Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Part of my role as the Global Community Development Manager at NetSquared is to support and grow our offline organizers from around the world. This offline network, called Net Tuesdays, balances the work we do online to connect all those working at the intersection of technology and social impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2010

So, you have decided you need a tool for collaboration or content management. Below I discuss some adoption strategies that you should consider if you plan to launch a collaborative platform or content management system. Every collaboration or content management site needs one. Even better. User adoption is a tricky beast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2012

The book’s co-authors, Beth Kanter and KD Paine will facilitate an updated of the original poetry-slam session with the same four nonprofit leaders about they have used networked strategies and measurement to improve results and transform failure into success. The Nonprofit Narrative - [link] coordinated by Dan Portnoy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

Published the Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we wrote and published the Emerging Leaders Playbook. I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

They include: attention, crap detection, collaboration, networks, and participation. Some points that particularly resonated and that I have been working on myself are: Mindfulness is about becoming aware of how you direct your attention – both online and offline. Rheingold reminds us of the value of becoming a content curator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Instead of getting distracted by the tools and the terminologies, I focus on the four underlying themes in social media, the 4Cs of social media: Content, Collaboration, Community and Collective Intelligence. The Second C: Collaboration. Collaboration can happen at three levels: conversation, co-creation and collective action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

I will continue to practice and explore different ways to use visuals to aid reflection, including data visualization, visual thinking, structured frameworks, graphic facilitation, and more. Most of all, sensing requires discipline, a routine, systems, and being organized.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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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. In addition to the graphic facilitation, there will be other interactive learning elements. Online numbers don’t always equate offline results. Illustration by Jonny Goldstein of my SXSW panel proposal. Check out his illustration of the panel).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. The skills that we are focusing on are “networked leadership” skills both online and offline and working with self and working with others. Flickr Photo by qwrrty. It is basically a pause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Casey Foundation's " Making Connections " initiative Part of the Making Connections core approach uses (offline) social networks. It helps a network get more specific with the work flow which maps to different online collaboration and social media tools. This video is from a local site in Louisville , part of the Annie E.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

being a tool for change facilitation - which it is. But I had to realize that introducing social media as a tool for better collaboration, either across an organization or with outside stakeholders needs to be facilitated. I was struck by his reflections of the Web2.0 projects in organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Peer discussion on use of online tools for collaboration for bounded networks, exploring some of the concepts in Digital Habits (each participant got a copy). But, I'm also interested in improving my skills as a trainer - especially facilitating social learning or learning in public. Putting It Into Practice As a Facilitator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

My role was to facilitate and model new practices and present on a couple of new approaches, such as content curation. We established a hashtag for the event #fflsmart and modeled how you can capture a complete archive with rowfeeder and since content curation was on the agenda, I modeled using storify to capture a curated record of the event.

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

However, learning to properly market online and offline is an important opportunity for organizations. Payment facilitators. This collaboration was arranged through a listing on Nexus Marketing’s HAPO (Help a Partner Out) page. Marketing your mission can be a challenge, especially when you have a lot on your plate.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Over the last few of years I've had a the opportunity to work with a team of intelligent and thoughtful colleagues, speak at conferences, and collaborate with other facilitators and community builders. Amy Sample Ward, Community Development Manager, TechSoup Global.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

I started my talk with a story about why I liked Twitter: It allows me to connect with people in my professional field and have a great conversations or ad hoc collaborations that improve practice. Not only does this help me frame and tailor the talk I give to the audience, but facilitates Twitter conversations before.

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NTEN

JUNE 9, 2011

Just as in the offline world, people are more likely to do something when personally invited. Here are a few best practices for facilitating personal messages between members. Facilitate in-network responses. Make sure that your software's private messages facilitate a private response within the community itself.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

A few that I noted were: Cloud tools facilitate real-time collaboration. Offline synchronization capabilities aren't very good yet. kind of experiment include project management, collaboration tools and online publishing. Cloud Opportunities (The Good Stuff). There are many potential benefits to using cloud tools.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 12, 2013

Our organizers hold monthly offline events for anyone interested in the connection of technology and social impact. They offer an opportunity to convene locally to share ideas, learn from one another and collaborate on projects for real world impact. Highlights from the Community. NetSquared’s Organizers are movers and shakers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Tom and Cecile shared a rich story about culture change, loosing control, building relationships, story telling, multi-channel strategies, engagement techniques, online/offline metrics, and more. They work in collaboration with the communications team. And, yes the whole balancing act of how you facilitate that without controlling it.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

to developing recommendations collaboratively. EPA has also apparently trained 60 people to be trainers in online collaboration. Unbiased information + neutral facilitation are provided. Presented a nice paradigm for to model/plan citizen engagement: from outreach. to information exchange. to agreements. to stakeholder action.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Beth is an expert in facilitating online and offline peer learning, curriculum development based on traditional adult learning theory and other instructional approaches. Collaborate with them and help them collaborate with others. She has trained thousands of nonprofits around the world. Help Gen Z make or collect stuff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

I'm still trying to better understand what it all means for nonprofits and maybe we just say to hell with the technology hype & buzzwords and focus on the value of collaborative outcomes that the Web 2.0 (for for lack of a better word) can facilitate for nonprofits. Poking around J. Kill Cyberspace? to better understand it. :-).

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Recently, over 300 innovators and changemakers interested in the intersection of technology and social benefit work converged for a few days of idea-sharing, learning, and collaboration at NetSquared's annual conference. The 2009 N2Y4 Conference showcased the Featured Projects from NetSquared's Global Challenge focused on mobile technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

This month's Net2 Think Tank question is: How do real-world (offline) events fit into social media conversations and campaigns ? We need offline events to meet each other, bond eye-to-eye, and forge the collaborations that will make our social networks stronger, better connected, and ultimately transformative. Then check out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

I was networking weaving between the offline/online. It was like very primitive version of wiki collaborative organizing. Later, as more and more people created web pages, I would hand facilitate comments and did primitive crowd sourcing. It was before the commercial web. It was all about community. A totally manual blog!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

On February 12, 2009, Twitter users will meet up in over 100 plus cities to socialize offline, meet other Twitter users, enjoy some fun, have a few drinks, and raise money for charity: water. What are the best ways to cultivate relationships with free agent fundraisers and collaborate on fundraisers with them?

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

She’s also the founder of The Rooted Collaborative, which I think she’s going to tell you more about later on. And as Steven mentioned, my baby that I released into the world is The Rooted Collaborative. Y’all are in for a super awesome treat over the next hour or so. She’s the CEO over at Kishshana & Co.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Note from Beth: As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I’ve had the honor of designing and facilitating a “networked capacity building project” for a cluster of grantees, state-based groups, to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. effective use of social media.

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