Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

This post originally appeared on the NTEN blog – you can also read the full post and join the conversation on the NTEN.org website. Give me an interactive map, a pivot table, even a plain old pie chart and I’m happy. —– I love data as much as the next person.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yesterday was the 3rd annual Women Who Tech Telesummit , bringing together over 600 women (and men) from for-profit and nonprofit organizations and technology start, connecting developers and techies with those new to the field, igniting conversations and long-term collaborations. Community Mapping.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

Often times the community’s ideas or needs are shared in ways that require translation, of sorts—someone that can bridge the community and organization, listening to the conversations and identifying the opportunities for the organization. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. What’s the foundation of CDSI? Case Studies.

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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

AUGUST 3, 2010

You can check out the post and conversation there , or read a copy of the post below. The power of using social media in a local context focuses most directly on just those things that make “local&# different: being “here,&# connecting online and offline, taking action collectively and delivering services.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. The platform would then take their data, map it from their sending location, and create the other visual support data you see on the map. Indirect Content. Examples from Haiti.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Listening also gives me the opportunity to observe and participate in conversations that don't, and won't, happen in my offline life. Listening helps me figure out where those good conversations are happening. Amy Sample Ward - Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy. Do you listen online?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 9, 2010

You can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR blog here , or read the copied post below. As organizations or community builders active online, working to practice and create quality engagement, we are often trying to guide, collect or herd conversations and interactions into spaces that we have created or monitor closely.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Let’s start at the most fundamental place for this conversation. For this conversation, and those to have over the course of the next two days together at least, let’s work from the place that a movement is larger than coalitions. You can read her poem, Untitled, here.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. View more presentations from Amy Sample ward. They were able to use the platform for organizing offline events, finding and collaborating with volunteer organizers, and more. A great example of using Twitter for real information exchange and for conversation. Google Maps API.

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Tools Tech Map Case Study 100

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 5, 2009

I have a new post up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog and wanted to share it here as well because I think it could start some interesting conversation. The G20 are tasked with reforming our failed economies and mapping out our future. Visit the SSIR blog to add to this conversation! 20 world leaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2008

We used a map metaphor , inspired by and adapted a post by Chris Brogan. Amy Sample Ward contributed a workshop group exercise based on Forrester's POST method. These steps are about figuring out who in organization is going to have the conversations. Step 4: Go Offline. Step 2: Prepare. Find people. Step 3: Engage.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

For those that follow the #4Change twitter-based chats, this is a post recapping and highlighting our latest conversation on social media application in the Climate Change movement. Note: the @names provide links to the Twitter users who made specific comments, just in case you want to connect and continue the conversation!*.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Use the tag #MPS09 to follow conversations and highlights from others at the event. Feedback to presentation: would want to involve staff and services in the offline local events to share their experiences, too. Tags: case studies maps free gift economy health mps09 patientopinion. It’s about death. Why do we tell stories?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

The way I see it, there are many directions that technology is aiding social change work: enabling data sharing, exchange and mapping. This post is really to start a conversation. Here are some things to help get the conversation started if the above didn’t already give you something to say. What do you think?

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore View more presentations from Amy Sample ward. They were able to use the platform for organizing offline events, finding and collaborating with volunteer organizers, and more. A great example of using Twitter for real information exchange and for conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Submitted by Amy Sample Ward. How do you balance online action with offline engagement? In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely. What is it?

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Submitted by Amy Sample Ward. How do you balance online action with offline engagement? In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely. What is it?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

There were interesting conversations at every turn and I also had requests to share my notes and slides. For this conversation, we are going to start with the frame of the analog paradigm and move forward from there. Oh, we have a few key tactics: daily content, conversation starters, and highlighting community members.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

And so I have more than five years of experience creating online and offline communities to support social and environmental causes as Steven said and I worked a lot in Latin America. So do you see in this map, WhatsApp is a top social messaging app in the world. So share local voices and also get people to take offline action.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

And so we were able to through understanding that there are these moments that there’s a disconnect and using a community planning process, create conversations where we can sit down and say, “What is your assessment of this situation and why do you behave that way?” Resource mapping, who’s already here?

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