Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2011

For the past four years, I’ve designed and facilitated panels on social media and nonprofit topics that were fun learning experiences and well documented. Amy Sample Ward, NTEN. Be a Design Superhero: Vanquish the Wasted Pretty. Hope you’ll consider a vote for our session. When Social Good Goes bad.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Community Managers ensure successful engagement and participation on a new platform by facilitating discussion, modeling behavior, and supporting leadership development. Community Managers provide key facilitation that empowers participation and engenders trust.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits workshop. Sample survey. Instructional Design Notes. I facilitated a session in the afternoon which was designed for peer interaction given the topic.

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JULY 28, 2010

Amplified Leicester is a city-wide experiment designed to grow the innovation capacity of Leicester by networking key connectors across the city’s disparate and diverse communities in an incentivised participatory project enabled by social media. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Be sure to watch their space for more!

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

The conference is designed to be a lean, mean, digital best practices machine, which makes it a great fit for nonprofit pros looking to hone their skills, but maybe not a great fit for those looking to build their professional network. The conference features the latest nonprofit technology best practices as well as networking opportunities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

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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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Designed by Emily Lonigro Boylan, Owner and Creative Director, and Demetrio Cardona-Maguigad, Director of Strategic Design, both of LimeRed Studio , the Idea Accelerator offered the chance for partners who might not have met otherwise to connect on common ideas, and work with coaches to refine the project to meet shared goals.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, Community Development Manager, TechSoup Global. Over the last few of years I've had a the opportunity to work with a team of intelligent and thoughtful colleagues, speak at conferences, and collaborate with other facilitators and community builders. Tags: amy sample ward NPTech NTEN Program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

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.”

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 19, 2010

In my first blog post , I mentioned that the very first step in configuring QuickBooks is to have a QuickBooks implementation meeting, and I recommended using a questionnaire to facilitate the meeting and act as a centerpiece. See [link] for a sample implementation questionnaire that you can use for this purpose.

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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. (We’ll Crowdsourcing for Social Change.

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MARCH 3, 2011

Here's where I'll be (the links are to MyNTC, the social community site for the conference): New to NTC Orientation (9-10:30 am Thursday) - As an NTEN Member Ambassador, I'll be helping NTEN's fabulous new Membership Director Amy Sample Ward (a perfect choice for this job, don't you think?) I love it.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

Here's where I'll be (the links are to MyNTC, the social community site for the conference): New to NTC Orientation (9-10:30 am Thursday) – As an NTEN Member Ambassador, I'll be helping NTEN's fabulous new Membership Director Amy Sample Ward (a perfect choice for this job, don't you think?) I love it.

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APRIL 22, 2021

From investing in upgraded LMS technology to creating a learning business plan to instructional design, each task involves a specific skill set that the average association professional may not have. Analyze samples of their past work. However, creating a formal learning business within your organization is a whole new ballgame.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2011

But this takes a different kind of management approach , rather than organize them, nonprofits need to facilitate Millennials to organize themselves. (Cat Finally, they have collaboration and networking skills that are in their DNA that they can bring to the nonprofit workplace. Cat herding skills?).

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2015

After wrapping up our annual Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), NTEN’s CEO, Amy Sample Ward, and I quickly recharged for SXSW Interactive , where we partnered another year with Beaconfire to host the Beacon Lounge for social changemakers, and with the NonProfit Times to cover stories on the nonprofit technology sector.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 5, 2011

After the session, she asked to reuse the game locally and I asked her to just let me know how it went: I recently facilitated a day long meeting with a group of 7 different community media centers in California. I design and facilitate a day long, in person meeting every other month dedicated to one of these topics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

Today, NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward shared this fabulous video on Facebook. As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m facilitating peer exchange groups on measuring the networked nonprofit with 60 grantees. A streamlined and well designed dashboard.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 9, 2009

" Giving Anonymously - A non-profit organization facilitating generosity between people - "Giving Anonymously is a non-profit organization facilitating generosity between people. Giving to others in need can be full of mixed motivations and our hope is to facilitate Pure giving."

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 9, 2012

Christine is a facilitator, network weaver, and catalyst. The third blogger in this run of the Have Fun, Do Good guest post series is the wonderfully wise, Christine Egger. She works with individuals and organizations whose mission is to increase our capacity for empathy, generosity, and creativity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

You know those bags tattooed with the sponsors' logos and filled with stickers, t-shirts, coupons, samples, and other goodies. Ann Wizer is an artist who uses design and education to protect the environment and reduce poverty. I want to design well made recycled bags. The context is that many projects don't offer this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Sometimes it has worked swimmingly like this one with Amy Sample Ward in 2008, other times not. We had one person handling the technology and another person serving as moderator in the room. We had planned our presentation to include content delivery and facilitated discussion – and it worked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2015

What I absolutely love, is that the book has a companion web site with worksheets and checklists from every chapter. As someone who designs and facilitates professional development projects for nonprofits, this is a trainer’s dream! There are also some great practical tips , sample mentor/mentee agreement , and plan.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2011

The site was hosted on [link] , which used a URL and design that supported a strong sense of community around the campaign. Second, we would focus on taking the campaign to off-line events as much as possible to facilitate meaningful connections between the online and offline world.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

In my first blog post , I mentioned that the very first step in configuring QuickBooks is to have a QuickBooks implementation meeting, and I recommended using a questionnaire to facilitate the meeting and act as a centerpiece. See [link] for a sample implementation questionnaire that you can use for this purpose. SUGGESTED METHOD #2.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

So, I designed and have been testing a training program that embraces thoughtful do-it-yourself social media experiments and a peer learning process for sharing the learning. The best part of this design is that participants are the content – the community is the curriculum! Here’s quick sampling: LA Universal Preschool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise." When do you as the wiki facilitator get out of the way? However, we may be thinking of about it slightly different - a facilitative curator versus community driven curation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2009

I shared some thoughts about the Causes Birthday application design , and have continued my reflections below. This all works well for psychology of collective influence which is an important part of Facebook application design. We've raised $1, 206 to help children in Cambodia. Notes about application. Click to see larger image.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. An academic-community partnership, the project brings together immigrant day laborers, scholars, software developers, and community organizers for participatory design, curriculum development, evaluation and research around this emerging media tool and its social impact. About NetSquared.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Over the last few of years I’ve had a the opportunity to work with a team of intelligent and thoughtful colleagues, speak at conferences, and collaborate with other facilitators and community builders. The tools and methods here are designed to be flexible and adaptable so that you can make them work for your organization and needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Amy Sample Ward shares her first reflections and critique of the platform and wonders what’s the point? Hughes also enlisted Scott Thomas , former director of design with the Obama campaign and author of Designing Obama. “We saw on the Obama campaign you’ve got to combine content and technology to facilitate action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Amy Sample Ward writes about the new plugin launched by Social Actions that will place ???possibly Amy Sample Ward , filling in for Britt Bravo, writes about several awards and competitions including the UK Catalyst Awards and Simon Fairway's pointer to the digital makeover contest. possibly related classroom projects???

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. We focused more on design. Coming off that experience, we wanted to prove that we could have great design AND great participation in this show. We're involving visitor services and volunteers more intentionally in facilitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

Laura Whitehead is the session designer for a workshop on Social Media and Nonprofits and she's asking for input from the NpTech community on the session. Giving Anonymously facilitates person to person philanthropy. Hat tip Amy Sample Ward for discovering it!). Nancy White shares some insights in the comments.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2015

Schizophrenic bird halls with 5 different design and content presentation styles. Even at a museum like ours, where more than 70% of our visitors are bringing others to facilitate a social (often family) experience, only new things can reliably motivate a visit. History exhibits with hundreds of objects and no coherent story.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

What made the game so unique is the social element – the game designers spent a lot of time writing about the participants and their visions for the future on postcards and distributing them throughout the night, giving them to random participants so they were prompted to seek out others. Learning Science by Design.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 14, 2017

Internal control procedures in nonprofit accounting can be broken into seven categories, each designed to prevent fraud and identify errors befor e they become problems : Separation of Duties. 4 examples of how software can facilitate strong internal controls. The Big 7: Internal Controls that Don’t Control You. Access Controls.

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