Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2010

Lesson #1: Design an action and invitation that’s doable and interesting – while focused on your goal. Some posted to community blogs like NetSquared. Using the URL shorteners and hashtags made sharing tweets, blog posts and calls to action easy to post and share, but it also meant that everything was easy to follow!

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 18, 2011

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Communicating with the crowd and the community are very different but can both be really valuable for the success of your campaign or call to action. The core elements in both crowd and community engagement are time, action, and people. Community sourcing vs Crowdsourcing.

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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. View more presentations from Amy Sample ward. Net Tuesdays.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

NetSquared’s February series exploring “Online Community Organizing” includes three different interviews; I’m really excited to participate! I’ve included my interview below, but you can also read it and join the conversation on the NetSquared blog. I definitely recommend them both!

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 9, 2009

Moderator : Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Tags: mobile iphone social actions events. RSVP : be sure to RSVP to receive the link to the chat before the event. Featured Guests: Ben Rigby & Jacob Colker, TheExtraordinaries. Rich Grote & Dave Angulo, iVolunteer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

Starting this week, you can vote for the best NetSquared Innovation Fund Award nominated projects until Saturday, April 14th at Noon PDT. When you're ready, log into the NetSquared site (you can become a registered user here ) and vote for 5-10 of your favorite projects. Avatar Action Center. Creative Commons suggests.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

All of the words probably have different meanings to each of us, but as a term, I mean programming, services, media events or campaigns that emerge from the needs, actions and involvement of the community. You can see CDSI in many things, and most clearly in grassroots organizing or any non-organization led action. Case Studies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Submitted by Amy Sample Ward, publisher of Amy Sample Ward’s Version of NPTech Hildy Gottlieb’s new book The Pollyanna Principles is a handbook for starting a revolution in social benefit organization design and practice, but it isn’t the revolution. What’s the catch?

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

For instance, consider how your organization can use media and technology to: Create sustainable commitments of action from individuals and companies to your cause vs. sporadic, one-off campaigns. NetSquared with Amy Sample Ward. Please keep in mind that we are looking for an essay, not a book.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

But to many people active in online social action communities, these events had deeper meaning. This is a guest post from Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared’s Global Community Development Manager.&#. That doesn’t mean NetSquared’s perfect, by any measure, but it does mean that a quick abandonment isn’t in store.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 15, 2009

N2Y4 Mobile Challenge: 15 Featured Projects Announced | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org - Last week, the NetSquared Community voted on the N2Y4 Mobile Challenge to determine the 15 Featured Projects who will be invited to compete for $50K in cash-prizes and additinoal in-kind resources at this year's N2Y4 Conference.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Metrics : You can identify the corresponding metrics of your tools and your actions based on what has emerged above; again some of these are basic numbers/data and others will have to be qualitative. (We’ll put up more notes after the session, too!). Crowdsourcing for Social Change.

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Community Case Study Haiti Social Media 207

Tech Soup

JANUARY 10, 2012

The sample size is. sample of organizations. 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. We had some requests for more detailed survey results, so here they are!

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Library Survey Sample Nonprofit 61

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

—– Over on the NetSquared platform right now we are in the midst of the 2010 FACT Social Justice Challenge. NetSquared supports the community at the intersection of technology and social impact in a few ways, including open innovation competitions. We’re all learning as we go!

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 19, 2010

Net2 Think Tank Round-up: Age Segmentation in Social Networking | NetSquared – "For this month's Net2 Think Tank, we asked you to share your thoughts and best practices for using social media with or for a particular age group. As she notes, her example has luck but it is an example of a growing model of a changing world.

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NTEN

MARCH 5, 2010

help from Third Sector New England , Social Actions , and the Boston Foundation, a first. This month's NetSquared (a project of TechSoup Global ) Think Tank topic is on effective social media policies. Amy Sample Ward live-blogged from an event in London last week on the topic " Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

7 Social Media experiments we tried with the 99% Power Coalition | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – Joe Solomon does a great job sharing the tools, tactics, and mini-campaigns used in the recent 99% Power Campaign. " Now that's a different question, one that's not as simple to answer for most of us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

You know those bags tattooed with the sponsors' logos and filled with stickers, t-shirts, coupons, samples, and other goodies. is about building a bridge between two-way online communication and offline actions and impact. We assumed that if we created a generic platform that people would start their own actions. They don't.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). " Check it out! " Check it out!

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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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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. View more presentations from Amy Sample ward. Use email to reach out to your constituents to let them know what you’re up to or to ask them to take action. take action: are your calls to action clear and immediately stand out. design: is it clean?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

" Net2 Think Tank Round-Up: Finding Volunteers Online | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – Looking for ways to recruit volunteers online? Check out the Net2 Think Tank for ideas! "For When we launched MIYO, our aim was to introduce the concept of citizen-centered philanthropy.

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NTEN

MARCH 27, 2009

Amy Sample Ward invites you to join her for the "140 Character Mission" event. Ramya Raghavan announced the new call-to-action video overlay for YouTube nonprofit partners. The party happens next Tuesday, so don't forget to sign up soon! You don't even have to attend -- just follow along on Twitter.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

Last month, Joe Solomon shared on the NetSquared Blog what he hopes is our reflection on 2011 a year from now, focused on a year full of empowering and harnessing organizers. What are the goals you have for funneling your frustrations into real action? And then if we keep a mission-critical focus, wow: Big things are possible!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 16, 2012

app offers polling location information, sample ballots, and election. motivate political action, and using gaming elements can be particularly effective way to reach youth. Head on over to NetSquared and share your election app idea. Facebook and CNN have partnered to create the I'm Voting Facebook app. The VoterHub.

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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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Technology Companies Netsquared Social Media 75

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 17, 2009

The initiative is an extension of Resolve to be Ready in 2009, a nationwide effort designed to encourage individuals, families, businesses and communities to take action and prepare for emergencies in 2009. Here's a great post from Ivan Booth who picked up on a question Joe Solomon posed on the NetSquared blog recently.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2011

A few years ago, Jeff and I went on a pro bono IT consulting project to Uganda to serve a Action for Children, an NGO that fights poverty by preserving families and delivering micro-finance. Check out the short interview with Rob below and a preview of some of the functionality launched today! Interview: Rob Wu, CauseVox Founder.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 20, 2009

Edward Harran is a blogger and nonprofit technologist I have connected with through NetSquared, this blog, and of course Twitter. I am also a big supporter of Edurelief, NetSquared, SocialActions, ConnectingUp- organisations tthat are are showing how social action and technology converge. Essentially as soon as I can get it.

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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. Submitted by Amy Sample Ward. Taking action for social change without lifting a finger. How do you balance online action with offline engagement?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Net2 Think Tank: Online Fundraising Lessons Learned | NetSquared – "The Facebook application Causes recently announced it hit the $20 Million mark in donations. org to achieve the most widespread day of political action in history back on October 24th. The America's Giving Challenge from Case Foundation spurred $2.1

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Web San Francisco Bookmarking Org 114

NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take. It will play back all the data to show you where reports came from each day so you can see how the actions on the ground changed over time. How can we do that? Fundraising. More and more, now we can.

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Haiti Disaster Social Media Media 82

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

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. Submitted by Amy Sample Ward. Taking action for social change without lifting a finger. How do you balance online action with offline engagement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Amy Sample Ward writes about the new plugin launched by Social Actions that will place ???possibly from DonorsChoose.org at the bottom of posts, so that readers can find opportunities to take action to help classrooms around the world. possibly related classroom projects??? Hurry voting ends August 5th. And if you???re

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2009

Amy Sample Ward of Netsquared and Amy Sample Ward's Version of NPTech. A Causes widget that points to charitable actions and donations on other sites such as Global Giving and Facebook Causes. Only some of the best and brightest in social media for nonprofits, of course. Sloane Berrent of the Causemopolitan.

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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. Submitted by Amy Sample Ward. Taking action for social change without lifting a finger. How do you balance online action with offline engagement?

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