Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

The “leaderless” organizing of the Occupy Wall Street movement has helped avoid strategic arrests or censorship but has also prompted a powerful use of social technologies. Build your online homebase with a wiki, a website (like WordPress.com or Google Sites ), or a blog (like Tumblr or Posterous ). Online Homebase.

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Technology Learning Audio New York 189

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

As I announced in August , Bonnie Koenig and I are cultivating a learning space at [link]. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Emerging Leaders Playbook Toolkit -The toolkit includes highly practical meeting facilitation “recipes” to help build skills in managing self, teams, and organizational culture.The facilitator agendas are designed for beginner or novice facilitators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Emerging Leaders Playbook Toolkit -The toolkit includes highly practical meeting facilitation “recipes” to help build skills in managing self, teams, and organizational culture.The facilitator agendas are designed for beginner or novice facilitators.

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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. And we still see that need, and still think we can help.

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Global Project Wiki Lesson 123

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. What are the best emerging examples and early lessons learned? November 1-15th).

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be co-hosting The Zoetica Salon on my Facebook Page with my Zoetica colleagues, Geoff Livingston , Kami Huyse , and Julie Pippert (the newest Zoetican ) where almost 7,000 nonprofit leaders have been engaging in informal peer learning about nonprofits and social media. Photo by Dkurpaptwa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

I thought about that story when I saw Dave Cormier's Connectivism Wiki or MOOC (Massive Online Open Courses). The philosophy is: I'd suggest we follow the ADD DON'T TAKE AWAY model of wiki building. So, I asked Dave via Twitter " Wow do you build a giving culture on a wiki?" Just keep adding sections. the material???

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

Social Media: What I Learned This Year | Millennial Marketing – Carol Phillips has a great post recapping what she learned about social media in 2009, including: "Effective use of Social Media requires enthusiasm and diligence." "This month, we bring you some great examples of how non-profits are using wikis.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 1, 2012

While the building blocks of community are many and various, listening, learning, and sharing top the list. Want to know more about honing your listening, learning, and sharing skills to build a stronger community? Check out this how-to in TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki and watch the video below. About CommBuild.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2011

There are so many resources out there that hopefully this list will help filter and curate for you! National Theatre screws up, what we can learn from mistakes. Twitter API wiki. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Twitter Resources. 100,000 in 3 Days: Interview about #TeamAutism. Social media in disaster response.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What I’m learning November 30, 2007 It’s been mostly fun so far at the Open Translation event here in Zagreb. Check out the wiki. Be Helpful. The event itself has been fab.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

I left inspired, yet I also felt there is still a lot of work we need to do to help our peers in volunteer coordination put these ideas into practice. The question is what can volunteer coordinators – those who are tasked with the work-a-day chores of volunteer engagement – do to help bring about this transformation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

This is part of series of reflections on what I've learned about working wikily through working on NTEN's WeAreMedia wiki - not so much the content, but the community curriculum development and knowledge sharing process. Here's what lies ahead -- a division and then a bridge between online/offline learning and community/content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2009

The process is: Listen, Learn, Adapt. He is describing what an organization with a " learning organization " culture does and applying it to social media. Nonprofits need to learn the insights and also understand the value of the investment. And usually have to submit reports that demonstrate "impact."

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ROI Learning Reflection Social Media 91

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

The ability to “shift” delivery formats – from say an interactive lecture to small group activities helps students pay more attention. Research about the physical space can impact learning, can be found here. The course is about how to leverage networks and social media for learning and impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2011

Jeff Pryor and Alexandra Mitchell from Pathfinder Solutions shared some specific case studies about how 30 nonprofits in Colorado are measuring the ROI of Social Media, specifically what they are learning from some preliminary research results. Kathy shared one of those experiments, The Organizational Effective Program wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I’m thrilled to be doing a panel on nonprofit technology training and it has a bit of a star wars theme, “ Learn You Will.” The Accelerated Learning Handbook. It can help people learn faster and in a more fun and natural way. By Dave Meier.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

First, I've been following the recent stream of posts about "personal learning environments" but haven't delved in depth yet. Seeing the powerpoint slides along with the commentary helped me understand the topic. All my learnings about screencasting are organized in a wiki portfolio. tools I use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Election Day Debriefs What we can learn about online politics from the 2006 Campaigns from e-politics offers some lessons and takeaways about social networking and other traditional technology tools deployed for political campaigns. What I really like that they are providing extensive help, including screencasts and live chat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Nancy has a post about " Over the Shoulder Learning " I always try and promote the people and process stuff, but the reality is that tools are often the "door opener" to the process conversations because they are more tangible. " We are peering over our parents as they cook and we learn how cook.

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Forum One

MARCH 4, 2009

Federal government web managers and IT staff (and their peers at large nonprofits and foundations) face a constant and growing barrage of requests from departments, initiatives, programs, and projects for project workspaces, social networking, wikis, blogs etc. There are tons of exciting examples of how government agencies are using web 2.0

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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. And, many of our community members were just learning too. . I was immediately thrown into a situation of dynamic teaching and learning.

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Social Media Share Media Instruction 93

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 26, 2009

We’re looking for developers to come up with new and innovative ways of helping charities promote their causes and garner support. Visit the event Wiki for links to documentation, attendees bios, and links to the applications created after the weekend. Learn more or register today ! What we hope to get from the weekend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

That’s why eight leading nonprofit technologists and social marketing experts have come together to create this learning and sharing hub. And please note: We’re here not only to show how social tools can be used to advance the social good – but to learn from you as well. jazz and put it to work for your organization or cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Kathy Reich, Director of Organizational Effectiveness Grantmaking at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, write up this summary of the session. I am looking forward to the next chapter of work which will continue to focus on networks, but how they can be used by nonprofit for learning that leads to greater impact. Stay tuned.

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Celebrate Foundation Chapter Social Media 116

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

My Curated Lists and Wikis. Expect a follow up post from me next week about what I learned to improve my visual note-taking technique. Takeaways. To assess and reflect on how we use information effectively to make decisions or own patterns of distraction online. Balance in Hyperconnected World. The Information Diet. 18 Minutes A Day.

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Mind Social Media Wikispaces Media 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

You can expect to continue to see more blog posts from me on the topic of peer learning design and training techniques as I continue to do this work. Bahia Ramos wrote this post as part of a learning culmination process where we reflected on the design and what was learned as we moved into another round of giving days.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

NTEN’s gathered some of the top nonprofit social media experts to help your organization devise a solid strategy as well as learn the secrets of using a variety of social media tools. The Learning Objectives. Tags: digital learning events elearning nten wearemedia webinar. Opening Plenary: 45 minutes.

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NTEN Media eLearning Case Study 105

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." . What was our learning? We had some rich learnings in the reflection of what happened in the group.

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Collaboration Learning Exercise Online 93

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Scientist / Data Analysis Engineer / General Techie Want to help save the world with your code? Want to help assemble evidence used to convict dictors of war crimes? We help the human rights movement speak truth to power, because we believe each story of human rights abuse is a tool for justice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Here are six tips that will help you deliver highly successful technology training workshops by using effective evaluation techniques. Use Learning Theory. I have written a lot about how it is important to understand how the brain works, how people learn by using learning theories to guide the design of your workshops.

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Evaluation Training Train Tips 128

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

The day of the panel, I published a blog post that shared our slides, wiki, and resources. Knowledge capture makes it easy to share the learning with others in the community, but as a session designer and speaker – you can also use it to do an “ after action ” review to help you review the delivery and the content.

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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. It integrates online community discussion forums, structured learning like webinars, content, with participants' social profiles. The book has a cool worksheet to help you plan these out.

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Channel Instruction Instructional Instructional Design 87

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Source: Nonprofit Next Report form David LaPiana Last week we invited people to help us crowd source a Hollywood Ending for the WeAreMedia Wiki. David La Piana released a report last week on the " Next Nonprofit " Blog taking a look at how five key trends are helping shape a new social sector. Have some thoughts?

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