Amy Sample Ward

JULY 19, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. Blood and Milk » Blog Archive » Ushahidi, Twitter, and the future of foreign aid – Alanna's post is a great example of the power of networks, social media, and open systems. What do you think? Great slides.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 14, 2012

Every second of every day nonprofits around the world are posting status updates, tweets, and messages on social networks attached to avatars with cropped art work and/or unreadable text. This is one of the most obvious mistakes nonprofits (and small businesses) make on the Social Web, and fortunately, one of the easiest to remedy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

As a trainer, I’m intensely interested in creating learning experiences that integrate or about how to use the technology for nonprofits that engage and inspire people to put the ideas into practice. I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. It’s why we’ve been working on an intelligent model—in geek-speak, a “graph”—that understands real-world entities and their relationships to one another: things, not strings."

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 21, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. As social networks try and become profitable they are experimenting with new ad models and trying to drive more traffic to increase ad revenue. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of April 21st).

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Care2

AUGUST 3, 2012

Predictive modeling was then used to map the politics of the social web. Linkedin, whose users are politically active and Living Social are considered a "swing" network. The data was determined through the analysis of thousands of people on Facebook and their “Likes”, political preferences, and polling data.

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

Our goal was to provide a great forum for networking and meaningful conversations. Membership with Kevin Ordonez , President and Managing Director Digital Strategy,orgSource New Business Models with Michelle Czosek , Consultant,orgSource The Leadership ColLAB lived up to its name.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2010

Guest blogger, Patti Anklam , author of Net Work: A Practical Guide to Creating and Sustaining Networks at Work and in the World , explores the role of organizational leadership in a network world. This post is part of a series of articles exploring topics related to network leadership hosted by Leadership for a New Era (LNE).

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. Whether you are already using Facebook for your organization or not, this is a good place to go to learn more about how to use the social networking platform to it's fullest.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 14, 2012

Every second of every day nonprofits around the world are posting status updates, tweets, and messages on social networks attached to avatars with cropped art work and/or unreadable text. This is one of the most obvious mistakes nonprofits (and small businesses) make on the Social Web, and fortunately, one of the easiest to remedy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Everyday they will donate a dollar a day to specific nonprofit, encourage others to donate, and promote the nonprofit’s work to their network via a brief email newsletter. ” Chen will be building up the network of people by leveraging his network and others. Social good has to be part of the business model.”

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sgEngage

APRIL 3, 2023

In this guide, we’ll answer some frequently asked questions about passive fundraisers and suggest four passive fundraising ideas for your nonprofit to consider adding to your revenue model. Plus, diversifying your revenue streams allows your nonprofit to build a more sustainable fundraising model. Let’s dive in!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Last week, I got to BoardSource at 8 am just so I could hear Marnie Webb and Rebecca Masisak, CO-CEOs of TechSoup Global share their lessons learned in developing, weaving, and stewarding two very different types of networks. The second network, Netsquared , in contrast was more loosely controlled with a lower risk in failure.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

But it’s only been in the last few years that mega storage, and mega processing power were available to organizations to power big web applications and the like. It wasn’t so long after that that virtual hosting companies became ubiquitous, and affordable for nonprofits.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Assuming that staff can just wander on to general AI models and create content is like when nonprofits thought it was a good idea to give their social comms to interns a decade ago. These models are presently built on snapshots of internet data and aren’t designed to be research assistants. What’s more, tools like GPTzero.me

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

When MySpace and Friendster first came on the scene opening the door to Web 2, nonprofits couldn’t fathom that one day they would be hiring for “Social Media Managers”. A couple of decades later a quick search on Idealist.org turns up over 2000 current jobs and tons of nonprofit social media professionals on networks like Nonprofit.ist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

I was in Washington, DC on Tuesday and Wednesday for a two-day workshop is designed for Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights and Justice Leaders, who lead and manage networks or accomplish much of their work through networks. Exploring what it means to work with a network mindset. You can find the workshop materials here.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2009

" A conceptual model of value for social media | Juice Digital - Check ou thte "4 Cs" model developed by Gaurav Mishra: Content, Collaboration, Community and Collective Intelligence, as an example of the progression of what kind of value you can create online for your organization and the larger community.

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AccelEvents

JULY 23, 2021

Especially in the increasingly digital world, live events and in-person events offer networking, grow social connections, and fuel community. . Provide assets like personalized event posters or web copy so they can easily include these items in their own digital marketing campaigns. . Inspiring Stakeholders.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

"There are a lot of new technologies which already affect news consumption and future business models. This article will survey social networking, and then show you how you can get the most benefit out of it for your nonprofit organization.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The Wealth of Networks, Chapter 3 November 16, 2006 I bet you thought I’d stopped reading? He spends a fair bit of time talking about the Wikipedia model, and how, basically, amazing it is.

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Judi Sohn

JULY 3, 2011

I left Web Worker Daily in 2009 in no small part because I was bored out of my mind with the content I was producing/editing. I couldn’t stomach looking at even one more new social networking/collaboration site that no one would care about in 6 minutes, much less 6 months. Tagged: Google , social networking.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 21, 2011

In the past year an onslaught of social networking platforms have emerged targeting the association and nonprofit market, leading many associations to wonder which is best for them. Think of the wealth of information you have in your database that can be used for networking and community building. Thanks for contributing Andy!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2009

I've been re-reading Patti Anklam's book, Net Work: A Practical Guide to Creating and Sustaining Networks at Work and in the World which covers the many different forms of networks and how they work. It covers different models for purpose, structure, style, value creation, design, leadership, and change management.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 15, 2023

Community Engagement: By weaving tighter community networks, nonprofits amplify their reach and impact. Unified Fundraising Solutions: Flipcause offers an all-in-one solution, simplifying the often-complex web of fundraising, volunteer management , and community engagement.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 From his perspective (and mine, too) one of the big issues (as he put it, the elephant in the room) is how open APIs impacts the business model of vendors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2014

Note from Beth: In 2014, digital marketers predicted the rise of ” niche social networks ,” as it becomes increasingly harder to reach your audiences on general social networks like Facebook, these highly targeted online social networks are going to become more valuable.

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TechImpact

JULY 31, 2014

Often a free service, or a pay for what you use model, public clouds make software and applications available for use through the use of share computing power. Examples of public clouds include Amazon Web Services, GoogleDocs, and IBM Cloud Services. What is a public cloud. What is a private cloud. What is a hybrid cloud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” Web Producer. Internet Director. Online Campaigner.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

on the Social Web must come to an end – that until we start paying for premium services ( and staff time ), nonprofits will continue to be at the mercy of for-profit revenue models and non-existent customer service, but that’s another blog post. Personally, I am not surprised or annoyed much by the changes.

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Wild Apricot

MAY 11, 2010

In fact, their Web Posting Response Assement flow chart can serve as a strong models to guide your staff in best practices of online conversation.( Tags: nptech Best practices online community Blogging Social networking Non-profit Communications social media diagram. Perhaps so, if it’s the US Air Force we’re talking about!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 10, 2013

This post originally appeared as part of an online debate about How Big Data Can Have a Social Impact, which the Harvard Business Review Blog Network hosted jointly with the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship. Skoll World Forum Skoll Syria SWF Big Data Harvard Business Review Web Reader human rights SkollWF SWF13 Bookshare'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

I did a mini-workshop on networked leadership and culture change to support these transformations. The project is a hyperlocal source of information about living green–powered by network of environmental activists, nonprofits, and grassroots organizations. Cara talked about the network formation phase of the project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Note from Beth: As visiting scholar at the Packard Foundation, I'm connecting with other people who are studying and learning about how networks work. A lot of the ideas resonate with using online social networks and social media effectively for nonprofits, especially in the larger frame of movement building.

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Classy

APRIL 20, 2021

Classy is focused on extending its lead in donor conversion and retention, while creating a new wave of recurring giving tools to help nonprofits build highly predictable revenue models that help them to maximize their service and impact. Without the best online fundraising technology, nonprofits are leaving money on the table. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

In our book, Networked Nonprofit , we describe the principles for becoming a networked nonprofit – a nonprofit that is simple, agile, transparent, and works more like a network than an isolated fortress. The Networked Nonprofit Practice Model. Click Through to Flickr for Attributions.

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