Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Description : Social media tools allow for people to connect: broadcasting messages to real time communication, online networking to offline collaboration.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 3, 2010

I’ve had experience organizing communities offline in local communities, and organizing community online – but the kind of organizing that inspires me the most is combining online and offline. What’s the point in using “global&# tools (social media) for local organizing?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

This is a guest post from Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared’s Global Community Development Manager.&#. There are many who approach the online landscape with very different views than their offline business decisions. to which New York Times reporter Stephanie Strom tweeted back “No kidding.”.

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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 24, 2010

This guest post comes from NetSquared community development manager Amy Sample Ward. An initiative of TechSoup Global, NetSquared is a global community of organizations and individuals leading the way in social change through technology. Offline, we take things local! Read on and learn how to get involved.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

Positive reinforcement is one of the best leadership development practices you can build into your work across the board, whether it’s online or offline, on your facebook page, newsletter, annual fundraiser or neighborhood events. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. View more documents from Amy Sample Ward.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Speaker: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Both of my sessions focus on best practices, lessons learned, and the things organizations need to know to be community organizers and community builders, on and offline. if you want me and the whole global NetSquared community, visit: [link]. -

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 5, 2011

Whether I’m talking about Community-Driven Social Impact or community organizing, whether it’s focused on a hyper-local community project or global-reaching movement building, it’s always the same for me: our goals need to be focused on a change, not on ensuring that we keep our jobs. Read the full article. ].

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, Community Development Manager, TechSoup Global. She is inspired by opportunities to catalyze community building and social action, online and offline, whether it’s through blogging, facilitating, training, or speaking. Tags: amy sample ward NPTech NTEN Program.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Even though much of these will be online social technologies, don’t forget about the offline spaces, too. And from those two reports, I create a global report that touches on the items highlighted from content and community as well as our programs. Presentation. Do-It-Yourself.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

A day of on and offline events spanning the globe celebrating 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 ! This year’s theme is One Web. OneWebDay opens up techie conversations to everyone.

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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!). I know that at this point it is just a matter of picking a time and making it happen.

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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

AUGUST 6, 2009

to share some of what I believe is the core of successful community building (on or offline). I want to take a break from all the hard work building community (does that get a wink?) Community building” is about a lot of things. Some people define it as organizing, especially around specific events, campaigns, legislation, or fundraising.

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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. million patients in Malawi and Uganda, they've seen that text messages and cheap mobile phones are great tools on the front-lines of global health. At clinics that serve about 1.2

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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. But listening to the community, to the news, to the larger conversation on and offline and identifying where the opportunities are. What is a movement?

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2010

." Q&A: A West Point for Community Organizing – Walking Distance – GOOD – "Since its first boot camp in 2006 the New Organizing Institute has trained more than 700 organizers across the country in leveraging online tools to generate offline action. We spoke to Ms.

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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. Burlington, VT: Social Change Anytime Everywhere with Amy Sample Ward. You can apply to be a NetSquared organizer or find your closest event on the global calendar. What is NetSquared Local? Wednesday, May 22.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 7, 2009

World leaders are meeting in Copenhagen in December to draft the next major global climate treaty – and organizations, communities, and people from every corner of the planet are stepping up to make sure this treaty gets our planet back on a sustainable path. ( Image from Blog Action Day - their topic this year is also climate change!).

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Blog Action Day is an annual event held every October 15 that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. Blog Action Day 2009 will be one of the largest-ever social change events on the web.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 24, 2008

Change.org plans to add more Cause topics, and is hiring bloggers to write and build community around the issues of Global Poverty, Universal Health Care, Microfinance, Human Trafficking, Public Education, Poverty In America, Global Health, Water Sustainability, Curing Cancer, Sustainable Agriculture, Racism, and Mental Health.

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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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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. Ann Wizer, XSProject Founder. What's a conference without schwag ? I tweeted some of the key points.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

I’d love for you to share your ideas, answers, questions, and thoughts below - but if you have the conversation offline, in your organization, and with your friends, well, that works for me, too! 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

As organizations, responders, and service providers prepare for disaster response and create strategies to continue improving, remember that we continue to increase the level to which the global community of citizens feels embedded and integral to local support. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. http ://www.noula.ht/index.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

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. Has your organization run a competition online or offline? —– What do you think? What tips would you share from your experience?

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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.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

There are many different examples out there, ranging from small organization fundraising locally to organizations leveraging the global community for change. 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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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? In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely.

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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.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Our ability to personalize both online and offline experiences is only as good as the data we collect. In the latest State of Nonprofit Marketing Report , a global survey of nonprofit marketers, 71% say their engagement is data-driven, but only 33% are completely satisfied with their ability to use data to create more relevant experiences.

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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. Global campaigns may be ignited by an individual. Thus, we entered the social period.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2013

Join me, Allyson Kapin, Co-founder of Rad Campaign and Blogger-in-Chief of Care2''s Frogloop blog and Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director of NTEN for this free webinar. Let''s be honest, social media is progressing and changing every single day and most people don''t have the time to keep up with the most effective way to do social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Andy Carvin who I known probably for ten years since his early work in educational technology when he lived in Boston and through the years have connected with him in various communities from Global Voices and beyond. This is just a sampling. This made think of whether trust is only built from knowing someone offline or not.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The other thing that I think is happening globally is that there’s greater economic inequality. And like you heard a couple times, I’m going to be sending out all those resources that Andy mentioned, that handout, the checklist, the sample questions. Andy and Harvey, are you cool taking questions maybe offline, online?

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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. Well, probably not obvious because we have a global audience, maybe someone from Japan doesn’t know where Stanford is.” ” Right?

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