Amy Sample Ward

MAY 4, 2009

I’m so excited to see a Mobile Tech 4 Change event coming to London - but super disappointed I can’t be here to participate (I’ll be at N2Y4 Mobile Challenge Conference in San Jose). If you are interested in mobile technology and its application for social change projects, this is definitely an event to check out.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 22, 2012

Our main focus has been our text book image description project. Kelli Lee I recently graduated from Foothill College with an Associated Arts degree in Business Administration and will be attending San Jose State University in the fall. In my spare time, I love biking, going to the movies and hanging out with my friends.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2015

With lines of code projected on a screen, these children listen intently in a conference room at the Mountain View Public Library, as part of a four-week course on programming. Although it started initially as a high school project, MathAndCoding is now a full-fledged program and a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 15, 2007

One of my jobs is as the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that works to help nonprofits and NGOs use the social web for social change. If you, or someone you know, is working on a tech for social impact project, please encourage them to nominate their project for a NetSquared Innovation Fund Award.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 18, 2013

communication, project management, and marketing. Panelists included: Danielle Siembieda, former community engagement and special projects manager for ZERO1: The Art & Technology Network in San Jose, CA. Carly Severn, digital engagement associate at the San Francisco Ballet in San Francisco, CA.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

The Mobile4All project also sees mobile phones as a key to open the door to recovery and self-sufficiency. However, the San Jose-based nonprofit, Community Technology Alliance (CTA), had a hunch that cellphones might be a surprisingly good place to start getting employment and becoming self-sufficient. into the workplace.

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NTEN

MAY 18, 2015

It's that time again to start the process of gathering session proposals from the NTEN Community to help inform the program for the 2016 Nonprofit Technology Conference (16NTC) in San Jose, California on March 23-25.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

This year I facilitated several labs, including several for the Knight Foundation Arts Program to learn about the local arts ecosystem in four cities, including Philadelphia, San Jose, Charlotte, and Macon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2010

Photo from San Jose Library. This micro-volunteering site offers an iPhone app that lets you work on projects while you're in line at the bank, or waiting for the bus to pick you up. One recent project asked people to tag photos from Haiti in an effort to identify missing people. The Extraodinaries Got a minute?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2014

This San Jose, CA-based organization provides technology and services to agencies that work directly with the homeless in their community. The goal of the project, called ConnectSCC , is to come up with a sustainable model for a mobile plan for homeless and low income people. An Opportunity to Learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

I don't think so, and I think that such projects express a misunderstanding of collective intelligence. Envision San Jose 2040 (There's even a platform to support the virtual charrette called " wiki planning ". I happen to agree with that, which gives me a different perspective on exercises like this exercise in crowdsourcing.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 21, 2005

The event was hosted in San Jose by the Community Foundation Silicon Valley. The three entrepreneurs featured were my buddies David Green of Project Impact and Martin Fisher of KickStart (formerly ApproTEC) as well as someone I was delighted to meet and have dinner with afterwards, Kailash Satyarthi.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2017

When we started working on the food side of the Abbott Square project, it raised some basic questions about community inclusion. Would adding a major commercial component to the project make it more or less welcoming? So our whole staff went to visit another public market the developer had started: San Pedro Square Market in San Jose.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

James assembled a group of funders and the talented Clay Lord from Theatre Bay Area , a local arts service organization to help implement project. Opera San Jose Case Study. Opera San Jose gave a presentation on its #operaplot hashtag contest where participants has to tweet the plots of operas in 140 characters.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Boynton High School in San Jose, CA uses stop-motion animation to tackle water conservation. December is Human Rights Month, and it inspired some great work. Check out some of the recent entries: The American Indian Foundation takes you on a tour of India’s slums. Employee Engagement.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

However, the fellowship does give me much more flexibility: I don't have to justify spending Benetech's funds for something that isn't directly connected to our current projects. Route 66 Literacy Our newest project is Route 66 Literacy, and it includes a demonstration site that anyone can try out.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

As some of you know, part of my work is being the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that facilitates the adoption of social web tools by nonprofits and NGOs. You don't need to have tech expertise to submit a project to the Challenge, just an idea for a change you want to make that could be facilitated by a mashup.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

If you would like to support any of these projects, just click HERE , or click on the "donate to my challenge" button on the sidebar of this blog. According to DonorsChoose: "low income" refers to the percentage of students at a given school who qualify for free lunch, which is considered a measure of economic need.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

The 2009 N2Y4 Conference showcased the Featured Projects from NetSquared's Global Challenge focused on mobile technology. There were 14 great teams pitching their Projects at the Conference, but only 3 voted as prize winners. There were many excellent ideas (check out the Project Gallery !) VozMob: Mobile Voices/Voces Moviles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2008

GlobalGiving is very much a social enterprise - we run it like a company with monthly goals and metrics - all with the goal of attracting as many donors to support great projects around the world. I recently noticed that you had a project from New Orleans, can you tell me about it? Do you typically fund American projects?

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2006

Courtney Macavinta, coauthor of RESPECT: A Girl's Guide to Getting Respect & Dealing When Your Line is Crossed , talks about her experience as a GFC mentor on her blog : One of the most amazing experiences I get to have week after week is coaching Girls For A Change Team 13 at Overfelt High School in San Jose.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 4, 2015

I used to work at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. Consider the experiments at the New World Symphony in Miami, where they are performing classical orchestral music for outdoor "wallcasts" that include projections and visual content. "Now" comes off as disingenuous and irrelevant if done wrong. It is just now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

When I graduated in 2003, I moved out here to California and worked with the San Jose Museum of Art before getting a job with Linden Labs. I learned a lot from San Jose Art Museum. I'm working on a project (Second Life) that is really pushing the boundaries on what is possible and I have a direct role in what happens.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

But last week, I took a new job with The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, working on a very different kind of project involving collaborative distributed exhibit design. The Open Source Museum project at The Tech is a grant-funded grand experiment. Will this project thrive or fall flat?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2008

I was captivated by Chris Alexander 's story about participatory online/onsite efforts at the San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA). Their recent experiments with the exhibition Road Trip provides a useful case study of a mid-sized institution, a simple project, and some surprising results. What happened?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 28, 2007

Flying into San Jose yesterday, I laughed out loud when I looked out the window and saw Clifford the Big Red Dog below me, a cheerful addition to the skyline (thanks to the Children's Discovery Museum). Tags: Unusual Projects and Influences game. What museum hasn't benefited from a giant blow-up dinosaur on its front lawn?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2008

While many people latch on to the Second Life aspect of this project, my primary interest is in the transformation of the exhibit process into a user-generated experience. What technologies help or hinder the success of these projects, both in terms of community satisfaction and quality of outcomes?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

Kathleen McLean (Independent Exhibitions), Dan Spock (Minnesota History Center), and Kris Morrissey (University of Washington) all shared thought-provoking and useful insights on visitor participation in museums, but Mark Allen and Emily Lacy brought down the house with their bluegrass rendering of the Machine Project and its engaging, quirky work.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2007

This is not an analytical post (primarily); it's an announcement and invitation to join the new project I've been working on with The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. The Tech Virtual is a project that allows people to conceptualize and prototype exhibits online. A contractor, Involve Inc.,

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The personal webpage has many adherents, and some institutions, like The Tech Museum in San Jose, have been offering them for almost a decade. I worked with the Boston Children's Museum on a project called Our Green Trail (check it out!) There are some obvious positives to this strategy.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2007

I read recently about an awesome project at the San Jose Museum of Art in 2001, Collecting Our Thoughts, in which visitors were invited to write the labels for an art exhibition (more another time). Which made my mind go to a far more irreverent destination: Mad Libs. Pick a plural noun. Then an adjective. Then a number.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Check out our newest groups: NetSquared Chepe in San Jose, Costa Rica. NetSquared Honduras in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. We held our first NetSquared Camp in China and co-organizer Matt Jung reports on innovative Chinese tech for good projects. So give your local organizer a hug next time you see them!

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The total buying power of this community is projected to be more than $790 billion and the surveys indicate that the LGBT community is especially likely to consider supporting charitable organizations for which they are committed with a planned gift. NTEN / San Jose, CA / $650. Fundraising / #AFPFC / @AFPIHQ. Fundraising.

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