Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

NetSquared’s Global Community Builder , Amy Sample Ward, will be at the NTC this year to connect and collaborate with friends, colleagues and new faces in the sector. Here’s how to find Amy and connect with NetSquared. NetSquared Office Hours. I’ll be presenting the slides below: Local is the new Global.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2010

Marnie Webb and Charlene Li: Two of My Social Media Role Models. Today Allison Fine and I celebrated the launch of the Networked Nonprofit at TechSoup Global in the space where Netsquared Meetups take place. The TechSoup Global model is on so many levels a Networked Nonprofit.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

The hackathon model is ideal for nonprofits and libraries because it brings together motivated volunteers to expedite a project on a limited budget. Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) is a global-wide community of hackers and social leaders with the common goal of building open technology for a better world. NetSquared can help!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

We’ll also be referring folks to resources for more formal learning and peer connections, like NTEN , the Nonprofit Technology Network and host of the annual Nonprofit Technology Conference and Netsquared and TechSoup Global – and of course sharing resources from our colleagues in the nonprofit/social media field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

This model can also be scaled to an entire blog community platform. Take for example, the netsquared conference. For example, during the Global s London Summit, a wiki was used to capture a brainstorming session and then to help bring those ideas foward in the months following the gathering. or furl.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

The Gardener creates an ecosystem open to change, available to new groups, and full of fresh opportunities to emerge naturally. You can model behavior all you want but if no one can tell what tools you are using to be so successful, there’s no way they can jump in and help man the ship. Events: NetSquared Camps. Case Studies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

I was honored to be the keynote speaker for the Bay Area Microsoft/TechSoup Global Connection Day on Monday. I was also an early member of Netsquared Community , another one of Marnie’s brilliant ideas that rocked the field. My opening framework breaks down the strategy into strategy blocks. Connecting With Colleagues.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

TechHire spans the corporate, nonprofit, government, and educational sectors and has the ambitious goal to "give Americans the opportunity they deserve, and the skills they need to be competitive in a global economy." Equal Employment Opportunity Commission : 80 percent of employees were Caucasian at the tech companies it examined.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The Hacker Helper project is closely aligned with our NetSquared vision of bringing communities together to solve social problems – including nonprofits, beneficiaries, activists, technologists, concerned citizens. These services use a Netflix business model that allow subscribers to read as many books as you want for a monthly fee.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. The panel picker process just opened - so you can vote yes or no for the panels you think are worthy of being on the program or not until September 4th. Where does it surpass the traditional advertising model? What is it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. The panel picker process just opened - so you can vote yes or no for the panels you think are worthy of being on the program or not until September 4th. Where does it surpass the traditional advertising model? What is it?

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. The panel picker process just opened - so you can vote yes or no for the panels you think are worthy of being on the program or not until September 4th. Where does it surpass the traditional advertising model? What is it?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

There are a few core elements of the way communities work that we can learn from as a model for innovation as well. Community-Driven Model. But in a community-driven model, you can’t just listen for the sake of learning. You can follow along with the sessions today through Wednesday using #ERL11. Communities are flexible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

My thinking: Social media conversations and online campaigns create whole new models for bringing together & powering the progressive movement. And what real world event models can you learn from or partner with? I am a proud member of the NetSquared community and have helped organize Net Tuesday events in Vancouver & Seattle.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

Fair Trade is this exciting new model for addressing poverty around the world. At the heart of Fair Trade is the notion of direct trade, kind of like a farmer's market gone global. Students, people in churches, people in environmental groups who have embraced Fair Trade as a positive model of change.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

" Ginny Mies, Global Content Curator. Finally, she recommends the Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers by Alex Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur. This book taps into both the dark heart and the irrepressible hope of many of the communities TechSoup Global serves.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

" Ginny Mies, Global Content Curator. Finally, she recommends the Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers by Alex Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur. This book taps into both the dark heart and the irrepressible hope of many of the communities TechSoup Global serves.

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