Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 24, 2012

Survey says: Most noprofiteers blend their personal/professional brands | Big Duck – "Last week I had the joy of presenting a workshop with the fabulous Danielle Brigida of the National Wildlife Federation at the 7th Annual Bridge to Integrated Marketing & Fundraising Conference in Washington, DC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

The morning was a round of 20 minute keynotes, including me, representing a wide range of perspectives on the issue of NGOs that do humanitarian work. My slides are here. In the afternoon, I did workshop and put the audience right on the cat walk with me. My slides are here. Many passionate people and stories. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Compasspoint Workshop Slides - Beta. Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. The workshop was hosted by Compasspoint , with support from the Lucile and David Packard Foundation. View more presentations from kanter. What's the Hash Tag?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Small group or partnering learning activity: Reflection on reading materials, debriefing on exercises or practice activities, identifying issues and concerns, brainstorming ideas and solutions to bring to the whole group, action research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

I presented a master class on The Networked Nonprofit as pre-conference session, a mini-workshop on the Happy Healthy Nonprofit , and a plenary session on engaging donors moderated by Macelo Jambeiro, a talented digital strategist that works for an agency called Alder & Lang and previously with Change.org. .” The audience laughed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Yesterday, I facilitated a hot topic workshop at the Healthy Communities Annual Conference hosted by the Search Institute in Minneapolis. And, best of all, I had young people in the workshop - all age 17 and under - the generation dubbed as " Generation Z. So, remixed my slide deck to represent the different points of view.

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MAY 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. The slides are also available for download. Between the giant squid brainstorming and experimentation, I gave a talk to the larger Smithsonian Institution about multi-platform museum experiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

My colleague, Rami Al-Karmi, who served as the social media specialist for the Jordan e-Mediat team and works for N2V , invited me to do a mini-workshop at the N2Vlabs Talks series and met the fellows in Amman before coming to the Dead Sea. I go through my slides and think will this metaphor or idea translate to this cultural context.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Reading challenge Issue a community-wide reading challenge this spring to encourage literacy in your community. Local gardening experts can have the chance to demonstrate their green thumb and teach others in workshops that cover topics such as organic gardening, composting, or urban gardening.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Whether offering a workshop, giving a keynote speech in your community, or persuading funders in a new campaign, nonprofit leaders require strong presentation skills — from designing amazing slides and visuals to listening to your audience as you share your ideas. Are you looking for secrets to giving great presentations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

And the Producers Institute is a 10-day workshop that brings together a select group of documentary filmmakers and technologists to create outreach and activism strategies using online and mobile tools for activism. Guest Post by Vincent Stehle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

I'm getting ready to a workshop later this week, I did a simple pre-workshop assessment, asking folks about their level of experience/comfort and their burning questions. In my presentations, I use a slide from Nina Simon's blog post called " How Much Time Does It Take To Do Web2.0 Download it here. In A Museum?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 31, 2007

Amazing how fast we slide right back into "real life." Educational Davos You get educated on the big issues facing your business and society (often the same issues). Top experts explain these issues with a depth and sophistication you rarely get elsewhere. Here are just a few of the Davos' I saw in action last week.

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JUNE 4, 2010

She was nice enough to share back this great slide deck about email newsletter best practices and strategies. And, if you're working on this issue at your organization, you should definitely check out our Taming the Data Monster workshop coming in July). She also provides a link to a sample dashboard one nonprofit is using.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

100% of participants implement a process and write a social media policy that addresses organizational adoption issues. Dealing with Connectivity Issues, Remote Work, and Use of Social Platforms. Networked NGOs and Social Media Integrated Into Organizational Communications.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

There were interesting conversations at every turn and I also had requests to share my notes and slides. Below, you can find my full speech and slides, as well as links to address questions and requests from many of those I met with. Yesterday, I had the chance to run a workshop with the leadership institute graduates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2008

The last couple of months have been busy with conferences, workshops, and travel. Right before Thanksgiving I ended up getting sick and have been behind in posting my conference slides and reflections. Laura and Amy presented using the above slides while I Amy brought me in via Skype her computer to listen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2008

This slide show from Stephen Collins make me think about teaching Internet Skills Workshops for Nonprofits that I used teach over dozen or so years ago. The slide show is from a session he did at BarCamp Sydney called " All You Do Is Talk Talk Talk." | View | Upload your own. " It has stuck with me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

I am participating in this year's " Connected Futures: New Social Strategies adn Tools for Communities of Practice " a five week online workshop for community managers, designers and conveners to explore social strategies and tools to support their work. The workshop begins on April 20th and you can register here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Note From Beth: Since 2007, I've been using, adapting, and remixing the Social Media Game social media workshops for nonprofits. Dave Witzel was a participant in the workshop and thought the game could be adapted as apart of training on social media at the staff retreat. In fact, just last month, I took it to India.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

The organization offers weekend and weeklong residential mindfulness retreats for teens, including poor youth and those with major emotional issues. The organization has a radical sliding scale of $35 to $1,500 for a teen retreat so that poor youth can experience the benefits of mindfulness. Mindfulness Retreats for Poor Teens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

This is a big issue for teachers who don’t want to friend their students for obvious reasons. Source: Mary Joyce, Digital Activism Workshop - E-Mediat Project. I’m reminded of this slide from Mary Joyce from the E-Mediat Training. And that’s why it is critical to be strategic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

When possible, I get a list of attendees at workshops or conferences, and I visit their web sites and social media outposts. So making the audience part of the slide deck and inviting commentary surfaces the wisdom and knowledge in the room. These ideas are illustrated in the slides below. What fun is that for me or them?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2008

Slide from David Wilcox. The visual is from a reflection by David Wilcox after a workshop he gave in March. He summarizes the internal control issues elegantly: New media tools can give housing associations better ways to provide information, and support communication and collaboration within and outside the organisation.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Whether offering a workshop, giving a keynote speech in your community, or persuading funders in a new campaign, nonprofit leaders require strong presentation skills — from designing amazing slides and visuals to listening to your audience as you share your ideas. Click HERE to join Nonprofits Live: Great Presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

I've been an strong advocate of Creative Commons for the last four years, have written many blog posts , and even taught a workshop or two on "Open Content.". (If They responded, " But what if the person who reuses your context slaps their logo on it and add a "All Rights Reserved" on the slide. Remix this Powerpoint.

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Care2

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Just like inviting your friends to watch 3 hours of photo slides with no breaks from your vacation is poor hosting, subjecting your guests to long speeches or powerpoint shows that seemingly never end will lose you friends. What you can do is do everything you can do to avoid those issues from coming up again. Have a cosmo.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2008

youre a funder in the philanthropic sector, and youve concluded that online collaboration is a great tool for solving issues like. You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 31, 2007

youre a funder in the philanthropic sector, and youve concluded that online collaboration is a great tool for solving issues like. You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2009

youre a funder in the philanthropic sector, and youve concluded that online collaboration is a great tool for solving issues like. You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 7, 2007

youre a funder in the philanthropic sector, and youve concluded that online collaboration is a great tool for solving issues like. You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of.

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Forum One

MARCH 24, 2008

youre a funder in the philanthropic sector, and youve concluded that online collaboration is a great tool for solving issues like. You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

That's my all time favorite slide from a powerpoint deck called " Sowing the seeds of enterprise2.0 I was reminded of that slide today when I read Read/WriteWeb's piece Fear of Web 2.0 " I've covered some aspects of this in my screencast and workshop on " Tagging for Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing For Nonprofits."

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

youre a funder in the philanthropic sector, and youve concluded that online collaboration is a great tool for solving issues like. You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

youre a funder in the philanthropic sector, and youve concluded that online collaboration is a great tool for solving issues like. You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

youre a funder in the philanthropic sector, and youve concluded that online collaboration is a great tool for solving issues like. You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of.

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Forum One

AUGUST 29, 2008

youre a funder in the philanthropic sector, and youve concluded that online collaboration is a great tool for solving issues like. You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of.

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