Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Earlier this summer, I had the huge privilege to visit Romania and help with the Local Philanthropy Workshop. I had the opportunity to facilitate the IT track and had lots of fun poking, prodding, and supporting some really interesting conversations and sharing sessions. The Local Philanthropy Workshop: Facebook Campaigning in Romania.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

This past week was a busy one for leading workshops. Half-Day Session : Social Media Strategy Game which included small group work for participants to come up with a strategy for both external communications and an internal learning network to share best practices. Putting It Into Practice As a Facilitator. Why or why not?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

The workshop started with a welcoming ceremony. We sat in the hall – two rows – the guests and the Maori. I couldn’t have asked for a more authentic, culturally appropriate start to a workshop. The spiritual nature of the welcoming ceremony set the tone for a day of reflective practice for participants.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This session will include a presentation, discussion and small group scenarios. Workshop: Using Community Organizing for Effective Online Campaigns. This participatory workshop will help you answer the question: What does old-school community organizing have to teach the wired activist?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

This year SXSW is offered something new: workshops on a wide range of topics from some of the top people in their industry. I was honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. Love how this peer-to-peer workshop on non-profits + community management is being run.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2017

During the summer, I’ve been designing workshops based on The Happy Healthy Nonprofit and Emerging Leaders Playbook. A great training always start with a great opening or icebreaker. Icebreakers have these benefits: • create a positive group atmosphere. Also be aware of the group dynamics. help people to relax.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Compasspoint Workshop Slides - Beta. Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. The workshop was hosted by Compasspoint , with support from the Lucile and David Packard Foundation. Robot Voice Disguiser for Large Group Facilitation.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Last week, Jim Richardson and I hosted MuseumNext , a 24-hour workshop for museum professionals focused on bringing new, wild museum projects into the world. Click any link above to see the video from the initial pitch and final report from each group. Facilitator bits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

Our group also visited Starfish Impact School , where we learned about their work to ensure indigenous girls have equal access to education and provided mentoring and training for young women graduates of Starfish. Working with Wake is also a wonderful professional development experience to hone training and facilitation trade craft.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2005

One immediate use that came to mind is that if you had a distributed work group (based in US) that was working together, you could have people add photos and brief intro to the map. People could reference the page to visually see the group and get a reminder of time zones. Other ideas?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? The workshop was an all day workshop , with an opening presentation followed by small group exercise. Tags as a metric. What worked? What didn't?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Over the summer, Holly Minch , who is an expert at helping nonprofits and philanthropies unlock the potential of strategic communications for social change, suggested that I facilitate a workshop on social media strategy with a group of nonprofit and philanthropy communications folks. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2008

tags: hawaii socialmediaclub ). Many thanks to Chris Heuer and Kristie Wells of the Social Media Club for organizing fantastic Social Media Workshop and inviting me to participate.   In order to play this version of the game, you absolutely need a mix of knowledgable people in the room to facilitate the small groups. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit and Social Media workshop at the Independent Sector Annual Conference “ Forging A Stronger Future Together &# in Atlanta. Silo Busting: Ironically, I had two people in the workshop who worked for the same organization, but had not met each other!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Ironically, it was during a session facilitated by Phil Klein called “Tackling the Unexpected&# who shared insights about he took back his life after surviving a cancer diagnosis. He also showed off the Foraker Groups socks that are intended to get people out and walking and being healthy! Tags: Conferences alaska.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2009

Last week, I had an opportunity to participate in a two-day workshop was designed for Packard Foundation grantees, from across the Foundation’s funding areas, who lead and manage networks or accomplish much of their work through networks. The workshop, facilitated by the Monitor Institute, was focused on Network Effectiveness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

OSI Workshop View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Our charge was to teach back-to-back simultaneous workshops covering social media strategy for NGOs and social media tools. It made me think of the metaphor of the Dance Floor and the Balcony a phrase and exercise that I learned from a session that Eric Eugene Kim facilitated. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

James pulled together a group of funding partners and Clay Lord from Theatre Bay Area. The social media lab for arts organizations is a combination of face-to-face workshops, phone calls, and online support via a wiki and Twitter over several months. Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table. I said yes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

The Net2 Secret Plan from Marnie Webb NpTech Tag New Year's Reflections, Predictions, and Best Ofs What are some of the ways that the social web marks the New Year? The main reason I'm still tagging is for retrieval when asked for a resource on and to write this summary. Let's take a look. Thoughts, leave them in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

I am honored to have facilitated this project with NTEN over the past 18 months on the WeAreMedia: Nonprofit and Social Media Starter Kit. Together, NTEN members and other nonprofit techies/trainers, developed and delivered workshops and webinars based on the community-generated content. Tags: wearemedia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Center for Nonprofit Excellent Workshop View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: nptech nonprofits ). I'm facilitating a couple of workshops as part of the Social Media track for annual conference for the Center for Nonprofit Excellence in Louisville, KY. I'm doing two workshops. I'd bore myself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. I taught a very brief workshop in strategic social media using the social media strategy game. Graphic Facilitation Rocks. Having graphic notes during the workshop was an asset.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This was the launch of a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

The event is sponsored by Patagonia as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility program. I presented a plenary session on networked mindsets and leadership and facilitated two workshops on SMARTer Social Media. As with any workshop that I do, I believe that there is a lot to learn from the people in the room.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 4, 2009

groups formed around the issues, and developed ideas for project. We then handed out two sets of cards to each group: one about social technologies, the other about ways to engage individuals and groups online, face to face and through traditional leafleting and other methods. Social by Social game cards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Yesterday, I facilitated a hot topic workshop at the Healthy Communities Annual Conference hosted by the Search Institute in Minneapolis. I've worked with other groups - small business, higher education, librarians, educators, and others, but never all mixed up. This week I put that into practice. It was eye opening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

As Visiting Scholar in Nonprofits and Social Media at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I am coaching grantee organizations and leading workshops and peer trainings on how to become a Networked Nonprofit. The program includes two face-to-face workshops. We used a wiki and conference calls to check in as a group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

I am participating in this year's " Connected Futures: New Social Strategies adn Tools for Communities of Practice " a five week online workshop for community managers, designers and conveners to explore social strategies and tools to support their work. The workshop begins on April 20th and you can register here.

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Forum One

JULY 26, 2010

The second part explores challenges in facilitating collaboration. When a group has secured a new round of funding, it may be willing to play a mentorship role for other grantees, sharing their experience and providing guidance. Tags: Influence Collaboration. Connect the virtual and the face-to-face.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

Dave Cormier published a paper recently entitled "Community as Curriculum" and that phrase has stuck with me as one way to think about workshop curriculum projects that are being developed in a networked way like the NTEN project. When do you as the wiki facilitator get out of the way? Some Learnings on Practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Note From Beth: Since 2007, I've been using, adapting, and remixing the Social Media Game social media workshops for nonprofits. Last year, I facilitated a version of the Social Media Game for Packard Grantees as part of a convening on Network Effectiveness in Washington, DC. Tags: change management training materials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

On Friday, I facilitated the final face-to-face workshop for the Social Media Lab for 25 arts organizations inspired by Thomas Edison’s approach. James assembled a group of funders and the talented Clay Lord from Theatre Bay Area , a local arts service organization to help implement project. Contemporary Jewish Museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

I am part of a large group of staff within our nonprofit that interacts with our supporters on a daily basis. Policy and research staff have a different culture than those of us who work directly with individuals on the group. Tags: change management. It’s my job to listen to our members and empower them to get involved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2009

When I facilitated technology and web workshops for nonprofits in the 1990's, I did a lot of workshops on TechnoStress where small groups would identify their concerns and then literally draw a picture of them. Tags: change management network effectiveness working wikily. are some drawings and reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

I've been lucky enough to be involved with the planning and curriculum development for Connected Futures: New Social Strategies and Tools for Communities of Practice workshop with John and Brownyn as well as (who along with Beverly Trayner, Etienne Wenger, Nancy White , Nick Noakes, Shawn Callahan, Shirley Williams, and Susanne Nyrop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Younger, GEN Y employees like Adnan Mahmud, founder of Jolkona Foundation , a micro giving site for projects in developing countries, and Xiang Li, founder of Givology , a site that facilitates micro loans for education in developing countries are two examples. Tags: Content Networks Philanthropy. “ Unleashing Technology.

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