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Video Interview: NetSquared with Amy Sample Ward

NetWits

While at South by South West Interactive (SXSWi) Amy Sample Ward spent some time talking with me about how NetSquared ( about ) serves the nonprofit industry. NetSquared is focused on the intersection of technology and social impact.

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Only 3 Days Left: SXSW Interactive Scholarship Program for Nonprofits

NetWits

#1 Thing You Need to Know about This Post: 5 non-profit groups will attend the 2011 SXSW Interactive Festival for free if they submit their innovative ideas by Sunday, October 31. The SXSW Interactive Festival wants to help more non-profit groups attend their event. NetSquared with Amy Sample Ward.

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NetSquared in May: Healthy as an Ox

Tech Soup

That means it’s time for our monthly roundup of all the crazy goodness created by NetSquared Local in May. What is NetSquared Local? NetSquared Local is TechSoup’s volunteer-driven network of nonprofit tech meetups and salons. NetSquared’s Organizers are movers and shakers. Why was NetSquared created?

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Netsquared Project: The Step Before Community

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Netsquared is new project in its embryonic stages from Compumentor, the folks who have brought excellent technology resources to the nonprofit field. is an invitation into the marvelous, messy world of the Internet as a participatory, interactive community: a community created by its users. What is it? This site, and the Net??

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Net2 Think Tank Round-Up: User Generated Content

Amy Sample Ward

The current status quo for non-profit organizations is typically one where the information needed to do the work of an organization is kept in a separate database from the database recording user generated online interactions. Tag your post with “net2thinktank&# and email a link to us to be included.

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LinkedIn's Nonprofit Solutions

Tech Soup

This post was authored by Trenton DuVal, a contributing editor at NetSquared, and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. It's part of a wave of appreciation for volunteers, causes and other not-strictly-for-profit types at LinkedIn. NetSquared's own LinkedIn group. LinkedIn for Good brand.

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Data Digest: From Presidential Campaigns to Social Good

Tech Soup

It originally appeared on NetSquared. Some of the pitfalls identified include blindspots, and biases in the data itself, which limits its utility and alienation of humanitarian workers from communities because of virtual interaction. Open Government Data. 7 Ways Companies Are Using the Government's Open Data.

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