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

Amy Sample Ward

but there wasn’t an offline space for that. 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. Questions and Discussion.

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Guest Post by Amy Sample Ward -- The Power of Vision: Review of “The Pollyanna Principles”

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Submitted by Amy Sample Ward, publisher of Amy Sample Ward’s Version of NPTech Hildy Gottlieb’s new book The Pollyanna Principles is a handbook for starting a revolution in social benefit organization design and practice, but it isn’t the revolution. Can we move to the Culture of Can? What’s the catch? Are we ready?

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Embrace the Data, Change the World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It isn’t just about collecting data or the tools to collect the data – it’s also the sense-making and having it be embedded in the nonprofit’s culture. I’ve been thinking a lot about this idea of ”data literacy” lately. p/QTToUNlZjr/. Beth Kanter (@kanter) October 3, 2012.

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Great reads from around the web on July 10th

Amy Sample Ward

What we weren’t paying attention to was how we brought the advantages we carry in our offline lives– often defined by race, gender, class, and now, technological access and skill– to that blank canvas." In Silicon Valley, they say they celebrate failures and their lessons as key to a culture of innovation and success.

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

NTEN

NTEN's Amy Sample Ward shares from her experiences at the Games for Change Festival. but there wasn't an offline space for that. Questions and Discussion Tracy : When we speak about cultureal spaces, we are really talking about caging and preserving culture. Tracy : Games are about subverting a system.

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Vote for the Female Social Media Guru UK Awards 2009

Amy Sample Ward

How do opportunities, successes, connections and authority online translate into offline opportunities and successes? What cultural shifts need to take place offline in order to provide non-privileged groups earlier access, interest, and opportunity in technology-related fields?

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Community-Driven Social Impact: Presentation, Case Studies, and Workshop

Amy Sample Ward

First, CDSI requires the right culture; unless your organization, board and staff are going to honor and support an idea that emerges from the community, there isn’t any point in trying to use CDSI strategies. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. View more documents from Amy Sample Ward. Case Studies.