Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Have you spent days putting together a presentation for your board or a potential funder that highlights your work and impact? Maybe outlines how a new program is going to make a specific change to your community or the world. It’s also noteworthy the high percentage of business and organizational leaders using Slideshare.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 25, 2024

By Rob Leighton , Executive Director and Founder at iMission Institute – a social sector marketing agency and technology consulting firm specializing in helping nonprofits raise more money, fire up engagement, and streamline work. According to The Urban Institute, there are roughly 1.8 million nonprofits in the U.S. , Test both!

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Even though a small group of founders has started exploring Notion memos to replace pitch decks, the reality is that most investors will still expect a good old slide presentation. The following are slides that we constantly see founders struggle to solve. The most common reasons why these slides don’t work?

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NetWits

JULY 11, 2012

I recently gave a talk to a super engaged group of people who work in the education space as part of our Schools out for Summer Series - You can find out about upcoming sessions here. The other 12 are in the slides - Social Media for Schools: 22+ Ways to Stay Connected with Your Alumni on Facebook - located at the very bottom of this post.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

It was so much fun and it was an amazing experience to work with people like Chris Worman and meet with so many local nonprofit and community changemakers. The slides are below as well as some notes. In the slides, I highlighted some of the work of 350.org The Local Philanthropy Workshop: Facebook Campaigning in Romania.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

We just closed a $2 million dollar investment from a group of investors we couldn’t be more excited to be working with and I thought it might be helpful to share our process for how we created our investor presentation. Some investors say you should always put the Team slide first, while others say you should save it until the end.

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NetWits

APRIL 11, 2012

Check out the slides here. Beyond simply creating neat graphics, nonprofits are starting to seriously think about ways to use the data they have to visually show their work, impact and results. Check out the slides. If they don’t, consider outsourcing the work. I’m sure you’ve seen plenty (if not, here’s one ).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

It’s tempting to make overly sunny projections or copy what’s worked for others, but your pitch isn’t meant to impress — it’s supposed to show how well you understand the business you’re building and the space in which you’re operating. Use case/audience. 5 critical pitch deck slides most founders get wrong. Possible outcomes.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

What this means is if you know your presentation inside out, it’s more likely that you’ll give an even better presentation in front of a large audience than when you rehearsed alone or in front of a friend. I’ve been to many conferences where I see speakers organizing slides a few minutes before their talk. main topic 1. main topic 2.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

I normally separate my post-presentation blog posts and slides but think it will be valuable to group them together this time. A great example of this is when we talk about working with our communities. Defining Community. Remember, even once you get to this stage, you never stop listening or joining.

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Candid

MARCH 23, 2022

Yawns are contagious, and nothing makes an audience sleepier than to see that you are fighting not to slip into unconsciousness. . If you are lecturing, showing slides, otherwise not engaging the audience for more than 10 minutes, something needs to change. Launch a poll, ask for feedback, switch speakers, turn off the slides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2013

1) PowerPoint: Yes, I know, PowerPoint is a presentation tool. But it is the quickest and easiest way to create text overlay images because you can easily compose one in PowerPoint and export this single slide as a jpg image. It seems to only work with the Explorer browser). It tells you the percentage.

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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. Also humor, especially with props, works.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

Slides in this deck. 1 — Cover slide. 2 — Team highlights slide. 3 — Business cycle slide. 4 — Market size slide. 5 — Problem slide 1. 6 — Problem slide 2 (shows the price of equipment). 7 — Problem slide 3 (problem as experienced by equipment owners: under-utilized premium equipment).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Slides in this deck. Hour One raised its $20 million round with a tight 11-slide deck. Cover slide. “At a glance” summary slide. Solution slide. Market size slide. Value proposition slide. Value proposition slide. Product slide 1. Product slide 2. Case study slide.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 10, 2011

Topic : Email Campaigns: Know Your Audience and Get Results. Slides and notes. Date : May 10, 2011. Location : Nebraska. Description : Pressing “send” on an email campaign isn’t as easy as it used to be. These days, competition for inbox space is increasing. Meanwhile, the patience and time of email recipients is. Related Links : PRSA.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2023

Your first slide is obviously important for a pitch deck; first impressions count, and having a solid introduction goes a long way. It seems that founders often forget that the last slide is just as important. Companies are often give shorthand summaries of the businesses they’re working with. Are you Turo for caravans ?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Based on my experience, here’s how to avoid making the most common mistakes deep tech founders make when pitching investors: Work on your storytelling. Dedicate multiple slides to painting the picture of what society would look like should you meet all your intended milestones as a company. Highlight your big vision.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 4, 2012

If you can use your data to better understand your audience and your activities, you can not only improve your outreach, but you can work more effectively towards achieving your mission.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

In order to help you get the most out of yourself (and your audience) at your next presentation, I’ve come up with this guide to giving presentations. Things like limiting the number of words per slide (as recommended by Garr Reynolds in the highly regarded book Presentation Zen ) and making sure you know your material inside and out. .

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 11, 2009

An Ignite presentation is a five minute presentation, with 20 slides that change automatically every 15 seconds. It’s quite a rush, for the speaker and the audience alike!

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

” Think of the presenter the same way you think of slides in a deck. Folks in the audience can jump around between chunks and slides to catch up, or even view in a sped-up mode to consume more quickly. Presenters can see where folks in the audience are as they present or later on.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

If you can invest only 5 hours a week, then you will get the return on investment (ROI) from 5 hours of work. Many people today are overwhelmed by text, and photos and slide shows can often do better at communicating your message than text-heavy articles or blog posts. The truth is that you get out of social media what you put into it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2013

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation this year, I’m facilitating a peer learning group based on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” and the next session we are focusing on the sense-making step of measurement. Here’s what I discovered. (1) ” — Beth Kanter (@kanter) May 1, 2013. (4)

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

My slides covered the tools and apps for the back stage side of energizing your community. Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. Community Mapping.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2011

Below are my slides and a round-up of tips for getting started with a more engaged membership responding to your emails! Email Campaigns: Know Your Audience and Get Results. I shared results from the newest eNonprofit Benchmarks Study from NTEN and M+R Strategic Services. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Highlights.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Let’s dive in and figure out what works well and what comes across as a little bit wobbly. Slides in this deck. Five Flute raised its pre-seed round with a really interesting deck; it includes a number of slides that I rarely see in pitch decks, but the narrative flows well, and I can see why the company chose to include them.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Plus, it was remarkably frank with its numbers and slides, without any redactions. Slides in this deck. This 22-slide deck ain’t perfect, but it’s a great example of how a company can use storytelling to make a point. Cover slide. Case study teaser slide. Problem slide. Solution slide.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Pitching a dev tool in a way that tells the story well enough to understand but without dropping deep into a rabbit hole is a particularly hard challenge, and that’s the needle Encore threads ever so efficiently in this 24-slide pitch deck. Slides in this deck. 1 — Cover slide. 18 — Diagram slide. 1 — Cover slide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

This morning Liz Karlin, who works at the Packard Foundation in Grant Operations , and I did a remote presentation for the Foundation Financial Officers Group on Organizational Change and Social Media Policy development. There were some terrific questions and discussion. I’ve included some resources along with the slides here.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Slides in this deck. Sateliot’s deck consists of 18 slides and is almost as pitched; the company redacted some of the info that goes into depth about how its tech works. Cover slide. “90% of the world has no cellular coverage” — problem slide. Team slide. ” slide. Slogan slide.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

” Here’s their 21-slide Series A deck: Cover slide Team slide Market context slide (“The revolution of remote work”) Problem slide No. 1 (“Going remote-first is hard”) How people solve it now (“How it’s done today”) Problem slide No. 1 (“Employee view”) Product slide No.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

He works for an NGO in Australia and we met on Twitter (via Eddie Harran ) prior to his visit to America to attend the Wisdom 2.0 I don’t like giving a keynote where I talk at the audience for 45 minutes. So making the audience part of the slide deck and inviting commentary surfaces the wisdom and knowledge in the room.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

Key takeaways from the Email Marketing workshop that took place on Day 1: Fundraising is dependent on relationship building : Nonprofits should work year-round to cultivate and maintain relationships with donors, so that the ask is not a cold call at the end of the year. Channels such as social media can really help with this.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I’m in Austin, TX, today engaging with librarians, digital curators, and technologists working at the nexus of communities and knowledge at the Electronic Resources and Libraries annual conference. There are a few core elements of the way communities work that we can learn from as a model for innovation as well. Why Community?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

Here are some of my thoughts going into the conversation and slides if you prefer engaging that way: Crowdsourcing for Social Change. There are many ways to include social media in your work. If not, you can follow the conversation in real time on Twitter with the hashtag #crowdx. (We’ll Crowdsourcing for Social Change.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

How many staff use your online community space in their work? Learn solutions for moving your audiences forward on a unified front towards a shared goal. If you’re not, Ignite is a style of presentation: Participants have five minutes to speak on a subject, accompanied by 20 slides. Each slide is displayed for 15 seconds.

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