Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). …That means setting aside our shiny online tools and tactics long enough to ensure that we're using them to deliver real impact."

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 15, 2009

" DoGooderTV Contest 2009 - Vote for your favorite Nonprofit videos - DoGooderTV's 2nd Nonprofit Video Awards have seen almost 400 submissions from 175 organizations and causes! These are some links I wanted to share from April 15th. Find me on Delicious for more!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. The site was developed by Democracy in Action. NpTech Community.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

India Social Entrepreneurship Journey, February 2010 Contest - Please support me! Part of my role as the Global Community Development Manager at NetSquared is to support and grow our offline organizers from around the world. Here is a copy of the application narrative; you can read it and vote for me on the competition site here.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

TechSoup and NetSquared have joined forces to bring you a September full of social media learning! Coordinated Universal time Topic: Instagram photo contests. Coordinated Universal time Topic: online activism and social media use in times of crisis. Naples, Florida, United States 11:00 a.m. Eastern time / 1:00 p.m.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

The Value-add of Crowdsourcing: For me, the two biggest reasons to include crowdsourcing in your strategic design of community building or contests are: Crowdsourcing invites diversity by encouraging anyone with an idea or interest to participate. You can see the full collection, and how they were voted on by the community here: [link].

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Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2013

If you don't already have a NetSquared account (you should! Select your top three projects from [link] and fill out your online ballot. Be sure to share the contest with your community - we need your expertise to make sure the right application wins. you should. go to [link] and create a user account.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

We also have a contest in which we're giving away $7,000 in cash prizes and a new camera. And if you need some help with your video, you can take our short, free online course or sign up for help from one of our experts. NetSquared Vancouver** shares [slides and videos]([link] from their November event. * Wednesday, May 11.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

NYC Haunts is a mobile game created by the Global Kids Online Leadership Organization in a partnership with the New York Public Library. Depending on your resources and budget, adding a gaming element to your organization's campaigns could be as simple as a social media contest or as elaborate as developing your own game-like app.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2016

We also have a contest in which we're giving away US$7,000 in cash prizes and a new camera (but don't be afraid to start with the cell phone in your pocket!). NetSquared groups are holding free events all month. Kenya: NetSquared Camp — Storytelling 2016. SF Online Community Meetup. Thursday, April 7.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 30, 2009

If you're looking for tips when making your video for the contest, or for making YouTube videos for your nonprofit in general, check out these posts for ideas and advice: 9 YouTube Features You May Not Know About by Holly DeRuyter on Frogloop YouTube Adds Call To Action Tool For Nonprofit Videos by Allyson Kapin on Frogloop Online Video Production (..)

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Experiment with online contests, both creating them and participating in them. Online contests like the Knight News Challenge , The Case Foundation's America's Giving Challenge , and the AmEx Cardmember Project can be resource draining to participate in, especially for a time- and cash-strapped nonprofit. Get an iPhone.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

It probably isn't too early to start thinking about that busy year-end online fundraising season. The Wall Street Journal published a very positive piece about the potential for online giving and social networks. million to support a project based on feedback from the online community. Which one worked best? And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

They are hosting a contest to win $10,000K to celebrate their launch. Sixdegrees.org is running a contest with Hanes T-shirts to win $10,000K. Sean's take, "Innovations in online philanthropy is often attributed to ???young " New Realisties in Online Advocacy " tagged and Jason from Democracy in Action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Netsquared Net Tuesday next week in SF is about " How Nonprofits Can Use And Build Online Social Networks ," featuring speakers from Change.org and Ning. over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

Comment, Blog it, tag it NpTech, and/or start a blog over at the Netsquared site. Film Contest - " Film Your Issue " from Yahoo and other sponsors. The 59 Smartest orgs online is a list of 59 organizations that make good use of the web2.0 Cross posted at Netsquared Have an opinion on any of these topics?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 applications have changed the rules of online community. Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

He does mentioned that it takes an online promotion strategy to build an audience and that blogs should be part of the strategy. Contests can work too, the Crooks and Liars was mentioned. Current offers TV time; Sunlight Foundation and moveon.org ran contests for the best ads, with Sunlight offering cash prizes.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

We recently polled our TechSoup employees and NetSquared community on what they see as looming large in 2015. TechSoup's senior online community manager, Lewis Haidt, predicts that charities will use more sophisticated group social media tools like Thunderclap that amplify messaging. What they said may surprise you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

This particular Carnival raises the question of how to decide which online social media tools to use and ramp up your skills using it. Define something small and tangible - whether it be a flickr photo contest or exploring the content related to your organization's issue and identifying 10 friends or contacts. The Short Resource List.

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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. These are talked about and posted online regardless of your participation. Also CauseWired - which was recently published and is all about online fundraising using social networks.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

After the Internet became more than an online super highway crowded with signposts, we moved into a much more fast-paced and interesting period: the digital paradigm. In many ways, we just reversed the analog approach, holding too tightly to digital technologies, applications, and online communication options. Social Strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'll be using a new online learning platform that I haven't used before and the participants are a slightly different audience than nonprofit staff or at least I think. Examples include Creative Commons Swag Contest and Fight Hunger Video Contest. Wikipedia , the online open-community encyclopedia, is the most well known.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Loomly is an online social media calendar that allows multiple users to collaborate from one master calendar. Knowing basic HTML is a must-have skill for online marketers. Iconfinder is an online database of almost one million icons and many of the social media icons sets are available to download for free. Wix :: wix.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2017

And that’s why we offer social media events, NetSquared meet-ups, and educational trainings – all geared towards educating organizations on how to create a powerful digital story ( Nonprofits can submit stories to our storytelling contest through October 31, 2017 ). Don’t be intimidated! Create stories with heart and passion.

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