Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

In 2009, for example, two trapped girls in Australia chose to post to facebook for help rather than dialing emergency numbers directly. Maybe it isn’t even money, but feedback or advice, maybe an introduction or volunteer time. It could be checking in with people on a location-based social network.

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Association TV

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The Federal Trade Commission outlined its initial requirements in 2009, and a rising population of influencers led to its publication of “ Disclosures 101 for Social Media Influencers ” in 2019. The only advice I can give on this front is, don’t betray your audience’s trust by oversaturating with sponsorships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I've had a post in draft for a couple of weeks now about some personal/professional goals or my New Year's resolutions for 2009. I read Chris Brogan's " Your 3 Goals for 2009 " and I loved his process. Think of how you want to be successful in 2009. Then, try to think in even broader terms. score out of 5.0).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 15, 2007

He provides exactly the kind of advice that will help organizations connect with their donors. For instance, I’m reading the book, Made to Stick , and this week’s post by Jeff at Donor Power talks about taglines that organizations use – how they make internal sense, but don’t make sense to people outside.

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 25, 2009

About Wild Apricot Software The Wild Apricot blog provides technology advice for small non-profits. Many blog subscribers are also Wild Apricot software clients — so we publish monthly updates about our software.

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Wild Apricot

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

About Wild Apricot Software The Wild Apricot blog provides technology advice for small non-profits. Many blog subscribers are also Wild Apricot software clients — so we publish monthly updates about our software.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

That sounded like good advice, since it might take me quite a while to get to step 1. (If, I had a brief conversation by email with Cory Doctorow , a science fiction author who is also a copyleft activist, who releases everything he writes with a CC license. If, perchance, you might want to read it, drop me an email.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Beth has some advice for dealing with too much data – write it down (er, on a wiki that is.) Kivi at Nonprofit Communications , talks about how to keep track of the kind of data that writers need to keep track of – editorial calendars. I want to do more and more writing, and doing this sort of thing might be pretty helpful for me.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Beth has some advice for dealing with too much data – write it down (er, on a wiki that is.) Kivi at Nonprofit Communications , talks about how to keep track of the kind of data that writers need to keep track of – editorial calendars. I want to do more and more writing, and doing this sort of thing might be pretty helpful for me.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 27, 2009

About Wild Apricot Software The Wild Apricot blog provides technology advice for small non-profits. Many blog subscribers are also Wild Apricot software clients — so we publish monthly updates about our software.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

Amy Kinkaid, of Fundraising Breakthroughs , has some great advice about asking for money without shame. All of these articles were interesting and thoughtful. It’s really nice to learn more about what people are talking about. A Girl’s Guide to Managing Projects has a nice post about what Project Managers do all day, anyway.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 24, 2007

It was also part of my job to give advice where it was appropriate, but I have come to realize, in my current position of being apart from building things, that I had a bit of myopia, as all builders and vendors do. It was, a while ago, part of my job to build technology solutions for people.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

And, if you’re up for it any quick advice, have any for MHAUS? Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

at 10:59 pm this is such great advice. Thanks for the great advice. at 9:50 pm This is a great post that I hope you revisit in 2009. If you have a constituent who has a lot to say and says it in an interesting way, get them to express those thoughts in tweets, and see how many other people can be reached. 5 Erin 04.30.08

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2010

Saturday, December 18, 2010 Great Year-End Advice For Leaders Lynn Flinn of EWF International in Tulsa, OK wrote the following in a recent newsletter. Thanks Lynn for this great end-of-the-year advice. Source: Entrepreneur, March 2009 Be A Visible Leader Walk around. Its so powerful I wanted to pass it along.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

I have some advice for both companies, though: Keep going – it’s looking more and more like not only are people expecting the ability to mash their data and other data more, it’s also looking like a pretty good business model. Bottom line: Kintera takes some important steps to open up their application.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

I remember back in 2009, Carie Lewis was able to help her organization, the Humane Society of the United States, avert a PR crisis when Michael Vick announced he was going to work with them. They picked up his statement in a google alert. Both Mack Collier and Carie Lewis have some great advice for responding to angry comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2008

Yesterday, I got an email from Anne Housego from Retina Australia give me an update and asked for some advice. National Congress coming up in Oct 2009 will focus attention on the current position of worldwide research. I'm hoping these flickr mavens will leave their best advice in the comments. Michaela Hackner.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 14, 2009

The guide features 12 real-life strategies organizations are using right now to succeed during the downturn, in addition to tons of great tactical advice, creative samples and other resources. Nominations and entries can be received until January 21, 2009, so act fast!

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

This week - September 14-21, 2009 - we’ve asked individuals to step up and make a difference by using the Web to better their community. You might find a local opportunity, or you could also find a way to help across the miles by simply helping out with a tutorial or offering advice. What is Mozilla Service Week?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

Business people evaluating process advice have a much harder task: they have to evaluate the product based on their experience and the reputation of the author, and if they do try to “run&# the advice, they have to do it in the real world of their enterprise at a very high cost for failure.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

" Non-profit’s Twitter Interview Questions | twitter-interviews | interviews TechnicaVita Social Media Advice - Does your organization use Twitter? After that talk (which you can hear via the above link), I asked Jean to join me in a brief but enlightening Worldchanging interview."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Having benefited from the generous advice and expertise of many others, we’re honored to share our experience from The Encore Fellowships Network as the “Action” case study in the Winter 2013 issue of the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Wisdom About Networks From Encore Network – A Guest Post by Leslye Louie and Lyle Hurst.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

And, as much as we can, we’ve tried to do this in public—sharing our thinking online in real time and asking grantees, colleagues, and the world at large for their feedback and advice. Assessment of 46 OE grants to networks awarded 2009-2011, conducted by Monitor Institute (2012).

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

You might also want to check out some advice from EchoDitto's Joshua Wachs. The HR Council for the Voluntary and Non-profit Sector has a guide to "Getting the Right People" nearly as comprehensive as its name, while Bridgestar manages to fit its advice into one (very long) page. So, what should you do?

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2009

I also get a lot of calls from consultants looking for advice on how best to thrive in the nonprofit space. I get a lot of calls from organizations looking for consultants to help them with their fundraising databases. In both cases, my first instinct is to tell them to call Robert Weiner. .

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

In 2009, Clay Shirkey predicted , “For the next few decades, journalism will be made up of overlapping special cases.” million in 2009 to $687.6 When asked what nonprofit organizations can do to build relationships with media, the panelists provided sage advice. According to the 2013 Foundation Center report , U.S.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Gmail first released the experimental unsend feature in 2009 and more recently received press for the why-hasn’t-this-been-done-before tool. The site features advice from experts (with adorable illustrated avatars) including Grammar Girl , the pseudonym for English pro, Mignon Fogarty.

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NTEN

APRIL 3, 2009

image, that somebody in the USAF knows what a troll is, or that it has some really good advice. We're not sure what's most surprising: that the Air Force cares about its Web2.0 Google's Chrome Experiments. But if you get caught playing their browser-based Tetris clone, you didn't hear it from us. (Oh,

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Care2

DECEMBER 28, 2009

As nonprofits scramble to meet their year-end fundraising goals, this is also a great time of year to reflect on what online fundraising and advocacy strategies worked well in 2009. Here's their advice. A July 2009 Pew Internet study found there is no digital divide for online when you factor in mobile access.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

part of the process involves asking others for their help and advice and doing lots of research to make sure you are on the right path. I’d say the best advice would be just to get started and once you find something, focus and execute. As a result, we attracted a great set of initial users who posted incredible work. Find your niche.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

After sharing our wedding photo on Flickr in 2009, I received an email from an Esquire Magazine writer asking for permission to use the photo. But when we scoured the Web for the worst wedding-day outfits on record, there was no recourse: time to right these hilarious wrongs and call in the Fashion Department for some much-needed advice.

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 25, 2010

The first of three training videos produced to guide the volunteer moderators who helped run the British Columbia Library Association's 2009 Teen Reading Club, Moderating Forums is jam-packed with down-to-earth advice and guidelines for creating, nurturing and moderating a successful online community. read more ).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

As we wrote last week , Lerman is not just another public company CEO: His company, Yext, has some old-fashioned history with TechCrunch, having pitched at one of our events back in 2009. It went well, with Yext quickly raising money afterward. It’s going to be a great chat.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2012

Since 2009, our survey has asked nonprofit leaders to indicate what management actions they are taking to cope with the recession. In both 2009 and 2010, nonprofit leaders told us that they were "engaging more closely with the board" by increasing the number of annual meetings, sharing new types of reports, or in other ways.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Regardless, Virgin Founder Richard Branson did have some compelling advice for category creators. Started in 2009 by Rachael Chong, Catchafire helps match professionals who want to volunteer their skills with nonprofits that need their help. Virgin simply improved various elements of the flying experience versus the status quo.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Wooga was founded 2009 with a vision that by 2020, everyone will be playing games. It’s completely up to them if they want to listen or ignore outside advice – even if it’s from one of the founders. I joined Wooga when we were just 10 employees in 2009. Wooga – now and then. This is only possible by having great people.

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