Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

For example, simply review the hundreds of ideas listed in NetSquared ’s Project Gallery and you’ll quickly see that people from around the world are hard at work leveraging all kinds of technologies to create positive change for communities tackling many different issues. I think there are too many to count, really.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 30, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. You can post YouTube videos to your blog posts and Flickr photos to your Upcoming.org event listings. We post a question or topic to the NetSquared community and participants submit responses either on their own blogs or on the NetSquared Community Blog.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 17, 2009

Well, as always, Common Craft have created a video to help explain it "in Plain English." Here's a great post from Ivan Booth who picked up on a question Joe Solomon posed on the NetSquared blog recently. " SocialEarth: Video launched - "Welcome to SocialEarth:Video, the video library from SocialEarth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Joe Solomon has a post over at Netsquared called " Social Media Powered Hope " and reports: Yesterday, the first ever hashtag made it into the center of the UN climate negotiations , #WeStandwithTuvalu (a Pacific island nation) -- an action that was coordinated by SMS inside the conference in Copenhagen. Tags: maps netaction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. NetSquared Community. for the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) beginning on May 29th. Like last year, conference participants are introducing themselves on their NetSquared Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. Goto animoto.com and create a :30 video using photos of people, logos, and text related to your cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. Tagged with a footnote Marnie Webb notes "What do you think of the survey O'Reilly points to? Found via this post tagged nptech by Meghan. " I agree.

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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

APRIL 20, 2007

Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. Allan Benamer weighs in with some observations after wading through the comments over at the Netsquared site and pointing to Holden from GiveWell to be the most salient point. Where's the conference tag? NpTech Community.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Shirky points out in the video that nonprofits can’t participate online in the same way that individuals can. Because the difference isn’t in using the tools per se, we all have the same functionality to upload, tag, comment, etc. How to contribute: Blog your answer to the question either on your blog or the NetSquared blog.

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Roles Change Social Review 100

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Last year, over 100 organizations participated, with top submissions earning prizes from Flip Video, Adobe, Flickr, and GoldMail. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! With streaming video tools that are free - like Ustream.TV - I imagine we'll see more people video streaming from professional conferences like next month's NTC Conference in New Orleans. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. What should Netsquared's Facebook strategy be? The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Open Source Nptech Tag Summary 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Michelle Martin rounds up some recent videos from Michael Wesch , the creator of The Machine is US/ing Us , including his newest "Information R/evolution," it is about how digital information is qualitatively different from information on paper and how this changes the ways we think about how to store, use, access it. And if you???re

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Convio Nptech Tag Summary 50

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. Skype - Skype's video conferencing abilities are a great way to have free long distance or international phone calls to family or friends.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. For more details from our recent work here, including video, photos and more in-depth coverage of all about the work we’ve been up to in Tanzania on the “I <3 Epic Change&# Blog created by theLacProject and in a recent article in the Huffington Post.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. For more details from our recent work here, including video, photos and more in-depth coverage of all about the work we’ve been up to in Tanzania on the “I <3 Epic Change&# Blog created by theLacProject and in a recent article in the Huffington Post.

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Interview Change Tanzania Africa 108

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Stay tuned for a video interview I did with him while in Vegas. But even more fun was this video interview with the good folks at the Gifts In Kind International who I ran into in the lobby and they pulled out their copy of the book and shared a few thoughts about they’re applying the ideas. . >&#

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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. The moderator, Patrick O'Heffernan, shared his thoughts based on his experience with The People Choose which is connected to Link TV and the first non-profit site to launch user-generated video as a community building process in a non profit environment.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Whether they are vendors like CauseVox , openly asking for what the community needs in a fundraising tool and building towards the response, or they are individuals that take a photo or shoot a short video that they share with the world changing the conversation about an issue or an event. But we need new resources, too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Marnie Webb (who appears to be blogging a bit more these days since she switched to a MAC ) tagged an interesting article from the Wall Journal that asks " Is there a numerical cap on how many friends we can have? Check out the introduction video for more. Quick audio or video messages published to a trusted social community.

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Social Network Nptech Tag Network 50

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. You can watch the video interview with Skirky below. Tags: role nonprofits net2thinktank. February’s Net2 Think Tank sprang from an interview with Clay Shirky, the author of Here Comes Everybody. Watch the interview and check out these responses!

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Roles Change Nonprofit Social Media 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 If you still think online games are entertainment only, than read this article about how video games will reshape education policy. Full report here )

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

I was also an early member of Netsquared Community , another one of Marnie’s brilliant ideas that rocked the field. Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. Connecting With New Colleagues. Theory and Practice.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog. Adding a verbal image tag when embedding an image can enhance user experience, especially if the user has software which "reads" web sites aloud. question or topic to the NetSquared community and participants submit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2007

was in the nptech tag, so after a couple of hours of reviewing tagged items and summarizing them, I played with Ustream. Maybe I'll pack my webcam when I attend netsquared. If you want to see a really boring video, here it is. Today I noticed that Ustream.Tv I fired up my webcam.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There's a roundup of coverage on his Netsquared blog , including pointers to live blog posts like this one. More from Britt Bravo on Netsquared blog. Peter Dietz gives us a video walk through of his site, Social Actions which focuses on micro-philanthropy. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Need a good vlogging (video blogging) tool? Try YouCam , a video and photo capture app with a built-in editor. You can't tag and sync notes, however. The Box cloud storage app comes with 5GB of free storage to help you backup and manage your photos, documents, videos, and other files. Social Media and Communication.

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Library Contest Vlog Files 60

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

NpTech Themes Nptech Tag News: The NpTech Community site can be found at: [link]. Unthinkingly experiments with visualizing NpTech Tag data with Many Eyes. Some blog posts about the conference tagged with nptech can be found here , here , here , and here. Cross-posted at Netsquared The offline wikipedia, Moulin.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Anyone in or outside of Haiti could use the tool via the web or on a mobile phone to make reports with voice, text or video; the reports were then mapped and sources verified. Tags: Collaboration Community Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications. How can we do that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. 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

AUGUST 10, 2007

An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared. Travis August tags this announcement from TechSmith, makers of SnagIt and Camtasia, about Mac development. Most of the links identified have flowed through the NpTech Tag stream but nice to revisit them! Maybe just some prayers?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2006

Beth Kanter posted an incredible photo today on blogher and netsquared (click on one of them to see it) taken from the camera_rwanda blog. Technorati tags: social change photography net2 nptech India Rwanda. Camera_Rwanda is using photography to raise awareness and money to send Rwandan orphans to college. The photos are incredible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

I "met" Arin Crumley of Four-Eyed Monsters when he commented on a video of on mine over at YouTube. We got into some back and forth email about widgets and he was kind of enough to give me a really useful critique of one of my videos. All of the video clips came from searching ???net Britt Bravo, Netsquared Post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Two nptech events were visible in the NpTech tag stream, the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life Launch Party and the Net2 meetup in Houston.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2009

YouTube video volunteers channel - a video version of All for Good - get video volunteers to create content for nonprofits. He shared some recent examples, including those from Netsquared. Tags: clbc09. It was very specific and linked to outcome. be as succinct and transparent with YouTube is what wins.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2009

Well, honestly, I won't be gone completely - after all I'm flying out on Virgin America - with a cello (I plan to video blog that) and wifi (I'll twitter.), I remember when I was a guess blogger on Netsquared early on - it was an amazing experience. Tags: guest blogging. but I didn't want sole pressure of publishing each day.

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