Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2009

"OpenMRS® is a community-developed, open-source, enterprise electronic medical record system framework. However, many women in technology and social media still face a digital ceiling." Understand the importance of both community size and data ownership in your social network strategy."

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 30, 2009

FreePress , Democracy In Action , Rad Campaign , Convio , Care2 , NTEN , Massey Media and Network Solutions. Don’t miss this year’s telesummitt. More details on the after parties soon. Our sponsors help make this event possible. A big thank you goes out to them. Questions, comments?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology WeAreMedia Project August 13, 2008 Yet another great NTEN project is happening, spearheaded by Beth Kanter, to develop a Social Media toolkit for Nonprofits. I think I can write something up.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

I think people are finally realizing that the current state of affairs – where we can pump data into Facebook and other social networks, but not get data out of them, is untenable. There’s a poll on mashable.com , where the sentiment is most certainly heavily in favor of Facebook opening up the social graph.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Change the Web Challenge is about building innovative tools to help people find and share opportunities to take action on the Web sites, blogs, and social networks that we all visit every day. “We want you to dream up a new tool to help people find and share actions. Learn more about the Challenge & participate!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Google has a number of partners, including social network sites like LinkedIn, Friendster and Ning, as well as Salesforce, which does have very interesting implications given the increasing use of Salesforce in the nonprofit sector. Basically, if the more social network sites that adopt OpenSocial, the more open the whole thing gets.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 18, 2007

I decided to try out facebook when I kept hearing about the integration of other social networking sites into facebook. I’m still not convinced by any of these social network sites not directly linked to content (unlike del.icio.us or flickr) – but it’s fun to play with, anyway. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2008

Beth Kanter asks whether or not we can add some more steps to Chris Brogan’s fabulous 50 steps to create a social media presence. and social network guru for the nptech community. David is always a great source for thoughtful insights about open source. Beth is, of course, THE web 2.0 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. and our own Social Source Commons , are a different animal.) 1 trackback } The Better Scoial Network 08.24.07 at 8:47 am Hi, I floated over from NTEN. 2 admin 08.08.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

A story about Rapleaf in Clickz (a newsletter for online marketers) says this : Rapleaf allows you to quickly and inexpensively find out the social networking footprint of those you’re marketing to. Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

I’ve critiqued Twitter and social networks in general. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Why I’m twittering December 7, 2007 Yes, it’s hard to believe. I succumbed. I have said many times that I wouldn’t Twitter.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Basically, it means that the data that you put into social networking sites, like profiles, social graph (those who you are connected to,) media, etc. I’ll be doing an entry soon, sort of “how social networks could use open standards 101.&# So first, what is data portability? Be Helpful.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

There are two major hurdles that must be overcome for an online community to succeed: the selection of appropriate community (or "social-networking") features that make sense for the community in question, and, secondly, actually implementing those features in your online application. The Kitchen Sink Social Networking Site.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

I’ve been reading Matt Asay’s blog on open source business models, and he has an interesting post which suggests that writing documentation is a good marketing strategy ! Also, they have a very interesting ROI calculator for social networks that is worth a look. { Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

With video conferencing, broadband, and Second Life, well, we can all safely stay ensconced in our own virtual-reality-sensory-deprivation-tanks and just digitally dance the salsa at the next NTEN gathering.??? Social Media Roundup There are places in the world where YouTube has been banned, including Turkey and Thailand.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2010

NTEN is People! Flickr: kalabird) (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . > NTEN Facebook Page. Members are in bold.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

And, of course there is still Salesforce.com, as well as the developing realm of free and open source options, like CiviCRM. It will be interesting to watch what happens with Kintera, and especially, what happens with their APIs. And how will Convio react? It’s going to get interesting, for sure. 2 Anonymous 06.13.08 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

It’s new and updated for the realities of the nonprofit technology and free and open source worlds of 2007. The primer, which will show up in just electronic form, also has a very cool implementation of a great open API that we’ll be crowing about soon (my lips are sealed right now.) One of which is called Elgg.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

My workflow does involve the web, for sure, but I can only keep up with so many social networking sites of varied uses (social bookmarking, social networking like Linked in, community blogs etc. But why don’t I sign up for a Twitter account, and, well, Twitter? Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 24, 2007

And, now that there is beginning to be a real movement toward open social networks, I’m really interested in that, and will be writing about that as it develops. I don’t think of myself as a Web 2.0 blogger, even though I do end up talking a fair bit about it anyway. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

There is a post forthcoming where I vent my social networking curmudgeonness.) Building open social networks – This is a great article on O’Reilly Radar about opening up the “social graph&# – it’s worth a look. I’m still on the fence about this concept in general.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

She’s a brilliant academic who studies social networks. On one hand, I’m excited to announce that my article “Facebook’s Privacy Trainwreck: Exposure, Invasion, and Social Convergence&# has been published in Convergence 14(1) (special issue edited by Henry Jenkins and Mark Deuze). know danah boyd.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

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. Remember, it's not the level , but whether it is a match to your audience.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Flickr Commons Project: Smithsonian Institution I've been neglecting my Member News roundups, but it's not because I don't care -- it's a combination of you guys all being super active and NTEN being consumed by NTC prep. Interestingly, social media comes last.). It's nice to see NTEN members playing well together!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

I think that Twitter is, in many ways, a harbinger of the future – I think eventually, a lot of things that happen between people over the net will work a lot like twitter, even if it’s not actually twitter – social networks carrying short snippets of people’s thoughts, ideas and events. 7 blogcoach 11.22.08

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2009

Here's the official low-down: Get up to speed on dozens of free and open-source projects driving innovation in cloud computing, Web application development, social and collaborative technologies, and more. Social and Collaborative Platforms - Social networks and Web 2.0 Register today!

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NTEN

MAY 6, 2009

Holly Ross of NTEN. Check out these awesome panels: Social Media ROI. Women and Open Source. Social Networks and Diversity Barriers. Tags: NPTech NTEN WWT. Deanna Zandt. Rebecca Moore of Google Earth Outreach. and so much more. When : May 12, 2009. Panels run from 11AM EDT to 6PM EDT. Video Activism.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

world where many organizations still weren’t even networked, still used dial-up internet connections, and had websites written in the earliest version of Front Page, or were done by the CFO’s nephew. .&# This was in the solidly web 1.0 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I know that’s one more thing in a long list of considerations (and it’s generally more important to think about for the CRM – the CMS, if it is modern, and especially if it is open source, will provide few barriers to integration.) at 3:50 pm CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) 01.26.09 7 Jon Stahl 01.20.09

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NTEN

AUGUST 26, 2010

We're always looking to balance sessions across tracks, open source v. ROI of Social Networking. Women and Open Source and Identity. As you know, we're just about done collecting your great session ideas for the 11NTC right now (deadline: August 27). It's a balancing act -- literally. Female Ferocity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

What is Openness? While some headlines might proclaim that Open Source is meaningless in the nonprofit sector, the issues as Holly Ross of NTEN says, "The question isn't really about open source, but about openness." " So, how do you explain Open Social to your executive director?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Personal Fundraising and Open Source Deductions Article in the Seattle Times about personal fundraising, Hoping To Help Darfur $1 at a Time that focuses on Darfurwall.org that has successfully raiased $30,000 in very small donations - $1 per person. Wikis, Widgets and Social Networking Do you think there are too many freaking widgets

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2008

" I'm beginning a project with NTEN in the next few weeks that focuses on social media, nonprofits, and curriculum development. We'll be using a wiki to create and house the curriculum materials which will be open source.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NTEN's Call for NTC Sessions - Deadline October 24th. Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. Which is worse, email overload or social networking fatigue. WSJ article " Will Social Features Make Email Sexy Again?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. What we often think of as "social media" has given way to a larger movement, known as the Real-Time Web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. We have the NPTech Meta Tag Feed (which aggregates about dozen feeds of NpTech tagged items and I'm still using for various reasons); Kikono.org (which uses an NpTech feed and digg like features) and now we have the two pipes from NTEN - the NTC pipe and the NpTech Pipe.

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