Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 9, 2009

Great questions: Social media is becoming a key driver of social change, allowing for the dissemination of new ideas, the formation of new communities and coalitions and the realization of new efficiencies and reach by existing social change groups. 4Change will be structured around a series of questions which all participants can respond to.

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OCTOBER 21, 2011

This week, she posted the answers to the top ten questions she receives on her topic of expertise: content strategy. The 2011 Nonprofit Software Development Summit is being held on Novemeber 16th, 17th, and 18th in Oakland.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

This is where it a good idea once you have come up with a list of ”associated metrics” that are logically linked to your KPI and Results or Goals, to ask a few questions. How useful are these metrics to making decisions? Will anyone else in the organization care?

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

He was recently named 2009 Young Professional of the Year by the Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. Jose sits on various economic development boards: the Oakland Workforce Investment Board, the Bay Area Business Advisory Board of Directors for the Consulate General of Mexico in San Francisco, and the OneCalifornia Bank Advisory Board.

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MAY 7, 2007

Say firmly: 'We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies, Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, For caresses and applause. Last year Oakland's homicide rate reached a five-year high of 148 people. NJN was created to give Oakland a place to share stories and to connect and develop solutions.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 11, 2013

Events like ReWrite Oakland (read Sarah Washburn of TechSoup for Libraries/Caravan Studios' recap of the event here ) and the [freespace] hackathon in San Francisco were more focused on swapping ideas than programming. They can ask questions, point out scenarios, and describe the actual users for the developers.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 13, 2015

He currently lives in Oakland, California with his girlfriend and three cats. _. Don’t be afraid to include blunt, open-ended questions. Chad Reid is Director of Communications for JotForm , a popular online form building tool and has previously worked for several nonprofits.

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

What are excellent practices and what questions are good to ask when you want to create a thriving community while maintaining your organizational effectiveness? John then shared some excellent practices, which we detail here, along with some helpful questions to guide you. Two Community Stories. LikeMinded. So we asked. Conversation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 20, 2007

Here's my blurb: I grew up in Mystic, CT (the town Mystic Pizza was based on) and live in Oakland, CA. Most asked question: Is that your real name? Even if you aren't going to BlogHer, you can still continue the meme. I'm a Leo who shares a birthday with Bill Clinton, Orville Wright and Kyra Sedgewick. My maiden name is Aageson.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Between the internet strategy teleseminar for the San Francisco Writing Conference I did on Monday, the blogging presentation I did for the Oakland branch of Ladies Who Launch on Tuesday, and the consults I had with individual bloggers on Wednesday and Thursday, I've been asked several times this week: "How do I increase my blog traffic?"

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AUGUST 6, 2008

Last week I announced a new weekly feature that I'm trying out on Have Fun * Do Good, Ask Britt , where you send in questions related to career design for artists and activists, and I'll do my best to answer them. This week's question is: My husband has recently linked up with a friend to buy a second hand bookstore.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Last week fifty people squeezed into the Marcus Bookstore in Oakland to hear young women share their stories, their rants, and their issues from a new collection of women's writing, We Got Issues! Buying fair trade coffee and family farm-raised food is casting my vote. We Got Issues!

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AUGUST 29, 2010

You answered a question by writing this book, so what's the next question that you want to answer? City Slickers Farm is taking over a park, with the support of the city of Oakland. They're going to be growing some food in one of the downtown West Oakland parks, which is pretty exciting. What's next on the trail?

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MAY 31, 2011

I was joined by Lori Fogarty (ED of the Oakland Museum of California), Adam Lerner (ED and Chief Animator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver), and Beck Tench (Director for Innovation and Digital Engagement at the Museum of Life and Science). This leads to the funny problem of answering the questions at the top of this post.

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APRIL 18, 2011

In a recent post , Nina quoted Neil Postman's description of a museum as "an answer to a fundamental question: what does it mean to be a human being?" This image of opening night at the Oakland Museum of California, April 2010, is by photographer Daniel Kokin. As one of Wendy's t'ai chi teachers says, "You know it.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

The organization has a staff of 40 across three offices (Washington DC, New York City, and Oakland, California). My first question of course was, "How does that work with three offices, 40 employees, and thousands of volunteers to keep track of in nearly every country?" I spoke to 350.org

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MARCH 21, 2012

I used to think these were easy questions to answer. At the museum of art and history where I work, we are grappling with the question of how to help people enjoy themselves while keeping the art and artifacts safe. What if you want to create a more generous atmosphere that presumes the goodwill and propriety of visitors?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 24, 2007

Reem Rahim is the Co-founder and Vice President of Marketing of the Oakland-based green business Numi Tea. My brother and I started Numi about seven years ago, from here in Oakland, California, and we started in my small apartment up the street, near Piedmont Avenue. Britt: Oakland needs more businesses like Numi.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

Washington DC, New York City, and Oakland, California). My first question of course was, "How does that work with three offices, 40 employees, and thousands of volunteers to keep track of in nearly every country?" The organization has a staff of 40 worldwide and also three offices in the U.S. I spoke to 350.org

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JULY 13, 2009

featuring me (as well as the fabulous Lori Fogarty of the Oakland Museum of California). This concept has spawned a question I like to obsess over: What would a museum look like that got better the more people used it? Sometime this week, please think about this question and share your response here as a comment.

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DECEMBER 12, 2006

Ingrid Severson is the lead project organizer of the Rooftop Resources project, a project of the Oakland non-profit Bay Localize. We're choosing a one half-square mile region of Oakland. We're going to choose a region of Oakland that has all the criteria of the buildings we're looking to show.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

During those two years, not only has the used computer market been in question, but also there has been major buzz in the IT press about whether or not we're entering a “post PC” era. This is an update of a TechSoup article we posted online in September 2009. Nor are those rumors anything new.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

People lining the street on the Tuesday afternoon when the boards arrived from the Port of Oakland, cheering as the crates came off the truck. Here's my question for today: Have you seen an object or work of art become relevant and powerful for a short time or in a particular context? When you hit both these notes, people respond.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

The audience will have ample opportunity to ask questions and respond. Accessing sustainable food is easier with for mobile access to databases (Seafood Watch), delivery of hyper local foods (Spud.com), online links for farmers and buyers (Roots of Change), and maps of food grown in your neighborhood (Forage Oakland). With snacks!

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 13, 2008

Then I'd say number five is how interesting and funny the media and general public are because so many people found the story so compelling and interesting that six months after I stopped it, I'm still talking about it regularly, and people are asking questions. laughs] I love that that is one of the most popular questions.

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APRIL 25, 2008

I also feel challenged by the question of what gender and feminism mean to young women of color in this day and age. We are based in Oakland, but we do work nationally, and in many cases globally, but our funding is always under constraints. Locally, we run a project called the Technology Empowerment Project of Oakland.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2008

We use journalism because it is a very empowering profession, enabling people to become the "question askers" in their societies. Our office in Kigali is sort of in a state of question right now. We go on our gut instinct from people's answer to that one question, and then there is literacy testing involved as well.

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JANUARY 30, 2009

Jennifer is a certified coach, artist and yogini based in Oakland, California. All of those doubts and questions, that is the gremlin. I think for any job, it's great to go and talk to people who are doing it now, ask them questions, and get to know what their challenges were and how they made the transition.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 22, 2008

I work with a medicine woman from Oakland. I didn't really question the 29 days. We ask you a few, very simple questions like, "Why are you choosing to give? You will be a member of the community within a minute, if you take the time to answer those questions. My marriage was under a lot of stress because of all of this.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Peter Campbell, Director of Information Technology at Earthjustice in Oakland, reviewed several drafts and added his insights. Some questions I've asked myself in these situations: How do you contribute at meetings or other interactions with decision-makers? I’ve organized these tips around the traits Ms. Kaufman identified.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 9, 2007

The three Bay Area municipalities, along with Oakland and San Francisco (who haven't placed their orders yet) have all signed-on to be part of Plug-In Bay Area, an initiative to put more plug-in hybrid vehicles on the road. In October the City of Berkeley soft ordered 40 plug-ins and in December the city of Alameda soft ordered 98.

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JUNE 22, 2006

So the question on the table is, is what is and who is Back to Earth. We started taking youth from inner cities, of places like Oakland and East Palo Alto, into the woods. There really wasn't ever a question on whether that was something that was going to manifest or not. Ari: Hello. So you just, you need to be there.

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JUNE 3, 2012

I gave this sermon this morning at First Congregational Church of Oakland. . You can ask questions of your fear. Today's reading, from Romans 8, verses 12 through 15 (from the SENT translation ) says: . "So So the conclusion, brothers and sisters is this. We have no obligation to the flesh: we don't have to live in line with it.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

That's a great question and it's very true. Just here in the Bay Area we have local things like, Oakland Local , Oakland Seen , and Spot.us. I'm so excited," and then after awhile they're like, "You know, I can't do this pro bono anymore." Or, you have to grow to a demand. I feel like it's in the collective consciousness.

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APRIL 24, 2007

Paul Rice, the founding president and CEO of the Oakland based nonprofit, TransFair USA , answers these questions and others in an interview for the Big Vision Podcast. What difference does a cup of Fair Trade coffee make? What is Starbucks relationship with Fair Trade? You can read a transcript of the podcast below.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

This is a question I've been puzzling over now for a few months, both professionally and personally. Sometimes these innovations are woven into the institutional core programming, as at the redesigned, highly interactive Oakland Museum of California. Maybe it's a live music concert, or a museum visit, or a play. You have a great time.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 3, 2012

I gave this sermon this morning at First Congregational Church of Oakland. . You can ask questions of your fear. Today's reading, from Romans 8, verses 12 through 15 (from the SENT translation ) says: . "So So the conclusion, brothers and sisters is this. We have no obligation to the flesh: we don't have to live in line with it.

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