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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

For example, if someone might be in a worried state while browsing your site, intense colors like red or orange won’t help them; it would be better to choose calming colors like blues and greens. If you offer many different paths on your site, a good strategy is to let users pick their own way forward. In practice: 1) Freely in Hope.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Speaker: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Green is my favorite color, I grew up in the country (like frogs), and I think I'm pretty good at being a wrangler of characters. :). Tags: 10NTC amy sample ward Community NPTech Social Media Program. We're asking them all to share their answers to five very important questions.

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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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Tech Soup

JANUARY 10, 2012

The sample size is. sample of organizations. What We Found in the Comments We asked organizations to share the apps they are currently using, as well as their wishlist apps in the comments, and here's a sampling of what. We had some requests for more detailed survey results, so here they are! This lines up fairly well with.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Now, my business has grown to include several lines of organic cotton prints, and I try to keep it as green as I can, recycling, composting, minimizing waste and energy use and reducing transportation whenever possible.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2010

The Waste Concern approach creates good jobs for waste pickers, keeps the city clean, reduces green house gases, and prevents corruption (the auditing process for carbon credits is rigorous and doesn’t leave much room for funny business). They just need software to help cities understand the size of their challenges around these issues.

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Care2

MAY 8, 2012

Don't miss the panels Using Technology and Social Media to Build Social Movements with Amy Sample Ward of NTEN, Michael Silberman of Green Peace International, Claire Diaz Ortiz of Twitter, and April Pedersen of Salsa Labs.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 14, 2022

Blue and green are cool, calming colors that work great for outdoorsy, environmental nonprofits. Write some sample content for your website and request feedback from someone who is a great writer as well as friends and family members who don’t know anything about your organization. Colors: Colors are so important. They invoke a mood.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

There are too many visionaries in the article for me to list them all here, but here's a sampling, with links to their blogs: Political digital artist and print maker, Favianna Rodriguez. Sustainable South Bronx's blog, Green the Ghetto. Founder of Americans for Informed Democracy , Seth Green. WattzOn.com's blog, What's On?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The green budget points are for engagement cards, yellow for tools, red for funding. We’ll set a budget for green and yellow, that has to be matched by red. We’ve tweaked the cards from the last play, as you can see below. Each card has an image (so they don’t all look the same), a description, and budget points from 1-3.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The green budget points are for engagement cards, yellow for tools, red for funding. We’ll set a budget for green and yellow, that has to be matched by red. We’ve tweaked the cards from the last play, as you can see below. Each card has an image (so they don’t all look the same), a description, and budget points from 1-3.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2022

Whether you use Little Green Light or Bloomerang , and whether it was $5 or $5,000, their name, giving history, and contact information get you started getting to know them. Here is a sample checklist: Set marketing goals, Thursday, May 19. And make sure to get permission to share the story if it reveals the person’s identity.

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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. It’s time for a frank discussion on the role each and every one of us—from leadership to board, database managers to finance teams—can and must play to foster an open, innovative culture of philanthropy. War child UK.

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NTEN

MARCH 11, 2010

All three session designers (myself, Ivan Boothe, Amy Sample Ward) have a background in community organizing, have run successful community organizing campaigns, and offer expertise in the field of social media. . He's the cute green frog you just want to hug. What's the one thing you want attendees to remember from your session?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 7, 2009

Our tea hostess also told us about Numi's newest product line of organic puerh tea , and gave us some free samples to take home. The next time you want to take a staycation, why not pick a theme for your adventures like bakery sampling, or a bookstore tour, or picnics in public green spaces, or city landmark exploration?

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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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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. 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

MAY 20, 2009

" DemocracyInAction Green Grants - DemocracyInAction Green Empowers grants provide organizations with the Salsa platform for free. The goal is for funders and nonprofits to explore strategies and share solutions for the future. Apply by filling out the application on their site.

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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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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Gardening package Appeal to supporters with green thumbs by creating a gardening package with items like: Seeds Gloves A gardening book A gardening hat You could even include a free consultation with a master gardener who can help the winner ensure their garden is in tip-top shape.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Local gardening experts can have the chance to demonstrate their green thumb and teach others in workshops that cover topics such as organic gardening, composting, or urban gardening. Your attendees can buy tickets to bring their favorite dishes to share and sample other supporters’ cooking skills.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 4, 2009

I'm telling you, this is just a sampling. Better yet, why not give the gift of time to your family, and to an organization, by volunteering at a local nonprofit together during the holidays? OK, here are the lists.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

But with increased testing and heightened security, and many other demands on schools and teachers today, are gardens just a green frill, or are they a good use of a school’s time and money? A nice idea? The anecdotal stories are compelling: benefits overwhelmingly outweigh the costs in the usual cherry-picked examples.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

My two closest peers in California have both gotten MacArthurs (Victoria Hale this year and David Green two years ago). The first step in the process of assessing these documents was a pilot project to sample them. The great news is how much attention social entrepreneurship is getting.

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NTEN

JUNE 29, 2009

From the interwebs this week, I've heard about these NTEN members doing their nptechie-thing: Amy Sample Ward reports on the new opportunity on YouTube to connect nonprofits with video volunteers, with the help of allforgood.org. Nonprofits can submit needs; video-savvy volunteers can connect with a cause.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 25, 2007

It's just a sampler of do good bloggers (please don't be sad if I didn't include you, it's a sampler ), links to blog search engines, links to blog feed readers, and links to blog software platforms. Getcha Grub On Give and Take *A Roundup of nonprofit blogs by the Chronicle of Philanthropy (check out the blogroll in the right column).

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Shalena Broadnax: Echoing Green is operating in a relatively new space for us—deepening our online community engagement. Posting more video to Facebook. Setting expectations with our community will be key in the development of our new platform.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 17, 2010

10 Questions for Camfed — Camfed International – Jordan Ridge and Kristy Green will be traveling to northern Zambia this week to meet students, filmakers, and young entrepreneurs in the communities where Camfed works – and you can go with them! Her round up includes the slides we used in the session as well.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

In 2000, she realized that she could use her marketing and advertising superpowers for good, and founded Digital Hive EcoLogical Design , the first communications firm to specialize in promoting green and social products and enterprises. Lisa Sonora Beam, The Creative Entrepreneur: How I Have Fun, Do Good Buy art from artists.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2009

Profitable Green Building. Monday, March 16. Beyond Aggregation. Women and the Web. Entrepreneurship in the Beast. Keynote: James Powder. Social Media and Sustainability. Whitehouse.gov 2.0. Tools to know your users. Tuesday, March 17. New Threates to New Media. Strong Online Communities. Sustainable Food 2.0. Nonprofits: Be the Web.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2009

For nonprofits, this should not be a foreign concept. Here's a sampling: Lewis Green warns not to use the traditional investment financial calculations but instead measure value. They are saying that you need to measure value and that it value doesn't necessarily translate into dollars.

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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. It’s just the kind of conversation starter I wanted to throw out there!

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

I see this work in public maps like Open Green Map. I see this lesson in the work of 350.org. I see this lesson in the local councils of London trying to open up their data and their leadership. I see it in so many places, and it’s working. We are starting a movement that has love at the very foundation.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

"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. Here are my top trends in sustainable social media (hat tip to Reuters)."

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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! These are some links I wanted to share from September 9th. Find me on Delicious for more!

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