Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

I’m willing to do just that, but want to note that I’m open to having rotating times or multiple chats to better accommodate the fact that we have a global community (and that we all need to sleep at some point!). What: Community Building Across Platforms. For this first chat I want to use CoverItLive because 1.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, Community Development Manager, TechSoup Global. Creating a go-to resource like this that maps all content and all platforms will help everyone in your organization understand the "where"s and "what"s that make up the entire online presence of your organization.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

A day of on and offline events spanning the globe celebrating the Web. Are you developing tools, applications, or platforms for the web? Regardless of next year’s topic for the September 22nd celebrations, digital inclusion remains a core barrier to truly celebrating the web globally. Today is OneWebDay ! Get Involved.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

So, what are the biggest lessons for using social media in a global movement? Lesson #3: Local vs Global. The final focus area is on the local vs global impact of social media. CoP15 Global Observatory worth a look [link]. There were three main lessons or focus areas that emerged in the discussion.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 5, 2009

In a recent Op-Ed piece in the New York Times , David Brooks compared the global response vs localized response to the outbreak. Brooks shows that if the world had a global approach to outbreaks like Swine Flu, then the decision-making and directive power would be in a really bumped up World Health Organization-like group.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. The 2009 N2Y4 Conference showcased the Featured Projects from NetSquared's Global Challenge focused on mobile technology. Mobile Voices offers an open-source multi-media platform optimized for low-cost mobile phones that lets users create, share, and reflect on stories about their lives and communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

You know those bags tattooed with the sponsors' logos and filled with stickers, t-shirts, coupons, samples, and other goodies. is about building a bridge between two-way online communication and offline actions and impact. We assumed that if we created a generic platform that people would start their own actions.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

You can make friends and call them into action, but those actions and real engagement will link to and live outside of the platform. Use the tool for what it is: a communications platform. This is a great example of providing a real, authentic voice to a global issue. But how do you wish the platform would work?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. The platform would then take their data, map it from their sending location, and create the other visual support data you see on the map.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 12, 2013

Our organizers hold monthly offline events for anyone interested in the connection of technology and social impact. Ushahidi is a NetSquared project alumnus who has gone on to create an amazing interactive mapping platform. Burlington, VT: Social Change Anytime Everywhere with Amy Sample Ward. What is NetSquared Local?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Actions and messages were contextualized based on the issues and discussions taking place at both the global and local level. Whether you were here in Toronto or not, I’d love to hear your ideas, feedback, and goals for change! You can read her poem, Untitled, here.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

If you want to take a page from Dell’s book, have it include three tiers: personal users, spokespeople answering questions and traditional, offline spokespeople (such as your CEO) who now must also be online spokespeople. From Texas Instruments , social media is global and we must keep that in mind. In a word: disclosure.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

One you know who you are interacting with, why you want to interact with them, and why they would want to interact with you, choosing the appropriate platforms or tools to do it is much easier. The difference with using social media for fundraising is that your organization may not even be involved anymore, the way it was offline.

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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. I serve as the Community Development Manager for TechSoup Global’s CDI (Community-Driven Innovation) program, which includes managing community and content strategy for NetSquared.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Submitted by Amy Sample Ward. How do you balance online action with offline engagement? In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely. Carie Lewis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Submitted by Amy Sample Ward. How do you balance online action with offline engagement? Mobile Platform Battle Royale. Twitterstorm, anyone?

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Submitted by Amy Sample Ward. How do you balance online action with offline engagement? In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely. Carie Lewis.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

There were so many new platforms and applications that provided tools for everything from communications to fundraising, outreach to development, and much more. Much of our use of various platforms and specific applications was exploratory, understandably. Instead of leaving technology out of our strategies, it became the strategy.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

And so I have more than five years of experience creating online and offline communities to support social and environmental causes as Steven said and I worked a lot in Latin America. And WhatsApp is the favorite social media platform in the world. it’s a very horizontal platform and there’s no hierarchy, right?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Annabelle Sreberny, Professor of Global Media and Communication, School of Oriental and African Studies (with special interest in Iran, bloggers & social media). Rather than ask if the tool is perfect or not, we should work together to make it a perfect tool, keep the internet platform healthy. So, the answer is yes as a tool.

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