Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

This is a guest post from Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared’s Global Community Development Manager.&#. The lack of communication about the actual decision, but more so in the lack of communication about the development, direction and intention of Causes and ideablob indicates that transparency isn’t a part of the package.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Netsquared Voting Deadline Extended. Due to some technical glitches , you now have 48 additional hours to figure out what 5-10 of the 150 fantastic social change and technology projects at Netsquared will receive your vote. Water Words That Work - an excellent nonprofit video blogger. Photo from Cambodia4kids.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2010

Our very own Elliot Harmon , talented writer , blogger , forum host , poet , and all-around-good-guy was notified last week that he's won Ashoka's "Blog Your Way to Hyderabad" contest. Aside from Elliot's big honor, TechSoup's Global Community Development Manager of NetSquared , Amy Sample-Ward , was among the six finalists.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 17, 2012

Guest blogger Grant Howe, VP of research and development for Sage North America's nonprofit solutions, kicks off a series of posts about providing great IT leadership. Michael offers some suggestions for developing Your Tech Game Plan for 2012. From NetSquared. From the TechSoup Community. TechSoup Blog.

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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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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. [Ed. Here are some example searches using NetSquared as the organization. netsquared” or “net squared” - putting this in the search term area of the alert would mean that any time “NetSquared” is mentioned or “Net Squared” is mentioned, I will get alerted. You can read all the details here. ].

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

TechSoup and NetSquared have put together a month of educational opportunities, from local events all over the world to day-long Twitter parties and a free webinar. No matter where you are, there''s still a week left for you to hone your social media skills during Social Media September. Register now!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

Joitske Hulsebosch, who lives and works in Netherlands, writes a blog called " Communities of practice for development " where she writes about topics related to her work of facilitating processes at different levels; teams, groups, organizations, networks, and communities of practice. And Netsquared. t do it for an audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There is also a groundswell of support all over the Internet, from bloggers ( one blog at a time ) Facebook , Flickr , Online Petitions , mobile phones , and Second Life. Tobias Eigen from Kabissa presented at the Web2fordev: Remixing the Web for International Development. More from Britt Bravo on Netsquared blog. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. NetSquared Community. for the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) beginning on May 29th. Like last year, conference participants are introducing themselves on their NetSquared Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2009

The Future Tech panelists are experts in the development and implementation of new technologies that work for the social good. Gave a great simple definition of open source software: access to code, users modify, anyone can redistribute, public collaborative development. He shared some recent examples, including those from Netsquared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

" Accross the pond, our nptech colleagues in the UK are busy planning sessions for LASA's upcoming Circuit Rider Conference for ICT Support and Development Workers. " Jeremy Pepper , who spoke at this month's NetSquared Net Tuesday Meetup , is the director of communications. Nancy White shares some insights in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

What should Netsquared's Facebook strategy be? These are events where a group of bloggers write about a particularly topic on a particular day. Blog Carnivals tend to be topic driven with a smaller number of participants compared to blog action projects that are advocacy or marketing driven and may include larger groups of bloggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Heather at Aspiration is doing some research on blogging and professional development. An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared. Travis August tags this announcement from TechSmith, makers of SnagIt and Camtasia, about Mac development. Some New (to me) NpTech Bloggers - Welcome!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Twitter and Facebook, but with Skype Out, Email Rules A few nptech bloggers are experimenting with Twitter and seeing some of the benefits. You must read this post about blogging and low-cost nonprofit professional development. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Netsquared Net Tuesday next week in SF is about " How Nonprofits Can Use And Build Online Social Networks ," featuring speakers from Change.org and Ning. over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. What do you think?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

Britt Bravo, MA, write for three blogs: her personal blog, Have Fun * Do Good , the NetSquared blog , where she is the Community Builder, and for BlogHer , where she is a Nonprofit and NGO Contributing Editor. She also produces her own Big Vision podcast and the NetSquared This Week in NetSquared News podcast.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 10, 2007

In other words, what is the point of telling the Development Director that they are in charge of writing a blog, if it feels like just "one more thing" to them. A natural person to be the staff blogger is whoever writes the organization's newsletter or e-newsletter. This post was originally written for the NetSquared blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Here's a nice collection of links from the NTEN blog with good footnotes that includes a pointer to the ChicagoTechnology Cooperative , a group comprised of consultants, technicians, developers, and designers, with extensive experience serving the unique needs of nonprofit and community-based organizations. Global NpTech. What's Hiafux ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and networks. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. I may be way off. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

Britt Bravo at NetSquared summarized a community discussion about the "Best of the Nonprofit Social Web." Some bloggers, like Skelliewag, highlighted the best of best of their blog posts , while CogDog blog took the opposite approach and look at the Top 0 list. bubble would burst. " Emily offers her thoughts here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

As bloggers and others give it closer scrutiny, we're hearing a debate about which Facebook App is better? It helps bloggers remember and use the best writing techniques. JournaMarketing tells us why it isn't important to get every blogger's attention online. Convio or Causes? This week was Blog Action Day for the Environment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. Do you remember the Grasshopper and the Ant Fable ? Shiny Object Syndrome. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

From Flickr User Philswin2003 The above flickr photo is from the Nonprofit Software Development Summit and some flipchart notes illustrating what's going on right now: inspiration, matchmaking, and practical methods! Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

I started blogging in 2003 about nonprofits and social media and started second blog about Cambodia, “Cambodia for Kids” after the arrival of my daughter, Sara and discovering that there was a vibrant community of bloggers in Cambodia. It was terrific to see Tharum who was one of the first Cambodia bloggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

In an earlier post, I covered some tips for getting " conversation ready " from Alexandra Samuel's recent workshop at Netsquared. If you're a blogger, there are also ways that you can craft your posts to encourage more commenting and conversation. Look especially for those comments that could further develop a conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Thank Yous So far, other bloggers have added the badge to their site or linked to the campaign and I want say a big thanks and in Khmer too ! I wanted to start with my blog readers and nonprofit tech colleagues and Cambodian blogger colleagues. I am technology trainer, evaluator, curriculum developer, and blogger.

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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. Beth is a Cambridge, MA blogger and techy who has done a lot of work with arts and educational organizations. It was a really enjoyable, rambling conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2006

Susan Tenby from TechSoup demos the virtual TechSoup Office during the Netsquared Conference while Ruby Sinreich and Deborah Finn (Cyber-Yenta) blogged about it. Blogger Wagner James Au who reports on Second Life is seated next to Susan.) They will be developing virtual pledge cards, sponsorships, teams, and other features.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

I want to find Nonprofit tech resources beyond the America's borders, I also start searching on Itrainonline , DigitalDivide Network , or Development Gateway ICT section. Also, educational technology bloggers are great resources to read if you are interested in technology for learning. NGO/NPTECH Web2.0 NGO/NPTECH Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Many blogs, like the Razoo blog , went red on Thursday as part of Free Burma: International Bloggers Day. It's for both developers and marketers. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Finding a cure for breast cancer takes more than virtual pink ribbons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Now " The Giving Carnival " over at the Tactical Philthanthropy Blog provides a roundup of several bloggers opinions. Check out the wiki for CivicCRM Documentation , 2007 Penguin Day Planning , and 2007 Nonprofit Software Development Summit. Cross posted at Netsquared Live Blogging Conferences. Need a chuckle?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Or purchase gift items from a socially responsible retail store like Ten Thousand Islands that helps support local artisans and Fair Trade in developing countries. Global Development Matters is a new site with lots of video, quizzes on global development and extensive q/a on a variety of global development project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

The themes science, environmental, nutrition, economic development, children, youth, parenting, and leadership are very much appropriate as this conference agenda from the NACDEP and ACE/NETC shows. Bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2013

Join me, Allyson Kapin, Co-founder of Rad Campaign and Blogger-in-Chief of Care2''s Frogloop blog and Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director of NTEN for this free webinar. and serves as the Blogger-In-Chief for Care2''s top-ranked nonprofit communications blog, Frogloop. Don''t worry though, we can help you change that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2009

Chris Messina recently made this point at the NetSquared conference as it relates to open standards for managing one's identity online, '. Finally, I'd like to see open standards developed and adopted that help nonprofits fill out their social media profile once and have it syndicated everywhere and anywhere on the fly.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2006

To atone, here's a set of links for this week, all from female bloggers. Let's start with Michelle herself, who posted some comments on the NTEN-sponsored discussion of open API's last week to both the NetSquared site and her own blog. Open API's. Quick: Tell me what your organization does!

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