Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Community Mapping. Community Mapping helps you identify not just the various segments of your audience, but also create a clear picture of which tools/platforms are associated with those groups and which messages are best to target where. You can see an example of a dashboard by visiting my public Nonprofit Tech Dashboard.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Oxfam in Haiti – Google Maps – This is a great example of how you can use a tool like Google Maps to tell a story and provide easy access to information – great job Oxfam! "Oxfam How do you transform it into charts, graphs, and maps that will help your audience understand the data and move them to take action?

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 18, 2011

Mapping Trends in Philanthropy « NathanielJames.org – "Philanthropy is changing, and I want to contribute to creating the best of all possible worlds for the social sector. Today, I’m launching a series on Mapping Trends in Philanthropy, to share what I am learning and invite a conversation with leaders in the field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2010

I’m pleased about the positive reception of the big picture ideas and concepts in the book, I’m wildly enthusiastic about hearing from people as they put the ideas into practice ! For example, one of the concepts in the book is understanding social networks, social networking mapping, and network weaving.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

Laura Quinn outlines the process of how a folksonomy be developed into a taxonomy: "So for instance, because it's so easy for users to tag things with free-form keywords, let them do so. It would based on an analysis of all the "words" or tags that people have used to describe resources also bookmarked with nptech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

Over the past three years, I've been presenting on this topic , the thinking and practice has evolved from 'we can't measure social media or it doesn't yet provide a tangible return," to being able to have guidelines, metrics, and techniques for demonstrating the ROI. Tags: ROI. This week's theme is social media ROI.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 23, 2010

Beyond that, we’ll have to wait to see how the new functionality evolves for more best practices. I chose to Allow (obviously), but I also went into my Facebook Privacy Settings and made it so only I could post my location on Facebook, and that friends could not tag me in their Facebook Places “Check-ins&#.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 16, 2010

Miradi is a joint venture between Benetech and the Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP), a consortium of global environmental organizations committed to improving the practice of conservation. The program guides users through a series of step-by-step interview wizards, based on the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The webinar was designed to offer an overview of the basics, best practices and examples of successful social media integration. Here are two DIY guides for content and community mapping , you can do by yourself or with your whole organization: [link]. Social Media for Small Enterprises.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

The mashup was a map showing where people were volunteering in near-real-time. The real value to organizations is that they now have a dynamically updated map they can embed on their web site. So we are starting to map social entrepreneurs with the hopes that they might be able to make more of an impact working together than apart.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 24, 2022

In this blog post, TapKat shares their top 10 best practices for launching and promoting successful online sweepstakes. Before you launch the sweepstakes, map out your exact moves. In this case, the tracking URL has tag the source as a particular email blast. 1) Choose a Great Sweepstakes Prize.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

I didn't see that practically a week ago, Nancy White, tagged me with the NGO/NPO Memo. The Nptech and Net2 tags in flickr, delicious, and technorati are also good knowledge streams to dip into. (I You can jump down this particular Rabbit hole starting in my frappr and please put yourself on my map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

.” I started with a full-day workshop outside of Auckland called “The Networked NGO in New Zealand,” this workshop was for activist organizations and focused on strategy, measurement, and best practices for managing and implementing social media as a network. Space to Move Around. Pass the Ugly Doll in New Zealand.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Following the event, he had some very helpful insights to share, especially about crowdsourcing, an increasingly popular and effective practice for spurring new ideas and innovation. " Tags: Influence Collaboration Communication. Our CEO recently attended the Communications Network 2010 Conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. Day 3: Practical and Tactical Social Media.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 11, 2017

For example, if a nonprofit wants to raise awareness and engage volunteers for a neighborhood clean-up, they could drop a pin on the map around their planned location and target people who live in the area with an interest in the environment. Tap check in, and you’ll see options to tag friends, add photos, even solicit donations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Worst Practices: An experiment in failure-friendliness and peer learning. Online tools for capacity mapping and resource matching: The big picture. Online tools for capacity mapping and resource matching: The big picture. Tags: Conferences. Write A Powerful Story In 60 Minutes: The Hollywood Method. Serenity Now!

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 7, 2009

Social by Social: a practical guide to using new technologies to deliver social impact - the handbook I co-authored about using social media and communications technology to change the world! This book is a map of where these two words meet. Tags: resources socialbysocial casestudies handbook nesta resource socialmedia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments.

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NTEN

JULY 9, 2010

Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . always provides a great mix of theory and practice for us all: read this post for enlightenment and for some practical tools and tips to manage. Members are in bold.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

If you want to be see photos being posted to flickr via a moving and zooming map interface, check out flickrvision - it rhymes with twittervision. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Comparing 5 Ways To Tag Videos hit dig popular. Katya Andresen points us to " Story Telling As Best Practice " online free training with Andy Goodman.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Color theory, golden ratios, and hierarchy principles are rehearsed and practiced in design school and written about in magazines over and over again. As designers, we practice the rules until they become second nature. Good often equals a high price tag. We often think of design as objective and fundamental.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Tag your news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome, or contact Annaliese with your updates.). Ellie LaCasse wrote a great article for the MissionResearch GiftWorks newsletter about considerations and best practices for using technology to "Boost Volunteer Involvement and Satisfaction.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Last March, I wrote up some general notes about community engagement based on a mind-map I did at a #MuseumNext talk. Inclusion is the practice of breaking/ transforming barriers to include everyone. Written by Seema Rao I've written about Community Engagement often on my old blog, Brilliant Idea Studio. How do you define these terms?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Source: Foundation Center Focus on the Financial Crisis The map image above is an interactive map that displays the distribution of the most recent support by U.S. I set up a page to brainstorm some practical tips, strategies, and resources. foundations to aid those affected by the downturn. Drill down to see the details.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. This takes a lot of time because I'm not just browsing, but I'm doing a pattern analysis for best practices that I can incorporate into a presentation about social media principles and nonprofits.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Google Earth Outreach from Rebecca Moore: Google’s mapping tools may seem like an obscure tool to use in your work but these aren’t traditional maps: the new generation of mapping technology is fully interactive, enables storytelling, and more. (Did Google’s Mapping tools include: Google Earth.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

we cover best practices in planning for technology projects, providing tools to help you make smart decisions about where to invest those resources. Tags: liveblogging 09ntc it planning strategy. From the forthcoming NTEN book: Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission. Contact me: Peter Campbell psc @ techcafeteria.com.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

I'm in Kuwait for the 10th Annual Conference of the " Global Development Network ", a "global network of research and policy institutes that work on facilitating and applying research to policy development and practice." See the participants map of the world. Technorati Tag: GDNET09. Tags: Strategy.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 9, 2010

As organizations or community builders active online, working to practice and create quality engagement, we are often trying to guide, collect or herd conversations and interactions into spaces that we have created or monitor closely. I’ve talked before about how to map your community and the messages within it.

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2010

We admit that " 10 Practical Tips for Facebook Fan Pages " are probably better than 10 impractical tips, but think of the possibilities: "4. Tags: NPTech NTEN Things We Like. Harvest Fans' e-mail addresses by visiting each profile. Add them to your CRM. Message them about updates to your Fan page." Hand drawn!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Peter Plastrik and Madeleine Taylor co-wrote " Net Gains ," one of the first practical handbooks on building and working in networks for social change. Whether it is a network of organizations or individuals, this handbook provides a wealth of theory and practice on build, manage, and fine tune a network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2010

Networked Nonprofits are not only experts in using social media, but they know how to streamline their work flow often based on an understanding of applying network theory to their practice. Mention Map helps you visualize who is interacting with you around which hashtags. This can be useful to find potential collaborators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

The goal is to train over 150-250 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen, Morocco, and other countries and help them put social media skills into practice. Everyone was asked to share five words or “hash tags&# on sticky notes and place them on the wall. We created a network map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

I'd aggregate the responses to create a shared mental map. This exercise is most appropriate for people who want to know the what/why versus the best practices of how to do it. The point of that Hinchliffe makes about best practices for adoption of Enterprise 2.0 (or Tags: change management network effectiveness.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2013

YouTube branding, and free licensing for Google Earth and Maps. Google applies their hallmark innovation with apps like Google Maps Coordinate. Particularly, for a small nonprofit with few members who need to register and, Google for Nonprofits offers some truly unique and engaging tools such as Maps Coordinate for. Change.Org.

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