Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I blogged earlier this year about research that indicates very strongly we’ve replicated our offline social barriers and segmentation in our online social networking platforms. ( Visit danah boyd’s website for more information and research on this topic.) as a form of self expression and identification.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

This post summarizes the content I shared in my presentation and offers some reflection on the conversational keynote. 6: Use social media to close the loop between online and offline action. 9: Assesses organizational culture and has strategies to address issues that may prevent adoption. Connecting With Colleagues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Adopting a networked mindset is believing in abundance rather than scarcity. You need to let them know why you are making the introduction and these can be done both online and offline. These can be done offline and online. Share Learning: To share learning, you have to intentionally hit the pause button and reflect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

I’ve been cheering GiveMN for four years now and every year they graciously agree to do a reflection post on how it all went and what they learned. Certainly there’s been a correlating growth in the adoption rate of social media by the general public as well as nonprofits and schools themselves. Check out the webinars here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

I invited Heather McLeod Grant to write a reflection base the case study of KaBOOM! and several social-media experts—including Beth Kanter—we identified seven key lessons for nonprofits that want to use the Internet to evangelize their program model and increase their offline impact: 1. Keep it simple and concrete.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

This blog post is a roundup of the face-to-face we had last week in Houston to share some of the amazing lessons learned and some reflections. We started with key results and worked backwards to technical assistance goals: Kids get health care coverage Policies are adopted More attention from policymakers. and storify.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

My reflections are here. My reflections have mostly that has been around the subject matter of how nonprofits and foundations are thinking about and using social media. Know Your Audience’s Social Technology Adoption. Offline/Online Interaction. I find myself doing this on Twitter more and more. Retweeting is boring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

I’ve had a lot of experience with online contests, both as a participant (winner) and working two reflection papers for the Case Foundation ‘s America’s Giving Challenge. Some tips to build capacity and benefiting from a fundraising contest: Get organized both online and offline. Designate a cheer leader.

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NTEN

JUNE 19, 2014

Big goals in addition to iterating on the products and getting them adopted widely: By 2016, they will solidify their business strategy, aggregate a mentorship program of 100,000 students around the world, and plant a million trees. Eventually they will launch a more formal program. •

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2009

While initially driven by "free agent" fundraisers (those not on the organization's board or staff, but who are fans and social media users), we'll begin to see more and more as nonprofits adopt social media as part of their fundraising tool box. There is a both an online and offline event that take place at the same time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

These boiled to do: Lack of strategy, capacity issues, adoption issues, and lack of measurement techniques and approaches. I used their problems to share a few points about how to begin to address those challenges, holding the space for other participants to add their knowledge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

" I never expected that anyone would take the time to reflect on that question, let alone lead me towards understanding. How to help npos think about this in a way that leads to thoughtful adoption? Maybe it's a generational thing, and my daughter will see online/offline the way I see phone/f2f. Poking around J.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

It’s fairly easy to extrapolate that even with the poorest of clients, we’re seeing web adoption especially as traditional sources of information for job and apartment listings leave print media. But in many areas there will always be scope for offline delivery of a non-profit’s message. 7 Beth Kanter 09.21.07

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It is not just that people need to know of a technology, but they really need to have it already integrated into the way they communicate and share for adoption to take hold during a crisis. We interact with our friends and colleagues in real time on and offline — either in the office or out at coffee, on Twitter or social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

That's when I was working with the New York Foundation for the Arts on its technology capacity building programs, including offline/online workshops for online skill building called SpiderSchool. I think there are ways to design and deploy limited experiments or action learning around these tools - and take incremental steps towards adoption.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2012

This guest post was written by Geert-Jan Davelaar and Anna Tiedink, educators at the Zuiderzee Open Air Museum in the Netherlands, the museum that "adopted" the INNL's National Vending Machine project after INNL's closure. The Vending Machine project was one of my favorites; you can learn more about it here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Some reflections about the newest web2.0 Online/Offline and Open/Closed Content A story in CIO talks about how the Internet has boosted employee productivity and points to Pew Research that shows that the boundary that existed in people??? Lee Romero has posted a nice guide to using wikis to support his Idealist group's work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2012

I confess to being an early adopter – someone who overpaid for technology tools that didn’t work and still do that today. I was reflecting back to those days and I realized that part of my work included content curation, although at the time I didn’t call it that. 6.Do Do you feel that you often cannot concentrate?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Doug concluded his welcoming remarks with posing some important questions for the future for participants to reflect over the next few days: How do we keep a balance between the emerging and traditional technology so we keep in touch with digital natives and those who have limited connectivity? The corporate sector have adopted it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

The hours don’t reflect exactly how much time one should spend on the sites themselves, rather the time spent and the time necessary researching and preparing the content for each social network, setting up and maintaining the profile and pages, and tracking ROI. A more diverse tool set requires a shifting of priorities.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

The hours don’t reflect exactly how much time one should spend on the sites themselves, rather the time spent and the time necessary researching and preparing the content for each social network, setting up and maintaining the profile and pages, and tracking ROI. A more diverse tool set requires a shifting of priorities.

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