Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

After I graduated from college, I thought about all of the conversations I heard back at home, about how there was just nothing you could do to stop injustices. a cover letter that has generated many interviews for me and others who got nonprofit and government jobs. That you just had to let things go. And I thought, “Wow, really?”.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2024

These 10 components inform the chapters within the book. Pulling from these interviews, the book provides the details about what CEOs wish they had done differently and the advice they wish they had sooner – including how to: Handle the weight of responsibility of the job–and the loneliness.

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Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

It’s a conversation. The room was buzzing with conversations and new innovative solutions to help fundraisers be more efficient and effective. Countless receptions were hosted across the city for affinity groups and chapters. They also uncovered how “It’s not about how we talk to them. It’s about how we hear and nurture them.”

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

They can give directly from their seats without disrupting conversation with one another. With this fundraising app, your chapter can better plan fundraising events, collect dues, and communicate with members. This is achieved with features such as: Chapter billing and dues collection. Chapter communication.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2011

Geoff frames his strategy advice in the context of the current media landscape and how it has changed and evolved since his first book, Now is Gone, as he discusses in this interview from Networked for Good. I went straight to the strategy and measurement chapters. These include: Conversation Starters. Shareability.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Kathy Reich, Director of Organizational Effectiveness Grantmaking at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, write up this summary of the session. I am looking forward to the next chapter of work which will continue to focus on networks, but how they can be used by nonprofit for learning that leads to greater impact. Stay tuned.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

My conversations so far for February are all focused on the role of nonprofits online. I would LOVE for you to get in on the conversations, too! Last night, I had the great opportunity to interview Clay Shirky , the author of Here Comes Everybody. Join the conversation on the SSIR blog! I asked Prof.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

Five Hot Conversations. I know I should do this, but here's a direct link to the chapter on technology tools. New (to me) Blogs Blau Exchange is posting interviews with interesting ict-minded folks and occasional research and presentations. Check out the interview with Alexandra Samuels. NpTech Tag Skypecast Anyone?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

February’s Net2 Think Tank sprang from an interview with Clay Shirky, the author of Here Comes Everybody. Watch the interview and check out these responses! Watch the interview and check out these responses! You can watch the video interview with Skirky below. What about the book giveaway?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 20, 2011

A list of some of the people, things, and events that inspired me, or added fun to my week • Finishing Kathy LeMay's book The Generosity Plan, and interviewing her for the Big Vision Podcast. I'll post our conversation next week. I'm looking forward to the chapters about social changey games like they have at Games for Change.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

This conversion is really important and it's just the beginning. It's true; this will extend the conversation in the lobby. If you are interested in this topic, you might enjoy this interview with John Falk and Beverly Sheppard and Chapter 2 of The Participatory Museum. Projects interview membership.

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NTEN

JUNE 8, 2011

If you have the capacity, consider organizing local chapter meetups. You can't stop the community from talking, but you can help define the conversation. You can also solicit stories: interview the people you've helped or might help; their perspectives may give your organization new ideas and direction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

The NetTalks series , which includes five sessions, is intended to spark a meaningful conversation around alumni engagement and supporting a broader community practice of effective alumni networks. Societal Change: Impact on society, policy discussions, and conversations that advance sustainable practices. Micro conversions or steps.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Below is an edited transcript of my November 3rd interview with Kimberly for the Big Vision Podcast. Our conversation began with Kimberly explaining what Tranquil Space Foundation is, and why she started it. Kimberly Wilson: Tranquil Space Foundation started in July of 2006. Oh my gosh, there's so much.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This is the second part of a two-part interview with John Falk and Beverly Sheppard on their book Thriving in the Knowledge Age: New Business Models for Museums and Other Cultural Institutions. Try to engage administration in these conversations, and challenge them to be part of it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 18, 2009

I was excited to see that Cristi Hegranes of the Press Institute for Women in the Developing World , who I interviewed in early 2008 , was included in the Political Activism chapter. The Youth and Education chapter was my personal favorite.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

I bike to work and at least once every couple of weeks it’s Lindsay having an awesome conversation with somebody that speeds up that commute for me. Really cool conversations, lots of different topics, social justice, criminal justice, I think you talked about last week. . – [Steven] Yeah. – [Lindsay] Yup.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Let’s start at the most fundamental place for this conversation. For this conversation, and those to have over the course of the next two days together at least, let’s work from the place that a movement is larger than coalitions. What is a movement? How many people hear that word and think it is just as generic as the word community?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Last year at this time, I was writing the chapter on ROI in the soon to be published book from NTEN called " Managing Your Mission." My chapter lays out a traditional ROI process that Nonprofit technology staff use to make major IT investment purchases such as hardware, video conference system, database system, etc. Staff Interviews.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2008

How can we become digital archaeologists who use social media to dig up real time conversations to understand the right now? "Learning from what your customers are saying and tapping into the conversation." How is the conversation around your organization, issue area, or program changing? What is listening?

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Bloomerang

MAY 14, 2021

How do I deal with going through the interview process all over again? And so I got to have that conversation with her just because we already had an appointment on the books and. I had already been having conversations over the months prior to that with some of my mentors about making a switch to consulting.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 5, 2014

Attended by more than 2,000 nonprofit professionals and volunteers, the webinar featured one best practice from each of the book’s sixteen chapters and provided the basis for writing and implementing a comprehensive mobile and social fundraising strategy. Chapter 1: Nonprofit Technology and Fundraising. Chapter 2: Get Organized.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And you all got to know Elizabeth because she’s all over the place speaking, she’s doing podcasts, she’s getting interviewed. And she also serves on her home chapter of AFP which we always we appreciate. We’ll start with a few key trends in philanthropy that will ground our conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

First step was showing them the existing conversation, which both educates about benefits and dispels fears at same time. with your chapters and volunteers? The best practice interviews have a common theme — social media is no longer the responsibility of a few people in the organization. How do you address resistence?

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

Building local chapters. Mark’s infectious enthusiasm and evident passion for his cause make him an excellent story teller and his road trips have sparked a national conversation and movement. Strengthening your connection to grassroots supporters. Creating meaningful volunteer opportunities. Trail-blazing Road Warriors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

As Wendy Harman, Red Cross Social Media Manager, observes, "When Katrina hit, we knew people are talking but we’re not listening to conversation. Here's but one example from a blogger: “I took an American Red Cross class I thought was less than satisfactory. […] Someone found my blog post and told the local chapter director.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

And I’m going to tell you how to get them to do it and what the conversation should be about as we go through this because I think a lot of times a lot of people focus in on asking and that is not what it’s about. ” And when you’re interviewing those candidates, of course, you’re going to ask some questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The guide identifies on the key benefits of transparency as reported by the funders interviewed for the guide: Foundations profiled in this guide and those who responded to a 2013 GrantCraft survey listed the following benefits of transparency: Less time spent explaining goals and strategies to potential grantees. Increased public trust.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Longtime Have Fun, Do Good Readers and Big Vision Podcast listeners may remember my interview with Dining for Women's Founder, Marsha Wallace, in September 2007. You can read the edited transcript below, or listen to the interview on the Big Vision Podcast homepage , or on iTunes. Then, we send one check to the featured program.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2008

Below is an edited transcript of our conversation on the Big Vision Podcast. One of the fundamental principles behind the way that we organize is that our outreach coordinators are students themselves, and they're often chapter leaders on their campuses.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

Next Tuesday, we'll look at chapters 16 and 17, on the merits and limitations of the team approach to exhibition design.) The conversation on the blog about Free at Last touched on that. Tags: interview Book Discussion: Civilizing the Museum inclusion. So I think the facilitation of that makes for a new museum.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

And so I, you know, want to hear from you because I know that whatever is on your mind, you’re able to add to the conversation. And it may be that this is something that you can do internally, that you can internally have some reflective conversations that will help you to shift or to just deepen investment and clarity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

As part of our ongoing research, we are tracking the conversation about AI and Nonprofits,here is a recent roundup of articles, blog posts, and research on the Age of Automation and Nonprofits. What about questions of legal liability in cases where algorithms cause harm? .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

In chapter 8, Asher explains that the best presentations have stories and if you want to be a good speaker, you need to know how to tell an effective story. Make conversation with your team. Ashers formula is: Start with the point. How To Improve Customer Service With The Telephone. Dont limit your time for only your direct reports.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

This week, we're covering the first objective in Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff's book Groundswell : listening (chapter 5). Surveys, interviews, tracking studies, and exhibit evaluations are often isolated events, and the information gleaned is specific to particular projects. What does it mean to listen to the groundswell?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

And that’s what I’m going to do today, I’m going to try to cover a lot of ground but leave some time at the end for Q&A and conversation and all of that. I interviewed Steven on my podcast, Smart Communications Podcast, about his book. So thank you for bearing with me so far on this conversation.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2011

Michael also interviews former Pine Pointers, and the highly personal "then and now" features on Kim Feodoroff and Richard Cloutier are highlights of the whole project. The "chapters" of the project were loose, and I didn't necessarily feel I needed to see them in order. This is a project that begs conversation.

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