Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 23, 2013

Description : Social media presents a confusing blur of personal and professional profiles. The course will include a lecture providing insight into the best practices of featured tools, and a hands-on learning component to help participants explore the tools directly on their laptops or in small group facilitated discussions.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Earlier this summer, I had the huge privilege to visit Romania and help with the Local Philanthropy Workshop. The social impact landscape in Romania is complex and exciting – you can see struggle and hope, fear and enthusiasm mixed in every conversation and every presentation. The slides are below as well as some notes.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2011

Yesterday, I had a very fun time presenting with my friend and colleague Debra Askanase at the 2 011 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. We focused on principles for community building and community organizing, as well as examples of both short-term and long-term engagement. Here are the slides! Know Your Community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2008

To prepare for this presentation, I used social media tools not only to locate the experts and good examples, but this time invited them to collaborate in a google doc that ultimately became the wiki resource page. I would like to give special thanks to Andre Blackman and Patricia Anderson who were immensely helpful.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Today I had the pleasure of presenting a webinar to clients of the Washington Access Fund. The webinar was designed to offer an overview of the basics, best practices and examples of successful social media integration. You can review the slides below, and click through to slideshare where you can view all of the speaker notes as well.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

By Beth Singer , Principal at Beth Singer Design, LLC – a design and communications firm specializing in nonprofit organizations to help them fundraise, educate, and promote membership and the mission of their institutions through design solutions. There’s a new normal. Go deeper — use empathy. Deeply connected to your topic?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 4, 2012

In this session, we will discuss how co-creation unleashes online evangelists and strengthens cause centric communities, and help you to do that as well. Presentation slides. Towards the end of this workshop, we’ll work together to design a co-creation strategy to engage and motivate your online community and evangelists.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Storytelling for nonprofits is an avenue to connect with donors and help them relate to your work. Ethical storytelling for nonprofits produces stories that not only help nonprofits share their work and inspire donors but also honor the dignity of those the story is about. But 63% of people could remember a story the presenter told.

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NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2012

At last year’s Blackbaud Conference for Nonprofits, Allison Nassour and I presented to a full room on the topic of QR codes. Check out the slides from our presentation, Scanning for Good: How Nonprofits Can Use QR Codes – there are a bunch of examples in the second half of the deck.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

Eric’s session allowed participants to sit back and listen to him walk us through the progression of his Salesforce career and share his best tips on thriving within the ecosystem during his “How Your Personal Brand Can Drive Your Career” presentation. 3 Key Takeaways from DevOps Dreamin’. Expect to see more GitHub.

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NetWits

JULY 16, 2012

It was a lot of fun presenting (and talking to) this extremely engaged group of people. Amongst the countless schools I found using Facebook poorly there were plenty of shining examples of schools doing really well utilizing Facebook to build lasting relationships with families, students and alumni (both University and K-12).

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

In past days of in-person training, I presented a slide deck in front of the class and distributed a paper course reader that students could hold in their hands and take notes on. Moving to Zoom, the simplest way to adapt would be screenshare my slide deck. But, as my example indicates, things do not always work as expected.

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Byte Technology

MAY 10, 2017

And today, with so much business being conducted online, the line between success and failure can have a lot to do with how you present yourself and your company to the world. Here are eight themes to check out for your e-commerce concern—some free, some premium—but all customizable (and mobile-friendly) to help you stand out from the crowd.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

Last week I participate on a panel on “ Data Visualization for Nonprofits: A Picture Is Better Than A 1,000 Words ” with Johanna Morariu from Innonet and Brian Kennedy of ChildrenNow. The day of the panel, I published a blog post that shared our slides, wiki, and resources. Documentation of Session.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 10, 2020

To help you compile this survey and get the data you need, we’ve compiled a few tips for writing post-event surveys and details of some of the most important questions that you need to ask. But before you start randomly lobbing questions at participants, we have a few tips that will help you improve the process.

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Achieve

APRIL 15, 2015

Your reach can only go so far, so it’s common knowledge that you need help from other organizations to promote your event. We go through extensive due diligence process to select speakers for MCON and make sure they are high-quality presenters who will inspire our audience in an unexpected way. Example of strong slides from past MCONs.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

View more presentations from womenwhotech. My slides covered the tools and apps for the back stage side of energizing your community. Since my slides are mostly screen shots, I’ve shared a bit of context below. You can see an example of a dashboard by visiting my public Nonprofit Tech Dashboard. Community Mapping.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

At #MFOM14, I participated as a speaker, leading one workshop, Email Marketing to Support Year-Round Online Fundraising , and as a panelist for the session, Visual Communication: Create pictures, videos, and presentations quickly, easily, and affordably. Channels such as social media can really help with this.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 4, 2012

Yesterday was the 2012 New York Cares Leadership Conference , and I had the distinct pleasure of presenting a session to volunteer leaders and inspiring community members. Consider participating or even starting a Twitter chat – the Association Cha t is a great example of a weekly chat with an online archive. hashtags.org.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 19, 2010

Blood and Milk » Blog Archive » Ushahidi, Twitter, and the future of foreign aid – Alanna's post is a great example of the power of networks, social media, and open systems. As she notes, her example has luck but it is an example of a growing model of a changing world. Great slides. What do you think?

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AccelEvents

JULY 23, 2020

When viewers are located all throughout the world, it can be nearly impossible to find a time that works for all time zones, and asking presenters to present the same content over and over again will not fly. From the attendee experience, a Simulive event looks like a live presentation that is scheduled to occur at a set time of day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

the skills identified in this workshop or sessions at the upcoming NTC designed to look at change issues that technology surfaces from the viewpoint of executive directors or IT staff might help. Here's one of her training presentations. Nate Ritter gives a brilliant example of how Twitter could help save the lives of missing children.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2009

If you want the slides, I put them up on slideshare , so free to download them.). Though I think the cloud presents its own set of challenges for our sector, I also think it presents us with some amazing opportunities -- not just to save money on infrastructure and IT support, but to go about our work differently than we have before. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Here are my slides and curated resources materials for a talk called “ What Can Nonprofits Learn from Robin Good, the Best Content Curator on the Planet? ” that I will be presenting at the Social Media for Nonprofits. Content Curation for Nonprofits.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

I recently had the opportunity to present a webinar for the National Center for Media Engagement , focused on community-driven engagement, and present a session at the Public Media Development and Marketing Conference , talking about building a social media strategy. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 2, 2010

Last week I announced that I’m [finally] doing a redesign of this site – and I need your help to make it as valuable as possible. Figuring that piece out means that Matt and I will be able to highlight content for you, design the site to feature what you’re after, and even help me write more of the interesting stuff!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

I presented a master class on The Networked Nonprofit as pre-conference session, a mini-workshop on the Happy Healthy Nonprofit , and a plenary session on engaging donors moderated by Macelo Jambeiro, a talented digital strategist that works for an agency called Alder & Lang and previously with Change.org. The audience laughed.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Another example of indirect content is that of social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Submitted by Rebecca Leaman, publisher of Get your sanity back , Wild Apricot's non-profit technology blog Great new presentations on social media are coming out almost daily, now that we're deep into conference season, and many are directed specifically to the needs of non-profits. Tips and Case Studies Who’s Doing What, Where, and How?

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Achieve

MARCH 16, 2022

However, they also present their own unique challenges, like the difficulty of digitally engaging attendees or the tricky technical process of setting up your event activities. Offer sliding scale & open-ended questions. For example, you may ask readers how they felt about a specific virtual conference session they attended.

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Classy

JULY 5, 2021

Think local boutiques, accounting firms, or restaurants, for example. Knowing you can mix and match funds to support your matching efforts can help you to leverage match funds year-round for a variety of campaigns. Will our partner help us share the campaign through their social media channels? Small Business.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

View more presentations from kanter. The hardest part of putting this presentation together was using the template because it reminds me why I think powerpoint is evil ! The chapter is based on interviews with folks in the field and includes step-by-step checklists, examples, and tips. tags: nonprofits roi ). Know your keywords.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. These are my notes for webinar about Nonprofits and Slideshare , a social site where community members share presentations, documents and pdfs. In the long run, they are helping to make the world a safer, fairer, healthier place to live. Slideshare.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Today’s Community Builder chat focused on examples and best practices for connecting on and offline community activities, events, and organizing. I personally love how it presents the opportunity to be involved in a community, sometimes in a real-time format, from a distance. Recap: October. Get the October Chat archive.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 10, 2020

To help you compile this survey and get the data you need, we’ve compiled a few tips for writing post-event surveys and details of some of the most important questions that you need to ask. But before you start randomly lobbing questions at participants, we have a few tips that will help you improve the process.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2011

Or are social media ranking tools an example of more kool-aid mix being added to the overflowing punch bowl? What the Red Cross did next is an example to other nonprofit organizations that make a similar gaffe." " Pew: Open government is tied to higher levels of community satisfaction | Gov 2.0: Are you a leader or a follower?

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AccelEvents

JULY 14, 2021

Perhaps you line up a popular motivational speaker or lifestyle influencer to help balance out more serious event content. Polls and Q&As are not new virtual event ideas but they are highly effective for getting the audience to think about the content presented. Polls and Q&As. In fact, 81.8% Recipe Night. Live Virtual Concert.

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