Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

Here are some of my thoughts going into the conversation and slides if you prefer engaging that way: Crowdsourcing for Social Change. For example, if the crowd voted in huge numbers on a submission that didn’t necessarily fit the criteria, it doesn’t mean it should win. There are many ways to include social media in your work.

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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

JUNE 9, 2010

They engage people to shape and share their work in order to raise awareness of social issues, organize communities to provide services or advocate for legislation. As a speaker and trainer , Slideshare, along with wikis, Twitter, and other tools are important part of my trainer’s social media toolbox.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2008

For today, we'll be working on the specific learning objective: To understand the basic concepts and principles of social media I spent a bit of time searching through slide shows on Slideshare for a good primer. I think this slide show by Lee White is one of the best ever!

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

I’ll be posting my slides and speaking notes on Tuesday for my session on the topic of “the future of online revenue generation for charities.&# More to come on this question then! I work in a small organisation and have heard a lot about web 2.0 For more: What Will Online Giving Look Like Next Year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

Seeing the powerpoint slides along with the commentary helped me understand the topic. All my learnings about screencasting are organized in a wiki portfolio. Stephen's first effort also calls to mind another example for using screencasting - public speaking - which Jon Udell wrote about this week. tools I use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2007

You can upload all your slide decks, and find download interesting presentations. It is another excellent example of "pivot" browsing, similar to del.icio.us where you navigate by tags, most views, or slide shares by users and events. It is another excellent example of "pivot" browsing, similar to del.icio.us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

" The description is: Public broadcasting isn't the only industry that's exploring the role of social media in their work. Let me define the term: Alan Levine, CogdogBlog, invented the term and also has some excellent examples here. A Wikitation is a presentation delivered in a wiki. It also serves a resource leave behind!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2007

We've planned and built the materials (which are a work in progress) on the Social Media Wiki - which also houses a draft guide on Social Media that David is writing for NCVO. The slides and notes with links to loads of resources and examples can be found here. The wiki is under "by" 2.0

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

I tried to address the Smithsonian's particular challenges and opportunities while contextualizing it with lots of examples across different museum sizes and types. The slides are also available for download. Admirably, the Smithsonian has opened up their new media strategic planning via a public wiki. I am an impatient person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

(tags: fundraising advocacy ) I was lucky enough to meet Ivan Boothe at the first (or maybe second) Netsquared Conference back in 2005 and have been following his work for years. He has since started doing freelance work on his own at rootwork.org. For concrete examples see the Slideshare presentation above. Thanks Ivan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

As I sit here avoiding the completion of the rest of the powerpoint slides for next week's Circuit Rider Conference in UK session I'm leading with David Wilcox called " Demystifying Web 2.0 MUST WORK ON PRESENTATION SLIDES. Internally, we use a wiki to manage many projects and communicate across the organisation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2008

Prior to that, we had done a lot of work with technology ??? This example may be unusual. And that's where the slide show above comes in. It was nice to have a quick conversation with a couple of staff members. Daniel made the comment: We launched this new blog at the beginning of this year.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The final installment of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays tweetchat series, an interactive companion to its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , covered the topic of tagging. Tags can also be used to find resources such as photos, slide presentations, and articles to reference for use on your site. A Taxonomic Tree of Philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

The inspiration was part The Lab Theater a place where you try out contemporary or experimental works before you bring them to the main stage and part peer learning program. The social media lab for arts organizations is a combination of face-to-face workshops, phone calls, and online support via a wiki and Twitter over several months.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

Here are some examples of categories and how they might be implemented within a website: Show – Recent Tweets, Likes, Comments. Co-Create – Shared Content: Mapping, Mosaic, Wiki, Links, Games. Each reason is clearly presented with no more text than you might put on a PowerPoint slide. Authenticate – FB Login, Twitter OAuth.

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NTEN

AUGUST 8, 2011

Gamification is an engagement tool, not a video game, and works best when you have a forum in which to engage your members, such as a private online community. Crowd-sourcing also works in the same way: members will frequently encourage one another to vote on their ideas. Applying gamification concepts to associations and nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I did my first presentation about the Internet when I started working with Arts Wire in 1993. Of course, the projector didn't work (did I mentioned that I had lugged the 50 pound projector up four flights of stairs.) But it worked out, I think. That only works with small groups on the phone, fewer than 12 or 15 people, not 100.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

It gets your work out there. now for four years because it is simple, direct, and easy. Or, I get gasps of horror from some colleagues who more concerned about how to "lock up" their content with "all rights" reserved and hire IP lawyers to help them police and protect their work so no one "steals it." I've used this license.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. See the slide deck below and notes from the panelists: WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

(If you don't know about Creative Commons, it was founded in 2001 , with a mission to increase the amount of creativity (cultural, educational, and scientific content) in “the commons” — the body of work that is available to the public for free and legal sharing, use, repurposing, and remixing. What does that mean?".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

I have also fully integrated the use of a wiki as "electronic flip chart," and leave behind resource as well as use of networked learning (Skype and twitter open to shoot out questions to people I could get richer answers to). Next, I asked them to work in pairs to come up with their burning questions in 140 characters or less.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

This slide show from Common Craft uses a party as a metaphor for online community. Random Thoughts on Life and Work blog shares some planning questions about " Project SharePoint or how the organization will use Microsoft's SharePoint for internal collaboration and communication. David Wilcox riffs on Steve Bridger's shout.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

More than one third of Packard Foundation’s grantees are networks and many more get their work done through networks. But over the past two years, the program has expanded its work to include a focus on how grantees can improve the strength and use of these networks. . His work was recently profiled in this New York Times piece.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2009

Secret Sauce: Chicago Workshop Final Slides View more OpenOffice presentations from kanter. I taught two workshops ( notes are on the wiki.) I added a new section about Twitter as Focus Group based on Nina Simon's work with the Smithsonian. The Nonprofit Communicator blog has a round up of local reaction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest. The wiki is here and they welcome remote participation. " Nancy White's slides from TALO and some audio from Nothern s about the new rules for online communities. choice and when it is not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2007

" Someone said in a slide show that "Email was for old people." I thought to myself, wow I'd love to do that, but I can't because so much of my work is dependent on people use still use email. addictions these days is slide share. I recently noticed a number of new slide shows about " Enterprise 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Susie's Blog (winning hearts and minds over to FOSS) is on a jargon busting binge and has found a wiki that explains what all the alphabet soup of acronyms in the nonprofit sector in the UK means. The Bamboo Project points to two excellent examples of technology stewardship from the World Grows Wide blog. There's also dogooder.tv

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'm having to quiet some inner Gollums while working on the presentation materials. My initial remix thought (wrong) was to look for examples that were related to agriculture, but the extension is so much more. looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! An example? Another example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

and contributed it to the WeAreMedia Wiki. I scaled the projects in terms of crawl, walk, run and fly. For social networking projects which is all about online community management, I estimated 20 hours to get results. It's NOT about " Here's my crap and now let's talk about it. " The work flow is about relationship building.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Working Wikily: The Power of the Newbie.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Reminds me of this slide from an old workshop I did on how to make technology trainings more interactive. With things like Blogs, Wikis, and social networking in general, institutions and organizations don???t Even a recent call for organizational examples of ???non-profit blame the internet! :-). t quite know what to do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

Photo by Jeska Linden in flickr Jeska Linden (Jeska Dzwigalski) is the Community Manager for Linden Lab , the creators of the virtual world Second Life , where she has worked since the summer of 2004. How did you end up working in a virtual world? You have worked with nonprofit organizations too ???? Mixed Reality Event ???

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

And it’s been a pleasure to get to know you a little bit, Francis, in planning for this webinar, and what an extensive body of work in helping people plan for and use technology effectively inside organizations. Next slide, please.) Those are some of the hallmarks of the way we conduct our work.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

In just 50 minutes Laura Quinn of Idealware , Natalie Foster of the DNC and Rebecca Moore of Google Earth Outreach talked about a ton of great tools to ramp up nonprofits online campaigns ranging from Wikis to Google Earth and Twittter. Or, you may need to get one that can work for many kinds of groups.

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

This is something we have been working on at See3 – methods to build a network of influencers in the social networks who will carry your torch. See3 has run many successful video contests (a few examples here , here and here ). A good tip Brian mentioned was to deputize people to grow your network for you. The last session on Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 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. One of the most valuable experiences I've had in my professional work is having critical friends (You can see what that means here , here and here ). What does feedback look like?

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