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How to Conduct a Quick Tech Plan

Tech Soup

The problem is that it takes some tech planning to come up with a budget for the New Year. DIY technology planning resources has good simple templates: Sample Technology Inventory , a Sample Budget for Technology Investments , and a Sample Technology Action Plan. ” It’s a workshop you can take any time.

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Playing the Social by Social Game: London Net Tuesday

Amy Sample Ward

The core team was the same: David Wilcox, Andy Gibson and Amy Sample Ward - all co-authors, with Cass Business School of the forthcoming Social by Social handbook. It was a lot of fun, and since Andy was doing an excellent job of facilitating, and Amy was mentoring the groups, I was able to capture proceedings on video.

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But What Do the Numbers Mean? Free Web Analytics Consulting for Nonprofits

NTEN

You provide access to your data and a few hours of time, and a student-mentor team will analyze aspects of your site's performance in just a few weeks. Amy Sample, Director of Web Analytics at PBS Interactive, says: "What I love about the Analysis Exchange is the learning is reciprocal. And you should. It's a great model.

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Getting meta: Why the #CommBuild chats have evolved for three years and counting

NTEN

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? I host sometimes because I have a real-world problem I need feedback on, sometimes because it''s good visibility for my career.

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5 Places to Find Grants for Your Nonprofit for FREE!

Get Fully Funded

For some reason, and I’m not sure how this ever got started, some nonprofits think grants are a magical solution that will solve all their problems. This sampling of funding opportunities available in their database shares both national and regional grant leads. A Grant is What We Need (or is it?)

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Getting meta: Why the #CommBuild chats have evolved for three years and counting

NTEN

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? I host sometimes because I have a real-world problem I need feedback on, sometimes because it''s good visibility for my career.

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A simple, but profound, change in how we think about volunteers

ASU Lodestar Center

A small sample of the positive words they have shared include: empowered, humbled, motivated, grateful, awed, helpful, effective, connected, valuable, and inspired. Not once have I had anyone share that they felt “used” or “utilized.” The results are, as you can imagine, disappointing and the volunteer program falls apart.