Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2009

" A conceptual model of value for social media | Juice Digital - Check ou thte "4 Cs" model developed by Gaurav Mishra: Content, Collaboration, Community and Collective Intelligence, as an example of the progression of what kind of value you can create online for your organization and the larger community. " - Joe Solomon.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 16, 2015

Eli van der Giessen — Netsquared Community Manager. Remote employees have always held the NetSquared community manager role. Email, Skype , and Google+ Hangouts keep me in touch with my Netsquared organizers. And don't discount the importance of informal learning and conversation in the operation of an organization.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

It’s something I can only wrap my mind around by talking to others and hope that this is a chance to further a very important conversation. and so… The Conversation. To connect with supporters, organizations and individuals working on projects will need to be sure that data gets back to them. Well, it means a lot.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

Often times the community’s ideas or needs are shared in ways that require translation, of sorts—someone that can bridge the community and organization, listening to the conversations and identifying the opportunities for the organization. The approach is focused on organic collaboration and growth for the entire community.

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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. An extension is actually good thing, gives us more time to look at all those projects!

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

NetSquared. NetSquared Local groups from around the world are using social media in a variety of ways to promote and collaborate on innovative projects. Read about how the NetSquared Local Warsaw group (NetWtorek) advertises its events through social media. Got social media tips or advice?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon, the capstone thesis project for Heinz School Masters students. Meanwhile, Party4aPurpose launches the alpha version. Check this out.

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Tech Soup

MAY 2, 2013

NetSquared is proud to be a sponsor of this kickstarter project. Help complete this project by pledging today ! We want to help anyone's who's pushing for change unlock the power of networks to help their projects fly. You can check out our project page here: [link].

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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. you are interested in collaborating (not dictating). Sometimes, conversation can grow stagnant and ideas can fail to materialize into projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2006

"I knew that we could be a provider of a network of organizations to meet and collaborate in SL. "I had a couple conversations with Robin Linden, and she had been thinking that there needed to be a more organized nonprofit presence in SL. "I see the most significant benefit to Second Life as being a collaboration space.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

NetSquared. NetSquared Local groups from around the world are using social media in a variety of ways to promote and collaborate on innovative projects. Read about how the NetSquared Local Warsaw group (NetWtorek) advertises its events through social media. Got social media tips or advice?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

I wanted to use today to focus in on a question recently posed by my good friend Joe Solomon on Twitter : What are the nonprofit/orgs that are working 2 wire the green movement, like what @ netsquared does 4 nonprofits, @ sunfoundation for politics; which orgs are working to expose data, leverage soc media, connect the orgs together?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

NpTech Conversations. Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! Drew Bernard has a blog about conversation, technology, activism, and life. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. What should Netsquared's Facebook strategy be? The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Below, I’ve shared my keynote remarks and slides and I hope you’ll share your ideas and further the conversation in the comments. That word change supports co-design, it encourages collaboration, and it ensures engagement. Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation. Communities are flexible.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. They were able to use the platform for organizing offline events, finding and collaborating with volunteer organizers, and more. A great example of using Twitter for real information exchange and for conversation. Very cool project from 2008: Twitter Vote Report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

non-IT professionals understand web applications for collaboration. A key point about how difficult it is for most non-profits to shift from message delivery to conversation and advice about being patience. Why not join, upload your logo in the photo pool, and write a wall post promoting your latest your Facebook project!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

The live video feed was being streamed from the Netsquared gathering in San Francisco happening at the same time as the virtual gatherng in Second Life. The next event I attended was a poster session at the New Media Consortium where you view project posters in the virtual world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs track blog conversations and respond. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together. Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Let's say I want to encourage some conversations about a healthy diet.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2006

As if you don't get enough of my holding forth here, Marshall Kirkpatrick interviewed me the other day for Techsoup's Netsquared project, and posted it here. It was a really enjoyable, rambling conversation. This week I discovered the blog of Ken Stein (no relation), a teacher in New York city.

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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. This will be a conversation that explores the changing media landscape and how the web can rise to the challenge of supporting our communities and their information needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

In addition, have a conversation with the three people who joined you - what did you learn? What I didn't include was the indepth conversation we had about how she has explored and used social networking tools. Some have their own projects already in place before they??ve Look at your data for answers. The Case Study.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

They are a tool that allows for a conversation between the reader and the writer, and for information to reach people quickly all over the world. For example, here is a post that I wrote from Aspiration Tech's Nonprofit Developer's Summit for NetSquared blog readers. Ask them to blog during conference sessions and post photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

This month's Net2 Think Tank question is: How do real-world (offline) events fit into social media conversations and campaigns ? My thinking: Social media conversations and online campaigns create whole new models for bringing together & powering the progressive movement. Courtesy of Joe Solomon. Then check out. Net Tuesdays.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. This will be a conversation that explores the changing media landscape and how the web can rise to the challenge of supporting our communities and their information needs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 8, 2006

A couple weeks ago, I did an interview for the NetSquared Podcast with Leda Dederich, the creator of the dotOrganize project, and co-author of the report "Online Technology For Social Change: From Struggle to Strategy." environment is definitely creating a climate for innovation and collaboration that we haven't seen.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. This will be a conversation that explores the changing media landscape and how the web can rise to the challenge of supporting our communities and their information needs.

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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. For this conversation, we are going to start with the frame of the analog paradigm and move forward from there. It was a terrific conference, with people from all areas of the state and all areas of the sector. Analog Tools.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 28, 2010

I recently had the opportunity to connect with Kedar to learn about a new project to help users measure and manage their consumption, in effect encouraging them to control their environmental impact. I found the project so interesting that I wanted to share it with you here in an interview, covering some key questions from Kedar.

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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. Web Outreach.

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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2011

Thus far, an informal brain trust dedicated to this topic has communicated and collaborated through a private list and closed-door meetings; the NTC in March will mark the first time that we open our conversation to everyone who is interested. How can online tools help a project succeed? Dynamic information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

That was the conversation in the nonprofit, nonprofit technology, and social change social media space. Here's a summary of the distributed conversations, some context, and some questions. The result of these ad hoc collaborations was a folksonomy of terms of nonprofit technology related news and a community of taggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2009

In June, I hosted a discussion about Collaboration and Competition on Social Edge in which the topic of open standards for the nonprofit sector was raised. Sometimes collaborating in one area raises the bar of competition in another. The collaboration question becomes when and how, instead of if. Where to go from here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

See also the Noun Project. Loomly is an online social media calendar that allows multiple users to collaborate from one master calendar. Dropbox is a cloud storage service (sometimes referred to as an online backup service) that is frequently used for file sharing and collaboration. Iconfinder :: iconfinder.com. See also Asana.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

And, above all, the session needs to be a conversation about Social Media, not a lecture. There's also a lot of talk in the nonprofit blog space prompted by a recent Netsquared ThinkTank and some great thinking on the topic, particularly by Wendy Harmon of the Red Cross, mostly focused on ROI. Here's a brain dump of some key points.

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NTEN

JUNE 11, 2014

Alexandra Samuel is the VP of Social Media for Vision Critical , a customer intelligence software company, where she has authored two landmark studies based on large-scale consumer data: Sharing is the New Buying: How to Win in the Collaborative Economy , and From Social to Sale.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

And then another program is Reclaim the Future, which is one our newest projects, that is addressing green-color jobs and building opportunities for low-income people, formerly convicted people, and communities of color in this new green economy. Whatever conversation needs to happen, whatever initiative needs to birth.

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