learning – Amy Sample Ward https://amysampleward.org Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:32:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://amysampleward.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/cropped-ASW-Purple-Wall-32x32.png learning – Amy Sample Ward https://amysampleward.org 32 32 Launching the Global Scale wiki: Learn and share about scaling up! https://amysampleward.org/2010/08/10/launching-the-global-scale-wiki-learn-and-share-about-scaling-up/ https://amysampleward.org/2010/08/10/launching-the-global-scale-wiki-learn-and-share-about-scaling-up/#comments Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:03:30 +0000 https://amysampleward.org/?p=1684 Continue readingLaunching the Global Scale wiki: Learn and share about scaling up!]]> As readers of this blog know, I often mention the idea of “movement building.” There is enormous opportunity and potential for creating real, lasting impact in our world by operating in a movement-oriented way with our programs, events, campaigns, and calls to action. Collaboration and partnerships can easily come together and be successful under and umbrella that puts the work of all those involved toward the movement, instead of the one-time effort or project.  Scale is incredibly important to creating movements, and we are all still learning how we scale our work to a global level.

The world is made up of different culturesIntroducing the Global Scale wiki!

Bonnie Koenig and I have had some great conversations about how we have seen and how we have tackled scale in our work.  In those conversations, we realized that we probably had some good examples to share and case studies to provide; but we also realized that there were many, many more people we wanted to be having the conversation with! That’s what led us to start the Global Scale wiki, and we hope that you’ll join us…

With this wiki, we are aiming to create a resource for NGO practitioners where guidelines, lessons learned, tips, links and other help for ‘scaling up’ effective programs can be found.

Today, we’re hoping that by sharing this invitation via the blogosphere (and the corresponding tweets and emails) that you’ll share your ideas and enthusiasm with us – and join us on the wiki. Check out Bonnie’s announcement, too!

Join & Contribute

This wiki is a community learning space, where we recognize that we are all still learning, testing, and experimenting; and where we are all in a position to share and learn.  We hope you’ll take this as an open invitation to jump right in with your own case studies, lessons or best practices and also comment if there are questions you hope others can address.

Visit the Global Scale wiki to dive in today: http://globalscale.wikispaces.com

Looking forward to sharing with you there!

]]> https://amysampleward.org/2010/08/10/launching-the-global-scale-wiki-learn-and-share-about-scaling-up/feed/ 10 Want a peek at my RSS: Here it is! https://amysampleward.org/2009/06/11/want-a-peak-at-my-rss-here-it-is/ https://amysampleward.org/2009/06/11/want-a-peak-at-my-rss-here-it-is/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:56:18 +0000 http://www.amysampleward.org/?p=798 Continue readingWant a peek at my RSS: Here it is!]]> When it comes to “nptech” or nonprofit technology, there are more blogs and organizations and resources than any one person can find, let alone keep track of!  I’m no exception.  I’m overwhelmed daily, just like everyone else, by the amount of information that’s available from, for and about our sector of technology and social benefit.  So, my response is simple: I want to share my RSS reader with you. What’s in my brain, can be in yours!

Amy Sample Ward’s Version of RSS

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Why?

This is just a starting place. There are other places you can go to find more blogs and resources as well, like Alltop and even WeAreMedia.  So, why did I do this? I want to help support those just starting to investigate the options of social technologies for social change work, as well as give something back to those already invested and contributing to the community.  Opening up my RSS reader (well, except for my mom’s blog and that kind of thing!) is something I have wanted to do for a while because it

  1. provides an opportunity for me to offer a bit of value back to the larger tech+change community that is so valuable to me
  2. is aligned with my core values of collaboration and sharing
  3. creates a chance to improve this collection of feeds by and with my community

What?

My public RSS reader is built on Netvibes, which is a free, web-based RSS reader.  This is a place to find blogs or RSS feeds from research or organizational websites – all focused on the large intersection of social technologies and social benefit work.  This is free to use and publicly accessible.  As you will see, it has many different tabs to try to help with the information overload of juggling so many great content sources.  Check it out!

Join me!

I would love for you to visit the public RSS reader, but even more so, I would love for you to suggest feeds that should be part of it! You can either comment on the News & Resources page, or email me with your suggestions.

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