Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! No problem, I dug into the NpTech + Digg tag archives and pulled out this terrific Beginner's Guide To Digg. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week. Haven't dug into Digg yet?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

This slide show from Common Craft uses a party as a metaphor for online community. Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. lolnptech.org includes photos of people, who could be tagged as "nptech." Do you have advice?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 8, 2009

I originally posted on the NetSquared blog. Thanks to the work of Denise Moorehead of Third Sector New England , the distinguished videographer Steve Garfield , and Deborah Elizabeth Finn , a growing number of videos are collected on TSNE’s Strategic Communications Blog. How would you define capacity building?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? New Blogs Yes, Tobias Eigen blogs and we've just discovered his blog in the NpTech Tag stream. Privaterra blog showed up in the tag stream. nonprofit technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. Allan Benamer weighs in with some observations after wading through the comments over at the Netsquared site and pointing to Holden from GiveWell to be the most salient point. NpTech Community. Where's the conference tag?

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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. Democracy in Action Blog tells us how to use tagging and widgets to share jobs in their community.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

If we are looking for pictures of our communities — the digital education needed and accessed, the policies that need to be addressed, the services being offered — then we need to include the views of all members of our communities." Check out the Net2 Think Tank for ideas! "For

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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 15, 2010

NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – "The 3rd Digital Media and Learning Competition, from the MacArthur Foundation, is now accepting applications. Digital Media and Learning Competition: Applications now open!

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

We can see (and learn a valuable lesson about) the way current ecosystem of social media works in regards to transparency, data, and community. What is the difference between a community actively using a platform and one actively involved in the evolution of the platform? To unpack this, let’s narrow in on each: Transparency.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

In it are Beth Kante r of Beth's Blog , and Amy Sample Ward from NetSquared. Tags: Collaboration facebook Member Appreciation Month NPTech NTEN Social Media twitter Communications. Peter Campbell , EarthJustice and TechCafeteria. Robert Weiner , Robert Weiner Consulting. We also have an honorable mentions catagory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 Head right over to the Social Media Press Release Template from Shift Communications and reviewed by the Getting Attention Blog. " Here's the wiki , blog , and flickr compilations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication October issue is devoted to scholarly research on social networks. Marnie Webb (who appears to be blogging a bit more these days since she switched to a MAC ) tagged an interesting article from the Wall Journal that asks " Is there a numerical cap on how many friends we can have?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

Especially when you need things to be very specific or follow tight criteria, you are working very quickly or flexibly where communication with the crowd could be difficult or time consuming (or even confusing), and when you already know what you want (be honest). It isn’t right for every project or process. Social Media in Program Delivery.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project. Social Media and Communication. You can't tag and sync notes, however. Visit NetSquared and Microsoft for more details on the contest. Miss the trusty Start button?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

I was also an early member of Netsquared Community , another one of Marnie’s brilliant ideas that rocked the field. Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. These incremental chunks that can be laddered up to program or communications goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Kami Huyse, my business partner at Zoetica, gave a presentation at PRSA Conference in Washington, DC about social media integrated into cause-related marketing and CSR (it is the research we’re working on as part of our fellowship with the Society for New Communications Research ). Tags: Housekeeping.

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APRIL 7, 2010

With so many informative panels to choose from (such as Diversifying Your Tech and Online Communications Teams by Frogloop bloggers Jocelyn Harmon and myself as well as Ivan Booth and Shireen Mitchell) on topics ranging from online fundraising, recruitment, and social media - it was a real challenge to come up with my top 12 picks.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

As a result, I'm publishing a briefer than usual edition of the NpTech Tag Summary because I can only get to fast loading blogs and web sites. " Jeremy Pepper , who spoke at this month's NetSquared Net Tuesday Meetup , is the director of communications. in the NpTech Tag stream. In addition, no visuals either.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

This article was originally posted on Amy Sample Ward’s Version of NPTech at [link] by Amy Sample Ward: Amy is a communicator, collaborator and catalyst in the tech for good sector and the Global Community Builder at NetSquared. Tags: guest blogging RSS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

In our session at NetSquared today, we used Social Actions as a case study in engaging online community participation, and shared two strategy tools that can help you make your nonprofit site more engaging. Today, we're releasing those tools to the nonprofit community under a Creative Commons attribution/noncommercial license.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2006

Britt Bravo over at Netsquared found an excellent post via the net2 tag entitled " Why Nonprofits Should Blog." " The post was written by Whitney Smith of the nonprofit, Girls for a Change , a client of Voce Communications. Technorati Tags: nten , nptech , net2 More on that later.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. The system has three components: The Image Tagger -- Volunteers sort through news photos coming out of Haiti and categorize (tag) them with keywords like “adult, child, alive, deceased.” Tags: Collaboration Community Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications.

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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

JULY 26, 2008

Photo by PixelFarmer - Zen Mutt (a rescue dog) - Title "Precision" The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to rethink, reinvent -- again. Conversations are getting more distributed and it is getting increasingly difficult to use tagging to discover, aggregate, and summarize them. What do you think?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Superstar NTEN member Amy Sample Ward interviews Clay Shirky -- NTC09 Plenary Speaker and author of Here Comes Everybody -- about how social media will affect the future of nonprofits, specifically about how nonprofits are (and should be) communicating with their members/supporters. If you're an NTEN member with some news, let me know!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Two nptech events were visible in the NpTech tag stream, the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life Launch Party and the Net2 meetup in Houston.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

is about one-way communication, and web 2.0 is about two-way communication. is about building a bridge between two-way online communication and offline actions and impact. Tags: socap09. He set up the panel with a definition of Web 3.0 - it wasn't about the real-time web or semantic web. He defined it as: "If Web 1.0

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Lots of members, including Charles Lenchner and Laura Quinn , were talking about the recent Pew research report on the use of social network by US adults over at M+R 's Progressive Exchange online community. NetSquared is partnering with UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center for a Mobile Innovation Challenge.

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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

JULY 20, 2007

The HighTouch Blog points to a survey from 160Characters detailing how quickly people expect responses from various forms of communication. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week. Why nothing about social aggregators ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. or more like web 1.0?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Netsquared featured project WiserEarth In Ode Magazine Social Media Resources. IsIs-Inc.Org Blog writes about how Wiffiti can be use in public health/health communications if executed correctly. You might find more if you monitor this tag: 2007cof or also look in the foundation's IT departments. What's next? What's Wiffiti ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. If you are interested in community plumbing, here's rough diagram , although it might have changed since a few days ago. applications have changed the rules of online community. here , using the ICT4peace tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

You can learn more about The Pollyanna Principles at: [link] This article was originally posted at the Stanford Social Innovation Review at [link] by Amy Sample Ward: Amy is a communicator, collaborator and catalyst in the tech for good sector and the Global Community Builder at NetSquared. Tags: Books guest blogging.

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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. How is it that not for profits are managing to use communications technologies to rock social change--when they've got pennies to spend? Tags: sxsw.

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