Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2010

Lesson #1: Design an action and invitation that’s doable and interesting – while focused on your goal. To recap : the methods for sharing and promoting the campaign were also designed to create easy ways of measuring participation and impact. It was a bit of fun mixed with experiment, and I think it was really successful.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

In this installment, we take a look at the home page design. Our web design experts from Cornershop Creative, coordinated by our Creative Director Contractor, Philip Krayna, put together a strawman page, which we turned over to our trusted NTEN Community for a first impression test. Do you have a design triumph or lesson-filled fail?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Last week I was lucky enough to attend the Google Impact AI Summit that shared the learning and case studies from Google AI Challenge winners. The Summit included presentations, panel discussions, and a “science fair” where we could see demos from and talk with the winners. I learned about the People + AI Guidebook.

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NTEN

AUGUST 22, 2013

Of course, it wasn''t a complete loss as we did learn several valuable lessons in how not to design a data driven experiment. Start with small, easy to design experiments: This was by far the largest data driven experiment NTEN had tried to date, and our lack of experience clearly showed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

Living Case Studies: Social Media and Sustainable Agriculture. As part of my work this year as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m designing and delivering peer training sessions for grantees all around the theme of social media, learning, and measurement. Living Case Study.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

Within Media Cause’s Creative, Brand, and Design team, one of our favorite things to do— besides creating incredible work for our clients—is sharing inspirational and educational resources with each other: articles, POVs, webinars, classes, books, case studies, blogs, tutorials, cheese.

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NTEN

AUGUST 14, 2014

And Philip Krayna , our long-time partner in design, will be aided in the graphic redesign by the brilliant design minds at Cornershop Creative. content audit content strategy design Web Sites websites' We''re very excited to have their help! We can’t wait to launch this and appreciate your interest in this process.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

The room was packed with enthusiastic participants and this post is designed to be shared with others who couldn’t attend in person, as well as to all those who did and asked to have resources to share with their networks. Case Studies. Presentation. Strive to Be Replaced. Community-Driven Social Impact – 11NTC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Last month, I participated in a Design Thinking Lab with network leadership practitioners convened by the Leadership Learning Community. The session was an introduction to design thinking methods and to generate ideas for instructional modules for networked leadership development. That is not design thinking.

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NTEN

APRIL 9, 2013

Infrastructure Mobile mobile optimization nonprofit technology nptech online engagement responsive design Web Sites Communications IT Staff' If we could swing these engagement metrics into positive territory compared to desktop, we’d consider it a smashing success.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2009

Sifry , the co-founder of Personal Democracy Forum, took a closer look at ROI for Facebook apps in his piece last week Facebook Haggadah: A Case Study in Viral ROI (Is This App Different From All Other Apps?) for TechPresident. Here’s an excerpt from his post : Within a day his Facebook Haggadah was all over the web.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Center for Digital Strategy has designed a summit just for nonprofit professionals. It's a comprehensive learning experience with session content that is backed up by case studies and immediately applicable to your advocacy and fundraising programs this year.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Using AI to Guide a Career Path in Government Streamlining an Ecosystem of Sites Design for Impact Making Data Accessible Engaging Events In 2023, we successfully hosted our second annual Digital Impact Summit along with a series of insightful webinars. Here are a select few that our readers most visited.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Because we all know that developing a successful website takes a lot more than just pretty colors and pretty pictures - As the title suggests, there is a lot of behind-the-scenes strategy work that goes into designing a website User Interface (UI) that not only looks killer, but also communicates purpose, engages your audience, achieves organizational (..)

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Achieve

MARCH 11, 2015

They execute creative, well-coordinated peer fundraising campaigns that utilize technology, messaging, design and storytelling. LiNK designed 300 emails for one campaign! By the end of the campaign, LiNK had sent out over 300 individually designed emails over the course of the campaign.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2020

Any time you see an impressive Google Grant case study , the metrics are always made possible through conversion tracking. . These programs are designed to help you better understand your website traffic. . But more importantly, they also allow you to designate certain actions visitors can take as “conversions.”

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

In most cases, we sent them the instructions, hardware, and software they'd need and then stood back and watched how the installation went. We did periodic check-ins on how the MultiPoint Server system held up under use so here is a case study from one YMCA site. Youth for Diversity Classes-(8 users=1 hour each per week).

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VQ Strategies

JANUARY 22, 2024

This series of playbooks is designed to provide specific, actionable steps to enhance citywide volunteer engagement strategies, either as a response to support from leadership or as a way to further make the case to leadership by demonstrating the benefits.

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Bonterra

APRIL 13, 2024

Simplify reporting Start reporting impact immediately with more than 15 pre-built dashboards designed to measure outcomes and meet common regulatory requirements, including the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). Grant management software is a specialized tool designed to streamline the process of applying for, awarding, and managing grants.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 28, 2023

Design a program that reflects the customized service you want to deliver and the quality of outreach you want to produce. My first bit of advice is, don’t treat recruiting these experts casually. They will be representing your organization. Someone with the wrong attitude or who doesn’t understand the goals can do more harm than good.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The book's six chapters cover: Building a Unifying Vision Developing a Strategy Getting Great People on Board Focusing on Results Innovating for the Future Leading Yourself Decide today to spend some time with this book's step-by-step guidance, concise explanations and in-depth case studies -- all designed to help you make an impact, inspire your organization, (..)

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

To design a technology model that could address the spectrum of skill in the network would be a challenge. Over the years he designed all the data collection/management systems, a statewide computer network for staff, websites, phone systems, and whatever else was needed.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 18, 2011

Designing for the Community: Customizable – let the community own your message and cause by personalizing their involvement or output. Designing for the Crowd: Shareable – messages, content, and actions that are shareable and don’t necessarily include a link can be picked up and pushed around the network and cloud easily.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2009

Here's a quick snapshot of some of the projects they're working on now: Case studies: Amy Sample Ward has posted the first in a series of NetSquared case studies on their site. Last year's Mashup winner — Ushahidi — is the topic of the first case study.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 30, 2015

"The challenge for the organizational architect is to systematically create the blueprint for an organization that consciously connects everything to purpose ," explains author Clive Wilson , in his new book, Designing the Purposeful Organization. The product of doing this are measurable results and, importantly, a felt sense of success.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

"The challenge for the organizational architect is to systematically create the blueprint for an organization that consciously connects everything to purpose ," explains author Clive Wilson , in his book, Designing the Purposeful Organization. The product of doing this are measurable results and, importantly, a felt sense of success."

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EveryAction

JANUARY 11, 2023

Congressional staff, who carefully manage their boss’s time, will designate slots for the lawmaker to meet with constituents while back home. Now is the time to begin preparing for President’s Day Recess —likely to be the first major break on the congressional calendar.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Issue Lab is where Candid collects, preserves, and shares research reports, whitepapers, evaluations, case studies, issue briefs, and more, published and/or funded by social sector organizations. The content in Issue Lab is designed to help social sector professionals with common, daily tasks.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

We'll cover how you can make your website more engaging at our upcoming webinar, " The Social Website: Integrating Social Media into Website Design and Function ". > Socially engaged visitors – those who "Like", tweet, or "+1" us – spend more than 6 times as long on our site! > Learn more and register today ! How about you?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Lane is planning to do a game design class and is excited about using the MultiPoint Server system as a teaching tool. They hope to expand their system to 10 stations. They also find that their lab is easy enough to move when needed. Space is an issue in their library. image: by Charles Brennick of Joy Neal and Lane Fernando.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Lane is planning to do a game design class and is excited about using the MultiPoint Server system as a teaching tool. They hope to expand their system to 10 stations. They also find that their lab is easy enough to move when needed. Space is an issue in their library.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 2, 2010

I’m really lucky to be working with Matt Chevy, a designer who’s totally supportive and even into this approach of involving all of you in making this a better site. case studies or examples. search for organization names or case study topics. Redesign topic #1: The Content You Want.

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See3

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Tweetsgiving was one of the first Twitter campaigns designed to raise money. It was designed FOR Twitter — not just something put on Twitter. The goal was $10,000. The highlights: * $11,021 raised from 364 donations. 15,830 Total Pageviews from 7,563 Unique Visitors in 101 different countries. over 100 press and blogger mentions.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2019

As a results consultant I had the pleasure of working with the SEFCU team to design a measurement framework that enabled SEFCU to become more targeted and specific about how they wanted to invest their human and financial capital to ultimately be able to demonstrate their success toward their end desired result of “measuring lives improved”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Stories with purpose don’t just materialize—they’re strategically planned, they’re creatively crafted, and designed to achieve measurable outcomes. Each of Hatch’s five sections are designed to help you craft, curate and share impactful stories. Here’s just a sampling of what you’ll find: How to Make the Case to Invest in Story.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

The new business accounts do not change the design or functionality of your nonprofit’s Pinterest profile, but it will give you access to new tools and case studies for brands as they become available. It also allows you to stop having to use a personal profile as a brand (i.e.,

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Volunteer Hub

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Raiser’s Edge NXT is designed to help nonprofit organizations efficiently manage their fundraising efforts, cultivate donor relationships, and optimize their operations to achieve their mission.

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