Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 2011

" KnowHow’s impact — Knowhow Nonprofit – Here's a great example of how you can reinvent the way your organization reports it's impact! Wikipedia Rolling Out Article Rating System – What Do You Think? – "Love it or hate it, you can't say Wikipedia is slow to innovate.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

HOW TO: Turn Slacktivists into Activists with Social Media – "Throughout the non-profit world, organizations struggle with social media’s impact on the volunteer and donor cycle. There are some important social media strategies for transforming those one-click “slacktivists&# into fully engaged activists.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

The waterfall age of the Encyclopedia Brittanica has given way to Wikipedia, and the bottom-up world is here to stay. Never forget that no matter how bright any given luminary may be, as Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sandburg first noted in 1949, we have officially entered a world where everyone is smarter than anyone.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2012

By far the most recognized wiki is Wikipedia. Wikipedia would not be possible without the support of its volunteer contributors, who help keep the site's content current. By relying on volunteers, Wikipedia can draw on anyone to share their knowledge on a topic, check facts, or accurately translate content. Building a Wiki.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Direct Content. What’s so important or interesting about this?

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3rd Sector Labs

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Did you know that the Ice Bucket Challenge has its own Wikipedia article ? How will the windfall impact the fundraising operations and best practices of the ALSA in order to drive greater fundraising success in years to come? Discussion and debate. It’s true – Mashable reported this amazing data milestone in September.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Examples: YouTube, eBay, Wikipedia, Google. Examples: Wikipedia. use the platform to increase local impact. When you move to the web, you have increasing returns to scale , but the number of people involved to affect the increasing returns are at a much larger scale (many more people, etc.). loosely coupled. network, horizontal.

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Robert Weiner

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

We will help you learn how to maximize the impact of your organization's message with online audio, video, and images. According to Wikipedia, "Digital Storytelling refers to using digital tools so that ordinary people can tell their own real-life stories." There are lots of ways to participate: Join a webinar.

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M+R

JULY 10, 2023

This doesn’t mean you need to turn your copy into a Wikipedia article. Impact: How will the audience affect the situation or contribute to change? Very likely, you are missing urgency, or a clear statement of impact, or some other element. Eliminate, or clarify, any jargon or Official Language that may be opaque to readers.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 14, 2023

It’s a complex process that you need to get right if you want to build lasting relationships with major donors and secure impactful gifts for your cause. In this guide, we’ll help you get started with prospecting (or help you brush up on the specifics!) by answering four frequently asked questions. Let’s dive in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Dear Beth: I want to compile a report for my Executive Director about the impact of our online organizing strategies. Wikipedia - editing articles of films, events, and organizations that we are closely linked to in order to mention our affiliation with them. But sometimes, those stats don't really tell us anything.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 25, 2012

I've cut and pasted the list of environmental issues from Wikipedia below. It's not meant to overwhelm you; just to provide fodder for your answers.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Did you know that there are over 156 million public blogs, according to Wikipedia. Use your blog posts to provide commentary on the latest news, resources, reports, policies, summits or events you attended, and how this impacts people’s lives and the planet. How do you make your blog stand out? Frogloop's got you covered.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Wikipedia gives you a fairly verbose definition , the dictionary gives a similar, but less wordy definition that I think is simpler to grasp. “An Extending the walk experience and the impact made to the weeks and months after the walk. When you think about it, the idea of an ecosystem can be applied to many things in life.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Wikipedia came up with a great idea , one we encourage you to steal. You don't have to like him, but it's hard not to appreciate the impact Steve Jobs made on the world. If you like your stories in bite-size, infinitely repeating packages, GIF.tv will keep you occupied for seconds at a time. Lots of seconds.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Precycling , according to Wikipedia, is the practice of reducing waste by attempting to avoid bringing into the home or business items that will generate waste. It's essentially to act like No Impact Man. Nobody is talking about "precycling for the holidays" yet. I first saw the term last year at greenlivingtips.com.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2020

The challenge – how do companies create meaningful volunteer opportunities for their global employees that engage, connect , and create impact? updating relevant Wikipedia pages. . Often virtual events don’t elicit the same emotional connection as when a team come s together for in-person service.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2010

According to Wikipedia , Geocoding is "…The process of finding associated geographic coordinates (often expressed as latitude and longitude) from other geographic data, such as street addresses, or zip codes (postal codes). This can have a significantly positive impact on efforts to improve accountability and aid effectiveness.

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Achieve

JUNE 2, 2015

Did you avoid the Wikipedia entry? and find out how your organization can best impact and influence the world of tomorrow. Think about the last time you pulled up your search engine of choice. When you typed in your query and hit “search,” how did you decide which entry to choose? Register to attend today. ,

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Wikipedia provides a good formal definition : “Web accessibility refers to the practice of making websites usable by people of all abilities and disabilities. Cindy Leonard, Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management at Robert Morris University. Web accessibility” means creating websites that can be fully used by people with disabilities.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 25, 2011

The waterfall age of the Encyclopedia Brittanica has given way to Wikipedia, and the bottom-up world is here to stay. But never forget that no matter how bright any given luminary may be, as Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sandburg first noted in 1949, we have officially entered a world where everyone is smarter than anyone.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Ending the Book Famine: the Marrakesh Treaty The World Blind Union talks about the global book famine experienced by blind people, and the negative impacts on education and employment on many millions of people around the world. The next challenge we’re working on is to bring this incredible library to the rest of the world.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Wikipedia defines big data as "a collection of data set that is so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using on-hand database management tools or traditional data processing applications. I'm excited to see how these projects grow — and what impact they'll have. Image: SOCAP13.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

YouTube and Wikipedia are usually first choices for information seekers. She came to the Nonprofit Commons to share her areas of expertise in media literacy, human-computer interaction, and the impact of the digital revolution on education and libraries. Anyone can publish through blogs, wikis, and websites.

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2007

Welcoming the Wiki: "A more interesting question is the impact Wikipedia might have on other technology companies. Will the example of Wikipedia help our tech employees to become more friendly? Will its example of nonprofit education.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

David zeroed in on two relevant data points to tell the story - the number of hours Americans spend watching TV in a year, and the total combined man hours needed to create all of wikipedia: 4. Provide Context Users need a grounding point to understand your data. They need something to put into a perspective that they relate to intuitively.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 23, 2016

In fact Wikipedia lists 47 cultural celebrations of new years that are celebrated at other times throughout the year, such as the Chinese New Year and Rosh Hashanah. The world is changing, and philanthropy will need to adapt past old rules which made sense in the past but are limiting your impact today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Here's a synopsis of the screenplay from wikipedia: During World War II , a mild-mannered Slovak carpenter Tono Brtko ( Jozef Kroner ) is offered the chance to take over the sewing notions store of an old, near-deaf Jewish woman Rozália Lautmannová ( Ida Kamińska ) as a part of the enactment of an Aryanization. regulation in the town.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2015

Chicago, Illinois: Social Media for Social Impact: Fundraising and Customer Relationship Management. Beyrouth, Lebanon: SkillPill: Creating Wikipedia Articles. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Thursday, March 26, 2015. Orlando, Florida: Creating a Tech-Centric Culture in Your Nonprofit.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2015

Boston, Massachusetts: What Nonprofits Can (and Cannot) Learn from Wikipedia. San Francisco, California: Summer Service with Net Impact SF Pro. Boston, Massachusetts: Nonprofit Tech Alchemy: From Ideas to Impact. Toronto, Ontario: How to Develop and Deliver an Effective Pitch. Seattle, Washington. 501 Connects.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Next, measuring the impact of your digital marketing can be broken down into two ways: Tangible Measurements : Are typically revenue focused where the desired outcome is to sell a service or receive donations while accounting for expenses. The phrase is so popular that it even has it’s own Wikipedia page.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

The environmental impact of working collaboratively online is to reduce travel. The most famous wiki is of course Wikipedia. Why Is Online Collaboration Green? It is currently available for nonprofits and libraries at an admin fee of $265 plus $9 per user license.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

The GEO project is intended to collect and show data and geospatial information (on maps) of energy resources, generation, transmission, usage, and environmental impacts. To encourage all interested people to understand and analyze energy systems and their impacts on the environment. *

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

The GEO project is intended to collect and show data and geospatial information (on maps) of energy resources, generation, transmission, usage, and environmental impacts. To encourage all interested people to understand and analyze energy systems and their impacts on the environment. *

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

– Wikipedia. Tech Impact: Bitcoin and Blockchain Provides Transparency for Donations. – Wikipedia. NTEN: Restoring Trust in the Nonprofit Sector with Blockchain. Social Media Week: The Essential Guide to Blockchain for Brands. Bond: Top 11 Resources on Blockchain for Global Development. – Investopedia.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

See Amy Sample Ward's materials on Community Driven Social Impact for more details on strategically planning online communities.). Some are huge. Some are successful, but messy. The nonprofit technology community is a robust knowledge sharing network widely dispersed across many blogs, tweets, discussion boards, Facebook walls, etc.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

Wikipedia sums it up nicely : "A blog carnival is a type of blog event. This week the Carnival was hosted by Nancy Schwartz of Getting Attention and the theme was, "How to Use Online Video to Strengthen Your Nonprofit Marketing Impact." Do you have a blog about making the world a better place that you want more people to read?

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