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 is the founder of Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text messages. First, Jason Shim is not a famous guy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What was it, the question mark? The whole point of the post was to crow about how positive the open source results were. It wasn’t scientific, and the sample was about.05%

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2012

Even though the majority of the attendees representing big brands, companies, and start-ups, the nonprofit technology contingency still had a strong showing with many socially good focused sessions on the agenda, the Beacon Lounge, and plenty of extracurricular events. Tendenci Released as Open Source by Schipul. Case, and her….

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

Kaliya Hamlin, who is the founder of She's Geeky , a women and technology conference taking place in Mountain View, CA on January 30-31st was also on the list. Fast Company responded with " The Most Influential Women in Technology." is the queen of nonprofit technology in the UK. The post sparked heated debate. Holly Ross.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

However, the time has come when we need a really smart attorney to join Benetech and help us navigate the intersection of technology and social good. We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

Eight leading experts in social media and nonprofit technology have joined forces to create Socialbrite.org, a hub that showcases social tools for social change. Lasica , a consultant and author of four books about emerging technologies. Socialbrite.org is built in WordPress, the popular open source blogging platform.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits May 19, 2008 There are some really interesting tidbits of stuff out there. 1 trackback } Blackbaud buys Kintera » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 05.29.08 What do you think?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 4, 2009

Here’s what David said : If you want to find out how social technology can be used collaboratively to solve neighbourhood problems, do join me and colleagues for a lively session on May 16 in London at the SHINE unconference for social entrepreneurs. If you want to do it well, do it together. ” - African proverb.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

Around the time of the Nonprofit Technology Network ’s 2008 NTC conference, an even brighter light bulb went on. The updates introduce Semantic Analysis and Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities to the Social Actions API and begin to connect Social Actions to the wider Linked Open Data community.

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Care2

MAY 8, 2012

Don't miss the panels Using Technology and Social Media to Build Social Movements with Amy Sample Ward of NTEN, Michael Silberman of Green Peace International, Claire Diaz Ortiz of Twitter, and April Pedersen of Salsa Labs. It will feature opportunities for learning, networking and exhibiting.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This open-source, accessible solution enables workers and volunteers to collect data wherever they need to go. Being able to develop the kind of technology we do with The Commons gives us that advantage, those resources, that we need. Enter: Grassroots Mobile Survey, now available to install.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2009

' Open Source Is Dead! Long Live Open Source! NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network – "That's right, I said it. What I mean is that open source, as we knew it, is dead. Promise to read the rest of this before you send me hate mail, though.

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NTEN

AUGUST 26, 2010

We're always looking to balance sessions across tracks, open source v. Women and Open Source and Identity. As you know, we're just about done collecting your great session ideas for the 11NTC right now (deadline: August 27). After that comes the hard part: figuring out what to put on the final agenda. Female Ferocity.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Kintera Connect August 15, 2007 I listened in on the call with Kintera folks about their new platform, called Connect. These are, for pretty obvious reasons, the most interesting to me personally.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2009

Check them out if you are interested in new technologies breaking down walls in the world of health. "OpenMRS® "OpenMRS® is a community-developed, open-source, enterprise electronic medical record system framework. However, many women in technology and social media still face a digital ceiling."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

CompuMentor has created a Technology Innovation Fund to provide direct cash support to projects selected by the NetSquared Community. It's really hard to narrow it down to 5-10 projects, but here's a sampling of the diversity of projects and causes represented. Aspiration's Social Source Commons. Creative Commons suggests.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

NetSquared’s Global Community Builder , Amy Sample Ward, will be at the NTC this year to connect and collaborate with friends, colleagues and new faces in the sector. Have questions about general nonprofit technology “stuff?&# View more presentations from Amy Sample ward. Tuesday, April 28. 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm.

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NTEN

APRIL 10, 2009

After Idealware 's latest report reviewing Open Source CMS tools , there were, as might be expected, a few dust-ups in the open source developers and users communities, which includes NTEN members like David Geilhufe. Amy Sample Ward took up the discussion on her blog. . David wrote this response.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

The Benetech Human Rights Program (HRP) is hard at work to ensure that technology and science best meet the needs of human rights defenders in these critical times. Looking ahead to 2012, training NGOs in collection and effective use of data, and developing new technology tools to enable these efforts will be core components of our agenda.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

I’m quite excited to participate in The Power of Information: New Technologies for Philanthropy and Development Conference in London, UK, put on by Indigo Trust , Institute for Philanthropy and the Omidyar Network. Lessons and Opportunities for Supporting Technology Innovation. Debunking Myths About Funding Tech Innovation.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

DonorsChoose: open source philanthropy from JD Lasica on Vimeo. technologies to raise funds for a cause, DonorsChoose.org should be near the top of a very short list. They hope individuals will contribute around $17 million this year for books, field trips, art supplies and technology needed by classrooms in low-income areas.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Platforms break open! emphasis mine) &# ooooooh… During the NTEN call on Connect, they had mentioned that they were only going to publish sample code in C# and Java. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2014

Gayle Samuelson Carpentier,TechSoup Global’s Chief Business Development Officer, is a newly minted member of the Nonprofit Technology Network's (NTEN) board of directors. Yes, she's the one to thank for such great technology donations! This keeps me in touch with the needs of grassroots nonprofits.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2013

For example, one of the case studies that Amy Sample Ward and I profiled in the mobile section of our book Social Change Anytime Everywhere was about “Missed Calls” as an organizing strategy. They share best practices in online campaigning as well as concrete data and analysis from their A/B testing.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

What happens when the most talented and innovative women in technology who work with non-profit organizations and political campaigns get together for the day to discuss the most relevant issues ranging from the Women in Open Source to Fighting Sexism in the Tech Sector? Tags: community events technology women wwt.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Social media, like all technology, is developed by people. Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. Now we have technology catching up with our responses times.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 10, 2012

What we weren’t paying attention to was how we brought the advantages we carry in our offline lives– often defined by race, gender, class, and now, technological access and skill– to that blank canvas." Read the full post to hear both David's take, and suggestions for success from Patrick Meier. "DeadUshahidi’s

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

A panel of judges, selected by Social Actions will choose three winners from among the 20 finalists, to be announced at NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference , April 28, 2009. Through a NetSquared Community vote, 20 finalists will be chosen. How To Participate.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 30, 2009

Tags: community events conference event technology women wwt.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. 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. Tags: amy sample ward mobile devices netsquared Newsletter NPTech NTEN.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 23, 2011

I think the potential of this technology is staggering and we’ve only begun to imagine what is possible. The checkins functionality in the Ushahidi Platform is one of the first open source checkin products that crosses multiple mobile platforms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, organizer of London Net Tuesday, who connects nonprofits with new media technologies. Ken Banks, a Hewlett Foundation grant recipient who focuses on using mobile technology to foster positive social and environmental change in the developing world, particularly Africa.

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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. Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools. Her selection criteria. Here's here write up on word press. And if you???

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

View more presentations from Amy Sample ward. There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Two tools include: Tags: Case Studies Conferences Online Advocacy Social Networking Technology Web 2.0 WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore. Idealware.org has reviews of many of these tools as well.

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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. Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. View more presentations from Amy Sample ward. Also posted on the Frogloop blog for nonprofits here.

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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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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Finally, here's the sci-fi technology that is becoming reality. Amy Sample Ward, NTEN's fearless leader, has a different view. "The creativity and connectivity explosion via social media, free, and open-source tools, and nonprofits having more direct control in communications and fundraising. spanhidden.

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