Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Slideshare reminds me of YouTube in that many nonprofits and even individuals use YouTube as the online storage space for videos that they plan to embed on their website or blog and otherwise share across the web. It’s also noteworthy the high percentage of business and organizational leaders using Slideshare.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2012

Hot Button Issues at SXSW: Kony and Homeless Hotspots. Schipul, a web marketing agency based in Houston, Texas, announced yesterday during the 2012 South by Southwest Interactive festival that Tendenci, a content management system (CMS) will be released as an open source solution. This topic was especially relevant….

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NetWits

MARCH 11, 2012

Through the Start Something Web Series they’re shedding light on the impact that Bigs have on Littles by telling their story through quality video they publish on their YouTube channel, share on their website and talk about on Facebook. They’ve been at it since 1984 and with the Invisible Dogs Campaign they’ve stayed true to that mission.

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The Fundraising Authority

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Finally, a nonprofit providing housing and support to homeless individuals and families is using maps to show the locations of their shelters and the areas where they have the greatest need for additional resources. It is a good solution for displaying simple, static maps that illustrate the work of a nonprofit and the areas they serve.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Sponsored White Paper By Adva Priso Chief Strategy Officer Moore Digital Organic web traffic from search could be halved by 2028, with a massive impact on nonprofit marketers, according to research and strategy firm Gartner. This is for two reasons. You can use AI to assist in content creation. But dont forget who you are.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Remember the homeless avatar in Second Life that got a lot of attention a few weeks back? Mensajeros de la Paz with a virtual homeless kid has received enough Money to. According to the web site, that is 20 Euros per month. ). blogs and popular websites, generating visits to the video and the web, and. The homeless.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2014

Example using the issue of homelessness: First, use an infographic, picture, or video of homeless people begging for money from drive-by cars or pedestrians. Show how “heart-driven” donations may be spent on beer/alcohol and misused by the homeless. Next use an infographic, picture, or video of homeless people.

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VisionLink

MARCH 21, 2012

This summary information can also be formatted to match the look and feel of the customer''s web site to keep the look and feel aligned. For our homeless management (HMIS) work, we have been making many more, and more substantive enhancements to the Form Builder. Now what we think should be summarized is not such a constraint.

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VisionLink

APRIL 24, 2010

We have a new White Paper on the Thought Leadership section of our main VisionLink Web Site : Non Profits Sharing Data: Increasing Effectiveness Through Data Exchange As we work with a wide variety of social services, homeless management, elder care, 2-1-1s, disaster relief, volunteer, and donation networks, we often find ourselves at the center of (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2013

I caught up with Danny Alpert at the NTC Conference in Minneapolis, MN where he briefed me on how he is using a “Transmedia” strategy to raise awareness and funding to support homeless services. He graciously agreed to pen this guest post while I was in transit to “down under.” ” Enjoy.

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

And more—many of these 211s serve as the first point of contact during disasters, offer specialized screenings for the homeless, kinship care programs, senior citizen inquiries, and special programs that connect with addiction recovery, workforce needs, early childhood assistance, veterans assistance, crisis hotlines and so much more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2011

This year’s Day of Service featured three different projects – a computer recycling project and installation of a wireless network in Washington, DC’s largest homeless shelter and meal preparation at DC Central Kitchen. Approximately 100 volunteers participated in service activities. Tech Recycling Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Photo by Salim Virgi The social web offers a welcome place for individual philanthropic activity (original homeless image by jlmccoy ).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The language we use September 6, 2006 I came across, in my catching up period, an article titled " Ten ways to change the world with Web 2.0 Are there actually really any fewer homeless people?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Take for example Big Warm Up , a campaign by Lands End to encourage people to donate winter coats to homeless people. This cause-related campaign has a big fancy web site and nonprofit partners. Some will launch sooner, while others have already swung into action. Whenever I get this question, I wonder myself.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2014

High-Tech Help for Homelessness. Why would a homeless person need a mobile phone? A recent study by California nonprofit Community Technology Alliance found that almost 70% of the homeless people surveyed in their county did have a mobile phone. For one thing, phones allow them to look for work, housing, or medical help.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

According to NBC ’s report, one school district had an Excel sheet called “Basic student information” posted to the dark web after it refused to pay a ransom, according to the FBI’s instructions.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 7, 2011

There's the "program" side that wants to tell you all the amazing ways your programs help save homeless pets, feed the hungry, find cures, protect our children, or empower women. While often a complicated web of messaging, it's a necessary evil when many departments must relay information using a single corporate website.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2015

So when you make your ask, you’re shouldn’t be requesting that a donor help your specific group but rather help with your end goal, whether it be saving wildlife, feeding the hungry, housing the homeless etc.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 31, 2009

Hi Have Fun * Do Gooders - Below are two things I thought might interest some of you: *Change the Web Challenge * Social Actions Change the Web Challenge will award cash prizes to developers who create the best web applications from the Social Actions API. social change web api developer change.org blog job

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

An organisation can register an account on M-Changa and within 5 minutes they’ll have their own web page to accept payments using Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and mobile money. 103 donors whose top 5 causes are children and youth (23%), hunger and homelessness (15%), women and girls (12%), health and wellness (11%), and education (8%).

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

This year's Day of Service featured three different projects - a computer recycling project and installation of a wireless network in Washington, DC's largest homeless shelter and meal preparation at DC Central Kitchen. Approximately 100 volunteers participated in service activities. Event 360 was a sponsor for the Day of Service.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Politically, Denver’s local government has championed social causes, including increased gun control, LGBT rights and programs for the homeless. A quality of life that beats Silicon Valley’s.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 17, 2021

Advice for nonprofits on going from web forms to results. Solution: Web to Lead forms. The native Web to Lead function in Salesforce provides a setup wizard to create a form. Only fields available in the Lead object can be used on the web form. Disadvantages: Limited to creating Lead records.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

How many times have you seen a local shop serving as a drop-off point for donations to a homeless shelter or food bank? The post A Sense of Community: The Benefits of the Business-Non-Profit Partnership appeared first on Byte Technology’s Non-Profit Web Design Insights Blog. Or donating a percentage of their sales to a local charity?

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The poem on the Statue of Liberty was a symbol of hope for a better life for European immigrants arriving in New York: ‘ Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free; The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, Tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!’

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Stacked , a web-based platform that provides passive investment tools for retail investors interested in crypto, just announced it raised a $35 million Series A co-led by Alameda Research , a crypto trading firm owned by FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried. Bybit and BitDAO partner Mirana Ventures co-led the round alongside Alameda.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We went from technology belonging to the IT staff, to new media belonging to the young intern, web savvy communications officer, and so on. For example, the Social Actions API pulls together volunteer opportunities and social actions from over 60 different sources – that way we can all re-purpose calls to action from across the web.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2010

Mark Horvarth (who made a brief appearance in my video from yesterday ) has caught a lot of attention with his alluringly simple idea: record homeless people telling their stories and publish them on the internet. Tags: Digital Divide Online Activism Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 His project InvidiblePeople.tv

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2011

We're big fans of the video work Mark Horvath has done with Invisible People , his site dedicated to giving homelessness a name. This is storytelling at its finest, allowing constituents to speak for themselves -- not just to raise funds, but to raise consciousness. And there's no reason your organization can't use video effectively, too. (If

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 31, 2013

5) The startup that donates clothing to the homeless as you shop. You can’t go wrong when you do right, either in technology (Soko is constantly launching new online products to help make the e-commerce transition a smooth one for its vendors) or with this brand.

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2012

Hot Button Issues at SXSW: Kony and Homeless Hotspots. Schipul, a web marketing agency based in Houston, Texas, announced yesterday during the 2012 South by Southwest Interactive festival that Tendenci, a content management system (CMS) will be released as an open source solution. This topic was especially relevant….

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2008

A Practical Guide to Using Web 2.0 I shall use it to dominate the Web 2.0 for poverty, hunger and homeless advocacy and change. s largest food pantry and community kitchen, and they do so much more than just hand out turkeys on Thanksgiving to the homeless. Mobilizing Generation 2.0: Why would we want a free book?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

social media posts and web pages). “Advancements in our integrated data model tighten alignment between our core data sets [for DMOs,] making for faster, more accurate and easier self-service insights across spending, movement, marketing and web data sets.” After all, it was just in August that the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

Note from Beth: Every now and then, I get asked when did you first discover the power of the social web? Even if you have the most awesome web site, campaign, or cause out there, you need a thoughtful and dedicated community behind it in order for it to be successful. to help promote awareness of homelessness in America.

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