Please Welcome NTEN's New Membership Director: Amy Sample Ward
NTEN
FEBRUARY 28, 2011
We're pleased to announce a new member of the NTEN Team: Amy Sample Ward. You may have heard of her.
2012 SXSW Interactive – #nptech Highlights
Amy Sample Ward
MARCH 19, 2012
Last week I was down in Austin, TX, for the 2012 South by Southwest Interactive Festival.
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NPTech Conversations in SXSW Panels
Amy Sample Ward
AUGUST 24, 2009
NPTech Panels Want Your Votes! Learn more at: [link]. There are many exciting proposals available for your vote. You can view all of the panels (from all categories) at [link]. I am part of 3 proposals and would love your support if you think any of them are interesting and worthy of some stage time at the 2010 SXSW event!
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15NTC Registration is Open: Be part of the largest #nptech gathering out there!
NTEN
NOVEMBER 4, 2014
Just ask David Krumlauf (pictured right) with NTEN''s CEO Amy Sample Ward at 14NTC- #ntenthanks to you for being the first 15NTC registrant (for the upteenth time in a row!) Together, it''s a space to exchange knowledge, share best practices, and gain insight through valuable networking.
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The Ultimate Nonprofit RFP Guide
Whole Whale
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
nptech Click To Tweet Use SNORKL to create clear RFPs and connect to great nonprofit vendors that won’t rip you off. You will probably end up with a range of proposals: porridge that is too hot, too cold and hopefully one that is just right. Finally: A simple guide to the nonprofit RFP process. Organization Background : Who are you?
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Guest Post by Amy Sample Ward: Want a peek at my RSS: Here it is!
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 7, 2009
Submitted by Amy Sample Ward, publisher of Amy Sample Ward’s Version of NPTech When it comes to “nptech” or nonprofit technology, there are more blogs and organizations and resources than any one person can find, let alone keep track of! Amy Sample Ward’s Version of RSS Why? I’m no exception.
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Top 10 NPTech Blogs: Thanks Beth Kanter!
Have Fun - Do Good
DECEMBER 3, 2008
Beth Kanter , the nonprofits and social media guru, recently posted her list of Top 10 Nonprofit Technology (NPTech) and Social Media for Social Change Blogs on Blogs.com, and I'm one of them!
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Case Study in Free Agent Fundraising @AbolishCancer ? Amy Sample Ward’s Version of NPTech
AFP Blog
JUNE 18, 2010
Case Study in Free Agent Fundraising @AbolishCancer Amy Sample Ward’s Version of NPTech: "Case StudyI recently connected with Darah Bonham, the driver behind @abolishcancer. A free agent changemaker having success fundraising with Twitter. I want to share that story!"
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Share Your Story: Building Blocks of Social by Amy Sample Ward
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 23, 2009
tags: nonprofit nptech ). Earlier this week the Storytelling & Social Media series from NTEN and TechSoup Global launched with Amy Sample Ward , who is the community builder at Netsquared , as the first speaker. Social Media Building Blocks View more presentations or upload your own.
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NTEN Member Round-Up: You're Doing NPTech Right!
NTEN
SEPTEMBER 18, 2009
Tag your posts and news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help me find your stories online!). Amy Sample Ward ( NetSquared ) wants you to get right with OneWebDay : learn more about the event and see ways to participate by checking out her great summary and reference list.
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Your Social Media Is For More Than Marketing
TechImpact
OCTOBER 13, 2014
Here are a few sample question you can start asking today. General nonprofit nonprofit technology nonprofits npTech social media supporters technology virtualization' There’s not better way to get your community talking to you than simply asking a question. Like our blog? Let us know what we should cover next!
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NpTech Roundup: Grasshoppers and Ants - Social Fundraising Off Season
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. Amy Sample Ward writes about the new plugin launched by Social Actions that will place ???possibly Do you remember the Grasshopper and the Ant Fable ?
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So where is open source in the nptech ecosystem?
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? 2 Amy Sample Ward 01.17.08 You can’t make everyone happy all of the time.
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NpTech Summary: Slow Wifi and Flickr Massage Edition
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 12, 2008
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. NpTech Conversations Wild Apricot Blog is hosting next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on the topic "How are non-profits using Web 2.0 in the NpTech Tag stream.
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29 Nonprofit Bloggers to Follow on Twitter
Nonprofit Tech for Good
OCTOBER 19, 2009
Amy Sample Ward: @amyrsward from London, England. Blog: Amy Sample Ward’s Version of NPTech. Sean Stannard-Stockton: @tactphil from San Francisco, CA. Blog: Tactical Philanthrop. Nancy Schwartz: @NancySchwartz from New York, NY. Blog: Getting Attention. Sandy Rees: @SandyRees from East Tennessee. Blog: Get Fully Funded.
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NTEN
FEBRUARY 9, 2010
Hosted by: Amy Sample Ward. The NTEN RoundTables focus in on 3 areas -- Consultants, Communications and IT -- but the specific topics will depend on you and your peers. . Consultants RoundTable. Hosted by: Jeffrey Forster. February 11. Communications RoundTable. February 19. IT RoundTable. Hosted by: TBD. February 26.
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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: This Week in NPTech
NTEN
FEBRUARY 20, 2009
Superstar NTEN member Amy Sample Ward interviews Clay Shirky -- NTC09 Plenary Speaker and author of Here Comes Everybody -- about how social media will affect the future of nonprofits, specifically about how nonprofits are (and should be) communicating with their members/supporters. One tactic is going online.
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Using Twitter to Build a Community and Recruit Volunteers
Amy Sample Ward
MARCH 27, 2011
View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Here are my slides from the VMNC: Twitter Basics for Engaging Volunteers. And here are slides from a previous presentation: Twitter.Org: Twitter for Nonprofit Organizations. Twitter Resources.
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231 NTEN Community Voices: Nonprofit Tech Leaders Revisit Their Accidental Techie Roots
NTEN
JUNE 11, 2013
Many of the species started down the nptech path from very surprising (and accidental) origins. The themes that emerged—from the spirit of curiosity that motivates continuous learning to an impatience for inefficiency—are ones that I suspect will feel familiar to most technology champions and emerging #nptech leaders. Julia Smith.
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Guest Post by Amy Sample Ward -- The Power of Vision: Review of “The Pollyanna Principles”
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 7, 2009
Submitted by Amy Sample Ward, publisher of Amy Sample Ward’s Version of NPTech Hildy Gottlieb’s new book The Pollyanna Principles is a handbook for starting a revolution in social benefit organization design and practice, but it isn’t the revolution. What’s the catch? I’d love to hear your ideas!
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Podcast: How Nonprofits Can Use LinkedIn
Amy Sample Ward
DECEMBER 2, 2010
Description : In this month’s edition of Social Good, Allison Fine, the host, interviews Amy Sample Ward, community development manager at TechSoup Global, and Estrella Rosenberg, founder and executive director of Big Love Little Hearts in Chicago and author of the blog Adventures in Philanthropy. Sample Ward and Ms.
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NpTech Tag Summary: 10 Web 2.0 Things You Can Do In Ten Minutes!
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 29, 2008
The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. Gregory Heller ) ( Sarah Marchetti ) ( Amy Sample Ward ) 4. Photo by SpacePotato. rethink, reinvent.
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Great reads from around the web on October 25th
Amy Sample Ward
OCTOBER 25, 2010
Women Give 2010 is the first report to compare philanthropic giving between men and women across all income levels based on a nationally representative sample. " Tags: roundup bookmarks cee facebook fundraising future giving internet list net2-recommends nptech philanthropy postalicious resources romania technology trends video women.
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30 Super Useful Nonprofit Hashtags – Twitter Chats, Too!
NTEN
NOVEMBER 8, 2011
Use a hashtag that’s popular and meaningful to your interests – like #nptech, which stands for nonprofit tech – and you’ll tap a powerful vein of conversation and learning. My absolute favorite nonprofit hashtag is #nptech because it consistently yields good results. nptech – nonprofit tech.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 27, 2008
Let's Fondle The Tools the Right Way Chris Brogan's A Sample Social Media Toolkit describes a few sample tools and what they can be used to accomplish. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools.
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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. The sampling of some of the top rated resources this week: Death Threats Are Not Protected Speech. 1cent thoughts on NPTech is another anonymous nonprofit blogger and has a post " Is technology meant to be more than a set of best practices?" NTC is just days away!
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NTEN
FEBRUARY 9, 2012
There are four weeks left in our quest to raise $10,000 to send 50 nonprofits to the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Francisco this April. We're over a quarter of the way there! At NTEN headquarters, we're doing everything WE can think of to raise that money. All I can say is, it's a good thing we've got you to help out!
Nonprofit Technology Rockstars: Jason Shim
Tech Soup
MAY 16, 2014
After Jason Shim won the 2014 NTEN Award in March, I thought I’d have a look to see why Amy Sample Ward and company thought so highly of him. He said: “It’s a unique place where it’s easy to marshal NPTech resources like on my txtocracy project. However in the NPTech world, I often forget I’m Canadian.
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Rally More Support for Your Cause: 3 Simple Ways to Add New Event Participants
NetWits
JUNE 22, 2011
Make it easy for them by providing samples of everything they’ll need. Sample tweets, emails, Facebook posts, employee memos, phone scripts, communication plans, and anything else they’ll need to inspire and manage their team. Include a sample script of what to say to team members. Providing Resources. And I mean everything.
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Nonprofit Technology Link Love
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JULY 30, 2008
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Nonprofit Technology Link Love July 30, 2008 Here are posts from a small sampling of bloggers I regularly read: Holly Ross shows her geek cred in a great post about DNS. Beth is, of course, THE web 2.0
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NTEN
NOVEMBER 4, 2014
And NTEN CEO, Amy Sample Ward , discusses digital inclusion and the need for safe discussion spaces for creating a more equitable digital future. Cloud community member member news member roundup nptech nten Communications' Michelle Chaplin explores the issue of salary inequality in her recent post.
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Associations Connect at ASAE 2009 - and Online
Wild Apricot
AUGUST 12, 2009
Here’s a quick sample of the great.( Tags: Associations General non-profit interest CSAE and ASAE nptech events Social networking Conferences social media Association Jam. AssociationJam.org is pitching in to help you find and share top stories around the ASAE & The Centre conference. read more ).
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Crowdsource This… and That: Getting Creative with Crowdsourcing Strategy (Internet Advocacy Roundtable, April 2013)
Care2
MAY 10, 2013
Large, probability samples of citizens can accurately tell us a lot about the opinions of the nation at large. Crowdsourcing IAR Nonprofit Events Online Advocacy Trends nptech' It has deep roots in social science research. Every time you read the results of a scientifically rigorous opinion poll, you are learning from the crowd.
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Member Round Up: Brain science in fundraising, website tips, and Do Good Data 2013!
NTEN
JUNE 24, 2013
Flickr: chotda This week''s Member Round Up draws from all corners of the sector in both region and topic, from the energy in the streets of Brazil to Facebook contests and assistive technology used by the Bridge School--see what the nptech community''s been up to! Member Round Up member update nptech Social Media' Anything we missed?
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Socialbrite: Social Tools for Social Change
Amy Sample Ward
JUNE 29, 2009
Beth Kanter, Amy Sample Ward, Katrin Verclas and John Haydon are among the familiar names in the nonprofit tech sector who are part of the effort. Amy Sample Ward, a strategist who supports and educates clients in the nonprofit and social change sectors. Socialbrite.org is launching with a rich set of resources: A directory of Web 2.0
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Only 3 Days Left: SXSW Interactive Scholarship Program for Nonprofits
NetWits
NOVEMBER 5, 2010
NetSquared with Amy Sample Ward. Tags: Blackbaud #nptech CauseShift Non-Profit Nonprofit Confrences sxsw. Chris Brogan Talks Nonprofits and Trust Agents. Chris Noble on Check in for Charity, Pepsi Refresh and Social Media for Nonprofits. Facebook for Nonprofits by Randi Zuckerberg. Spotlight on We Can End This with Scott Henderson.
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Convio puts the money where their mouth is for 09NTC
Amy Sample Ward
JANUARY 15, 2009
Rather than list off the top things you can do to raise money and spread your money right now, we decided to instead put our money where our mouth is - quite literally - and make a concerted effort to help the entire nptech community by raising money online for scholarships to none other than the 2009 NTC Conference in San Francisco.
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Technology Toolkit for Start-up Nonprofits: Part One
Wild Apricot
MARCH 25, 2010
Her “technology toolkit” and sample step-by-step plan are designed to help new nonprofit organizations get started with online marketing, outreach and fundraising — on a tight budget. Wild Apricot Blog is pleased to welcome a two-part guest post from media consultant Minal Bopaiah of Brevity & Wit , this week. read more ). read more ).
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Wild Apricot
MARCH 26, 2010
Today, she suggests next steps and offers a sample step-by-step plan you can adapt to meet your own organization’s social media mission: Using your Technology Toolkit Now, of these 10 technology tools , the first three are.( read more ).
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 2, 2013
Plenary: Placing Little Bets: Failing Informatively for NPTECH Innovation: Beth Kanter, Erin Shy, Megan Kashner, Brian Reich, Allison Burns. How To Implement Multichannel Online Campaigns - Amy Sample Ward and Allyson Kapin. NpTech Fail. April 13, 2013 – 8:30-10:00. Using Data to Measure Your Mission – Laura Quinn.
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30 Great Links for Associations
Wild Apricot
JUNE 2, 2009
We've rounded up 30 of the most useful and interesting stories filed at AssociationJam.org in the past month, just a sample of the resources for associations you’ll find at the portal site. Tags: Associations Non-profit technology nptech Marketing online community membership Association Jam. read more ).
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SXSW 2013 – Are You A Social Media Nonprofit Manager Looking for Your Peers? #npsmpeer
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 14, 2013
After each presentation, one of the “responders” other experts in the field including Amy Sample Ward (see her write up ), Mark Horvath, and David Neff offered their insights in two minutes about the topic. ” @ brianreich #sxsw #npsmpeer #nptech — Amy Sample Ward (@amyrsward) March 10, 2013.
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NetWits
MARCH 9, 2011
2) Samples of past emails. Diabetes Research Institute ’s email sign-up page below is a good example of including both descriptions and links to samples. Include brief descriptions of your emails, focusing on what’s in it for subscribers. Do you announce major breakthroughs or new volunteer opportunities via email?
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