Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

" 4 Results from Crowdsource Experiment at #12NTC: Nerd, Geek and Gear Herding « Sage Words – "At the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference (#12NTC) in San Francisco, California, we led a session called Nerd, Geek, and Gear Herding 2.0. Such a great resource for understanding and planning for community engagement. "The

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Tech Soup

JUNE 18, 2015

The Rock isn't going to save San Francisco after a cargo ship-moving, bridge-splitting, tsunami-causing earthquake … but cutting-edge technology might. This San Francisco workshop was one of many that occurred across the world. Image 4 : The National Guard / CC BY. 7 Promising Technologies Identified.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Earlier this month, people from the nonprofit and technology worlds convened at the 1920c co-working space in San Francisco's historic Chinatown neighborhood to learn about a few apps that are making a difference in the community. This was the third Social Good Apps Breakfast organized by Caravan Studios , a division of TechSoup.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

Burlington, VT’s Amanda Levinson joined the National Day of Civic Hacking last weekend. Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. San Francisco, CA: A Conversation with Computer Technologies Program. Check out her thoughts (and photos!) in the event’s Storify summary. Coolest Thing of the Week.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2014

The organization submitting the story with the most innovative and effective usage of a donated TechSoup product will receive the UnoBook tablet AND will be featured as the “Tech 4 Faith” story for an entire month on our Local Impact Map (LIM). Poke around the map and see for yourself. Interested? Challenge Schedule.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 7, 2014

As part of National Cyber Security Awareness Month and TechSoup's Safer Online for Nonprofits initiative, TechSoup is raising awareness about how nonprofits are taking practical steps to keep their organization safe: in the office, in the field, and on the go. Poke around the map and see for yourself. If you said "Yes!"

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

What’s the use of being in San Francisco if you can’t check out some cutting edge tech conferences now and then? He estimated that half the developers were hobbyists, and half were people with start-up ventures who came to San Francisco looking for seed funding. It also can map turn-by-turn directions for you.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

The organization with the most innovative and effective usage of a donated TechSoup product will receive the Lenovo IdeaPad AND will be featured as the "Youth Impact" story for an entire month on our Local Impact Map (LIM). Poke around the map and see for yourself. Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94107, U.S.A.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

One of our favorite ways to share success stories is through our Local Impact Map (LIM). The LIM is a highly visual tool that uses mapping technology to plot success stories in a global context. Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94107, U.S.A. Enter your story by 5:00 p.m. That sounds great. Where will you showcase my story?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 27, 2006

Hey Have Fun * Do Gooders--I've started posting over at WorldChanging: San Francisco about local WorldChanging happenings. I wrote the post below for them, but thought I'd post it here too 'cause Shop Local First Week is a national program. Purchasing locally helps grow businesses as well as the San Francisco tax base.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

One of our favorite ways to share success stories is through our Local Impact Map (LIM). The LIM is a highly visual tool that uses mapping technology to plot success stories in a global context. Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94107, U.S.A. That sounds great. How do you plan on doing that? Challenge Schedule. b) Void States.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 8, 2009

I started volunteering at a San Francisco based arts education organization, Streetside Stories. Next week, April 19-25, is National Volunteer Week. Unexpected Payoffs: The Benefits of Volunteering by Lane Wallace on No Map. I was in a job that wasn't using my skills, and wasn't going anywhere. I wasn't feeling so hot.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

An example of an API is when you put a Bing or Google Map on your website.). Google Maps. Billy Bicket got the first Net Tuesdays going in San Francisco. Net Tuesdays became a series of national and international face-to-face meetings connecting industry and nonprofit techies. Citizen journalism. Podcasting.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 18, 2010

While visiting the country, I met with members of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) who are using a growing collection of technology tools to confront reported human rights incidents. I flew into Abuja from Kinshasa, and my colleague Rahwa Tareke joined me from San Francisco.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

Carefully Map Out Timing. YouthTruth implements an online survey in multiple languages, whereas Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco uses paper surveys in English, Spanish, and Cantonese then enters results by hand into SurveyMonkey as part of Shared Insight’s Listen for Good initiative. Closing the Feedback Loop.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2015

According to the National Summer Learning Association (NSLA) , only one in seven children who are eligible for free or subsidized school lunches receive summer meals. It uses GPS and mapping technology to show the distance between the user and nearby meal providers. " How Libraries Can Use Range.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2007

Last week, at NetSquared's San Francisco Net Tuesday Meetup, Steve Miller, Product Manager, Google Earth Outreach spoke to a room of 50+ social changemakers and web innovators about how nonprofits can use Google Earth Outreach for their work. Google Earth Outreach nonprofit mapping nptech net2 activism

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Kivi Leroux Miller is president of Nonprofit Marketing Guide.com and the award-winning author of two books, “The Nonprofit Marketing Guide: High-Impact, Low-Cost Ways to Build Support for Your Good Cause” and “Content Marketing for Nonprofits: A Communications Map for Engaging Your Community, Becoming a Favorite Cause, and Raising More Money.”

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

They use data visualization and sharing tools like Swivel , Widgenie , Many Eyes , Google Maps , Google Motion Charts , APIs and more to make their data more available and more compelling. Maps, for example, are a global contextualizer -- everyone can personally relate to mapped data. Just get started!

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

I think at the national level we're always going to have The New York Times , CNN, and The Washington Post to do national investigations, but what we really are threatened to lose in the next year to five years is local investigations and local reporting. We could literally take a map and then say, "OK, here are the 10 communities.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

It provides a reasonably easy way for non-technical people to enter data into an online template or upload a spreadsheet to create interactive maps, tables, pie charts, and line graphs. Note that to imbed your interactive map or chart, your website must support iFrames. I spoke to George Koster at San Francisco Bay Area LISC.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2015

It provides a reasonably easy way for non-technical people to enter data into an online template or upload a spreadsheet to create interactive maps, tables, pie charts, and line graphs. Note that to imbed your interactive map or chart, your website must support iFrames. I spoke to George Koster at San Francisco Bay Area LISC.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

National Partnership for Women & Families. In doing so, they provide 2,500 meals and 200 bags of groceries for clients in the San Francisco and Oakland area every day. Top Nonprofit Website: National Partnership for Women and Families. Mustard Seed Communities. Gooley Hemophilia Center. Project Open Hand.

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Forum One

APRIL 2, 2010

Rather, most attention goes to large government transformation initiatives, and many of the "wins" have been those that operate on a national scale. Crime Prevention/Interdiction: Seattle's Crime Map , San Francisco's Crime Spotting , and Atlanta's Crime Watcher.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Back in 1995, in the early days of the internet, a San Francisco innovator named Craig Newmark started a small email distribution list for friends, highlighting local events across the Bay Area. Consider, for example, the case of Instacart, an on-demand grocery delivery platform founded in San Francisco in 2012.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

I moved to San Francisco. And interestingly, there was a group of women who really had put that on the map as well. I also produce several podcasts, one of which is called the Big Vision Podcast. I came up through the ballet world and as a modern dancer, very technical, little "bun-head" world. This is about our community.

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