Amy Sample Ward

JULY 13, 2011

Topic : Knowledge Networks. Description : This closing keynote focused on the power of knowledge sharing networks and the tools that support them. Conference information. Date : July 12-13, 2011. Location : Portland, Maine. Related Links : Natural Rural Health Resource Center.

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The MatrixFiles

JUNE 15, 2021

Heinan Landa (CEO of Optimal Networks ) asked me last week: As we’re slowly returning to the office and in-person meetings, what lessons from 15 months of virtual meetings should endure? It sounds really weird to say this because organizations that put on conferences are devoted to offering high quality education.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 15, 2011

Amy has spoken at numerous conferences, including SXSW Interactive. In addition to her work at NTEN (a membership organization that provides technology training, resources, networking and other assistance to nonprofits), Amy has worked in private philanthropy, advocacy nonprofit organizations, web design companies, and as a consultant.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2011

Yesterday, I had a very fun time presenting with my friend and colleague Debra Askanase at the 2 011 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. Here are the slides! Leverage the power of the online communities and networks, such as with Tweetsgiving. Would love to hear if you have examples or tips to share! Case Studies.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

This year’s Nonprofit Technology and Communications Conference will delve into how to design the right eStrategy in today’s iWorld to build an engaged audience for your nonprofit. At the conference, you’ll have no shortage of opportunities to learn, network, share, and have some fun. Registration. Keynote address.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Description : Social media tools allow for people to connect: broadcasting messages to real time communication, online networking to offline collaboration. Related Links : Conference website. Location : San Antonio, TX. Topic : Social Media in Disaster Response.

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NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2012

At last year’s Blackbaud Conference for Nonprofits, Allison Nassour and I presented to a full room on the topic of QR codes. I’ve blogged about how a few nonprofits are using them , and how the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network was seeing real results , but it feels like there is a new energy around using them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2012

Today, I have the honor of doing a session at The Allstate Foundation ‘s 60th Anniversary Executive Summit (hashtag #60summit ) where I’ll be talking about leading nonprofits with a network mindset. Nonprofits make that transformation when their leaders embrace a network mindset. Social Media: Getting Leadership Buy-In.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

Charles Lee It's conference season and I will be on the road at various conferences this week and next. deation conference hosted by Charles Lee. deation Conference is intentionally formatted to create a rich learning and sharing experience. I wish I could have stayed for the whole conference, but alas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2012

I was honored to moderate a panel at Innogive Conference on the intersection of social and mobile strategy. The slides are here. He went on to describe how to activate social voice by describing how these personas use social networks to share information about their favorite charities and fundraise for them. 392 “repins”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

How Networked Nonprofits Use Facebook. Last year, Alan invited me to keynote the New Media Consortium ’s virtual conference to talk about the future of social and nonprofits. And, of course, to revisit my Cute Dog Theory and see how it applies to Networked Nonprofits. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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JUNE 9, 2010

Please join me on June 21st from 1-2 PM PST for the virtual launch of The Networked Nonprofit. As I was reflecting about Slideshare and thinking about the characteristics of nonprofits featured in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , I realized that Slideshare is a haven for them. 1) Networked Professional Development and Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2010

My goal for conference presenting moving forward is to be on panels that I have designed or co-designed and that design involves the audience beyond a 5 minute q/a at the end. What I hate most about conference presentation set ups is that the speakers are up on a stage behind a podium and separate from the audience. I realized that I.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

Nonprofit conferences are a great opportunity for industry professionals to hone their skills, network with their peers, and learn innovative new strategies to help their organizations thrive. Nonprofit conferences can feature a variety of topics, like fundraising, marketing, nonprofit tech, and leadership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

There are many benefits to this move but running a successful virtual conference requires more than just an understanding of video conferencing tools. . If this is your first time hosting a virtual conference or any virtual event for that matter, the process may seem daunting. A virtual audience will not have to do any of this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The conference in Morocco was a “tri-lingual event” and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and instructional design were identical to the event in Jordan. This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

Most nonprofits distribute the original source of the story to their communities (the New York Times , for example), but while that is generous, it does not help build the nonprofit’s brand recognition, e-newsletter list, or social networking communities; rather, it builds those of the New York Times. Provide Organizational Updates.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Most nonprofits distribute the original source of the story to their communities (the New York Times, for example), but while that is generous, it does not help build the nonprofit’s brand recognition, e-newsletter list, or social networking communities; rather, it builds those of the New York Times. Provide Organizational Updates.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

I recently had the opportunity to present a webinar for the National Center for Media Engagement , focused on community-driven engagement, and present a session at the Public Media Development and Marketing Conference , talking about building a social media strategy. The PMDMC conference had a 4-part social media track.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

Howard Gardner has dedicated his life work to this Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Yet, many conference panels are designed to accommodate only one or two styles of learning and go shallow instead of going deep. That’s the questions I asked myself as I designed my panel for the NTEN’s annual conference, the NTC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2014

I’ve been a huge fan of GivingTuesday since I first heard about it back in September, 2012 during a conference at Stanford. Research points to the emergence of a dynamic generation: educated, industrious, collaborative and eager to build a better world (see slide 10). It’s a huge group: two billion worldwide.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

Hybrid meetings are where some participants participate remotely through a video conferencing platform like zoom, while the rest of the participants are gathered together in a conference room in an office or several in-person group clusters. Give remote participants a greater presence in the conference room.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2011

With Animoto, you can put together photos, slides, and text with audio and video to create a compelling story from all the various elements you may have created separately or gathered at an event. You can also create groups to share privately across a team, and organization, or a network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Last week, I got to BoardSource at 8 am just so I could hear Marnie Webb and Rebecca Masisak, CO-CEOs of TechSoup Global share their lessons learned in developing, weaving, and stewarding two very different types of networks. The second network, Netsquared , in contrast was more loosely controlled with a lower risk in failure.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

NTEN Member, Steve Heye, sporting an NTEN geek t-shirt Last week, Joleen and I spoke at Minnesota Council of Nonprofits'' (MCN) annual conference, Nonprofits in Motion: Momentum for a New Minnesota (NPIM14), and we have a lot to share! Start off with an inventory of the all the technology you have, including network, hardware, and software.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 3, 2010

Earlier this month, the Connected Generation conference brought lots of folks from organizations and direct services groups, as well as practitioners, educators, and researchers together in Bristol, UK, to talk about the use of social media in youth work. Connecting to Youth: Leveraging social media for work with young communities.

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Care2

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Last month we provided 11 tips to make your life easier when planning a conference. We wanted to really get to the core of the conference-savvy folks'' secrets, so we reached out to those who are working in the nonprofit sphere, planning annual conferences to hear their insider tips. Ask it often.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

It’s already February, and the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference is only two months away ! One of the best parts of the conference is the opportunity to connect with other nonprofit technology professionals, so you can share your experiences and knowledge. >> Learn more about the NTC Connect Track! Discussion Tables Lunch.

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Global Giving

APRIL 10, 2020

As a program officer at GlobalGiving, I use it for our one-on-one catch ups, our staff meetings, crowdfunding training, and our worldwide Peer Learning Networks. As entire countries move “in person” conferences and events to virtual ones in the time of COVID-19, I want to help out. Steer the conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’ve had the honor to facilitate training workshops at grantee’s conference. I just returned from doing Networked Nonprofit and Social Media workshops at the National Summer Learning Association’s Conference in Indianapolis.

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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. Libraries + Networking. I’d love to be able to use my library as the network hub. I want to start, first, with a story….

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

Conference. (He even brought me some Tim-Tams.). When possible, I get a list of attendees at workshops or conferences, and I visit their web sites and social media outposts. I don’t like giving a keynote where I talk at the audience for 45 minutes. These ideas are illustrated in the slides below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

" My slides and resources are here. Reference network: the significance rating of all the texts the author has touched, viewed, read. Via RSA Networks blog. I'm here in Chicago for a very brief trip on a panel about metrics and measurement for museums called "New Spaces, New Measures."

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

We provide a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights. Furthermore women are significantly underrepresented on panels at major technology conferences. Details: Date: May 12, 2009. Are you in the UK?

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DECEMBER 9, 2013

You can view the videos and presentations on the conference materials page. Patton’s ideas and the methods of developmental evaluation are gaining more attention and practice because social change projects are transcending from a primary focus on program impact to systems impact and make use of networks as a key strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

There were some terrific questions and discussion. I’ve included some resources along with the slides here. Last year I audio-skyped into a conference in the UK to present with Steve Bridger. Tags: Conferences Tips Training Design ffog remote presentation skype twitter video. We had a very reliable Internet connection.

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