Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 10, 2010

Bonnie Koenig and I have had some great conversations about how we have seen and how we have tackled scale in our work. In those conversations, we realized that we probably had some good examples to share and case studies to provide; but we also realized that there were many, many more people we wanted to be having the conversation with!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2019

Start a conversation with your board members, as well as your most passionate supporters, and ask them to create their own fundraiser to kick off your peer-to-peer campaign. Keep the conversation going by celebrating milestones, offering up support, checking in on them, and giving guidance whenever you can. Offer up your support.

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Candid

AUGUST 25, 2021

I know from being in the NGO world for many years what kind of a burden that can be. Our decision was really driven by a desire to lower grantee load and increase transparency, so that across the sector, we’re able to have shared language and understanding that contributes to greater sector-wide learning.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Global Scale Purpose: Bonnie and I were inspired by conversations with each other on and offline but knew there were many more people who should be involved in discussing, sharing and learning. This email group is intended as a conversation space to supplement and support the Global Scale Wiki. How to Contribute. Global Scale Wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

TechSoup Microsoft NGO Connection Day. This post summarizes the content I shared in my presentation and offers some reflection on the conversational keynote. 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 Conversational Key Note.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2012

The participating NGOs include Women’s Leadership NGOs from Ethiopia I’ll be co-training with Kalyani Menon-Sen, a feminist activist, researcher and adult educator based in Delhi, India to deliver sessions on the Networked NGO, networks, and networking with social media. Feed a child, feed a nation!

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

The NetSquared team will be working the room to activate and facilitate conversations so everyone can enjoy the ride. East-West Technology, Culture & Food Exchange: Innovation and culture sharing with NGO counterparts in India. Listen first and discover where the conversations are! Social Media Veterans (#smvets).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2004

I can't begin to list the fistfuls of great conversations I had in my week in Switzerland. The interactions are at a peer level, without the normal screening that typically protects these leaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2006

mostly about the process and mechanics of blog conversations. Are blog conversations as satisfying, rich, or stimulating as other methods? The question about nonprofit adoption of these tools for conversation. Amy Gahran wrote two thoughtful posts about cross-blog conversation - " I wish blog comments were easier to follow!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

This new Live Web is about conversations, not top-down delivery of information or messages. Those involved in your conversations may be able to help you fundraise or campaign (and you might be able to help them) but they may also be able to help you see or do things in a new way. Encourage and enable comments. Respond to them.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2010

In the hallways, you’re as likely to run into the head of an international NGO, as CEO of a Fortune 100 company, as a renowned professor as the foreign minister of a major country. Every table conversation brings a new perspective and a new idea: whether it’s new knowledge, a great contact or a new extension to the idea under discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2018

GivingTuesday India is powered by GuideStar India, India’s most reliable NGO information repository with over 8700 NGOs. In India, GivingTuesday is celebrated on Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday and is part of a week-long celebration of giving called Daan-Utsav.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2012

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 March 30th).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

For the Packard Foundation OE Program, the first step to share their internal thinking and resources with their NGO, capacity building, and funding partners. Engage: This is the process of having a conversation around the insights that are being shared. Co-Create: At this higher level, the conversations lead to co-creation.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Use a hashtag that’s popular and meaningful to your interests – like #nptech, which stands for nonprofit tech – and you’ll tap a powerful vein of conversation and learning. ngo – nongovernmental organization. In fact, follow a big hashtag like #nptech to find niche hashtags such as #sm4sg. charitytuesday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2013

For me, reach is only the first rung of the ladder of engagement towards my ultimate success – which is to get 2-3 blog post ideas per month from sharing content and conversation on my Facebook Page.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 26, 2023

As nonprofits continue to struggle with staffing, resources, and revenue portfolios, Customer Data Platform can enable much richer conversations with donors. The post Customer Data Platform Is Redefining What It Means To Be a Donor-Centric NGO appeared first on Salesforce.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2007

Cambodian young people are joining the global conversation in the blogosphere and sharing their perspectives through different forms of grassroots citizen's media thanks to the efforts of a dedicated team of Cambodian bloggers. This team has been working on a voluntary basis to conduct 14 workshops called ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Many of you know that I have had the honor of working with IIE on some amazing Networked NGO and social media skills capacity building and train the trainer projects in the Middle East over the last 2-3 years. Department of State, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Office of the Middle Eastern Partnership Initiative (MEPI) and managed by IIE.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

Connected to Twitter, Blab enables real-time video conversations from multiple locations. The 2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report. 2,780 NGOs • 133 Countries • 6 Continents. The research is unprecedented and provides valuable insight into the global NGO sector and its use of online technology. Social Media Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Access , the organizers of RightsCon, who work for digital freedom worldwide, consciously pitched this not as a human rights NGO conference. As I joked in a recent conversation with a colleague, human rights activists “are the 1%” but the issues we face are relevant to the 99% of other users. and that phrase still sticks with me.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Enter Emi , the latest company targeting technology to this portion of the workforce with a conversational artificial intelligence recruiting tool. The technology automates communication between global enterprises and candidates using a conversational interface.

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Technology Argentina NGO United States 77

Care2

JUNE 7, 2010

“I loved Eli Pariser's presentation and his main theme that we have to be careful about filtering too much, cutting ourselves off from uncomfortable conversations that are the only possibility that we have for breaking through the echo chambers. Check out some of the key take-aways of PDF by some of our favorite nonprofit experts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2012

Based on the underlying theme of women’s empowerment with a focus on education and entrepreneurship, the 70 participants of the Tel Aviv event included representatives of NGOs active in the fields of employment, education, women’s empowerment, consultancy, and tech training from all over Israel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

A few design principles that I might extract: Ground Rules to Encourage Generative Behavior: At the opening event, we were told not to sit with people we already know and to make an intentional effort to introduce ourselves to new people and have a conversation. The next day was all about practice, action, and doing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

First, in partnership with Colombian NGO Corporación Punto de Vista, we assessed a methodology for studying conflict-related sexual violence in the country. Through projects that integrated statistical analyses into multidisciplinary human rights work, we engaged in the public debate about human rights violations in Colombia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2005

How can one integrate audio/podcasting and video logging into online conversation effectively? Joistke and I had lots of sandbox time together, along with other participants, that enabled to play with audio (and video) as online conversation. Technorati Tags: nonprofit , development , ict , ngo , nptech , nonprofit

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2010

I also learned about this NGO from Pakistan that is using social media efficiently to communicate with its stakeholders. This also sparks more in-depth conversation. Someone asked what the definition of a KPI was, and since I noticed that Tom Kelly who is an expert in evaluation was following the chat, I asked him for a definition.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 18, 2013

An NGO with A National Mandate. MyDigitalBridge is an NGO that started its work fairly recently. This is a bit technical, but basically the idea is for them to use old analog TV and FM radio frequencies that were abandoned after conversion to digital TV, just like we did in the U.S. In the U.S.,

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Africa Namibia Digital South Africa 64

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2012

After finishing a four-day intensive training in Delhi for the Networked NGO , I stayed on a few days in India to visit colleague, Rufina Fernandez, who I met when she was the CEO of the Nasscom Foundation when she brought me to India to speak at the leadership conference and teach workshops back in 2010. The man denied it and left.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2011

I recall a conversation with my wife some years ago, when I was describing my research subject organizations as "charities." In some contexts, nongovernmental organization , or NGO , is popular and widely used. Nonetheless, given its currency, NGO is a candidate. organizations provide services in other countries. Not-for-profit.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Waste4Change was created by founder and CEO Mohamad Bijaksana Junerosano based on conversations between PT Greeneration Indonesia, an NGO, and waste management organization PT Bumi Lestari Bali (ecoBali) to form a company that reduces the amount of waste that ends up in landfills. Founded in 2014, Waste4Change has seen a CAGR of 55.1%

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2005

Some key takeaways for me: The community must have some sort of nurturing structure for bloggers who are new to blogging or the conversation has no where to go and the community no where to grow. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech , online_communities , nonprofit , ngo

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

My friends from SMEX.org, Jessica Dherre and Mohamad Najem shared this post about their visit to SF.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

I designed and facilitated “ A Global Conversation: Free Agents and Nonprofits in a Networked World ” at the SXSWi Interactive over the weekend as an opportunity to experiment with some of these ideas. As many of you know, I’m comfortable with public learning, so using this post to share what I learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

My goal was to have a conversation with the folks in the room – who represented both traditional nonprofit institutions, government agencies, and free agents – and answer the question, “ I’ve found my free agent now what? Please take five minutes to watch the video – it’s excellent.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

Rather than only tweeting about its services, @OnGood curates good content tweeted by other NGOs by retweeting their tweets. This strategy adds variety to their feed, engages their followers, builds credibility with the NGO sector, and eliminates the risk of appearing to over-market their services by only tweeting about themselves.

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