Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

India Social Entrepreneurship Journey, February 2010 Contest - Please support me! Outside of NetSquared, I am a trainer, blogger and facilitator as well as the co-author of Social by Social: a practical guide to using technology for social impact.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

What you should do Make an assessment – will using this online tool really save money or time, or facilitate collaboration in ways that is not possible with local apps? And, further, efforts like Adobe AIR, and Microsoft Silverlight , are bringing full-fledged desktop application functionality to applications in the cloud.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 19, 2009

This past Saturday at the SHINE09 unconferance , David Wilcox , Andy Gibson , Drew Mackie and I facilitated a version of what was called the Social Collaboration Game. Obviously lots to talk about and we are really excited to facilitate the game in more contexts and with other groups!

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Through a session on organizational effectiveness at Bank of America’s Neighborhood Excellence Initiative, Kramer (2010) identified 52 on-the-job leadership development opportunities nonprofits can employ at no cost to the organization. Planning and facilitating fundraising events. 2010, October). 2016, September 08).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Jonny will provide live graphic facilitation of the highly interactive and fun panel. The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 11-15, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. In addition to the graphic facilitation, there will be other interactive learning elements. Trust me.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

So the Community Science Workshop model is to put a drop-in, FREE community science center in a place that is walkable to kids'' lives and schools. I came on in 2010 to start the statewide nonprofit network. We''re really different from traditional science centers in our funding model. We don''t have paying members.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2011

This vastly improves the management and allocation of financial and environmental resources and facilitate technology-enabled breakthroughs on climate change and disease outbreaks. ” Coined the doom decade (2010-2020), (so we are actually living in it. They do more work locally than globally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

We wanted to equip users with the tools to choose organizations and projects that matched their criteria or decision set, and to facilitate that, we needed to be inclusive. Tell us about GuideStar’s role in helping NGOs get their messages to their audience and how does WhatsApp facilitate this?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 23, 2010

The “smooth” part refers to ClientTrack’s ability to facilitate (i.e., In summary, collaboration is critical because a client-centric approach, tied into a community of resources through technology, facilitates simplified, whole solutions that can be evaluated based on system-wide outcomes. What’s ahead for you in 2010?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

Last week I was in Pittsburgh for 2010 GEO National Conference, " Unleashing Philanthropy's Potential: Smarter Grantmaking for Better Results." This format is different from the traditional conference model of panels and speeches because participants get an opportunity to have a conversation about the topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2014

In 2010, eager to address these changes, the Levi Strauss Foundation (LSF) launched a program called Pioneers in Justice , offering intense support to a cohort of Bay Area Gen X leaders who had recently become executive directors of legacy social justice organizations. LSF’s Lessons Learned. with her family.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

As I move out of doing implementation, and into more evaluation, planning and facilitation of technology change within organizations, I wanted to spend some time articulating what I have tried my best to practice when I’ve been in a place of providing technology support. In my work people learn evaluative thinking from me.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

What would it be like if we could help nonprofits with the following: Asking whether technology implementations in their organization in the past have really facilitated their mission? How does increasing use of networking technology, on-line presence, and internet communications facilitate or hinder work that is done face to face?

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2013

That’s the complicated part of social change - complicated problems call for complicated solutions, even when our business models force us to focus on one simple arena. In January 2011, at a gathering hosted by TechSoup Global, we began talking about how to model our own ideals.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

A few things I learned from the presentations and discussion: Dan shared a useful 4-step mental model for the progression of how institutions move towards participatory engagement. Finally, museums as "facilitators" of visitors' own experiences and interests. You can view and download all the slides here.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2010

Saturday, December 18, 2010 Great Year-End Advice For Leaders Lynn Flinn of EWF International in Tulsa, OK wrote the following in a recent newsletter. EWF International provides professionally facilitated peer advisory groups for women business owners and executives. Its so powerful I wanted to pass it along.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2011

In late 2010, we started soliciting stories and associated multimedia from wish kids, wish parents, volunteers, medical professionals, donors, celebrities, and general Make-A-Wish fans and began presenting those stories – in their own words – on wish.org. Content Curation. Design Flexibility to Support Seasonal/Topical Campaigns.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

You both just came back from the 2010 West African Women and Water Training in Ghana. MK: So, we just returned from Ghana in West Africa where we convened the 2010 West African Women and Water Training. We had women who had expertise in community organizing, micro-finance, facilitation and leadership development. What was that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

This is a common experience when you attempt to facilitate global presentations, discussions or peer groups. She shared Akili Dada’s model and impact for developing high-potential young women from underprivileged families who are passionate about social change.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

Such information is concealed by big tech cabals who rely on microwork sites to facilitate projects of a secret nature. Modelled on eugenicist theory, the software is used to capture people’s faces and compare the photos to existing databases, with the aim of identifying and locating people – often producing highly racist results.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

New computer and internet technologies would facilitate direct connections between individual users anywhere in the world, using web- based platforms provided by companies like Craigslist, eBay, Airbnb, Uber, and Grubhub. First, they can become a model for creating a true solidarity economy.

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