resources, ideas, and discussion over at Stop Cyberbullying Site. The sampling of some of the top rated resources this week: Death Threats Are Not Protected Speech. Today is Stop Cyberbullying Day. Here's what some nonprofit technology bloggers posted - Paul Lamb , Allison Fine , and Deborah Finn. It's moved.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Sunday, August 22, 2010 5 Tips For Generating Ideas From Employees Your employees have lots of ideas. And, when you are brainstorming with your employees, try these five tips: Encourage ALL ideas.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Tuesday, April 20, 2010 Welcome Ideas At Any Time From Anyone Great ideas for your business can come at anytime from anyone on your team. How To Improve Customer Service With The Telephone.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Thursday, August 12, 2010 Go Old School.Use A Flip Chart For Gathering Ideas Heres a great idea from communications consultant, speaker and author David Grossman : And, yes its old school.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 8, 2007

Around you, people sampled grapefruit wedges, stacked cabbage, selected pears. I have no idea when the first one happened, if it ever did. Why isn’t Al Green coming over the mental stereo in the museum? You cried, the cat ran out of the room, etc. The blowout in the grocery store. But the second one? Costco, January 2003.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

The panelists were Holly Ross , Amy Sample Ward , David Neff , and Kari Dunn Saratovsky. We used a broad definition of crowd sourcing, simply stated as: Getting ideas, content, volunteer tasks, money, or other things from a wide swath of people. And that’s good thing for solving complex social problems with innovative ideas.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 25, 2022

We are in our fifth year of supporting students in Green County, and this year we will help more than 350 high school juniors and seniors achieve their college dreams. . The original seven students we started with are now in the workforce.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

As you can read below, Green Mountain Coffee and JustMeans have partnered up for the Change Climate Change contest. Green Mountain Coffee will provide four grants for $200,000 each (payable over 5 years) to support the work of reducing climate change. Key Dates: February 16th: Call for idea submissions and full proposals.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 19, 2022

Did you hit the green button? So you now have an idea of how significant givers and prospects think. Your communications package can include an annual report, a sample newsletter that goes to your constituents, or a publication that goes to other donors, or a link to a video essay about your activities and constituent success.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? skip to main | skip to sidebar Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership Welcome! How To Improve Customer Service With The Telephone.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? skip to main | skip to sidebar Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership Welcome! How To Improve Customer Service With The Telephone.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? Hopefully, the tips and ideas youll read in the Blog will help you to become a true leader.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 18, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Allow enough time for sharing samples of his work and for Q&A. Plus, they often generate some creative idea sharing that can boost productivity. Activities like these help your team to bond.

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