CauseVox

APRIL 13, 2021

Evaluate your website and emails, and make sure the messaging for your peer-to-peer fundraising campaign is: Easy to understand — Your messaging should make it obvious why your organization has launched the peer-to-peer fundraising campaign. A “registration now open” email, with personalized messages for past participants and prospects. (For

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 16, 2010

If investment was required to get a tool, I believe many groups would be willing to participate in evaluations, provide feedback, submit user stories and help in the development of the tool. Evaluate your community: are you reaching a diverse community or operating in a silo? Investment Is More Than Money. But not money.

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Ning Causes Build Evaluation 208

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2011

Instead, design for growth and sustainability from the start with lots of room for feedback, evaluation and iterations to continue developing and redeveloping. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. But, it’s just to say that you are in it just like the community is, and not everything we try in life works smoothly.

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Bloomerang

JULY 10, 2023

Their involvement shows a higher level of commitment to your organization and a greater degree of interest. Financial Capacity : Donors who have accumulated significant assets or wealth may be more open to making a planned gift.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2022

Whatever tool you use should provide you with some metrics to evaluate your results each time you hit “send.”. Look at your open rates, but pay more attention to the click-through rates. How compelled are you to open it? Here is a sample checklist: Set marketing goals, Thursday, May 19. Review your recent emails.

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Marketing Guide Metrics Nonprofit 69

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

Well, you’ll find that much of the work that involves your community, whether it’s building up the community, working on engagement, listening, evaluation, or anything else, involves strategy that goes in a circle. The Gardener creates an ecosystem open to change, available to new groups, and full of fresh opportunities to emerge naturally.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 18, 2009

Evaluate your goals and objectives, as an organization. Hildy Gottlieb’s Pollyanna Principles are a great place to start if you want to learn more about how you can evaluate and identify your organizational goals (and larger view) in a way to successfully design projects, programs and even partnerships for real impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2010

This includes many, many schools, community groups, and grassroots nonprofits that embraced the free service since it opened its doors in 2007 and will now be forced to pay, or relocate their communities, or say farewell. Evaluate your community: are you reaching a diverse community or operating in a silo? Start a Petition ».

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Fine Blog – "The Case Foundation has just released an evaluation of their innovative “Make It Your Own&# program. " Tags: roundup bookmarks broadband casestudies evaluation list postalicious report research resources volunteering. Reflecting on “Make It Your Own&# « A.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

Note from Beth : This is an ongoing series from the Organizational Effectiveness Program team at the Packard Foundation about developing their program funding strategy in an open way or what has been dubbed “Learning In Public.” We have set up a Web site, [link] , to share information and conversation about the ongoing review.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 27, 2016

And with nearly 2 million board seats opening up in this country every year, board recruiting can be challenging. Is the service you are evaluating paid by a corporation to place their employees on boards? Or do they provide a short sample of some boards they have helped? Where does their money come from?

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 12, 2010

The basic idea: The Gardener creates an ecosystem open to change, available to new groups, and full of fresh opportunities to emerge naturally. —— Last year I used the metaphor of “ gardening vs landscaping &# to outline some of the key attributes I believe make for successful community building, on or offline.

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Build Community Ning Offline 143

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2009

open stack. how do you get everyone to open up? Evaluate where social makes sense. get your privacy and permission policies and proceses aligned with an open strategy. Evaluate where social makes sense. get your privacy and permission policies and proceses aligned with an open strategy. Activities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. Patricia Patrizi, Elizabeth Heidi Thompson, Julia Coffman, and Tanya Beer, “ Eyes Wide Open: Learning as Strategy Under Conditions of Complexity and Uncertainty.” Alliance Magazine, September 2012. Beth Kanter, “ Data Informed.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Some are medium sized and open, but still centered around a discipline. See Amy Sample Ward's materials on Community Driven Social Impact for more details on strategically planning online communities.). If you open up comments to all users, you are going to get spammers. The Library Society of the World is one I use frequently.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2018

It’s time for a frank discussion on the role each and every one of us—from leadership to board, database managers to finance teams—can and must play to foster an open, innovative culture of philanthropy. We were joined by a great group of panelists from across the sector: Amy Sample Ward, CEO, Nonprofit Technology Network.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Funding projects instead of just a specific product ensures that organizations or teams can fail quickly and softly while working towards something better, can invest in research and evaluation, and engage the community not just market to them. Recognize the role of technology across all our work.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

" Open for Action — A blog for OpenAction thoughts and musings – "Not sure about you, but we’re saying finally! Don't know where to start your research or where to read evaluations of existing and past mobile data collection efforts? Get the Tagline Database and Report!" You're in luck!

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Web Drupal Open Source Bookmarking 117

Care2

JULY 11, 2013

For example, one of the case studies that Amy Sample Ward and I profiled in the mobile section of our book Social Change Anytime Everywhere was about “Missed Calls” as an organizing strategy. They share best practices in online campaigning as well as concrete data and analysis from their A/B testing.

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Resource India Case Study Nonprofit 72

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan. There have to be other criteria for defining and evaluating innovation. But what does all this mean for philanthropy?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

This is a guest post from Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared’s Global Community Development Manager.&#. For example, you can follow the website redesign process via the blog where the feedback and directives for the redesign, the people who stepped up to implement, and the step-by-step process have all been open and Community centered.

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Myspace Causes Philanthropy Offline 108

Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2014

Jody suggested it would a good idea if I were open to putting my name into consideration for a seat on the NTEN board. Of course I also worked with the executive director of NTEN, Amy Sample Ward when she helped us build the NetSquared community. Jim Lynch: What contributions would you like to make to NTEN?

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

This consultant can evaluate your nonprofit’s overarching goals and help you define the research objectives that will help you accomplish them. You’ll build your research strategy around what information you want to learn and understand, with more open-ended questions to invite a wider range of responses.

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Research Marketing Survey Nonprofit 52

Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

Challenge: Clueless Cliff Cliff didn’t read the minutes, has no idea what’s going on, and possibly never opened the email that contained the agenda. Her being late is disrespectful to those who got themselves there on time. He wasn’t aware that he was supposed to bring an idea, and, in general, he seems flustered and a bit lost.

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Fun Product Law Nonprofit 98

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 28, 2012

IAVA’s #gosilent campaign is a terrific example of social campaigning because it uses tools and tactics that make it easy for the organization to track, measure, and evaluate success – in real time and after the campaign is over.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 2, 2009

By evaluating what resources you already have on hand in the organization, you are much more prepared to fully examine your options. This is really helpful in order to evaluate the appropriate tools for your work. Evaluation. Just be sure to openly communicate your evaluations, ask for feedback (&# Do you see what we see?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

And much less than that (22%) reported that their organization had ever evaluated Return on Investment (ROI) of technology projects or programs." One of the findings that stood out to us: Only 40% of respondents reported that their organization has some type of formal technology plan.

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Web Map Bookmarking Conversation 114

NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Mobile Voices offers an open-source multi-media platform optimized for low-cost mobile phones that lets users create, share, and reflect on stories about their lives and communities. Tags: amy sample ward mobile devices netsquared Newsletter NPTech NTEN. Third Place: $10,000. Second Place: $15,000.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 1, 2009

Twitter Karma is a great tool to use if you want to inventory your Twitter community, clean up any nonreciprocal followers, or simply evaluate your lists. If it is an open network, go ahead and join and see if you can contirbute to the conversation and information exchange. Tags: strategy analysis evaluation social media.

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Social Media Tools Media Ning 100

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

I think that we have a lot to learn about where gamifying is most helpful, but we are so far from the saturation point that we should push ahead with full speed so we can evaluate what works and what doesn’t and make adjustments. How do you evaluate organizations that you invest in that develop games to support learning?

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Game Education Change Classroom 132

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

made me think again about the open-ended topic Ashoka posed in it’s “Blog your way to Hyderabad&# competition announcement: the interconnection between technology, invention and social change. The questions, and listening back to how I responded (as painful as it may be to listen/watch yourself on video!),

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Connection Cafe

JULY 3, 2013

When I look at any piece of technology (business or personal), my first instinct is to evaluate the hardware and software eco-system around it to support the tablet in question. Android: Possibly the most open system from a customization aspect, Android devices have the user and developer community that Microsoft lacks.

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Business Webex Blackbaud Application 35

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. The panel picker process just opened - so you can vote yes or no for the panels you think are worthy of being on the program or not until September 4th. Submitted by Amy Sample Ward. Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I am just starting to dive into the science of intergroup relations (psychology-speak for social bridging), and I greatly appreciate these individuals who are working to popularize and open up what could otherwise be esoteric research. I realize that I may sound like a college freshman who just discovered Psych 101, but heck.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. The panel picker process just opened - so you can vote yes or no for the panels you think are worthy of being on the program or not until September 4th. Submitted by Amy Sample Ward. Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

NTEN's Amy Sample Ward shares from her experiences at the Games for Change Festival. I think that we have a lot to learn about where gamifying is most helpful, but we are so far from the saturation point that we should push ahead with full speed so we can evaluate what works and what doesn't and make adjustments.

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Game Education Change Classroom 60

NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. The panel picker process just opened - so you can vote yes or no for the panels you think are worthy of being on the program or not until September 4th. Submitted by Amy Sample Ward. Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis.

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