Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

To provide practical examples of how collaborative technologies can be exploited in a city context. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. This point underlies all of the best practices and organizational culture required for successful community-driven social impact work. Be sure to watch their space for more!

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 23, 2013

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. Related Links : KAUST. Course listing in Acadox. Slides (coming soon). Blog post reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

Today, NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward shared this fabulous video on Facebook. I’d love to see a survey of nonprofit measurement practice that quantifies this. It is a look at measurement and learning practices when social media is in the mix. Where is your nonprofit when it comes to social media measurement practice?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

The team of people currently working on the proposal for this new platform, asked me to help share some context about the role of Community Managers that could be included in the proposal narrative for funders who may be unfamiliar with community building best practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” So, I’ve been practicing by creating visual notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The After Action Review is a reflective practice that can be used for anything, but I find it especially valuable for social media pilots and experiments. The After Action Review (AAR) is a structured way to capture the lessons learned from any project, with the intent of improving future performance. The process is simple.

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Review Social Media Action Strategy 97

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 9, 2009

" Giving Anonymously - A non-profit organization facilitating generosity between people - "Giving Anonymously is a non-profit organization facilitating generosity between people. Giving to others in need can be full of mixed motivations and our hope is to facilitate Pure giving."

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 19, 2010

In my first blog post , I mentioned that the very first step in configuring QuickBooks is to have a QuickBooks implementation meeting, and I recommended using a questionnaire to facilitate the meeting and act as a centerpiece. See [link] for a sample implementation questionnaire that you can use for this purpose.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits workshop. Sample survey. I facilitated a session in the afternoon which was designed for peer interaction given the topic. 1: Broadband Internet (Expansion of broadband).

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

I practically commute to Union Station anyway. Sit in a circle and share ideas and resources, while the "presenters" are facilitators instead of providers of one-way brain dumps via PowerPoint. Steve Spiker and Steve Backman are facilitating this session with me. No checked luggage, no security lines. I love it.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

I practically commute to Union Station anyway. Sit in a circle and share ideas and resources, while the "presenters" are facilitators instead of providers of one-way brain dumps via PowerPoint. Steve Spiker and Steve Backman are facilitating this session with me. No checked luggage, no security lines. I love it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2015

Terry and Rusty Stahl have just published a new book, “ The Talent Development Platform ,” that provides strategic and practical information to help nonprofits guide, nurture, and strengthen the next generation of nonprofit leaders. There are also some great practical tips , sample mentor/mentee agreement , and plan.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Join us to examine where your community resides online using a mapping exercise, think about cross-channel best practices, and talk about examples of successful cross-platform community building. We’ll address emerging best practices and discuss the associated opportunities and challenges of community-driven strategies.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 5, 2011

After the session, she asked to reuse the game locally and I asked her to just let me know how it went: I recently facilitated a day long meeting with a group of 7 different community media centers in California. I design and facilitate a day long, in person meeting every other month dedicated to one of these topics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

The report is written for funders and those on the ground doing the work in the context of networks, although it doesn’t go deep into practice. One of the most useful parts of the report is a two-page spread that illustrates sample metrics for transformations and transactions for each of these categories or a “metrics tool kit.”

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

A consultant with advanced knowledge of learning technology, instructional design, and learning business best practices can inform that strategy. While an eLearning consultant is likely to have expertise in learning business development and eLearning best practices, you’ll also want a partner that’s an expert in your industry itself.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

A robust knowledge sharing network might involve people sharing resources, best practices, worst practices, just-in-time information, quick tips, and deep thinking, all focused on a specific topic. For example, the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) created a space for a Training Officers Community of Practice.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 9, 2012

Christine is a facilitator, network weaver, and catalyst. It’s practically impossible to have that kind of conversation and NOT have fun and do good. ? The third blogger in this run of the Have Fun, Do Good guest post series is the wonderfully wise, Christine Egger. Where the participants are living among. Being with. Given room.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 4, 2009

The core team was the same: David Wilcox, Andy Gibson and Amy Sample Ward - all co-authors, with Cass Business School of the forthcoming Social by Social handbook. It was a lot of fun, and since Andy was doing an excellent job of facilitating, and Amy was mentoring the groups, I was able to capture proceedings on video.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

We’ll be facilitating a conversation, more than doing a formal presentation, and will focus on the power of crowdsourcing (using our own case study from conducting the Social Media for Social Good case study competition) and the application of social media in nonprofit program delivery. (We’ll Crowdsourcing for Social Change.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

There are a couple recent webinars to review as well, including Best Practices for Data Visualization and Connections & Opportunities for data and the cloud. This is really just a sampling of the resources already available for whatever your 2013 technology resolutions may be. So be in touch!

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

In my first blog , I mentioned that the very first step in configuring QuickBooks is to have a QuickBooks implementation meeting, and I recommended using a questionnaire to facilitate the meeting and act as a centerpiece. A sample listing of programs for a nonprofit might look something like this: General. Elder Day Care. Soup Kitchen.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

In my first blog post , I mentioned that the very first step in configuring QuickBooks is to have a QuickBooks implementation meeting, and I recommended using a questionnaire to facilitate the meeting and act as a centerpiece. See [link] for a sample implementation questionnaire that you can use for this purpose. SUGGESTED METHOD #2.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 23, 2009

I’m really looking forward to the 2 June event for London Net Tuesday where David Wilcox, Andy Gibson and I will facilitate a new iteration of the Social by Social Game! It will be a mix of collaboration and competition that should give you lots of practical ideas that you can use in your own projects.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 5, 2015

That expedited route includes fostering entrepreneurship by facilitating the introduction of product and service “ rough drafts ” to customers, and then, based on feedback, swiftly adjusting—or dumping—them. Do more than believe: practice. He draws on his work with many talented entrepreneurs (the founder of Yahoo!

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 10, 2009

The “State of Mobile” topical sessions will be facilitated by leaders in both the NGO and private-sector-sphere. Sessions promise to cover leading theories and practices. Blow your mind. 2billion people are carrying mobile phones every day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise." When do you as the wiki facilitator get out of the way? However, we may be thinking of about it slightly different - a facilitative curator versus community driven curation.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Outside of NetSquared, I am a trainer, blogger and facilitator as well as the co-author of Social by Social: a practical guide to using technology for social impact. I’m also a contributor to Socialbrite, NTEN, Women Who Tech and other industry leading collaborations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

It is a fantastic laboratory to take some of the ideas in the book and put in them into a practice. Sharing Insights Around Practice. Here’s quick sampling: LA Universal Preschool. One of the themes in the book, The Networked Nonprofit , is the importance of doing experiments.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Despite the generic title, this is a report chock full of examples, best practices and data about the effects of joining the conversation online. One organization had particular success using Twitter to facilitate its state policy work.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 14, 2017

If there is a gap between what the organization is currently doing and what it needs to do, the organization must commit to providing the time to research best practices and invest in the technology and personnel to move forward. 4 examples of how software can facilitate strong internal controls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

If you can't wait, read Alexandra Samuel's " Best Practices for Social Networking Nonprofits ," a guest post on Katya Andresen's Nonprofit Marketing Blog. Giving Anonymously facilitates person to person philanthropy. Hat tip Amy Sample Ward for discovering it!). The summary: most big charities are based on direct mail.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

Best Practices: From @davidahood: Still strongly believe that there has to be an element of face to face/on the ground connection to any successful engagement and mobilisation of any community. Our “job&# is to facilitate that action and make it easier for them to participate. Inspire, empower and facilitate to take action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

The summaries are more focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. Amy Sample Ward writes about the new plugin launched by Social Actions that will place ???possibly It's a platform that facilitates in-kind contributions of services. Do you remember the Grasshopper and the Ant Fable ?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

If an applicant gets an interview, ask him or her to bring along a few writing samples. If you’re hiring a grant writer, request samples of grants he’s written. If you’re hiring an operations manager, request samples of strategic plans , program assessments, board reports, or other documents she’s written.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 9, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase your donor lifetime value. Master personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase your donor lifetime value. . They actually cost you money !

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Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

A platform for museum staff to serve as facilitators of safe spaces for difficult conversations? The Living Library was conceived in Denmark in 2000 as a way to engage youth in dialogue about ending violence by encouraging people to meet their prejudices and fears in a safe, fun, facilitated environment.

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