Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

CDSI is not something that you thought up inside your organization, even if you thought it up with your community in mind or at heart. It means honestly that the ideas, shape and even strategy came from the community and you as the organization are the ones to support it or nurture it. What’s the foundation of CDSI?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

The competition we conducted as part of this panel surfaced a collection of case studies of organizations using social media in their program delivery. A process like this can ensure that lots of different ideas are included but that the competition can stay true to it’s purpose or the goals of the sponsoring organization.

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Community Case Study Haiti Social Media 207

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

I wanted to use today to focus in on a question recently posed by my good friend Joe Solomon on Twitter : What are the nonprofit/orgs that are working 2 wire the green movement, like what @ netsquared does 4 nonprofits, @ sunfoundation for politics; which orgs are working to expose data, leverage soc media, connect the orgs together?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

not that this necessarily applies to Oxfam) but its super low budget by using existing infrastructure and orgs of any size could really raise their profile and provide an intense interactive opportunity for supporters this way. Just last week, Lee Romeo, posted something over a Netsquared about a similar use of flickr - people holding signs.

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Meme Participatory Campaign Flickr 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

" I used the technique two years ago for a presentation at the first netsquared conference called " I Tag the Hand that Feeds Me " or what I should retitle "Meet Sally." " My question is, are the organizations doing this, like TNC, using personal usernames or organization usernames?

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Social Network Network Digg Myspace 50

Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Here's my contribution to this month's Net2ThinkTank question posed by Amy Sample Ward, "What are the key questions nonprofit orgs should ask to help them determine how to prioritize social media training and experimentation as they do their technology and organization-strengthening planning?" Cross-posted from NetSquared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

If you’ve created a listening strategy, whether it’s a vanity search on yourself or your org, or topics that you monitor, you can bring ALL of your listening into ONE place (see my slideshow for more tips on this). An incredible listening tool. Extremely easy to build lists to separate out the types of people you follow. If not, why not?

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Technology Taxonomy Nptech Synchronous 54

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. Via Laura Quinn at Idealware comes a pointer to a research paper titled " Technology Motivators and Usage in Not-for-Profit Arts Organizations " that comes from the Systems Synthesis Project course at the H.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

Comment, Blog it, tag it NpTech, and/or start a blog over at the Netsquared site. The 59 Smartest orgs online is a list of 59 organizations that make good use of the web2.0 Cross posted at Netsquared Might we start seeing tag called "NpTechUk" or a wiki for the UK Riders List? Change the World!

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Summary Nptech Tag Conversation 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

Although at core: People coming together in the real-world are key to fueling how we organize for change. We need real world events to be a central part of our online organizing. The framework is super flexible - as just about any kind of action can be proposed and organized. Then check out.

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Offline Community Online Organization 88

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

NetSquared Open Space (NOS): APIs and Open Data. Who : Facilitating: Amy Sample Ward | NetSquared; Billy Bicket | NetSquared. What : Learn how your organization could use open data and APIs to show your impact, coordinate volunteers, or inspire supporters to take action. Local Community Organizers (#localco).

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NTC Netsquared NGO API 126

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

" Jayne Cravens from Coyote Communications offers advice and commentary for nonprofit organizations about online social networking. After a brief hiatus from blogging, the studio 501c blog with some great advice for nonprofits on how to explore org.20 Cross posted at Netsquared " Web 2.0, 20 practices. Need a chuckle?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

And, there is so much to experiment that one person or organization can't do it alone. The rule of threes: Identify and explore a tool and commit to learning three things about it in three weeks with at least three other people in your organization or your peers. I've pointed to a lot of resources in my blog.). Make it fun.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Q: How do we get past our fear of negative comments possibly being posted about the organization from activists etc.? Beth : Hmm, I've only really on the other side of planning and organizing "comment bombing" - not fighting it. Beth : You know, on Twitter, your organization should have a personality. Emily : This depends.

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Social Media Social Media Blogger 20

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The Lean Startup Owners Manual , in particular, says it applies to 'intrapraneurs' within existing organizations (not just startup founders) and gives specific examples of philanthropy-related programs where the framework could be applied. Elijah van der Giessen, TechSoup's Netsquared Community Organizer and Curator.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, in particular, says it applies to 'intrapraneurs' within existing organizations (not just startup founders) and gives specific examples of philanthropy-related programs where the framework could be applied. Elijah van der Giessen, TechSoup's Netsquared Community Organizer and Curator.

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Ideas San Francisco Asia WordPress 47

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

There's also a lot of talk in the nonprofit blog space prompted by a recent Netsquared ThinkTank and some great thinking on the topic, particularly by Wendy Harmon of the Red Cross, mostly focused on ROI. Standardized Metrics are those attributes that an industry might use to compare different organizations, media outlets, etc.

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Metrics Social Media Media ROI 56

Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2009

The first full session I was able to catch was “Tools Galore in Online Communications” moderated by Netsquared’s Amy Sample Ward with speakers Natalie Foster , Director of New Media for the Democratic National Committee , Rebecca Moore, Google Earth Outreach and Laura Quinn, Executive Director of Idealware.

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