Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. org inspired him in ways he never imagined." Repair Interview: Joe Solomon of 350.org

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

Here's where I'll be (the links are to MyNTC, the social community site for the conference): New to NTC Orientation (9-10:30 am Thursday) – As an NTEN Member Ambassador, I'll be helping NTEN's fabulous new Membership Director Amy Sample Ward (a perfect choice for this job, don't you think?) I love it.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

We’ll be facilitating a conversation, more than doing a formal presentation, and will focus on the power of crowdsourcing (using our own case study from conducting the Social Media for Social Good case study competition) and the application of social media in nonprofit program delivery. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 24, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Real-time is the fastest way to join the conversation, provide help and information, and direct the messages.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

There was some really rich conversation with lots of great ideas shared and best practices recommended. Get the full transcript here! Question 1 : asked about migrating a community from one tool to another, specifically from listservs to a website/forum.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 7, 2009

Every month, a group called #4Change organizes open & lively conversations about how web-connected communities and our use of social media tools are helping to create change in the world. 4Change Chats are hosted on Twitter – Read “ Join the Conversation ” below for ways to jump into the discussion. Join the Conversation!

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. " Where does Social Media belong on the Org Chart? I don't really recommend firing your marketing manager.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

There were quite a few participants and some really great conversation. I’ve tried to pull out some of the relevant tweets from the Twitter stream to help follow the flow of the conversation in case you missed it. making it about the cause, not the org(s) that’s coordinating it. camp success = met org objective.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Though many orgs flaunt their “lessons learned” they are not all written down, distributed, or accessible depending on the enterprise architecture. The workers on the front lines of the change are often the first to see signs of trouble yet, in most org structures, they have the least interaction with upper management.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

I wanted to use today to focus in on a question recently posed by my good friend Joe Solomon on Twitter : What are the nonprofit/orgs that are working 2 wire the green movement, like what @ netsquared does 4 nonprofits, @ sunfoundation for politics; which orgs are working to expose data, leverage soc media, connect the orgs together?

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Tech Soup

MAY 2, 2013

Hi friends, I've been inspired by this community for a long time - from being mentored by Britt Bravo when first starting a little Net2 chapter in Vancouver (which Elijah van der Giessen and team have turned into something huge and magnificently helpful), to being inspired by Amy Sample Ward to grow conversations and dig deeper.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2010

It was a great start to conversations about what fears or misconceptions still exist about using social media in nonprofit organizations. Taking that conversation as a lead, I would love to examine objections and corresponding responses around collaboration (within organizations and across organization/sectors/geographies).

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Deeper conversations about practice take place in blog comments, webinars, online chats and on Facebook. See Amy Sample Ward's materials on Community Driven Social Impact for more details on strategically planning online communities.). org / blog /2007/03/20/ nptech - tagging - community. What roles are needed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

I still don't know of that many nonprofits using Friendfeed , though, whether as an overall tool or for joining the "nptech" community conversation ( "nptech" is a tag that Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, and others have been using to tag nonprofit technology resources on delicious, twitter, etc., for the last five years or so).

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 18, 2010

I thought that the Twitter feed @abolishcancer, which is the entire org, except for the blog, would be strictly focused on developing a following that had one thing in common- to fight cancer. —– Looking forward to conversation about this story – what are your questions? Do you have an example to share, too?

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Provide them with graphics, sample posts, press releases, email templates and more. While we know that not all orgs have this same brand awareness, we believe that less can be more, that simple can be best. Many orgs create a mix of what is called “soft” and “hard” asks, balancing storytelling with urgency and straightforward requests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2007

Here's a sampling: Notes Tim Fullerton from Oxfam America, We had this same situation happen a couple weeks ago. I know the move by most orgs recently has been to transition over to Facebook (something Oxfam has slowly been doing), but this is very annoying. social networking sites. This profile has existed for about a year.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

It also feels that sometimes genx is being forgotten in this conversations. What are the conversations that should be happening and what advice do you have for organizations on how to be the teacher? Wendy : I think traditional org structures are going to change and aren’t the best.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

How do you involve the org? assessed the conversation and they had a 58% negative blog/conversation ratio (used manual researching, icerocket, forumtracker, search.twitter, etc.), Have you seen examples of your org changing? Discussion: What is your learning process from social media? NWF - there is no failure.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

Who : Facilitating: Amy Sample Ward | NetSquared; Billy Bicket | NetSquared. The NetSquared team will be working the room to activate and facilitate conversations so everyone can enjoy the ride. Listen first and discover where the conversations are! Who : Speakers: Amy Sample Ward | Netsquared; Debra Askanase; Ivan Boothe.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Whether your content is original (you’ve created it yourself) or shared from someone else, the goal is always to get your followers to interact and have a conversation with you. I’ve got more tips on creating great videos along with some samples here. A great place to share educational information about your org and your cause.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

So the question here is, you know, when you look at your workflow, how much of your time is spent actually having these face-to-face conversations with your donors? . The volunteer did not ask for money, but they had a nice pleasant half-hour conversation. . What’s the optimal division of time in that conversation? .

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

And just as quickly as people responded with outrage against Komen, the conversation changed to be about the women who would continue to need support and the services that help them. As Lucy would tweet later, “Pink is a color not an org.” 10 Lessons from Community-Driven Organizing.

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

If they give all of their money to the arts and education and we’re in human services and we have no connection to them, even though they are a well-known name, we might know what they look like, we might’ve had a passing conversation with them at one point, they’re still a fundraising unicorn. Location number two.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 10, 2009

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of December 10th).

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2017

Map your needs to a strategic plan: Leading indicators in our tech investment research that points to an org’s level of effectiveness is whether you can point to the need for tech in their strategic plan.” – Amy Sample Ward , CEO, NTEN. You have to tie the need for technology up to all of your strategic goals.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And here’s just a sample breakdown, $56 billion for individuals and families, $86 billion for health, $211 billion for education and childcare, $40 billion for transportation. But I don’t have any other information besides from an org and operations perspective [inaudible 00:48:27]. There’s more in there. ” .

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

She spends a lot of time doing workshops, helping orgs with communications. In fact, for you, environmental folks listening, special focus on environmental orgs. And I’ll give you a bit more of a sample of this, you know, how can they share what they know? So you can also see when you have these types of conversations.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

Levelator - free, from Conversations Network, takes the raw audio and does the compression and leveling for you to give you a better sound file - this means you are just editing out ums and ahs instead of also editing balance between speakers, etc. Sony Sound Forge - much like audacity but is single track. Hosting Services.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Check out some of his blogs from the conference , where he covers benchmarking data, donor ready patrons, and conversion rates. John Haydon is offering up [FOR FREE] 42 pages of eBook goodness to help you get more traffic, increase search rankings and boost conversions. Have a listen.

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