Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Last year, I had the unique privilege to help facilitate The Local Philanthropy Workshop with the TechSoup Romania team. Another topic that is of interest and can serve as a valuable launch pad for conversations and information, both for Romanian NGOs and organizations around the world, is a blog. Think blogs are boring?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation this year, I’ve been experimenting with a lot of models for workshop delivery and curriculum for social media. This workshop, graciously hosted by the Community Foundation of Monterey County with support from the Packard Foundation, was a two-part session.

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NTEN

JANUARY 13, 2011

We’ve recruited two rock star storytelling, social media experts, Michaela Hackner and Roger Burks , to head up a 2 hour workshop on Wednesday, March 16 (the night before the official kick-off of the NTC) from 6 - 8 pm. Fill out the workshop application. So, want to be on the 11NTC Storytelling team?

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Charity Village

MARCH 17, 2023

Full disclosure: this blog was supposed to be published last week. This article was previously published by Impact Organizations of Nova Scotia and is reprinted with permission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

As part ongoing work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I am designing, facilitating, and delivering workshops with Compasspoint. Last week, I had the great pleasure of presenting a one-day workshop with colleagues Holly Minch , JD Lasica , Janet Fouts , and Susan Tenby. Morning Session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Update & Review My Work-Life Harmony Plan : In my workshops on personal and organizational wellbeing, I help nonprofits improve their personal resilience. We gave over 50 book talks, fireside chats, webinars, and workshops both in-person and online. Writing : I’ve been writing Beth’s blog since 2004.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

This week I lead a full-day workshop for 300 nonprofits and foundations on social media strategy and tactics. The day was designed as a one-day interactive strategy session in the morning and intensive mini-workshops on tools and tactics in the afternoon lead by a cadre of local social media specialists and experts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 19, 2024

You’ve heard many (many) times that all your nonprofit’s blog and site content should be optimized to drive traffic. But when you’re lean on resources and human power, just producing blog posts and updating your website feels like a miracle, never mind SEO or a content strategy. Search Engine Optimization. But you can change that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Earlier this month I was in Boston for the annual convention for Americans for the Arts where I facilitated a leadership development pre-conference workshop, “Impact without Burnout: Resilient Arts Leaders from the Inside/Out.” When the book is published next fall, I look forward to leading many workshops on the topic!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2020

You should have a repertoire of stretches that you do at your desk throughout the day, but I also like to encourage stretch breaks during virtual meetings workshops, and webinars, especially if they run longer than 60 minutes. The post Simple Ways To Reduce Virtual Fatigue for Nonprofit Leaders first appeared on Beth’s Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Update & Review My Personal Resilience Plan: In my workshops , I help nonprofits improve their personal resilience through life-work balance. Year in Review During the first two months of 2020, I taught workshops and facilitated digital transformation innovation labs in London and Warsaw.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

3) Update & Review My Personal Resilience Plan: In my workshops on resilience, I help nonprofits improve their personal resilience through life-work balance and self-care. I’ve continued to do conference keynotes, workshops and facilitate staff retreats about activating a culture of wellbeing. So stay tuned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits workshop. Participants were a mix of CEOs and senior staff. This blog post is a summary of my notes from the day. Digital Trends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

The second day was a networked leadership workshop that focused on how participants could use their personal brands on social in service of the organization’s mission and practical leadership skills training. The workshop was a tango dance between English and Spanish — and it worked! We did this for 5 minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Update & Review My Work-Life Balance Plan: In my workshops on personal and organizational wellbeing, I help nonprofits improve their personal resilience through life-work balance and self-care. The stress of the pandemic prompted the biggest demand for workshops and speaking engagements, even though these engagements were online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

1. Deep Analysis of Your Audience: I always (try) to do a thorough participant assessment before I teach any workshop or do a presentation. I was able to do a quick content analysis and compare against the rest of the agenda to make sure I covered what the audience wanted without derailing my entire workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Update & Review My Work-Life Balance Plan: In my workshops on personal and organizational wellbeing, I help nonprofits improve their personal resilience through life-work balance and self-care. The stress of the pandemic prompted the biggest demand for workshops and speaking engagements, even though these engagements were online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Social Media Strategy Game Workshop Final View more presentations from kanter. I was in Washington, DC on Tuesday and Wednesday for a two-day workshop is designed for Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights and Justice Leaders, who lead and manage networks or accomplish much of their work through networks. It worked well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Flickr Photo: Illustration of Participant's Learning Questions Earlier this month, we piloted the first two-day workshop on social media strategy and tools for NTEN 's WeAreMedia project. I was pleased with workshop, even though it was the first time and that is always difficult because instruction improves with feedback from learners.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

This is an excerpt from a blog post I wrote quite a while ago that compares the roles of gardeners and landscapers in the context of community building. Best Practice. That’s a pretty simple four steps for being strategic in CDSI. But what are some best practices? Now for the Social by Social game!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2010

Earlier this week I had the opportunity to deliver a half-day training workshop for staff members working at Junior Achievement Offices at their worldwide conference. This workshop is called “ Becoming A Networked Nonprofit: Using Social Media Strategically.&#. Becoming A Networked Nonprofit. Leveraging the Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

When colleague Dan Cohen told me of his recent experience using guided imagery in a social media workshop, I thought it was definitely valuable to share with others. Ellie thought a moment of serenity in the heat of a very intensive training and cohort-building workshop might be a good idea.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

At this year’s Council on Foundations conference in New Orleans, I had the honor of doing a mini-workshop for CEOs of Community Foundations as part of a half-day pre-conference session organized by the Knight Digital Media Center called “Digital Strategies for Community Foundations.”

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

Webinars are awesome, and so are blog posts — but there's a special magic that happens when we get face to face. Bellevue, Washington: Microsoft Azure IoT Workshop. Detroit, Michigan: SeeClickFix Summer Workshop. Detroit, Michigan: SeeClickFix Summer Workshop. Thursday, June 1, 2017. Thursday, June 8, 2017.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

For nearly 50 years, we have been part of Candid’s Funding Information Network (FIN), providing access to nonprofit resources like Foundation Directory , free workshops, and expert staff. The post Connecting Philadelphia nonprofits to crucial resources appeared first on Candid Blog.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 5, 2023

Read our blog for more reasons why you don’t want to miss the S alesforce World Tour in DC. At the Salesforce World Tour, you can hear from industry leaders, watch product demons, and attend expert-led workshops. What is the Salesforce World Tour ? Discover more ways your organization can succeed with innovative technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Last November, I had the pleasure of leading a workshop for a 100 Silicon Valley nonprofit organizations in hosted by Compasspoint and generously supported by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The workshop was filled within 24 hours and there was a waiting list. The workshop.

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Greater Giving

MARCH 22, 2024

Plan an outdoor fundraising event like a Pickleball Tournament , a flower arranging workshop, or a 5K “Spring Sprint” race. The post 4 Ways to Refresh Your Fundraising Strategies for Spring appeared first on Greater Giving Blog. This injects a touch of seasonal fun and attracts a broader audience.

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AccelEvents

JULY 22, 2021

If you want all of your attendees to view one particular session, that large-scale main stage session is for you, but when it is time to break off and digest material on a smaller scale, we have our Breakout and Workshop sessions. Breakout sessions allow unlimited attendees and Workshop sessions allow up to 250 attendees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2006

This week several Cambodian bloggers conducted a workshop on Personal Information Technology at International University. What opportunities do they have to actually go forth and blog - or at least set one up and get to post regularly? I would love to be able to do a workshop like this in Cambodia some day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar for Social Media and Nonprofits at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’ve had the pleasure to do a number of workshops in the area. Last evening, I had the pleasure of presenting a Networked Nonprofit mini-workshop for a group of about 50 local nonprofits and government agencies in Palo Alto (..)

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2012

I wanted to let you know about 4 blogging workshops coming up, in case you're interested. Juicy Blogging Circle: Grow Your Blogging Habit May 16-June 6, 2012 Virtual A fun group blog coaching experience! Each week you'll: Check in with the Circle on a weekly conference call, and/or on the private class blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

I’ve continued to do conference keynotes, workshops and facilitate staff retreats about activating a culture of wellbeing. All in all, I presented or facilitated over 50 keynotes, workshops, and webinars on the topic. I wrote guest posts for many nonprofit publications and blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Over the years, I have developed and refined one-day or half-day workshops on social media strategy and tactics for nonprofits. The add-on to my previous workshops were three "experiment in a box" modules which included Listening , Twitter , and Facebook Fan Pages. Stay tuned for that! Growing My Instructional Chops.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

As Samuels writes in his personal blog , he knew that NCFR was due for a major reinvestment in server hardware in 2015. Using Tech Impact's Office 365 DIY Migration Workshop. " Samuels found the entire Tech Impact Office 365 DIY Migration workshop entirely suitable for an accidental techie like himself.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 31, 2006

In early July, I posted about a Basic Blogging for Women Workshop I'd be teaching this fall, but after talking to some prospective students, I decided that it was important to find a space where everyone could be on a computer, so I changed the date and the venue so that we can be in a computer lab. 125 if received after October 9th.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

This past week was a busy one for leading workshops. I also lead a workshop on social media strategy for communications professionals who work with networks, nonprofits, and foundations. This environment can be a training workshop or it can be in an organization. Photo by Justin Benttinen. My reflections are here.

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