Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 24, 2011

We just wrapped up another rousing Community Builder chat – I’m always so energized and inspired by these chats and thankful for all those that participate and share. This month’s chat focused mainly on sharing lessons and examples from the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference , which took place in Washington, DC, last week.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2022

To serve a community, you have to be in the community. No one understands this better than nonprofits. What makes this product particularly special is that our community developed it through The Commons program. They needed a mobile app that worked offline. What inspired you to share what you had built?

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

When you hear the words “Nonprofit Board Meeting,” what comes to mind? If you are like most nonprofit leaders, the thought of a Board meeting creates feelings of dread, the blahs, the “let’s get it over withs”, the “I don’t have time for this” mindset, or the “I don’t know why we even bothers”. How do you feel? In one word, “UGH.”

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2011

Organizations are putting out calls, and the community is responding. Create opportunities for taking action that bridge online and offline, and start moving people on both sides of the computer. Getting Offline. I’ve had many people tell me that the Internet is ruining society, community, family, and everything else.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. Speaker: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

I queried nonprofit colleagues, asking for their best advice. Here’s a summary of tips, tools, examples, and resources for getting the most of our your nonprofit event with social media. (Here’s a curated link list used to create this post). Many nonprofits use EventBrite for this purpose.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

It was so much fun and it was an amazing experience to work with people like Chris Worman and meet with so many local nonprofit and community changemakers. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Earlier this summer, I had the huge privilege to visit Romania and help with the Local Philanthropy Workshop.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2009

The piece is reposted below: Have we replicated our offline social dynamics and barriers online? If we truly are reproducing our offline social divides online, then it’s further proof that the central part of your social media strategy needs to be focused on your audience. Go where the community already is! Join the community!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Submitted by Amy Sample Ward, publisher of Amy Sample Ward’s Version of NPTech Hildy Gottlieb’s new book The Pollyanna Principles is a handbook for starting a revolution in social benefit organization design and practice, but it isn’t the revolution. But I want to, am ready to, ask those questions and answer them as a community.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

Keep doing the offline stuff for the offline people! HOW TO: Create Custom iFrame Tabs on Your Nonprofit’s Facebook Page – "In March 2011 Facebook disabled the popular Static FMBL App that many nonprofits had used to create custom tabs on their Facebook Pages. than ever before.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 21, 2021

To get started preparing for the most wonderful time of the year for nonprofits and charities, ensure you’ve covered your year-end fundraising basics with this year-end fundraising campaign timeline. Set a Goal: Hopefully, your nonprofit or charity has a clear, board-approved budget that you follow.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

On & Offline Engagement. But the action, the real social change, is offline. First, ensuring that there are opportunities to engage and participate both on and offline (especially in the promoting and sharing) can increase participation and ultimately feet in the streets. Online is great for organizing.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2011

Gen-Y Wants More Than Cool Brands – A new 16-country study of Millennials focused on brands has a lot to offer for insight to nonprofit organizations looking to connect with the same generation. "Our message to nonprofits: Your mission is noble, and your intentions are honorable. ." " Lights.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? Just two weeks later, having received a ton of thoughtful comments on that original post, her new headline was Join the Monthly Community Building Chats !

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 5, 2011

Last week, the New York Times ran an article exploring a segment of the nonprofit/social impact sector that the author saw as a small minority of organizations, but one I care deeply about: those that plan to go out of business. I know there are so many organizations, campaigns, and community groups making real change now.

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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. The first thing I asked about was his view of the new role of nonprofit organizations in the social media or technology revolution that is well underway. try thinking of this: “What can the relationships between our members do for our community?”.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Following the From Like to LOVE: Get More Action from Social Media panel, join me (Allyson Kapin) and Amy Sample Ward for the unveiling of our new book about how to implement multichannel strategies to spark advocacy, raise money and engage your community.

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Care2

MARCH 6, 2011

That’s a big question on nonprofits’ minds, which are trying to engage with them early in hopes of developing long-term relationships with these future donors. The study draws on survey data from a sample of 400+ California youth aged 19–22 who were surveyed after the 2008 presidential election.

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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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

. —– Lately, I’m thinking about the topic of cross-platform community building. Whether you are working on a campaign, a program or a service; whether it is online or offline (though I would argue it should probably touch both!); These kinds of preferences by users can dramatically influence a network and community.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? Just two weeks later, having received a ton of thoughtful comments on that original post, her new headline was Join the Monthly Community Building Chats !

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

It’s back-to-school time for many countries and that means a switch from summer programs, outdoor community events, and many youth campaigns. New research out today from nfpSynergy shows that organizations who serve youth may want to be going online to reach them. The Research. So, throw a party or two, and have fun! What do you think?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2009

We all know from offline life experience that you don’t just schedule a meeting, but you have to show up and contribute for the meeting to be successful; you probably also have action items that come out of the meeting that people work on individually and that also draw them back together for another meeting.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2010

This guest post comes from NetSquared community development manager Amy Sample Ward. An initiative of TechSoup Global, NetSquared is a global community of organizations and individuals leading the way in social change through technology. Offline, we take things local! Read on and learn how to get involved. read more.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference | NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network – Have you registered yet for the Nonprofit Technology Conference? But all to often, they fail to move beyond the “small talk&# and create meaningful discussions that their communities are dying to have."

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

This post originally appeared on Care2 Frogloop – you can read it there and join the Frogloop community , or read the full post below. In preparation for their presentation, they circulated a survey to over 200 nonprofit professionals, asking how they use various social platforms.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2009

Every month, the NetSquared community comes together offline in cities around the world at Net Tuesday events to mix, swap stories and ideas, build new relationships, and collaborate. Their work has catalyzed the local community looking for technology and social change projects. I’m so excited about these new groups!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

And, the book is very inspiring too and even better all proceeds from book sales are being donated to high impact nonprofits. The organization identifies the people most passionate about their work in their online networks or offline community and empowers them to raise money through social fundraising platforms.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Many early adopters in the nonprofit community were already working hard (despite announcements from Google that they would police use and roll-out an organization-specific profile option) to start building a space for their organization’s profile on the new social network since it originally launched. Community First.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Part of my role as the Global Community Development Manager at NetSquared is to support and grow our offline organizers from around the world. This offline network, called Net Tuesdays, balances the work we do online to connect all those working at the intersection of technology and social impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. The nonprofit presence at SXSW has been growing steadily over the past couple of years. In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. So, let's get out the nonprofit vote for panels at SXSW!

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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. Community Mapping.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2011

CTK Foundation Grant Award: Social Media, Technology, and Poetry for the Soul | Community Organizer 2.0 – "I was contacted by my colleague John Haydon last week to write about an interesting foundation grant challenge by the CTK Foundation. " Pew: Open government is tied to higher levels of community satisfaction | Gov 2.0:

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2010

Community Organizer 2.0 – "Why do people participate in Twitter chats? What came back was pretty consistent: people participate to get information, ideas, contribute to a community, and meet new people." I'll call the role the community manager." " Why Do You Participate in Twitter Chats?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. I did a roundup of nonprofit panel proposals a few weeks back and wanted to give you an updated list. The nonprofit presence at SXSW has been growing steadily over the past couple of years. It was organized by Ed Schipul.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

Change the way we associated with others on and offline? This post has me thinking about many different perspectives on community organizing and community engagement and I'd love to hear what it triggers for you! " Hey, Let’s Fix The Internet – What do you think – can we change? Change the internet?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

A recent event has brought up some huge red flags for me around data, around communities, around social impact, inclusion and even more. It’s a case of letting technology lead (or, rather, the people behind the technology) instead of the communities on the other end. What it Means to Communities.

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