Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

For example, simply review the hundreds of ideas listed in NetSquared ’s Project Gallery and you’ll quickly see that people from around the world are hard at work leveraging all kinds of technologies to create positive change for communities tackling many different issues. I think there are too many to count, really.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

Netsquared is new project in its embryonic stages from Compumentor, the folks who have brought excellent technology resources to the nonprofit field. What we do know is that both the online and offline work of every non-profit can be enhanced by a dynamic online community in which organizations and users support one another.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 12, 2013

That means it’s time for our monthly roundup of all the crazy goodness created by NetSquared Local in May. What is NetSquared Local? NetSquared Local is TechSoup’s volunteer-driven network of nonprofit tech meetups and salons. NetSquared’s Organizers are movers and shakers. Why was NetSquared created?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

There are many who approach the online landscape with very different views than their offline business decisions. But, I do want an arena for the communities to describe what they do want and be an integral part of the process to building and sustaining whatever that is. How can this work?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

org on Climate Change and Building a Movement – "Social Media Coordinator, Joe Solomon took some time to explain what 350 really means, talk about transforming community inspiration into political power, and share a story about how his work with 350.org Repair Interview: Joe Solomon of 350.org

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We had experienced a digital land-grab; putting up profiles and setting up accounts in the “if you build it, they will come” spirit. The magical kingdom in which offline and online worked together, where strategies that were proven in one place were re-imagined in new ones. Thus, we entered the social period. Social Strategies.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Speaker: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Session: Building Stronger Online Communities Without Losing Your Sanity & Bringing Community Organizing Into Online Campaigns. if you want me and the whole global NetSquared community, visit: [link]. - We're asking them all to share their answers to five very important questions.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

—– Over on the NetSquared platform right now we are in the midst of the 2010 FACT Social Justice Challenge. NetSquared supports the community at the intersection of technology and social impact in a few ways, including open innovation competitions. Has your organization run a competition online or offline?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

Especially with the increased use of social media tools to help community building activity around causes or specific organizations. This is an excerpt from a blog post I wrote quite a while ago that compares the roles of gardeners and landscapers in the context of community building. Events: NetSquared Camps. Case Studies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. Allan Benamer weighs in with some observations after wading through the comments over at the Netsquared site and pointing to Holden from GiveWell to be the most salient point. The site was developed by Democracy in Action.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Get answers to your tech challenges at a NetSquared meetup (see list below). Check out this video from NetSquared Northern Michigan’s recent meeting. ” September’s NetSquared Events. Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. Don’t have a local NetSquared Local group?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

I was also an early member of Netsquared Community , another one of Marnie’s brilliant ideas that rocked the field. The point I make over and over is that you begin slowly with small steps and build up to your capacity level. 6: Use social media to close the loop between online and offline action.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

By now, you've probably heard all the benefits of building a social media presence on Facebook or Twitter. Here are five questions to explore when building a social media presence. NetSquared. Read about how the NetSquared Local Warsaw group (NetWtorek) advertises its events through social media. TechSoup Canada.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2014

She recently shared her social media and community-building wisdom at an event organized by the SF Tech4Good group and the San Francisco Online Community Meetup Group. Not For Sale wants to empower people to engage with their own online and offline communities. They have found Twitter and Facebook quite effective for doing this.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project. Charity Fundraising Agent (Android, iPhone) helps you keep track of your fundraising campaigns by monitoring both online and offline donations. Mobile Fundraising Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

It is the trash from the buildings. Premal talked about the need for creating magic for the users and building in workflow software that was facilitated relationship building through the ladder of engagement. is about building a bridge between two-way online communication and offline actions and impact.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2013

Amy and I will provide concrete advice from our new book Social Change Anytime Everywhere on what you need to be doing to build and mobilize your communities through multifaceted campaigns and by integrating social media into your online communications and outreach. Register here to get the party started!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

The offline wikipedia, Moulin. Marshall Kirkpatrick, longtime Netsquared blogger, is now working with Splashcast also at DEMO 07 this week. Check out this splashcast channel with a nonprofit theme created by Netsquared Blogger, Britt Bravo. Cross-posted at Netsquared A new blog platform for fair-minded bloggers.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Recently, over 300 innovators and changemakers interested in the intersection of technology and social benefit work converged for a few days of idea-sharing, learning, and collaboration at NetSquared's annual conference. About NetSquared. To learn more about NetSquared or get involved, visit [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

Britt Bravo wrote a post several months back defining the term: people who are using their blog, podcast or vlog to raise awareness, build community, and/or facilitate readers/listeners/viewers' taking action to make the world a better place. This fall, DC will be one of 35 cities visited by NetSquared???s What's that? s Alex Steed.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2016

So You Wanna Build an App for That: Experts Share Tips on Taking Apps from Need to Launch — Wednesday, March 23 — 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. Bridging the Divide: Online and Offline Community Managers — Thursday, March 24 — 10:30 a.m. Want to know if NetSquared is right for you? Learn from TechSoup Leaders.

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Tech Soup

JULY 19, 2016

By voting for the sessions you want to see at the conference, you're helping build a lineup that delivers the most relevant and practical educational content. Editors' note: NetSquared organizers and TechSoup staff submitted sessions, and we would LOVE it if you weighed in and voted!]. How to Vote for NTC Sessions. spanhidden

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

By now, you've probably heard all the benefits of building a social media presence on Facebook or Twitter. Here are five questions to explore when building a social media presence. NetSquared. Read about how the NetSquared Local Warsaw group (NetWtorek) advertises its events through social media. TechSoup Canada.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2017

Last week, we reported on a recent NetSquared London Meetup that investigated the IT tools that can be used to operate nonprofits inexpensively and effectively. The 50-plus people who attended the recent NetSquared London Meetup all had a chance to nominate and vote for their favorite productivity tools. Open-Source Tools.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Elijah van der Giessen, TechSoup's NetSquared community organizer, will be meeting with fellow community organizers to discuss the challenges and rewards of growing both online and offline communities. Bring your ideas and experience about event logistics, creative formats, and building robust communities. – 4:00 p.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

That's when I was working with the New York Foundation for the Arts on its technology capacity building programs, including offline/online workshops for online skill building called SpiderSchool. I finally got to meet Jayne about a year at the netsquared conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

When we assume we are separate, we build systems that reinforce that separateness. When we assume we are interconnected and interdependent, we build systems that reinforce those connections." Strength build upon our stengths, not our weaknesses. Being the change we want to see” means walking the talk of our values.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. Cyberspace Innkeeping: Building Online Community by John Coate was first written in 1992 and will give you a good context of online community practice. More than $100,000 is on the table for innovate projects. platforms.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2016

Since the first NetSquared challenge in 2006, TechSoup has continued to offer people and organizations opportunities to connect, share ideas, and collaborate; they work on solutions online and offline through events, meetups, and hackathons. But these open challenges aren't just about building wildly successful apps.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

Many years ago, NetSquared hosted challenges and conferences to highlight and bring together fledging social entrepreneurs. One finalist's pitch was: "We have buy-in from the community, we have rich networks on the ground, and we are building on pre-existing technologies." netsquared digital divide' spanhidden.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2009

Submitted by Ivan Boothe, publisher of the Rootwork Blog Over at the NetSquared blog, Joe Solomon provided a great roundup of reasons people might be "jaded about social media for change" and ways they overcome it. Sometimes that's all you need - making a donation, sending petitions, affecting website ratings, flooding online polls, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

In Ethiopia, she did organizational capacity building work for a local network of NGOs. An offline newsletter or meeting is very important in Ghana for instance for reaching people as they don???t And Netsquared. She notes, "I started in Kenya working with a water users association, living in a thatched hut!"

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Example: Volunteer Match's Engaging Volunteers blog is running a series about Boomer Engagement: Build Your Organization's Capacity, Even in Times of Scarcity. One way to build trust is to write with an authentic and personal voice on your organization's blog. Share your challenges and successes. Share your reasons for working there.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

NetSquared DC organized a panel discussion on Engagement Strategy: Empowering Champions* and Influencers* on November 3, 2015, to delve into this question. NetSquared DC Engagement Strategies Panelists — Maddie Grant, Andrew Nachison, and Dale Pfeifer (left to right). Engage Offline. The panelists included. spanhidden.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

I will say that there are regulations that relate well to offline consumer relationships that don’t apply well online. At first you won't get many comments - it takes time to build up a community of people who will comment. Some specific groups exist: social media club , netsquared , tweetup , etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? How do you use the latest technologies to build active networks and roadmaps for action? How do you balance online action with offline engagement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? How do you use the latest technologies to build active networks and roadmaps for action? How do you balance online action with offline engagement?

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