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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

Amy Sample Ward

Tracy : When we speak about cultureal spaces, we are really talking about caging and preserving culture. We want to focus on experiences and the experience of culture is an interaction, that’s why these places need to be live. That’s one of the goals of research institustions and cultureal spaces in general.

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New Book: How To Implement Multichannel Online Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” The book offers some recipes for culture change.

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#13ntc Nonprofit Technology Conference: Plenary Session on Failing Informatively

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I have the honor of designing and facilitating three sessions, including a plenary on my favorite topic – learning from failure. This highly interactive and engaging community conversation will look at how nonprofits can create a culture of experimenting, testing, learning and correcting. April 13, 2013 – 8:30-10:00.

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Community-Driven Social Impact: Presentation & Workshop at Amplified Leicester

Amy Sample Ward

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. This point underlies all of the best practices and organizational culture required for successful community-driven social impact work. They are also hoping to learn from and document their experiences to share as a model with the larger global community looking to do something similar.

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SXSW 2013: Measurement and Making Sense of Your Data

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This post summarizes the sessions I facilitated or participated in related to “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” which included a book signing, panel discussion in the Beacon Lounge , and a workshop with co-author KD Paine. This is the last post in a series of post about my experience at SXSW.

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SXSW 2013 – Are You A Social Media Nonprofit Manager Looking for Your Peers? #npsmpeer

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I enjoyed designing and facilitating this session because I had five awesome presenters who have a depth of knowledge about the topics we discussed. ” @ brianreich #sxsw #npsmpeer #nptech — Amy Sample Ward (@amyrsward) March 10, 2013. “You have to break the rules.” Beth Kanter, Learning from Failure.

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How Does Your Nonprofit Use Data To Improve Results?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today, NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward shared this fabulous video on Facebook. One of the chapters is on organizational culture – what’s in the DNA of a “data-driven&# nonprofit and what are the incremental steps for change? Organizational Culture. Finding the time to devote to measurement.

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