Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

If there’s an idea that the community is behind, and a project or plan that’s adopted (whether it’s a new way of operating or a new tool), then it moves forward, regardless of “who&# thought it up or campaigned for it. Photo credit: Flickr Rhys’s Piece Is ). Think big : Not just big, but bigger than you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Learning goes from a lower level of entry to higher order thinking skills as follows: remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating. But we’re also using social technologies which made think of the various “Ladders of Engagement&# that communications strategist use to shape a campaign.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

When you take a minute to think about all the hours you’ve put in you begin get an idea of what it’s costing you. This tool will crawl and evaluate your website for a lot of the key elements you should be monitoring. It takes patience, diligence, perseverance, some technical know-how and a lot of time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

I'm looking for guest posts, ideas, and examples of nonprofits using crowdsourcing for their programs, fundraising, and marketing. Some questions I don't know the answers to: What are the best examples of nonprofits using social media to crowdsource advice, program evaluation, ideas, or other uses? at the Smithsonian 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Justin Benttinen. It takes transparency and accountability to a new level where there’s no hiding the facts, and if framed and accepted well, will not be limited to evaluative determinations of success or failure, but will be celebrated for the learning and opportunity for course-correction that it provides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I was particularly interested in examples using blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, and Facebook. One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Everyone is a Curator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2008

Flickr Photo. He probably wasn't - but hard to get that when you're telegraphing ideas. But as Charlene Li and Josh Bernhoff point out in their new book it is important to think behind the new tool - and to ask the larger question - how do you evaluate new technologies as they enter the landscape? That's this Peter Campbell.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Flickr Photo by TheeErin. ” Changing mindsets is not something that happens overnight, but I thought these creative ideas offered some great fodder for discussion which might lead to change. ” These ideas take more a systems lens to educating the sector about the importance of self-care. Self-Care for Success.

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NTEN

AUGUST 4, 2011

Flickr: ePublicist A recent discussion thread on NTEN's main community email list really hit something home for me. Learn how to evaluate ROI and communicate it to nonprofit boards, funders, and non-technical nonprofit leadership staff. We like numbers, and they like numbers, but not all numbers are the same.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

Flickr Photo by Maurice. In the comments of a post I wrote titled " Reports of Social Networking's Death Are Exaggerated ," Paul Caplan from Content to Be Different said I think the point about measurement/evaluation is vital as long as we don't get hung up on stats etc. It uses Flickr to host all of its photos. ???It???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

One way to rejuvenate your practice, is to be a participant in training designed and facilitated by someone else. The day provided lots of inspiration and new ideas designing and facilitating training. The last session used a classic trainer’s technique, a verbal evaluation of the day. Photo by SMEXbeirut.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

Click Through to Flickr for Attributions. Putting the Networked Nonprofit ideas into practice and using social media and other emerging technologies will only be success if nonprofits take small, incremental and strategic steps. The Networked Nonprofit Practice Model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2006

At Blogher, I met JD Lasica and in a jet-lagged state couldn't remember his name as I loaded his photo into my flickr account. I came out of my busy work trip with a list of ideas. However, I can only get as far as the free evaluation copy of captivate or camtasia allows. I would love to see more instructional videos as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Flickr Photo by Su Lin. These trends are based on Target Analytics’ evaluation of transactions from 77 organizations, including over 37 million donors and more than 77 million gifts totaling over $2.4 ” A Fundraising Cliff? What does the data say? A Guest Post by Steve MacLaughlin. billion in revenue. Take a deep breath.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Flickr Photo: Illustration of Participant's Learning Questions Earlier this month, we piloted the first two-day workshop on social media strategy and tools for NTEN 's WeAreMedia project. evaluate the results of your social media experiment and use the information to improve your next social media strategy experiment.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

In the past year, I''ve seen the conversation shift to talking about impact and sustainability of these projects--how we evaluate audience participation and how we can shift from experimental pilots to more day-to-day implementation. How do you evaluate participatory engagement strategies?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

In the past year, I've seen the conversation shift to talking about impact and sustainability of these projects--how we evaluate audience participation and how we can shift from experimental pilots to more day-to-day implementation. How do you evaluate participatory engagement strategies?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Flickr Photo by RedRaspu Convio invited me to share my number one New Year's resolution as part of its "Now is the Time" campaign. I'm drilling down into the concept of " streamline " to brainstorm 52 ideas to help make your organization's social media strategy and use more effective and efficient. Why the number 52? Take Breaks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2009

Flickr photo by Vidiot : Person Dressed Up Like ATM Machine Maddie Grant from Social Fish sent me a link to their training ' Buzz2009 Social Media for Associations " on July 9th in Washington, DC featuring presenters Guy Kawasaki and Andy Sernovitz. She asked me if I would write about it or Tweet it.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

All the photos in this post are on Flickr here. Background: Why They Did What They Did The Henry Art Gallery exhibition we worked with, Vortexhibition Polyphonica , was intended to explore three big ideas: Different voices “intervene” or add new points of view to the exhibition at periodic intervals.

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NTEN

JULY 8, 2009

Flickr Photo: _heather_r_ My mother-in-law is famous in our family for one phrase: "Get Over It." More organizations are doing program evaluation than before, and that's fantastic. But evaluation only addresses the past while suggesting a future path. Evaluation is part of innovation, but not all of it.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

They'll want to set the programmatic agenda, select the beneficiaries and target areas, communicate the organization's message, and, in real-time, evaluate feedback as it comes in. If your organization has interns, make sure to tap them for ideas on how to use social media to create meaningful points of engagement with your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The first C, Content, refers to the idea that social media tools allow everyone to become a creator, by making the publishing and distribution of multimedia content both free and easy, even for amateurs. Conversations create buzz, which is how ideas tip, become viral. The social object can be a person, a place, a thing or an idea.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Such a place can also be a source of “user generated content”, relieving your internal staff from the burden of coming up with fresh content, and truly leveraging the ideas of your larger community. Nptech resources can be found on delicious , flickr , slideshare , and Twitter. What is a knowledge sharing network?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

If the idea of creating a social media plan sounds scary to you, just think of it as: 10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project. Flickr, Photobucket ) Microblogging: Twitter , Tumblr Social networking (i.e. What is the goal I'm trying to achieve by using social media?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

The participants were consultants who worked with nonprofits on organizational strategic planning, financial planning, evaluation, and other organizational capacity areas. The consultant also pointed out that flickr photo I used seemed to indicate that the percentage are low.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. With cloud computing, you access your software applications over the Internet using a web browser. The work of the CrisisCamps was indeed both global and local -- and the cloud infrastructure made it possible.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. With cloud computing, you access your software applications over the Internet using a web browser. The work of the CrisisCamps was indeed both global and local -- and the cloud infrastructure made it possible.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

Click is an exhibition process in three parts: The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. It's very easy to sign up and judge. What makes Click special?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I scanned, uploaded, and organized photos of Leng as well as our communications into photo sets on flickr. I am technology trainer, evaluator, curriculum developer, and blogger. I got some great ideas for the next round of the campaign that is if the internal issue questions don't stop me from going any further with this experiment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Then, I match this against participant feedback/evaluations. The other brilliant idea was to use twitter and have kids report "What are you eating?" Can you use the number of photos tagged as a metric for something on say, flickr. Some excellent ideas here. What worked? What didn't? Tags as a metric.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Flickr Photo from SteveTookIt. Extrapolate on the broader terms, and find one word to hang the idea on. Extrapolate on the broader terms, and find one word to hang the idea on. I've had a post in draft for a couple of weeks now about some personal/professional goals or my New Year's resolutions for 2009. Photo by RedRaspus.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

The main idea was to put a human face to your organization’s mission to better tell your stories and successes. While that’s still true, blogging as a tool for nonprofits needs to be re-evaluated in 2010. It’s time for nonprofits to re-evaluate blogging, its purpose, and its effect on search engine optimization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

Photo by Jeska Linden in flickr Jeska Linden (Jeska Dzwigalski) is the Community Manager for Linden Lab , the creators of the virtual world Second Life , where she has worked since the summer of 2004. I remember when I first started, my parents had no idea what it was I did. Mixed Reality Event ??? Second Life isn???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

cc licensed flickr photo shared by alumroot. Those went okay, we always get a solid core of photographers tagging and posting pictures to flickr. Flickr the Conference. We are seeing a great stream of tagged flickr photos from the conference - more than 2400 at last peek. cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2007

Here are some corporate practices I’d love to see us steal from the conference rooms of Menlo Park : Making Time for Innovation There’s a catch-22 about innovation: everyone wants wild and wonderful ideas, but no one wants to invest the time and space (and bad ideas) it takes for those gems to arise.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Notably, the Brooklyn Museum's heavy involvment with social networking sites like MySpace has extended the idea that museums are sites for discussion. Search for your institution of TripAdvisor (for reviews), on Technorati (for blog mentions), on Flickr (for photos), or on YouTube (for rare but coveted visitor-generated videos).

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