NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, Community Development Manager, TechSoup Global. Over the last few of years I've had a the opportunity to work with a team of intelligent and thoughtful colleagues, speak at conferences, and collaborate with other facilitators and community builders. Community Map. Why : Why map your community?

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Maybe you’ve also taken the next step of strengthening your stakeholder community by engaging in back and forth dialog online – whether in existing social spaces like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, or in a custom built online community. Are you ready to take your community to the next level of maturity? Some are huge.

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AUGUST 16, 2010

Flickr Photo: Caro Wallis (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.). Tags: community buzz NPTech nten members. Nice example!

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2014

Amy Sample Ward. The internet might be everywhere, but where are you? Amy makes the case for making your website your digital home. For all this effort to create content and spark conversations, we won''t be successful if our online presence didn''t have a home. Our website is that home, and being a home is a difficult but important role.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.). I have to say, I'm really thankful for nptech rockstars like Amy Sample. NTEN member American Red Cross.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Speaker: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Session: Building Stronger Online Communities Without Losing Your Sanity & Bringing Community Organizing Into Online Campaigns. I think the most important trend now is collaboration -- across platforms, across organizations, across sectors.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

.” In other words, nonprofits many not necessarily get better fundraising results if they use celebrities or a-list bloggers to promote their cause if there is not an engaged community. One of the stories in the white paper was about a campaign on Facebook Causes to raise money for a new children’s hospital in San Francisco.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

We wanted to give nonprofits a chance to propel their world changing ideas, especially as they are often overlooked in the tech community,” said Emily. “We I wanted to connect technology to my interest in nonviolent communication and to educate people about how our words can cause unintended harm,” said Yee Won.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Here’s what the NTEN team said about voting: We received more than 400 ideas this year — a 75% increase over last year — and we need your help to narrow those down to the 100 or so that will make the 2011 NTC the best one yet. Building a Community Across Platforms. Community Driven Social Impact.

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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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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

By Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN. Building community and maintaining engagement is often a full time job – even if it goes unpaid! Every campaign, every organization, and really, even every individual engaging with others online has a set of tools and techniques they've learned from and rely on every day.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

RSVP now to join us for the next episode of Nonprofits Live on user-generated content and explore the process of creating media opportunities with your community. We'll be talking with nonprofit industry leaders sharing their unique insights on content created in community. RSVP to join us live on November 17 at 10 a.m.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

Beth Kanter, Amy Sample Ward, Katrin Verclas and John Haydon are among the familiar names in the nonprofit tech sector who are part of the effort. Katrin Verclas, co-founder and editor of MobileActive.org and past executive director of NTEN. Socialbrite.org is built in WordPress, the popular open source blogging platform.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2015

Whether you attended 2015 SXSW Interactive or not, here is a brilliant round-up by Joleen Ong and Amy Sample Ward. Amy Sample Ward was also one of 16 nonprofit experts to round up innovative fundraising trends in this new era of philanthropy. Community tech management Things We Like twl' It’s good to have a buddy.

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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. and article about content curation in NTEN Change Journal. Copyblogger. Beth Kanter.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

After Jason Shim won the 2014 NTEN Award in March, I thought I’d have a look to see why Amy Sample Ward and company thought so highly of him. One thing I’ve noticed about the NTEN award winners is their restless knowledge sharing in an array of subjects all over the place – not just in their own organizations.

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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

JANUARY 26, 2011

I’ve been following the work of Rob and his team closely as they have shown not just interest, but passion and intent for engaging with the community at large to create a tool that meets the needs of nonprofit organizations and keeps us involved in making the tool better and better. It works similarly to your Facebook feed.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 11, 2009

At NTEN’s ‘09 Nonprofit Technology Conference a couple weeks ago, I participated in the Ignite Presentations which was a load of fun. Tags: events issues 09ntc innovation net2 netsquared nten. An Ignite presentation is a five minute presentation, with 20 slides that change automatically every 15 seconds.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Throughout the last month, we've asked the NTEN community just what was on their list for resolutions and goals for 2013. The answers, just as we expected from this community, showed a focus on using technology for effectiveness and efficiencies in the day-to-day work as well as the larger mission.

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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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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

This was about an authentic community that lasts far beyond the confines of a conference. The Community. When you go to NTC you are joining a community of tech-conscious leaders, innovators, and community changers from around the globe. NTEN doesn’t water it down, they use the right amount of hops. The Keynotes.

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Care2

JANUARY 18, 2012

The nonprofit community was stunned yesterday when Blackbaud purchased long time rival Convio. ” So what does this acquisition mean for the nonprofit community, in particular for the 1500+ customers that use Convio? .” But the community has a lot of opinions about the acquisition. No one really knows for sure yet.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

After Jason Shim won the 2014 NTEN Award in March, I thought I’d have a look to see why Amy Sample Ward and company thought so highly of him. One thing I’ve noticed about the NTEN award winners is their restless knowledge sharing in an array of subjects all over the place – not just in their own organizations.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2011

Read the post below or visit SSIR to read and comment with that community. Both campaigns leveraged the community and competition aspects of social media. In the newest eNonprofit Benchmarks report from NTEN and M+R Strategies, it’s easy to see what a compelling cause may be to Millennial donors: disaster.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 12, 2010

That was the meat, now here's the pudding: the NTEN community's remake of "Bohemian Rhapsody", Muppets style!" And what about those in your community who can’t travel to your meeting or conference, for financial or other practical reasons? " What can Google Buzz do for you?

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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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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 23, 2011

New Report: 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study | NTEN – "A high unsubscribe rate is bad, right? Not necessarily, according to the 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study, just released at the 2011 NTC by M+R and NTEN. As it turns out, a high unsubscribe rate correlates directly with high fundraising results.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

This was a real chance to harness social media across all platforms. And she uses NTEN as an example so you can see all the work we've been doing to figure this out for our strategic plan, too: "What does your organization do?" We reached out to people we’ve never met and got them onboard. Martin Luther King Jr.

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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

JULY 10, 2012

”" Microsites for Nonprofits: Your Questions Answered | NTEN – "What do you do when you want to give extra publicity to a specific cause or campaign? Featuring one campaign too prominently could distract from other things. If you don't feature your campaign enough, it could get lost in the mix.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

These are my notes for webinar about Nonprofits and Slideshare , a social site where community members share presentations, documents and pdfs. For a couple of years, I’ve been an avid member of the Slideshare community, sharing, browsing, and collaborating on content and watching how nonprofits use the platform.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2015

Amy Sample Ward — CEO, NTEN. Dealing with backups is inherently difficult; it is best to invest in cloud computing platforms like Office365, Google Apps, Salesforce, and Box, which will likely still be accessible if your datacenter is not. Sarah Washburn — Director of Community Engagement, Caravan Studios.

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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. First Place: $25,000.

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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. I also work closely with our innovator community, those who have submitted Projects on our platform and participated in open innovation Challenges.

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MAY 24, 2011

Making Stories Work for Your Org: What the Data Says | NTEN – "Don't count on a personal story to transform your fundraising appeal. We’ve cracked the competition process open, leveraging a combination of workflows and social tools to produce a compelling experience of real participation in key activities.

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