Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

—– The Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference takes place Febrary 28-March 2 in Austin, TX, and I’m SO honored to be a keynote speaker! Once you come up with a plan, and you test it, you then evaluate it and rethink it, and then iterate on the plan, test it, and come back around to evaluating it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Flickr Photo by S. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Justin Benttinen. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Flickr Photo by Happysmurfday Over the past couple of years, we've released reports on Donor Management Software , Content Management Systems , and CRMs. Our hope is that this will be a help to you, as well, giving you a place to start to evaluate the systems your organization uses and how they connect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

The ways tables and chairs and the screen are placed in the room can work against your instructional style or support it. Photo by SMEXbeirut. Photo by SMEXbeirut. Photo by SMEXbeirut. The last session used a classic trainer’s technique, a verbal evaluation of the day. In the above video, Naeema Zarif.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I was particularly interested in examples using blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, and Facebook. The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. In this post, I???m

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

The participants were consultants who worked with nonprofits on organizational strategic planning, financial planning, evaluation, and other organizational capacity areas. The consultant also pointed out that flickr photo I used seemed to indicate that the percentage are low. Photo by MckaySavage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2009

Flickr photo by Vidiot : Person Dressed Up Like ATM Machine Maddie Grant from Social Fish sent me a link to their training ' Buzz2009 Social Media for Associations " on July 9th in Washington, DC featuring presenters Guy Kawasaki and Andy Sernovitz. She asked me if I would write about it or Tweet it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

A blog may be a place to start. If you are a visual person, check out photo or video sharing. YouTube , Vimeo ) Photo sharing (i.e. Flickr, Photobucket ) Microblogging: Twitter , Tumblr Social networking (i.e. Are you a natural writer? Do you love connecting people? What social media tool(s) should I use?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Flickr Photo: Illustration of Participant's Learning Questions Earlier this month, we piloted the first two-day workshop on social media strategy and tools for NTEN 's WeAreMedia project. evaluate the results of your social media experiment and use the information to improve your next social media strategy experiment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Flickr Photo by TheeErin. Perhaps because some people feel guilty about practicing self-care or there are unspoken rules that if you take time for yourself you are not serious about work. It means changing the way we think about self-care in the first place. I’m thinking about practicing self-care in two ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 executive summary here ) ContinuousProgress: Better Advocacy Through Evaluation is an online guide to more effective foreign policy advocacy and evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

From Mathew's flickr stream. He works for an arts agency and we've set on grant evaluation panels for arts and technology projects. I think that widgets can facilitate social networking connections (check out the mybloglog widget on my sidebar) and enhanced the interaction or conversation already taking place on the blog.

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NTEN

MAY 7, 2009

Flickr Photo: Steve Wampler I know that -- if you haven't had to already -- many of you are right in the middle of figuring out how to cut your IT budget for the next fiscal year. The next easiest way to reduce IT costs is to evaluate current IT processes and adjust where you can to save money.

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NTEN

JULY 8, 2009

Flickr Photo: _heather_r_ My mother-in-law is famous in our family for one phrase: "Get Over It." More organizations are doing program evaluation than before, and that's fantastic. But evaluation only addresses the past while suggesting a future path. Evaluation is part of innovation, but not all of it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

It takes some action learning, small focused experiments where you track, evaluate, and learn from before investing more time and effort. While there are some obvious easy tools to get started with first, like Flickr, for example, you have to be ready to invest a little bit of time in some thoughtful experimentation.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Post photos and videos from your organization's latest events. If you already have good content on other social services such as YouTube or Flickr, you can publish that content onto your Facebook Page through the use of Facebook Apps. These apps can place a new tab on the top of your profile with your custom content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Most users prefer to consume user generated content, by reading blog, watching videos, or browsing through photos. Open group blogs, photo pools, video collages and similar projects are also good examples of co-creation. The social object can be a person, a place, a thing or an idea. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Flickr Photo: Peat Bakke Sharing and lessons learned is what the NTEN Affinity Group Discuss list is all about. used the group for last week, asking about his project to evaluate and implement an organization-wide document management system. This is exactly what Beau Elston, Riverfront, Inc.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

Click is an exhibition process in three parts: The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. It's very easy to sign up and judge. What makes Click special?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

They left and wrote over 100 positive reviews of the evening, 12 positive reviews of the museum, and shared over 300 photos of their revels on Flickr. Again, hundreds of mostly young people shot hundreds of videos and photos featuring or on location at the museum. Don't look at the number of videos, photos, or reviews.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Flickr Photo from SteveTookIt. Photo by RedRaspus. Smart Social Media Tips, Tactics, and Tools Most of the resource organizing will be taking place over at the WeAreMedia wiki in preparation for the workshops taking place in 2009. I read Chris Brogan's " Your 3 Goals for 2009 " and I loved his process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Then, I match this against participant feedback/evaluations. The venue, the IRDC , was wonderful place. One strategy was to bring the kids together face-to-face to create content online about healthy foods and place on youtube, socnets. Can you use the number of photos tagged as a metric for something on say, flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

Photo by Jeska Linden in flickr Jeska Linden (Jeska Dzwigalski) is the Community Manager for Linden Lab , the creators of the virtual world Second Life , where she has worked since the summer of 2004. I think, as with any other technology, non-profits should first evaluate their own needs. Mixed Reality Event ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

cc licensed flickr photo shared by alumroot. Last year at Princeton, we added a Google Map for people to geotag their home location , an invitation to share photos of the number “15? (it Those went okay, we always get a solid core of photographers tagging and posting pictures to flickr. Flickr the Conference.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

” After one of these presentations, a participant came up to me and pushed back a little on what I’d said, explaining that data was for evaluation and that seemed very passive. We can use that general or generic even mission statement to start putting our social media use into a strategic place. That’s where we start.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

An easy place to start is the web: get out there and see what people are already saying about your museum. Search for your institution of TripAdvisor (for reviews), on Technorati (for blog mentions), on Flickr (for photos), or on YouTube (for rare but coveted visitor-generated videos). Read the comments.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2009

Flickr Photo by edtemeles As Holly notes, it would be silly to try to sum up the NTC in one blog post , so I'll give you something digestable. As the Program Coordinator at NTEN -- the one trying to wrestle everyone and everything together to bring you the NTC -- it's fitting that I evaluate the program side. Ignite Sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2012

Flickr Photo by Star Dust. Data and information visualizations for advocacy, evaluation, social media, network analysis, operations, and more! Next week should be officially be named “Nonprofit Techie Week” in San Francisco! What are the go-to tools? Exciting examples: What are some great examples from nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

link] wildlifewatch Not only that, but it shows how we took our return from this experiment and placed it within the programs website to show more dynamic content and interaction possibilities. Spay Day Photo Contest Page LOL Seals 4. Flickr bc have established presence there and can cross post for bigger influence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Go 5:49 in the clip) Source: Flickr Photos. They think about the network structure, evaluation, communication, training, opportunities, and reflection. Maybe this conversations could take place on an existing community of practice ( Iscale ). She also introduced a new (to me) concept: Network Guardian.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2009

Visit our website to find out how you can contribute video, photos, voice recordings or written advice. We're taking a multi-platform approach: you can call in advice from your phone, add advice images to our Flickr pool , email advice to us, or even send advice via Twitter. And tell your friends!

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Museum 2.0

JULY 29, 2008

When I write posts on this blog or share photos on Flickr, they are searchable in Google. Those messages, photos, and comments are locked behind walls. There are clear delineations of who is inside and who is outside, and the rules inside (no photos, for example) often keep what’s inside from getting outside.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Flickr Photo by whatchamakallit. I'm slightly out of my comfort zone here because I've only been following this topic closely for a short time, although I have co-authored a guide for nonprofits on technology evaluation and ROI. List of the most likely places a human will encounter the media I produce.

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See3

MAY 25, 2007

These sites are places where I can make my page, connect with friends, ect. Embedding a YouTube video is a widget, as are fundraising widgets , Flickr photostream, Photobucket, Slide and many others. All the data in these widgets come from different places and are assembled for my convenience. And they aren’t all kids.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2011

Flickr: flickr.com/humanrights. WITNESS currently utilizes the following social media tools: YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and “Video for Change” (blog). Admittedly, we started without a strong strategy in place, but it also gave WITNESS the opportunity to assess and evaluate better usage for these platforms.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Do you have a digital marketing process in place to manage your content, social, email, and engagement activities? The body is the meat of your article and where the logical step-by-step flow of your content comes into place. I know at times it may feel like a lot to juggle. Work smarter, not harder.

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