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). Kopernik makes technology designed for the developing world accessible through the Internet and by harnessing the power of individual donations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Most NpTech blogs are high school level. Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. NpTech Global Kabissa joins Aid for Africa for the third year running!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

A Few NpTech Conversations. Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. internetarizans tracks the Internet, Human Rights and Social Change. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 13, 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). Yes, the Internet can help activists mobilize and re-frame public issues. It can also distract citizens and feed apathy.

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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). For me, I see the way I use email and treat email changing, but the importance and irreplaceability (is that a word?) " Is email going out with 2011?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

Obviously, the biggest change is the ubiquitous nature of Web 2.0, Sure, I’d love to see more nonprofits move from sending their newsletters out by email, to getting them into an RSS feed, which I can choose to look at, or not. and the ways it’s made itself into the nonprofit sector. Some of Web 2.0,

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Yesterday, I had the huge honor and pleasure to present the keynote at the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits ‘ NPTech Conference, eStrategy in an iWorld. The Evolution of NPTech: Where we came from, and [maybe] where we’re going. If you have other questions, or other ideas, please share them! Digital Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Note from Beth: Last month during one of our book talks for “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , ” at TechSoup Global, Rachel Weidinger from Upwell came up to say hello. The mission of Upwell is to condition the climate for change in marine conservation, and ready people to take action.

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NTEN

APRIL 19, 2011

The Internet has proven to be a great channel for the distribution – and enhancement of – what could easily be called radio shows. Berg and Bohse represent two worlds – for-profits and not-for-profits that they talk about on their weekly internet radio show. It's the concept that matters, though, not the technology.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Advances in mobile technology are significantly changing how we live and work. All of this will be done on your mobile Internet appliance from Starbuck's or Panera Bread. Among the benefits are the ability to schedule posts in the future and customizable feeds that let you track what people are saying about your organization.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Think of it as TiVo ® for Social Media on the Internet: People can get precisely what content they want, whenever they want it. The track name, artist, and album are the most important fields to complete, but don’t forget to change the genre to "Podcast", as well. The ID3 tags help identify the file when it is being played.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2007

Other projects take more care and feeding, and you might have to take it to the vet. Technorati Tags: nptech , opensource { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Chris Blow 04.24.07 at 10:00 am Free. brilliant. 2 Clint Young 05.11.07 at 2:26 am Wow – Finally something I can use to illustrate the difference!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 2, 2007

My tip (more of a request): I’d love to hear more about your perspectives on how technology can help (or hinder) organizational management, dynamics, and change. Also, a minor technological thing – the RSS feed is a bit wonky sometimes (strange formatting, and it’s not always clear when there are new items.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

My favorite quote: “A mutual understanding between the nonprofit organization and the database implementer that converting a database involves organizational change, and this can be stressful and threatening for employees. Technorati Tags: carnival , data management , nptech { 2 trackbacks } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.13.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

My favorite quote: “A mutual understanding between the nonprofit organization and the database implementer that converting a database involves organizational change, and this can be stressful and threatening for employees. Technorati Tags: carnival , data management , nptech { 2 trackbacks } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.13.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Mashing and burning feeds ? It made me think of Dave Winer's post about digital preservation and the nptech history wiki. NpTech Random Bytes Susie's Blog gives up a Joomla and a fashion prediction crocs are out, the template has been loaded. Frogloop has a brief report from this week's Internet Advocacy Roundtable.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2010

Since that epiphany, I have worked to actively change the nature of the reports themselves. Feed your curiosity. Did your organization put out a huge, game-changing press release? Make a few changes each month. Bit by bit, colleagues in your organization will begin to see the value in these changes. [1]You

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Much has changed with regard to fundraising and “friendraising” during the 12 years I have been a professional fundraiser, the most obvious being the use of technology. It also started Facebook and Twitter feeds to allow volunteer hosts find one another and discuss their party plans. Adrienne D. How do you appropriately implement them?

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

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!" The sea-change in nonprofit adoption of APIs has yet to occur. But widgets are just the beginning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. If you are interested in community plumbing, here's rough diagram , although it might have changed since a few days ago. applications have changed the rules of online community. Maybe we need an NPtech History Archive ?

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Care2

MARCH 3, 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!" As an aggregator of postings based on followers and search terms, Twitter has become an Internet magnet.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2005

How can you possibly keep up with all the new little internet-based software applications being placed online everyday? Emily Change is an award-winning web developer, designer, and consultant based in San Francisco. Tags: web2.0 , nptech There are a few web-sites devoted to serving as portals to all these new apps. Techcrunch.

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Care2

JUNE 17, 2008

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!" It’s called “ Communicating with Congress: How the Internet Has Changed Citizen Engagement.”

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 22, 2006

Example: NetSquared's blog is a community blog that anyone can post to about resources, events and information related to how nonprofits and NGOs can use the social web for social change. Blog readers are 11 percent more likely than the average Internet user to have incomes of or greater than $75,000. blogging nonprofits net2 nptech

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I have some static resources there, several dynamic resources (like syndicated feeds of certain categories of my Furl archive and the main column of posts or articles. I set them up with a nice looking site, ancillary services like a traffic monitor, email-subscribe service, RSS feeds and explanation, syndicated headlines from elsewhere, etc.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Open source software reacts to rapidly changing technology. Technology moves at a fantastic rate, and as applications on the Internet become more interconnected, it becomes harder to rely on or wait for proprietary solutions to provide access to, for example, the latest changes in Facebook's API, Flickr, or YouTube.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

In the beginning, maybe you just had patience, perseverance, and a love of -- or at least a lack of fear of -- computers and the Internet. Initially, the shift from "accidental techie" to a career NPtechie is more about a change in your own attitude than anything else. Johanna Bates, Community Partners. TechSoup.org.

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Care2

MAY 4, 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!" With so many great panels to choose from it was a challenge to come up with my top 10 panels to check out.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

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!" 1 Comment | by Share Article in Marketing Research Reader Comments (1) Just browsing the internet.

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TechImpact

APRIL 8, 2014

Twitter is one of the most saturated places on the internet. Following too few accounts will not allow you to fully utilize the platform, while following too many can over-saturate your feed, making it impossible to find the pertinent content. This innovative feed provides information about the always changing Facebook algorithm.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

About 100,000 new weblogs were created each day According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project report, "Bloggers: A Portrait of the Internet’s New Storytellers" from July 2006: 8% of Internet users, or about 12 million American adults, keep a blog. 39% of Internet users, or about 57 million American adults, read blogs.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 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!" Panelist: Julie Barko Germany, Director, Institute for Politics Democracy & the Internet 9.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 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!" In the words of Vinay Bhagat, CEO of Convio : “Donors increasingly prefer online channels.

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Care2

OCTOBER 18, 2007

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!" and see how many weeks of food, for a family of four, your donation could provide.

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Care2

APRIL 14, 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!" RSS feeds are your friends. Monitor the Results. Then Turn the Frown Upside Down.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 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!" In the words of Vinay Bhagat, CEO of Convio : “Donors increasingly prefer online channels.

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sgEngage

MARCH 18, 2011

This morning things start off with the opening plenary by Dan Heath , co-author of Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard. The session will feature a high-level panel including Steve MacLaughlin , Blackbaud’s director of Internet solutions; Jeff Patrick, president and founder of Common Knowledge; and Holly Ross, CEO of NTEN.

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