Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2010

Here are some reflections about how we used crowdsourcing techniques for a very fast-moving campaign and lessons learned that may apply to your work. Her birthday wish is to raise money for the Sharing Foundation using Causes and we think we could help her crush her goal of sending 53 Cambodian children to school by raising $530.

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NetWits

APRIL 11, 2012

Now that I’ve had a bit to get my brain together I thought I’d share a few key takeaways (for me) from the conference. In a lot of conversations and sessions you could tell there was a focus on being strategic rather than play with new tools or figuring out how to place a ReTweet button on your website. The conference was amazing!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2020

Here’s an overview the tips and resources I shared. Ice breakers and energizers are helpful to check in with your colleagues or even to share optimism and fun. Breakout rooms are a feature in Zoom that allows you to put people in smaller rooms for more intimate conversations. Interactive Meeting Techniques.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 6, 2024

Fortunately, the authors' book provides a proven series of easy-to-implement skills, techniques and powerful strategies via what they call the Communication Code that anyone can use to make their communication, relationships deeper and more productive. Define the parameters of a conversation from the outset to avoid any misunderstandings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. Techniques.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

Maybe a friend shared the link with them, or they found your charity by Googling a topic you’re campaigning about. Data should inform and optimise your fundraising strategy , and attribution is a simple technique you can use to really help you get it right. Are your conversion rates different for different audiences?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

We used some Human Centered Design techniques from their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book. It was the most stimulating web platform strategy session that I have ever experienced! I love being exposed to new ways of working, taking process notes, observing techniques, and thinking about how to apply to my own work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

This post covers some simple techniques to give your fans the content they want most and inspire more engagement. Many times we’re on the hunt for the tips of what to do and when we find them, we just implement them. Content Analysis of Comments on post and shares. Source: Uploaded by user via Beth on Pinterest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

If you want to a chance to win, leave a comment on this post sharing something that you’d like to learn about Impact Leadership or some wisdom from your experience about practicing impact leadership! ” The brainstorming techniques from the previous day will yield many, many insights and ideas. Conferences'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

” Content curation is sifting through information on the web and organizing, filtering and making sense of it and sharing the very best content with your network. Content curation is not about sharing links as you find them. Content curation is not about sharing links as you find them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

I noticed that Jen Bokoff from the Foundation Center was re-tweeted a photo of an icebreaker she used at her conference session on facilitation techniques. She kindly offered to cross post her blog post about icebreakers here. Here are the ones we featured: It’s (not) only a napkin: Share your name. Share your name.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

It comes speeding at us from our email boxes, social networks, kindles, and even paper and snail mail! We scan, we browse, we try to thoughtfully read the best stuff, and interact through online conversations. So, it is important for us to incorporate techniques in daily work life that reduce the chances of this happening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Keep A Running List of High Engagement Conversation Starters and Use Them Regularly. If you want engagement on social media channels, identify good conversation starters that are relevant to your audience, will ignite their passion or nostalgia about the subject matter. To share on Twitter? Include a strong call to action (CTA).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

This post summarizes the content I shared in my presentation and offers some reflection on the conversational keynote. I started my talk with a story about why I liked Twitter: It allows me to connect with people in my professional field and have a great conversations or ad hoc collaborations that improve practice.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 16, 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. We may like to share information via Twitter, but the information we share comes from the morning's newspaper.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

We can respond, participate in a conversation, build relationships with others, debunk a rumor or correct misinformation, help someone out, and much more. Twitter search is your best friend for finding out what’s going on in the real time conversation world of microblogging. These should be at the core of all your listening.

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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. The decision matrix in below will help you decide which photos to share and how."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2011

Shared on Google + by Abid Shaikh. Dave Gray Illustration Shared Through Google +. I try to find well-connected, subject experts who read deep in a topic and share the best stuff. Someone will share something, and you can ask a follow up question or read the comments of others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2011

I’ve been experimenting with posting different types of content and engagement techniques on my Facebook Page this past month based on what the research says about increasing engagement. Share and you will be rewarded.” You are generous to your followers who notice and share their wisdom with you.” Rebecca Krause-Hardie.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

I always try to do an extensive participant survey prior to the workshop to uncover the knowledge in the room and used a “living case study” technique. Participants become part of the workshop curriculum and share their experience – which seems very appropriate for a social media training. Morning Session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

I am leading a #Nettalks Webinar on “ Leveraging Social Media to Engagement and Inspire Alumni Networks ” at 2 PM EST today. On Monday, I shared a post about some network and strategy concepts. In this post, I’m sharing my slides , resources , and practical engagement tips with a higher purpose.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 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. They are hoping to start conversations and hear feedback about the competitions, the fundraising techniques and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning. Co-Create: At this higher level, the conversations lead to co-creation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 10, 2013

Let me share two examples of the Big Data opportunities we’ve seized at Benetech: a long-standing use of data that has global implications and a nascent one that has just launched. The analysis made news globally and expanded an international conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

Would participants learn more and have greater impact if panel designers incorporated different techniques such as visual learning and if they designed for more audience engagement? When was the last time you went to a conference and had a deep learning experience through conversation and stimulation of all senses from a traditional panel?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

I shared this on Twitter and the conversation brought out some interesting points that I curated in “Storify,&# a story telling tool. (And, had to laugh at the geeky recursiveness of creating a story out of qualitative data from Twitter and other sources – and then adding it to my curated nonprofit measurement collection on scoop.it).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2012

I covered the basics of content curation, how it differs from social sharing, the art and practice of curation, a frameworks to get started, examples of nonprofits using curation, the tools, and some techniques for minimizing information overload and managing attention. Back in the 1990s, the overload was coming from email.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

New Year's Resolutions for leaders : Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

Spectragram is a facilitation technique I learned from Allen Gunner at Aspiration. I use a “Living Case Study&# technique — it is less formal that your traditional case study because it covers a work in progress and shares lessons learned as well as successes. Spectragram. We used: I love grass-fed beef.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

You, of course, need a formal ladder of engagement or conversion funnel and need to be tracking conversions against what your ultimate definition of success is. One of the participants asked, “So how do you do this with your metrics program?” ” Kevin came up and gave a mini-lesson on how to use this technique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

You can also use polls and surveys for collecting input from your colleagues in advance, before the meeting, so that everyone has the same opportunity to share their ideas (they may not have it during the meeting). You can then have a productive discussion about what people have already shared. Is anyone dominating the conversation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Do you have subject matter expertise and do you want to share it during the session? Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you enjoy and are great at doing? Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you want to improve or work on? These could done by one person or could be shared if mapped out in advance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

This was a fun opportunity to pull together some of my Facebook action learning curriculum and summarize much of the wisdom being shared over on at my Facebook Page. So, I shared with participants how I discovered relevant examples. How Networked Nonprofits Use Facebook. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Introduction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2014

To facilitate the lab, I used human centered design techniques (for a good overview see Jen Bokoff’s terrific overview post here ) and more specifically the Luma Institute methods (for more, see my post here.). The other way to facilitate is to ask for someone to share, name it as a theme, and ask others to share and add to the wall.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2013

Through lively sharing and discussion we will dive into the art of placing small bets or affordable losses that can lead to innovation. I had the pleasure of designing this session with Will Coley – who interviewed the best content curators in the world and get them share their best practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

A content curator cherry picks the best content that is important and relevant to share with their community. As Rohit Bhargava points out in this post via Robin Good , a content curator continually seeks, makes sense of, and shares the best and most relevant content on a particular topic online.

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