Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2010

You can read the full post and comment on the SSIR blog or be part of the conversation below. Social media is a space where the individual reigns, relationships are required, and conversations are public. You can review the slides from my whole presentation, as well as all of the speaker notes, here. So, how do you respond?

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 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. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of August 24th).

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

Melissa Hill Dees and Sandi Zellner’s conversational session, “Have You Considered the Consequences?”, One particularly noteworthy, and chuckle-inducing, moment occurred (on April 1, fittingly) during Karen Fidelak’s presentation featuring a slide showcasing survey results stating, “Everybody LOVES Change Sets.”.

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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. WWT 2010: Apps and Tools to Energize Your Base.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2010

I do a lot of presenting and am spending to much time writing bullet points, creating slides, and practicing what I’m going to say. I think that this puts a stop to creating conversation in the room. I wanted to learn some conversational mechanics — so I could stop talking at people and begin talking with them.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

Here are some of my favorite tools and how I use them to stay organized and be productive: Google Workspace, formerly known as G Suite: I cannot imagine a more important set of tools for nonprofit productivity than these free tools from Google: Google Docs , Google Sheets , Google Forms , Google Slides , and Google Calendar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Here's a conversion test: Does an acceptable, standard metric exist for the measure? Can the conversion be accomplished with minimum resources? Can the conversion process be described to an executive director and secure their buy-in in five minutes? A good exercise is to try to convert your intangibles.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 18, 2009

delivers the best of both worlds, offering great keynote sessions led by Amanda Rose, Founder of Twestival, but in an unconference way with no PowerPoint, 15 minute leads, and open questions and dialogue for fantastic conversations. Photos of any whiteboards are also important along with any slides that were presented. NonProfit 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 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. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of March 2nd).

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

And just a couple of real quick housekeeping items, just want to let you all know that we are recording this session and we’ll be sending out that recording as well as the slides later on. Really cool conversations, lots of different topics, social justice, criminal justice, I think you talked about last week. . Here we go.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

In this post, I’m sharing my slides , resources , and practical engagement tips with a higher purpose. You can also invite Alums to share what they’re up to as part of your engagement strategy on social channels, either as a dedicated post or part of the conversation in the comments. ” 3.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

We’ll be facilitating a conversation, more than doing a formal presentation, and will focus on the power of crowdsourcing (using our own case study from conducting the Social Media for Social Good case study competition) and the application of social media in nonprofit program delivery. If you’re here in Austin, do join us!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2010

My slides are above and my reflections are below. It takes place at The MaRS Discovery Centre in downtown Toronto (a hub for science, technology and social entrepreneurs) and there are fourteen events, each with a unique focus and target audience. The Conversational Keynote: Room Configuration Is Key. Did You Know CH.O

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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. Do you have videos, pictures, or slides? And here’s how to start! It might not be new, and it might not be sexy. Do you have lots of different voices?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Just want to let you all know that we are recording this session, and we’ll be sending out the slides as well as the recording later on this afternoon. And you all got to know Elizabeth because she’s all over the place speaking, she’s doing podcasts, she’s getting interviewed. She works over at CCS.

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AUGUST 11, 2022

You want to make sure you have a plan in place from the day the gift is made through your fiscal year and in an ongoing cycle. Once you’ve done your research, be sure to park this info in a place where you can easily reference and update (like a CRM ). These can be created in powerpoint, google slides, or even canva.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

This slide show from Common Craft uses a party as a metaphor for online community. Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. There's no place like Web2.0, There's no place like Web2.0. Meanwhile, Party4aPurpose launches the alpha version.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Here’s my latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review – you can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR Blog or below. —– The Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference takes place Febrary 28-March 2 in Austin, TX, and I’m SO honored to be a keynote speaker!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

I’m reminded of this slide from Mary Joyce from the E-Mediat Training. The social network market place is already competitive on the second tier below Facebook. But it is also attractive to some NPTechers was the ability to have more intimate conversations. The tag is still active on Twitter and other places.

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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. Below, you can find my full speech and slides, as well as links to address questions and requests from many of those I met with. The Evolution of NPTech: Where we came from, and [maybe] where we’re going.

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JUNE 24, 2010

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare ) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of the California Healthcare Foundation. Check out the session or watch the slides below! Lots more good stuff there.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2011

I spent my first 3 months in this position simply observing and finding the conversations. If you can discover what brings a group of people to your Facebook page vs. your Twitter account, you’ll really start to understand what types of conversations they want to have there. Then you can start engaging them in those conversations.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2010

This website has been a great place for me to post ideas and share lessons learned, store content from presentations, and share resources. But I’d like it to be seen for what it is: there are tons of presentation resources (slides, notes, videos, etc.), Right now, this blog could really be categorized as a blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

Andrea Berry had moved onto another job by then, and so Jeanne Allen took her place. The session slide deck is also available on Slideshare.net. The basic premise remained the same: to give training tips, model them, and to provide “meta” data that gave a glimpse into the minds of the session designers.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Live: Participatory Events, Webinars, Conversations, Local and Global. Tweetchats — A TweetChat room opens with a hashtag like our recent #NPtagging conversation. Anyone who uses the designated tag on Twitter automatically becomes a part of the ongoing global conversation on that topic of interest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2008

One of the key benefits of social media is that you can actually be in two places at the same time. Key points to encourage participation: Focus on promoting conversation. Alexandra's slides will be posted on slideshare - but all accounts it was great participatory experience. Photo by Laura Whitehead.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

On the morning of July 7th, a page was created for the events taking place in central London and as both television news and personal witnesses revealed more information the page content grew – by the minute. Reports of violence and of peace efforts could be placed via the web or mobile phone. Thousands of reports were placed via SMS.

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NTEN

MARCH 9, 2011

Check your Program Book or myNTC for the full schedule as sessions take place both Thursday morning and afternoon. Instead of running throughout the entire conference – and competing with everything else on the agenda – the Science Fair takes place only on the first day of the NTC, and it's the sole focus of the conference at that time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

In my conversations with these technology founders at the N2VLab, one of the questions I asked was what inspires them about their work in technology? I met Mohammad L. I go through my slides and think will this metaphor or idea translate to this cultural context. Mohammad L. Azzam with Bill Gates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2009

I think this was the point that Peter Deitz was making in his slide show " I am not an ATM Machine: Your Charity from the Donor Perspective." We've placed relationships as an outcome or result using the techniques of listening, learning, reflection, micro-planning, and adapting. It eventually shifts to two-way conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

Photo by Matt Westervelt Back in April I created a slide presentation for an Ignite session at NTC about the Many Uses of Friendfeed that Beth Kanter picked up on , intrigued with the idea of using it as an internal listening tool. Synchronous events there include the monthly #4change conversations. for the last five years or so).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

I like Rashmi's new slide show, especially the title. Water cooler conversations around shared objects. A tag stream of web resources, videos, powerpoint slides, news items, etc. " The objects, the graph, the place Can the social graph be independent of the objects and the place? A community tag stream.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

A fundraising email is not the right place to thank Board members, reflect on events that already happened, spotlight a wonderful volunteer, or highlight a major donor. Think about having a conversation with a person who has made a donation in the past and might make another donation. That means you may need to leave out a few things.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

PopTech Slides View more presentations from kanter. It is important to have the conversation to unpack it. What I have done in many workshops, is the spectragram where people line up according how their experience with social media tools and we have a conversation. PopTech is an amazing blend of people, ideas, and projects.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

And we’ll be sending out the recording as well as the slides later on today. . And I’ll let you bring up your beautiful slides, and the floor is yours, gentlemen, so take it away. . Also, a little shout out to our colleague Kevin Wilson who’s managing the slides for us at Harvey’s office. So good news.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

And just a couple of quick housekeeping items, just want to let you all know that we are recording this session, and will be sending out the recording as well as the slides later on today. So I’ll let you pull up your beautiful slides. So let me share my slides with you all. I think that’s all for my slides.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 6, 2011

You can download our slides to review what we covered. And as we said a few times during our session, please do NOT hold your questions - I'd love to see some robust discussion in the comments so we can sustain the great conversation that we had at the Summit. Check out the slides for the details. The Sustainer Landscape.

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