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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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Moderated by NTEN membership director, former NetSquared organizer, and friend of TechSoup Amy Sample Ward , "Rethinking Movement Buildling" brought together three luminaries from organizations whose stock-in-trade are movements to promote social change. Movement Building and Elections. The difficult part is keeping it going.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 21, 2009

A DV (Domestic Violence) Awareness app provided by People Against a Violent Environment , that says that the organization receives all of the profits from the sale of the application. GoPlanit.com's Pet Earth game where the earth is your virtual pet to take care of. A ConsumerReports.org app to take shopping.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

TechSoup Taiwan discussed a few organizations that are using gaming to raise awareness about certain issues. One example of gaming for good is the PETA Pokemon game, which seeks to raise awareness about lab animal testing. Want to learn more about how gaming is changing social issue awareness and fundraising?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

Britt Bravo wrote a post several months back defining the term: people who are using their blog, podcast or vlog to raise awareness, build community, and/or facilitate readers/listeners/viewers' taking action to make the world a better place. This fall, DC will be one of 35 cities visited by NetSquared???s What's that?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Use email to reach out to your constituents to let them know what you’re up to or to ask them to take action. With email newsletters and emails as part of your campaigns you can move your supporters up the ladder of engagement to take more actions and help you more and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Today’s online communities go beyond posting photos or finding dates—they are building social capital, increasing awareness and raising millions of charitable dollars.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

Don't live in one of the 21 communities that have committed to take action? We suggest also finding your nearest NetSquared group , where nonprofits and technologists come together for social impact! You can raise awareness by sharing the news using the hashtag #TechHire on social media and following @WhiteHouseOSTP on Twitter.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 21, 2006

As part of this awareness-raising campaign, they have issued a 14-Day Challenge. Every time you click on a day's video on the day it was posted, in the Action description, to the right of the video, there will be one word in bold. Viewers are asked to collect all 14 words from the 14 actions and send them to 14day@stopgenocidenow.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Today’s online communities go beyond posting photos or finding dates—they are building social capital, increasing awareness and raising millions of charitable dollars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

What should Netsquared's Facebook strategy be? Blog Days, Blog Actions, and GTD for Blogs Perhaps inspired by Blog Day and Blog Carnivals , lately, I've been seeing coordinated "blog action" projects crop up in and around the nptech space. Ruby found the perfect visual to explain trolls in appropriate behavior online.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Today’s online communities go beyond posting photos or finding dates—they are building social capital, increasing awareness and raising millions of charitable dollars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2006

The triggers: A blog conversation on Jilliane's Smith blog that became a community blog conversation about nonprofit tagging on netsquared. " I also think we should learn more about what has been learned from these early nonprofit adoption experiments and forge ahead with some more action learning. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

This week was Blog Action Day for the Environment. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Here's a Firefox Extension called " Post Wisdom " that acts as a blogging coach. It helps bloggers remember and use the best writing techniques. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

Are there examples of successful online fundraising campaigns that use video as the primary call to action? " Susan also distinguishes between "fundraising video" which is about the organization and its programs and an awareness raising video, one that is about the issue, not the organization. Off to consume those now!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

The key to crossing the chasm to adoption is education, awareness, and discussion internally. The key skill is pattern analysis and of course, using what you find to inform decisions or actions. Fear that it will take staff time, there will be little return, and the return will not be as easily measurable as, say, a direct mail piece.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

org Actions " We're coordinating a distributed day of events for 24 October 2009 , uniting the world around a common call to action--and we're asking you to help. And if you're stuck for action ideas, just click here. The framework is super flexible - as just about any kind of action can be proposed and organized.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

It takes some action learning, small focused experiments where you track, evaluate, and learn from before investing more time and effort. SaveGuimaras is a group of individuals who are dedicated to raising awareness on the recent oil-spill tragedy in Guimaras, Philippines. Or even to convince someone else of the proof of concept.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

I came across her work while researching examples of nonprofits using the social web for social change for NetSquared and am looking forward to meeting her in person when she speaks at the NetSquared Conference next week. Heddy also writes for the Global Youth Fund blog. The first step is to get educated. Use your voice!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Specifically for nonprofits, Lightful is a social media management platform that enables organizations to schedule social media posts ahead of time and provides analytics to help organizations raise more awareness and funds. NetSquared :: netsquared.org. Loomly :: loomly.com. SurveyGizmo :: surveygizmo.com.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

The speakers were Alli Chagi-Starr, who is the Co-Founder of Art in Action ; Ilyse Hogue, the Campaign Director for MoveOn.org ; Melinda Kramer, the Founder and Director of Women's Earth Alliance ; and Reem Rahim, the Co-Founder and Vice President of Marketing for Numi Tea. As Britt said, I'm a founder of Art in Action.

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