Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2011

Check out the full agenda , get the Millennial Donor Study report , and register today ! I’m part of the blogging team who will be posting coverage of the sessions – notes, commentary, and reflections – throughout the day of the event. Be sure to check back on June 22nd to get content as it happens!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2010

Allison Fine and I have completed the assessment and reflection paper for 2009 America’s Giving Challenge for the Case Foundation. Allison and I wrote the reflection paper for the first challenge. You find the report, blog posts, and archived videos over at the Case Foundation site here.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 28, 2023

Design a program that reflects the customized service you want to deliver and the quality of outreach you want to produce. My first bit of advice is, don’t treat recruiting these experts casually. They will be representing your organization. Someone with the wrong attitude or who doesn’t understand the goals can do more harm than good.

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NTEN

AUGUST 11, 2010

Flickr: kool_skatkat Last month, NTEN's Executive Director, Holly Ross, posted a provocative article on our blog: " Rebranding the Accidental Techie." " There emerged in this discussion thread a "case study," that I felt was both inspiring and instructive. pursuing other things."

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

Now, as we reflect upon the Ides of March, we must take stock of not only the day’s symbolism, but also what it means for our own organizations. However, as a leader, he is now a case study in failure of most epic proportion. The post Beware the Ides of March: A Lesson For All Leaders first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 28, 2022

As 2022 comes to a close and we are excited for 2023, we have spent time reflecting on the past year and all we have accomplished. From digital strategy and communications trends to preparing for Drupal 10 and Google Analytics 4, here are 5 of our most-read blogs from 2022: Mapping Your Digital Ecosystem. Case Studies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2013

Note from Beth: If I could wave a magic wand, and ask for a wish related to my work to come true, it would be this: I’d like to spend a year to attend conferences where I don’t know a lot of the content or people and learn and network and blog about the experience. Reflections and Notes from Personal Democracy Forum 2013.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

Some reflections: Health Organizations: Social Media. 2. Living Case Study Technique: Assessment also helps find examples from the participants themselves. I introduced some concepts about Social Media ROI and steps to making a case. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Next, we did a role-play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2013

It covered maturity of practice in social media and measurement and brief case studies of advanced practitioners including Humane Society , UpWell , and DoSomething. His thoughts are shared in this follow up blog post and I captured the main points as Tweets in this Storify.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs. We did a sessions on measurement, integrated content strategy, and content for blogs. Quiet Reflection: Socoot. 1. Facilitating Tri-Lingual Events: Not Lost in Translation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

It was fun to feature local participants as living case studies. Here’s an example from the Food Bank of Monterey County , a Lucile and David Packard Grantee that I’m coaching this year. The second session, a month later, was focused on social media strategy to support the overall communications strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Specifically, the workshop will be focused on: Introducing and applying network tools, frameworks, and case studies that can help network leaders assess their effectiveness and increase their impact. My personal blog was getting more hits than our organization's web site.". "We Facilitating peer-learning and exchange.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Filled with relatable case studies from top-performing individuals and companies—including Tim Cook, Starbucks, and Microsoft—Briceño lays out crisp, clear tactics for constant learning that will take your team to the next level and create a culture of high performance. All too often, it just leaves us exhausted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2010

Q3: What are some of the best case studies of NPO’s using Social and what was the impact? (Backstory: we know they have time and need money / sometimes volunteers. Can social help this & how?). Q2: What is the easiest way for an NPO to figure out how to do social? Prior to the chat, Jason Breed wrote this post about the chat.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Justice over greatness: A new year’s reflection. Equity in the Center: Video Case Studies. Reflections on a Conference for Well-Intentioned Funders: We can do better. Tools: Reflective structured dialogue. General Operating Support and Relinquishing the Illusion of Control. Bay Area Equity Atlas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Here's some reflections: Thoughtful, Intentional Experiments Thoughtful experimentation is setting up a low-risk experiment with metrics to figure out what is and isn't working is a social media best practice. Ashely shared a mini case study about their Pacifier Campaign.

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Bonterra

AUGUST 15, 2022

Everything we talk about and do together has a shared sense of mission and purpose that I haven’t found anywhere else. Learn more about Volunteerism Giving and Matching Streamline charitable giving programs to help you make a positive difference in the world.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

I spent the weekend queuing up posts for my forthcoming blog-cation--nine weeks of guest posts and reruns from the Museum 2.0 I''ve never taken a break from blogging before. Every week for almost seven years, I''ve made sure to get new content up on the blog. And that got me thinking about why I blog in the first place.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It’s important to note that your team should always review ChatGPT’s output to ensure it reflects your brand voice and gives it a human touch that your audience wants to engage with. The post 6 Ways to Create Buzz Around Your Charity Golf Tournament first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 31, 2022

In this blog post, we’ll compare performance, creative approach, strategies, tactics, and process. Seasonal Reasons – Shorter days, colder weather, and the year coming to a close present a seasonal cue for less activity, a time for reflection, and positive changes we want to see in our futures. Read the full case study here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

I've been in brainstorm mode for a panel called Social and Nonprofits ROI: Case Study Slam that I submitted. This is a new and improved version of the Social Media Case Study Slam I organized at the NTC last year. I think the judges should offer a brief reflection in response. What do you think?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 17, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Thanks for the post, Marcia! Dave was a fellow panelist. Her round up includes the slides we used in the session as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Michelle Martin who writes the Bamboo blog was one of the first bloggers I connected with that was interested in peer learning, reflecting, and training design. She recently took a deep dive into reflective practice and techniques. Living Case Study: The living case study is when you make participants part of the content.

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Candid

JULY 1, 2021

In this blog, we identify three current challenges we’ve encountered in tracking corporate pledges and offer a call to action for future corporate giving. . A case study approach to the largest corporate pledges . Among the ten pledges we examined, the vast majority reflect direct giving by corporations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2012

Peer Case Studies. The main part of the call featured case studies by peer grantees who shared their strategies for social media integration, measurable objectives, measurement, and social media techniques, particularly use of Twitter. I always incorporate some sort of reflection.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

He provides you proven techniques, workshop processes, real-world case studies and examples and insightful observations from business leaders and his own career – which includes 20 years as an executive at IBM and CFO positions at Cisco and Red Hat. Finally, and most importantly, behaviors and decisions reflect character.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

We can learn through reflection and come to deeper understandings. However, in the push towards impact, philanthropy has adopted a laundry list of activities—landscape scans, focus groups, case studies, logic models—to help in figuring out what is important to know to “do good” better. Learning, we do naturally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

The chapter includes detailed checklists, case studies, and how-to steps for analyzing ROI for nonprofit technology projects. I just finished my session on ROI as part of the Online Nonprofit Technology Conference - a two-day virtual conference. I presented on ROI and Nonprofit Technology. that I've created.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2007

I'm slowly blogging the posts, videos, and photos that I captured last week along with some reflections. I could barely utter two words let alone blog about it. That's why I'm so happy to see the well-written article that Ali posted on the NTEN blog. I'm feeling a case study coming on.

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NTEN

MARCH 28, 2011

Last week, as I emerged from the post-conference haze of catching up on sleep and clearing my in-box, I started reading through blog posts from attendees and speakers. If I missed your blog post, I'm sorry! Then I couldn't stop! There are SO many posts to read that I figured I should round them all up in one place and share them.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

Two weeks ago I shared a couple reflections that I had on a recent #4change chat about community building – the major output from that chat and the follow up blog post was the call I heard for a regular opportunity to talk about community building. Monthly Community Builder Chats.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 15, 2011

It's that time of year when many of us reflect on the work we've accomplished over the year. TIME Magazine reflected and determined this was the year of "The Protester." On our Facebook page , our community is reflecting on their technology accomplishments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2014

That’s is the practice of working out loud and it has many benefits from helping productivity to encouraging reflective practice. A new comfort with transparency combined with easy access to online social networking tools, makes it easy to share what we do, but also how we do it. Impact and Excellence by Sheri Chaney Jones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. Including some posts that have appeared on this blog.) Photo by Beth Kanter. Networks'

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The Storytelling Non-profit

MAY 3, 2022

Watch the video version of this blog post below or read on for all the details. Pro Tip: Create a backup plan for your fundraising campaign in case you might have to implement it. Download the case study below. Are you working on your year-end campaign or building up a new seasonal campaign?Let Don’t be shy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Each module had a trainer’s guide and materials that was provided to the training teams in each country who customized the material — translated into French or Arabic and localized case studies. Each country team communicated with each other through an online site where the trainers shared lessons learned and ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? What worked? What didn't? The report out was amazing.

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