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. Her round up includes the slides we used in the session as well. Dave was a fellow panelist. Submit today!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

When was the last time you went to a conference and had a deep learning experience through conversation and stimulation of all senses from a traditional panel? As a facilitator, it is great to have this visual so you can focus on the conversational channeling – and have a record you refer to as the conversation weaves and turns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources. They shared a slide (see above) about new models we’ll see that combine both – especially the “not invented yet.” The New Social Economy. That’s changed. They want to combine both.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The key to successful fundraising is asking smarter questions. We’re here to talk about “Raising More Money By Asking and Answering Better Questions.” And we’ll be sending out the recording as well as the slides later on today. . Is it okay, if I go ahead and kick things off officially? So good news.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. I ask certain questions to help identify these individuals. . I select what I questions I do based on answers in an online pre-survey. I tend to bumble-bee around and listen in on selected conversations, but it is important for people to hear from their peers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2015

This year I designed and facilitated a highly interactive session called “ Walking is Work: Don’t Call It A Break ” with Ritu Sharma. I also lead a conference networking walk following the session. This post summarizes some thoughts and reflections. The slides and resources from the session can be found here.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

By understanding core motivations, intentions, perspectives reflected in this webinar, you will be able to build a stronger case for support, increase the impact you have, and gain strategies for creating and preserving community. But most importantly, please feel free to send in any chats or questions or comments along the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? What worked? What didn't? Before I went on Twittered.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

It was terrific to have a packed room and a long, open conversation (we split the session into half presenting, half audience discussion) about these issues. Here are our slides and Ellen's handouts if you want to learn more. Now I think it's really critical to all of us advancing the field and making our institutions viable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Arts Wire was patterned after the Well and was designed as an online conversation community for artists and arts organizations. Or participating in the online conversation on Arts Wire. I used the chat as a backchannel and invited people to add questions or comments as we went along. But, there were great questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It is a great opportunity to ponder the question: How to design and deliver learning experiences for nonprofits that connect, inspire, and engage? What are the best practices? The questions were keyed to when the content was explained. The last question asks students to tell Mazur what confused them.

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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. So I know you got some slides to pull up but the floor is yours. We’ll start with a few key trends in philanthropy that will ground our conversation. billion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

Over the holidays, I finally visited Quora , a social learning site focused around asking and answering questions founded by an ex-Facebook employee. Quora has been around for a year and provides an independent question platform from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn that is similar to Yahoo! Thanks Geoff! ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Learning is using experiments with metrics and the right questions at the right point to understand what works, what doesn’t. Pause for reflection time before next reiteration: How to improve results? Here's a conversion test: Does an acceptable, standard metric exist for the measure? It answers the "Was it worth doing?"

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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. She offers a three-step questioning process to help think through how to cut through the clutter. Pulling my hair out!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

Colleague Debra Askanase was also overwhelmed and wrote this terrific reflection on how to be a thoughtful, responsible early adopter in the nonprofit technology community. Features are one thing, but the big question a nonprofit has to also answer: where is their audience ? View more presentations from Ross Mayfield.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2008

Last week, we explored questions about how nonprofits go about planning their social media efforts and various resources are summarized here. Two had an organizational lens and the other was adapted from some more traditional communications planning questions. The action - feed -reflection process is very important. Find people.

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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

JULY 19, 2006

Pathfinder gave a presentation to a small group in Cambridge , while his audio (some of the time) was streamed into Second Life along with his Powerpoint Slides. Here's a few reflections from people in the room. " It's a variation on that question that pioneering nonprofits will ask and answer too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

In 2007, I was a "leader" in a program called " Shadow the Leader " where I had an opportunity to reflect with colleagues and peers on the challenges and learnings from leading a tagging community. My relationship with CPsquared grew through my various collaborations, conversations, and explorations with Nancy White.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Compasspoint Workshop Slides - Beta. And they worked! I wanted to capture a couple of reflections on the process as well as content learnings by way of this post. . Using a google form, I sent a pre-survey that asked detailed questions about social media experience, communications planning, budget size, and job role.

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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

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Integrate Practical Use of the Tools for Reflection, Network Weaving, Getting Ideas, Follow Up Work. organizational change, and technology.

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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

APRIL 12, 2007

The video incorporates some slides from Angela Byron's excellent presentation, " Women in Floss " which also speaks to the dark side of gender issues in FOSS communities. Might I dare suggest that future spectrograms include a question about gender balance in OS? How to engage people in valuable conversation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2009

Over the weekend, SobCon was taking place in Chicago and I wish I could have been there - (next year, Lis, I promise) KD Paine was there and follow her Tweets and KDPaine pointed me to her slide deck. She puts the what to measure question in context from hits, to views, to engagement. There's a lot of great stuff in this deck.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

When Maddie Grant at Social Fish invited me to do a FREE webinar over at the 365 Engage Community, I was thrilled to have an opportunity to reflect the practice of incorporating social media into instruction. The big questions I want to know are related to the learning goals: What is the audience's level of experience? The Topics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

I’ve been reflecting on why some nonprofits do a better job of measurement and learning, while others do not. There not is a reflection process for analyzing success or failure to take into next use or campaign. Making sure each department can access its data to answer their questions.&#. Example of A/B Testing Results.

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NTEN

MARCH 9, 2011

This is also where you can bring questions to ask and get not just one, but a handful of veterans to answer! Reflecting this event's unique nature, we call it the "Science Fair" so that everyone realizes it's an integral part of the NTC and not just another boring exhibit hall! Member Reception - RSVP in myNTC!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The photo or video taken on a phone and then posted to the web can change the conversation, alert news media to issues or new developments, and change the course of response. And finally, measuring impact as it reflects back on the priorities for responders as well as those working to engage the rest of the world in targeted support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

Danny Sullivan's " Search Meets Real Life " was absolutely brilliant -- particularly how demonstrated what information is out there and how he called people in the audience on his cell phone while asking them personal questions and displaying some of the information about them freely available on the Internet.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

We will send the recording and the slides to you later on today. Ask questions, introduce yourself, if you haven’t already. And we’ll see if we can get your beautiful slides going there, all right. . Steven: Want to give it a few more seconds and I’ll go to the next question? Dr. Ross: Great. .

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

You should already have the slides, but in case I missed you, we’ll send all that good stuff later on today. So I’m going to stop sharing and I’ll let you pull up your slides here. Let’s keep the conversation going. So I have a question for y’all. Let’s see if we can get to work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2008

There are only five questions and they are not difficult. Here's three themes worth reflecting on. Amy Sample Ward who has recently moved across the pond gave a presentation about online engagement She makes a point about connecting social media strategy with traditional strategy with her phrase - conversations and conversions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

I asked if I could live tweet to bring others into the conversation which I did using the tag #packfound. . The intent of the exercise (besides getting us to move around) was to help reflect and learn about self-organizing group collaboration. The instructions for the exercise are: Get in a circle. We knew what was coming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Presentation Slides on flickr Blog post here. There are many sparks for conversation about the points raised. Michele Martin points to a new feature in google news that can spark conversations. " and reflecting on a recent article in Wired. " and reflecting on a recent article in Wired. NpTech Talk.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

As always, just a couple of quick housekeeping items, I want to let everyone know that we are recording this session and we’ll be sending out the recording and the slides later on today. Introduce yourself if you haven’t, say hi, but ask questions, you know, leave comments. I know a lot of you already have. Steven: Yes.

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