Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Technology and Community: Strategic Options for Movement Building. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. How many people hear that word and think it is just as generic as the word community? To that end, siloed brands are replaced by unifying goals that rally more than select individuals but entire communities.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

I had a really wonderful time, and the Community-Driven Social Impact session was terrific! Let’s start at the beginning: what is “community-driven social impact” anyway? CDSI is not something that you thought up inside your organization, even if you thought it up with your community in mind or at heart. Presentation.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

By thanking them quickly and personally, communicating impact, and sharing success stories. This timeline offers a clear road map to prevent lapsed donors: What makes donors lapse? Here’s a sample: Dear [donor first name], I’ve been thinking about you and wondering how you are. But how do we make it memorable? Monthly donors.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Does the community have a strong need for this nonprofit? Make sure that by starting a new nonprofit, you’ll be able to fulfill an unmet need in the community. Does the community seem excited about your nonprofit idea? Look into relevant laws regarding starting a nonprofit in your community.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 21, 2010

This afternoon I had the pleasure and honor of spending a few hours with members of the Charity Technology Trust/Charity Technology Exchange team, part of the TechSoup Global network , exploring their options for creating programs or services to build and foster community throughout their network. Who is the community?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

Last week, I had a fun time moderating the June #4Change Twitter Chat on Online Community Building. Note on platform : During last week’s Twitter chat, not unlike previous chats, we dealt with some major issues around lag and load time. But for now local is still something I use a map and a tank of gas to determine the limits of.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Ss I suggest in my Community Mapping approach , the actions and metrics should be mapped against the segments of the community doing them. If the numbers you are tracking don’t give you an action, how valuable are they? I really appreciate that Fenton has included a similar recommendation.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

My slides covered the tools and apps for the back stage side of energizing your community. Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. Community Mapping.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 23, 2011

Facebook vs. Twitter vs. … Part 1: T… – Lithosphere Community – "Michael was voted a 2010 Influential Leader by CRM Magazine for his work on predictive social analytics and its application to Social CRM. Of course, I will compare and contrast them to the new kids on the block (i.e.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2011

—– Whether you are part of a nonprofit organization, an action campaign, a local community, or a school, you know that it is through stories you can showcase your work, change people’s minds, inspire them to make change, or join you to make a difference. or read the entire post copied below. Historypin.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Here are two DIY guides for content and community mapping , you can do by yourself or with your whole organization: [link]. There’s also options online for new approaches to the press release , including this social media press release platform: [link]. Anything else?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. This proved to the Ushahidi team that their tool would be valuable to communities around the world. I will explain the use of mapping, fundraising, and crowdsourcing.

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Disaster Social Media Haiti Media 206

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. listening has been to the community and to the quantitative results. Below is the live blog or the archive of the live blog. Can’t wait! How do you use a RSS feed like a rockstar?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Building a Community Across Platforms. Most commonly, communities form around an issue, a cause, or even a campaign on many different types of social media, and stretch across platforms. However, the real challenge is creating community across platforms. Community Driven Social Impact.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 10, 2012

The egalitarian nature of the web as platform — for example, technically, no link or traffic is prioritized over another — makes it easier to connect people and ideas that were previously isolated. Moreover, mocking people or organizations whose maps don’t succeed hardly seems noble, and could even deter experimentation.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

" World Bank’s Mapping for Results launched – Check out this deployment of the Ushahidi platform for digital storytelling and reporting: "This weekend at the World Bank annual meetings the World Bank launched their new Mapping for Results platform. Change the internet?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Although I sometimes hear from colleagues that “Facebook is personal and fun stuff” or just a lot of skepticism about how a particular social networking platform can provide professional value, it isn’t about the platform. A post entitled “Trust the Curators” from Debra Askanase, Community Organizer 2.0,

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

We provide a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights. Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. View more presentations from Amy Sample ward. Google Maps & MyMaps.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 3, 2010

. —– I truly believe that in all communications, information sharing, marketing and even community building there is a natural balancing between more-and-more-global and more-and-more-local. Get connected – be part of the community yourself by connecting with other organizations, community leaders, and individuals.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

John is currently working on OpenAction, a platform that connects people to the projects they care about. The mashup was a map showing where people were volunteering in near-real-time. The community showed me a need for what I built, so I used this momentum as an opportunity to take what I built to the next level.

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Tech Soup

JULY 22, 2015

Founded in 2014 by Dr. Rupal Patel , it combines science, technology, and a community of speech donors who help create personalized vocal personas for individuals who rely on augmentative systems for communication. Dr. Patel realized that there was a need in the community of assistive technology users to diversify voices.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. Be sure to visit the site and press "Play" on the map. Fundraising.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

What is it about the health community that’s different? For example, PatientOpinion’s community could operate very different if it was a for-profit company instead of a nonprofit organization. use the platform to increase local impact. use the platform to drive local social movement. It’s about death.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 12, 2013

Highlights from the Community. The Social Media Surgery community (of which Net2 Manchester organizer Steven Flower is a key member) won the BBC Learning Through Technology Award. Ushahidi is a NetSquared project alumnus who has gone on to create an amazing interactive mapping platform. A Sneak Peek at the Future.

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2015

After wrapping up our annual Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), NTEN’s CEO, Amy Sample Ward, and I quickly recharged for SXSW Interactive , where we partnered another year with Beaconfire to host the Beacon Lounge for social changemakers, and with the NonProfit Times to cover stories on the nonprofit technology sector.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Official Google Blog: Explore museums and great works of art in the Google Art Project – Take yourself on an art tour using Google Maps! "One One of the highlights: she notes that they would not have had such success in raising money online if they had not already invested in building up a community of active supporters.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

I have to say, I'm really thankful for nptech rockstars like Amy Sample. The app includes ride maps, the updates and discussions. cross between Yelp, Google Maps, and Twitter. to the Community Platforms Toolbox, thanks to the recent discussion by. Tags: community buzz nten members. participants.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Mobile Voices offers an open-source multi-media platform optimized for low-cost mobile phones that lets users create, share, and reflect on stories about their lives and communities. and the top 15 Featured Projects were selected through a Community Vote.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Are they online: in email, website, social media platforms (which ones?), You’ve just created a map of all your audiences and how you and all of them can be sharing, conversing and campaigning in an aligned way! How have you mapped your conversations and messages at your organization? 3: How it Happens. 4: What they Want.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

Salesforce Acquires Buddy Media for $689 Million – "Salesforce has entered an agreement to acquire social media marketing platform Buddy Media for approximately $689 million, the company has announced. " The Identity Spectrum – Identity Woman – I love this spectrum map of the various kinds of online identity!

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 12, 2008

We have seen plenty of mashups where a website is able to push together a mapping tool, some public data, and user-created content like comments. Mashups in this sense aren’t going anywhere, especially as platforms are built to help create them with less technical knowledge and in less time. Community Movement.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2009

The debate about what impact the online world has on offline action gets smashed when you look at these numbers and think about the over 12 million people around the world who are raising their consciousness by reading more about climate change and how they can get involved with their local communities. .

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Check out more awesome giveaways and highlights from a sampling of our exhibitors below. Oh, and just in case you want to plan your prize route, here's a map. Visit the 501 Technology booth and enter to win an app from our MoblityCMS platform for your non-profit organization. 501 Technology, LLC in booth 80.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

We brainstormed a few: Real-Time evaluation of communications strategy for a nonprofit or foundation. Crisis communication strategy. A community foundation that was doing a landscape analysis of issues in its community to guide funding strategy development. Brand and reputation monitoring for a nonprofit or foundation.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Check out more awesome giveaways and highlights from a sampling of our exhibitors below. Oh, and just in case you want to plan your prize route, here's a map. Visit the 501 Technology booth and enter to win an app from our MoblityCMS platform for your non-profit organization. 501 Technology, LLC in booth 80.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Amy Sample Ward writes about the new plugin launched by Social Actions that will place ???possibly Amy Sample Ward , filling in for Britt Bravo, writes about several awards and competitions including the UK Catalyst Awards and Simon Fairway's pointer to the digital makeover contest. possibly related classroom projects???

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Create personas and outline tasks: Create a sample persona that represents each audience group you serve. Define user habits, outline behavior, document social activity, note their tendency to be tech savvy (what percentage are using a mobile platform, etc.), Assign them key tasks and document results. Engaging Visual Design.

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