Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

By last month, the user ratio between male and female had come up to about 70/30 and the country with the second highest number of users was India at about 13 percent. If your community meets offline at a local watering hole to share opinions and make plans, don’t bother setting up a Twitter account with the purpose of influencing them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

I've been on Twitter since almost the beginning and have watched charitable giving and fundraising go from the edge to mainstream. The event attracted a lot of attention because it was an example of integrating a live charity event with Twitter. (See Twitter is establishing itself as a charitable giving and cause marketing channel.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Beth has over 30 years working in the nonprofit sector in technology, training, capacity building, evaluation, fundraising and marketing. Beth is an expert in facilitating online and offline peer learning, curriculum development based on traditional adult learning theory and other instructional approaches. Nonprofits and Gen Z.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. Fundraising. Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. How can we do that? 100% of donations went directly to disaster relief.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. I will explain the use of mapping, fundraising, and crowdsourcing. Examples from Haiti. The Haiti earthquakes were no exception.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Another post-PC device to buy and pay attention to. The service has 17 million users and is transforming the way wealth is distributed in poor countries, which now include Tanzania, India, and Afghanistan as well as Kenya. Fundraising. Find my piece, “ Will Facebook’s Internet.org Bridge the Global Digital Divide?

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