Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

If we are looking for pictures of our communities — the digital education needed and accessed, the policies that need to be addressed, the services being offered — then we need to include the views of all members of our communities."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

I’ve been involved with TechSoup/Netsquared Network since its inception back six years ago and so it is nice to be part of the narrative arc. The started with some big picture frames. I’ve been involved with TechSoup/Netsquared Network since its inception back six years ago and so it is nice to be part [.]

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Players can choose specific charities to receive their Joy and track their contributions through pictures, videos and in-game messages. You might be able to find help from NetSquared , an initiative from TechSoup Global. NetSquared brings nonprofits together with programmers, designers and other business professionals.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

During the early days of our Netsquared project , we held big annual conferences to showcase and fund innovative tech for good. We got to know Ushahidi's work when it entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May of 2008. I was there that year and the competition was intense.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

Whether it seems important in the moment or not, it’s really valuable to make a list or chart or picture, whatever you want, of all the information you have about your community. Events: NetSquared Camps. Community Driven Social Impact strategies for events – let’s look at the NetSquared Camps pilot. Case Studies.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2009

We've discussed Ushahidi here before; the project won last year's NetSquared Mashup Challenge. In short, Ushahidi aggregates information from text messages and other media, presenting a clearer picture of a crisis situation as it emerges. read more.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. The students of Class Five at the school are now on Twitter and Tumblr and you can follow them all by clicking their pictures in this blog post. Together with our fabulous volunteers Melissa & AJ Leon of theLacProject , we taught the students and teachers about computers and social media.

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Interview Tanzania Change Africa 108

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. The students of Class Five at the school are now on Twitter and Tumblr and you can follow them all by clicking their pictures in this blog post. Together with our fabulous volunteers Melissa & AJ Leon of theLacProject , we taught the students and teachers about computers and social media.

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Interview Tanzania Change Africa 108

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

Nature Conservancy’s photo contests : The crowd, in this case it’s one that loves nature photos, shares the pictures they love about nature and in the process grow their community. Tags: challenge community presentation beth kanter crowds crowdsourcing netsquared nten sxsw. What do you think?

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2012

This post originally appeared on the NetSquared blog, which is an initiative of TechSoup Global's, and was written by Causecast. latest shopping tips, design advice, and funny dog pictures. latest shopping tips, design advice, and funny dog pictures. take photos while they volunteer; use pictures in company handbooks to.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2015

Check out this ridiculously long list of 15NTC content. Did we miss anything? Please let us know in the comments! 15NTC Community NTC press'

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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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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 5, 2009

Yes, we’re making a difference against colorectal cancer, and that’s ultimately our big-picture goal. Help send me to the NetSquared Conference Okay, time for shameless begging and plugging… I’m really interested. One thing I think C3 (my org) does well is that we take a lot of short, successful hops. Social Actions Blog.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

EkoVizija is a mobile app that enables users to take pictures and report environmental problems in their community. TechSoup Global and NetSquared attended hackathons across the country—from Hawaii to Vermont—that tackled local, statewide, and national civic issues. The Power of Technology Challenges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2006

for the big picture look. This visual is for the panel session at netsquared called " I tag the hand that feeds me: examining tagging in the nonprofit world. Nonprofit Use of Tagging Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. Playing with visuals. Have a story to illustrate an organizational example - a composite of tales.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2010

I've kind of become an open-data geek in the past few months, largely thanks to NetSquared's unconference at NTC. Tim O'Reilly painted a breathtaking picture of the future of government.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 10, 2012

What We Found in the Numbers We made an effort to include both nonprofits and libraries by promoting the surveys in the TechSoup forums, via NetSquared and TechSoup for Libraries , and through social media. Picture: Doug Belshaw. Finally, the results below combine responses from different. The surveys ran in late August and early.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

I was also an early member of Netsquared Community , another one of Marnie’s brilliant ideas that rocked the field. He discusses a way of seeing both the big strategic picture and the smaller immediate tactics. I had a funny picture of a Squirrel and shouted out Squirrel at random points during the presentation.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared (where Ushahidi won its first challenge!). The community-centric campaign let donors submit pictures of themselves doing various activities in a African school uniform dress. Bottom line: Kickstarter might be a bit of a gamble for nonprofits.

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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. Full disclosure: I am NetSquared's Community Builder.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2007

This summer I've been interviewing the innovators behind the 21 Projects that went to the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) this year (I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared). You can listen to the original interview and a live recording of Freecycle's 5-minute pitch at the NetSquared Conference on the NetSquared Podcast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2005

I missed the post about flickr use by MoveOn on netsquared when I was in London earlier this month. It's also made finding pictures for the MoveOn homepage and other materials a snap -- MoveOn staff can easily browse photos by campaign or time period.??? Just tracked down the original article, The Best $24.95 He adds, ???It's

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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. What caption would you add to this picture ? Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Meanwhile, Party4aPurpose launches the alpha version.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared. The community-centric campaign let donors submit pictures of themselves doing various activities in a African school uniform dress. where Ushahidi won its first challenge!). Bottom line: Kickstarter might be a bit of a gamble for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2006

Last week I blogged about an Ipod/Toilet paper holder over at Netsquared. " Changing the Present has a clever section on their site called The Stupid Gifts Hall of Shame where you can vote or share a picture of a stupid gift you've received. So, somehow I'm stuck on the theme of toilet paper holders as gifts.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2006

As if you don't get enough of my holding forth here, Marshall Kirkpatrick interviewed me the other day for Techsoup's Netsquared project, and posted it here. We talked about the work of my company Members Only Software, and how I see emerging Internet technologies impacting the non-profit arena.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

Footpath Pictures is a small company dedicated to telling the stories of non-profit organizations. Netsquared Net Tuesday also had a session on vlogging and Britt Bravo posted some great notes. It would be interesting to see some of the projects he refers to in the clip. Check out this beautifully produced video here.)

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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2011

We need to identify individuals and organizations who are already working toward online capacity mapping and resource matching tools, brief them about the big picture and its potential, promote convergence and collaboration among the developers, and work out the organizational and technical basis for moving forward together.

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Map Picture Resource NTC 63

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2014

He's currently working on an event planner module, which I can see being a huge asset for nonprofits or community organizers, such as organizers of our NetSquared groups. Residents can send pictures of violations to the THC with the app. Reporting Problems. Or do you have a great idea for a mobile app? Image 1: Caravan Studios.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I posted an announcement of the campaign on my blog and on Netsquared Posted a guest blog post at Katya's blog soliciting campaign advice in exchange to share my learnings. Launch Announcements I decided not to broadcast this out to everyone I know. throw a fundraiser/houseparty. use your social network to help you with the campaign.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Whether it seems important in the moment or not, it’s really valuable to make a list or chart or picture, whatever you want, of all the information you have about your community. What kind of action and interaction already happens, and what actions or interaction are they looking to find? Where’s the sweet spot?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

For those that can’t tell, this is a picture of a clock on the face of a coffee maker. And I hope that some of these principles and ideas, though maybe just beyond where your organization is now, will help you navigate the distance between now and what’s ahead. Holistic Paradigm. Next up: the holistic paradigm.

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Slides Nptech Digital Case Study 213

Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

Elijah van der Giessen, NetSquared Community Manager. You can select channels, such as historic pictures or great new restaurants. Yelp – for restaurant and other reviews. Dictionary.com app – to always have the right word at hand. The app also has a voice-activated search. Authy – for security.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2009

Open standards (see picture above) guide me to a place where I can @reply in a hurry. Chris Messina recently made this point at the NetSquared conference as it relates to open standards for managing one's identity online, '. Sometimes collaborating in one area raises the bar of competition in another.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 16, 2007

Change.org , the social network where users can find like-minded do-gooders based on shared issues that they want to change, or nonprofits that they support, has launched a fundraising widget (pictured left). Cross-posted from the NetSquared blog. The widget can be placed on a blog, MySpace, Facebook, or a website. Pretty cool.

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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. You typed in a URL and a file with text and links (and later pictures and video) would be delivered. Life was good.

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Metrics Social Media Media ROI 56

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

I promise not to say anything about a picture being worth a thousand words, but in today’s ‘attention economy’ using images in our communications online or off is more important than ever in attracting attention. I particularly like the feature overview page that shows in pictures the kinds of things you can do with GIMP.

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