Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2010

Stacey Monk and I exchanged messages last week, brainstorming the idea of pulling bloggers together to support Beth’s birthday campaign. Some posted to community blogs like NetSquared. We also smashed our goal of recruiting 53 bloggers, with 66 signed up and many more participating in other ways. Amy (& Stacey).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

I've been reading Dave Cohn's blogs or " DigiDave " for sometime now and even got a chance to meet him last June at Netsquared where we interviewed each other. writes for Wired, and has worked with pioneering journalism bloggers like Jay Rosen and Jeff Jarvis. You can pitch a story to be crowd-funded or donate to an existing pitch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

I just donated a small amount to his effort! Alex is a great example of a change blogger. I guess I'm a change blogger too. The meme isn't necessarily limited to individuals as David Neff at Fispace mentions - corporate bloggers like Tyson Foods will donate 100 pounds of food for every comment made here.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 5, 2009

We have to figure out who is likely to engage online and who isn’t (and not just for donations). Here are some other bloggers that are writing their nonprofit resolutions at Convio’s invitation: Beaconfire Wire. It’s almost as ridiculous as saying that every geek “works in computers.”. That’s my resolution. Beth Kanter.

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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." Unfortunately they don't have credit cards (that's a problem for some of the potential donors like the bloggers I met in Cambodia - take for example Denith ). I tweeted that too.

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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. There's a roundup of coverage on his Netsquared blog , including pointers to live blog posts like this one. More from Britt Bravo on Netsquared blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Britt is an amazing person - the most efficient woman on earth, an fantastic blogger, and all-around fun to be with! She her day job is to blog and she does a terrific job at NetSquared and BlogHer. Coming up with the $1,000 donation to the Sharing Foundation. Donate now. which manages the program is a stretch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2009

link] shows a good example about a pop up call to action and links to url for donation #cfbc09 from charitywater that was successful. Cultural shift afoot - technology companies, media, and bloggers using their influence to meaningful action. He shared some recent examples, including those from Netsquared. Very exciting.

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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? See below).

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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. " SocialVibe's proof of concept has donated more than $100K to charities so far.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

As part of my preparation, it seems like a good time to update my 2006 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Us Blogs , and my 2007 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause. Example: The Case Foundation's Blog includes posts from multiple staff members , including Jean Case , and guest bloggers.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2008

The last week of every month, food bloggers send in dessert recipes based on a theme. Please specify 'Pie Ranch/Green Oaks Fund' in the Designation field of the online donation form. She explained that she was inspired by the Mission Pie she'd had last year at Net Tuesday San Francisco , an event I produce for NetSquared.

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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. Instead a third party handles all touches. And if you???re

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Marc's findings: Traffic increase, little donation follow through. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. In the meantime, this post from Marc Sirkin sharing his YouTube Nonprofit Channel experience is worth reading as people contemplate a YouTube strategy.

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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. I also used Twitter to get 300 t-shirts donated to bring over for the conference.

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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.) At the Full Moon Museum in front of the ACS Donation Box. So I joined.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Too bad Apple isn't donating them to nonprofits! Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. And, while we're talking about Iphones. here's a fundraising strategy. using an Iphone -- the nonprofit waited in line to purchase one and is auctioning it off.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

The Best and Worst Cities for Nonprofit Efficiency (posted by Sarah Conner Smith ) Social Media and Web Strategy and Marketing Jonathon Coleman shared The (Lil) Green Patch Facebook app has donated $33,600 to The Nature Conservatory's Facebook Cause (I screenshotted and summarized the discussion thread here ). Causes Raised $2.5 And if you???re

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OCTOBER 20, 2007

"If you just need bodies at a rally, names on a petition or donations in your coffers, mobilizing through traditional means will work great. Networking for Change. Even if you never go beyond this step, at least you'll have a list of new media to send event announcements to. Don't be afraid of the tech.

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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, '. Peter is a blogger, social media consultant, and the founder of Social Actions -- a website that helps people find and share opportunities to make a difference.

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DECEMBER 1, 2006

What makes us write a donation check, spread the word about a campaign, or show up for a meeting or protest? For the past year, I have been writing for NetSquared about nonprofits and NGOs that are using the social web to cultivate donors, advocates and activists for their organization and their cause. Emotional connection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

The program takes cash donations but it also links each hospital to an Amazon.com Wishlist where you can directly purchase games and hardware the staff at that hospital would like to provide to kids who are staying in the hospital. " Stephen Downes suggests a boycott, but points out it is no cakewalk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Marshall Kirkpatrick, longtime Netsquared blogger, is now working with Splashcast also at DEMO 07 this week. Check out this splashcast channel with a nonprofit theme created by Netsquared Blogger, Britt Bravo. A new blog platform for fair-minded bloggers. Perhaps this article will inspire more nonprofit bloggers?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

The place where we get out bamboo in China, they had floods last year so we started donating 20% of our proceeds back to them so they could rebuild their factories. What I do is, I write for several blogs, as she mentioned. One of our inner wraps is about 100% post-consumer waste. We use bamboo, which is an extremely renewable resource.

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