Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

When you’re looking to launch a new outcomes-centered strategy , start with these three steps and sample scripts to ensure you’re heading in the right direction. . Here’s your sample script for Step 1 : . Here’s your sample script for Step 2: . Here’s your sample script for Step 3: . Don’t go in blind.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 16, 2011

"As of May 13, 2011, we are releasing the code for our community software platform, the Zanby Enterprise Group Family System, under a GPLv3 license. Since then, the site has collected 57,384 comments, or “voices,&# from people around the world, via SMS, Twitter, and on the Demand Dignity website. "

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Care2

JULY 11, 2013

For example, one of the case studies that Amy Sample Ward and I profiled in the mobile section of our book Social Change Anytime Everywhere was about “Missed Calls” as an organizing strategy. NP Voices: Steve MacLaughlin over at Blackbaud recently launched a great podcast series for nonprofit practitioners.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2013

The third and latest episode of npVOICES has come out featuring Mark Rovner and Alia McKee of Sea Change Strategies, and NTEN''s new CEO, Amy Sample Ward. Sign up for the event or learn more here. We will also discuss best practices for building a thriving healthy community. gotomeeting.com/register/352609216 Kovida.IS

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Do you need share of voice metrics requiring vast amounts of competitive data from across the web? ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” There is not much value in the raw data unless you have the tools and skills to synthesize it. Do you need annual reports, or will monthly reports suffice? Does the data need to be exportable?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2015

Amy Sample Ward — CEO, NTEN. Voice over IP phones are probably the most important (and least utilized) technology for that purpose. Then the key disaster preparedness concern becomes communication, not system and data preservation. We currently use Google Voice for this. Here's what they said.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Anyone in or outside of Haiti could use the tool via the web or on a mobile phone to make reports with voice, text or video; the reports were then mapped and sources verified. The Matcher — They’ve engineered a system that matches faces of missing people to faces in news photos that we’ve sorted with the image tagger above.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

Practical/tactical stuff like processes and systems is easy to fix. Inviting a guest speaker can invigorate your Board members and introduce new ideas from a new voice that may resonate with them. And it will save your sanity, too, because you can spend your precious meeting time talking about things that matter. Show a video.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2019

He spoke to them as humans (not with a baby voice), and he seemed like he was happy to see us. My children particularly loved watching a technician/ scientist work on processing an avian taxidermy sample. I don’t have the answer, but I have been trying to find systemic ways to embed wellness into the ways we run our museums.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. VozMob: Mobile Voices/Voces Moviles. Mobile Voices offers an open-source multi-media platform optimized for low-cost mobile phones that lets users create, share, and reflect on stories about their lives and communities. Tags: amy sample ward mobile devices netsquared Newsletter NPTech NTEN.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

If we focus our work on feeding the hungry, for example, do we actually create a system in which we rely on people needing our services? I have talked many times before about the way we as nonprofit organizations and changemakers set our goals. (If What would happen, instead, if organizations focused on eliminating hunger?)

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

government is working on a new warning system to replace their oft criticized five-color coded terror index, and according to a new document obtained by The Associated Press, they're turning to Facebook and Twitter." What is this new network-centric world? What does it mean for community change?"

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. How can we do that? What's Changing?

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Haiti Disaster Social Media Media 82

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. View more presentations from Amy Sample ward. It’s also a good idea to use a content management system to manage your website’s content and updates, like Wordpress , Joomla , and Squarespace. The sessions are short (only 50 minutes!) Read the full case study here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

But what if you could take a systems approach to social fundraising that would leverage social fundraising done by individual organizations and give it focus? If the dollar amounts for campaigns are modest, why invest the effort? They don’t often value community engagement as a metric for success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

The system we have designed addresses how to capture, analyze and assess what matters. The idea itself is tested by the immune system of the wider community. With enough individual stories, the system “tips” and the Mainstream accept the Story. . Their stories contain the issues that matter. Alan Deutschman – Walk the Walk.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Podcasting is a storytelling medium; use it as the voice for your organization’s most compelling stories. There are several services that allow you to create a podcast directly by leaving a voice message recording. This practice will help your voice sound more natural to your first listeners. Tools and Resources.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

CCTV first got involved with social media in 2005 when we switched our website’s content management system over to Drupal. If you are interested in supporting community voices in media, please consider connecting to CCTV in person or through our social media platforms listed above. You can also follow us on Friendfeed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, organizer of London Net Tuesday, who connects nonprofits with new media technologies. And a thank-you to the coders at Intense Debate for the commenting system we settled on. Please add your voice — tell us what conversations, articles and resources you’d like to see on Socialbrite.org in the months ahead.

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

By Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN. Over 180 people with over 635,000 total followers signed up to participate by authorizing Epic Change to post via their Twitter account using JustCoz , an online relay system that lets you donate a tweet a day to help raise awareness for causes that matter to you.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

rootwork : Key element for success, to me, is allowing ppl to speak in own voice, e.g. [link] was abt ppl, not an org. zerostrategist : Q6: Do the best u can to setup automated systems to capture metrics, look at the numbers, but don’t obsess over them or the ROI. realize_ink : Q3: specific ask.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore View more presentations from Amy Sample ward. Its also a good idea to use a content management system to manage your websites content and updates, like Wordpress , Joomla , and Squarespace. Websites, Email & Constituent Management from Laura Quinn: Your website is you, online.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2007

There are plenty of people on the "these ADD boneheads have finally gone too far" bandwagon (see this representative sample from USA Today), as well as some legitimate concerns about how twitter is the ultimate example of the way that 2.0's But it also can be used as a quick broadcasting system for the museum itself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

And because you probably can't eat that much - unless, of course, you're Joey Chestnut - you put many small samples on your plate instead. So, here's a few samplings from my digital buffet. You can read a case study about the winner of the first contest here. Global Voices Bloggers Mentor Others. Inspiration.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

And if you’re interested in that, maybe you’re shopping for a new system this year, check us out. Am I going to be that scattered fundraising spray fire system or am I going to be a funder magnet?” That’s what Bloomerang is, that’s what we do. Visit our website. You can choose Sandy. One of them is Sandy.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

And if you’re interested in that, maybe you’re shopping for a new system this year, check us out. Am I going to be that scattered fundraising spray fire system or am I going to be a funder magnet?” So when we talk about wasting time, here’s a sample of the numbers that I see with folks in terms of how they’re spending their time.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 12, 2010

Thrivability is our path out of unsustainable practices toward a world where all people have a high quality of life, a voice, and a nurturing earth supporting them. Using whole systems approach, we evolve our way of being together, of collaborating, so that our collective wisdom and action bring forth a flourishing world and thriving life.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

You can even automate this process with an integrated fundraising system. Use your fundraising system to automate your donors’ names from your CRM and address your emails to real people. Videos, on the other hand, make it possible to add music and give a voice to your beneficiaries so they can share their own stories.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The individual sites, which are now live, provide an important opportunity for citizens to have their voice heard on open government. The students would prepare for the contest using a series of online practice modules and mobile phone based applications that would test the students on sample questions. Vote for this Idea].

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Or maybe you’re really looking for larger scale, a change, right, systems-level policy advocacy change. Make sure that you share that plan back with them and you let them know that their voice helped to impact this plan and here’s how they continue to stay involved. . For data collection, there’s a few types.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

The Android mobile operating system is dominant around the world with a more than 50 percent market share. They’ll be voice- or gesture-controlled. Perhaps more alarming is the report's finding that mobile advertising opportunities remain largely untapped. There’s plenty of room for yet more advertising on our phones.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 7, 2010

Mastery of new technologies and ownership of expensive equipment must not become pre-requisites for engagement in e-participation." " Tags: roundup blogging bookmarks comments democracy engagement fundraising gov2.0

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Conversation is the key, and we’re starting to give our supporters individual voices to hear while at the same time getting to know them. That’s otherwise known as a reliable banking system. Tuesday, December 9, 2008 at 10:32 am | Permalink Amy Sample Ward wrote: Great list, Steve! Poverty has many causes.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

Julia: All right, so all systems go. I’m going to show you some sample social media posts. Julia: If you’re not using Canva, what are you doing with your life? Steven: You got to do it. It’s my homepage. Julia: I will talk about it at the end. All right, am I good to go? Steven: Yes. I will keep an eye on the chat.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2008

But there are other times when the message isn't simple, and in those cases, visitor voices can help strategically shape multi-dimensional exhibitions. It can be uncomfortable or downright limiting to declare yourself and your single voice the authority on a complex or multi-faceted topic. Do you think he’s worth nominating? ”

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