Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

NetSquared’s Global Community Builder , Amy Sample Ward, will be at the NTC this year to connect and collaborate with friends, colleagues and new faces in the sector. This session will revisit the challenges of collective action in an era of “open source activism,” and highlight how the Web can help overcome those hurdles.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2011

Below are my slides and a round-up of tips for getting started with a more engaged membership responding to your emails! View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Advocacy actions and items of personal interest tend to result in more click-throughs from newsletters. Email Campaigns: Know Your Audience and Get Results.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

You’ll gain some interesting and actionable insights that will help guide how you create content and manage your website with a focus on SEO. Here’s a sample for NetWits that I ran a few months back that will give you an idea of what to expect. Email address only is generally the best practice. Think about incentives.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

Beth Kanter, Amy Sample Ward, Katrin Verclas and John Haydon are among the familiar names in the nonprofit tech sector who are part of the effort. A Causes widget that points to charitable actions and donations on other sites such as GlobalGiving and Facebook Causes.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

Their latest iteration, titled “Radical Impact” will bring together over 25,000 nonprofit professionals across three days and 75+ high-impact sessions to provide them with actionable next steps in their fundraising and marketing efforts. Cost: General admission is free. Cost: 2023 ticket prices have not been released yet.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

If you missed it, read on about creating and designing a successful, engaging website that inspires action. Creating a website with your users at the center of your strategy will get their attention, keep their interest, and inspire more action. View the session recording or download the slides to learn more. Audience Analysis.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

(You can review the page edits here: [link] ) Links to news stories were included as they emerged and the occasional personal edit of sentiments like “no one knows what’s going on” contributed to the live action growth of the page. Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take.

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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. We thought that there would need to be new tactics for making impact and new calls to action.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

It’s too easy for you to change course or let things slide if you don’t have a written plan, and that leads to lack of accountability. I’ll walk you through these steps, plus you’ll go home with my color-coded, detailed annual fundraising plan template AND a sample plan! By taking on this goal in smaller bites, you’ll be successful.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

Note , this was adapted from the book Social Change Anytime Everywhere by Amy Sample Ward and I. What actions do you want people to take? Look for opportunities to test different calls-to-action and other key content that is important to your organization. Call to Action. Who are the target audiences? Lists Post (e.g.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

My slides covered the tools and apps for the back stage side of energizing your community. Since my slides are mostly screen shots, I’ve shared a bit of context below. Action: The action or connection that ties it together. WWT 2010: Apps and Tools to Energize Your Base. View more presentations from womenwhotech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2010

Networked Nonprofit Slides View more presentations from Beth Kanter. The other wonderful thing is that Amy Sample Ward and Peggy Duvette were in the audience live blogging and I'm so grateful for their notes. I first encountered " Uncultured " through his work on Blog Action Day. Meetings was a big one, followed by worry!

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. See the slide deck below and notes from the panelists: WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore. View more presentations from Amy Sample ward. Use email to reach out to your constituents to let them know what you’re up to or to ask them to take action. design: is it clean?

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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. Only 43% of actions linked to background information. Report Highlights.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 19, 2010

Great slides. Tags: roundup 4change action age bookmarks collaboration community communitybuilder engagement fundraising list marketing networking nptech opensource postalicious presentations resources socialbysocial socialmedia technology youth.

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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. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. If not, you can follow the conversation in real time on Twitter with the hashtag #crowdx. (We’ll Crowdsourcing for Social Change.

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NTEN

MAY 6, 2011

Over at M+R Research Labs , Steve Daigneault and Colin Holtz have a new publication examining the power of stories and how we can put them to use in our emails for action and fundraising. Smith from Idealist , Farra Trompeter from Big Duck, and Amy Sample Ward from NTEN. Check out the slides and highlights from @fdncenter !

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2009

This campaign is targeting youth at-risk of knife crime in the UK and plans to have a large portion of the messaging and calls to action embedded within social media tools/platforms used by local youth. I will also share my speech and slides next week after the event. Please note: I will credit any and all contributions, of course.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2011

—– Whether you are part of a nonprofit organization, an action campaign, a local community, or a school, you know that it is through stories you can showcase your work, change people’s minds, inspire them to make change, or join you to make a difference. or read the entire post copied below.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

Check out the presentation slide-deck referenced in the post for detailed information about considerations and steps for making it easier to get your supporters to sign up and take action! NTEN rockstar (and official NTENny) Amy Sample Ward has a guest post about 5 steps to social media strategy success for nonprofits. .

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Whether you are asking for feedback, sharing stories, or urging people to take action, providing a place for your community to share back with you shows your openness to feedback and interest in the community. Do you have videos, pictures, or slides? Or, maybe you weren’t interested in the stories being told.

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Forum One

MAY 4, 2010

Two organizations who participated in the study, NARAL and AARP , shared their experiences in converting inactive users to active, by sending them emails less often in the hopes of reducing churn (you can also download the presentation slides and recording here ). As NARAL found, it could mean the difference in an additional 0.63

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Julie Ordoñez will outline a proven strategy, messaging and action steps you can implement right away to close major gifts faster, ethically. And just a couple of quick housekeeping items, just want to let you all know that we are recording this session, and will be sending out the recording as well as the slides later on today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2008

Amy Sample Ward contributed a workshop group exercise based on Forrester's POST method. The section on strategy points over the some for-profit slides, but I might point people here. The action - feed -reflection process is very important. We created a worksheet with more detailed questions adapted and remixed from CCTV's wiki.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Moderated by NTEN membership director, former NetSquared organizer, and friend of TechSoup Amy Sample Ward , "Rethinking Movement Buildling" brought together three luminaries from organizations whose stock-in-trade are movements to promote social change. Movement Building and Elections. The difficult part is keeping it going.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2009

The Missing Faces in Technology and Innovation – Here is a well-written post on a very important topic from Robin Caldwell: "The beautiful thing about the Internet is that it is impervious to Affirmative Action, EEOC compliance and the Fair Housing Act. " Indigenous Mapping: Emerging Cultures on the Geoweb: Where 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2009

The Missing Faces in Technology and Innovation - Here is a well-written post on a very important topic from Robin Caldwell: "The beautiful thing about the Internet is that it is impervious to Affirmative Action, EEOC compliance and the Fair Housing Act. " Indigenous Mapping: Emerging Cultures on the Geoweb: Where 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

But it can be time-consuming to pick through a wide range of slideshows to find those that are up-to-date, actionable, and appropriate to nonprofits. Twitter.org: What, why, who and how for Nonprofit Organizations using Twitter (Amy Sample Ward). Here's a hand-picked selection of presentations to get you started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2008

Social Actions has a great list of links about other platform developments, resources, and news happening in the fundraising 2.0 Dave is using distributed networked fund raising approach, but connecting it to specific outcome - journalism ( see slide 19 ) In this post, he describes the soon to be launched site. be authentic.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

And we’ll be sending out the recording as well as the slides later on today. . And I’ll let you bring up your beautiful slides, and the floor is yours, gentlemen, so take it away. . Also, a little shout out to our colleague Kevin Wilson who’s managing the slides for us at Harvey’s office. So good news.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

I have done a few webinars and presentations about social media tracking and metrics and frequently used the phrase “actionable data.” I responded that data, without action, isn’t worth our effort to track it. That’s what actionable means. Data we don’t want to take action about is even worse. Get Started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

The Democracy in Action Blog has a wonderful post about the most common typos that people make. The sampling of some of the top rated resources this week: Death Threats Are Not Protected Speech. He blogged his slides, a video , and some reflections. Slide Show from the Founder of Digg about Crowd Generated Media.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And just a couple of quick housekeeping items, just want to let you all know that we are recording this session and we’ll be sending out the recording, as well as the slides, later on this afternoon. So I’m going to stop sharing so that you can bring up those beautiful slides we were just looking at. Marie: Wonderful.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore View more presentations from Amy Sample ward. Use email to reach out to your constituents to let them know what youre up to or to ask them to take action. take action: are your calls to action clear and immediately stand out footer: is there an option for opting out or unsubscribing?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

This post recaps these sessions, provides my slides, and shares what I learned at the conference. Designing Questions Kathy Gustafon-Hilton coordinated a massive Pecha Kucha session, featuring 19 design professionals sharing 20 slides, 20 seconds apiece. Download my slides here. Download our slides here.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Below, I’ve shared my keynote remarks and slides and I hope you’ll share your ideas and further the conversation in the comments. You have to go beyond that and listen for action. If you aren’t in a position to take action based on what you hear, there’s little purpose in listening or trying to use a community-driven model.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

As always, just a couple of quick housekeeping items, I want to let everyone know that we are recording this session and we’ll be sending out the recording and the slides later on today. We start to take action. . That is my goal, is for you to have a few actionable takeaways. Steven: I definitely will. . Here we go.

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