Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The cards and other props are there to stimulate conversation – and that always works. The green budget points are for engagement cards, yellow for tools, red for funding. We’ll set a budget for green and yellow, that has to be matched by red. We’ve tweaked the cards from the last play, as you can see below.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The cards and other props are there to stimulate conversation – and that always works. The green budget points are for engagement cards, yellow for tools, red for funding. We’ll set a budget for green and yellow, that has to be matched by red. We’ve tweaked the cards from the last play, as you can see below.

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Game Social Green Stream 108

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

John McElhenney - Clear Green Technologies. Blogs, wikis, social network platforms, forums, chats: aka user generated content, conversations, communities. Emergent, peer to peer conversations and sharing of knowledge. Started with mega trends of social media and green living. Green or Sustainability? Jon Lebkowsky.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

Use Scientific Methods: These include having a significant sample size, randomly selected groups and some split testing. Here is a case study of Red versus Green. The focus of your test will be challenging this one thing, everything else needs to remain the same during your testing.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 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. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of March 17th).

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 14, 2022

Blue and green are cool, calming colors that work great for outdoorsy, environmental nonprofits. Write some sample content for your website and request feedback from someone who is a great writer as well as friends and family members who don’t know anything about your organization. Colors: Colors are so important. They invoke a mood.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2018

At bbcon this year, the Institute continued the conversation in our featured panel, A Culture of Philanthropic Innovation. We were joined by a great group of panelists from across the sector: Amy Sample Ward, CEO, Nonprofit Technology Network. Cheryl Contee, CEO, Fission Strategy, Sausalito, CA. War child UK. Splash.org.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Shalena Broadnax: Echoing Green is operating in a relatively new space for us—deepening our online community engagement. I’m hoping to be more intentional and thoughtful in planning, promoting and executing the chats to build on the successful and rich conversations so far to make these community activities as positive as can be!

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 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. They are hoping to start conversations and hear feedback about the competitions, the fundraising techniques and more.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2009

This is my first time attending the huge event and I’m already quite overwhelmed by all the people and conversations converging around me. Profitable Green Building. I’m here in Austin, TX, for SXSW Interactive. Here’s an outlook of sessions and events on my radar. Let’s connect! Monday, March 16.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. [Ed. There are so many blogs, news sources, and conversations happening at the same time, every day, and the chances that you’ll be able to find them all without trying is pretty unlikely. To get a feed of the Twitter conversations, visit: [link]. You can read all the details here. ]. Twitter Search.

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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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Tech Soup

MAY 2, 2013

Hi friends, I've been inspired by this community for a long time - from being mentored by Britt Bravo when first starting a little Net2 chapter in Vancouver (which Elijah van der Giessen and team have turned into something huge and magnificently helpful), to being inspired by Amy Sample Ward to grow conversations and dig deeper.

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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! These are some links I wanted to share from September 9th. Find me on Delicious for more!

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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 ???possibly

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

5 Open-Ended Questions To Ask Your Customers How To Produce An Effective Company Blog Leadership Tips From Good Boss, Bad Boss How To Write A Business Plan In About One Hour ► October (11) How To Write Your Company's Core Values How To Be A Green Leader Key Interviewing Questions To Ask To Identify Lead.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Thursday, October 28, 2010 How To Be A Green Leader You can be a green leader at work and help save the planet and money for your business, by following these practices and instilling these habits with your employees: Photocopiers: Use the "standby" button on your copiers and that will lighten your energy load by 70 percent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

If you're at the conference, hand me an index card the URL of a web resource that you discovered in a session or informal conversation, write a brief description, and hand it to me while at the conference. The sampling of some of the top rated resources this week: Death Threats Are Not Protected Speech. It's moved.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

Who : Facilitating: Amy Sample Ward | NetSquared; Billy Bicket | NetSquared. The NetSquared team will be working the room to activate and facilitate conversations so everyone can enjoy the ride. Listen first and discover where the conversations are! Who : Speakers: Amy Sample Ward | Netsquared; Debra Askanase; Ivan Boothe.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 25, 2022

We are in our fifth year of supporting students in Green County, and this year we will help more than 350 high school juniors and seniors achieve their college dreams. . If we can get in a conversation, we’re golden! Hopefully, the person responds with a question, and you can have a conversation about the organization.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

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. So keep that in mind.

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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. Amy Sample Ward and Holly Ross came up with the " Social Media for Social Good Case Study Contest " and did all the heavy lifting to make it happen. Amy Sample Ward shared her thoughts in a blog post along with her presentation.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

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? . The volunteer did not ask for money, but they had a nice pleasant half-hour conversation. . Are you hiding and avoiding them? . If not, chat will work for this.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 10, 2009

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 December 10th). Do join in!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

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. And as with green we have to smarten up and learn to ask the right questions.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 19, 2022

Did you hit the green button? You just want to know as much as you reasonably and respectfully can about a prospect so that you can comfortably converse with them and develop an appropriate ask. Valerie: Okay. Let me see if I can share mine. Where’s the share button. Are we there yet? Steven: I don’t see it yet.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

5 Open-Ended Questions To Ask Your Customers How To Produce An Effective Company Blog Leadership Tips From Good Boss, Bad Boss How To Write A Business Plan In About One Hour ► October (11) How To Write Your Company's Core Values How To Be A Green Leader Key Interviewing Questions To Ask To Identify Lead.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Tuesday, November 16, 2010 How To Improve Customer Service With The Telephone Every business leader should periodically call his/her company to observe how their customers are being treated by their employees -- because, all too often a phone conversation becomes a customer turnoff rather than a relationship builder.

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Service Mentoring Kansas City Kansas 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

5 Open-Ended Questions To Ask Your Customers How To Produce An Effective Company Blog Leadership Tips From Good Boss, Bad Boss How To Write A Business Plan In About One Hour ► October (11) How To Write Your Company's Core Values How To Be A Green Leader Key Interviewing Questions To Ask To Identify Lead.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 18, 2010

Allow enough time for sharing samples of his work and for Q&A. Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? Make conversation with your team. So, plan a half day where you pair up employees. Once paired, one employee explains to his (or her) partner what he does in a "typical" day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

What I loved about this BlogPotomac is that it was a small and intimate event that allowed for a conversation between the speakers and the audience. This is just a sampling. The context at Blogpotomac was the question, "Did turning your Twitter avatar green in support of the Iraniian protests" really mean anything.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

5 Open-Ended Questions To Ask Your Customers How To Produce An Effective Company Blog Leadership Tips From Good Boss, Bad Boss How To Write A Business Plan In About One Hour ► October (11) How To Write Your Company's Core Values How To Be A Green Leader Key Interviewing Questions To Ask To Identify Lead.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2010

5 Open-Ended Questions To Ask Your Customers How To Produce An Effective Company Blog Leadership Tips From Good Boss, Bad Boss How To Write A Business Plan In About One Hour ► October (11) How To Write Your Company's Core Values How To Be A Green Leader Key Interviewing Questions To Ask To Identify Lead.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 15, 2011

5 Open-Ended Questions To Ask Your Customers How To Produce An Effective Company Blog Leadership Tips From Good Boss, Bad Boss How To Write A Business Plan In About One Hour ► October (11) How To Write Your Company's Core Values How To Be A Green Leader Key Interviewing Questions To Ask To Identify Lead.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

5 Open-Ended Questions To Ask Your Customers How To Produce An Effective Company Blog Leadership Tips From Good Boss, Bad Boss How To Write A Business Plan In About One Hour ► October (11) How To Write Your Company's Core Values How To Be A Green Leader Key Interviewing Questions To Ask To Identify Lead.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

5 Open-Ended Questions To Ask Your Customers How To Produce An Effective Company Blog Leadership Tips From Good Boss, Bad Boss How To Write A Business Plan In About One Hour ► October (11) How To Write Your Company's Core Values How To Be A Green Leader Key Interviewing Questions To Ask To Identify Lead.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 19, 2010

The more face-to-face interactions with a co-worker, even if you dont have a conversation, will generally increase your chances of liking that person. Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? Make conversation with your team. How To Improve Customer Service With The Telephone.

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