Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

day conference was split into two tracks for IT and NGO, sometimes meeting separately, sometimes coming together to collaborate. I had the opportunity to facilitate the IT track and had lots of fun poking, prodding, and supporting some really interesting conversations and sharing sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I also use it as a year in review tool. This year I used a new tool recommended by colleague Alexandra Samuel, the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions. I also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

My role over the past year been in the areas of: program design, design and delivery of a train the trainers intensive workshop in-country last March (see posts #1 , #2 , #3 ; #4 ); and develop and support the target NGO curriculum (intensive strategic and skills based curriculum). I’ll be Jordan and Morocco in March, 2011).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

TechSoup Microsoft NGO Connection Day. He works for an NGO in Australia and we met on Twitter (via Eddie Harran ) prior to his visit to America to attend the Wisdom 2.0 Not only does this help me frame and tailor the talk I give to the audience, but facilitates Twitter conversations before. Connecting With Colleagues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning. Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

That often intimidates nonprofit folks (including me), but it doesn’t have to be that way. There are low tech tools and online (low cost or free) SNA tools and great resources like Marc Smith at NodeXL. GuideStar India - Networked NGO Workshops - Packard Grantees. What tools did you use? Radio Bilingue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2007

This year, I'm staying in on for Penguin Day and am facilitating sesion on Open Content and Nonprofits. I'll start the session with a very brief overview of examples ( NGO in a box - Open Publishing ) and an overview of the CC licenses. Brainstorm a context - ngo, goals, strategy, type of project 2. Here's the description.

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VisionLink

AUGUST 20, 2023

Here are a few examples: A single case record accessible across the NGO sector will allow for faster access to vulnerable households and also help to equitably manage financial assistance and direct services. A clearinghouse of affected households and families also facilitates the use of a call center for inbound calls for assistance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2005

Last week I wrote about Steve Shu's post about facilitating blog communities. I asked if there were a set of best practices or design principles in facilitating blog communities. Steve has shared his learnings on facilitating a blog community. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech , online_communities , nonprofit , ngo

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

We wanted to equip users with the tools to choose organizations and projects that matched their criteria or decision set, and to facilitate that, we needed to be inclusive. Our team discovered that NGO leaders and staff responded instantly to WhatsApp messages vis-à-vis email. How do you see GuideStar India evolving?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2006

Can blog communities be facilitated? The question about nonprofit adoption of these tools for conversation. Blogs are only one type of conversational media tool. Like all technology tools, we aren't going to see all nonprofits adopt all the tools. I'm not sure the issue is so black and white. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Workshop Ngo Feb 13 View more presentations from Beth Kanter. I also had the opportunity to facilitate a large group session about whether CEOs should use social media or not and attended a tweet up with David Meerman Scott. If anything, having social media as part of your trainer's tool box makes this an easy task.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2017

Note from Beth: Several years ago, I was got trained in design thinking facilitation methods using Luma and have incorporated these techniques into my consulting and training practice. This tool is called ImpactKit. In the business world they look for the Blue Ocean, the uncontested space where there is a ton of money to be made.

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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. East-West Technology, Culture & Food Exchange: Innovation and culture sharing with NGO counterparts in India. When : 9:00 a.m.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

We had eight women from different parts of the world who also participated in this training to augment the training, skills, and tools that were offered with their outside knowledge and expertise. We had women who had expertise in community organizing, micro-finance, facilitation and leadership development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I’ve just spent the last couple of days in Nairobi, Kenya because I’m a board member of an NGO based here, Ushahidi , an organization that builds tools for democratizing information and increasing transparency. I decided to stay a few extra days and facilitate a workshop on the Networked Nonprofit for local NGOs.

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