Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. Here’s a run through of the Tools Galore session. More than 3.5

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2012

Tendenci Released as Open Source by Schipul. Schipul, a web marketing agency based in Houston, Texas, announced yesterday during the 2012 South by Southwest Interactive festival that Tendenci, a content management system (CMS) will be released as an open source solution. This topic was especially relevant…. I've been….

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I’m reading this book at the same time as I’ve been working on the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. I’m realizing that all of the justifications for why I am so into open source and free software is right here in this book! It gets chewy, for sure, but it feels like every chew is worth it.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 28, 2014

D2: Do I use the CRM vendor’s import tools? But the import tool needs to be well-tested. Unfortunately, based on our experience, the quality of these tools varies. The less work that you can complete through the import tool, the more work you will have to address alternatively. For more help, see this post.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

It has been incredibly exciting to see how open source projects like Social Actions tend to grow in fits and bursts, depending on the demands and resources made available by users. The Social Actions API now uses a tool called Zemanta to apply these processes when searching the actions contained in the dataset.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 14, 2012

Martus is Benetech's free and open source software package designed for human rights activists to collect stories and data about human rights abuses. Our mandate, broadly speaking, was to engage in “blue-sky dreaming” and learn from our shared experiences to make Martus a more robust tool.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

Actually, a client had a grant proposal, and it included the consultant’s “theory of practice&# which of course is something that most organizational development/effectiveness type consultants have, but rather few technology consultants have. What made you decide to write a theory of practice? 2 admin 07.11.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

I like proposals that focus more on the project, and show clear understanding of the project. Yes, indeed, for some clients, and some situations, there are appropriate proprietary solutions. And I’ve come to understand what I value about some development shops, and what I don’t value about others.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 17, 2017

At first glance, you might overlook Google Docs as too simplistic, but the built-in brochure, project proposal and newsletter templates give you endless possibilities. All these free tools are available through Google Docs. WordPress.org offers free themes uploaded by the open-source community that you can use.

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Care2

DECEMBER 12, 2011

If you are engaging a web developer or in the middle of an RFP process for a new site, be sure that proposals include mobile friendliness in the project. Most open-source CMSs have tools or plugins for setting up daily backups. At a minimum, test the site on iphone, ipad, and Android phone. www.cnn.com vs. cnn.com).

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore View more presentations from Amy Sample ward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on. Gregg Swanson from HumaniNet picks out a few projects that are based on collaboration/partnership and a track of record of doing projects like the one proposed. Open Source Software is Fair Trade !

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 20, 2008

Ideum, the company that brought you ExhibitFiles (with ASTC), is conducting a survey on museums' needs in support of an NSF grant proposal (Open Exhibits) to build open source templates for simple interactive exhibits (timelines, digital collections, news kiosks). What does that mean in simple terms?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. tools] - it was a very interesting exercise, because it revealed the different ways of thinking about technology that we had. ActiveCollab an open source project management tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

   Twitter Vote Report was inspired by a techPresident blog post on October 6th proposing the use of Twitter for election monitoring. the best aspects of grassroots activism and digital technology combined with an open source ethos to really change the way we participate in elections.???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Open Content for Nonprofits Open Content discussion continues with some comments from Michael Stein (east coast) about Laura Quinn's post last friday. "Laura is not creating media, as the Social Source blog suggests one ought, to lure you into her site. So how do we propose to pay for it? And some background reading.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

As the author of a custom CMS (it did have the advantage that it was released as open source, but it never caught on, so it still counts as custom) I know what it is like to put my heart and soul (and time) into a CMS, and want my clients to get what they want. But, that was then, and this is now. But, that was then, and this is now.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

The Open Source Museum project at The Tech is a grant-funded grand experiment. On the website, participants can propose exhibit projects, join teams, and maintain presences for themselves and their exhibits in progress. So what does this collaborative platform look like? What would you want a project of this nature to include?

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2011

But creating this site affordably, and finding the right tools to build and host it, can be a challenge — especially when you are relying on in-house talent with little or no web-development expertise. Joomla for Nonprofits Is the popular open-source solution to create and edit website content for non-technical users right for you?

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2011

But creating this site affordably, and finding the right tools to build and host it, can be a challenge — especially when you are relying on in-house talent with little or no web-development expertise. Joomla for Nonprofits Is the popular open-source solution to create and edit website content for non-technical users right for you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Last month, I heard a talk by author Jonathan Salem Baskin about his soon to be published book, “ Histories of Social Media.&# The book looks at social media concepts and ideas, asks is this really new? The technology tools certainly are, but history provides a context for every behavioral quality of new media.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

I have a lot of new tools with great names I’m excited to check out (Orange! A few other takeaways: Foundation Center’s new tool is amazeballs. For each grant, they methodically compute its cost:benefit ratio; a grant proposal must result in a minimum $5 benefit for each $1 granted by the foundation.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

anniversary celebrates British physicist Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s proposal for creating the World Wide Web in 1989. The SixthSense project is working on a set of open source instructions on how to make your own prototype augmented reality. This 25 th. The Internet was created nearly 30 years earlier by the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Benetech's newest project is a software tool called Miradi that helps environmental practitioners design, manage, monitor and learn from their projects to more effectively meet the needs of global biodiversity. This response is a measure of how eager the environmental field is for a tool that helps better manage projects. Not Benetech!

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

On a regular basis, USAID would leverage the community to run contests where students can propose new ideas for complex international development problems, particularly those that engage directly with young adults. Interactive Rich Media Learning Tool for Historical Benefit Info. Vote for this Idea]. Social Security Administration.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Tools of Democracy. Tools of Democracy. Although these tools of alternative financing have some promise, the potential of platform cooperatives to fundamentally change worker conditions in the gig economy will never be well realized within the extant capitalist economy. Something more is needed.

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