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TechSoup Global Contributors’ Summit

Amy Sample Ward

Location : San Jose, CA. I’ll be speaking, facilitating and assisting with the event. Topic : Technology and Social Impact.

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N2Y4 Mobile Challenge and Conference

Amy Sample Ward

The “State of Mobile” topical sessions will be facilitated by leaders in both the NGO and private-sector-sphere. Location: Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA. See you in San Jose! Blow your mind. 2billion people are carrying mobile phones every day. Sessions promise to cover leading theories and practices.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits That Can Boost Professional Success

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we wrote and published the Emerging Leaders Playbook last year, along with facilitating a peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

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Can Crowds Be Trained Like Seals?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If crowds can't be trained to appear like the cheshire cat in Alice in Wonderland when needed, can they be facilitated? Envision San Jose 2040 (There's even a platform to support the virtual charrette called " wiki planning ". Was that crowd trained, facilitated, or orchestrated? Crowdsourcing the Genome .

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New Years Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals: 2023

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Giving Circle : I helped co-found and am co-leading the San Jose Business Women for Good Giving Circle. Remote and Hybrid Facilitation Workshops : During the past few years, interest soared in learning how to facilitate better virtual meetings has soared.

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Leading with Reflection: New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Our article, “ 8 Steps Nonprofits Can Take to Adopt AI Responsibly, ” published in the Stanford Innovation Review was listed as the ten top most popular articles of 2023. Training & Facilitation: I have maintained an active schedule of leading workshops, facilitating retreats, and presenting.

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Approach Social Media Like Thomas Edison

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On Friday, I facilitated the final face-to-face workshop for the Social Media Lab for 25 arts organizations inspired by Thomas Edison’s approach. Opera San Jose Case Study. Opera San Jose gave a presentation on its #operaplot hashtag contest where participants has to tweet the plots of operas in 140 characters.