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. Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

It was a terrific conference, with people from all areas of the state and all areas of the sector. I also encountered quite a few people asking very similar questions, or looking for the same resources. The focus now, instead of on the work we did, or on the tools we had, was on the people we could work with and serve.

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Nptech Slides Community Strategy 213

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2010

We wanted it to be something fun and interesting, so people would want to join – a surprise party! Part of using blog posts in the campaign is the strategy that in order to participate, people are promoting! What was key to our approach was that we did not say where people had to post, or exactly what they had to say.

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Case Study Studies Action Doc 180

Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2017

Effective storytelling means nonprofits can reach more people, touch more hearts, and create bigger impact. TechSoup's NetSquared meetups will bring local nonprofits free digital storytelling workshops in more than 40 cities between August and October. Or, apply today to start your own NetSquared group.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

." NYC Startup CatchAFire.org Launches Site To Match Skilled Volunteers And Charities – "Catchafire.org, a service to find and match volunteers with professional skills and charitable organizations in need of their help, will open its website to the public today after about a year in private beta testing."

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Web Bookmarking Volunteer Evaluation 120

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

That conversation is a perfect example of both the kinds of conversations I have had countless times when talking to people (whether they work for a library or not) about the future of libraries as well as the frame I’m using for this talk. For libraries to truly be the heart of a community, they need people coming in, all the time.

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Library Community Model Collaboration 241

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

MAY 15, 2014

.” What is most exciting about the Sharing Economy is its embrace of a revitalized public square and a rejuvenated commitment to social good. Nonprofits, faith-based organizations, libraries, and networks such as the NetSquared Local should be leading this movement as they are already committed to social good.

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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. Michael Gilbert responds here and invites people to dive in. Photo from Cambodia4kids.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 11, 2011

One of the biggest lessons from my experience running contests and watching the crowdsourcing phenomenon expand online is that if you don’t have access to a tipping point of people, you won’t get the responses or participation you’re after. to people in the crowd (as in, expand beyond your community).

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

But to many people active in online social action communities, these events had deeper meaning. This is a guest post from Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared’s Global Community Development Manager.&#. In reaction to the Causes announcement, Economist bureau chief Matthew Bishop tweeted “Who knew it was on MySpace?” How can this work?

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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. Operate in public. When it comes to “administrator” or “moderator” activity, always conduct it in public unless it requires or involves personal information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. Much commentary and critiques about the semi-public ballotting process. There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. NpTech Community.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

These challenges helped provide early publicity, support, collaboration opportunities, and funding for now-famous "tech for good" organizations such as Ushahidi , FrontlineSMS , and many others. The NetSquared Challenges Foster Tech Innovation. Ushahidi Harnesses Data for Social Good. Since then, there have been more than 6.5

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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. Finally, people really wanted to dig in and discuss the big ideas in the book! Couldn’t resist some public network weaving and put Ben Rigby on the spot to answer it.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog. From providing accessible content for people with disabilities, to creating fully usable functionality, to support for multiple languages, we wanted to learn about the benefits people are creating using web and mobile technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2009

Marshall's post will shows the top five people I'm having conversations with on Twitter and who respond to me: 1. Gahran has a lot of conversation with a lot of awesome people. I don't understand by @ntenhross (Holly Ross, Director of NTEN) and @amyrsward (Netsquared community builder) aren't in my cloud. Jonathon D. silkcharm.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

The needs and goals of the larger community are listened to by someone or a group of people and they create opportunities for action, service, and change. Just like throwing a party you need to have someone making food, someone pouring drinks and someone else showing people where the bathroom is. Events: NetSquared Camps.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

This post was authored by Vanessa Rhinesmith and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. They are a great, and fun, mechanism for bringing together people who are passionate about a cause and connecting them to opportunities to enhance civil society, create social change, and have a real-world impact. Bigger Is Better.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

encouraging radio stations to simultaneously air public service advertising in support of the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. The Red Cross is asking people to extend the road block to social media space. Read more from blogger Kami Huyse (who lives the Houston area), Beth Dunn , Netsquared and the RedCross Blog ,

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

That's why TechSoup supports a global network of tech trainers called NetSquared. NetSquared groups focus on topics that address their unique local tech challenges, but once a quarter, we select a common theme. Find your closest NetSquared group. Or, apply today to start your own NetSquared group.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2010

A lot of people stopped by our booth and told us about the challenges their one-or-two-person nonprofits are facing. Jessica is also a Nonprofit Commons member and NetSquared Local organizer.) People called out various budget items (a space, computers, staff, telephones) as well as intangibles (attention, a mission, passion).

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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. More people will be using their own devices to do their work and giving their IT teams more headaches. Uber has excess capacity (cars, drivers, and technology); people have excess clothes. Cheaper Consumer Electronics.

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News Tech Netsquared Social Media 68

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

It isn’t unlike what a museum curator does to produce an exhibition: They identify the theme, they provide the context, they decide which paintings to hang on the wall, how they should be annotated, and how they should be displayed for the public. What does that mean for nonprofits and the people who work for them?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Additionally, Microsoft recently announced its YouthSpark initiative, which aims to create opportunities for 300 million young people over the next three years. These apps encourage young people to get involved in civic and political issues. Political Engagement and Activism. School and Job Preparedness. iStudiez Pro.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

To get diverse perspectives from TechSoup Global staff about user-generated content, we asked Marc Manashil, Community Evangelist for NetSquared, to share how challenges like Restart Romania enable users to get engaged at all levels. Web-based challenges are not a new phenomenon at TechSoup Global.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

As part of Social Media September (#SocMedSep), we've been tapping into the wisdom of our global TechSoup and NetSquared communities as well as experts in nonprofit technology. TS: Do multiple people at your organization participate in social media? Social Networking social media NetSquared tssocialmedia World Affairs Council'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Facebook Places allows people to “check in&# when they’re at your organization, publicizing you to their friends. Places also allows companies to offer “deals&# to people who check in (like 10% off), although how that applies to a nonprofit is less clear.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Most people are already familiar with the American Red Cross and the speed with which they jumped into action after the January earthquakes. The relief items are helping more than 10,000 families (50,000 people) to date -- with plans to increase this number. How can we do that? Fundraising.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

And nonprofits and lots of others working to benefit the public can use its tools to be able to do their work better. During the early days of our Netsquared project , we held big annual conferences to showcase and fund innovative tech for good. These folks do astonishing work. I was there that year and the competition was intense.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2014

LocalFreeWeb is an SMS service that helps people find free Internet access in San Francisco. SMC Connect is currently linked on the San Mateo County Library system's website and bookmarked on branch library public access computers. And the longer a pump is broken, the longer people are drinking dirty, contaminated water.

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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. These Facebook games, however, can help give disadvantaged children hot meals, save zebras, and provide people worldwide with clean drinking water.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

Apps are a powerful way for everyday people to act for social good, making their lives, and the lives of their communities, stronger. That's why TechSoup Global, NetSquared and Microsoft teamed up to launch the Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Contest last November. Find out what else NetSquared was up to this spring in this roundup.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2010

Previously published on the NetSquared Blog. We - 13 people from TechSoup Global - are in Brussels this week to participate in am ambitious project staged by the European Foundation Centre , which is roughly the equivalent of the U.S. The first half of the week is aimed at exposing foundations to decision-makers and the general public.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2013

For a taste of nptech goings-on all around the world, NetSquared Local shares community highlights from the month of May and gets its fans excited about future projects in their recent monthly roundup. The series was launched by James Howe and will explore the world of communications, from public relations to digital media.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Recently, over 300 innovators and changemakers interested in the intersection of technology and social benefit work converged for a few days of idea-sharing, learning, and collaboration at NetSquared's annual conference. About NetSquared. To learn more about NetSquared or get involved, visit [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Submitted by Alexandra Samuel, CEO of Social Signal How can you use the web to engage your members, supporters or the public, and move them towards a specific action? But it's often hard for nonprofits to figure out how they can engage people effectively online. That's a common question from nonprofits who are diving into social media.

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