Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

We’ll be facilitating a conversation, more than doing a formal presentation, and will focus on the power of crowdsourcing (using our own case study from conducting the Social Media for Social Good case study competition) and the application of social media in nonprofit program delivery. (We’ll Crowdsourcing for Social Change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

I love all aspects instructional design and facilitation , but being a good trainer also means being a good content curator and resource librarian. I usually draw from these sources to create “instructional resources” for any workshop or class I teach. Here’s an example from a recent webinar on training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

View more presentations from kanter. I don't get an opportunity to do this workshop with a large group, so this was fabulous learning experience to work out some techniques to make it scale. One of the things that is essential to good instruction (or presentation) is knowing your audience. Compasspoint Workshop Slides - Beta.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Citizen-Powered Response.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Presenters: Emily Gertz - Change.org. We’re really talking about using no more resources than we can replenish. Blogs, wikis, social network platforms, forums, chats: aka user generated content, conversations, communities. BrightGreenLiving wiki: crowdsourced knowledge. One of the tools are social networks.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Kanter advises leaders to "be present, authentic, and human on social networks, sharing a bit of yourself as well as your organization's goals." Online tools and platforms can help organizations strengthen existing constituent relationships and reach new audiences. More Resources. A Few Good Blogging Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

It's a live chat during a workshop or presentation and these days, it mostly taking place on Twitter. Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel is a must read for anyone presenting at conferences or planning trainings in age of social media. How: 6 Tools and Tips. In fact, we gave away a couple of free copies. Know of any?

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Social media is a tool for you to use to help you achieve your mission. Including various social media tools in the way you do your work (whether it’s communications, fundraising, outreach, volunteer recruitment or service delivery) comes from strategically identifying the right tools for the right things.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

Last month, TechSoup and TechSoup Romania's hourlong tweet chat explored content curation and the best tools for it. Curating content requires deciding what to gather, filtering and organizing information, and finding the common threads to present a story. The content and tools are nothing without the curator.

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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. 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. We even gave away WeAreMedia t-shirts to contributors.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

All Parent Centers have the same mission: to help families of children with disabilities succeed in life, find tools and resources, and develop advocacy strategies despite the many barriers including segregated classrooms, inaccessible communities, and old cultural belief systems about disability. Fast forward to Jan.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

LinkedIn’s recent announcements to allow users the option to add volunteer service to their profiles and to provide expanded resources for nonprofits have generated a lot of buzz. Additional Resources. Nonprofit Social Media Wiki: LinkedIn. LinkedIn Nonprofit Solutions (Presentation).

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

I liked our 10 technology tips to help you reduce your need to travel, and also our travel reduction tools we compiled. All of the tools mentioned allow you to do things like store and share documents, calendars, project management schedules, and presentations online at no or low cost. Additional Resources.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

On June 7th TechSoup representatives Elliot Harmon, Susan Tenby, and Evonne Heyning will present in a unique Interactive Strategy event at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service in New Orleans, LA ( NCVS ). Check this chart for a comparison of web conferencing tools. We think Watchitoo.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Online collaborating requires an extra dose of the same skills we use when we collaborate in person and a number of tools to bridge the physical distance between collaborators. Useful Collaboration Tools. Additional Resources. Collaboration Tools Chart. Online Collaboration Tools. Our Experts. Wikispaces.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

There are people or even organizational cultures comfortable with using the existing tools and are slow to change, while early adopters and agile cultures keep learning and moving. Take for example this post from Rosita Cortez pointing to five videos of presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2009

8 Principles for Using Social Media Effectively View more OpenOffice presentations from kanter. Specifically, the workshop goals were: Introducing and applying network tools, frameworks, and case studies that can help network leaders assess their effectiveness and increase their impact. The presentation is above.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2007

Materials (draft) for a workshop on January 15 2007 at the UK circuit rider conference to be presented by David Wilcox and Beth Kanter. We will lead a discussion about and present on nonprofits using social media and also beta the social media nonprofit adoption game during the workshop. The wiki is under "by" 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. And, then revisit and revise the outline we brainstormed via skype and wiki , and finally build a powerpoint. Some more examples and resources from the LASA list: Sean Kenny points to an example of publishing content with RSS feeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

OSI Workshop View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Our charge was to teach back-to-back simultaneous workshops covering social media strategy for NGOs and social media tools. It made me think of the metaphor of the Dance Floor and the Balcony a phrase and exercise that I learned from a session that Eric Eugene Kim facilitated. .

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2011

Additional TechSoup Resources. NTC 2011 TechSoup virtual teams presentation. Susan Tenby's NTC presentation notes. Community team wiki with a distributed team resource list. Eight Tools to keep your team connected. Webinar recording: Online Collaboration Tools. Additional Non-TechSoup Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

EPIP Slides View more presentations from kanter. This prevents making tool-based decisions. The techniques of face-to-face networking strategies are very much transferable to online tools. I used the wiki a flip chart - so the leave behind is the slide deck, notes, and a few resources. I feel really inspired!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2009

Learn Trends Digital Habitats View more presentations from Nancy White. Yesterday, when I got the email announcement CpSquared (The Community of Practice on Communities of Practice) about its new wiki , I went over to explore. Wikis for Communities of Practice conference. Technology for Communities project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I have to prepare for a presentation at the Integrated Media Conference (public broadcasting) at the end of the month called "Lessons Beyond the Field." A Wikitation is a presentation delivered in a wiki. It also serves a resource leave behind! I opted for the wiki-presentation method.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2008

A few weeks ago, I saw a tweet by Ben Greenberg about a presentation he was preparing about blogging behind the firewall which lead to my post, " Blogging Behind the Nonprofit Firewall: ROI Approach " Patrick Lambe riffs on this: ???The Email: The Good Enough Collaboration Tool. Interest (group/individual) - eg. topic blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2008

To prepare for this presentation, I used social media tools not only to locate the experts and good examples, but this time invited them to collaborate in a google doc that ultimately became the wiki resource page. I would like to give special thanks to Andre Blackman and Patricia Anderson who were immensely helpful.

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Forum One

JANUARY 27, 2009

Capture presentations made during the event with live embedded audio and share them on a tool like Slideshare after the event. Slideshare is the YouTube of the PowerPoint presentation for those who don't know it yet.) We've got a number of presentations from various events. Set up an event wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. This was designed as a peer learning activity – so it was the participants who were mostly the presenters. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. I presented an overview on content curation why important, a framework, and introduced some new curation tools – scoop.it

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2009

Mapping Metrics to Strategy View more presentations from kanter. We'll examine what can and can't be quantified as well as various metrics and analytics tools. Yesterday, I facilitated a session called Mapping Social Media to Strategy. All this will be shared through a lively mix of discussion and case studies. Takeaways: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Jane Bozarth’s “ From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Trainers ” includes some excellent templates and examples for training evaluation surveys. I share these back with participants as part of the resources that I provide, often digitized and put on a wiki. Trainer Reflection.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

For example, one of the projects presented was called "Netflix at My Library." " More Hackathon Resources. Here are even more hackathon resources from TechSoup and beyond: Want to host your own hackathon? The challenges invite social activists and techies to create web-based tools to tackle local issues.

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2009

The result was the Knowledge Garage - a hybrid between a social network, wiki, and intranet built on the platform Groupsite. We also used the time before the event to promote the conference site and encourage exploration of the online tools that they would be using during the event. Pick a few tools and use them well.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The final installment of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays tweetchat series, an interactive companion to its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , covered the topic of tagging. Tags can also be used to find resources such as photos, slide presentations, and articles to reference for use on your site.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

By thinking first about the goals, you clear a path for the decisions around which tools you’ll use to get there. Each category is exhibited by different tools, technology, and/or approaches. Co-Create – Shared Content: Mapping, Mosaic, Wiki, Links, Games. There are five main reasons for integrating social media with a website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

I'm headed to the UK in January for the Lasa conference and will be presenting with David Wilcox. Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. This session introduces the concepts and tools behind the next generation of internet technologies or what has been dubbed "Web.20" " We???ll

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Using tools and a process, the words, ideas, experience, sounds, etc., The more engaged the "recorder" is and the greater degree of processing needed to summarize, use metaphors, create analogies, connect to other facts (in the present moment and from the past), the richer that person's experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. It is also a good technique to explore the possibilities of new tools and techniques before investing more time and energy in something that isn't right for our organizations. With limited time and resources, we are often hesitant to make that trade-off. Learning Together Over Time.

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