Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2009

' Open Source Is Dead! Long Live Open Source! What I mean is that open source, as we knew it, is dead. For the last decade, what we've been talking about when we say "open source" is "open code" — a set of zeroes and ones that we can configure to our heart's desire."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! There's going to be a Netsquared Meetup (recommendations for restaurant or location are needed) How will your nonprofit avoid the Meatball Sundae? Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools. Wonder if smashups are eligible?) And if you???re

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog. Adding a verbal image tag when embedding an image can enhance user experience, especially if the user has software which "reads" web sites aloud. Tank is a monthly blogging/social networking event open to anyone and.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

NetSquared’s Global Community Builder , Amy Sample Ward, will be at the NTC this year to connect and collaborate with friends, colleagues and new faces in the sector. Here’s how to find Amy and connect with NetSquared. NetSquared Office Hours. Have questions about NetSquared, Net Tuesdays or innovation Challenges?

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 6, 2010

We’re also seeing a range of creative proposals — for example Paul Lamb’s suggestions including stewardship by open source foundations or social entrepreneur funders, and a NetSquared-type transition campaign. new sources that are specifically focused on global development-related causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. NetSquared Community. for the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) beginning on May 29th. Like last year, conference participants are introducing themselves on their NetSquared Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Jason at DIA tagged it with this note: "The most universal piece of advice about using social networks for fundraising and friendraising is to start small." It's created a line of hardware (ultra low-power computers) and open source software turnkey solutions and installation and support services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Netsquared Net Tuesday next week in SF is about " How Nonprofits Can Use And Build Online Social Networks ," featuring speakers from Change.org and Ning. over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! No problem, I dug into the NpTech + Digg tag archives and pulled out this terrific Beginner's Guide To Digg. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week. NpTech Conversations. And if you???re

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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. lolnptech.org includes photos of people, who could be tagged as "nptech." The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2010

The event was presented by Twilio and Open 311 , one of the organizations leading the charge to make government data public, accessible, and usable. I've kind of become an open-data geek in the past few months, largely thanks to NetSquared's unconference at NTC. Redefining government is the next step.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. Tagged with a footnote Marnie Webb notes "What do you think of the survey O'Reilly points to? Found via this post tagged nptech by Meghan. " I agree.

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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. Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2013

It originally appeared on NetSquared. Rebecca Arno, describes the use of Floodlight which provides a simple intuitive set of story-building tools to help communities create a visually rich, shareable story that is tagged by subject and geography. Open Source data digital storytelling big data' Image: Edgeflip logo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Tag your post with "net2thinktank." So, do check out the Audio/Video Edition of the NGO-in-a-Box which includes a collection of Free and Open Source Software tools. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2016

The following blog post recaps a NetSquared Toronto presentation by Sarah Lesh, a front-end web developer at hjc. Here's the basic structure of a line of HTML code: Opening tag: Content: Following the opening tag, we insert the content we want to present. Closing tag: An example of this would be: Hello!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There's a roundup of coverage on his Netsquared blog , including pointers to live blog posts like this one. More from Britt Bravo on Netsquared blog. It's an open source free web meeting service. hidalgo is on "an open-source journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators, and global change."

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Recently, over 300 innovators and changemakers interested in the intersection of technology and social benefit work converged for a few days of idea-sharing, learning, and collaboration at NetSquared's annual conference. About NetSquared. To learn more about NetSquared or get involved, visit [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Marnie Webb (who appears to be blogging a bit more these days since she switched to a MAC ) tagged an interesting article from the Wall Journal that asks " Is there a numerical cap on how many friends we can have? The NOSI Choosing and Using Free and Open Source primer is on the ICT Hub Knowledgebase! And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

So, when Lynne Johnson from Fast Company asked me to blog a list, I thought I'd create a nonprofit technology category and acknowledge the work of these awesome women: Nonprofit Technology Marnie Webb is the Co-CEO of TechSoup Global and creator of Netsquared and was voted most valuable person in the nonprofit technology field in 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Peter Dietz is promoting the use of "sa-topten" tag in del.icio.us million users. and Katya A. Follow her trail here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2009

Gave a great simple definition of open source software: access to code, users modify, anyone can redistribute, public collaborative development. He shared some recent examples, including those from Netsquared. Tags: clbc09. On YouTube the attention span is very short 15 hrs of footage uploaded every minute. Very exciting.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Those familiar with Michelle's work in the nptech sphere understand that this non-open-source tool review is rare, so go take a gander and join the discussion in the comments! Tags: NPTech nonprofit technology community buzz nten members. The Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management launched a new blog.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2009

NetSquared is partnering with UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center for a Mobile Innovation Challenge. Shannon Turlingtion blogs about wikis , Open Source, and changing the way we "manage" participation. Tags: contest NPTech nonprofit technology community buzz NTEN nten member.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. 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. Tags: Collaboration Community Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. I think the NpTech tag helps provides a needle and thread to sew these patches together.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Tags: socialmedia. Panelists: Natalie Foster, DNC ; Rebecca Moore, Google Earth Outreach ; Laura Quinn, Idealware. The sessions are short (only 50 minutes!) Email is a critical channel.

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JULY 6, 2017

Last week, we reported on a recent NetSquared London Meetup that investigated the IT tools that can be used to operate nonprofits inexpensively and effectively. The 50-plus people who attended the recent NetSquared London Meetup all had a chance to nominate and vote for their favorite productivity tools. Open-Source Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

nonprofit technology thought leader Marnie Webb created the NpTech Tag as a way for nonprofit techies to share bookmarks on del.icio.us. Marshall Kirkpatrick , who was working with Netsquared , whipped up the NpTech Metafeed which allowed folks to aggregate items tagged by nonprofit techies from many distributed sources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

It's an ecofriendly laptop loaded with open source software and friendly to the environment. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week. Zonbu has announced a laptop version. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

NpTech Themes Nptech Tag News: The NpTech Community site can be found at: [link]. Unthinkingly experiments with visualizing NpTech Tag data with Many Eyes. Some blog posts about the conference tagged with nptech can be found here , here , here , and here. Cross-posted at Netsquared The offline wikipedia, Moulin.

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