Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Opening up the way we work, collaborating with others to further our reach, and inviting the community to take responsibility for success (by extending opportunities to contribute) all help us build movements and scale up our work. This email group is intended as a conversation space to supplement and support the Global Scale Wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Meetings are a big part of our work week, whether it is a recurring staff, team, or board meeting or informal check-in. What if you tried different processes to increase engagement or productivity? Our meetings are face-to-face, virtually, and a combination of the two known as “hybrid” meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

– Sharing Knowledge Wiki -This wiki was created by The ICT-KM group of the CGIAR and other partners to catalog and document processes for nonprofits that want to share knowledge across partners doing development work. The facilitation methods are participatory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Over at the WeAreMedia Wiki, we have a " Expertise Map " where people self-selected to add their names and in a number of cases share their expertise by contributing to the wiki. I'd like to see a list of people who work as social media strategists as part of their job at a nonprofit or a community manager.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

"We've been working on a job description for a new staff person and have been talking about what software skills we should identify in the job description. But I wanted to flag and watch this wiki. He said and I am wildly paraphrasing. I think this is less important than having the skill to learn new software.

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OCTOBER 21, 2008

It’s called Twitter Voter Report and it brings together a team of techies, Twitter users and a Wiki to aggregate information on voting day. From their website: On November 4th 2008, millions of Americans will go to over 200,000 distinct voting locations and using different systems and machinery to vote.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2011

“ This prompted discussion about the similarities and differences in practice between nonprofits and foundations and how to move to the next level. Projects that didn’t quite work out perfectly. Later, they turn out to be a rich source of learning. The last evaluation of this work was a decade ago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2008

The phrase "Working Wikily" was coined by Lucy Bernholz (I don't know how many phrases she's originated in the nonprofit, social media, and philanthropy - but this one is a gem). What does working wikily mean? We'll be using a wiki to create and house the curriculum materials which will be open source.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 6, 2011

Dokuwiki – my woefully neglected and out of date technology wiki is on Dokuwiki. It’s a wiki, but everything is stored in files instead of a database. The annoying part is that it is one more wiki markup to learn (I wish SOMEONE would finally agree to make a wiki markup standard!!).

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 26, 2008

Since then, a number of different changeblogger tools, communites and events have been created which I encourage you to join, and to invite others to join: 1. Changeblogger wiki to list your changeblog, podcast or vlog (set up by SocialButterfly ). Who is already working on this issue that you think others should support?

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2011

Do you do much of our work online? Working across distributed teams is all about collaborative work with our colleagues who may be in different cities or even countries. At TechSoup, the need for us to all work in the same office is becoming decidedly old school. Why Working In Distributed Teams Is Green.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

You can learn in public in different ways – self-directed individual learning, with a peer group or in an organization, or as a network or entire field practice. . Some are tool specific The Twitter Ladder or the Facebook Ladder or it may describes different levels of engagement across channels. Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2008

Earlier this week, the WeAreMedia project we had an amazing phone call with some of the really smart people who are contributing the wiki (Michelle Murrain, Jocelyn Harmon, John Kenyon, Ben Sheldon, Ruby Sinreich, Amy Sample Ward, Sheetal Singh, and Katya Andersen). More information is here. Prizes will offered too!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

I'm very interested in learning how different types of networks or communities work in a networked way - this whole notion of working wikily. currently very curious about the interplay of blog (as socially contructed time based creatures) and wikis (which. He has a context for what may work and what may not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2011

WORKing Organizations 10 Dimensions. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about applying the “network mindset&# to one’s works, whether that be philanthropy or nonprofits. Going through her wiki connected me back to the thought leaders in this area, like Patti Anklam. Work gets done through individual networks.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

WordPress was born as a blogging tool, primarily, and has expanded outside of that realm, to encompass different kinds of content management use cases. You can’t have different kinds of pages, or different kinds of blog posts, or some other content type (news, events, etc.) that aren’t one or the other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

Social media and working online doesn’t have to be overwhelming; you can take back control. To provide best practices for taming the digital jungle that assaults our brains everyday at work. My Curated Lists and Wikis. Additional Resources. NetSmart: How To Thrive Online. How To Focus in an Age of Distraction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2011

This started in 2008, and as Kathy notes, “We didn’t know what we would learn, or how it would change our own work and our work with grantees. And we are committed to trying many different approaches to help our grantees, and our own staff, understand social media and what it could do for all of us.&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST. Or you could use them to divide the room.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

The specific indicators of program success are below and were identified with input from participants: 100% of participants will develop an integrated and measurable social media strategy that furthers their communications work in population and reproductive health that aligned with institutional goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

Last week I participate on a panel on “ Data Visualization for Nonprofits: A Picture Is Better Than A 1,000 Words ” with Johanna Morariu from Innonet and Brian Kennedy of ChildrenNow. The day of the panel, I published a blog post that shared our slides, wiki, and resources. Also humor, especially with props, works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. Introduction to six different social media tools and techniques for a planning, delivering, and evaluating a training session. First, it saves a lot of paper.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

There’s a good overview of the integration on the developerforce wiki. There is a Plone/Salesforce.com Integration group , that keeps working on this, and a number of organization, including ONE/Northwest , have invested huge amounts of time and resources to working on this integration. from Plone/SF Integration group ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Much more detail outlining the process and the facilitation can be found here: “Wikimedia strategic planning wiki,” [link]. What resulted was a strategic plan that filled 1,470 pages on a wiki and was then edited down to a bite-size, clear and compelling 20 page booklet. They need to own the way forward as much as anyone in HQ.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

in philanthropic work, and highlights the social media activity of two “power users&# in the field. Nearly three-quarters of respondents believe social networking services have been at least somewhat useful in furthering the work of philanthropy in general, but only half said it has helped further their own foundation’s work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Then the project first launched, we invited the community to help us build the curriculum on a wiki. A Two-Day Face-to-Face Intensive Workshop that looked at strategy and tactics and co-taught by contributors to the wiki. This is different from a campaign mentality where you flip an on or off switch. November 1-15th).

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

There were some similarities and differences in both the questions and perceptions around engagement and community. One of the biggest barriers to sharing our experience and knowledge, and learning as organizations is the belief that we are all so different we can’t actually share or learn from each other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

Over the past few months, I have had the pleasure of working with NTEN and Holly Ross on a new community-driven social media and nonprofits curriculum project, funded by the Surdna Foundation. The best part of the project has been an opportunity to work with other people who are passionate about nonprofits and social media and instruction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

” The book offers up advice and techniques on how to make your online channels – email marketing, web site, and newer tools like mobile and social media work together in a sophisticated strategy or your organization to reach its advocacy, fundraising, or community building goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

The group will working together over the next three years, meeting regularly face-to-face in the different countries as well as work together online. The design for this project was very different than my accustomed way of designing and delivering the Networked NGO trainings and social media skills. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

It’s our way of embracing and spreading the abundance that working a networked way offers. The way I learned was through working with peer group of people who were supporting nonprofits in their quest to build capacity and skills using the Internet to realize their missions. Why am I excited about this project?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

Each of these has unique needs requiring different styles and frequencies of contact. Pacific time for the weekly CommBuild discussion on Twitter as Richard shares how to meet the needs of different parts of your own community. Check out this how-to in TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki and watch the video below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2009

Most of my work in social media and nonprofits has been focused on the how to integrate a social media strategy as part of an organization's external communications plan or "outward" facing to engage audiences, consumers, and supporters. Wikis for Communities of Practice conference. Technology for Communities project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

There are two different methods to evaluate your training. Sometimes at first you feel like – oh crap – this didn’t work and don’t even want to look at it again. It defines the outcomes of training in four different areas that you can measure. What part of the workshop was most useful to your work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

If you didn't have a chance to participate, you'll find the slides, resource materials, and an archived recording over at the webinar wiki. One participant described this as the "strawberry jam" problem that if the training is trying to cover too much content and too many different levels, than it gets spread too thin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

These are a few gems that I've bookmarked on delicous and slightly different than those streamed on my blog. (And Usually I ask a question, and try to get people to answer in another place like a google document or wiki. What are your different types of Tweets? What works or doesn't work in getting retweeted more often?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

As community organizers, campaigners, and organizers working to better the world, we know that the tactics and tools we use can dramatically impact our success, and if the tools we have aren’t accessible and aren’t in our control we put ourselves in a position to negatively impact our own success. The added advantage of grou.ps

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