Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 24, 2009

NPTech Panels Want Your Votes! Description: Organizations, foundations, even individuals are creating social innovation competitions, hoping to drive social change projects and solutions into the global marketplace. What are these new competitions about—are they working? Learn more at: [link]. Let’s discuss: join us!

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TechImpact

AUGUST 27, 2014

While volunteers keep your staffing needs minimal, and allow your nonprofit to focus on the next big project, are you really getting the most out of your volunteers? This ultimately requires more staff in the field to babysitting, instead of working. Tech CRM nonprofit nonprofit technology npTech technology' Get social.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

What one mid-sized organization learned about managing a technology project -- and how it can help you. When you're investing in a large technology project, you want it to go smoothly, from planning to launch. Online Organizer. Food & Water Watch.

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TechImpact

JUNE 9, 2014

Building a team of role players in any project is an important step to success. Make sure you have someone who thoroughly understands the technology, a project leader who manages projects, and someone who is responsible for training the rest of the organization on how to properly utilize the technology. Build a team.

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TechImpact

APRIL 1, 2014

Image courtesy of The Cause Project. Decide what projects the volunteer will be responsible for, decide what skills are important in completing that project, and start your search from there. Industry News Leadership Social linkedIn nonprofit nonprofit technology npTech social media supporters volunteers' Build awareness.

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NTEN

AUGUST 17, 2010

.* Scale like that required a massive amount of centralized work, work to bring the periphery (France) into the larger whole. Maybe a little bit like the CitizenGulf project. Tags: geoff livingston NPTech NTEN Social Media Program. It was highliy orchestrated, from the content to the signage to Phil Collins' travel.

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NTEN

MARCH 2, 2011

Peter Campbell, IT Director, Earthjustice As an IT Director, co-workers, peers, and consultants frequently ask me, "Do you use Microsoft Project ?" Then I elaborate with my true opinion of Project: it's a great tool if you're building a bridge or a luxury hotel. Real world projects require far more agile and accessible tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

NpTech Talk. NpTech Software. Some beta work is happening on this with TechSmith's " Jing Project ," an application that allows you easily embed screencasts into conversations on both PC and MAC platform. Most of the links identified have flowed through the NpTech Tag stream but nice to revisit them!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

NpTech Conversations. re working with???something For more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog. Twitter's CEO has learned that short is sweet, flexibility is essential, and applications shoudl work so that people don't have to be at their computer all day long. So, you want to build a MashUp?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Things are slowing down during the holidays , so here's a short version of the NpTech Tag Summary. Leave a comment and I'll summarize in the next NpTech Summary. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The goal of the Request for Proposal (RFP) is to present your development project (or any project, really) in the context of your organization and larger goals. The RFP will outline the purpose of your website; the need, timing, and overview of the project, site features, and other requirements for applicants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

VTVigils VT Vigils VTvigils.org is a project of a diverse group of national campaigns and organizations not affiliated with Virginia Tech. Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. NpTech Community. Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. It is a story about a grasshopper who has spent the warm months singing away while the ant worked hard to store up food for winter. Which one worked best?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Here are a few tips for setting and sticking to your priorities while also getting done the work you need to do for others. If your job involves doing projects for other staff – such as posting online content, IT tech support, or database management – you may find it challenging to manage your own daily To Do List and to plan farther ahead.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar, or apply today to start your own NetSquared group. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Working with the Media | MCN (free). Tuesday, May 10, 2016.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

NpTech Community Snippets Who let the (NpTech) dogs out? First there was a flickr group for NpTech Dogs and then we started seeing NpTechers with dog profiles on their Facebook profiles. Michelle Murrain posted about a NOSI primer is working on. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

I'm working remotely on an unreliable and slow wifi connection and Flickr has been getting a massage (down for maintenance) for most of the afternoon. As a result, I'm publishing a briefer than usual edition of the NpTech Tag Summary because I can only get to fast loading blogs and web sites. in the NpTech Tag stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

Colman set up the nptech room on FriendFeed five days ago and 105 NpTechers have joined the NpTech Room. As she says, it combines social bookmarking, feed reading, and the casual interactions of Twitter into something that works somewhat like mailing list, but doesn't add to your email overload. NpTech Talk and News.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 28, 2014

However, mismanagement of volunteers due to other budgeting restraints could turn a fun, giving-back experience into a stressful, this-feels-like-work one. Here are our top 10 tips for managing your volunteers, especially if you’re working with a small budget: Look like a team. Can’t afford shirts? Reward volunteers.

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TechImpact

MAY 13, 2014

As a result of this unassailable fact, we and our employees may become jaded, or become less excited about a new project or tech implementation. They can become sloppy with their work, miss the simple details, become slow responding to email, and even start missing deadlines. Vendor Management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

Each of the 21 Featured Projects has a project champion who will guide and support the project through conference. Peter Deitz has been working tirelessly on his personal fundraising campaign to raise an extra $500 for each of the 21 featured projects. The NpTech Summary. You can subscribe to the Yahoo Pipe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Two nptech events were visible in the NpTech tag stream, the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life Launch Party and the Net2 meetup in Houston.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 16, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology So where is open source in the nptech ecosystem? So many organizations that I talk to still don’t know what it is, let alone how much it could be changing their work, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2008

If you've been reading this blog, you know that last week I started to work with NTEN on a social media and nonprofits curriculum development. leave comments on blog posts that written about the project directing to new url. What is an open book project? ). NpTech Social Media Empowerment Guide. NpTech Social Media Wiki.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 29, 2014

However, mismanagement of volunteers due to other budgeting restraints could turn a fun, giving-back experience into a stressful, this-feels-like-work one. Here are our top 10 tips for managing your volunteers, especially if you’re working with a small budget: Look like a team. Can’t afford shirts? Click Here!

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Nonprofits face unique challenges that commercial enterprises often don't face: you have no IT staff, no IT budget, uneven levels of technical skills in staff, high turnover and volunteer staff, distributed teams with only the internet connecting them, no long term IT planning or vision, and project based funding models.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

It's promotional literature says it fills the gap between one-on-one messaging and large e-mail marketing newsletters and it works on IM networks and Facebook. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. My visceral reaction is - oh great - more incoming messaging to ignore. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Lately, almost all her twittering is about her new obsession, the Horizon Project as well as a few blog posts. Getting ready to cook dinner -- go on horizon project and send a note to expert judges to check in with their teams. Their work products, process, and learning will also be assessed using these rubrics. Mobile Phones.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

Of course he does great work leading the organization's national digital strategy, and they have plenty of work to do. He is the founder of Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text messages. ” For Jason, his motivation for the work is largely personal, though.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 8, 2014

If your nonprofit, like many nonprofits, has a staff that fluctuates depending on the amount projects and funding available and your IT costs per person grows with the number of employees you have working for you, instead of staying reasonably stagnant, a change to the cloud could be a major money saver for you. Organizational change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Due to some technical glitches , you now have 48 additional hours to figure out what 5-10 of the 150 fantastic social change and technology projects at Netsquared will receive your vote. An extension is actually good thing, gives us more time to look at all those projects! CompuMentor's founder shares his top ten projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. Via Laura Quinn at Idealware comes a pointer to a research paper titled " Technology Motivators and Usage in Not-for-Profit Arts Organizations " that comes from the Systems Synthesis Project course at the H.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

NpTech Tag Skypecast Anyone? Marnie Webb puts out a call for a call next wed, thurs, or friday to discuss in real time the issues that have surfaced around the NpTech Tag. Comment, Blog it, tag it NpTech, and/or start a blog over at the Netsquared site. Five Hot Conversations. The proposed call agenda is here. Change the World!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. NpTech Talk. Marnie Webb asks " Have you seen the Technology Innovation Fund projects ?" " If you have project that you've been holding in your back pocket, consider adding it! The Bamboo Project gives up the round up of places to find great multimedia content online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

The Net2 Secret Plan from Marnie Webb NpTech Tag New Year's Reflections, Predictions, and Best Ofs What are some of the ways that the social web marks the New Year? " Lucy Bernholz points to an NY Times editorial on embedded giving with a prediction about what will continue to work best with giving to charity. Let's take a look.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Unfortunately, we cant just wish out projects through to completion. Make sure you’re clearly outlining how this technology will make their work and daily lives easier. Whether on the road, working from home, just somewhere with a faulty internet connection, files that may have been inaccessible are not a click away.

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2014

This convergence can often lead to painful struggles over resource decisions and project planning, but there are some easy steps you can take to make the relationship work. 14ntc Communications it Leadership nptech nten Communications IT Staff'

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