Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

The other interviews include Sylwia Presley from Gobal Voices , and Claire Sale from NetSquared. When you bring the Internet, online social tools, mobile technologies, and all the rest into the equation, you do not fundamentally change how communities organize or make change. I definitely recommend them both! What is changing and why?

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 6, 2021

THE AGITATOR / DONOR VOICE. If you’re not afraid of getting into the nitty-gritty of network building, both online and offline, this is the blog for you. In this blog, you’ll find articles about: Donor Cultivation, Workplace Dynamics, and Relationship Building through Technology. FUTURE FUNDRAISING NOW.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2022

They needed a mobile app that worked offline. Being able to develop the kind of technology we do with The Commons gives us that advantage, those resources, that we need. They can’t afford a Salesforce developer, nor can they make the additional technology investment, to bring something like this to life and keep it going.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2009

How do those differences impact opportunities and voices online? How do opportunities, successes, connections and authority online translate into offline opportunities and successes? I’d love to hear some of your thoughts about those questions or others!

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Plus, keep track of your matching gift data and outreach settings in your 360MatchPro portal to identify future matching opportunities, keep track of your year-to-date match identified amounts, and manage your email settings and customizations to keep your messaging streamlined and true to your organizational voice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

Transmedia storytelling it is the technique of telling a story across multiple online platforms and formats using current digital technologies. By using their voices to support their organization’s mission, they boost trust and inspire meaningful conversation and debate. Engagement with a purpose and knowing your audience.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The facilitator can call on people individually or, when multiple voices chime in simultaneously, create a structured queue, saying for example, “Let’s hear from Amy, then Cynthia, and then Brad.” Online brainstorming tools, like Miro and Lucid , replicate the offline experience using virtual templates.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

Rapid advances in digital media and technology are changing how we connect to information and each other. In this post, we hope to voice many of the tools, resources, and tactics that have been shared, in hopes of encouraging others around the world to get involved with the digital relief efforts."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

As Jeremiah Owyang , founder of Crowd Companies , describes it as drones, robots, chat bots, and AI. He should know, having tracked and observed the disruption caused by online technology over the past decade. And after that technology will be merged or implanted in humans. Think cyborgs. There are two design tasks.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2015

With a documented procedure and technology that works from anywhere with an Internet connection. Voice over IP phones are probably the most important (and least utilized) technology for that purpose. My strong recommendation is to factor business continuity into overall technology strategy. We use that as a front end.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

I connected with her through her amazing photos of Cambodia on Flickr when I was covering the Cambodian blogosphere for Global Voices over five years ago. Somewhere around 2006 or 2007, I got a call from Michaela asking for advice on a career path for Nonprofit Technology. She did a fantastic job.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

There are many who approach the online landscape with very different views than their offline business decisions. I can’t speak for others working in the “innovation sector,&# but at NetSquared we can’t emphasize enough that our Community is what drives us – whether’s it’s online or offline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

We selected Kimbia as our new technology partner in January, launched our new website in July and began an intensive training schedule (webinars, live training, phone and email support) with organizations to get them ready on the new GiveMN.org for Give to the Max Day. For us, our offline activities are as important as online efforts.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

The way I see it, there are many directions that technology is aiding social change work: enabling data sharing, exchange and mapping. The climate change movement has shown a lot of focus on helping people effected by climate change (everyone) share their story, voice their concerns. changing individual motions into a unified movement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Lucy talked about how technology is driving the shift to a social economy and picked out a few themes, pointing out it is not the technology itself but how we use it. She highlighted the impact of crowd funding platforms and the technology to collect, visualize, and share data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Networking: Weaving Online and Offline, Strong Ties and Weak Ties. I’m also thinking of nonprofit technology professionals like John Haydon and Debra Askanase are another example. They work in the nonprofit technology field and we connected and have conversations online before meeting in person. I’m now an advisor ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

What are we cobbling together today from existing technology, and what could we be doing tomorrow? They’re convening Barcamp-like unconferences called PubCamps all over the country, allowing local techies and citizen journalists to forge collaborative projects with NPR and PBS stations, both online and offline.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants October 30, 2006 This Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants has given me a chance to read some blogs I don’t usually get to read, since I’m so often focused in the tech field.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 9, 2015

For the nonprofit sector, technology is a means to an end — a greater good. Given recent technological advances, however, software advances may no longer be out of reach for nonprofits. Some critics have voiced concerns about data security and control for cloud systems. Cons of Moving to the Cloud. spanhidden.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

The Valley Medical Foundation: This organization provided an example of the personal versus organizational voice issue that social media often brings up. Robot Voice Disguiser for Large Group Facilitation. My son lent me his Robot Voice Disguiser which was good for an opening laugh, but the chimes were preferable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2009

VolunteerMatch is different from slacktivism services because we’re using technology to help nonprofits and volunteers create enduring relationships based on real-world contributions of time and energy (and often skills as well). both offline and online. Does busy mean the same thing as impact?’ – Allison Fine. Slacktivism 101?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Social media, like all technology, is developed by people. Again, I’ve included these driving questions to help you frame the decision making that citizens employ both in asking for help and those indirectly impacted making decisions about which technologies they can use to help others.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

This resulted in us creating a “sneaker-net” approach to providing basic asynchronous ICT services to rural villages: a complete offline Wikipedia that fit on a CD-ROM, and severely restricted bandwidth throttling to allow community radios to access the Internet (via prepaid RBGAN) for $2-3 a day. . Voice remains the killer app.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 25, 2012

Without that nagging voice telling us we have to work and work and work (hello, Calvinist ethic), we’d play and rest as naturally as animals do. Actually, Wordlessness is no more important than the other three “technologies of magic,” Oneness, Imagination, and Forming. How can folks connect with you and your work (online and offline)?

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Recently, over 300 innovators and changemakers interested in the intersection of technology and social benefit work converged for a few days of idea-sharing, learning, and collaboration at NetSquared's annual conference. The 2009 N2Y4 Conference showcased the Featured Projects from NetSquared's Global Challenge focused on mobile technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

The panel is titled " Pimp My Non Profit - Real Non-Profits Kicking Ass with Online Technology." Yet many have overcome the odds and made a splash online and offline by using the latest Web technologies - for pennies on the dollar. Human Voice. I'm speaking at SXSW. Peter identified the pros/cons as: Pros.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. Now we have technology catching up with our responses times. How can we do that? What's Changing?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Women Who Tech brings together talented and renowned women breaking new ground in technology who use their tech savvy skills to transform the world and inspire change. They were able to use the platform for organizing offline events, finding and collaborating with volunteer organizers, and more. Read the full case study here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

who gave the keynote speech at UC Berkeley’s conference on law, ethics and technology, “ Social Networks: Friends or Foes? ,” complaints of hijacked accounts increased by one-third from 2007 to 2008. To stay updated on how the legal landscape develops, follow the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic blog at UC Berkeley Law.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Doug concluded his welcoming remarks with posing some important questions for the future for participants to reflect over the next few days: How do we keep a balance between the emerging and traditional technology so we keep in touch with digital natives and those who have limited connectivity? There are offline ways to do it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Example: The Environmental Defense Fund's blog, Climate 411 , "is the voice of the experts at Environmental Defense Fund, providing plain-English explanations of climate change science, technology, policy, and news." One way to build trust is to write with an authentic and personal voice on your organization's blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Social Fundraising: Leveraging On and Offline Connections. Organizational Versus Personal Voice on A Blog. Be A Voice for Darfur: Great Example of A Multi-Channel Campaign. ROI and Nonprofit Technology Presentation. Donor Solicitation Techniques on Twitter. Sharing Foundation Has Supporters in Finland.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

And organizations need to shift their view on how to use technology/the internet to accomplish things (and especially do more than just raise money). They should be doing more to help organizations understand how to take advantage of it. Brian shared some more thoughts in his post, " The Internet Has Made Us Lazy."

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Forum One

JANUARY 4, 2024

We are researching and advocating for policy change that specifically impacts early childhood development, and beyond informing, we need to give people the tools to make their voices heard, whether that’s personalizing social media, writing a letter, or signing up to meet with their elected representatives. Become a member. I do see a shift.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

The Nonprofit Technology Bash will be the best place to mingle and meet with folks from all across the nonprofit technology sector, as well as kick back and have some fun on the last night of the Interactive conference. Hear from the nonprofits that have made it happen.” What is influence and how is it measured?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery. Mazur uses technology,a web-based monitoring system where students submit answers to questions about the reading prior to coming to class. The last question asks students to tell Mazur what confused them. Techniques. This is far too much to cover in the session.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2012

We want to increase the offline and online participation and go beyond what can be seen as a gimmick: buying an historical object in an unexpected way. Rethinking the design and the technology used is an important part of this ongoing process. We want to have a conversation with our audience and facilitate storytelling.

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