Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

day conference was split into two tracks for IT and NGO, sometimes meeting separately, sometimes coming together to collaborate. I also had the chance to provide a couple presentations to the NGO track, one focused specifically on using facebook for campaigning in Romania. In the slides, I highlighted some of the work of 350.org

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2016

Your third social network should be one that is up-and-coming, expands your mobile skill set, and reaches a new target audience, such as Gen Z on Snapchat or Millennials on Instagram. The 2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report. 2,780 NGOs • 133 Countries • 6 Continents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2014

I also keynoted the NGO track at the Internet Festival in Pisa, Italy (more about that in separate post later). Marcelo expertly wove in audience interaction – which was quite impressive given that there were over 1,000 people in the room. He did the game alone on the stage and then had everyone in the audience do again.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

TechSoup Microsoft NGO Connection Day. He works for an NGO in Australia and we met on Twitter (via Eddie Harran ) prior to his visit to America to attend the Wisdom 2.0 Not only does this help me frame and tailor the talk I give to the audience, but facilitates Twitter conversations before. Connecting With Colleagues.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2011

A few years ago, Jeff and I went on a pro bono IT consulting project to Uganda to serve a Action for Children, an NGO that fights poverty by preserving families and delivering micro-finance. Non-profits must collaborate to create change, and we are no different. Interview: Rob Wu, CauseVox Founder.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

We’ll draw from recent experiences in setting up an active advisory group made up of NGO partners from all corners of the globe; our network-wide campaign to survey NGO technology trends in 24 languages; and, our own technology solution to communicating with these partners to deliver services in 37 countries. Susan Tenby.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

relevant to the audience you are serving. NGO capacity is still lacking, but they must learn to own technology. With numerous speakers and a packed agenda, I had a chance to hear some of the projects that's happening in this space. Lyman gives the example of the user interface of a website, which we often.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Social Media, NGOs, and Romania View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: ngo socialmedia ) Next, Iulian Comanescu - Training coordinator for the program is explaining the program. Blogs focus on a particular niche - and this determines the target audience. They also have an advocacy role on behalf of ngos.

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

Maybe you shouldn''t look for an NGO "out there" but ask their employees and own audience what causes THEY care about. It goes back to working together and collaborating. But when you look at corporations that maybe don''t have this as part of their DNA, how do they get involved in ways that Millennials care about?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? Carnival Collaboration The Carvinal of Nonprofit Consultants and The Giving Carnival will join forces next week. There's lots more to digest and lots more to come.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Photographs and videos create options for supporters to share your message with their networks, exponentially building your audience. Nonprofits often believe they can’t afford excellent visual content, that it isn’t worth the effor, but there are many photographers and media producers looking to collaborate with nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2017

The reception has been warm, but the adoption has been slow, primarily because Design Thinking and Systems Theory need to take a dose of their own medicine and adapt to be relevant and resonant with this new audience. Know your role.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

The NOS session is a chance for anyone interested in open data and APIs to connect and collaborate. East-West Technology, Culture & Food Exchange: Innovation and culture sharing with NGO counterparts in India. East-West Technology, Culture & Food Exchange: Innovation and culture sharing with NGO counterparts in India.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

FORGE uses a collaborative, rather than top-down model, to serve refugees' needs, and much has been written in the blogosphere and media about Erickson's "radical transparency" around the organization's financial challenges. You use a process that on your website was described as the, "collaborative project planning process."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

My session was part of the third edition of Tech@State , held on, November 4th & 5th in collaboration with The World Bank. Someone in the audience asked about the ecosystem of Free Agents. Fortunately, that’s not true for every agency Mark has collaborated with. initiative. It got me thinking.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

Since the project launch, the BRIDGE project has become a collaborative that includes the Foundation Center, Global Giving , GuideStar , and yours truly, TechSoup Global. These organizations house data for a combined total of three million NGOs worldwide. BRIDGE is an acronym for Basic Registry of Identified Global Entities.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

I work mainly with nonprofits and social enterprises that want to have a bigger impact, that wants to increase their audiences, and that want to interact with diverse communities. So step one is find how your audience communicates. So I’m a communication consultant, a communication strategist for nonprofits, mainly. Lots of ones.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Our HumanRights team, including Benetech Research Fellow Amelia Hoover and fieldconsultants Tamy Guberek and Daniel Guzmán, presented our initial findings on violations in Colombia to an enthusiastic audience of ICC investigators and analysts.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2015

It appears that a fair number of these predictions (on mobile payments, cloud computing, collaboration tools, and crowdfunding) have actually come true. We expanded this year to be able to provide product donations to pretty much any NGO in the world — 236 countries and territories to be exact. TechSoup's Ginny Mies agreed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I’ve just spent the last couple of days in Nairobi, Kenya because I’m a board member of an NGO based here, Ushahidi , an organization that builds tools for democratizing information and increasing transparency. I ask people to share what is top of mind when they think about social media and their NGO.

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