Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2015

What I absolutely love, is that the book has a companion web site with worksheets and checklists from every chapter. As someone who designs and facilitates professional development projects for nonprofits, this is a trainer’s dream! Evaluation. There are also some great practical tips , sample mentor/mentee agreement , and plan.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Earlier this fall, I read this headline: "Stanford study: Participation in a cultural activity may reduce prejudice." When the music video was focused on Mexican culture, the researchers found that the white and Asian participants demonstrated a decrease in prejudice against Latinos, both immediately after the activity and six months later.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. What that translates to is that a movement is built on collaboration, incorporates co-design between individuals and organizations, and remains focused, even during an event or campaign, on lasting, real impact. How do you evaluate your programs and services? What is a movement?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2019

This week, I wanted to start with us, museum and cultural workers. My favorite, perhaps, was the prototype space at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle. My children particularly loved watching a technician/ scientist work on processing an avian taxidermy sample. Different strokes, perhaps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

So, I designed and have been testing a training program that embraces thoughtful do-it-yourself social media experiments and a peer learning process for sharing the learning. The best part of this design is that participants are the content – the community is the curriculum! Here’s quick sampling: LA Universal Preschool.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

And much less than that (22%) reported that their organization had ever evaluated Return on Investment (ROI) of technology projects or programs." One of the findings that stood out to us: Only 40% of respondents reported that their organization has some type of formal technology plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Submitted by Amy Sample Ward. Cultural institutions are increasingly developing APIs and linked-data repositories. Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

Most of the participants in this project work in nonprofits that are limited in resources and time - so hoping to make participation not be labor intensive, find small - concrete chunks, and support any self-defined sub-cultures on the community. When do you as the wiki facilitator get out of the way? Some Learnings on Practice.

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Process Reflection Work Wiki 50

Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

To do that, you need to value quality writing as much as you value quality programming, and you need to adopt a culture of quality writing as early in your lifecycle as possible to harness its power and influence. If an applicant gets an interview, ask him or her to bring along a few writing samples. Layout and design?

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Tips Sample Nonprofit Skills 99

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I participated in three sessions: a Pecha Kucha design blitz, a dialogue on bridging online/onsite connections, and a discussion of the IMLS 21st Century Skills report. Designing Questions Kathy Gustafon-Hilton coordinated a massive Pecha Kucha session, featuring 19 design professionals sharing 20 slides, 20 seconds apiece.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

The sampling of some of the top rated resources this week: Death Threats Are Not Protected Speech. General conclusion: culture shift before tech adoption, keep it simple, small steps, and focused on real needs. (It The Democracy in Action Blog has a wonderful post about the most common typos that people make. It's moved.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

That word change supports co-design, it encourages collaboration, and it ensures engagement. Not only do you need to be listening and taking action, but as an organization, you need to have a culture that supports collaboration. Community-Driven Model. Who’s the community? The first step: Identifying your community.

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M+R

JANUARY 31, 2023

The playlist also looked different for different types of nonprofits — every single environmental group that reported data in our sample experienced a decrease in year-over-year overall revenue. Build an “attribution model” for email. I recommend watching Bejeweled on repeat.)

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

The players who talk to the most other players are often more influential than those with the highest scores, and game design firms are starting to consciously cultivate and support their influence. As this evolution progresses, it may be worthwhile for museums to turn to gaming and consider the ways that game designers treat their players.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

It may require internal culture change – proactive listening and experiments. The example to illustrate these points is from a panel I designed for the NTC08 on ROI and Social Media and including Wendy Harman from the Red Cross. Secret sauce of social media success. Know your keywords. Use your RSS reader like a rock star.

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ROI Social Media Slides NTEN 50

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

Who : Facilitating: Amy Sample Ward | NetSquared; Billy Bicket | NetSquared. East-West Technology, Culture & Food Exchange: Innovation and culture sharing with NGO counterparts in India. Who : Speakers: Amy Sample Ward | Netsquared; Debra Askanase; Ivan Boothe. Workshop leaders will offer feedback and evaluation.

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NTC Netsquared NGO Atlanta 126

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

She’s also certified by the Institute of Cultural Affairs, in the USA, for facilitation. Are you going to use this to evaluate your internal operations so that you can become more efficient, more effective. So a couple samples here this is from Charity Water. Sample metrics. Does that make sense? Ask “So what?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2012

I will be facilitating a panel discussion with: Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN. Approaches and tools: What are the basic guidelines for designing and using data and information visualizations? Data and information visualizations for advocacy, evaluation, social media, network analysis, operations, and more!

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The students would prepare for the contest using a series of online practice modules and mobile phone based applications that would test the students on sample questions. USAID contractors collect enormous amounts of valuable data as part of research, project implementation, and monitoring and evaluation activities. In a Web 2.0

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 29, 2010

Sunday, August 29, 2010 Use New-Hire Employee Badges If you lead an organization that uses employee ID badges, considering using a different color or a special designation on the badges for newly hired employees for at least their first 30 days and ideally up to 60 days. Some people call this a "hello" culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2014

I’ve been following it for a while now and it is very inspiring on many different levels. The laboratory gives Greenpeace and its partners a space to design, test, iterative, and roll out new strategies and techniques for participatory campaigns or what has been called “People Powered.”

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

Julia Campbell will provide a framework for evaluating the best platforms for your unique organization, as well as ideas for creating great social media content your audience will love. Now, type in the chat if you know this reference, if you know this pop culture reference. I’m going to show you some sample social media posts.

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