Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

I think this is a hard concept for many to agree with because of the process by which the social media tools are most often adopted in organizations: for example, Jane really likes taking pictures and usually posts them to Flickr (an online photo sharing website) as a way to store them, sort them, and share them.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

—– Over on the NetSquared platform right now we are in the midst of the 2010 FACT Social Justice Challenge. NetSquared supports the community at the intersection of technology and social impact in a few ways, including open innovation competitions. Photo Credit: Flickr tableatny ].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Flick Photo by Thomas Hawk. tools for the good folks at NCNA. I'm filling in for colleagues Marnie Webb and Billy Bicket from Netsquared. Allison Fine 's book, Momentum, has a whole chapter on what she calls " Open Source Thinking ," and how it is key to successfully using these new tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Photo from Cambodia4kids. 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. A favorite photo from Jon Stahl, but there are 496 more to browse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." I've been experimenting quite a bit over the last 18 months way too many social networking tools. Katya Andresen has written a fantastic five minute guide to social networking tools.

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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 It includes case studies, tools, and how-tos. blog shares an interview with entitled " Camera Rwanda: Storytelling using Flickr." Steve Bridger from NFP 2.0

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 12, 2008

"Tools come and go, but a strategy based on experimentation sustains."--Beth Beth Kanter Although I've known Beth Kanter for a long time, and we write for BlogHer and NetSquared together, I've never heard her present until today when she gave the keynote at the 2008 Making Media Connections Conference. Decide what you want to learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

Take for example, the netsquared conference. tools, but what happens when you have a group of people who may not be? Photo Streams: Conference or event organizers identify and promote a conference or event tag and encourage those with digital cameras to post their photos in flickr using that tag.

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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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Flickr Photo by Villoks Many people around the world are supporting the Monks in Burma by wearing red t-shirts today or participating in vigils like this one in Cambodia outside the Burma embassy. There's a roundup of coverage on his Netsquared blog , including pointers to live blog posts like this one. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr. Commentary here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2007

For those colleagues who deeply influenced my thinking, I give them a credit with screencapture or photo at the front of my presentation, include the blog url. For attribution for flickr photos, I include the url either on the photo itself or at the end. I also include their blog urls in the accompanying wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

tags: fundraising advocacy ) I was lucky enough to meet Ivan Boothe at the first (or maybe second) Netsquared Conference back in 2005 and have been following his work for years. We use it to go where people are already organizing against genocide, and give them tools to do so effectively.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2006

Brad Stephenson gave a very good overview of the process and the tools. My Flickr photos here ) (He mentioned that he picked up the microphones in the CMU trash - boy I wish I could lurk in those trash cans!). (See YouTube interview for more). He asked for three volunteers from the audience to "make a podcast."

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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. You can still add your own red photo to the Burma Free - Birmania Libera Flickr pool. Check out the photo "comments" on this Free Burma photo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Photo by Geodog Speed Geeking Session at Advocacy Dev - complete flickr stream here. First there was a flickr group for NpTech Dogs and then we started seeing NpTechers with dog profiles on their Facebook profiles. I keep running into NpTechers posting vacation photos and blog posts. tools to adopt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

You have early adopters, a big scary chasm, and then more mainstreamed adoption of the tools. This pattern is the same no matter the tools. There are many different tools to support this - from leaving comments on blogs or using twitter. The simple fact is that “ Technology Changes, Humans Don’t."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Photo in Flickr - CC "by/nc" license - Mr.GluSniffer. If you read down the comments on the flickr post, Darcy Norman says. over at NetSquared failed to turn up more than a handful of nominations. may be that the tools don???t What were my options, what were the available tools and practices?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Photo by SpacePotato. Use your blog or twitter or whatever tool to solicit practical ideas on how to use social media to make connections. Goto animoto.com and create a :30 video using photos of people, logos, and text related to your cause. Collective bookmarking is an extremely powerful learning tool! rethink, reinvent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

During a social media workshop, trainers Demetrio Maguigad and Gordon Mayer covered a number of online tools with attendees. For every online social network training we do, we actually present the ning site and demonstrate ways participants can create and customize profiles, syndicate RSS feeds, post blogs, photos and videos and more.

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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. You can hear last month's speakers, Chris Messina from Flock , CompuMentor's Marnie Webb and yours truly, on the NetSquared Channel on Odeo. I'm double blogging right now, here and on the NetSquared blog.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 29, 2006

for Good has some interesting examples up right now of how their tools can be used for good. Example: Al Gore asked, "What do you think it wil take to reverse the effects of climate change?" • Flickr , "Show how rewarding it is to volunteer, to highlight issues that need extra attention, or to show pride in your cause." Because Yahoo!

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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. A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Step 5: RSS As Information Coping Tool. From Flickr User EJK.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Flickr photo from handsome monkey. 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. tools] - it was a very interesting exercise, because it revealed the different ways of thinking about technology that we had.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Flickr Photo from Bearman 2007. The list can be general, looking at strategy, tools, and developments like this one from Paul Gillin or go narrow like Mashable's " The Year in Tweets." Alex Steed offers his connective predictions for 2009 at the NetSquared blog. It's that quiet week between Christmas and New Years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

From Flickr User Philswin2003 The above flickr photo is from the Nonprofit Software Development Summit and some flipchart notes illustrating what's going on right now: inspiration, matchmaking, and practical methods! Tools Creating Passionate Users Blog asks " Are our tools making us dumber ?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

Listen Carefully Photo in Flickr CC "BY" license by Sookie. tools successfully. I think it is a pretty critical marketing practice despite what technology tools you are using. I think it is a pretty critical marketing practice despite what technology tools you are using. List of Ego Searching Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. Their use as a recruitment tool will table; they'll reach a network threshold fairly quickly. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Their novelty quickly wears off; results are often invisible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

YouTube, the popular online video-sharing site, and Flickr, an online photo-sharing site, for instance, include social networking. Steve Bridger posted a pointer over at Netsquared to his thoughts on "Buzz Director." "I think it's been both overhyped and underestimated," Dogster's Rheingold said.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

They are a tool that allows for a conversation between the reader and the writer, and for information to reach people quickly all over the world. Beth Kanter raised $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation using a Network for Good Badge and similar tools to the ChipIn campaign, in three weeks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Flickr Photo from SteveTookIt. Photo by RedRaspus. Some of the topical themes I will work in more depth: Listening: I have focused on the free tools and have some great step-by-steps. Photo by Buddhassit Weaving: This goal is more conceptual and may not make sense to anyone but me. So, I've decided to use it.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Flickr Photo: bredgar If you're a frequent reader of this blog, you know that if I could do it all over again, I would have paid more attention in math class. The field of Business Intelligence (BI) is growing by leaps and bounds as technology tools make getting, combining, and visualizing data easier than ever before.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. Michelle Martin writes about her experience as a non-technical programmer creating mashups with some new user-friendly tools. Cross posted at Netsquared 20 practices.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Platforms like Genius Rocket and NetSquared provide nonprofits an opportunity to crowd-source a communications or technological need. Too often, interns are given menial tasks like photo-copying and filling out Excel documents. Another approach to the online contest phenomenon is to run your own. Four years ago, web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I scanned, uploaded, and organized photos of Leng as well as our communications into photo sets on flickr. I posted an announcement of the campaign on my blog and on Netsquared Posted a guest blog post at Katya's blog soliciting campaign advice in exchange to share my learnings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2006

Susan Tenby from TechSoup demos the virtual TechSoup Office during the Netsquared Conference while Ruby Sinreich and Deborah Finn (Cyber-Yenta) blogged about it. But can games like Second Life be a useful tool for social change? " including the above Angkor Wat photo opportunity. Is it worth for nonprofits to invest?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

Photo by Jeska Linden in flickr Jeska Linden (Jeska Dzwigalski) is the Community Manager for Linden Lab , the creators of the virtual world Second Life , where she has worked since the summer of 2004. At the netsquared conference , I spoke with someone from a small nonprofit about Second Life. Mixed Reality Event ???

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