Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of December 15th). What does that mean for you?

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 28, 2020

It’s not going to happen though, unless you begin the conversation. During this pandemic, a discussion is a must- but there is definitely a right and wrong way in which to have it. Just possibly they may wish part of their legacy to be supporting the causes they cared about during their lifetime. ” You wouldn’t be alone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2013

” Porter’s definition about networking is about charting your own course, following your passions, and making meaningful connections, which in turn increase your happiness and productivity. I was one of twenty mentors that visited the school for two hours of conversation and speed networking. I still am.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Here's a good basic definition from a blog post titled " The Power of Network Weaving" from the Network Weaving Blog. Note that the definition uses the plural form, network weavers versus network weaver. You want someone who is open to learning and a good listener and can teach others network weaving skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

I do this with every social media activity as well as whenever I teach. This post harvests what I learned and what I still don't know about the birthday campaign strategy and measurement as well as guest teaching a graduate school class. CONVERSION! . Conversion Rate. Setting the Right Dollar Goal. My 53rd birthday wish.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Definitely, thinking about augmented reality and what we’d like to be able to do with it, there’s possibilities down the road that we’d be leveraging this kind of research,” Facebook AI research scientist Kristen Grauman told The Verge. Teach me how to play the drums”)? Where did I leave my keys?”)?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Like all good training sessions, this workshop started off with an opening conversation that allowed us to get to know others in the room and connect to what we already know. Heather facilitated this exercise as a series of share pairs where we discussed each question with a different partner for a few minutes. Normalize the hump.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

We used a broad definition of crowd sourcing, simply stated as: Getting ideas, content, volunteer tasks, money, or other things from a wide swath of people. Seattle Free School , suggested by Amy Sample Ward, uses social media to organize classes and teach students. Have a brief over that lays out the definition and concept models.

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Tableau

JUNE 8, 2021

His efforts to present work that met the needs of Members of Congress drove him to learn more, research more, and teach more around data visualization. . When the nation started having a bigger conversation about race after the murders of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, Urban did too, and everyone was asking, "What can I do?" .

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2021

Duolingo can’t teach you how to speak a language, but now it wants to try (3,100 words/12 minutes). I was pressing him on the efficacy of Duolingo, and the long-standing critique that it still can’t teach a user how to speak a language fluently. A conversation with Bison Trails: the AWS-like service inside of Coinbase.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

RS: If you look at a decade ago when I worked for the Tor Project and they got funding, we set out to teach reporters how to use the Tor Browser. But I’ve also had a lot of conversations with the IT and security folks on the business side to help them understand what are the challenges that the newsroom is facing.

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 14, 2021

Matthew Platt: Definitely, I think the starter dashboards are a great jumping-off point to see what Tableau can offer. You May Also Enjoy: Success Story: Creating Equity in Education With Teach For America + Salesforce Marketing Cloud. Blog: How to Increase Conversion Rates Using Pardot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

I’m teaching a graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Global Conversations. Ugandan Prime Minister @AmamaMbabazi is the most conversational world leader with 96% of his tweets being @replies to other Twitter users.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

In the conversation below, van Gasteren shares the importance of building internal processes around growth for the long term, the state of growth today and his own development. The growth industry is definitely maturing. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Less hacks, more teams, more focus on velocity.

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Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

And that definitely includes all your staff. Shape the Conversation . Once you have a good handle on the subject matter, consider how you might want to shape a conversation on the topic with your key stakeholders. Feel free to share this checklist with them to kick start the conversation. Get their take. Give your take.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

She is also saying that virtual worlds are not for everyone which is definitely true. If I didn't have a guided experience on information island and the benefit of conversations with so many educators engaged in exploring it for learning, I might be blogging naive remarks like this too.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

But where this conversation really got me was when Kat said she firmly believed in manifestation and energetics, and that she draws a repeated connection between the work she’s done there and the success she’s had as a creator and entrepreneur. He wrote, basically, “Hey, I love your teaching style. Kat’s just not doing that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Teaching in an international context. When teaching in different contexts, especially outside of the US, you need to make some adjustments to your context. It takes practice to do well, but it definitely improves the learning experience for participants. There was a very productive conversation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The startup wants to make big lecture-style classes feel more intimate, and thinks digitizing everything from the professor monologues to side conversations between students is the way to go. The tables can easily be scrambled to promote different conversation or debates, and teachers can pop in and out without leaving their main screen.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

As we become increasingly dependent on our technology, it only makes sense that it teach us as well. When building eLearnings it is necessary to consult people who teach and record their methodologies in making sure a message maintains its pertinence over time. Successful E-Learning – A Roadmap.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This project has identified the following definitions of success: A Peer-to-Peer Learning Exchange. These definitions have informed the curriculum, instructional design, peer learning design, and how we will measure and learn along the way. We incorporated hands-on time and shoulder to shoulder learning from Day 1.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

You’re teaching grant writing and doing board development and super involved in the nonprofit community there. And I teach Board Development and Grant Writing for the program. Definitely, something that I’ve heard from some nonprofit leaders. So every time I teach or present, I like to do group agreements.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

If staff interact more with AI tools than with one another to complete tasks, it reduces the well-documented benefits of informal conversations of building an effective workplace culture, onboarding new staff, and improving staff retention. Putting humans first There is an alternative approach: a human-first AI adoption strategy.

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The Verge

MARCH 25, 2022

Even when we teach and re-teach how to carry the laptop from one class to another, slips and drops happen.”. The Laptop SE is definitely sturdy. Boot time also came up a few times in my conversations with teachers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

The configuration of the physical space definitely enhances learning. I tend to bumble-bee around and listen in on selected conversations, but it is important for people to hear from their peers. James was able to search Twitter and show them a conversation happening online with other choruses about fundraising.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 30, 2009

Our Volunteer Coordinator, Pavi Mehta, sent me this email last week and I thought it was definitely blog-worthy! Conversations With Nostradamus: His Prophecies Explained, Vol. The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination 17. get the book scanned and into Bookshare. More than fifty book requests have already come in.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

The company tried launching a chatbot in its early days to help users practice conversations. Duolingo can’t teach you how to speak a language, but now it wants to try. We definitely want to move and make this a tool that helps people not just say the word the right way, but just feel confident in everything they say.”

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2021

Today I want to help you avoid my mistake by teaching you what I’ve learned. Before you start writing a tailored cultivation and solicitation plan for each major donor prospect – which is something you definitely must do – first you need to: Qualify your donors. It’s pretty simple. Just two steps. They’re not just for giant nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Let’s start with a definition first. The social business sector has shared metrics and understanding of being data-informed. That changes the conversation for nonprofits. In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Black Teach Project is the definition of “small but mighty.” The Southern Poverty Law center also has an intelligence project working to track and expose hate groups across the country and a Teaching Tolerance Program that produces and distributes (entirely for free) anti-bias documentary films, books, and lesson plans!

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

After the International Committee on Museums spent some time debating the definition of museums, many folks took up the charge on social media to give their own definitions. I’m inviting people to share their definitions, here and on social (and tag me); I’ll summarize your thoughts next week. Teach is a big one.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 9, 2021

– 80% of the giving comes from 20% of the donors), but it’s definitely going to be top-heavy. One way to have a meaningful, personal conversation with a donor is to ask them what legacy they would like to leave the world. The ratio may not be exactly 80/20 (i.e.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Definitely stop entering data twice. But don't abuse this -- we want you in the conversation!). Teach writing for the web. If all of your web updates have to go through a single person, that's a pretty tight bottleneck on your capacity. Stop entering data. Schedule communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Bob’s responsibility is less to provide fish to staff, but more to teach them how to fish. “My goal is to make sure that every person on staff has access to the data they need in order to create actionable changes in the way they do their programs. DoSomething.Org: A Data-Driven Nonprofit In Action.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 6, 2022

By broadening your definition of the Season of Giving, your nonprofit creates an opportunity for more meaningful connections with all your constituents, showcasing your support of ethnic traditions while asking for support of your cause. Engage in meaningful conversations with donors. Review your constituent data.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 24, 2022

Owyoung offers these definitions: Diversity in the context of a workplace really means bringing people who are different from each other – with their own unique characteristics, backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives – together to realize the strengths of those differences.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result. You can communicate through Trello, which reduces email correspondence and keeps conversations in a central place. Teach yourself to be more productive. The first step may be to change the way you work. That’s right.

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