Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 19, 2009

Stanford Social Innovation Review : Articles : The Profit in Nonprofit … - Here is a great (long!) Tags: roundup bookmarks. These are some links I wanted to share from June 19th. Find me on Delicious for more! blog post from the SSIR opinion blog about why Kiva ([link] chose to be a nonprofit and the story of how it started.

Portland 100

Portland Web Bookmarking Kiva 100

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). The Collaboration Prize – Search Database – Wow! I wrote an article for them on how organizations are using Causes and it's now up.

Web 108

Web ROI Bookmarking Phase 108

NTEN

MAY 30, 2013

Chrome browser app - This free Google browser app allows you to search fast and sync bookmarks on all of your devices. If you use Chrome as a web browser on your computer, you can send bookmarks to your mobile devices as well. This article is part of the June, 2013 issue of NTEN:Change, which is all about mobile.

Mobile 69

Mobile Director Business Bookmarking 69

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. Clipix makes bookmarking a.k.a. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com.

Web 265

Web Tools Free Mobile 265

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. Clipix makes bookmarking a.k.a. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com.

Web 244

Web Tools Free Social Media 244

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. Clipix makes bookmarking a.k.a. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com.

Web 277

Web Tools Free Mobile 277

Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Tagging, a feature found across many social media channels, is used to help surface content during searches. Tags can also be used to find resources such as photos, slide presentations, and articles to reference for use on your site. Blogs, photos, video, and bookmarks can benefit from the use of many tags when they are uploaded.

Tag 61

Tag Social Media Bookmarking Delicious 61

Nonprofits Source

JULY 5, 2018

That’s why In this article I’ve put together a list of 5 practical reasons why digital marketing fails to get results with actionable solutions to move you towards success. This helps me understand what users are searching for when they land on my site. What does that mean exactly? Create Content That Solves A Problem.

Results 58

Results Digital Marketing Practice 58

Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2013

For content creators, a news story can inspire a moving blog or article. Social media and community staff rely on RSS readers to find interesting and share-worthy articles for Facebook or Twitter. The app hooks into your social networks so you can easily share interesting articles on your Facebook or Twitter accounts.

RSS 52

RSS Digg Feeds Bookmarking 52

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Branding themselves as the “Play” button for the Web, Wibbitz automatically converts text-based posts and articles into engaging, interactive videos so your supporters “never have to read again.” ” The Wibbitz Play Button or Player can be easily added to entire websites, single articles, or just on a home page.

Free 280

Free Mobile Nonprofit Social Media 280

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 22, 2013

TechSoup donor partner GiftWorks often has free webinars on Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Google Analytics, and more. Be sure to bookmark the GiftWorks events page for future events. Articles and Resources. TechSoup's partner, Connecting Up, published two comprehensive articles on Google Analytics for nonprofits.

Analytics 58

Analytics Web Resource Tutorial 58

3rd Sector Labs

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Have you recently read an article or attended a webinar where you were told that your data or software had to be in “the cloud”? And if any of these geeky data words are confusing, Third Sector Labs’ Donor Data Management Dictionary is a resource we encourage every nonprofit professional to bookmark.

Organization 130

Organization Software Data Local 130

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Reader bookmarking This measures whether readers are bookmarking your content for later retrieval which provides some indication of how much they value it. Hard data points: You can find out about bookmark saves from PostRank numbers, although the program doesn’t make it efficient to grab data over time. Are there patterns?

Measure 95

Measure Tips Metrics Bookmarking 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

My system supports my learning goals: One is about product and the other is process. Product-driven learning usually has a predefined specific topic that I need to research with the end goal of creating a presentation, training materials, or writing an article, report, book chapter or book. This is the listening and scanning I do.

Reflection 97

Reflection Professional Network Learning 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2007

s a free social bookmarking service. As you release your product, find some interesting articles or blog posts on the Web and bookmark them. Because your prospects and customers typically search the Web for reviews and recommendations, you can help them save time by rounding up some of the more interesting ones.

Social Media 50

Social Media Bookmarking Media Remix 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

It's important search for the basics or what we call "ego searches." You'll also need to search on keywords or phrases that might uncover a client need or perception. To figure out your keywords, do a little brainstorming offline and then maybe use some online keyword tools. Do search at site for the first time.

Literacy 51

Literacy Technorati RSS Bookmarking 51

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

s experience (good and bad) with social bookmarking, the NTEN Affinity Group , NpTagvocates, is a great place for discussion with your peers on these topics. 2) Bookmarks can???t Tagging and social bookmarking can be useful techniques for smaller nonprofits to easily share their information resources. Social Bookmarking.

Screencast 50

Screencast Instructional Instruction Tag 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

2005) Susan Tenby's response to the question, " Why I use Tags " shows progression from retrieval, to social bookmarking, to sharing with others - on a personal level. Or you head someone speak at a panel at a conference, and you ask for the three best books or articles to read. " Keeping found things found.

Tag 50

Tag Collaboration Bookmarking Project 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2005

RSS stands for Really Stupid Syndication and since I'm really stupid I took a trip to Marnie Webb's article 10 Reasons Why Nonprofits Should Use RSS and Andy Carvin's What's RSS and Why Should I Care About It? Both of these articles are excellent primers on the topic. One of the tools that was mentioned was RSS readers.

RSS 50

RSS Content Search NPO 50

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2005

In a recent post I claimed that tools like social bookmarking and tagging might be making waves among the technoscenti, but they are not high on the nuts-and-bolts priority list of the typical non-profit. The fact is, these are powerful tools that are reshaping the way people use the Internet, just as the Search Engine did a few years ago.

Tag 40

Tag Bookmarking Delicious Folksonomy 40

NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

Even inexperienced respondents, investing as little as 1-5 hours/week, report positive results in search engine rankings and increased web traffic. Here are some additional resources geared specifically to the nonprofit application of social media: NTEN eNews article: Developing a Social Media Plan: Lessons from 2008 Elections.

Social Media 54

Social Media Lesson Marketing Media 54

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg. Blogs can increase the search ranking of your website. Search engines like sites that update their content regularly and have lots of incoming links; consequently, they like blogs! Blogs can give you the press you seek.

Benefit 50

Benefit Stumbleupon Newsletter Digg 50

See3

OCTOBER 7, 2007

RSS feeds and blogs, article comments, social networks… it’s all increasingly important. Some of what they found was on the low end — such as 17% of people using shared bookmarks (sites such as Del.icio.us). But we also have 60% personalizing their home pages and 85% using most-emailed articles links on news sites.

Video 40

Video FAQ Bookmarking RSS 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! Use Technorati , a blog search engine. While google and yahoo have blog search features, Technorati is the considered the recognized authority on tracking blogs, It finds out who is saying what right now and is currently tracking over 75.2

Remix 50

Remix Professional Technorati Wiki 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Tagging and Social Bookmarking Social Bookmarking Showdown is a quick overview/review of the major social bookmarking services. A few tests going on here and here NpTech Blog Search The nonprofit techhelp blog creates a customized search of nptech blogs here. Meanwhile, library geeks are talking about tagging.

Wiki 50

Wiki Vlog Machinima Bookmarking 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

Using a unique tag, the members of the group can contribute articles and also easily find them. How do people use these articles or resources? I've been learning the power of social bookmarking and tagging content - this helps in 2 ways - first - it starts to answer how we collaborate with other orgs, patients etc to index content.

Tag 50

Tag Tools Bookmarking Org 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

The tags you use to describe something should be intuitive so you can recall the bookmark. When delicious tells you the number of people who bookmarked, I hate the way it looks. If just one other person bookmark, it shows a link. His definition of tag spam: A bookmark with 1,000 different tags. t be bookmarked.

Tag 50

Tag Bookmarking Delicious Folksonomy 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

WSJ article " Will Social Features Make Email Sexy Again? The article describes some mock ups and feature under consideration at Yahoo. Social Networking Fundraising Success article describing how different nonprofit organizations are using social networking sites to tap into a whole generation of new supporters.

Convio 50

Convio API Nptech Summary 50

Care2

MAY 22, 2009

60) Search « The ROI of Social Media | Main | Advocacy Online Launches in the US » Thursday May 21 2009 Earned Media: How to Stay Relevant and Track It Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 01:20PM | by Allyson Kapin “If you dont brand yourself, Google will brand you,” says branding expert Sherry Beck Paprocki. Word of mouth, etc.

Track 41

Track Social Media Media Advocacy 41

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

" and reflecting on a recent article in Wired. " World Grows Wide blog talks about the Google Custom Search feature. Social bookmarking in plain English! " If you are wondering about whether you should integrate social features in your web site , here's a good article that explains the benefits.

Nptech 50

Nptech Language Summary Advocacy 50

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2005

Each page adds to the likelihood that somewhere someone sitting in front of a computer will find your site while searching, and say, "Oh, I should get to know them better." This was put very well in an article posted last year by Graham Jones on the online community Ecademy. People will bookmark your site. People will email.

Build 40

Build Bookmarking Site Profit 40

Care2

MARCH 28, 2007

You can bookmark the calendar view at [link]. Post a Comment | by Share Article in Care2 News Reader Comments There are no comments for this journal entry. I hope you find the calendar useful. Ive also added an online submission form for suggesting events. Thanks for your input!

Calendar 28

Calendar Social Media Advocacy Case Study 28

Care2

DECEMBER 4, 2007

60) Search « Care2.com But in the first 6 months of 2007, I was experimenting with social networking and bookmarking tools on Green Brooklyn, including and especially the Care2 News Network , and saw such a great result that I decided that I needed to redesign everything ASAP. Besides, Im too busy with clients. com , Inc.

Blogger 28

Blogger Social Media Site Advocacy 28

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

I've found traffic largely comes from search and RSS subscriptions." My aussie blogger friend Dave Wallace pointed me to this article from Micro Persuasion: The Imminent Death of the Page View. The tombstone generator can be found here (I have a huge collection of these tagged npflickr in my bookmarks. don't click here.

Metrics 50

Metrics Web Tools Technorati 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

group" about tagging and social-bookmarking. Why not just use search?" These are human filters " who subscribe to the RSS feeds of a large number of sources, search queries, and other dynamic sources. She recently posted about a demonstration she gave during a meeting with members of the "Dutch ???e-collaboration???

Tag 50

Tag Reflection Practice Community 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

More specifically, I help non-profit, small business and academic groups and individuals learn how to use web applications and services like RSS, blogs, wikis, search, social bookmarking, podcasting and more. I found you doing a Technorati Tag Search for Non-Profit, after I applied the same tag to a blog post of mine.

Wiki 50

Wiki Technorati RSS Nonprofit 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Actually, the twitter API only returns the last 1500 (I scrolled back as far as I could from the search tool). Lesser results I see for Technorati, which to me is pretty much passe ( [link] ) — google blog search picks up a bit more [link]. This is the #hastag year, and we recorded more than 1875 tweets tagged #nmc2009.

Social Media 81

Social Media Media Social Flickr 81