Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 23, 2011

Right now, there is an alpha release for Drupal 6, which is alpha in that very humble open source sense – it’s being used in quite a number of production sites. Currently does not use the Salesforce Suite API, and cannot be used on the same site as the Salesforce Suite, but hopefully that will change soon.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2011

These best practices serve as a foundation for upgrading your website to be compatible with the Social Web and are then elaborated upon in the upcoming webinar How Nonprofits Can Successfully Utilize Online Fundraising and e-Newsletters. Have a Simple, Visually Powerful Web 2.0 Icons and buttons have strong appeal and impact in Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2011

Historypin is a new (and free) application for Android, iPhone, or the web that arranges photos, videos, and text in the context of time and location (leveraging the Google Maps API). You can, as with traditional blogs, have a site that shares your posts with the world. Historypin. You do need a Twitter account to use it.

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Byte Technology

MAY 10, 2017

It also features custom widgets and navigation menus—a nice asset to help people find their way around your site—as well as specially-designed sections to add employee profiles, photo galleries and examples from your company’s portfolio.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

According to the American Red Cross , A recent Red Cross survey asked 1,058 adults about their use of social media sites in emergency situations. There were also many sites so a searcher would have to go through several and sort through the many different search protocols and syntax. Thousands of reports were placed via SMS.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

My slides covered the tools and apps for the back stage side of energizing your community. Since my slides are mostly screen shots, I’ve shared a bit of context below. Some things I recommend watching for: Don’t only pay attention to what people are doing on your site, but watch where traffic is coming from!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

I am firm believer that social media will be the foundation of the Mobile Web and the book was written to help prepare nonprofits for the coming shift from desktop and social to social and mobile. Create a “Text-to-Subscribe” Graphic for Social Networking Sites. Therefore, do not link to your desktop site in text messages!

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Kundra spoke at our Web Executive Seminar last year, " Web Sites Without Walls." His slides from our event (with audio) are available below: Creating the Digital Public Square View more presentations from forumone. We were impressed with the innovation he has fostered in DC government as we've blogged previously.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2010

But I’d like it to be seen for what it is: there are tons of presentation resources (slides, notes, videos, etc.), As I’ve been meaning to revamp the site for a couple years now, I knew that getting to done on this project would take more than myself! and any other feedback you have about doing a redesign of this site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

SXSW Poetry Slam Slides View more presentations from kanter. A little birdy told the web team "We should use a twitter stream". On the social sites that are intuitively fantastic for good rapport. looked at site views and hits. Change design to mimic look and feel of official site. Forget this, `Nevermore.'.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

When possible, I get a list of attendees at workshops or conferences, and I visit their web sites and social media outposts. So making the audience part of the slide deck and inviting commentary surfaces the wisdom and knowledge in the room. These ideas are illustrated in the slides below. Example: Red Cross.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

This week, Guide Creative presented a whole series on the most important elements of web design and visual strategy. Test your current site: Use online or onsite usability testing to learn what information your users look for on your website and how easy it is for them to find it. and identify their top three tasks on your site.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

The site, which serves as a learning and sharing center for nonprofits and social change organizations, debuted today at [link]. We’re here to help nonprofits master the social Web to bring about meaningful social change,” said J.D. Socialbrite.org is launching with a rich set of resources: A directory of Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2007

What you're seeing above is a visualization of sharing intensity - this was the slide I took out of my presentation for the Bridge Conference Presentation earlier this week. has a facebook app, Steve Garfield pointed me to this TubeMogul post about the lack of standards in video viewing metrics on the web. (He time on site.???

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Forum One

OCTOBER 7, 2007

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2008

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Gavin Clabaugh tells us how to embed "Skype Presence" in a SharePoint Web Part. For a step-by-step tutorial on SEO techniques for nonprofits, Wild Apricot's 30 Day Guide to Search Optimization is a good choice, while Search EngineLand site is probably the subject matter expert of choice. for NGOs there.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 31, 2007

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2008

   The topics addressed include: Building Web Presence.   Where does social media time/money fit within the overall web marketing budget?  via my social network I stumbled upon colleague  Stephen Blyth musing about allocating money on a nonprofit web's strategy. The Social Opportunity.

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Forum One

MARCH 6, 2008

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 10, 2007

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Forum One

JULY 10, 2008

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Forum One

AUGUST 25, 2008

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Forum One

MARCH 13, 2008

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Forum One

MAY 1, 2008

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2008

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Forum One

JANUARY 11, 2008

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Forum One

MARCH 12, 2008

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Also, there is secondary data to review and your web site analytics. View more presentations from Kyoo Slides. Making your web site readable on a mobile phone can be as easy as picking low hanging fruit , especially for blogs using WP platform. What phones and apps are they using? Qwerty Monsters.

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Forum One

JULY 30, 2007

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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