Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

NetSquared’s February series exploring “Online Community Organizing” includes three different interviews; I’m really excited to participate! I’ve included my interview below, but you can also read it and join the conversation on the NetSquared blog. I definitely recommend them both!

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Second, year-end giving gives nonprofits an opportunity to use a big chunk of their resources to meet their annual fundraising goals, and it gives donors a last chance to get a tax-deductible gift out the door. At CauseVox, we’re all about helping everyone to meet their goals – donors and the causes they support.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. We sampled 201 ChatRoulette sessions, noting characteristics such as group size and gender.

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Achieve

JANUARY 17, 2016

Conversely, a research study is a process used to answer complex questions or to prove or disprove hypotheses. So how do you determine whether surveys or a research study is needed to accomplish your goals? Some companies only provide survey research services, while other companies only offer interviewing services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

One core belief has driven the Organizational Effectiveness program for nearly 30 years: Organizations are more effective at meeting their goals when they have thoughtful strategy, strong leadership, and sound management. We have set up a Web site, [link] , to share information and conversation about the ongoing review.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 3, 2010

I’ve also been thinking quite a bit about what’s to come this year and wanted to stat a conversation openly here with all of you. Tags: collaboration community 2010 goals planning. As much as my life is fueled by my work and connections online, it sure was wonderful to unplug and recharge. My Focus for 2010.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Whether you were here in Toronto or not, I’d love to hear your ideas, feedback, and goals for change! View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Let’s start at the most fundamental place for this conversation. All those people and groups have just as many different goals, small and large. What is a movement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2010

My goal for conference presenting moving forward is to be on panels that I have designed or co-designed and that design involves the audience beyond a 5 minute q/a at the end. These are important technical details that make it easy to involve the audience in the conversation. Photo by Geoff Livingston. I realized that I.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Worldchanging: Bright Green: Worldchanging Interview: Jean Russell on Thrivability - Great interview with Jean Russell at Worldchanging! After that talk (which you can hear via the above link), I asked Jean to join me in a brief but enlightening Worldchanging interview." Find me on Delicious for more!

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 30, 2013

We on staff have always had the sense that we want to collect the histories of people who don’t have their histories collected that often – to have a representative sample that’s not just the famous people or the rich people. We’ve done a few; I’ll interview someone for a specific reason for an article or to add to a file.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

Be sure to provide them with content they can share about the events such as sample tweets and Facebook status updates. Here’s a great example of material for event ambassadors from last years’s Giving Tuesday. The first step is to get organized. The latter is especially important for virtual events.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Here’s my guest post: you can read it and join the conversation on Britt’s blog here. Often this means combining passions, so opportunities that use technology know-how, community or local people (especially new ones to meet), as well as real objectives and goals. #2 I’m thrilled to be included in the line-up!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Maybe you’re starting to think that “influencer scores&# are totally meaningless for your goals and objectives."

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Here is a sample formula to play with for what you’re looking for: [intent] +[context]+[brand personality]+[data/template] Intent : You are a clever writing assistant that creates emails, articles, and social posts Context : This AI creates copy like XYZ company that makes paper clips for Millennials.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 12, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of April 12th).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2009

For nonprofits, this should not be a foreign concept. Here's a sampling: Lewis Green warns not to use the traditional investment financial calculations but instead measure value. And, as stubborn as it sounds Mr. CEO, you don’t get money out of a conversation.". Do you agree? Think I'm full of it?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Another topic that is of interest and can serve as a valuable launch pad for conversations and information, both for Romanian NGOs and organizations around the world, is a blog. What kind of content do you already have that you could reuse (videos or interviews from events, data or research, etc.) And here’s how to start!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Here’s a sample of our accomplishments: Martus , our secure, open-source information management software for human rights defenders continued to empower many human rights groups worldwide to secure thousands of stories of human rights violations and to use this information strategically to advance their causes.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

Thanks to all those who participated or followed along, and to those who will join the conversation now! What makes a Twitter chat different than a blog post, for example, is that the conversation is 1. That’s not to say that conversation can’t be incredible – but even then it is probably still not real time.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

A single compelling press release might land you a national television interview that leads to 100 new donors and $100,000 in funding. The goal was to review each document and separate the poorly written ones from those of acceptable quality. If an applicant gets an interview, ask him or her to bring along a few writing samples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. Amy Sample Ward writes about the new plugin launched by Social Actions that will place ???

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 28, 2010

I found the project so interesting that I wanted to share it with you here in an interview, covering some key questions from Kedar. What’s your goal for the new tool? Additionally, I’m can be reached on Twitter , would also love to converse with you over email at kedar dot iyer at gmail.com or connect on LinkedIn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

The chapter is based on interviews with folks in the field and includes step-by-step checklists, examples, and tips. My goal for this presentation was to synthesize the traditional ROI process with the best thinking about social media and ROI from the gurus like David Armano and KD Paine. Staff Interviews. Clients Interviews.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

"Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac. Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? Make conversation with your team. 15 Inspiring Biographies For Leaders 20 New Words Every Leader Should Know Reach Communications & Leadership Expert David Gro.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 17, 2011

Monday, January 17, 2011 New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reach That Goal Social psychologist, Heidi Grant Halvorson, wrote Succeed to help you understand how goals work, what tends to go wrong, and what you can do to reach your goals or to help others reach theirs. That will increase their motivation.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Marie Palacios will explain what donors want to know, why it is crucial, and how to share your past achievements, so donors contribute to your future goals. well, five areas of conversation revolve around, “What is impact reporting? Full Transcript: Steven: All right, Marie, I got 2:00 Eastern. Marie: Absolutely.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

In this interview, she shares her insights into the strategic and the tactical information nonprofits might find useful as they consider their approach to using video to reach their communications goals. Has research been done to measure conversion rates, and, if so, what has it concluded? It depends on what your goals are.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

In this interview, she shares her insights into the strategic and the tactical information nonprofits might find useful as they consider their approach to using video to reach their communications goals. Has research been done to measure conversion rates, and, if so, what has it concluded? It depends on what your goals are.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

My whole goal is to service you. And I’m going to tell you how to get them to do it and what the conversation should be about as we go through this because I think a lot of times a lot of people focus in on asking and that is not what it’s about. And for those that kind of balked at that, we changed the conversation.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 21, 2010

Sunday, March 21, 2010 Do Exit Interviews Knowing why an employee leaves your company can help you to reduce your employee turnover rate. So, do an exit interview whenever possible with each departing employee. "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Saturday, October 23, 2010 Key Interviewing Questions To Ask To Identify Leaders The next time you are interviewing a candidate and you want to access their leadership skills, consider asking the candidate these questions: What personal qualities define you as a leader? Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy?

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 12, 2010

Below is an edited transcript of my interview with Jessica for the Big Vision Podcast. Our conversation began with Jessica describing what a community supported kitchen is: Jessica Prentice: The idea behind the community supported kitchen is that we are modeling a new way of preparing and processing food on a community scale.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

And in just 72 hours, they reached their goal of $100,000 through TeamUpForAutism.com. Interview: Online Campaigning Success Story. Going into the campaign, did you really expect to hit your goal in just 3 days? What were the goals/expectations you had set for the campaign internally? A big success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

The panelists were Holly Ross , Amy Sample Ward , David Neff , and Kari Dunn Saratovsky. And, of course, crowd sourcing is a technique being used across the social sector for different goals. Seattle Free School , suggested by Amy Sample Ward, uses social media to organize classes and teach students.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Talk to Millennials about your goals, for example if you are trying to do something big and raise a large amount of money, break the goal and gifts down into smaller buckets so it isn’t overwhelming. Instead of printed annual reports, try doing a video with interview and clips from what you’ve done the last year.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

So our goal is to be done at the top of the hour, but if we’re having more questions, we’ll just stay here and answer them till you’re done asking questions. So the question here is, you know, when you look at your workflow, how much of your time is spent actually having these face-to-face conversations with your donors? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2014

Other tips for academic internships include: Clarify Internship Goals : Students will have specific learning goals for their internship on one hand and nonprofits that are supervising them might have others. Here’s what I learned from Amy Sample Ward, Alejandra S. Owens, Sharon Illsen, Jenna Sauber, Matthew Spaur.

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