Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

Using tools that allow reposting, sharing, emailing and so on will give anyone the options they want to push your content around the web for you. For a few reasons: the community has a shared context or starting place, there’s less to explain upfront. Convincing your executive team to use crowdsourcing shouldn’t take bribery.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2008

NetSquared, a project of TechSoup, is awarding a share of $100,000 in prize money, and a trip to the NetSquared Conference, to the top 20 winners of the NetSquared Mashup Challenge. Wikipedia defines a mashup as, "a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool."

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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. Read on and learn how to get involved. Offline, we take things local!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2009

TechSoup Global's NetSquared project is doing some amazing work, particularly on the use of mobile technologies and social change around the world. Here's a quick snapshot of some of the projects they're working on now: Case studies: Amy Sample Ward has posted the first in a series of NetSquared case studies on their site.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

To talk about the evolution of nonprofit technology we really need to pick a place to start, because the beginning could be anywhere. We went from technology belonging to the IT staff, to new media belonging to the young intern, web savvy communications officer, and so on. Thus, we entered the social period.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Every month TechSoup's NetSquared community organizers volunteer to bring free (or low cost) nonprofit technology events and workshops to more than 50 cities. If you want to network with your peers or love to learn at live, in-person events, then NetSquared is the place for you! Thursday, November 20, 2014. Busia, Kenya.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Every month TechSoup's NetSquared community organizers volunteer to bring free (or low cost) nonprofit technology events and workshops to more than 50 cities. If you want to network with your peers or love to learn at live, in-person events, then NetSquared is the place for you! Thursday, November 20, 2014. Busia, Kenya.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 8, 2015

NetSquared holds free or low-cost educational events for people and organizations who want to learn more about using technology for social good. NetSquared organizers plan events because they have skills to share, want to give back, and want to make the world a better place. Newest NetSquared Groups. Event Reports.

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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. Christine.Net attended the Web 2.0 The site was developed by Democracy in Action.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 20, 2009

Edward Harran is a blogger and nonprofit technologist I have connected with through NetSquared, this blog, and of course Twitter. The 2009 Nonprofit Technology conference is taking place from April 26th to April 28th at the San Franciscio, Hilton. With the assistance of the scholarship, I got a place booked at NTEN09 Conference.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2010

TechSoup Global, the leading technology place for nonprofits, just announced it will kick off their annual Online Digital Storytelling Challenge January 13, 2011. said Amy Sample Ward of NetSquared, a program of TechSoup. Tags: Event Multimedia & Graphics Online Activism Online Fundraising Using the Web and Internet.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Claire Sale, NetSquared. So, I turned that question to my friends and the NetSquared community, and got some really great responses that I'd like to share with you. It's a bit hard for some folks to feel comfortable posting, but getting them started reading posts and adding "friends" is a good place to start.

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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

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Marshall Kirkpatrick, on ReadWrite Web , wrote a post further analyzing the situation, raising the question: Or are neither MySpace or Causes any big loss for social change organizations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Content curation is the process of sorting through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a meaningful and organized way around a specific theme. People and organizations are now making and sharing media and content all over the social web. BagTheWeb — BagTheWeb helps users curate Web content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The second network, Netsquared , in contrast was more loosely controlled with a lower risk in failure. The Netsquared Network which has grown to over 27,000 people world wide through its self-replicated face-to-face events has grown quite differently. Here’s some points that Marnie mentioned: -Allowed the people to be the starts.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

How are you encouraging your supporters all over the web to connect with you directly? I can’t speak for others working in the “innovation sector,&# but at NetSquared we can’t emphasize enough that our Community is what drives us – whether’s it’s online or offline. How can this work?

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 27, 2007

You can see and share these astounding figures with MAPLight's Presidential Fundraising Widget , which can be placed on your blog or web site. The widget is funded by the $25,000 first prize NetSquared Innovation Award that MAPLight.org received at the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) , and by the Sunlight Foundation.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. [Ed. Think of all the places your organization’s name, staff, projects, programs or focus area could come up in the news, in campaigns, or in online conversations. This is a free web-based tool that is totally customizeable and can be used both privately or publicly.To Getting Started. Finding Feeds.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2010

CrowdFlower has announced CrowdConf 2010 , a crowdsourcing conference that will take place in San Francisco in October. NetSquared winners like Ushahidi and Social Actions have been finding new ways to harness the power of the crowd for social change. Tags: Event Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

,” Marnie Webb, Co-CEO of TechSoup Global was not only writing one, but evangelizing to nonprofit techies about social media (called Web 2.0 back then) and being the one of the visionaries behind the Netsquared project. So, when Marnie starts talking about the next big disruptive technology for the nonprofit sector, I listen.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

We have all heard before that social media is allowing a conversation to take place online: people are talking to each other, people are talking to organizations, organizations are talking to people, and so forth. How to contribute: Blog your answer to the question either on your blog or the NetSquared blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

It's called Web Video for the Social Benefit Sector. One of the points is a sort of "web the media" take. Ask your organization's web site udience to upload their video clips to whatever video service you're using and tag them with your organization's tag. (I It isn't over yet, so do go check out.

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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. Wes Holing, TechSoup's web content developer, predicts that the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation 's new program, called Let's Encrypt , will literally make the entire web more secure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

In December, Fast Company published an article called " The Most Influential Women in Web 2.0 " featuring about a dozen amazing women who work in the Web 2.0 Kaliya Hamlin, who is the founder of She's Geeky , a women and technology conference taking place in Mountain View, CA on January 30-31st was also on the list. Holly Ross.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. The disaster in Haiti is a perfect example of these changes: the impact of the Real-Time Web and the power of our phones. Reports of violence and of peace efforts could be placed via the web or mobile phone. How can we do that? What's Changing?

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2011

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog. Using the social web to market your cause, communicate your services, and interact with your audience is an important part of the. It's the place where. It's also the place you can. the perception of our organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2006

4 places I lived: Atlantic City, NY Philadelphia, PA Cambridge, MA Bennington, VT. 4 places I liked: Siem Reap, Cambodia Phnom Penh, Cambodia Provence, France Singapore. 4 Web sites I visit regularly. Full Circle Blog Netsquared Nten Blog Blogher. So, here goes. 4 People I tag. Britt Bravo Tharum Seserak Wanna.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

I think a lot of activists know that there are all kinds of social web tools available to them, but they aren't sure how to find them, or use them, and are intimidated by the technology. Here are four steps to ease you into using the social web for social change. PARTICIPATE: "Web 2.0" Networking for Change.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

PayAnywhere (Android, BlackBerry, iOS) is a mobile and web-based payment processing service that lets you accept donations from just about anywhere. The Mobile Giving Foundation is a great place to start find resources to start your mobile campaign.

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NTEN

JUNE 11, 2014

As the founder of Social Signal , one of the world''s first social media agencies, Alexandra helped to create some of the web''s most ambitious online communities, including NetSquared and Tyze. For example: cancer AND ("data visualization" OR analytics OR infographic OR "big data").

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

page has everything from a social media glossary to an overview of Web 2.0. TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki is designed to be a starting place for organizations just getting started on social media. NetSquared. Read about how the NetSquared Local Warsaw group (NetWtorek) advertises its events through social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

I'm filling in for colleagues Marnie Webb and Billy Bicket from Netsquared. I've been fooling around with alternative ways for share presentations over the web. I generally like to have visuals, a place for my script, and links. Flick Photo by Thomas Hawk. Later today I'm doing a Webinar, a briefing on Web2.0

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2013

Social media tips directly from our new book, Social Change Anytime Everywhere Social fundraising - when is social media the right place for this? She has also been a featured speaker on web design, Internet marketing and social media at national conferences. Care2 Webinars Social Networking Trends Web 2.0'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2006

Perhaps I can coax them to share a little bit more of what they're doing over at the discussion about nonprofit tagging for netsquared. What was the ED's view about the use of tagging to publish to the web site? What needs to be in place to make it successful? Who in the organization is doing the tagging? What is the tag design?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2006

Interested in connecting with other NTC conference attendees for dinner at a Seattle landmark and talk about using new web tools for social change? Netsquared Dinner at NTC. I'll be finishing up the Day of Service and will enjoy Science Fair before heading out an informal gathering taking place ONE/Northwest's Office.

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