Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Different brains – visual vs words. As she started putting into practice some great listening practices, she realized that listening was the gateway drug for social media. Staff started to see the value in social media and it led to adoption of tools. —— [link]. Helpful guide tone vs colorful and wordy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2011

He is an amazing speaker, great stories, beautiful visuals , funny, and a mix of solid principles and practical information. One can always learn so much for watching a good speaker! Each speaker had a plethora of practical tips and resources, that I decided to capture some of the best nuggits. What’s not to like about Guy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

The session is designed to answer three questions: Why does collaborative technology overload lead to loss of nonprofit workplace productivity and what are the best practices to avoid it? Adopt Good Practices Around Team Emails. More and more nonprofits are adopting flexible workplace or have remote teams in different cities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

The presentations ended with a reflective practice question that participants could discuss with someone in the room, think about quietly, or tweet using the hashtag #npsmpeer. We adopted a set of Guidelines that TNT created (creative commons) to ENCOURAGE their staff to use social: bit.ly/YQe91n rachelannyes #npsmpeer.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

It is one thing to adopt certain principles for how you will navigate change personally, but things get even more complicated and interesting when you are navigating change management as a unit, group, family, or organization. Practice Adaptability. So, how can we strategically navigate change?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

and Communities of Practice Online Conference. Dorine is currently involved a pilot project for KM4DEV where a community of practice is collaborating on sharing delicious feeds. In the comments, I prodded her to share some of her experience about using tagging as a tool to share resources in a community of practice context.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Second, we are stepping up our efforts to increase the awareness of this critical issue and practical actions that can be taken. Bookshare is helping Kevin— who had suffered a brain injury—to keep up with his school work. I encourage you to read his powerful story on our website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I think that TechSoup Global’s three leaders – Daniel Ben-Horin, Rebecca Massisak, and Marnie Webb – have been modeling this practice. Alan Gunn holds Noel Dickover's number for a discussion about NGO adoption of social media barriers. The next day was all about practice, action, and doing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

The benefits of walking to “clear your brain” or build relationships is not a new leadership technique. The walking at work trend is being more broadly adopted by senior managers, in part because leaders want to get some distance from their always on work styles, with all of the demands of smartphones and laptops.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2012

In fact, Mayo Clinic's mission to "inspire hope and contribute to health and well-being by providing the best care to every patient through integrated clinical practice, education and research" is echoed by providing facilities and services in Second Life. What's in store for future innovation in Second Life?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2007

My brain is tired. I agree in theory, but in practice I have to say it depends. Funny, the next email was from a commentor to a post I did on wiki adoption in organizations. It has been a long day of pondering inbetween rapid attention shifting tasks, dipping into email, pinging IMs, and browsing feeds. Who is the audience?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

If the venue is successful and we share our honest results, won't others want to adopt some of our practices? I was recently discussing this project with an audience research specialist, Peter Linett, who is working on a related project to encourage experimentation and risk-taking in museum practice. Maybe not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

This is a rant and warning against shiny object syndrome and a remember that technology does not drive practice. That technology, in and of itself, can solve the ills of the world. Last year , I heard Jerry Michalski use the metaphor of the global brain in talk about the future.

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Virtual Brain Nonprofit Global 84

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

The I LIKE TO WATCH tag (and feed) identifies provocative, proactive, or practical videos that feature sustainability leaders talking about solutions or what she describes as "Viral video and the bright green future." At first, I thought it was comment spam promoting a porno site but far from it. A girl can dream can't she?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Given my right brained, non-linear and visual way of presenting ideas, I thought it might be helpful to write up a few notes about the above talk. I brainstormed series of equations or theories that represent best practices that nonprofits are using to implement social media. Concerns about adopting social media will no doubt arise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2007

" and analyzing the evolving thinking about technology adoption issues. It was a late afternoon session and I was brain dead. technology tools, strategies, and practices into the workplace. I've been interested in the issues around ngo organizational adoption of web2.0 But a few points he made really stuck me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Social Web and Altruism Nick Booth, high fibre podcasting blog, points us to some fascinating brain research that has discovered the part of the brain responsible for altruism and he links it to why nonprofits should be using the social web to advance their missions. 20 practices. " Web 2.0,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Her brain is constantly at work dreaming up new campaigns, and rather than shying away from being different and taking risks, she embraces it. Is an early adopter. Not only that, but online communities also tend to grow the fastest during the early adoption phase. They have time on their side.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2008

He talks about the impact of too much information on the human brain and considers how the human brain may evolve over time as the Internet matures and the amount of digital information increases. The last chapter offers some practical advice, including the "Be Your Own Filter" and "Give A Hoot Don't Data Pollute."

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Before you can even think about what your team, constituents (when applicable), volunteers, boards, fundraisers, or donors need (feel free to extend that audience to your children, partner, family, friends, neighbors, if it feels right), you absolutely must practice putting your own oxygen mask on first. Get back to basics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

In addition to your consulting practice and the book, can you tell me a little more about yourself. What are their core values that you can tap into to motivate them to adopt healthy or pro-social behaviors? My background is in public health, with an interest in using the mass media to help bring about healthy behavior change.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Kevin Leong was in kindergarten when he experienced an organic brain injury that forced him to relearn everything from walking to using the bathroom. For several years, he struggled in school because his vision was blurry and reading normal size print was grueling. He could no longer keep up with his peers in the classroom.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

To do that, you need to value quality writing as much as you value quality programming, and you need to adopt a culture of quality writing as early in your lifecycle as possible to harness its power and influence. Writing is an art people can do well if they practice. Case Study: The lost art of writing.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

So another way I think about this is like it’s opening up so many tabs in our brain. I’m a little bit embarrassed to talk about mine, but that is happening in our brains too when we start to follow these shiny objects back and forth. My brain just doesn’t work that way.” in 18 months. Mallory: Yeah.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 20, 2023

When your nonprofit uses online fundraising platforms and follows best practices, you can meet your supporters where they are—online—and enable them to give quickly and easily. When people read stories , chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin are released in their brains. 7 Best Practices for Effective Donor Management.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

So another way I think about this is like it’s opening up so many tabs in our brain. I’m a little bit embarrassed to talk about mine, but that is happening in our brains too when we start to follow these shiny objects back and forth. My brain just doesn’t work that way.” Steven, I don’t know if there are any questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

Michael shared some insights into his writing discipline and practice, content filtering approaches, and observations of blogging by and about nonprofits. The main correction that I offered was for nonprofits to adopt a news page format, with reverse chronological entries linking to deeper content on site and elsewhere online.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 23, 2013

If you asked me a month ago what the biggest barrier was to American arts organizations adopting practices that support active engagement in the arts by diverse participants, I would have said two: money and legitimacy. It meant opportunities for experimental practice. Move the money, and the field will move.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

The final thing here with user adoption and support, and I see this all the time, is let’s say Mary is your data entry person. Adult brains don’t learn new things that easily. What are you kind of seeing in terms of tech and adoption of tools, or what do you think is going to be the next big thing? ” .

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2015

I went on to introduce myself and explain, “I’m an optimist by nature, a psychologist by practice, a marketer by profession, and a self proclaimed Practitioner of Awesome by design.” It’s all true. The research also shows that happiness can be cultivated and optimism can be learned and developed.

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