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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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

In a talk at New York University earlier this month, Berger called this lack of meaningful measurement a full-on "battle for the soul" of the social sector. Worse, Berger says that the sector's inability to effectively measure (and learn from those measurements) means nonprofits really aren't as efficient as they could be.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 10, 2020

The post-event survey is one of the most effective tools available for measuring attendee experience and gaining valuable insights into your virtual event as a whole. Focus on the event technology and event platform used, the virtual attendee experience, and the event content. Ask a general question first.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

Have questions about general nonprofit technology “stuff?&# Learn the best ways to crowdsource your mission and measure progress toward your goals. If you’re not, Ignite is a style of presentation: Participants have five minutes to speak on a subject, accompanied by 20 slides. Each slide is displayed for 15 seconds.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2011

CTK Foundation Grant Award: Social Media, Technology, and Poetry for the Soul | Community Organizer 2.0 – "I was contacted by my colleague John Haydon last week to write about an interesting foundation grant challenge by the CTK Foundation. “Is it even possible to measure online influence, divorced from offline influence?&#

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

I’ve been reflecting on why some nonprofits do a better job of measurement and learning, while others do not. The nonprofits that embrace measurement have a data-driven culture. Works with measurement consultants or specialists to improve skills and capacity. Example of A/B Testing Results. What is the difference?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2014

In a talk at New York University earlier this month, Berger called this lack of meaningful measurement a full-on "battle for the soul" of the social sector. Worse, Berger says that the sector's inability to effectively measure (and learn from those measurements) means nonprofits really aren't as efficient as they could be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2010

My slides are above and my reflections are below. NetChange Week is an impressive event that explores the intersection between social technology and social change started a year ago. When I tell people that they might see themselves in the slide show, there is always nervous giggle. Room Layout is Important. Audience Feedback.

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AUGUST 12, 2011

Flickr:swisscan Each day brings something new and exciting from a technology perspective. Together, we can stay on top of technology, even in a time of rapid change. The Pierce Family Foundation noticed the change in nonprofit IT needs, and has a great article on their strategies for funding technology. Have more news to share?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

Here are my slides and curated resources materials for a talk called “ What Can Nonprofits Learn from Robin Good, the Best Content Curator on the Planet? Content Curation for Nonprofits. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. ” that I will be presenting at the Social Media for Nonprofits. Let me know in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

This post is brief re-cap about what I learned about technology innovation investments to develop new social media platforms and apps for the Arab World. N2VLabs provides support for the best of the best Arabia geeks who have a promising technology idea or social platform. What Happens at n2vlabs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

They shared a slide (see above) about new models we’ll see that combine both – especially the “not invented yet.” And the sector is getting better at measuring social change and that there has been a lot of progress in the way the sector measures and reports on big social change outcomes.

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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. What this means for tools, specifically, is that we don’t actually like technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

One of the slides that struck me was a map that look at the full range of their activities offline and online (including social media) using two data points (numbers of people and ladder of engagement ). The challenge is how they move people through these different stages. Chad did a video clip explaining the slide. (He

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

The social media/technology landscape in Romania is very interesting – with a diverse set of issues, struggles and opportunities. Do you have videos, pictures, or slides? Here’s a how-to guide for Community Planning & Measurement. Or, maybe you weren’t interested in the stories being told.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

One of the reasons I made a commitment to blogging about professional topics regularly was because I was inspired by Marnie’s nonprofit technology blog, ext. So making the audience part of the slide deck and inviting commentary surfaces the wisdom and knowledge in the room. These ideas are illustrated in the slides below.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 10, 2020

The post-event survey is one of the most effective tools available for measuring attendee experience and gaining valuable insights into your virtual event as a whole. Focus on the event technology and event platform used, the virtual attendee experience, and the event content. Ask a general question first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

I'm here in Chicago for a very brief trip on a panel about metrics and measurement for museums called "New Spaces, New Measures." " My slides and resources are here. He points out, "While those trends are enabled by digital technology, I'm not concerned with technology per se ???

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

In our ongoing mission to provide technology information and resources to nonprofit organizations and libraries, TechSoup’s latest Nonprofits Live (NPLive) explored advice and resources for creating great presentations. Presenters who are interested in embedding a live Twitter stream into their slides can do so with SlideRocket.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

The slides are also available for download. Your mission should be an actionable measuring stick. In particular, I've enjoyed digging into the workshops that were held on Education , Business Models , Technology and Ops , Curation and Research , and Directors. watch the video. It's better (though it takes a bit of time to load).

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Social media, like all technology, is developed by people. Again, I’ve included these driving questions to help you frame the decision making that citizens employ both in asking for help and those indirectly impacted making decisions about which technologies they can use to help others. What’s Next?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

If you’re looking at your technology budget and wondering whether you’re getting your money’s worth, join Digital Strategist & Technology Coach Maureen Wallbeoff and learn exactly how to harness the power of your technology to help your organization grow. They’re just technology.” ” I love it.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Women Who Tech brings together talented and renowned women breaking new ground in technology who use their tech savvy skills to transform the world and inspire change. See the slide deck below and notes from the panelists: WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore. Link to things that can be measured. Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

The importance of thinking strategically is a point Beth Kanter , co-author of The Networked Nonprofit , hit on during a later presentation in which she encouraged all nonprofits to have tangible goals for what they want to accomplish with social media and measure results. Find all speaker presentation slides on Slideshare.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

My biggest concern about OERs has been that few people developing them have been measuring the impact: they celebrate the creation of the open content textbook or coursework, but don't collect the information on whether anybody is using them. OERs are the open source equivalent of open source software. Moderate dips at 4 am and 4 pm.

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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! Social by Social, a handbook in using social technologies for social impact. For more: What Will Online Giving Look Like Next Year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

organizational change, and technology. Purposeful Measurement to Inform Replication. Grantee organizations will measure what matters. But not all metrics are equally valuable, and choosing the measurements that matter can be complicated. Social media can be filled with metrics to track results. We did this on Day 1.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

NetSquared Vancouver** shares [slides and videos]([link] from their November event. * Kitchener, Ontario: Smooth Succession Planning for Technology Staff. Cleveland, Ohio: Measuring Results. Los Angeles, California: Can We Measure Social Impact? Want to learn about PCI compliance? Friday, September 16, 2016.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Here's what some nonprofit technology bloggers posted - Paul Lamb , Allison Fine , and Deborah Finn. Marnie Webb asks " Have you seen the Technology Innovation Fund projects ?" Looks like Zen and the Art of Technology scored the Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops. He blogged his slides, a video , and some reflections.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2008

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 31, 2007

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Forum One

AUGUST 20, 2008

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 7, 2007

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2009

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

This slide show demonstrates the powerful outcomes that a social network offers and how/why relationships are important. Network Vibrancy adds to the many challenges of measuring the social impact of networks. There are different measures for different types of networks and stages of work. Wat is the network's reach?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Submitted by Rebecca Leaman, publisher of Get your sanity back , Wild Apricot's non-profit technology blog Great new presentations on social media are coming out almost daily, now that we're deep into conference season, and many are directed specifically to the needs of non-profits. Tips and Case Studies Who’s Doing What, Where, and How?

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Forum One

MARCH 6, 2008

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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