Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

I’m at the 2011 Games for Change conference today and live-blogging a few sessions! The Brain exhibition, for example, has a table where people can work together to put together the pieces of the brain neuron by neuron. but there wasn’t an offline space for that. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

For example, just a few weeks ago I decided to kick a bad habit to curb: sleeping with my mobile phone which was disrupting my sleep. I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. Facilitation, Curriculum Development and Train the Trainers. How about you? I did it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

I will use a blog rich in video and audio to share my discoveries and analysis. Alex is a great example of a change blogger. Alex is a great example of a change blogger. Take for example the breast cancer version I created last week when I wrote about Leah Jones and Her Walk for Breast Cancer. What's that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2005

Steve and others, just when I thought there was a lull in our conversation about blog communities and blog cross conversations, I noticed this thread on the Digital Divide List (btw, the digital divide network is another example of a community blog). If you are new, start at the beginning.

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AUGUST 15, 2013

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? Whoever’s hosting facilitates the discussion using the @CommBuild account.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 7, 2009

Originally posted by Joe Solomon on the #4Change blog. Image from Blog Action Day - their topic this year is also climate change!). Starting the Conversations: Here are some questions to consider: How does online discussion and networking connect with and support offline action? How can the web facilitate culture shifts?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

One of the reasons I made a commitment to blogging about professional topics regularly was because I was inspired by Marnie’s nonprofit technology blog, ext. I used David Hood as an example. Not only does this help me frame and tailor the talk I give to the audience, but facilitates Twitter conversations before.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2011

The report was filled with examples , but more and more are coming to life everyday. And, with resources like “ Like Minded &# that facilitate the fast sharing of best practices, we’re bound to see more. Here’s one: ACTion Alexandria is an online civic engagement initiative with three main goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

The instructional design included different delivery methods: interactive lecture with slides and whiteboard, facilitation with sticky notes, small group exercises, posters, group discussion, self-directed activities, and self-directed online activities. Have you facilitated a training in a flexible space?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

The guide offers a few examples, and a reminder that you don’t have to use them all: Dollars to be raised. Making it easy for your champions to do the work is also important and you’ll find lots of templates and examples that you can remix on the Knight Foundation’s Giving Day Playbook and toolkits on the GivingTuesday site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

But, I'm also interested in improving my skills as a trainer - especially facilitating social learning or learning in public. We are also learning in public when we engage in in-depth conversation whether it is offline or online, for example in the comments of a blog post or asking questions on Twitter. Deployment Packet.

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AUGUST 15, 2013

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? Whoever’s hosting facilitates the discussion using the @CommBuild account.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Over the last few of years I've had a the opportunity to work with a team of intelligent and thoughtful colleagues, speak at conferences, and collaborate with other facilitators and community builders. More and more often, I get asked at conferences or on the blog for more information about how to create a community map or content plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery. Allan Gunn from Aspiration and his legendary facilitation skills and knowledge. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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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. So, for these organizations, their content pyramid also includes integrating offline w/online channels. On the Ground Engagement: What will you ask people to do offline?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. Every time I present or facilitate a workshop, I review the web sites and social media ant trails (social media properties) of participants. . For example, note their call to action right on the YouTube video.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

This month’s blog post on the SSIR opinion blog picks up where last month’s started. Last month, my blog here on SSIR discussed the idea that nonprofit organizations, with the use of social media, can now create shared spaces online for their communities—truly convene groups online. I asked Prof.

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For example, it’s easy to imagine new guidance around pandemic procedures on the horizon. For example, when the pandemic hit, there were suddenly a variety of new barriers to providing CE in an accessible manner for all members. For example: Members living in different geographical areas and as a result, different time zones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

For example, turning to your professional online networks can help save you time because you don’t need to know everything about a topic area. June Holley, an expert in networks and facilitating a community of practice of network weavers , defines some of these techniques below. These can be done offline and online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Watech4good Summit. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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JUNE 9, 2011

Better community software allows you to push out notifications for individual content items, whether it be a blog post, a new discussion topic, or an announcement. Just as in the offline world, people are more likely to do something when personally invited. Facilitate in-network responses. daily or weekly).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2011

The #jan25 Twitter hashtag also has examples of the State Department’s Arab Twitter Diplomacy. So for example, now I can see what State Department was tweeting in Arabic. For example, what is being tweeted about the use of social media. There are a few issues with trying to follow the issue directly via the hashtag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Casey Foundation's " Making Connections " initiative Part of the Making Connections core approach uses (offline) social networks. I asked if I had permission to blog or tweet general insights? I will share this in a separate blog post in a bit as I'm savoring the learning like sipping a fine wine.) It isn't black and white.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Social Media Measurement is this month’s theme on the Zoetica Salon hosted on my blog Facebook page. “ For example, during Hunger Action Month in September, Feeding America created a tab on their Facebook page where people could share a different action every day. With social media now is that as important anymore?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

Joitske Hulsebosch, who lives and works in Netherlands, writes a blog called " Communities of practice for development " where she writes about topics related to her work of facilitating processes at different levels; teams, groups, organizations, networks, and communities of practice. Through my blog I see what???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Most users prefer to consume user generated content, by reading blog, watching videos, or browsing through photos. The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

She also pointed me to an older post on her blog about one of theories of change in the book based on thinking styles. Another Twitter follower, Holger Nauheimer, pointed me to his blog on change management which has lots of resources. being a tool for change facilitation - which it is. Joitske recommend Learning To Change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. It also will change the types of skill sets that nonprofits will need now and into the future, for example “Data Analysts.” Let’s start with a definition first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2005

Last week I wrote about Steve Shu's post about facilitating blog communities. I asked if there were a set of best practices or design principles in facilitating blog communities. Steve has shared his learnings on facilitating a blog community. Steve provides some examples.

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MARCH 18, 2010

traditional offline software) into the cloud (a.k.a. are facilitated with on-premise solutions and which of those business processes could be facilitated within the cloud. are facilitated with on-premise solutions and which of those business processes could be facilitated within the cloud.

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JUNE 21, 2011

I'm at the 2011 Games for Change conference today and live-blogging a few sessions! The Brain exhibition, for example, has a table where people can work together to put together the pieces of the brain neuron by neuron. but there wasn't an offline space for that. It was a beautiful exhibition, but no one was playing it.

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MARCH 18, 2010

traditional offline software) into the cloud (a.k.a. are facilitated with on-premise solutions and which of those business processes could be facilitated within the cloud. are facilitated with on-premise solutions and which of those business processes could be facilitated within the cloud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Blog : A resource which talks about publishing, reading, literacy, kidlit, learning, non-profits, events and more. Facebook : Updating information from the blog and infromation about the events we do and communicating with the community. See this blog post from Creative Commons ). Example of Partham Books on mobile phones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The focus of Eugene's work with this network was to better understand its community, the most promising group practices, and have an open discussion that would facilitate learning and interaction among these leaders who were miles apart, spoke different languages, and had Internet access challenges. 2) TRUST: Trust is Everything.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Tom and Cecile shared a rich story about culture change, loosing control, building relationships, story telling, multi-channel strategies, engagement techniques, online/offline metrics, and more. And, yes the whole balancing act of how you facilitate that without controlling it. Others have a different take.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Charities outside the US can set up a profile. To generate a robust profile, your organization should be able to plug in existing social media presences (Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Blog RSS Feed, Etc) so it seems to favor organizations that have already established a social media content strategy. So What and Who Cares. by Tom Watkins.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Jonny will provide live graphic facilitation of the highly interactive and fun panel. In addition to the graphic facilitation, there will be other interactive learning elements. Online numbers don’t always equate offline results. Illustration by Jonny Goldstein of my SXSW panel proposal. Check out his illustration of the panel).

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