Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 3, 2010

My work with NetSquared and with Social by Social has helped shape so many of my beliefs about community organizing and has offered the opportunity to meet so many others doing it well. What are your favorite examples or case studies where this is really working? What roles are important in online community organizing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2005

Looks like Netsquared is morphing before our eyes. Case study content is beginning to appear, some of it developed by fellow Boston area nptecher, Deborah Finn. Technorati Tags: net2

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2009

TechSoup Global's NetSquared project is doing some amazing work, particularly on the use of mobile technologies and social change around the world. Here's a quick snapshot of some of the projects they're working on now: Case studies: Amy Sample Ward has posted the first in a series of NetSquared case studies on their site.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2010

Here’s a listing of sessions and spaces hosted by NetSquared and TechSoup: Community-Driven Social Impact Session. Amy Sample Ward from NetSquared. This session focuses on strategies and case studies for creating successful community-driven media, events and campaigns. Room: 1471. Get in Touch Via Twitter.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

NetSquared Open Space (NOS): APIs and Open Data. Who : Facilitating: Amy Sample Ward | NetSquared; Billy Bicket | NetSquared. The NetSquared team will be working the room to activate and facilitate conversations so everyone can enjoy the ride. Who : NetSquared and other Community Organizers. When : 9:00 a.m.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0 " The year was 2005.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 20, 2009

Social media brings thousands of ppl w/diabetes together at the SAME time | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org - Manny Hernandez (@askmanny on Twitter), the creator of TuDiabetes.com has shared a great case study on the NetSquared Community Blog about how they have used social media tools to bring a community together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Netsquared Voting Deadline Extended. Due to some technical glitches , you now have 48 additional hours to figure out what 5-10 of the 150 fantastic social change and technology projects at Netsquared will receive your vote. There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Article: NetSquared and the new wave of online volunteering. Please visit the #4Change blog to contribute other interesting links, case studies and questions you’d like to see raised during the chat. Tags: events 4change chat twitter volunteer volunteering. Recruiting volunteers online. Volunteer Match. All for Good.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Article: NetSquared and the new wave of online volunteering. Please visit the #4Change blog to contribute other interesting links, case studies and questions you’d like to see raised during the chat. Tags: events 4change chat twitter volunteer volunteering. Recruiting volunteers online. Volunteer Match. All for Good.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We sought out case studies or examples that reinforced much of how we already operated. We looked at case studies that showed which tools were used and how, and especially to what end. This is also the period when honest case studies take the forefront.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

I'm tagging information related to discussion, examples, and comments about nonprofits using tagging (or not using tagging) to prep for upcoming session at netsquared.org with the tag del.icio.us/nptag. What would this visual look like if it was translated into a graphic of nonprofit tagging use? Emily's post ).

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Net2 Think Tank: Online Fundraising Lessons Learned | NetSquared – "The Facebook application Causes recently announced it hit the $20 Million mark in donations. The America's Giving Challenge from Case Foundation spurred $2.1 Million in donations for charities this past winter. ." Which are best/worst?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog.). Tags: challenge justmeans grant case studies contest socialchange climate change socialmedia. Do you have a guess at how it will play out? I’d love to hear it! Change Climage Change: Grant Proposals Open. Submit your idea to JustMeans.

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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. We’re all learning as we go! We’d love to hear your examples!

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 24, 2009

SocialChangeNews is now live in beta, and open to being a case study in this topic themselves! We post a question or topic to the NetSquared community and participants submit responses either on their own blogs or on the NetSquared Community Blog. You can check it out for yourself at www.socialchangenews.com.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 10, 2009

No worries, share your expertise, or get involved in a hands-on session happening in the NetSquared Garage. Do you need real-world case studies to help inform the way you think and develop your mobile projects? Tags: events conference mobile n2y4. Are you challenged by lecture-formats? Kick the tires.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2010

Today Allison Fine and I celebrated the launch of the Networked Nonprofit at TechSoup Global in the space where Netsquared Meetups take place. Most importantly, the vision that Marnie Webb had over five years ago called Netsquared inspired me to keep blogging and explore social media and nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2010

Netsquared is running a thinktank on this topic and you contribute your ideas here. Tags: policy. How do you operationalise it? Have some thoughts? Laural Papworth: 40 Social Media Policy Links 40 Guidelines for web 2.0. World. . .

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 7, 2010

Whether I’m talking about my role at NetSquared , my blog , or my network of friends, I am inspired every day and find value in, and rewards for, my participation. Tags: community strategy case studies community building guest post. This is a guest post I wrote for the Online Community Report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

NetSquared. Netsquared Featured projects receive grant awards ! Yikes, the first ever tag spam I've seen in the NpTech Tag Stream! Then, I remembered the phrase flowed through the NPtech tag stream about six months as a reference to interface design.) Some really cool events flowing through the NpTech Tag Stream!

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2005

(. in which I continue to interview my former dorm-mate, Mark Liu, now the project manager for TechSoup's NetSquared initiative) [Me] What can you tell us about the April NetSquared conference? First, we hope to build a community of active participants in the NetSquared website over the coming months.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 5, 2009

Related posts: Convio Case Study of C3 Read the whole thing here. Help send me to the NetSquared Conference Okay, time for shameless begging and plugging… I’m really interested. Tags: Nonprofit. Convio Summit. While we won’t officially be off the GetActive platform and.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

A short case study about the Nature Conservancy uses e-metrics. Jason at DIA tagged it with this note: "The most universal piece of advice about using social networks for fundraising and friendraising is to start small." The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! The good folks at Care2 (Heather Holdridge, Justin Perkins, and James O'Malley) have a detailed case study on the NTEN blog about the top Facebook winner of the recent Case Foundation America's Giving Challenge. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 6, 2005

As I mentioned in my November 3rd post , I am working as a Community Builder with NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup. Our goal is to create a gallery of case studies that will provide inspiration and information for other nonprofits. I'm double blogging right now, here and on the NetSquared blog.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog. Real-Life Accessibility Case Studies. Adding a verbal image tag when embedding an image can enhance user experience, especially if the user has software which "reads" web sites aloud. " - from Tom Dekker via email.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 16, 2010

This post was originally published on the NetSquared Blog and was written by Claire Sale. Here's a listing of sessions and spaces hosted by NetSquared and TechSoup: Community-Driven Social Impact Session. Amy Sample Ward from NetSquared Date: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 from 8:30 a.m. - Eastern Room: 1471.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2010

Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . NetSquared (a project of TechSoup ), NTEN , and Beth Kanter (and SxSWi!) Tags: community buzz NPTech nten members. Members are in bold. Deadline to apply is Feb 19.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Read the full case study here. You can read the full case study here. To get started and to review more case studies, visit: [link]. Tags: socialmedia. Panelists: Natalie Foster, DNC ; Rebecca Moore, Google Earth Outreach ; Laura Quinn, Idealware.

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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2010

That's social media for social good, and that's exactly what NetSquared and NTEN want to highlight with Beth Kanter this spring at SXSWi. . Of course, we don't just want to talk about Haiti -- we want to highlight some amazing work from around the sector, while also building a nice little library of case studies we can all learn from.

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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2010

That's social media for social good, and that's exactly what NetSquared and NTEN want to highlight with Beth Kanter this spring at SXSWi. Of course, we don't just want to talk about Haiti -- we want to highlight some amazing work from around the sector, while also building a nice little library of case studies we can all learn from.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2007

I got an email from an instructor at Standard University continuing education who plans to remix it and an email from someone in Italy who will translate the game and fundraising case study into Italian. I set up a nptech group there and have been tagging slide shows I've discovered that might be useful others with the nptech tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

In our session at NetSquared today, we used Social Actions as a case study in engaging online community participation, and shared two strategy tools that can help you make your nonprofit site more engaging. Tags: engagement guest blogging n2y4. analyze your worksheets to understand your audiences and target actions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

Photo by PixelFarmer - Zen Mutt (a rescue dog) - Title "Precision" The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to rethink, reinvent -- again. Conversations are getting more distributed and it is getting increasingly difficult to use tagging to discover, aggregate, and summarize them. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. you'll hear case studies of social media disasters and how they could have been prevented, as well as how brands have dealt with potential PR nightmares.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

So, it's due time to give shout-outs where shout-outs are due: Members converging online: Care2 , Allyson Kapin , and the National Women's Law Center , all NTEN members, offer a great case study on using Google Grants. NetSquared is partnering with UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center for a Mobile Innovation Challenge.

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