Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

What happens when the most talented and innovative women in technology who work with non-profit organizations and political campaigns get together for the day to discuss the most relevant issues ranging from the Women in Open Source to Fighting Sexism in the Tech Sector? Location: global (telephone and web). You get Women Who Tech.

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JUNE 22, 2010

Today Allison Fine and I celebrated the launch of the Networked Nonprofit at TechSoup Global in the space where Netsquared Meetups take place. I got to snap this photo of two women, Marnie Webb and Charlene Li , who have greatly influenced my work over the past 5-10 years. She launched a book last month, Open Leadership.

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MAY 9, 2012

She works with individuals and organizations whose mission is to increase our capacity for empathy, generosity, and creativity. The third blogger in this run of the Have Fun, Do Good guest post series is the wonderfully wise, Christine Egger. Christine is a facilitator, network weaver, and catalyst.

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JULY 22, 2008

This is a group of women who have been working/playing together to explore how technology can support the World Cafe global community. One of conversation threads was about how to make the story of how this network works more visible - and how a network goes about resourcing itself. tools that facilitate this.

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MARCH 10, 2011

She works with individuals through relationship and live-cycle transitions and creates and leads public and sacred rituals of all kinds, while cultivating intentional motherhood one day at a time. The work I do as a Coach and as a Ceremonialist has everything to do with helping people hone their personal values and then bring them to life.

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MAY 16, 2012

Meg works with clients to heal and balance their bodies so that they can do their best work in the world. My work as a Health Coach is deeply rewarding. She is the founder of Feed Me Darling, a business that helps professional women eradicate food cravings and gain lasting control over emotional eating. Doing good is fun.

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DECEMBER 14, 2010

I sent out a note to the women on the BlogHer Contributing Editor list. Find a time to talk that works for all of your time zones. In our case, I wanted to find people to read Half the Sky with me because I knew it would be a hard read. I didn't actually think it would turn into a book club.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2006

Like many of my colleagues, I'm gearing up for blogher ! I'm going on an extended trip (10 days) which kicks off with the blogher conference and ends with NCDD conference - with lots inbetween. At the NCDD Conference, I'm working with Loretta Donovan and Chris Heuer on a BrainJam.

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DECEMBER 23, 2009

I asked my Facebook and Twitter pals for suggestions, and they came up with the list below: Amnesty International Antenna Theater's Ecological Calendar (They have an iPhone app too !) Cross-posted from BlogHer.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2005

Source: Global s Online, Rebecca MacKinnon. From a post on Global s, Rebecca MacKinnon writes "These guys are basically the dream geek team for free speech on line. " This is very important work they area doing, particularly for bloggers in countries like Cambodia. I'm also wondering who are the women doing this work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Foko Blog Club, Foko Madagascar Flickr Photo Joan Razafmaharo is an amazing blogger, social change activist, and woman working in Madagascar and other parts of the world. FOKO was created after the TED Global conference: ???Africa The project was funded by Rising Voices , the outreach arm of Global Voices.

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APRIL 25, 2012

You can learn more about her work at www.amykessel.com , and connect with her on Twitter at @AmyKesselcpc My favorite way of expressing myself is to spend time deeply connecting with other women. I'm starting the Have Fun, Do Good guest post series up again! My first guest blogger is the lovely Amy Kessel.

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MAY 3, 2012

Seeing that box on the deck after a long day of work is like magic! As Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Network for Good , she is privileged to lead the team to help over 5,000 nonprofits raise more friends and funds online. If I'm honest, my hope is that weekly practice will spontaneously ignite the manifestation of my own memoir!

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JANUARY 20, 2009

In December, Fast Company published an article called " The Most Influential Women in Web 2.0 " featuring about a dozen amazing women who work in the Web 2.0 The list included BlogHer founders Elisa Camahort Page, Jory Des Jardins, and Lisa Stone. is the managing editor for Global Voices. Holly Ross. Georgia Popplewell.

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MARCH 9, 2011

As someone who used to sing at her day job, I discovered that when you have fun, people think you’re not taking your work terribly seriously. As a downtown Toronto girl who went to theatre school, I can tell you that focusing on “goodness” wasn’t considered terribly hip. This isn’t the truth at all!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

s loans to start small businesses and support their families, working together so that all may succeed in their individual businesses.    It symbolizes the harvest, the fruit of hard work. Beth Kanter, BlogHer Editor for Social Change and Nonprofits, writes Beth's Blog. They will co-guarantee each other???s

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

She also has the definitive list of Cambodian BlogHers here. His clients are primarily Cambodian NGOs and small businesses in country, but if you like his work you can certainly send him an inquiry. Details Are Sketchy is an anonymous blogger who writes about life in Cambodia. I love her authentic style.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Here's how it works. Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. The organization works to educate.

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OCTOBER 25, 2006

I'm going to ping Dina Mehta who I met at the Global s Summit in London last year and heard her speak on blogging and disasters at blogher along with Grace Davis. They probably already know about each other's work.

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MARCH 24, 2015

million nonprofits in the US that are working in similar issue areas and trying to address global warming, poverty, the gender pay gap, affordable healthcare, education, etc. I’ve talked about the dire need for nonprofits to innovate over the years on Frogloop. Because there are over 1.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. Support Peace Work Around the World Peace Project Fellow, Alison Long Photo in Flickr, Used with Permission.

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MARCH 4, 2009

Fellow BlogHer Contributing Editor, Beth Kanter, writes about the fundraising Twitter campaign for CARE happening in conjunction with the film in her post, Tweetathon To Honor International Women's Day and To Spread The Word About A Powerful Noise Live. The Global Fund for Women also has an online toolkit to help you host a house party.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2006

Almost two years ago at the first Blogher Conference I was lucky enough to interview and get to know Lisa Canter (we aren't related but I learned a few things about the kanter/canter name from her husband, Marc ). Tharum, who I had the pleasure of meeting via my work with Global s, has linked to the Campaign. Ricardo Carreon.

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APRIL 17, 2009

Moments of obligation are described as: "At certain moments in your life, you may find yourself pulled toward a path leading to work that will benefit others. My work doesn't feel as urgent as it did seven years ago, and I suspect a new "moment of obligation" may be coming my way soon. . Cross-posted from BlogHer.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Flickr Photo from Avylavitra Several weeks ago I wrote a post on BlogHer about Foko Madagascar and Joan Razafimharo , an amazing blogger, social change activist, and woman working in Madagascar and other parts of the world. I haven't slept much working on this project (but feeling really motivated!) I just did).

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NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Most of Be Sweet's products are made by artisans who work in job creation programs in South Africa. Last week I posted about the online fair trade store, Global Girlfriend , here and on BlogHer , and asked readers to post other ideas for do-good gifts. If you have more ideas for do-good gifts, please post them here.

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JULY 20, 2006

--Anne Firth Murray While on vacation I read several books, but the one that stood out the most was Paradigm Found: Leading and Managing for Positive Change by Anne Firth Murray, the founder of the Global Fund for Women. We love the groups book clubs, Weight Watchers , Dining for Women -- BlogHer !

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NOVEMBER 29, 2006

s These uniforms are made by girls in our vocational program where we teach these young women sewing skills and pay them to work for our sewing shop or train them for higher paying jobs in the garment industry. Tharum, who I had the pleasure of meeting via my work with Global s, has linked to the Campaign. Ricardo Carreon.

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AUGUST 25, 2008

Later that summer, I had the honor of being interviewed by Ponzi at BlogHer. Salaam Garage by Amanda Koster presented her work. I love conversational keynotes and have ever since I first experienced them during the Global Voices London Summit 2005 and Blogher plenary session in 2005. How could I have waited so long to go.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2008

We connected through the "cambodia" tag on flickr because I was tracking it for Global Voices back in 2005. The term "extra organizational activist" comes from Alison Fine's book Momentum and I first heard it back in September 2006 when I read the book and reviewed it over at Blogher. Year round. New Donors.

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AUGUST 3, 2008

I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference. If you work in nonprofits and track relevant research, you no doubt have come across the Social Citizen Blog from the Case Foundation and the paper, Social Citizen , from Allison Fine. Tim Davis is working as a freelance consultant on youth participation.

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AUGUST 17, 2007

BlogHers Act is a year-long initiative in which members of BlogHer , both on BlogHer???s BlogHers Act will take a two-pronged approach to improving Global Health: 1. BlogHers Act will take a two-pronged approach to improving Global Health: 1. The next step is to narrow and focus it. Cast your vote.

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JULY 2, 2008

This year I've interviewed Christina Arnold of Prevent Human Trafficking, Cristi Hegranes of the Press Institute for Women in the Developing World , Kavita Ramdas of the Global Fund for Women, Anisha Desai of the Women of Color Resource Center, Janessa Goldbeck of Genocide Intervention Network, and Ari Derfel of Save Your Trash.

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AUGUST 21, 2007

BlogHer (where I am a Contributing Editor) launched a year-long campaign, BlogHers Act, at their 2007 conference this summer. During BlogHers Act, BlogHers will work to make a measurable improvement in "global health" issues. Bloghers Act Bloghersact Blogher women health blog

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

I've been behind on my reading and blogging due to craziness at work and issues that needed to be attended to with children (don't ask). I probably should stop, but if you want to focus on what women are blogging about in the nonprofit space, check out the blogher ngo/npo blogroll.

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AUGUST 10, 2007

Some beta work is happening on this with TechSmith's " Jing Project ," an application that allows you easily embed screencasts into conversations on both PC and MAC platform. Here's a roundup of all the live blog posts from the recent BlogHer conference neatly organized by session. AFP Blog picks up on some Web2.0

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AUGUST 23, 2006

Global Warming. That’s why I started interviewing women (and men) for the Big Vision Podcast , and my Solutionary Women series on BlogHer who get up in the morning and have a big vision for a better world as their alarm clock. Election Fraud. Genetically-Modified Food. What topics do you naturally want to learn more about?

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