Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

I enjoyed designing and facilitating this session because I had five awesome presenters who have a depth of knowledge about the topics we discussed. ” @ brianreich #sxsw #npsmpeer #nptech — Amy Sample Ward (@amyrsward) March 10, 2013. “You have to break the rules.” Beth Kanter, Learning from Failure.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 28, 2023

Facilitate the process : Make it easy for donors to include your nonprofit in their estate plans. Most impactful is having sample bequest language that donors can share with their legal advisors. Recognizing their contribution can inspire others and foster a sense of belonging and appreciation within your organization.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? Whoever’s hosting facilitates the discussion using the @CommBuild account. commbuild Community community building community engagement online chats twitter twitter chats Communications'

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

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. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. day conference was split into two tracks for IT and NGO, sometimes meeting separately, sometimes coming together to collaborate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2013

I have the honor of designing and facilitating three sessions, including a plenary on my favorite topic – learning from failure. Beth Kanter will facilitate this session with a panel of nonprofit tech leaders and the community – and special surprise guests who will join us via video. April 13, 2013 – 8:30-10:00.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 28, 2020

Event gamification elements, like a virtual scavenger hunt, can go a long way to facilitating networking at your virtual event. Send a small bottle of wine, ingredients for a custom cocktail, or a craft beer sample. These ideas can increase attendee engagement and help ensure a successful virtual event! Virtual Networking Ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Here is a Sample Six-Month Planning Timeline to help you get started. This Sample Budget Template provides a more detailed expense breakdown and can be used to start your Giving Day budget. None of this can be done effectively without systematic planning upfront – and that takes time. How much staff time is involved?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Join me for a chat on #GivingTuesday, TODAY December 3 at 9:00 am PST with NTEN CEO, Amy Sample Ward. I’ll be facilitating the Knight Foundation Peer Exchange for local GivingDays, a group of Community Foundation partners that are hosting Giving Days using the Giving Day Playbook and hearing a lot of lessons learned from Nov.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. I facilitated a modified version of the Social by Social game, created to focus on the 4 strategic points highlighted int he presentation: Who’s the community, where’s the sweet spot, what tools could help, which roles are needed. Be sure to watch their space for more!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

This post summarizes the sessions I facilitated or participated in related to “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” which included a book signing, panel discussion in the Beacon Lounge , and a workshop with co-author KD Paine. This is the last post in a series of post about my experience at SXSW.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? Whoever’s hosting facilitates the discussion using the @CommBuild account. commbuild Community community building community engagement online chats twitter twitter chats Communications'

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, Community Development Manager, TechSoup Global. Over the last few of years I've had a the opportunity to work with a team of intelligent and thoughtful colleagues, speak at conferences, and collaborate with other facilitators and community builders. Tags: amy sample ward NPTech NTEN Program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

Connectivity helps facilitate highly distributed groups of people to work on a campaign, project, or share ideas that spread with unprecedented velocity and reach. Here’s a sampling of just a few: How do you create ideas that the crowd embraces, makes stronger, and spreads?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Explore common pitfalls and ask questions of our experts including: Amy Sample Ward, NTEN Membership Director. Whether it is by connecting individuals, organizations, campaigns, or possibilities, Amy hopes to facilitate the nonprofit technology sector transtioning into a movement-based force for positive change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2011

For the past four years, I’ve designed and facilitated panels on social media and nonprofit topics that were fun learning experiences and well documented. Amy Sample Ward, NTEN. Hope you’ll consider a vote for our session. In 2008, we wore funny hats to go with the theme of our panel. Devon Smith. Chad Norman, Blackbaud.

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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.”

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

Here's where I'll be (the links are to MyNTC, the social community site for the conference): New to NTC Orientation (9-10:30 am Thursday) - As an NTEN Member Ambassador, I'll be helping NTEN's fabulous new Membership Director Amy Sample Ward (a perfect choice for this job, don't you think?) I love it.

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

One person in the group facilitates and the rest of the groups participates. It can also be used in the middle of a project or strategy to learn while doing. The process is simple. You ask and answer these questions: What was the intent? What actually happened? Why did it happen? What was learned?

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

Here's where I'll be (the links are to MyNTC, the social community site for the conference): New to NTC Orientation (9-10:30 am Thursday) – As an NTEN Member Ambassador, I'll be helping NTEN's fabulous new Membership Director Amy Sample Ward (a perfect choice for this job, don't you think?) I love it.

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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. Instructional Design Notes.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

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 for determining key stakeholders and ultimate goals for using QuickBooks effectively at your organization.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 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. He draws on his work with many talented entrepreneurs (the founders of Yahoo! Schroeder calls this The LeanModel Framework.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

In order to ensure the work and concepts that emerged throughout the workshops had a launch pad, we created the Idea Accelerator as the final day’s focus, pushing those ideas into possibilities.”.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Community Managers ensure successful engagement and participation on a new platform by facilitating discussion, modeling behavior, and supporting leadership development. Community Managers provide key facilitation that empowers participation and engenders trust.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2010

And little did I know that Amy Sample Ward and Stacey Monk were planning one hell of a surprise party! I noticed dozens of these connections and facilitated a few. For now, enjoy Amy Sample Ward's reflection on crowdsourcing a surprise party ! He helped me with reaching my influencers on Twitter.

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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 ).

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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. As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m facilitating peer exchange groups on measuring the networked nonprofit with 60 grantees.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Following a point-counterpoint tradition, NTEN''s CEO Amy Sample Ward will facilitate a conversation with panelists Michael Enos, CTO, of the Second Harvest Food Bank, Gouri Sadhwani, CEO of the Akanksha Fund, and Rick Cohen, Director of Communications and Operations at the National Council of Nonprofits.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2010

Since co-authoring Social by Social last year, David Wilcox and I have had the opportunity to collaborate and facilitate various events for community and local government groups.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 6, 2011

Metzger Jeremy Robinson Judy Rosemarin They firmly believe that executive coaches achieve results by facilitating client discovery. The book features: engaging case studies of actual coaching challenges sample coaching documents a variety of useful tools self-assessment questions. Frisch Robert J. Lee Karen L.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I’ll be speaking, facilitating and assisting with the event. Description : The TSG Contributors’ Summit is a chance for the partner organizations, funders, sponsors and community leaders to come together to discuss new ideas, new opportunities, and new ways of leveraging technology for social impact. Hashtag: #tsg2011.

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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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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2015

After wrapping up our annual Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), NTEN’s CEO, Amy Sample Ward, and I quickly recharged for SXSW Interactive , where we partnered another year with Beaconfire to host the Beacon Lounge for social changemakers, and with the NonProfit Times to cover stories on the nonprofit technology sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2011

But this takes a different kind of management approach , rather than organize them, nonprofits need to facilitate Millennials to organize themselves. (Cat Finally, they have collaboration and networking skills that are in their DNA that they can bring to the nonprofit workplace. Cat herding skills?).

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