Amy Sample Ward

MAY 28, 2012

I had planned to take the day off from work to remember and reflect on the service of those in my family (my grandfather, now passed), and in my community. obviously tied to the campaign, and reflective of the call to action means it is likely people will use it and engage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2007

Program Evaluation By Magic Eightball - Click to Play Music by Stablom, " Something Dark " from ccmixter. I'm slowly blogging the posts, videos, and photos that I captured last week along with some reflections. Eric's magic eightball evaluation video was fun to make, but there was a point.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Reflecting on “Make It Your Own&# « A. 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.

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Web Bookmarking Evaluation Lesson 120

DNL OmniMedia

JUNE 8, 2023

The most important step to complete before getting started is to evaluate your organization’s needs. Because these apps work as an extension of your Salesforce features, your reports will reflect that information and provide a positive experience for registrants. Understand your event’s needs. Keep event flexibility in mind.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 23, 2009

Reflections on America’s Giving Challenge - Did you follow or participate in the America's Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation? Check out the evaluation report from Beth Kanter and Allison Fine. "The Tags: roundup bookmarks. Put your audience in the driver's seat. Embrace emergent value propositions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

The NTEN project is an excellent learning laboratory for reflection and learning about this topic. How do you get people to contribute their knowledge - whether it be to a wiki page, leaving a comment on a blog post, or tagging a resource? And as Dave mentions, this happens through tagging. Some Learnings on Practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

In reading through this amazing outpouring of posts, people have been very transparent if they are nominating their own project as well as their criteria and evaluation thought process. Holden not only shared his recommendations, but gave us a detailed description of his evaluation process. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. Or more specifically, the limitations of using tagging in managing large collections of photographs in institutions. He blogged his slides, a video , and some reflections. Technorati Tags: stopcyberbullying NTC is just days away! There's also dogooder.tv

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? Then, I match this against participant feedback/evaluations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2010

Photo by HeyDee Almost a year ago, Allison Fine and I finished a reflection paper on the lessons learned from the first America's Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation. This year, we are experimenting with incorporating social media techniques as part of the evaluation process for the second America’s Giving Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of hearing Michael Quinn Patton , an evaluation guru, speak at the Packard Foundation. He described the challenges of adapting evaluation methods to non-Western systems in developing countries because evaluation has traditionally been deeply rooted in the Western ways of thinking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2010

If you want to follow along, we're using the #networkf tag on Twitter. Steve Downs from Robert Wood Johnson shared some reflections on a foundation-wide effort to become a web 2.0 Tags: network effectiveness scholar. What's nice to see is that everyone is much more comfortable with live tweeting, being more transparent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2009

Nonetheless, the reflection questions are very valuable and important to incorporate in your strategy planning and reflection process. Are you evaluating current processes and updating them as needed? Tags: listening. Are you actively listening to your customers in the places they frequent online?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. Make Time for Reflection. Build in daily or at least weekly time for reflection on your social media strategy and use to make improvements. Here's one way you might celebrate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2009

My colleague, Marshall Kirkpatrick , who works with Read/Write Web, had invited me to participate, but I was at another convening about network strategy and evaluation scheduled at the same time. I could have sat in the convening on network strategy and evaluation, but also have dipped into Real Time Web Summit live stream.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 27, 2023

While they’re volunteering, you can evaluate their skills and dedication to see if they have what you need on your Board. Use a photo that reflects the heart of your organization’s work. Incorporate a photo of volunteers in action into a graphic and tag them. They might make great Board members. It’s good for their health.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

The REFLECTS project at MOSI In keeping with the session on 21st century skills in museums, I want to report on one other session I attended that really inspired me for its forward-thinking approach to professional development and visitor experience. The REFLECTS project blends practical institutional demands with deep research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Should have set up a campaign tag to track blog posts, etc. The campaign tag is: sopharath. If you're raising money for nonprofit, remember that you are an ambassador the cause and what you say and do reflects the organization. I am technology trainer, evaluator, curriculum developer, and blogger. What a dork I am!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2009

Not always moving forward faster than the speed of light, driven by deadlines, but also reflects. Evaluates current processes and systems on a regular basis and updates them as needed on an incremental basis. Tags: change management. Takes a try it, fix it approach. I call this putting a smiley face on the screamer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

5) Make Goals Evaluation Criteria and Up-Front Decisions: It is important to not only identify your success metric, but also establish the criteria to judge a victory. . (6) Tags: experimentation googleanalytics reflection sandbox socialmediametrics. Do it to learn what works or doesn't. . (4)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

Even thought I am still reflecting on that Pew report and the comment from Weinberger's blog Even if just 1% of Web users tagged resources with some regularity, they would be creating handholds for the other 99%. Is reflection in action the way to integrate small amounts of experimentation with Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). They also tag and analyze responses. Crisis communication strategy. Disaster work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

When Maddie Grant at Social Fish invited me to do a FREE webinar over at the 365 Engage Community, I was thrilled to have an opportunity to reflect the practice of incorporating social media into instruction. Introduction to six different social media tools and techniques for a planning, delivering, and evaluating a training session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. Make Time for Reflection. Build in daily or at least weekly time for reflection on your social media strategy and use to make improvements. Build in daily or at least weekly time for reflection on your social media strategy and use to make improvements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

We also discussed the whole issue of network evaluation and the difficulty of measuring those relationships versus a specific impact. Also, the idea of faster tools like social network analysis that give us real time information and the need for someone who is embedded in the network as a real time evaluator.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2023

However, most nonprofit CRMs share a few standard features to help nonprofits evaluate and act on donor data. As your nonprofit grows and develops, you’ll need to continue training to ensure your software also reflects your needs. During demos, ask about implementation or migration costs to be absolutely sure you know what’s coming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

But the exchange prompted some reflection on how I use Feedburner. I think engagement metrics are far more useful for evaluating reader interest. This is evaluating your performance in relation to other blogs in your space using the same metrics. . What is your thought and reflection process for insight harvesting?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

My reflections are here. My reflections have mostly that has been around the subject matter of how nonprofits and foundations are thinking about and using social media. I love the way they've made fun for the capture team to document the conference and their evaluation questionnaire. Tags: backchannel.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Learning: evaluating what is being said and what information is needed. ARC - social media team evaluate/watch everything and then send summary and highlights to team. NWF - tag mentions in delicious with which programs or projects are mentioned, can share link to that tag on delicious with staff to see their section.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

This blog post is a roundup of the face-to-face we had last week in Houston to share some of the amazing lessons learned and some reflections. Two gems shared by a participant was this leader board of healthcare tags and this twitter tool that lets you look up your legislator’s Twitter handle by zip code. and storify.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

And, in looking over the evaluations and reviews , I think the participants did too. I've been experimenting with integrating social media into instruction for the past five years, so the webinar was a great opportunity to reflect on practice. Tags: online communities technology training training materials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

The Dashboard is a reflection of those areas we consider to be vital to the museum's mission. Tags: Arts & Technology evaluation scholar transparency. We're constantly figuring out ways to adjust / add to / drop statistics and information that is of the most value for continuing to improve the IMA as an organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

With social media, listening needs to incorporated into the research phase at the beginning but must also be used as the social media strategy unfolds (real time monitoring) and as ongoing evaluation. Tags: remix scholar training materials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2009

Allison Fine and I have been noodling with an evaluation model that looks social media from an organizational perspective - from social networks to social capital (relationships) to action in the real world. Tags: Books. We've been calling it " Listening and Learning Loops." Ladder of Social Engagement - Version 1. Giving Good Poke.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

There are a variety of types of eLearning assessments that you can use to evaluate your association’s members. Specifically, we recommend seeking an LMS with the following capabilities: Question banking, categorization, and tagging. What are the different types of online assessment?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

"We can't talk about transparency, accountability and honest evaluation without addressing the contentious topic of failure. " and reflecting on a recent article in Wired. Travis August tags this announcement from TechSmith, makers of SnagIt and Camtasia, about Mac development. Maybe just some prayers? NpTech Software.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 13, 2008

As one of the evaluators commented, visitors want to make meaning out of their interactions with Daisy. Tags: usercontent interactives. The experience of text chatting with Daisy is chaotic and her speech is often nonsensical. But despite her incoherencies, Daisy evokes an emotional response. Visitors relate to her--or try to.

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