Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. Find out more in the interview below! What is Epic Change? What is TweetsGiving?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. Allan Benamer weighs in with some observations after wading through the comments over at the Netsquared site and pointing to Holden from GiveWell to be the most salient point. This can help you get out a blogging rut.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2016

Looking for inspiration or hands-on help with your digital storytelling? NetSquared groups are holding free events all month. Kenya: NetSquared Camp — Storytelling 2016. Kibiribiri, Uganda: Building Capacities of Teachers and Students in Digital Storytelling. Busia, Kenya: NetSquared Camp — Storytelling 2016.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

TechSoup, Caravan Studios , and NetSquared were on the scene to observe and participate in hackathon events all over the country. The diverse crowd, made up of students, activists, government employees, and librarians, worked on datasets presented by the U.S. San Francisco Day of Civic Hacking. Leonard Library.

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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. Together these efforts empowered women to advocate more strategically and help a larger community of survivors. netsquared digital divide' " Digital Democracy (Dd) was a prize winner in that challenge.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

These apps have the power to help nonprofits and charities reach a whole new audience and raise awareness about their mission. Created by local NYC students, this game is designed to be played in and around city libraries and teaches players how to use library resources.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

" Year Up therefore takes a holistic approach to preparing its students for the workforce. Artis told me that Year Up works with the students to help them learn professional skills, from something as simple as shaking hands to more complex issues such as workplace dress. " Changing Corporate Culture.

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MARCH 23, 2012

Typical wiki communities are work groups within a company, educators and students, and hobbyists. Wikipedia would not be possible without the support of its volunteer contributors, who help keep the site's content current. To manage the site and volunteer contributors, Wikipedia also enlists the help of volunteer administrators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

We’ll also be referring folks to resources for more formal learning and peer connections, like NTEN , the Nonprofit Technology Network and host of the annual Nonprofit Technology Conference and Netsquared and TechSoup Global – and of course sharing resources from our colleagues in the nonprofit/social media field.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I do it because the ability to work near others working, helps me focus and keep at it, but it also means that when I need a short break, the people around me are working on very different projects or work in different fields. I might have someone contact me, ask for help with their project, and we meet at the café for an hour or so.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

This post was authored by Vanessa Rhinesmith and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. story chronicled a middle school student who built an app to help him. story chronicled a middle school student who built an app to help him. Mobile Action Lab help to provide even. Before, app.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 28, 2010

I recently had the opportunity to connect with Kedar to learn about a new project to help users measure and manage their consumption, in effect encouraging them to control their environmental impact. Picky Polly aims to deliver that information for every item used by us and also help transform us by learning from our peers’ behaviors.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

meets LinkedIn for students. NetSquared can help! One of the projects, GoodGym , is a group fitness app where participants get fit by doing physical tasks that benefit their communities. Another project at the Saturday Hackathon 4 Good was Qeyno , which is described as Khan Academy.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared (where Ushahidi won its first challenge!). Not only does Indiegogo offer discounts on fees, you can also get a badge on your campaign that says you're a verified 503(c) nonprofit (which, according to the Indiegogo rep I spoke with, helps with garnering donations).

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

This past spring, FTS was on the ground in the Western Balkans, helping organize the Community Boost_r Challenge. Students, professors, and deans will be able to express their opinion and report any problems in their school or university. Ttaram aims to improve education in Kosovo. The Power of Technology Challenges.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2012

Quinn also discussed how mobile technologies can help you have conversations with your constituents in interesting ways. SMS messaging can also help you conduct surveys, provide quick answers, and gather information on-the-go. helps users make sustainable seafood choices. Creating a simple mobile app. Collecting information.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared. Not only does Indiegogo offer discounts on fees, you can also get a badge on your campaign that says you're a verified 503(c) nonprofit (which, according to the Indiegogo rep I spoke with, helps with garnering donations). How Crowdsourcing Helps Your Nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Well, imagine that your organization said you wanted to have a public education system in your state that provided opportunities for all students to learn, fair pay for both teachers and staff, opportunities for growth for students, teachers and staff, and an entry point for all students to enter the “real world” prepared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

to raise money for sponsoring a college student in Cambodia via the Sharing Foundation. Have Money Will Vlog is a group of media makers, creators, and advocates from the vlogger community who help raise money for projects via their blog and vlog posts as well as a wordpress plugin ). I did a campaign video. They take 50%.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

Like the blogosphere, it helps enormously if you actually comment on items. I have been a huge fan of Friendfeed pretty much from the moment I joined and, as Robert Scoble often writes when posting a thought to Friendfeed, “here’s why”: A pleasant, intelligent, helpful community. One of those venues is Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Are students just checking their email and tuning out or does the laptop help them think? could it be that students who use laptops in class are bored with the lecture, and THAT's why they do poorly? over at NetSquared failed to turn up more than a handful of nominations. blame the internet! t quite know what to do.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 31, 2006

In early July, I posted about a Basic Blogging for Women Workshop I'd be teaching this fall, but after talking to some prospective students, I decided that it was important to find a space where everyone could be on a computer, so I changed the date and the venue so that we can be in a computer lab.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon, the capstone thesis project for Heinz School Masters students. Meanwhile, Party4aPurpose launches the alpha version. What's your guess?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I'm sitting here in awe that you all have helped me raised $261 from 11 donors (Thurs. Mongkol, a Cambodian college student who is studying in the US on a Fullbright Scholarship and knows the importance of a college education had this to say. College students are excellent small-time fundraisers, and will often throw benefit parties.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

For more information, check out the Tech Soup article, "Easy Ways to Publish Your Own RSS: Use RSS to Help Your Constituents Stay On Top of News and Announcements," and the Social Signal article, "Make Your Nonprofit More Effective with RSS Aggregation." Include outreach to bloggers as part of your online fundraising campaigns.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

There's an unfortunate consensus emerging in the nonprofit sector that social media is only helpful for communicating with young people. Simplistic appeals targeted at teens and college students don't. Platforms like Genius Rocket and NetSquared provide nonprofits an opportunity to crowd-source a communications or technological need.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Facebook isn't just for college students anymore. That's how I started my blog, by Googling, 'How to start a blog" There are also a lot of nonprofit technology resources out there where you can find more information like: NetSquared TechSoup NTEN Idealware Aspiration NPower Beth's Blog Wild Apricot Blog Four More Tips. Ask for help.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

I came across her work while researching examples of nonprofits using the social web for social change for NetSquared and am looking forward to meeting her in person when she speaks at the NetSquared Conference next week. The outcome will hopefully improve Amnesty’s effectiveness, helping more people in the long run.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

The live video feed was being streamed from the Netsquared gathering in San Francisco happening at the same time as the virtual gatherng in Second Life. And, it helps to be guided or you will ask what's the point ? The photo above was taken at last night's TechSoup Mixed Reality Event. Here's a few reflections from people in the room.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Sometimes it helps to have a colleague or blogging buddy. Tagging helps found things stay found as well as facilitate the wisdom of the group. Create collaborative, student-authored resources. Hiring people.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

It basically links consumers, you and me, to third-world families, and through more direct trade helps those families get a fair price for their coffee, their tea, their bananas, whatever it is they produce. Helping families keep their kids in school, helping them farm in a sustainable manner. Everyone goes to the store.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. with each other, and to help them and the community easily share and. It also does a good job helping. with a student about the course schedule, only to realize later that the schedule you referenced was out-of-date?

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