Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Seth's Blog: Random rules for ideas worth spreading – Seth Godin shares a list of rules for those times you develop an idea worth spreading. " Have you found any of these to be true in your own idea sharing and development? org to achieve the most widespread day of political action in history back on October 24th. . "A

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

We read articles mapping out the “perfect face” according to the Greek ratio of Phi but we never question why Greek history is the arbiter of truth in many cases when much of Greek philosophy was stolen from Egypt. When we take a look at design history, we quickly start to see how whiteness relates to the rule setters and power holders. .

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2019

As an outsider, he immediately saw that museums were operating “under a business model that doesn’t work.” As always, tag me in your posts and shares so I can include you in my summary post at the end of the month ( @artlust , @seemarao , @_art_lust_ ). What is something you hope to see in the future of audience engagement?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Big History. A model for any organization promoting philanthropy. The kind of tagline nonprofits should model. Jobs & Workforce Development: Nothing Stops A Bullet Like A Job — Homeboy Industries. Religion & Spiritual Development: Open hearts. Tags: challenge marketing awards competition taglines.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2009

Why Non-Profits Are So Good at Social Media : Alexandra Samuel of Social Signal has a post over at the Harvard Business School that makes the case that nonprofits have a long history of relationship development and positions them well for social media success. Tags: misc. What's your take?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

I have been reading War and Peace, one of the themes of which is that history is created through the individual pursuits of millions of individuals acting in their own interests, and not through the will of leaders and generals. We're also seeing more nonprofits take this approach for fundraising, program development, and social change.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2010

In that model, O'Reilly said, "The only real citizen participation happens when something goes wrong. Suddenly, many opportunities open for new and better government services without the usual price tag. Mitchell Kapor echoed many of O'Reilly's points and discussed open government in the context of the history of open source.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

We’re building nonprofits, businesses, and brands around our Facebook communities, and yet every couple of months we wake up to new changes (made primarily to benefit Facebook’s revenue model) that we have to figure out for ourselves and scramble around. This is a new policy development. Enough with the mystery Facebook!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

This month brings three examples of museums hosting meetups for online communities: On 8.6.08, the Computer History Museum (Silicon Valley, CA) hosted a Yelp! But these events have benefits both in terms of audience development and word-of-mouth marketing. Consider the experience of the Computer History Museum and their Yelp!

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

This empowers you to create courses and provide recommendations that will be most useful for your members’ ongoing professional development. For example, imagine you’re creating a course in which learners need to understand the history of developing a process they’re expected to use. Detail a process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

This post was based on a post developed by Rob Paterson three weeks ago, as we seek to design a pilot project in support of an important multi-constituent project Rob is helping to guide. This new model is the antithesis of the model that it may replace. Clear signs of what this new model are all over the place.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Over time the movement and arrangement of things trails a layered aesthetic that convey histories and narratives of changing communities passing through this unfolding three-story artwork. Elsewhere’s challenge today is how to continue modeling the public commons by practicing social exchanges through our set of things.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

Instead, I dip into the NpTech Tag Stream and notice this post from NTEN about a new book about nonprofits and technology. The paper traces the history of nonprofit technology circuit riding and includes lots of the history from Gavin Clabaugh. (In Paul-Brian McInerney, PhD February and March are busy months for me.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

A Community-Based Approach to Collecting and Cataloging CUL is a replicable model for community archives that accepts every piece of print media from a certain area without making quality or importance judgments, going back as far in history as possible. Our new catalog and website will be up within the next two months.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2009

   The organization's founder, Quentin Young , has a long history of organizing and supporting movements using low tech tools like mimeographs, bullhorns, placards, shoe leather, sweat (sometimes blood) and public convergence spaces. There is a new movement building model emerging. " Tags: movement building.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 23, 2006

The latest ideas on collaborative software tools, AJAX web applications, and that mainstay of bread-and-butter business apps, the spreadsheet, are coming together in wikiCalc , a new application being developed by my old dormmate and VisiCalc originator, Dan Bricklin. The history, as Wikipedia explains it, goes like this. Take a look.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Leadership development is incredibly important for our movements to build and grow and succeed. Positive reinforcement is one of the best leadership development practices you can build into your movement, whether it’s online or offline, on a facebook page, newsletter, annual fundraiser or neighborhood events. Have people heard of 350.org

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 31, 2009

In 2006, John Falk and Beverly Sheppard, seasoned museum researchers and practitioners, released a co-authored book entitled Thriving in the Knowledge Age: New Business Models for Museums and Other Cultural Institutions. It may be an implicit business model, but it’s a business model. They provide services. They sell things.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences. They have an open collections policy, and they see media artifacts as objects that connect people--to art, to history, to politics, and to each other.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

The projects ranged from activating a dead collection to developing a mystery game around a strange artifact to developing a hackerspace to planning for massive changes to institutions new and old. Tags: professional development. They feel like things are getting "decided" before they can really think things through.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2005

The development model is one person. The development model is like an Amish Barn raising. The development model is ???firm-based.??? Turning to the law: Described the legal mechanisms that a proprietary software developer would use for protection. Technorati Tags: ilaw The license: ???I???m

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Develop relationships via any and all useful platforms that allow you to connect 1 to 2. Every program, old and new, should be evaluated against the mission (and the business model) for soundness.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2007

Sure, it’s great to learn museum theory and history. I support pedantic educational models when goals and outcomes are clear. Other graduate programs develop hard skills. Tags: professional development. The value proposition of museum grad programs is cloudy in my mind. Because I'm already on the way?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

Tag Partners and Corporate Sponsors. Partners and corporate sponsors are notified if they are tagged in your posts. It’s a simple way to express appreciation for partnership and an excellent means to steward corporate sponsors. It helps build your location page. 10) Study Facebook Business Suite.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

I learned to cultivate creative greed while working on Operation Spy at the International Spy Museum, where I was lucky to be working on a project that was so new to us that we didn't have any pre-established models or structures for doing it. We aren’t reaching all the audiences we’d like to. We’re not essential parts of every community.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

It's ironic that we expect visitors to fall in love with our artifacts and exhibitions without ever presenting Bela-like models for that kind of passion. Marketing and Development departments by and large. By the time the "marketing package" is developed for an exhibition much of the original purpose and passion are wrung dry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

As you probably know, Dave has been in the center of the blogging revolution, whereas I am over here in the nonprofit sector, so the histories of blogging never mention Nonprofit Online News. I'm developing a model for taking the ideas in there to scale, in the form of online workshops and online support groups.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

There was a need recognized and that need was that exhibits and exhibitions were being redesigned over and over again without that sense of history. The whole process of developing an exhibition tends to get stuck behind a museum's doors. We've published and done professional development in the area of exhibits from the very beginning.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2007

We’ll spend the least time here, since these are the people who are presumably being served well by the co-creation models at hand. Ultimately, the kind of layering I’m most interested in is “layering on”—where returners (and staff) operate not on their own developing content, but on the body of content as a whole. First, the newcomer.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 4, 2007

There's a game design source I used extensively at the beginning of development for Operation Spy: Gamasutra. If anyone out there is considering creating an industry catch-all site for museum-related content, I highly recommend Gamasutra as a model. Tags: storytelling design game. Where am I? The City Museum of St.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 9, 2007

So we had a history of organizing around transportation through our Jumpstart Ford campaign, which now has transitioned into our Freedom From Oil campaign. Tags: hybrid electric car. They can't produce the vehicles because the battery technology isn't there. We are seeing some breakthroughs on this. hybrid electric car.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Cost and Pricing Models Transparent Pricing Structures: Prioritize platforms that offer clear and transparent pricing tiers, detailing the features included in each plan. SEO and Online Visibility SEO Tools: Prioritize platforms that offer built-in SEO tools, including meta tags, keyword optimization, and sitemap generation.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

I believe we need to develop museum "platforms" that allow us to harness, prioritize, and present the diversity of voices around a given object, exhibit, or idea. There are many models as well for what we do with user-generated content in the museum. On LibraryThing, you can tag and talk about books. Winners leverage scale."

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

I hosted two sessions, one on design for participation and the other on mission-driven museum technology development. A few things I learned from the presentations and discussion: Dan shared a useful 4-step mental model for the progression of how institutions move towards participatory engagement. In this case, a heck of a lot.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

One of the requirements set forth in the OGD was for executive departments and agencies to create a public feedback mechanism to solicit citizen feedback during the development of each department's or agency's Open Government Plan. Young Adult International Development Community. Young Diplomat Program. Department of State.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 3, 2024

Ads & Analytics Google Universal Analytics gets deleted Jul 1, 2024 GA Apocalypse: The Deprecation of Universal Google Analytics – Whole Whale Google Chrome Cookie deprecation in 2024 (1st party cookie will remain) Preparing for the end of third-party cookies | Privacy Sandbox | Google for Developers. Short video.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

Start thinking about tagging and folksonomies. If you had one youth educator, would you expect them to develop and run overnights AND scout programs AND teen programs AND toddler programs AND outreach AND… of course not. Museums need to develop sustainable models for projects that require frequent content updates.

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