Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 13, 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 September 13th).

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

At the 2014 Independent Sector Conference in Seattle, I attended the session, “Navigating the New Media Landscape,” which brought together expert panelists: Andrew Sherry, VP of Communications for the John S. Sherry questioned. The story is the starting point to create the conversations,” Chan added. and James L.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. On the one hand, I was impressed by the quality of conversation and sessions during the time I was there. The questions are: 1. Flickr Photo By PetroleumJelliffe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. I was presenting a strategic technology workshop at one of their conferences.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

So this week, I want to honor this conversation with links to a few of the great posts and a couple other sources that inform the way I think about diversity and engagement. Where do you fall in this conversation, and what resources have pushed your thinking about diversity? The posts are meaty and the commenting is robust.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2018

The mission of A People’s Guide to AI is to open up conversation around AI by demystifying, situating, and shifting the narrative about what types of use cases AI can have for everyday people. On December 8, 2018, Seattle Pacific University, AI and Faith, and TheoTech hosted an unconference to explore the relationship between AI and faith.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The Pacific Science Center (PacSci) is an independent, non-profit museum in Seattle with a mission to ignite curiosity and fuel passion for discovery, experimentation, and science for people of all ages and backgrounds. a conversation on a select topic amongst an expert panel. After the conversation, diners?engage?in

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The Pacific Science Center (PacSci) is an independent, non-profit museum in Seattle with a mission to ignite curiosity and fuel passion for discovery, experimentation, and science for people of all ages and backgrounds. a conversation on a select topic amongst an expert panel. After the conversation, diners?engage?in

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. If you’re not attending and curious what funders are learning, you’ll have an opportunity to read some of the ideas and questions being discussed right here on this blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2011

On June 29, I’ll be participating at conference in San Francisco called Social Media for Nonprofits that launches a seven-city conference event focusing on answering the question: “How can resource-strapped community-based organizations seize the opportunities presented by this new landscape?&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The event is sold out, but they are live-streaming it ) They are crowdsourcing questions for the conversation here. The study aimed to get the nonprofit perspective on these two important questions: How important do nonprofits believe performance assessment is to demonstrating impact?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. My daughter was 4 when we began the conversation about funders’ role in building the effectiveness of their grantees!) So, which capacities should we be building?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. There have been a lot of conversations about what funders can do to support nonprofits to scale impact. Flickr Photo Jakob Montrasio.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. For me, this ‘how to’ approach put some practical meat on the bones of the conversation around scaling impact that resonated through halls the at the GEO conference this week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. It also sounds less costly and complicated than evaluation.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Jim Davenport, an astronomer living in Seattle, charted the height and width of all of the works in the Tate''s collection. They raise interesting questions about the Tate''s collection and the imperfections of collections data. The data is sufficiently flawed and idiosyncratic to yield conclusions of questionable value.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. In order to answer the annual questions that were developed in the plan, we compiled ALL the evaluation stuff we collect over the year and put it in one place for synthesis.

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

A couple of weeks ago a group of Seattle global health data experts met at the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute to continue a conversation we started earlier this year on global health data. We'll continue to explore that key question in a couple of months when we meet again.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Next week, I headed to Seattle for a couple of days of events around my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-authored with KD Paine. ” This helped shift the energy and energize. As a facilitator, speaker, or trainer, when in doubt get them to move.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 31, 2016

We’d like to provide our readers with a peek into what we do each day to accomplish our mission by introducing members of the faculty and staff via short interviews and conversations. From there I became the executive director of a nonprofit in Seattle. Meet the folks who are here to help you and your nonprofit succeed! Pat Lewis Sr.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

meaningful conversations?and I n almost all cases, leaders that focused their b usiness intelligence and analytics efforts to answer strategic questions achieved better results and were better positioned for future success. . 2020 in Seattle now with?discounted were not able to attend,?you and help for your?20

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

After lunch, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO gave his perspective on the company’s philanthropy and corporate citizen activities and answered questions. A reporter from the Seattle Times asked how the company makes sure that their day jobs actually gets done. Leveraging Networks with Partnerships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

I've been blogging and tracking conversations about social media measurement and ROI over the last few months. Minus the audience ratings or competitive aspect) Maybe use the "Ask Later" 5-minute format, popularized by Ignite Seattle. (10 After each case study, the audience will get to ask questions. s part of the fun.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Trust me — I know them well because I used to be one.” Giller, a journalist, established the Seattle-based nonprofit as a destination news web site for environmental news, reports and opinion with a wry sense of humor. Societal Change: Impact on society, policy discussions, and conversations that advance sustainable practices.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

On Monday, I gave the keynote at the Museums in Conversation conference in Tarrytown, NY. I approached all of these fields with one question in mind: "What can I steal?" The question stuck with me, after Operation Spy, after leaving the Spy Museum. I live a life governed by these two questions. Make a list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2006

It is a walkingunconference, an urban hike that provides exercise for the body and conversation for the mind. The one in Seattle is addressing some great reflection questions: What are you takeaways from Gnomedex? What to do? What will you do to follow up? And then, how can we help you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2006

My colleague Celeste who blogs at the studio501c blog responded to my invitation to help answer the question " To blog or not to blog that is the question." We will be addressing this issue as part of the session on Nonprofit Blogging at the NTC Conference in Seattle in two weeks. Great thinking Celeste!

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Ask these questions: Is there a project you want to get funded for immediate use, before the end of the year or early into next year? Your answers to these questions should help you to determine the type of campaign you want to create, and how you do it. Goals don’t come out of thin air. They should come from your programmatic needs.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2009

You can participate in this experiment from anywhere in the world (I’ll be in Seattle at the zoo with a group of grad students). The experiment is a multi-step activity in which you talk to strangers, get strangers talking to each other, and then build a social object that mediates conversation among strangers (more here ).

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Seattle startup Evri uses data from Twitter in a very interesting way. It watches for emerging trends on the site and when something is becoming a hot topic of conversation - Evri uses that as a trigger to prompt a query to other sources for information on the topic. Twitter as Trigger. The Real-Time Web of People.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

The Age of Conversation is a new book being put together by 100 authors. In Technology Support as Teaching , Michelle Murrain raises the question "Is providing technology support simply just an end in itself, or is it also a means to empower clients in appropriate technology use to further mission?" Hat tip to Paul Hyland.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2015

And then we celebrate their generosity, rarely questioning why they had the capacity to give in the first place. We have some questions we want to pose to YOU in an upcoming #RadicalGiving Tweetchat on December 18 at 10am PT / 1pm ET. How can we have these conversations about money more in museums? How do you give?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I called in to participate in a radio show in Seattle , then zoomed downtown for meetings, after which I headed home to cook for a dinner party. Other people submit questions they'd like to have answered by strangers. Mercedes and Zachary pick people randomly out of the database, call them, and ask a contributed question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

My most recent experiment involved Twitter, fundraising, and an integrated offline component at the Gnomedex Conference in Seattle. " The ask itself - a simple and easy ask of $10 played a factor as Katya Andresen notes , "The simpler and easier the ask, the bigger the conversion. Click to see the larger image. What's Next?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Michael Jackson had just died, and I was at the Experience Music Project in Seattle, where they hastily erected an exhibit of the jacket and glove he wore in the Thriller video. It is an experiment in form, and I value all the comments and conversation around it. It was June of 2009. Thank you for taking this journey with me.

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