Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2012

FLOW is an on-site technology that broadcasts data instantaneously to the Water for People website/FLOW map providing important information about the operating status of WFP projects. I love to see projects that are focused on measuring and evaluating data about their work and progress. Through data, of course! Sustainability.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

We have set up a Web site, [link] , to share information and conversation about the ongoing review. Here is a partial list of what we’ve completed as part of this review: Program evaluation based on a sample of 169 OE grants closed in 2007-2009, conducted by TCC Group (2011).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

The social strategy includes the widget above that can be customized to show the charity and be shared on different social networking sites or blogs. Amy Sample Ward. It refers to a fairly new way of evaluating the effectiveness of projects by drawing out the underlying assumptions about how they lead to social change.

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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

His post sparked a community plea to Ning to keep its service free for grassroots nonprofits and community groups and Amy Sample Ward also wrote about it. Evaluate your community: are you reaching a diverse community or operating in a silo? Start a Petition ». As we all know, there’s no such thing as a free lunch.

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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

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! Evaluation. There are also some great practical tips , sample mentor/mentee agreement , and plan.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

All-inclusive resorts offer lodging, food and drink, entertainment, and recreational activities all on-site. In a wine-tasting experience, participants sample a variety of wines while evaluating them using criteria such as appearance, smell, and taste.

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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. I think it is incredibly smart that they include the drop down menu for Veteran Status.

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Achieve

JULY 28, 2021

They’re easy to use (more on that later) and provide a wide range of benefits, so if you haven’t been using waivers, it’s definitely time to re-evaluate your needs. For example, if you host a chili cook-off and participants will be sampling each other’s food, there is a risk that someone might get sick if the food is not prepared properly.

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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. There’s a whole playlist on our YouTube channel of sample videos waiting to spark your creativity. Branded gift, such as a sticker, magnet, or journal: Surf around your favorite sites for small, branded gifts.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2009

So, how do identify if you are succeeding or evaluate if you are improving? These 5 steps assume that your organization has already used a process to evaluate your audience and your goals and chosen tools and strategies that match the audience and organizational goals.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

This is a guest post from Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared’s Global Community Development Manager.&#. Here are some places to start: Evaluate your use of social media tools: do you encourage your supporters on other platforms to register on your website, ensuring you have their contact details? The more voices the better!

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

See Amy Sample Ward's materials on Community Driven Social Impact for more details on strategically planning online communities.). Discussion boards can be added to your website, leveraged in a Ning site, or you can use a google group or similar solution. Should you support their use of existing tools, or create a new space?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

This is a really great post to read for anyone thinking about how to measure, evaluate, and even consider the impact of social media use (and that should be everyone). "Over "Over the years, Social Media experts attempted to redefine ROI for a new era of influence. " Check it out!

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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." No visit to your favorite tech news site could be had without getting buried in a tsunami of articles about Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt, BriteKite or a myriad other startups.

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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. This data is used to collect general results from a large sample population, and it allows the researcher to spot patterns and form hypotheses for further exploration.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. Use different links on different sites to see what really gets people clicking through.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Amy Sample Ward lays out a 5 things to think about before you get into the execution of a social media strategy for the first time. If you are not reading blogs and web sites in an RSS Reader , make that your New Year's resolution. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. Take Breaks.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2019

So, when you visit more than 300 museums, parks, and historic sites, what do you learn? My children particularly loved watching a technician/ scientist work on processing an avian taxidermy sample. I went from lots of change in one place to help many places with their change. Different strokes, perhaps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Submitted by Amy Sample Ward. The sites attract millions. In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely. Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

It is constantly in flux and only by aggregating and assessing the community in real time, with constant new connections and renewed re-evaluation can the curriculum stay ???current." With wikispaces, it is important to use the overall site monitoring features so you know when people make contributions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

Here’s quick sampling: LA Universal Preschool. Children Now and Partnership for Children and Youth explored how to begin to integrate social media content channels into their newly designed web sites. This experiment focused on using metrics to evaluate how engaging content was and recruitment tactics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

There's a lot of resources, ideas, and discussion over at Stop Cyberbullying Site. The sampling of some of the top rated resources this week: Death Threats Are Not Protected Speech. Ning is a platform that allows you to create your own social networking site. For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. NTC is just days away! It's moved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. But these sites have two important limitations that give nonprofits reason to look for additional tools.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 7, 2023

Imagine your intern runs up with a first draft of an article for the site, what are the chances it is perfect and requires no edits? Evaluate if the style and tone fit the intended audience and goals. Prompt sampling : Trying a range of prompt styles and approaches to determine the most effective phrasing, tone, and complexity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Submitted by Amy Sample Ward. The sites attract millions. In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely. Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Wednesday, December 1, 2010 How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfalls As the year comes to a close its likely time for many business leaders to tackle the annual performance appraisal process. So, here is a good reminder from author Sharon Armstrong about how to avoid eight performance evaluation pitfalls.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? The Five Points Of Professionalism How To Talk About Poor Performance With An Employe. Use print to provide detailed information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

"There's a mentality shift required to fully engage with social networking and community content sites: sometimes, you have to let go." the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content. the ability to evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information. each of various qualities. More here ). *

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

help to evaluate resumes of kids). Access to password-protected content like checklists for camping with kids or sample lesson plans for outdoor educators. Invite donors, at their own cost, to join you on excursions, site visits, field trips, expeditions, nature walks, or other travel needed to achieve the mission.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Submitted by Amy Sample Ward. The sites attract millions. In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely. Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

In gaming, especially MMOs (massively multiplayer online games, like World of Warcraft), the social component--supported by bulletin boards, community sites, and in-game social areas--plays a major role in how the game is perceived, and, by extension, its success. He was a great and honest evaluator, and he loved his role as an influencer.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Are you going to use this to evaluate your internal operations so that you can become more efficient, more effective. And I see an anonymous question here about, “Can you speak to what evaluation methods are particularly effective regarding impact?” So a couple samples here this is from Charity Water.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2007

There's the basic site. There are plenty of people on the "these ADD boneheads have finally gone too far" bandwagon (see this representative sample from USA Today), as well as some legitimate concerns about how twitter is the ultimate example of the way that 2.0's There’s a new 2.0 And many more mashups and applications available here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Don’t wait to collect a year’s worth of data in a week. Finally, avoid getting into data collection and analysis ruts – and evaluate your approach. I help clients tie their social media actions to their web site. If you create the discipline to collect data weekly, then it won’t be overwhelming.

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