Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2010

Since co-authoring Social by Social last year, David Wilcox and I have had the opportunity to collaborate and facilitate various events for community and local government groups. The documentation explores Project Spaces conceptually as well as provides examples of how to hold a Project Spaces event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2008

Hawaii Social Media Game View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Many thanks to Chris Heuer and Kristie Wells of the Social Media Club for organizing fantastic Social Media Workshop and inviting me to participate. Not every social media tool will work for every project. tags: hawaii socialmediaclub ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2007

I am in Washington, DC to do a session at the Bridge Conference this afternoon on Mixing Social Media With Fundraising Strategies. I remixed David Wilcox's Social Media Games and will be using it for the session. Workshop in Belgium last month and I've incorporated and remixed some of his slides. but it was in Italian!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Time Chart - See Flickr Discussion on Version 1 Wanna Remix it? I'm getting ready to a workshop later this week, I did a simple pre-workshop assessment, asking folks about their level of experience/comfort and their burning questions. Download it here. In A Museum? It's so hard and you could cop out with "It depends."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Photo by Terry Bain in Flickr I've been hearing a lot lately from folks who work in nonprofits asking for examples of "social media or social networking policies." But, if an organization simply cuts and pastes a social media policy without the internal culture change, it won't be effective. There are examples (see below).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

Networked nonprofits are experts at using new media (social media, mobile, and other emerging technologies) to spread their missions, design and scale programs, communicate with stakeholders, or inspire behavior change. In this model, there are four different levels of social media practice: Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

I am honored to have facilitated this project with NTEN over the past 18 months on the WeAreMedia: Nonprofit and Social Media Starter Kit. I think one of my favorite community curriculum building efforts was the toolbox - a community curated selection of how-tos, tips, and information about social media tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2007

On Tuesday, I facilitated an introductory workshop on how nonprofits can use social media in Boston at the nonprofit technology conference and yet another remix of the curriculum wiki , presentation , and game designed by David Wilcox. She is the third person to mention a remix. It gave my seven year old a good laugh!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

Photo of Iavor Ivanov , Web Experience, United Way (national) Meet Iavor Ivanov, the Director of Web Experience for the United Way (National). I was curious how a large national network with local affiliates approaches a social media strategy in a networked way. Wondering where he got that awesome T-shirt?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Earlier this week, Leslie Poston invited me to participate on her podcast on Race and Social Media along with Shireen Mitchell , Liza Sabiter , and Rahsheen Porter. When I've do social media and nonprofit trainings, the audience consists of staff, board members, or volunteers from nonprofit organizations. tags: nptech youth ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

But the best reason of all is a chance to work with other people who are passionate about nonprofits and social media. The community will help identify and point to the best how-to guides and useful resources that cover all aspects of creating, aggregating, and distributing social media. So, what's my role in all of this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

These are my notes for webinar about Nonprofits and Slideshare , a social site where community members share presentations, documents and pdfs. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Media Genius View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Here are my slides from the Convio " Social Media for Social Good " for tomorrow. Convio asked me to prepare something for organizations that are just getting ready to embrace social media. tags: nonprofit socialmedia ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2010

Sigmund Freud I've been buried putting the final touches on some new curriculum for social media and nonprofit peer learning approaches. It's the dance floor and the balcony - both strategy and tactics but deployed in a lab with focused experiments, measurement, reflection and learning from peers. Pscyho Socialgraphics!!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2005

Last week I posted about Dave Gilbert's experiment with podcasting "unnofficial audio guides" at Moma, a project called "Apologia: We love MoMA. Hackers hack a platform out of respect for it." " This morning, Dave Gilbert emailed with a link to the NY Times article about his project. Way to go Dave!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Friday after lunch and following the t-shirt giveaway, it was time to play the Khmer version of the Social Media Game. The game has been remixed into different languages and used in different training contexts, but this is the first time it has been to Southeast Asia. My group was assigned to "Social Media."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2008

I couldn't resist a remix of that old Mae West quip. David and Rupert are lucky of course to be in the UK and didn't have the brick experience that Amy Gahran had. Well, I was very happy to see Rupert captured on video by David Wilcox offering up some great tips on using the N95. so she is still sans n95.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2007

My colleague, Ivan Boothe, who works with the Genocide Intervention Network and who is incredible smart about integrating social media into cause-related campaigns, pinged me about this reddit campaign. 2005 ) I had (wrongly) assumed that getting to the top of social news sites was a matter of dumb luck or that if something went viral.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Flickr Photo: Illustration of Participant's Learning Questions Earlier this month, we piloted the first two-day workshop on social media strategy and tools for NTEN 's WeAreMedia project. The next step is to see how people remix, improve, and share back the material (with attribution of course) - that is the true power of working wikily.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

There is a tension with using social media to support your network. Over the past two years, the Packard Foundation has worked in partnership with Monitor Institute to explore how networks were changing the social sector. (If I did a presentation on social media and nonprofits in the afternoon. Photo by Thiago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

The Fellows are blogging about their experience and learnings on The Innovation Exchange blog. As Dave notes, "I often hear "everything you say makes me uncomfortable - but go do it." The leadership of the organization understands that social media and connectedness has an impact on the organization and they need to embrace it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2009

You can vote once per day, so I'll probably come back and vote for the other organizations where I have relationships with their social media strategists. (I I know from first hand experience ) The design of the challenge leveled the playing field because the winners were based on the number of unique donors and any nonprofit could enter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

. Yesterday at the Packard Foundation, as part of a series of "deeper dives" to learn about networks and social media, Eugene Eric Kim of Blue Oxen Associates gave a talk about "Networks in an International Context." . Some of us experience goal conflict between individual and the group. We knew what was coming.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Venue as content platform instead of content provider: the museum becomes a stage on which professionals and amateurs can curate, interpret, and remix artifacts and information. Visitors' interactions allow them both to personalize their museum experiences and to engage with other visitors through their shared interests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2007

To celebrate, I concocted an action learning experience in user generated content, the Beth 5.0 Flickr Photo Birthday Remix Contest. Ultimately, 22 remix photos were posted, slightly less than half of the people who joined. Click here to view the video. As many of you know, I celebrated a milestone birthday this month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Currently, he's blogging about his Web Office experiment which is well worth following. Being able to hand out grants and see how the money made a difference was satisfying but not always challenging, and on the whole I prefer life on the cutting edge of the non-profit sector, that's where the drive for social change is coming from.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Lucy Bernholz summarizes what NY Times Columnist, David Pogue has shared about his experience in Second Life and suggests his comments are revealing regarding the development of an independent sector in the virtual world. " Colin Delany got a little hacked off at a social media critic and decided to respond. nonprofit technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2006

All we need are the PowerPoint slides to complete our virtual experience. Here's Nick Noake's remix. I think she is wearing her purple pajamas, but not sure. Update: Nancy reports that she didn't wear the purple PJs and here PPT slides can be found here. There was a tip in the comments on how to compress PPT slides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. Last year, there was an event called "Social Media for Social Good" organized by Jeff Pulver that prompted quite a rich discussion. on whether social media for fundraising and marketing can effect real on the ground change. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

I recently read an article about fundraising on social networking sites. That's why I also remixed the fundraising widget. We've found the best approach is to recognize that motivation is not something you can create - it's something there based on personal experience. two came to mind and rhyme: Fashion and Passion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2007

Today I got a comment on an older post, my interview with Carie Lewis about using social networking sites for campaigns. Last night when I was madly screencasting after midnight for Cambodian Bloggers Workshop, " Five Steps To Khmer 2.0 ," Nancy White pinged me about remixing the social media game. Job well done!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

Here's the focus: Okay, so Chris prefers to say he's not an expert, but that he advises people on social media use. That doesn't change the fact that he's smart and savvy on the social media front. " asking readers to share their stories about how they got started in social media, first steps, and advice. I signed up.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 30, 2014

Making Meaning, Improving Constituent Experiences, and Improving Results Over Time. Constituent Experience. Customer Experience (CX) seems to be an ever-rising trend in the corporate world, and this shows nowhere better than at an event, where your staff and volunteers are interacting directly with your constituents and stakeholders.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

It's a place for Scratch users to upload, share, and remix their Scratch projects. ScratchR is a true social network, connecting hundreds of thousands of people--kids and adults--in about 200 countries around the world. How ScratchR makes strong use of platform power and social objects. You can also remix other projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

My marching orders were: pull out a crystal ball and gaze five, ten or even twenty years into the future to answer these questions: What role will social media play in the future for the nonprofit, social change sector? For nonprofits taking their foray into social media, incremental steps are what is in order.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

I'm working on a section of my book about sharing social objects and am writing about the most common way that visitors share their object experiences in museums: through photographs. Aesthetics of Experience: Photo-taking is distracting for other visitors. This is prejudicial treatment. There are two parts to this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. Social networking requires commitment -- you can't set up a MySpace profile and then walk away. the capacity to experiment with one???s Go read it.

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