Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Topic : Technology and Social Impact. 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. Conference wiki: [link]. Hashtag: #tsg2011.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2010

Social by Social : a handbook for using new technologies for social impact that I co-authored last year. We Are Media : this wiki is another excellent source of information and examples of social media for social impact compiled by the nonprofit technology community. Let me know what you think!

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2009

This also applies well to what a lot of our clients who are focused on accomplishing - trying to have their policy analysis content reach the widest possible audiences and have the largest possible impact. with content in editable format (ie a wiki) to allow real user engagement. Other ideas for enhancing idea discoverability?

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2007

Welcoming the Wiki: "A more interesting question is the impact Wikipedia might have on other technology companies. Will the example of Wikipedia help our tech employees to become more friendly?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Here's a clip of Joe Trippi explaining how web media tools are impacting political campaigns and movements. Wikis The Commons is a free collaborative online newsmagazine about non-profits that serve the Silicon Valley, the people behind them, and the people that they help. Meanwhile, library geeks are talking about tagging.

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Care2

JULY 16, 2008

60) Search « Webinar: Using Email to Engage Activists, Cultivate Donors | Main | Three Tips: How to Harness the Power of Video for Nonprofits » Wednesday Jul 16 2008 Bring Your Idea to Life at Social Actions Wiki Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 10:00AM | by Hatef Yamini Got ideas? Your ideas and feedback will make a real impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2011

Slightly more mature practice for measuring business results vs social impact. Kathy shared one of those experiments, The Organizational Effective Program wiki. They put information about their program, things they have learned and resources they like out on the wiki. ″ philanthropy.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

As a community organizer and network weaver myself, I am incredibly excited by the #OccupyWallStreet movement that started in New York just over three months ago now (on September 17th) in response to a failing federal economy and political process that impact local, national, and international markets. How To: Use Tech to Organize Today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Note from Beth: I was thrilled that Paul Connolly agreed to write a guest post sharing some of the public learning taking place through the OE Goldmine Project on the Packard Foundation OE Wiki. To see and comment on the comprehensive set of results, visit the foundation’s wiki.) Do you disagree with any of our interpretations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2011

I noticed that Jenny Ambrozek , someone who thinks deeply about networks in a business context, re-tweeted one of my musings on network leadership skill sets. She pointed me to her fabulous deck and wiki on the topic. Going through her wiki connected me back to the thought leaders in this area, like Patti Anklam.

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Care2

JULY 17, 2008

60) Search « Webinar: Using Email to Engage Activists, Cultivate Donors | Main | Three Tips: How to Harness the Power of Video for Nonprofits » Wednesday Jul 16 2008 Bring Your Idea to Life at Social Actions Wiki Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 10:00AM | by Hatef Yamini Got ideas? Your ideas and feedback will make a real impact.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

It’s now been a few months and I wanted to check in on the status of the platform, the impact it’s had on communities using the tool and organizations supporting those groups. is that there is a wiki and polls feature that isn’t available on ning. Yes, although grou.ps can be a little clunkier.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I am looking forward to the next chapter of work which will continue to focus on networks, but how they can be used by nonprofit for learning that leads to greater impact. Stay tuned. The idea of using social media for social impact was still pretty new, though it was certainly playing a pretty big role in the Presidential election.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Coordinated Universal time Topic: measuring impact on social media. Check out this how-to in TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki and watch the video below. Coordinated Universal time Topic: online activism and social media use in times of crisis. San Francisco, California, Unitied States 10:00 a.m. Pacific time / 5:00 p.m.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2014

According to the Project VRM wiki: "VRM tools provide customers with both independence from vendors and better means for engaging vendors. Searls also wrote The Cluetrain Manifesto , a business book about the impact of the Internet on commercial marketplaces and organizations. VRM: A Quick Explainer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2005

is/will impact nonprofits. What on earth is a Wiki? Emerging Technology forum www.techsoup.org/web2event The topic is how Web 2.0 Some of the questions: *What do we mean by Web 2.0? How can you use an RSS feed to get pushed information as well as to push your content to others? How is it better than the old-fashioned Web site?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

So for this post, I'd like to share 5 fundraising trends that we saw emerging in 2009 related to fundraising and social media and that will most definitely continue to have impact in 2010." " GetMiro.com is an open-source, non-profit video player and podcast client, check out the tool here: [link].

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

HOW TO: Turn Slacktivists into Activists with Social Media – "Throughout the non-profit world, organizations struggle with social media’s impact on the volunteer and donor cycle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Learning Analytics comes from a report about the impact of emerging technologies for practitioners in a field. To create the report, an international body of experts in education, technology, and other fields convene on a wiki to review research, practice, and significant trends. Learning and Knowledge Analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Research about the physical space can impact learning, can be found here. The course is about how to leverage networks and social media for learning and impact. I most often have to hack the space. Or you could use them to divide the room.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Blogs, wikis, social network platforms, forums, chats: aka user generated content, conversations, communities. BrightGreenLiving wiki: crowdsourced knowledge. The ability to maintain a certain process or state. We’re really talking about using no more resources than we can replenish. What is social media? - Jon Lebkowsky.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

The US Department of Education recognized that Parent Centers could increase their impact through technology and allotted funding for 8 pilot centers that represent the cross section of abilities in the network to test a technology model. The TLI wiki is enabling us to meet all of our goals. Fast forward to Jan.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2009

I've done a number of presentations and workshops for arts organizations over the years and have even created a wiki " Social Media for Arts People " with stories, links, and other resources, but haven't spoken to arts organizations recently. It was a good opportunity to see how things have changed.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 7, 2013

In late September at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New York, Autodesk launched the Autodesk Technology Impact program. You’ll be asked to clearly demonstrate that the use of Autodesk software will increase the impact of your ideas and innovations. To apply, simply complete and submit a brief online application.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2013

Paying it forward and Impact Rising – Guest Post by Christi Tran. Interactive community : Engage with others in this work, via a discussion forum , articles , blog and wiki (hosted by the Packard Foundation).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2011

This week I attended Center for Effective Philanthropy’s conference “ Better Philanthropy: From Data to Impact &# where I participated on a discussion panel about social media, foundations, and grantees. How and to what extent can we quantify impact, its staff, and their outcomes.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Check out this how-to in TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki and watch the video below. Sarah is interested in the intersection of online and offline communities, helping organizations use the power of the web to make an impact in society. Please visit the site to view this video). About Sarah Washburn.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

The environmental impact of working collaboratively online is to reduce travel. Wikispaces : Wikis are a new type of website that allows multiple people to add or modify content. The most famous wiki is of course Wikipedia. Why Is Online Collaboration Green?

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Care2

MARCH 12, 2011

Looking for the latest resources and data around the earthquake and Tsunami, check out Crisis Commons wiki. Microsoft also said it has begun providing free temporary software licenses to all impacted customers, partners, non-profits, governments and institutions involved in disaster relief efforts,&# according to VentureBeat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2008

Blogs are not the only social tools that can have more impact than just relying on email, check out: Instead of sending an email??? Speaking of other tools, Stewart Mader, of Wiki Patterns, is running a series, " 21 Days of Wiki Adoption. " Day 2 is a discussion of wiki versus email. and Office 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

So I thought I’d share some details on how the exchange worked, and some insights the group learned that helped them increase their impact. To meet people where they already are, we created a Facebook group and wiki site to share information. What impact did all this have on communities?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2009

I've done a number of presentations and workshops for arts organizations over the years and have even created a wiki " Social Media for Arts People " with stories, links, and other resources, but haven't spoken to arts organizations recently. It was a good opportunity to see how things have changed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2011

So, when I heard that the Foundation Center and the Center for Effective Philanthropy were hosting an event “Transparency and Effectiveness,” I was curious, especially given the speakers and the framing: Foundations are pressed to be more transparent about how they work andmore effective about achieving impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Some techniques I'm using for workshops that have become standard for me: Wikitation: A wikitation (word coined by Allan Levine, Cogdog Blog) is a wiki that you use to share you presentation slides and links. I used the wiki to take notes and add resources on the fly that come up during Q/A. The tools aligned to the components.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

These points and the full #4Change conversation are applicable to the Climate Change movement, but also to many social impact sectors and the campaigns reaching around the world. These three lessons focus on what is successful, unique or important about using social media for the Climate Change movement (or any social impact area).

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

How does the community see their impact and influence on your station? Google Analytics for your Wiki. How is your station creating ways for the community to actually inform the services or programs or content you provide and create? Using Social Media. Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission. 5 Step Social Media Strategy.

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