Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

For this conversation, and those to have over the course of the next two days together at least, let’s work from the place that a movement is larger than coalitions. In the most simple terms, a movement is when organizations work with, and not for, the community. It’s deeper than engagement, and longer than campaigns. org before?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2013

It’s a practitioner’s guide for planning, implementing, and evaluating strategies that engage constituents across many channels, wherever they may be, and how we as organizations need to structure our work to deliver that experience. Try this: Stop working for just five minutes. What do you do? Which tools do you use?

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Business People Podcast Broadcast 241

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2011

There are many different ways to build trust, but some of them are passive, or in other words, they become the foundation for more active trust-building communications or engagement. Passive Ways to Build Trust. Share your data. For example, my Twitter bio links to [link] instead of my website’s home page. Active Ways to Build Trust.

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Build Community Celebrate Leadership 228

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

A mulligan fund for projects that completely fail, but pay attention to what went wrong and how to do it right this time around could be the difference between many more failed attempts over years and jumping to a solution today. Maybe it’s an introduction or a recommendation, or just a place to sit and work and have meetings.

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Philanthropy Social Media Media Social 244

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2011

Here are the five core principles as we see them from our work: 1. Different platforms have different users – be sure to do your homework by reviewing statistics and reports from various social media tools to know who’s really using them, and ask your community where they want to engage with you. Cultivate Leaders.

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Community Build Organization Case Study 253

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 18, 2009

Though, in these 5 steps, you’ll see there is a lot more to do, think about, and work on - no quick tick-off on this list! You will not be able to identify tools and engagement methods for your organization online without knowing the bigger picture and without knowing it in concrete goals that will let you build and work towards them.

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Social Media Strategy Media Social 190

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

NetSquared’s February series exploring “Online Community Organizing” includes three different interviews; I’m really excited to participate! I work in and support nonprofit organizations, and my focus on communities isn’t to suggest that organizations are “bad” or aren’t making a difference.

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Community Organization Online Netsquared 179

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 3, 2010

Earlier this month, the Connected Generation conference brought lots of folks from organizations and direct services groups, as well as practitioners, educators, and researchers together in Bristol, UK, to talk about the use of social media in youth work. Connecting to Youth: Leveraging social media for work with young communities.

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Social Media Generation Media Social 140

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 7, 2011

They have worked with many organizations and individuals looking to fundraising online and are constantly sharing back what they observe and learn from the campaigns on their platform and elsewhere. Emphasize how everyone can make a difference. Let donors know exactly where their money is going and how much of a difference it makes.

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Personal Effective eBook Fundraising 173

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Bonnie and I saw a need for a shared space to pool questions, ideas, lessons learned and examples from the work of many organizations, campaigns, and even community groups were doing to try to scale success, especially across geographic boarders, to help create a better world. The Global Scale project has had a slow start.

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Global Project Wiki Lesson 123

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

We do not work together. When one organization says they want the software or platform to work differently, it’s a nice feautre request email that may even get a “thank you for the input&# message in response. At the end of 2010, I started having a weekly, 30-minute skype call with my friend Vanessa Rhinesmith.

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Change Technology Build Social 123

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Different brains – visual vs words. Working through networks allows us to scale social change projects geographically and geometrically. Do: work with crowds. Momsrising uses joyful funerals for things that don’t work. . —— [link]. The writing process for the book: Expository vs storytelling.

Network 173

Network Nonprofit Guidelines Social Media 173

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2010

What’s most interesting to me within the nonprofits-in-social-space is the difference between organization-driven and individual-driven fundraising (and other promotion) campaigns. How are you showing your gratitude for the hard work of your supporters (“volunteer&# means something very different online!)

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Social Media Organization Media Fundraising 102

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Started with an idea two years ago that the web is important because it helps people organize for themselves and impacts how we make things work; but in order to make that happen you have to bring people together who are interested in making it real. practical optimists, can see things being different in the future (have to go find them).

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Social Grant Fund Model 105

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

But searching still requires a lot of hard work by you, the user. It’s why we’ve been working on an intelligent model—in geek-speak, a “graph”—that understands real-world entities and their relationships to one another: things, not strings." Take a query like [taj mahal]. The full report is here.

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Web San Francisco Bookmarking Search 117

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

The responses lean towards a reality in which our online presence is just as diverse as our offline personalities – people are connecting with a mix of others on difference platforms. In preparation for their presentation, they circulated a survey to over 200 nonprofit professionals, asking how they use various social platforms.

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Professional Personal Linkedin Profile 185

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2011

I’ve been following the work of Rob and his team closely as they have shown not just interest, but passion and intent for engaging with the community at large to create a tool that meets the needs of nonprofit organizations and keeps us involved in making the tool better and better. . What excites you about this work?

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Interview Public Uganda Profit 213

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

It’s been quite a frustrating process, especially when inputting 33 different countries one by one in the “where we work&# section just to have the “save&# not work. So far, trying to navigate the site to browse or set up a profile has about a 50/50 chance of hitting either a 504 or 500 error page.

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Reflection Profile Facebook Platform 279

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 24, 2012

." Direct Energy | Direct Energy Contest | Reduce Your Use for GoodReduce Your Use – "Nonprofits, you know it: small changes can make a big difference. Just make a short video of two minutes or less showing us the good work you do in your community. Be passionate. Be creative. Be concise.

Web 137

Web New York City Bookmarking Philanthropy 137

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Administrators of Causes accounts on MySpace received a notice via email stating, “Thank you for the work you’ve done on Causes on MySpace. Different communities have aligned and adopted different social networks, social media tools, communications platforms, etc. First, let me explain what happened yesterday.

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Myspace Technology Causes Application 158

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Administrators of Causes accounts on MySpace received a notice via email stating, “Thank you for the work you’ve done on Causes on MySpace. Different communities have aligned and adopted different social networks, social media tools, communications platforms, etc. First, let me explain what happened yesterday.

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Myspace Technology Causes Application 158

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 19, 2010

These are a branch of the #4Change chats – so whether you have participated in the past on a different topic or not, welcome. Does this time work or should the time shift (perhaps two times, so every other month it is time 1 or 2)? Hi everyone! Welcome to the new monthly chats focused on community building. posted ahead of time.

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Community Build Generation Question 152

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

If you have a room where everyone can sit, and an hour or two to bring everyone together, I really recommend you use this topic as an opportunity to hear what each department identifies and shares when working through the process below as the conversations that come up can be another chance to break down silos inside your organization!

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Conversation Story Support Strategy 111

Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Description : This month’s Communications Roundtable focuses on communications struggles, lessons, and best practices for working internationally. Bit it also comes with very real obstacles for communication: from translation and language barriers to cultural differences that may impact your programs or reception of your services.

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NTEN Communication Lesson Language 100

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2011

I’ve worked with communities to build online spaces where people of all ages, accessibility, and interests can come together to share, learn, and more directly build a community that they can take offline. What have you tried that didn’t work or what do you want to try but haven’t yet? (As I personally don’t believe that.

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Change Offline Lecture Student 194

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 24, 2010

I recently had the opportunity to connect with Ricard Espelt to learn more about the various projects he’s working on in Spain leveraging new technologies for public engagement, government transparency and community building. What are the various projects you’re working on now? Learn more in the interview below.

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Interview Government Proposal Spain 155

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

In each element below, it’s framed slightly differently to match the context, but is always centered on the need, as Joe shared above, to operate outside of silos. It should not matter whether I work for a nonprofit, or if I work at all. For & Non Profit Inclusion.

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Reflection Offline Social Network Collaboration 129

Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2012

This year, I thought about my options, and decided to try something a bit different: giving gifts that support others. For me, my favorite part of shopping locally means that I can create relationships with the shop owners and learn more about the products and producers they work with. Supporting local businesses.

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Gift Impact Guide Local 126

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Do you have lots of different voices? Just like any good road trip, sometimes the winds pushes you in a different direction, and you just have to go with it! Create Community Dialogue. Another great opportunity you have with a blog is opening up your organization by allowing comments and dialogue. MoveableType. Squarespace.

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Romania Create Organization Local 237

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 5, 2010

This work is still pretty new and there isn’t a simple model to follow. My favorite part of the NTC is getting to sit down, in person, with so many different people and learn about their work. So, to win a book, you have to want to tell me all about the work you do – simple enough, right? What you are working on.

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Social Atlanta NTC PDF 140

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Whether you are working on a campaign, a program or a service; whether it is online or offline (though I would argue it should probably touch both!); whether you are a small team or a huge office, your work requires engagement. And engagement requires people. People are networked. Individuals define networks.

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Network Influence Platform Offline 140

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.

Social Media 178

Social Media Public Media Community 178

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

To compliment, I shared some of the core beliefs I’ve developed in my experiences working in technology, innovation and community engagement. Likewise, what we have as far as a product on Day 1, could and should look different on Day 15 and Day 50 and Day 500. Recognize the role of technology across all our work.

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Support Adopt Fund Philanthropy 199

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

It means different things to different people, but the most literal meaning is probably this: real-time systems push information from a publisher to a subscriber (be they a human reader or a machine consuming information) as soon as it’s available, without the subscriber having to ask if there’s anything new.

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Interview Report Web Time 120

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

She’s worked in development offices of all sizes and has recently put her years of experience and training down on paper in The Wild Woman’s Guide to Fundraising. No one in my family has ever worked at a nonprofit, and we definitely don’t have a tradition of giving to causes in our family.)

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Guide Fundraising Indonesia Asia 233

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

There’s no point rushing into things, so give yourself the time to think strategically about how you want to use social networking platforms in your organization’s work and how it best fits with what you are doing now and the goals you want to achieve. No running in the halls! So, throw a party or two, and have fun! What do you think?

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Online Social Network Facebook Charity 126

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

A process like this can ensure that lots of different ideas are included but that the competition can stay true to it’s purpose or the goals of the sponsoring organization. There are many ways to include social media in your work. Public voting process. Public’s favorites put to expert judges for final selection.

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Community Case Study Haiti Social Media 207