Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

Well, you’ll find that much of the work that involves your community, whether it’s building up the community, working on engagement, listening, evaluation, or anything else, involves strategy that goes in a circle. The approach is focused on organic collaboration and growth for the entire community. No Short Cuts.

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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. The focus was on learning about "Network Effectiveness" and the specific topics included strategies for network impact, approaches to evaluating networks and tools for accelerating and assessing network impact.

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NTEN

MAY 18, 2011

Flickr: bitzi One of findings from our latest annual Nonprofit IT Staffing and Spending Survey stood out to us: Those organizations that evaluated their Return on Investment (ROI) for IT expenditures were much more likely to be leaders— 44 percent, compared to just 17 percent of stragglers. We can also determine success from staff approval.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Be sure to really consider this as there are probably many different groups, supporters, collaborators, or other audiences that you may not list right away! Are they offline: at events, in your office, elsewhere? #4: . #1: Who are “They&#. This column is for identifying all of your audiences. 4: What they Want.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 10, 2020

This is an important question as it will help you evaluate your marketing efforts. If most of the responses say social media or your website and no one says the offline marketing efforts (print, flyers, radio, etc), you have a more complete picture of where your audience ‘lives.’. How did you first hear about this event?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yesterday was the 3rd annual Women Who Tech Telesummit , bringing together over 600 women (and men) from for-profit and nonprofit organizations and technology start, connecting developers and techies with those new to the field, igniting conversations and long-term collaborations. View more presentations from womenwhotech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Instead of getting distracted by the tools and the terminologies, I focus on the four underlying themes in social media, the 4Cs of social media: Content, Collaboration, Community and Collective Intelligence. The Second C: Collaboration. Collaboration can happen at three levels: conversation, co-creation and collective action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

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? Synergistic Collaboration: Who are you aligned partners online/offline? Content Curation on Twitter. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Gyrus

MAY 31, 2016

Virtual environment and use of virtual avatars in training is an exciting medium to target the young workforce, where they can create their own avatar, build their own challenges and collaborate with other learners. Offline storage and data management can take place, even when the user is not connected to the Internet.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

What that translates to is that a movement is built on collaboration, incorporates co-design between individuals and organizations, and remains focused, even during an event or campaign, on lasting, real impact. And everything was shareable, collaborative, contagious. How do you evaluate your programs and services?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

A few that I noted were: Cloud tools facilitate real-time collaboration. Offline synchronization capabilities aren't very good yet. kind of experiment include project management, collaboration tools and online publishing. Cloud Opportunities (The Good Stuff). There are many potential benefits to using cloud tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Peer discussion on use of online tools for collaboration for bounded networks, exploring some of the concepts in Digital Habits (each participant got a copy). 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.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2010

The lifetime value of a donor who engages with a charity through online and offline channels is three times more than that of those who engage offline or online only. Evaluate your website’s effectiveness. Increase fundraising for participant-led events. Use social media to reach the next generation of supporters.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Beth has over 30 years working in the nonprofit sector in technology, training, capacity building, evaluation, fundraising and marketing. Beth is an expert in facilitating online and offline peer learning, curriculum development based on traditional adult learning theory and other instructional approaches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

Published the Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we wrote and published the Emerging Leaders Playbook. If your organization has a story to share for our book, let us know.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Recently, over 300 innovators and changemakers interested in the intersection of technology and social benefit work converged for a few days of idea-sharing, learning, and collaboration at NetSquared's annual conference. The 2009 N2Y4 Conference showcased the Featured Projects from NetSquared's Global Challenge focused on mobile technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. How do you balance online action with offline engagement? Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. How do you balance online action with offline engagement? Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

In our analog world we are too focused on processes that aren’t scaleable or shareable – meaning we have a lot of meetings, we write things down on paper, and when someone that wasn’t in our meeting or isn’t in our town needs to collaborate with us, we have to invest in catching them up and recreating the work we have already done.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. How do you balance online action with offline engagement? Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

and collaborate to move issues forward. Data analysis is also critical to their success: they constantly evaluate response rates (to campaigns/ emails, etc), to understand what is working, and make adjustments as they go – it’s a process of continual iteration. They are working to combine online and offline organizing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The analytics tool evaluates the effectiveness of your posts and provides the best times to share your content. Loomly is an online social media calendar that allows multiple users to collaborate from one master calendar. Boardable enables boards and committees to easily schedule, meet, and collaborate virtually or in person.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

The analytics tools will also evaluate your posts to deduce the best possible times to share your content. Loomly is an online social media calendar that allows multiple users to collaborate from one master calendar. Boardable enables boards and committees to easily schedule, meet, and collaborate virtually or in person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

The campaign has an offline component, encouraging the audience to set up “ Girl Up Clubs ” where some of the activities include connecting and having conversations with girls clubs in different parts of the world.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2022

Individually and through our organizations, we have surveyed, tested, and evaluated these new platforms. Along the way, people can receive updates, give feedback, share information beyond the platforms, and integrate offline and online discussions. Thousands of government institutions are already using digital participation platforms.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The analytics tools will also evaluate your posts to deduce the best possible times to share your content. Loomly is an online social media calendar that allows multiple users to collaborate from one master calendar. MeetUp is service that focuses on helping people meet up offline and in-person. Social Media. Cureo :: cureo.com.

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Tech Soup

JULY 10, 2011

is management strategy where employees are evaluated on performance, not presence.) Budget time between online and offline activities. One of the benefits of working virtually is that a results-only work environment (ROWE), naturally arises, making efficiency and clarity of focus the working norm. Tracking of tasks in Salesforce.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2018

The analytics tools will also evaluate your posts to deduce the best possible times to share your content. Dropbox is a cloud storage service (sometimes referred to as an online backup service) that is frequently used for file sharing and collaboration. MeetUp is service that focuses on helping people meet up offline and in-person.

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