Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

My latest post for the Stanford Social Innovation Review is up and I hope you’ll dive into the conversation with me! Yes you can claim that anyone has the power to blog, but that’s really only the people who have access to the tools and the time and the empowerment. as a form of self expression and identification.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

They started WAKE after working together for 15 years designing and leading global programs at the intersection of technology, civil society and women’s empowerment. Connect with them ahead of time. If you are using PPT, it is helpful to include your bullet points in the notes sections ahead time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

And while anything you do the first time will not be perfect and in many cases stressful, in the end it was a good experience. A good facilitator knows how to shift or tweak the lesson plan in real time if it isn’t working as planned. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. The other orientation piece is the agenda.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

." ~ Caroline Lovell, Founder, Traveling Postcards Traveling Postcards facilitates the creation of handmade art postcards that are hand delivered all over the world to bringing awareness and voice to women and girls whose lives have suffered from isolation, violence, or repression. Honestly I think every postcard is a success story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. He expects students to read the assignment before they come to class so that instructional time can be spent helping them make sense of it and apply to their work. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Spend more time in the community to whom you wish to be relevant. Emily started by honing in on local teens' assets: creativity, activist energy, desire to make a difference, desire to be heard, free time in the afternoon. It gets easier to hear their voices in our heads when we make a decision. Not your voice.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2016

However, if you don’t find your own managerial leader voice, you will be perceived as inauthentic to the people you lead. They are more ‘with the times’ and can relate to using technology that can make work easier and more efficient.” I would attend meetings and practice engaging older professionals in conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

100% of participants implement an action learning project that uses measurement to help improve their practice, share insights with peers, and identify opportunities to amplify each other’s voices through social media. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot. We did this on Day 1.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

What happens when a conversation with Stephen Colbert goes viral? Transcending "Social:" Visibility and Empowerment In An Uber-Mega-Meta Self-Conscious Age Speaker: Jianda Johnson, Business and Resource Development Specialist, Guadalupe Montessori School. Is it time for a change of clothes? Our identities are created as we live.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

There were quite a few participants and some really great conversation. I’ve tried to pull out some of the relevant tweets from the Twitter stream to help follow the flow of the conversation in case you missed it. ChristinasWorld : 2) Network building is about communicating, telling stories, & building trust over time.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

It is an advocacy group that will be “a strong voice in determining how mobile develops to best meet the needs of mission awareness, donor acquisition, engagement, and payments.” The result was that his “ news feed took on an entirely new character in a surprisingly short amount of time.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

"I would wake up in the middle of the night and still hear their voices. I just had to take that chance." - Jensine Larsen Jensine Larsen is the Founder and CEO of World Pulse , a global media and communication network devoted to bringing women a global voice. We unite those voices to accelerate change.

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Voice Global Saudi Arabia Journal 69

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

"I think that people have long associated feminism with older white women and the idea of bringing that back to women of color, and bringing it back to young women of color and asking them what it means is an exciting time for me." In particular, it is important to think about what young women need to be thinking about in this moment of time.

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Everyaction

JULY 23, 2018

Our work started by focusing on long term empowerment projects. For the past 5 or 6 years we've had a small but steady group of supporters who are primarily invested in our empowerment projects. We have about 200 chefs who lend their time and expertise. At the same time, each meal has a story.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

You can also listen to our conversation on iTunes. You get ongoing support that is not on a limited time basis, but is on an ongoing basis. Kind of like artists, a lot of passion and drive can create great things, but they aren't necessarily sustainable over time. You can nurture them, and I think that's what we do.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

You're out there being social for your organization, making connections and having conversations on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. It's time to make social media something the whole organization can get involved in and excited about. But don't panic if your coworkers use their own voices.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 17, 2015

As a representative of an organization with a global mission, it is important that I am a citizen of the world who is well-traveled, well-informed, and can converse with absolutely anyone. led by Anne-Christine Robine from international fundraising and communications agency Faircom International.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 7, 2015

As a representative of an organization with a global mission, it is important that I am a citizen of the world who is well-traveled, well-informed, and can converse with absolutely anyone. led by Anne-Christine Robine from international fundraising and communications agency Faircom International.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Education often does deeper work, "transforming people's perceptions over time by gradually shifting the dominant narrative and … bringing us to new answers." " An example is a campaign sponsored by the Women Empowerment Program at the Hariri Foundation in Lebanon. Image 2 : Appalachian Voices.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Education often does deeper work, "transforming people's perceptions over time by gradually shifting the dominant narrative and … bringing us to new answers." " An example is a campaign sponsored by the Women Empowerment Program at the Hariri Foundation in Lebanon. Image 2 : Appalachian Voices.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

During our conversation, Seane talked about what inspired the creation of Off the Mat, Into the World, her trip to Cambodia, the connection between your inner work and your outer work, and the tools Off the Mat, Into the World uses to help people determine how they are being called to be of service. It really didn't matter to us.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

It's long, but I hope you'll take time during your coffee or lunch break to read, or listen to her inspiring words. 70 years ago you and I would not have been sitting here having a conversation about doing things internationally, much less being able to even open a bank account in our own names.

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