Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

India Social Entrepreneurship Journey, February 2010 Contest - Please support me! I also work closely with our innovator community, those who have submitted Projects on our platform and participated in open innovation Challenges. I cannot wait for the experiences ahead for all those chosen to participate in this journey.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

I worked for the Chalkboard Project fresh out of university, a nonprofit organization founded and fueled by Foundations for a Better Oregon, a coalition of foundations in Oregon focused on collaborating to make a meaningful impact to issues in Oregon – in the case of the Chalkboard Project, that focus was on public education reform.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2015

Project Management. OpenProject is a web-based project management system designed to help dispersed teams collaborate on projects of varying scope. The software itself has been in development since 2010, but the OpenProject Foundation that supports it was established in 2012. Human Resources Management (HRM).

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Dan Hicks suggested: Build #PositiveAction training—as defined in the 2010 Equality Act—to make a 'pipeline' to begin to address under-representation. Lindsay Green suggests: I’ll go with make the work the team are focussed on visible - literally a list of projects or challenges you’re currently solving on the wall.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Our CEO recently attended the Communications Network 2010 Conference. "Adin Miller, a friend and all-around smart guy, wrote a blog post reflecting on James Surowiecki’s talk about the“ Wisdom of Crowds ” at the Communications Network and CommA Fall 2010 Conference. Foundation application? Foundation application?

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

If a capital campaign is on the horizon for your organization, Aaron Bishop and Brian O’Neil will share strategies and resources available to confidently predict your project costs and resources needed. We were talking before the session started, they’ve got a lot of really interesting projects. Aaron, Brian, I got 2:00 Eastern.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

What you should do Make an assessment – will using this online tool really save money or time, or facilitate collaboration in ways that is not possible with local apps? And, further, efforts like Adobe AIR, and Microsoft Silverlight , are bringing full-fledged desktop application functionality to applications in the cloud.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

The US Department of Education recognized that Parent Centers could increase their impact through technology and allotted funding for 8 pilot centers that represent the cross section of abilities in the network to test a technology model. We knew that this technology project was worthy of a significant change in the way we work.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 1, 2011

They told us about their organizations’ financial outcomes from 2010 and speculated on what 2011 would bring. But some collaborated to manage their expenses and a third of organizations actually increased their expenses. If they were fortunate enough to have reserves, some groups planned to tap them.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Chapter 3 is a discussion on Peer production – it talks about how it is that people have come together to collaboratively create software and content – basically, knowledge production. He spends a fair bit of time talking about the Wikipedia model, and how, basically, amazing it is. I found it through Beth’s Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 11-15, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. In 2008, I designed the Nonprofit and Social Media ROI Poetry Slam and last year was a panel on crowdsourcing that modeled crowdsourcing in the design and delivery. Check out his illustration of the panel).

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2016

It helps charities engage with donors and volunteers, manage grants and finances, and coordinate projects from the field or anywhere with an Internet connection. Box — a robust online document and file-sharing service with good content management and collaboration tools for your entire organization. No programming necessary.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 31, 2016

Based on these projections, the nonprofit sector would need to replace the equivalent of every executive leader over the next eight years. On a macro level, leadership development strengthens the nonprofit sector as a whole; it often leads to collaboration and innovation amongst creative leaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Recently I got my first full-on blast of the Networked Nonprofit at a session the authors presented at the 2010 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. Collaboration could take place on virtual or crowd-sourced projects. Rosenthal, Director of Communications for VolunteerMatch was a participant.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

What that translates to is that a movement is built on collaboration, incorporates co-design between individuals and organizations, and remains focused, even during an event or campaign, on lasting, real impact. And everything was shareable, collaborative, contagious. A year later, in 2010, it was even bigger.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

. :-) I first started doing technology consulting for nonprofit organizations in 1996, with a project for a local public television station ( WGBY in Springfield, MA ), to design a technology center for teachers to learn about technology and the internet, so they could apply that in their classrooms.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2013

That’s the complicated part of social change - complicated problems call for complicated solutions, even when our business models force us to focus on one simple arena. In January 2011, at a gathering hosted by TechSoup Global, we began talking about how to model our own ideals. Of course, collaboration is tough work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The 3D space where this virtual symposium will take place is a private version of the Second Life platform that Linden Labs and NMC have created, called the Hakone Project. This post describes several projects that represent the future of technology and education because they meld tools and needs. It was funny at the time).

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

I'm incredibly proud of all the staff, trustees, volunteers, collaborators, visitors, and members who have made this happen. We've had a few programmatic misfires, but for the most part, our new projects are succeeding because the newspaper wants to feature them in the "best bets" and people are game to come out and try.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

From collaboration to cost management, nonprofits are trying to protect their (precious little) infrastructure and enterprise while serving even more people. Partnerships, fee-for-service models, social enterprise models, and networking are just a few avenues nonprofits can take to help navigate around the economy's traffic jam.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. Change: Examining Competitions For Social Change: Organizations, foundations, even individuals are creating social innovation competitions, hoping to drive social change projects and solutions into the global marketplace.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2011

” This scenario unfolds an increase in international collaborations and a dwindling of the power of nation states. Collaboration enables governments and the development sector to get and better understand data. ” Coined the doom decade (2010-2020), (so we are actually living in it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. Change: Examining Competitions For Social Change: Organizations, foundations, even individuals are creating social innovation competitions, hoping to drive social change projects and solutions into the global marketplace. What is it?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 23, 2010

I appreciate this opportunity to talk about ClientTrack and its ability to promote effective collaborations. Optimizes collaborations within and between organizations. How does CT define “collaboration&# and what is so important about it? And that’s what effective collaborations among community providers do.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. Change: Examining Competitions For Social Change: Organizations, foundations, even individuals are creating social innovation competitions, hoping to drive social change projects and solutions into the global marketplace. What is it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Heather McLeod-Grant has written up an important lessons learned report about the project and summarized they key findings in the guest post below. Simultaneously, collaboration and “networking” is becoming the new norm, rather than the exception. Building Networks and Movements for Social Justice. LSF’s Lessons Learned.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? The Machine Project and the Hammer Museum have just released an incredible ebook documenting Machine's year-long residency at the Hammer in 2010. And the projects themselves are brilliant.

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Tech Soup

MAY 22, 2012

They have taken the most widely used office and collaboration tools and placed them in the cloud. It also includes collaboration and project management tools to help your organization work efficiently, effectively, and remotely. For most nonprofits their server is also the basis for a single point of failure model.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2007

All it takes is leadership, collaboration, and, most importantly, will. { at 7:09 am Why do we not see a collaborative effort to create community owned software? In fact, many, many successful, usable, high quality software projects are not backed by shareholder investment at all. This is neither impractical nor rocket science.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The memorandum outlined the three pillars of open government thereby narrowing the discussion to transparency, participation, and collaboration. The public sites have already collected over 800 new ideas and will continue to until at least through March 19, 2010. Vote for this Idea]. Department of Defense/USAID.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

"To us, it's really about collaboration. In Africa, we're running capacity-building trainings, and supporting women in launching sustainable businesses, and viable projects, to bring clean water to their communities. You both just came back from the 2010 West African Women and Water Training in Ghana. What was that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

I have the honor of collaborating with fellow Zoetica founder, Kami Huyse , on our Society for New Communications Research Fellowship research on the concept of Lethal Generosity - a way that for-profits can leverage social media for social change outcomes. The team uses social media, twitter to initiate community generosity projects.

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