Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

This month’s blog post on the SSIR opinion blog picks up where last month’s started. Last month, my blog here on SSIR discussed the idea that nonprofit organizations, with the use of social media, can now create shared spaces online for their communities—truly convene groups online. I asked Prof.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2005

Today, Mark is the manager of TechSoup's NetSquared initiative, a project designed to make sure the non-for-profit sector gets involved early and actively with the newest tools and trends in internet technology. And once we got through catching up, I admitted to him that I was just a bit perplexed about the NetSquared project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner co-founder of Momsrising and Bruce Lesley, President, of First Focus. (I learned so much that I enough material for several blog posts, my first post is here – it is about content curation.). During the Webinar, I polled the group’s general approach. What are the potential uses for nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2006

mostly about the process and mechanics of blog conversations. Are blog conversations as satisfying, rich, or stimulating as other methods? Can blog communities be facilitated? What are the similarities and differences between online discussion boards and blog communities? My participation in an online discussion at.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. February’s Net2 Think Tank sprang from an interview with Clay Shirky, the author of Here Comes Everybody. The topic asked: What do you think the role of nonprofit organizations is in the changing world of social media? What about the book giveaway?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2010

Here's the social media policy I created for Beth's Blog. Netsquared is running a thinktank on this topic and you contribute your ideas here. Blog Council Disclosure Best Practices Kit. It asks you 12 questions mostly having to do with control and then spits out the biolerplate for your policy. How did you educate people?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Claire Sale, NetSquared. My Grandmother also has a whole network of friends who are at various stages of computer use/online adoption. So, I turned that question to my friends and the NetSquared community, and got some really great responses that I'd like to share with you. Thanks for sharing this resource, Sarah Marston!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

I was reading the reactions to the Overbrook Foundation Report on Nonprofit Adoption of Web2.0 over at the NetSquared ThinkTank and discovered an excellent blog called " Tools, Thoughts, and Things One Can Do With Little Time and Hardly Any Resources." Which reminds me I have to add the Khmer 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

What does it mean that one blog has three times as many users as another blog in the nonprofit tech space? What should Netsquared's Facebook strategy be? Trends in the Living Networks blog gives an analysis of the structure of influence and social opinion which offers some insights into leveraging a network effect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Read more about it from Green Miles blog and a summary of reactions from other nonprofits here. Tactical Philanthropy Blog notes that the next Giving Carnival will focus on Fundraising for Nonprofits and will be hosted by Gayle Roberts. as early adopters rather than the phenomenon being linked to youth." young people???,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2008

Long Station blog has great notes here ) Erin talked about the NetSquared Mashup (deadline on March 14th).& & Michaela Hackner shared some insights on what it is like to be the sole techie in an organization and encouraging adoption of social media tools.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 22, 2006

As I was getting ready for this blogging panel I'm going to be on tomorrow, I started to think about the different ways that nonprofits can use blogs. Many of these blogs have been mentioned on this blog before or on NetSquared. 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs 1.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

Last March I was on a blogging panel for an event put on by the Alliance of Technology and Women. To prepare for the panel, I wrote up 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs. You can read Steve's blog at the Eye of Bakersfield. Blogs fall under the category of "social media" because they are, well, social. So here it goes.10

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

I bookmarked in delicious a post by David Weinberger saying blogging is Web 1.0 How to help npos think about this in a way that leads to thoughtful adoption? Leroy's blog a bit more, I found two posts ( here and here ) on Web 2.0 with a rhetorical question, "Do you agree with his point ?" Poking around J.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2016

We also know that training is one of the most effective ways to support successful adoption and use of technology in your organization. TechSoup's articles , webinars , blog , and forums offer tips, how-tos, and advice. NetSquared is your source for local in-person nonprofit tech training and meetups around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. Allan Benamer of the Nonprofit Technology Blog continues his coverage of the software vendors with a poll to debrief the Convio merger teleconference and a hug. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. " Web 2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

One of the reasons I made a commitment to blogging about professional topics regularly was because I was inspired by Marnie’s nonprofit technology blog, ext. I was also an early member of Netsquared Community , another one of Marnie’s brilliant ideas that rocked the field.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries. A View of the Cloud from the NetSquared Community Even among technologically inclined people, there's sometimes a reluctance to move to the cloud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! There's going to be a Netsquared Meetup (recommendations for restaurant or location are needed) How will your nonprofit avoid the Meatball Sundae? Social Media: Adoption, Strategy, and Measuring Success ZUP4Nonprofits has a two-part post ( pt. The Nonprofit Blog reviews InStedd.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Emily, of the World Grows Wide blog in Australia, responds. Flickr photo from handsome monkey.

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AFP Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2005

Untitled Document : "TechSoup NetSquared Project to Remix Web for Social Change; Call for Participation in Using Web 2.0 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- CompuMentor's TechSoup (www.techsoup.org) today announced a call for participation in its Net2 ('NetSquared') ([link] project. to Transform Nonprofit Sector SAN FRANCISCO, Nov.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2008

" And every year since she became a grandmother to an adopted Cambodian child, I said, "Make a donation to the Sharing Foundation." Here's a round up of wonderful birthday blog posts and even a " bethcast " that I can say thank you. I do get to see icons with first name and last initial. and Ruth K.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

GetActive GetsAcquired - By Convio This is big news and it bounced around the nonprofit and progressive blogs, listservs, IM, and emails. Adoption - Yes or No or Shades of Gray? buzz at the UK National Circuit Riders Conference this week was not tool talk, but issues related to adoption of the tools. Change the World!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

About a year ago, a group of nonprofit technology social media early adopters ran a couple of experiments using FriendFeed and an NpTech room. How To Use FriendFeed To Keep Up On Nonprofits - (Netsquared). I summarized our learnings from this experiment in a series of posts that also includes some useful how to posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

What reading level is your blog? Most NpTech blogs are high school level. As FrogLoop blog concludes in its recent analysis of MySpace, "Social networking sites are essentially a microcosm of the internet, and hosting a profile on either is akin to managing a website. This is a must-read. There are 18 articles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

Alan Levine also wrote a reflection about wanting to see a resurgence of blogging but also admitting how much fun it is share information via twitter. Chris Heuer (who was on a tagging panel at Netsquared with Marshall and me two years ago) has some additional thoughts on tagging. Enter Hashtags. Update: Here's the feed

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

" In addition, we'll be blogging here, tweeting updates on Twitter , and posting updates to Facebook , so stalk us for links to golden nuggets of tech wisdom. Your technology plan is a document that lays out the goals and objectives of adopting and implementing technology. Find NetSquared at NTC. Details here.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

I keep running into NpTechers posting vacation photos and blog posts. Here's one from LOLNPTECH.org and Little Dishes 2 from the Non-Profit Tech Blog. for his blog. Do you follow your blog's technorati? The TechSoup Blog has a list of ten cool web2.0 tools to adopt. I really need a vacation. Check it out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

. #1: New + Tech = Resistance New + Tech + Education = Adoption Think about what the technology adoption curve. You have early adopters, a big scary chasm, and then more mainstreamed adoption of the tools. Concerns about adopting social media will no doubt arise. This pattern is the same no matter the tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2006

At the conference, I attended a session on video blogging with Ryanne Hodson and was inspired to go play in a vlog sandbox. There has been online conversation during the past couple of weeks on vlog list , Netsquared , TechSoup and Blogher. " Read what Ken Goldstein, nonprofit consultant blog, has to say about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2007

One barrier to adoption of social media tools (and other technologies) is a concern from management or your boss about the value or benefits. Tony points out this paragraph: I believe that blogging falls into the unproven category. I know of no organization in which the benefits of blogging have been measured. What's the roi?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

See3 Blog writes about the advantages of the Convio Face App (integration with organization's Convio database) and the limitations (can only run one Facebook app at time). The Non-Profit Tech Blog drills down deeper on the limitations and suggests waiting before adopting. This week was Blog Action Day for the Environment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

All part of the Twitter cycle of adoption ! Carie is a recognized nonprofit and social networking guru who was written up in the Chronicle of Philathantropy Blog for her organization's efforts on MySpace in June. Non-Profit Tech Blog lets us know that project agape (Facebook causes) now at 2.5 million users. and Katya A.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

tags: fundraising advocacy ) I was lucky enough to meet Ivan Boothe at the first (or maybe second) Netsquared Conference back in 2005 and have been following his work for years. Using Social Networks for Social Change: Facebook, MySpace and More View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

It's the user experience that drives adoption. I haven't spent much time in this space, but when I walked through the door I ran into Sean Stannard-Stockton who at met at Netsquared several years ago and encouraged him to set up a blog. "Kiva is at the intersection of money and meaning. Return on experience versus investment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

npdigg.org , cooked up by the nonprofittech blog , is up and running. Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. Events and Conferences: Live Blog Notes, Upcoming, and How-Tos. Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? Follow the links from here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

The Nonprofit Software Development Summit Lots of notes and blog posts over at the 2007 Nonprofit Software Development Summit wiki to read. Tools Creating Passionate Users Blog asks " Are our tools making us dumber ?" There's a lot of work to be done, whether the results go on a wiki or a blog or a stone tablet."

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