Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Jolkona partnered with the Seattle International Foundation (SIF), which pledged to match every donation, dollar for dollar, up to $25,000. Starting July 26th, Groupon Seattle’s G-Team allowed subscribers to join Jolkona and SIF in making an investment in women’s leadership by pledging support in increments of $10.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

At the 2014 Independent Sector Conference in Seattle, I attended the session, “Navigating the New Media Landscape,” which brought together expert panelists: Andrew Sherry, VP of Communications for the John S. 3 Know the publication “Be a dogged researcher,” Feeney recommended. “[Ask and James L.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The Pacific Science Center (PacSci) is an independent, non-profit museum in Seattle with a mission to ignite curiosity and fuel passion for discovery, experimentation, and science for people of all ages and backgrounds. Pacific Science Center. Silver – Science Website. Washington State Wine Commission. NMAAHC: A Seat at the Table Event.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The Pacific Science Center (PacSci) is an independent, non-profit museum in Seattle with a mission to ignite curiosity and fuel passion for discovery, experimentation, and science for people of all ages and backgrounds. Pacific Science Center. Silver – Science Website. Washington State Wine Commission. NMAAHC: A Seat at the Table Event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2012

We talk about finding the right tool for the data collection job and tools come in three different categories: analytics tools, content analysis, and surveys. Learn who your followers are, what issues they care about, which posts are firing up your base, and what types of content are gaining steam and going viral.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Craft a strong appeal by sourcing your content early. Here’s why: Extra attention and spotlight thanks to high publicity around #GivingTuesday Plug-and-play tools and assets from GivingTuesday.org to help market your campaign More participants ultimately means more support for the nonprofit community overall. Campaign Page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Imagine sitting around a conference table planning an upcoming project that involves user-generated content. Another thinks that users should not only contribute content but also have a hand in determining how it is used. One colleague suggests that users should be able to contribute original work.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 31, 2015

Not content to simply focus on "shiny tech," we'll explore what the true potential for social change is in each case, where community organizing work can be made more effective, and where it will have to push technology forward. Seattle, Washington: AdWords Success and Google Grants for Nonprofits. Europe and Middle East.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

Public voting process. Public’s favorites put to expert judges for final selection. Using tools that allow reposting, sharing, emailing and so on will give anyone the options they want to push your content around the web for you. The value of the tool grows as people value the tool and add more content.

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NTEN

APRIL 17, 2015

IT Director, Karl Hedstrom, spent Tuesday morning helping sort food and stock shelves at the University Food Bank in Seattle, WA. Where was Marketing & Publications Director Joleen Ong during National Volunteer Week, you ask? He also learned about the pitfalls of putting too many ripe bananas in a box (i.e.,

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2019

This month, I wanted to share some stories from my last two years as a strategy and content consultant. Front of House is Hard Work: While I did gallery teaching for many years, for most of my career, I’ve had a desk and a phone in non-public space. A portion of our sector lives their work lives in the public realm.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The 36th Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute will feature nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance, and government discussing the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations. Grantmakers for Effective Organizing (GEO) / Seattle, WA / $1,250.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2014

The NTEN Editorial Committee is a group of committed professionals that meet monthly to discuss content and strategy for the NTEN: Change Journal , our quarterly digital publication for nonprofit leaders. Michaela Hackner, Project Director & Content Strategist, Forum One Communications. Robert Weiner, President, Robert L.

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NTEN

APRIL 30, 2015

Six months later, there’s no new content, just three old, stale blog posts. And that includes more than just content. I was working at Public Interactive in Boston, where we built tech for public broadcasting. In 2000 I took a job as a network admin at Public Interactive. I didn’t fly again for about 12 years.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

Braided River is a Seattle-based publishing organization that is committed to inspiring support for critical conservation efforts. Orangutan Outreach used a donation of Adobe Creative Suite to produce and electronically distribute high-quality digital content for thousands of "adoptive parents." Shoreline Solar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

I'm very interested in the whole notion of open content and creative commons licensing in the nonprofit space. She told me, "I probably don't have to mention this to you, but you are of course free to put this under a public domain, BY or BY-sa license. Many nonprofit want to "protect" their content.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decided that it’s okay for broadband companies like Comcast and Time Warner to create a ‘fast lane’ on the web and to charge for preferential treatment to content providers. My friend and colleague, Michael DeLong died last week in Seattle. An App To End World Hunger?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2009

By a strange and lucky coincidence, I was at the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum (EMPSFM) in Seattle for a two-day workshop. It was a rare moment where the cultural and historical importance museums tend to bestow on all exhibits was sought and appreciated by the public. Where were you when Michael Jackson died?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Content management programs like Windows SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites (admin fee: $708) are used for deploying and managing a public-facing website. ESD (admin fee: $35), a handy HTML editor for design and publication of your website. In that case, be sure to ask for examples of work they’ve done in the past.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 21, 2009

The closing of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's print operations a few weeks back, coupled with Hearst Corporation's announcement that may close the venerable San Francisco Chronicle as well, has brought the plight of print journalism into focus. As essay by new-media guru Clay Shirky points out, this is no longer the case, because ".the

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Elaina Buzzell, Senior Program Coordinator, NPower Seattle. Most websites will have an images folder that you can use to host these pictures without them being visible to the public. To access the address of your wall tab to provide a link, click on the wall tab, and copy the contents of the address bar. (Do

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

To kick off the course, we’re doing a simple exercise at the Seattle zoo (but you can do it anywhere). The experiment requires you to go to a public space and do three things: Talk to a stranger. Get two strangers talking to each other. There are three reasons you might value this activity: It will be fun and kind of unusual.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). Develop a "question of interest" that relates to your content. My local public library does an annual summer book recommendation wall, on which patrons can post their mini-reviews of books they've read and enjoyed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

There were two full-days packed with excellent content and fabulous speakers. See this one of Marshall's feet) He even put up with me doing a public speaking exercise, shaking hands and singing twinkle, twinkle little star. I loved, loved, loved hearing the Seattle Ignite and Portland Ignite. Ma.gnolia 2.0

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 28, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). Develop a "question of interest" that relates to your content. My local public library does an annual summer book recommendation wall, on which patrons can post their mini-reviews of books they've read and enjoyed.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

But by displaying visitor content, visitor input exhibits take this relation to the next level. We're already comfortable with the idea that museum exhibit and program designers create content for an audience. That audience--our visitors--expects that museum content has been developed with them in mind.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

revolution came along, and the Web became a social environment where people could share their own content with others, discuss it, and redistribute it. Because we’re all about niche content! There’s a technology thinker named Cory Doctorow who once said: "Content is just something to have a conversation about."

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

Journalism is really the act of informing communities so that they can make better decisions, that is part of the public service, informing communities so that together we can know where else we need to help." --David Cohn, Founder, Spot.us If life is a chessboard, content is still king. was a 2008 Knight News Challenge Winner.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Within the organization, the AARP Public Policy Institute maintains the AARP Livability Index , a key tool in their mission to promote the development of sound policies to address common needs for economic security, health care, and quality of life. Forum One worked with NRDC this year to redesign their website.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2023

This year, Forum One took home one platinum, four gold, and six silver awards in the categories of cultural, non-profit, science, health, and school/university websites, as well as digital branded content, arts and culture virtual experiences, and family and kids apps and software.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Within the organization, the AARP Public Policy Institute maintains the AARP Livability Index , a key tool in their mission to promote the development of sound policies to address common needs for economic security, health care, and quality of life. Forum One worked with NRDC this year to redesign their website.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 12, 2011

Citizens should seek opportunities to create and share public knowledge and discuss public issues; expect their governments to be open, transparent and collaborative; volunteer to the best of their ability; and create and share knowledge about the networks and relationships in their communities." [1]. and James L.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The 33rd Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute features leading nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance and government to discuss the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations. Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) / Seattle, WA / $1,000.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

We addressed two content areas: The art and science of crowd sourcing for social change. We used a broad definition of crowd sourcing, simply stated as: Getting ideas, content, volunteer tasks, money, or other things from a wide swath of people. The first layer of preparation was the content.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

BoardSource / Seattle, WA / $950. Through inspiring keynotes, innovative talks, educational breakouts, hands-on lessons, and tons of networking, you will learn how the INBOUND experience, and especially our content, is truly remarkable. Points of Light / Seattle, WA / $450. Fundraising & Grants / #IFC2016 / @TheResAlliance.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

Read on for highlights of just a few of the many digital storytelling sessions at this year's NTC, and don't miss the video with tips from Zan McColloch-Lussier of Food Lifeline Seattle, Rob Wu of CauseVox, and Nasser Asif of See3 Communications. A Jamboree of Tools. Sounding It Out. Emotions, not logic, motivate people.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

Tom Watson, who manages the Seattle-based King County (WA) EcoConsumer public outreach program , isn’t much of a tech guy. For the public, or anyone, his @ecoconsumer Twitter feed curates green articles and resources difficult to find all in one place anywhere else. An Old-School Green Resource. Image credits.

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