Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

Innovation in online fundraising was driven by the release of new technology, such as email marketing services like MailChimp in 2001, the launch of WordPress ( a content management system now used by 44% of nonprofits worldwide ) in 2003, and social networking websites beginning with Myspace in 2005. Page Fundraisers.

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NetWits

MAY 26, 2011

Probably no better an indication of my love for the knowledge waiting to be unmasked within this tool, is the (fun?) No wonder than, I am commonly asked; “What are the top web analytics reports and tools every nonprofit should know?&#. What is your favorite Google Analytics tool or report?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

That said, she understands the power of these tools, and relishes the opportunity to learn more. My Grandmother also has a whole network of friends who are at various stages of computer use/online adoption. These are the tools that I used to get my Grandmother started: Google Search - So simple! Getting Social.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 1, 2009

But what about taking an inventory of your social media tools? Twitter Karma is a great tool to use if you want to inventory your Twitter community, clean up any nonreciprocal followers, or simply evaluate your lists. Delicious / Bookmarks. Tags: strategy analysis evaluation social media. Happy searching!

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 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). There are so many other tools and platforms that are exciting, innovative, incredibly engaging, and beautiful. " Check it out! " Check it out!

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

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). If you’re a social person, it means you like to spend time with other people. ""

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 21, 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). As social networks try and become profitable they are experimenting with new ad models and trying to drive more traffic to increase ad revenue.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 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). …That means setting aside our shiny online tools and tactics long enough to ensure that we're using them to deliver real impact."

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 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). They often failed to deliver on key social capital improvements such as improving trust between residents or fostering a greater sense of belonging.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

It is "a collection of articles from blogs and the web about online communities and social networks from people who are passionate about them and are keen to add to the debate." Tags: roundup bookmarks. But in one night he raised more than $75,000, with 95% of it coming from people overseas."

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 12, 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). Twitter, Facebook and Google tools have already been used for market research, sales predictions and targeted advertising.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Moderate* 10.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 20, 2009

Social media brings thousands of ppl w/diabetes together at the SAME time | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org - Manny Hernandez (@askmanny on Twitter), the creator of TuDiabetes.com has shared a great case study on the NetSquared Community Blog about how they have used social media tools to bring a community together.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 19, 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). We are hoping to understand what tools or practices appeal to different age groups online and how organizations can best target their efforts to those audiences.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

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). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Unconference here: [link].

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 9, 2009

Social Networks Around the World - Check out this great visualization of users on social networks around the world from ReadWriteWeb. The way we choose tools based on our networks/friends' choice is really clear when you map it like this! Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

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). – "Despite the enormous popularity of peer-to-peer social networking, the adoption cycle for branded online communities has been relatively slow.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 23, 2009

Aardvark - Take a look at this tool that leverages the extended networks we all have to get answers to questions that you may not know who to ask, but your network does! " Is Twitter a Social Network? Offer a mix of tangible and social benefits. Tags: roundup bookmarks. What do you think?

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Care2

APRIL 18, 2011

Do your website visitors find your content compelling enough to comment on and share on social networks? Postrank will show you who they are on the top 20 social networks. Want to know how big organizations like the National Wildlife Federation track some of their social media social bookmarking?

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 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). link] – "As far as we know, it is the first such comprehensive listing of options for causes, nonprofits, and NGOs who need tools to manage volunteers.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 2, 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). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. " Have you tried Jumo?

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 2, 2009

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). — SocialFish – "Social media can be overwhelming.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 8, 2009

We like to report on innovative technologies through blogs, video, podcasts and social networks." Much Older. - "Analytics company iStrategyLabs has examined the demographics stats from Facebook (Facebook)’s Social Ads platform, and they’ve reached some very interesting conclusions.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

" Have Fun • Do Good: 6 Ways to Use the Web to Find a Nonprofit Job - Britt Bravo has a great run down on using social media tools in your job search - seems to be a topic on a lot of people's minds! The Future of Branded Content Conference | Social Media Explorer - Jason has a great post about content.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

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). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

WhosTalkin is a new social media search tool that makes it easy to search multiple social media sources. It has a clean interface where you quickly search, scan, and click through blogs, micro media, news, forums, social bookmarking sites, social networking sites, and other sources that are talking about you.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 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). Some people say we're in the midst of a revolution where the new tools of social media are reinventing social activism in vital ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Learn to use the tools that help you measure success. Don't set up a presence on every social network in the world all at once. . For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 16, 2010

You've got bookmarks for websites you need to check daily, online tools, news alerts for tracking your nonprofit's keywords and issues, email, social networks, RSS feeds for favorite blogs… It's all too easy to miss vital information, or to waste a great deal of time checking for updates. read more ). read more ).

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2012

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 Internet has become a spontaneous, grassroots fundraising tool – Small Act – "Philanthropy has turned on its ear.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

It starts off with a brief introduction to what social media is, follows with how to set goals, gets into the specifics of what to do, and finishes off with how to measure your results. Tools touched on include: blogs, microblogging, social networks, social bookmarking, social news, Q&A websites, photography, video, and podcasting.

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Care2

JULY 5, 2010

Here are some of my favorite online listening and analytics tools. After it generates results (using a variety of search engines, news sites and social networks) you can personalize the dashboard. Bookmark it and check it daily. Topsy: Part search engine, part social web connector.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 2011

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). And now the social networking giant is poised to delve even deeper into users’ messaging activity with a new mobile app with SMS-like functionality."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

The tools are changing, so if you've settled into one way of using a particular social media tool or set of tools, don't set yourself on automatic pilot. Are you using the social media tools most efficiently and effectively given the environment , the changes in the tools, and your goals? Take Breaks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Nancy raises a few questions about whether a distributed presence for organizations - splitting the attention of members between an organization's web site and social networking profiles is a liability or an asset. KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools. Her selection criteria.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2011

I’ve been experimenting with Scoop.It , a bookmarking and curation tool. also lets you easily share the gems you find selectively to other social networks. There is also a social aspect – you can “follow&# other Scoop.It curators.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

I spend a lot (and I mean a lot) of time trying to figure out how to use social networking, bookmarking and news sites to enhance the National Wildlife Federation's online presence. These overall strategies aren't anything new in the marketing world: social media is just a new way to do old business. Know Your Goals.

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