Amy Sample Ward

JULY 30, 2010

As Beth and Allison explain: Networked Nonprofits are simple and transparent organizations. They engage people in shaping and sharing their work in order to raise awareness of social issues, organize com- munities to provide services, or advocate for legislation. Some of What I Like. Learn More.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2010

In addition, nonprofits have an increasing need to know on what blogs, websites and other online venues they and their issues are being mentioned and discussed, both favorably and less favorably. Presentation slides. If you missed the webinar, that’s okay! Use these links to access the conversation: All webinar resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2015

This year I designed and facilitated a highly interactive session called “ Walking is Work: Don’t Call It A Break ” with Ritu Sharma. I also lead a conference networking walk following the session. This post summarizes some thoughts and reflections. The slides and resources from the session can be found here.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 14, 2021

To accommodate latency issues and provide a shorter, tailored experience for virtual guests, Celebrity Waiters created two entirely separate slide decks for each audience. Particularly if latency or delays are an issue in your pre-event testing, consider holding a Fund-A-Need for in-person guests and online guests separately.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Bake sale Bake sales are always a delightful way to raise funds for your organization. Work with local clothing boutiques and designers to create runway looks and sell tickets for your community to get a look at upcoming items. Host a trash cleanup to help out your community and encourage volunteers to engage with your organization.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Also, you might want to consider creating a Group for a Cause/Issue in addition to one for your nonprofit. for Nonprofit Organizations LinkedIn Group. 3) Use Your Personal Profile to Benefit Your Nonprofit : Post Network Updates about your organization’s work. I created and manage the Web 2.0

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

Nonprofit conferences are a great opportunity for industry professionals to hone their skills, network with their peers, and learn innovative new strategies to help their organizations thrive. The goal of the conference is not only to inspire attendees but to equip them with real solutions that they can bring back to their home organizations.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

It’s incredibly important for nonprofits to tell stories about their organization and the people they serve. Storytelling for nonprofits is an avenue to connect with donors and help them relate to your work. However, it’s critical for that organizations don’t just tell stories effectively—they have to tell them ethically, too.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 10, 2020

But, collecting participant feedback can give you valuable insight into what worked best and what, if anything, fell flat. In other words, they take work and effort. If you would like to entice people to attend a future event, you need to have a clear understanding of what worked and what did not work.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yesterday was the 3rd annual Women Who Tech Telesummit , bringing together over 600 women (and men) from for-profit and nonprofit organizations and technology start, connecting developers and techies with those new to the field, igniting conversations and long-term collaborations. WWT 2010: Apps and Tools to Energize Your Base.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

It’s hard to ramp up the good work you do if you don’t know how to concretely define, measure and communicate your impact to supporters. It’s important to learn how to share your efforts with the world, and even more important that you know just how big of an impact you’re making on the issue you’re trying to solve.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

We are here to talk about how to lead and manage in our new work reality. You should already have the slides, but in case I missed you, we’ll send all that good stuff later on today. So I’m going to stop sharing and I’ll let you pull up your slides here. Let’s see if we can get to work.

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AccelEvents

JULY 23, 2020

Virtual events carry many benefits to event organizers and planners. When viewers are located all throughout the world, it can be nearly impossible to find a time that works for all time zones, and asking presenters to present the same content over and over again will not fly. But, this isn’t necessarily a perfect solution either.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

A chance for local organizers to come together, network, ask questions, etc. Takeaways: A chance to connect with other local organizers. More knowledge, confidence and excitement about organizing in your city. How many staff use your online community space in their work? Each slide is displayed for 15 seconds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2008

This slide show from Stephen Collins make me think about teaching Internet Skills Workshops for Nonprofits that I used teach over dozen or so years ago. The slide show is from a session he did at BarCamp Sydney called " All You Do Is Talk Talk Talk." Information How does it work? | View | Upload your own.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

After you've been able to use metrics to learn what works and adapt your approach, you can use a traditional approach which begins with defining value and culminates with a financial calculation that could go something like this. Listening is knowing what is being said online about your organization and your field. Investment.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

This is an issue I’ve been struggling with for a long time. OK, well, not so unrepentant or unabashed since I’m writing this post on the varied factors around technology and the environment, and have been thinking about this issue for myself for a long time. I’m an unrepentant, unabashed technophile. So what to do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Earlier this month, the Ad Council hosted a webinar on the topic of social media ROI with three great social media minds to help us navigate these and other thorny online issues. Or, if you’d like to watch the entire presentation or download the presentation slides. If money is an issue (isn’t it always?),

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2010

.&# As much as I have enjoyed all that we have been able to do together in this space, I’m much more excited about what we could do together in a more organized, easy to use space. But I’d like it to be seen for what it is: there are tons of presentation resources (slides, notes, videos, etc.),

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 24, 2012

While not scientific, the survey offers some interesting insights and we highlighted the key findings in our presentation (included in the slides below and online here). So far, Council Speaker Christine Quinn has not called for a vote on this issue. Be passionate. Be creative. Be concise.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2010

And, everybody is working on something and usually is interested in several issues. James Moody of Australia’s national research organization was talking about an idea of a humanitarian license for patents that has been floated by the YGL community. When I first attended, social issues were not top (or middle) of the agenda.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

Simply put, focus on the people whose lives are made better by your organization. Maybe something like this: “Remember when you gave to our organization last year on Giving Tuesday, when we were raising money to give more families a place to stay at our transitional shelter? See how that works? What would you say? Be specific.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 10, 2020

But, collecting participant feedback can give you valuable insight into what worked best and what, if anything, fell flat. In other words, they take work and effort. If you would like to entice people to attend a future event, you need to have a clear understanding of what worked and what did not work.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 7, 2016

What a lot of people don’t know is that culture is the lifeblood of any organization. Sure, it may not be quite as exciting as the startup down the street that has a slide from their second floor to the first floor, or your friend who gets free beer at work but still culture none the less. .

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

There were interesting conversations at every turn and I also had requests to share my notes and slides. Below, you can find my full speech and slides, as well as links to address questions and requests from many of those I met with. In the analog way of working, we have some really beautiful pieces. So let’s dive in!

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

If your organization falls in this range, you may be interested in free, discounted, or affordable software solutions to help carry out your strategies while staying within budget. which will make it harder to organize and sync your data. Accessibility: It may not be easy to share the sheet with others at your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

It brought together a rich mix of people working in humanitarian causes, using social media, and creatives. The morning was a round of 20 minute keynotes, including me, representing a wide range of perspectives on the issue of NGOs that do humanitarian work. My slides are here. My slides are here.

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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. The competition we conducted as part of this panel surfaced a collection of case studies of organizations using social media in their program delivery. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’ve had the honor to facilitate training workshops at grantee’s conference. You can find the slides and materials on my wiki here. My colleague above posed for me in an organizational t-shirt and holding a bottle of beer.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

If you can invest only 5 hours a week, then you will get the return on investment (ROI) from 5 hours of work. Many people today are overwhelmed by text, and photos and slide shows can often do better at communicating your message than text-heavy articles or blog posts. The truth is that you get out of social media what you put into it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2011

We can no longer think about privacy and sharing as a black and white issue. Organizational: This is when you are sharing information as an official spokesperson for your organization or your organizational persona. The subscribe option gives you another channel to share public information related to your work or professional life.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It evolves to meet our changing needs, to fit our changing lifestyles, and to integrate into the way we do our work. Working together, citizens could piece together news stories as well as facts from witnesses as they emerged to create the most complete picture of events. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2012

Note from Beth : In March, I had the pleasure of co-presenting at the GEO Conference (Grantmakers for Effective Organizations) with Kathy Reich, Director, Organizational Effectiveness Program at the Packard Foundation and Jared Raynor, Director of Evaluation at TCC Group, that helped OE analyze its “goldmine” of grantee data.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

I normally separate my post-presentation blog posts and slides but think it will be valuable to group them together this time. 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.

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AccelEvents

JULY 23, 2020

Virtual events carry many benefits to event organizers and planners. When viewers are located all throughout the world, it can be nearly impossible to find a time that works for all time zones, and asking presenters to present the same content over and over again will not fly. But, this isn’t necessarily a perfect solution either.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2009

I also referenced the report in my latest presentation slides about social media use by individuals in nonprofit organizations.). Resources or capacity are still an issue - the big organizations do better with online actions. 50% of organizations had databases that included 40% or more of inactive supporters.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

What happens when the most talented and innovative women in technology who work with non-profit organizations and political campaigns get together for the day to discuss the most relevant issues ranging from the Women in Open Source to Fighting Sexism in the Tech Sector? You get Women Who Tech. Details: Date: May 12, 2009.

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