AFP Blog

JUNE 30, 2009

What's the Right Offline Event for Your Organization's Online Community? NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org: "This month's Net2 Think Tank question is: How do real-world (offline) events fit into social media conversations and campaigns?"

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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. Tags: community events net tuesday net2. I’m so excited about these new groups!

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Part of my role as the Global Community Development Manager at NetSquared is to support and grow our offline organizers from around the world. This offline network, called Net Tuesdays, balances the work we do online to connect all those working at the intersection of technology and social impact.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2016

We'll be exhibiting , speaking at sessions , offering office hours and special events , and sharing exciting new TechSoup offerings. We'll also be sharing news about upcoming events, educational opportunities, and new TechSoup offerings. Want to know if NetSquared is right for you? And we can't wait to see you there!

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

To some, these events were unimportant. 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 recent days, Causes has left MySpace and IdeaBlob has shutdown. How can this work?

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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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Tech Soup

JULY 19, 2016

Editors' note: NetSquared organizers and TechSoup staff submitted sessions, and we would LOVE it if you weighed in and voted!]. TechSoup and NetSquared NTC Session Proposals. Bridging the Divide: Online and Offline Community Managers s ubmitted by Elijah van der Giessen @elijah. How to Vote for NTC Sessions. spanhidden

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Here are even more blog posts, articles, and event recaps to get you started: Facebook uses an algorithm called EdgeRank to determine the makeup of each user's news feed. Maria Ogneva, director of community at Yammer, spoke at a San Francisco online community event about how to make your organization go social. NetSquared.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

All of the words probably have different meanings to each of us, but as a term, I mean programming, services, media events or campaigns that emerge from the needs, actions and involvement of the community. Events: NetSquared Camps. Community Driven Social Impact strategies for events – let’s look at the NetSquared Camps pilot.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

TechSoup will be hosting a pre-conference workshop on Office 365; exhibiting at the NTC Science Fair; speaking at plenary events, breakout sessions, and a "Birds of a Feather" lunch; and facilitating networking opportunities. This event will be hosted by TechSoup an d our partner, TechImpact. Stop By Our Science Fair Booth.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2016

Since the first NetSquared challenge in 2006, TechSoup has continued to offer people and organizations opportunities to connect, share ideas, and collaborate; they work on solutions online and offline through events, meetups, and hackathons. So how did these open challenges attract such a diverse group?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Here are even more blog posts, articles, and event recaps to get you started: Facebook uses an algorithm called EdgeRank to determine the makeup of each user's news feed. Maria Ogneva, director of community at Yammer, spoke at a San Francisco online community event about how to make your organization go social. NetSquared.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

She posts her photos to the group and something clicks, “we could do this for our annual holiday event!” How to contribute: Blog your answer to the question either on your blog or the NetSquared blog. For directions on contributing to the NetSquared blog, click here.). Tag your blog with “net2thinktank”.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

Many years ago, NetSquared hosted challenges and conferences to highlight and bring together fledging social entrepreneurs. This is best done in a participatory fashion, making sure that data is available offline. netsquared digital divide' " Digital Democracy (Dd) was a prize winner in that challenge. Want to learn more?

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2014

She recently shared her social media and community-building wisdom at an event organized by the SF Tech4Good group and the San Francisco Online Community Meetup Group. Not For Sale wants to empower people to engage with their own online and offline communities. Thanks also to Erika Gosser for photographing the event. Learn More.

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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

MAY 20, 2010

I was also an early member of Netsquared Community , another one of Marnie’s brilliant ideas that rocked the field. Use an excel spreadsheet to look at events, fundraisers, programs, web site content, performances, and other activities to socialize. 6: Use social media to close the loop between online and offline action.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

NetSquared DC organized a panel discussion on Engagement Strategy: Empowering Champions* and Influencers* on November 3, 2015, to delve into this question. NetSquared DC Engagement Strategies Panelists — Maddie Grant, Andrew Nachison, and Dale Pfeifer (left to right). What makes you so excited at an event or on social media?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

I'm honored to be on the team of live blogging (that is, blogging about an event during an event) for the NetSquared Conference. see example below) The NetSquared conference tag is n2y2. Flickr Photo by Pitel. The team is being coordinated by Britt Bravo , who must be the most organized person on the planet!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

Qui Diaz at LivingstonBuzz has kicked off a Change Blogging Meme which includes an offline/online integrated event to support Alex Steed as well as a blogging meme. This fall, DC will be one of 35 cities visited by NetSquared???s s Alex Steed. s touring the U.S., meeting with millennial activists about ???the

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

This month's Net2 Think Tank question is: How do real-world (offline) events fit into social media conversations and campaigns ? We need real world events to be a central part of our online organizing. So - a major question is: How can your online community also support events in the real world? Courtesy of Joe Solomon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

I had been thinking it was an isolated moment of geekily recursive silliness, but today I got a ping from Lucy Hooberman , also from the UK, about a post she wrote that observes that so many people are live blogging conferences that it produces a lot of documentation of the event. I noticed this first at TED. last March.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

" I used the technique two years ago for a presentation at the first netsquared conference called " I Tag the Hand that Feeds Me " or what I should retitle "Meet Sally." re doing offline. I've seen this style be copied by several users on SlideShare to explain enterprise2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2006

" Now post event and definitely past the publish while the iron is hot stage, opens the door for some more self-reflection about being in the moment of moment capture and sharing during conferences. WHen do the online/offline experience converge or blend as Alexandra Samuel reflects over at netsquared.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Example: Anyone can publish a blog post on the NetSquared Community Blog and Social Actions' social network, my.socialactions.com. We have had conversations on and offline about the value of our blog series, and it seems as though we are becoming a little too didactic (fair argument).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

That's when I was working with the New York Foundation for the Arts on its technology capacity building programs, including offline/online workshops for online skill building called SpiderSchool. I finally got to meet Jayne about a year at the netsquared conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. Last year, there was an event called "Social Media for Social Good" organized by Jeff Pulver that prompted quite a rich discussion on whether social media for fundraising and marketing can effect real on the ground change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. Events and Conferences: Live Blog Notes, Upcoming, and How-Tos. " Donor Power Blogs describes the online/offline generation gap , although some members of the great generation have been spotted on YouTube.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. Last year, there was an event called "Social Media for Social Good" organized by Jeff Pulver that prompted quite a rich discussion. How do you balance online action with offline engagement? The SXSW Interactive Festival.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. Last year, there was an event called "Social Media for Social Good" organized by Jeff Pulver that prompted quite a rich discussion. How do you balance online action with offline engagement? The SXSW Interactive Festival.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. They were able to use the platform for organizing offline events, finding and collaborating with volunteer organizers, and more. Panelists: Natalie Foster, DNC ; Rebecca Moore, Google Earth Outreach ; Laura Quinn, Idealware. The sessions are short (only 50 minutes!)

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The magical kingdom in which offline and online worked together, where strategies that were proven in one place were re-imagined in new ones. In the social paradigm, we recognize the need for both online and offline to be part of our work. For example, why track how many events are taking place for our own reporting only?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

I will say that there are regulations that relate well to offline consumer relationships that don’t apply well online. You can find event listings at sites like meetup.com or upcoming.org. Some specific groups exist: social media club , netsquared , tweetup , etc.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2013

In addition to Social Change Anytime Everywhere , Amy is co-author of Social by Social : A handbook in using social technologies for social impact.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

Their website templates are mobile-compatible, built on WordPress, and include recurring giving, event and volunteer management, email newsletter sign-up, and blogging. Yearly makes it easy to design annual reports, event recaps, donor proposals, and board presentations. NetSquared :: netsquared.org. WiseStamp :: wisestamp.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Periscope is a mobile app connected to Twitter that enables nonprofits to easily broadcast live from special events or while on location. Their website templates are mobile-compatible, built on WordPress, and include recurring giving, event and volunteer management, email newsletter sign-up, and blogging. Event Management.

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