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. Small world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

I spent today at day 1 of the TechSoup Global Summit in Mountain View with two hundred and forty people who work in the TechSoup Global Network around the world, plus other stakeholders. I’ve been involved with TechSoup/Netsquared Network since its inception back six years ago and so it is nice to be part of the narrative arc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

I’d like to use this post to share some of the responses to the Networked Nonprofit at different book events and online during the past month and let you know about upcoming events in November. Networked Nonprofit in Vegas. And, they all got copies of Networked Nonprofit (thank you James!) Here’s a few.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Last week, I got to BoardSource at 8 am just so I could hear Marnie Webb and Rebecca Masisak, CO-CEOs of TechSoup Global share their lessons learned in developing, weaving, and stewarding two very different types of networks. The second network, Netsquared , in contrast was more loosely controlled with a lower risk in failure.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

Download the full white paper or share it using this link: [link] Below are notes from my remarks. We want to share while we are doing and have people respond immediately. That might look like sharing a picture from a concert, while you are still at the concert. What do you have to share? The internet is not new.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2011

Over the past 18 months, I’ve been participating in The Network of Networked Funders , a community of practice for grantmakers facilitated by the Monitor Institute. These grantmakers are supporting and working through networks to pool their learning and increase the impact of their respective grantmaking practices.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 3, 2010

And when we get connected, and can connect our networks with other networks, we get even more social and have huge potential to make great things happen. Tags: community events 4change community building community organizing netsquared social by social twitter.

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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. If you have other questions, or other ideas, please share them! We don’t, though, have a lot of efficiency or shared information. In the analog way of working, we have some really beautiful pieces. Social Tactics.

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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. Communities share, pass on, and constantly expand a collective wisdom and knowledge from experiences, events, movements and legacy. Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation.

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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." Online social networking was just being born. To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. " NetSquared Up Close and Personal.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2010

When sending out an invitation, it’s important to remember that the language you use needs to be appropriate for those you’re inviting, as well as to their audience as they could easily repurpose the language or calls to action you use to more quickly and easily share/spread the campaign. Hi friends-. Some tweeted.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. Change the Web Challenge is about building innovative tools to help people find and share opportunities to take action on the Web sites, blogs, and social networks that we all visit every day. “We want you to dream up a new tool to help people find and share actions. .

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JUNE 29, 2011

Each month, the NetSquared community (a project of TechSoup Global) meets up offline at NetSquared Local events around the world to discuss ideas, meet new people, and work together to make social change. Recently, many of these NetSquared Local meetings are being streamed live on the Internet via livestream or online recording.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 20, 2010

This post was originally posted on the NetSquared Blog and was written by Amy Sample Ward. Over the last few years, the NetSquared Local network (a project of TechSoup Global's) has grown from just a few groups in only a couple countries, to 70+ groups in 21+ countries! A Resource for Community Organizers.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

Connected Citizens: The Power, Peril, and Potential of Networks – This new report from the Knight Foundation and Monitor Institute explores engaged communities: "Ten years ago, a tiny web site asked people to volunteer to write their own encyclopedia. New networks are emerging everywhere. Repair Interview: Joe Solomon of 350.org

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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. A chance for local organizers to come together, network, ask questions, etc. Sessions and Events.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 20, 2009

These are some links I wanted to share from July 20th. " Social networks for a good cause – growth, culture and impact : crisscrossed blog - A great post from Christian! Find me on Delicious for more! If you are interested in social media for real social impact, it's a must-read. "If

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 24, 2011

During the month of October, join TechSoup.org and the TechSoup Global Network for our Cloud Computing Worldwide campaign. This is a communiqué on the current state of cloud adoption in TechSoup's NetSquared international community from Marc Manashil, community evangelist for NetSquared.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 15, 2009

These are some links I wanted to share from April 15th. The three winning innovations will share in prizes totaling up to $700,000 USD to support their next phase of advancement and implementation." In particular, we are interested in the role of social network sites and receiving information about job openings."

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog.). Every month, the NetSquared community comes together offline in cities around the world at Net Tuesday events to mix, swap stories and ideas, build new relationships, and collaborate. I’m so excited about these new groups! Learn about Net Tuesdays and get local!

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 19, 2010

Blood and Milk » Blog Archive » Ushahidi, Twitter, and the future of foreign aid – Alanna's post is a great example of the power of networks, social media, and open systems. As she notes, her example has luck but it is an example of a growing model of a changing world. What do you think? Great slides.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2010

This guest post comes from NetSquared community development manager Amy Sample Ward. An initiative of TechSoup Global, NetSquared is a global community of organizations and individuals leading the way in social change through technology. The website and Community Blog are your online spaces to connect, share ideas, and collaborate.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Claire Sale, NetSquared. My Grandmother also has a whole network of friends who are at various stages of computer use/online adoption. Recently, she asked me if I could share any resources for her and her friends to be able to network, learn and socialize on the internet. Thanks for sharing this resource, Sarah Marston!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

Starting this week, you can vote for the best NetSquared Innovation Fund Award nominated projects until Saturday, April 14th at Noon PDT. When you're ready, log into the NetSquared site (you can become a registered user here ) and vote for 5-10 of your favorite projects. Foik Micro-Philanthropy Network. Farmer 2 Farmer Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

The participants represented a wide range of nonprofits from all-volunteer groups to larger institutions. After the session, I hear many say how they planned to go back and begin the transformation towards being a networked nonprofit! Enoch Choi - A Networked Free Agent for Health Care.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – "The 3rd Digital Media and Learning Competition, from the MacArthur Foundation, is now accepting applications. It's really interesting as far as mobile fundraising, but also just that the ARC are able to gather, analyze and share data like this in close to real time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Using Social Networks for Social Change: Facebook, MySpace and More View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: fundraising advocacy ) I was lucky enough to meet Ivan Boothe at the first (or maybe second) Netsquared Conference back in 2005 and have been following his work for years.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2009

These are some links I wanted to share from June 8th. The HopePhones campaign is a project of a nonprofit organization, FrontlineSMS:Medic that uses mobile technology to empower rural healthcare networks in the developing world. Find me on Delicious for more! FrontlineSMS:Medic is also an N2Y4 Featured Project!"

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2017

TechSoup's NetSquared meetups will bring local nonprofits free digital storytelling workshops in more than 40 cities between August and October. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and other awesome organizations. Here at TechSoup, we're big on stories.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 30, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. How do you decide what kind of information or campaigns are delivered to your various community members on different social networks? As your communities grow, your approach to sharing information and stories will change; nothing is formulaic. From Idealist.

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MARCH 22, 2011

The room was packed with enthusiastic participants and this post is designed to be shared with others who couldn’t attend in person, as well as to all those who did and asked to have resources to share with their networks. The more you list and share, the more you’ll start to see patterns or clear paths emerge.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 3, 2009

The Change the Web Challenge is open for submissions now at NetSquared. The Challenge is about building innovative tools to help people find and share opportunities to take action on the Web sites, blogs, and social networks that we all visit everyday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

A content curator cherry picks the best content that is important and relevant to share with their community. As Rohit Bhargava points out in this post via Robin Good , a content curator continually seeks, makes sense of, and shares the best and most relevant content on a particular topic online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Our intent is to provide a space for just-in-time answers and share best practices at no charge. December’s theme is “31 Days to Better Measurement.&# At the end of the month, we’ll share a summary of what we’ve learned as e-book with some blog posts along the way. Photo by Dkurpaptwa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2009

My guess is as we enter 2010, might we see the invention of Real Time Web fundraising events As more nonprofit explore the possibilities of location-based social networks and fundraising , the distinctions between online/offline fundraising will melt away. It's real time and location based social networks are also impacting advocacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2010

The summit provides a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights. Johnson of the Advertising Research Foundation and Tara Hunt, author of the Whuffie Factor. I have two comp tickets to give away.

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