Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 15, 2009

Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (FEBA) of Maastricht University are conducting a survey: "We are investigating the effects of online social network memberships on your daily life. The three winning innovations will share in prizes totaling up to $700,000 USD to support their next phase of advancement and implementation."

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Some of the results include: Facebook is by far the most popular social networking site amongst young people - used by over 7 in 10 (72%) of all 11-25 year olds; rising to 80% of 17-25 year olds, those of college/university age – and to 83% of those who are currently at, or who have already been to, university.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

NetSquared is pleased to announce a new Partner Challenge with University of California at Berkeley’s Human Rights Center. Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. This Challenge encourages innovations for mobile technologies in human rights investigations and advocacy.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

Amplified Leicester is managed by the Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University in partnership with the DMU Centre for Social Action and Phoenix Square Digital Media Centre. The project is commissioned and supported by NESTA , an independent body with a mission to make the UK more innovative.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 11, 2010

I think it's great to revisit a list like this even if you are already working with your community online to be sure you haven't forgotten about some of the key foundations that will help you succeed.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

We could only see people at our university. There’s also the integration for multimedia like YouTube (though, that’s Google property so maybe more hopeful there), Flickr, and things like Twitter and Twitpic. Google+ and Facebook in Early Days.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Help Universal Giving Bring the Web to the Developing World. Perform an Internet Health Check. Post Your Own OneWebDay Story. Youth: Post a Video Response to the OWD Video. Sign up for a Mozilla Service Week Volunteer Opportunity. Post Your Unique Ideas! Help OneWebDay grow by spreading the word. About OneWebDay.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

The Social Actions API now cross-references issues and locations with universal identifiers that have been assigned to them. Just like you might cross-reference the subject of a book with a Dewey Decimal number, we are now cross-referencing each action with a universal identifier that helps to link it to related data.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2009

he is also starting his university studies in physics, speaks multiple languages, has a third degree black belt in taekwondo, and says that he hopes to always make a difference in the world!" Apart from starting The List Kids to serve young Iraqi refugees in the U.S. " Yes, that's right: he is TWELVE years old.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to connect with Colin Rhinesmith , Community Media Coordinator at Cambridge Community Television (Cambridge, MA, USA) and Adjunct Lecturer for the Media and Culture Program at Bentley University.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

Here are five tips from some of the best in the non-profit business."

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

I worked for the Chalkboard Project fresh out of university, a nonprofit organization founded and fueled by Foundations for a Better Oregon, a coalition of foundations in Oregon focused on collaborating to make a meaningful impact to issues in Oregon – in the case of the Chalkboard Project, that focus was on public education reform.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to travel to Saudi Arabia to teach a course at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology as part of the Winter Enrichment Program. During my time at KAUST I was able to meet with various student groups as well as university staff to learn more about their projects, initiatives, and ideas.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I have heard before: I’m a university library, so I can’t learn from or build on the work from the community library because it is just so different here. There’s a communication breakdown at play – not about promoting events or programs but about promoting possibilities, proving the library is open for what people want it to be.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 20, 2011

Aashika, the founder and executive director, starting learning about and looking for ways to support the community of survivors when she was studying Anthropology and Political Science at University of California, Berkeley: “When I was in college, I learned of a labor/sex trafficking case right across from my dorm.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 23, 2010

He earned his PhD in Communications from the University of Texas at Austin. As a group, they were awarded a state grant to assist them in implementing software that would support a universal intake solution. .&# You can learn more about Scott and the work ClientTrack is doing in the interview below.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 11, 2011

." 92% of Americans Take Action for Social Good [INFOGRAPHIC] – "Ninety-two percent of American’s took action for social change this past year, according to the Social Change Impact Report from Walden University. Surprisingly, tech did not play a huge role.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

We already have universal access provisions for things like telephones. Do you think access to technology will be acknowledge as a basic human right like water and shelter? Is it trivializing human rights by associating the internet with it? Kevin Anderson: Yes. Technology – internet is about communications. Technology infuses my life.

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