Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

It’s always a little weird to talk over the phone and not be able to hear or see those you are presenting to, but everyone was really great with comments and questions and responding online so I knew I wasn’t talking to myself! tags: nonprofit nptech ). The questions folks asked at the end were terrific!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning. Co-Create: At this higher level, the conversations lead to co-creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

Let's begin with big picture question that Gavin raised: What purpose do folksonomies serve? How are they different from taxonomies? Gavin's post does a great job explaining the definitions and the advantages of a taxonomy over a folksonomy. Sort of an emergent taxonomy. social network and community sites.

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2012

Do you have a team with some expertise in information architecture, taxonomy, and usability, a team with capacity to outline website specifications clearly? Does your IT staff have both the time and the expertise to tackle your website projects? Consider this in hiring decisions, and in future budgeting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

I still don't know of that many nonprofits using Friendfeed , though, whether as an overall tool or for joining the "nptech" community conversation ( "nptech" is a tag that Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, and others have been using to tag nonprofit technology resources on delicious, twitter, etc., for the last five years or so).

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Whether your nonprofit organization provides services or advocates for a cause, your stakeholders have common interests. The nonprofit technology community is a robust knowledge sharing network widely dispersed across many blogs, tweets, discussion boards, Facebook walls, etc. By Laura Norvig, Special Librarian, the Resource Center.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

Darin serves as an ambassador for the foundation within the charitable community – managing the foundation’s relationships and grants with associations, advocacy organizations, and research institutions with interests in philanthropy and the nonprofit sector as a whole.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. Here's the description: Join Beth Kanter who has been teaching nonprofit technology workshops for over 15 years, both offline and online.

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Social Media Share Media Instruction 93

NTEN

JUNE 23, 2014

After all, the nonprofit association for people working at the intersections of tech and social change should have a website to match that mission and vision. In our first installment, NTEN’s IT Director, Karl Hedstrom, and Operations Director, Jessica Holliday, answer a few questions about what we’re setting out to do, and how, and why.

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Case Study Studies Websites NTEN 67

Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Social good organizations (nonprofits, foundations, education institutions, etc.) See 5 key questions you should be considering as you do here.). Nonprofits are going to become more reliant on enablers like AI and quantum modeling, which will drive everything from financial models to marketing campaigns to donor engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

That's not a real question, just the idle thoughts of a slightly exhausted airline passenger stuck on a runaway on a Virgin America flight who can't use the wifi to get back to the clouds to summarize the rest of the of learnings/advice about social network analysis that came from Twitter while I was live tweeting. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. It's always nice to discover redesigned nonprofit web sites with a web2.0 The topic is " How do Nonprofit Communicators Compete for Audience Attention? functionality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

The taxonomy is rudimentary and not very informative. The follow up question is something like, how I can find nonprofit blogs on xyz topic or what blogs would you recommend. Of course, I have crazy ideas about a zagats guide to nonprofit blogs, a collaborative effort built on a wiki or elsewhere.

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Skills Wiki Taxonomy Listserv 50

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2006

It's Michelle Murrain's nptech blog, subtitled " Conscious, minimalist, neo-luddite perspectives on nonprofit technology. " So, now the question - should a nonprofit organization have a blog? Should staff of a nonprofit blog? Zen and the Art of Non-Profit Technology. Would this help: 1) gain donors?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

For this week's bloggerview, we caught up with Michael Gilbert, who writes the Nonprofit Online News, which is not only the oldest nonprofit-oriented blog, but one of the oldest blogs altogether. Nonprofit Online News is tied with Scripting News (Dave Winer's blog) as the oldest weblog still being published, period.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

Ever since, our paths have crossed several times in nonprofit technology circles online, most recently via the Digital Divide Network listserv and the online forums at TechSoup. Tell me a little about your professional background, particularly the work you do with nonprofits? To celebrate this accomplishment, I interviewed her!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2009

I asked a question on Twitter and he answered. Alistair suggested a taxonomy. Later, I hope to circle back and look at the tools in context with actual Twitter use by a nonprofit (anyone have any great stories?) I'd love some nonprofit examples. Let me explain. A disclaimer. Then look at the tools.

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Measure Twitter Tools Taxonomy 90

NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

He inspired audible gasps when he quoted a shocking statistic from the Bridgespan Group—only 6% of nonprofits use their data to drive improvements in their work. It is essential that nonprofits get away from using data purely for marketing and instead focus on using data for monitoring.

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sgEngage

APRIL 15, 2011

Overall Fundraising Trends The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving is a broad-based fundraising index that reports total revenue trends of 1,430 nonprofit organizations representing $2.21 Small nonprofits were up 18.8%, medium sized organizations were up 1.3%, and large organizations were down 27%.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

If you have questions about tagging or want to share your organization???s Many nonprofits professionals have to manage a lot of information on the web and share it with their co-workers or clients. Tagging and social bookmarking can be useful techniques for smaller nonprofits to easily share their information resources.

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