Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). NonProfit 2.0 Unconference is coming to Washington, D.C.,

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Digital Media and Learning Competition: Applications now open!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Million in donations for charities this past winter. ."

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2009

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

I like the microblogging tagging as I have been wanting to add a small set of tags to my 4,500+ favorites I have starred in Twitter over the last 18 months or more I have used the service. Tags are one easy option, if I can get nice mobile access as the food and travel/city relevant info does me more use from a mobile.

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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. " He uses the ten things in ten minutes meme and writes the Ten Web 2.0 Photo by SpacePotato.

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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. There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2006

via Emily of Emily's World comes another example of nonprofit tagging. They have several different feeds for each cateogries or tags: including news/events, jobs, resumes, real estate, etc. tagging a redevelopment, revitalization strategy? 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

JUNE 7, 2008

FriendFeed is in a category called digital lifestyle aggregators that let you aggregate all your various feeds and share with your friends. It doesn't just take everything from a feed. Clay Newton shared What CEOs need to know about the social web? Andrew Cohen shared How do you test our web site cheaply? Read this ).

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

NetSquared’s Global Community Builder , Amy Sample Ward, will be at the NTC this year to connect and collaborate with friends, colleagues and new faces in the sector. Here’s how to find Amy and connect with NetSquared. My Twitter feed will have quotes, notes and links. NetSquared Office Hours. Net Tuesdays.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

NetSquared. Netsquared Featured projects receive grant awards ! Yikes, the first ever tag spam I've seen in the NpTech Tag Stream! Then, I remembered the phrase flowed through the NPtech tag stream about six months as a reference to interface design.) Some really cool events flowing through the NpTech Tag Stream!

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. [Ed. This is a free web-based tool that is totally customizeable and can be used both privately or publicly.To Finding Feeds. Netvibes will let you track all kinds of things online, all by using RSS feeds or ready-built widgets. Choose the “feed” option and then hit save on that alert.

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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

OCTOBER 14, 2005

Netsquared is new project in its embryonic stages from Compumentor, the folks who have brought excellent technology resources to the nonprofit field. conference, will help non-profit organizations move into that world -- byte by byte, blog by blog, RSS feed by RSS feed. What is it? This site, and the Net??

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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. For me, the web and 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

I "met" Dorine Ruter when we both participated in the online Web 2.0 The tagging discussion included an action learning exercise where we shared a lot of resources about tagging as well as explored the discovery aspect of delicious. group" about tagging and social-bookmarking. e-collaboration???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2006

A couple years ago, I helped compile a list of " Fifty Fabulous Free and Low Cost Nonprofit Friendly Web Resources." In a few weeks, I'm lucky to be going to the netsquared conference I signed up to go with the intent of being a sponge -- to learn more about all this stuff. It means doing the easy stuff first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

creates a chance to improve this collection of feeds by and with my community. My public RSS reader is built on Netvibes , which is a free, web-based RSS reader. This is a place to find blogs or RSS feeds from research or organizational websites - all focused on the large intersection of social technologies and social benefit work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

" So, does it make sense to roll your own network to appeal to those 85% of existing donors who do not participate on social networking sites, but may be engaged with the organization through other channels like email, face-to-face, or web site forums? So, I have no idea why this page was tagged with NpTech. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

It is one of a number of "life streaming applications" where individuals and organizations who are active on the social web can port their activity across social networks into one, easy to follow, read, and comment activity stream. How To Use FriendFeed To Keep Up On Nonprofits - (Netsquared). Tags: friendfeed.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 6, 2005

As I mentioned in my November 3rd post , I am working as a Community Builder with NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup. Also, we are hosting gatherings for Bay Area nonprofit and web innovators interested in connecting communities for social change the second Tuesday of every month. You can check out the ones we've profiled so far here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

I attended a panel called "The Future of Social Innovation on the Web" This all-guy panel was facilitated by Dennis Whittle, Global Giving and featured Premal Shah, Kiva.org; Jonathan Greenblatt, Our Good Works; Steve Newcomb, Virgance; and Ben Rattray, Change.org. He defined it as: "If Web 1.0 I tweeted some of the key points.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2006

As I've mentioned in previous posts, I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that is helping to bring the social web to nonprofits & NGOs by sharing stories and building tools. Last month 80+ folks showed up so come on over and join the fun. It's at Varnish Art and Wine Bar @ 77 Natoma in SF from 6-8 PM.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

Photo by PixelFarmer - Zen Mutt (a rescue dog) - Title "Precision" The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to rethink, reinvent -- again. Conversations are getting more distributed and it is getting increasingly difficult to use tagging to discover, aggregate, and summarize them. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. The social web makes it easy for your find people with exactly the same passion. Explore popular blog, searches and tags.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

Provide bloggers, and your supporters, with an RSS feed of news related to your organization so that they can spread the word for you. Don't be afraid of RSS feeds. Web publishers use RSS to easily create and distribute news feeds that include links, headlines, and summaries. First of all, what are they? From Yahoo!

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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

feed where he is tagging resources here. Put it on you web page, burn a DVD to show at a gathering, show it in a theater before another movie, play it at a cafe, show it to friends on a portable player, or even put it on television. Britt Bravo, Netsquared Post. All of the video clips came from searching ???net

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

What is your sense of how these social networking tools, tagging, blogs and the like ??? tools for development, because everyone can now use the web as a space to express themselves, interact and co-create. t have a habit of reading on the web. s blogs feed (if you can deal with an overflow of posts that is.)

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We had simple goals, and defined our metrics only as they related to grant deliverables or obvious data, like: we will launch programs in 3 schools, or we will feed 500 families. We went from technology belonging to the IT staff, to new media belonging to the young intern, web savvy communications officer, and so on. Holistic Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Back in the early days of Web 2.0, nonprofit technology thought leader Marnie Webb created the NpTech Tag as a way for nonprofit techies to share bookmarks on del.icio.us. Most recently, Marnie Webb created a Yahoo Pipe of the NpTech Feed and runing it through AideRSS to sort it by popularity. To get a zeitgeist of nptech.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2006

Let's start with Michelle herself, who posted some comments on the NTEN-sponsored discussion of open API's last week to both the NetSquared site and her own blog. To atone, here's a set of links for this week, all from female bloggers. Open API's. Britt - like Beth - is also a great interviewer.

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