Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Feeding America has utilized numerous Call2Action Sparks. It's also one that is increasingly being asked by potential donors big and small.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

NetSquared’s Global Community Builder , Amy Sample Ward, will be at the NTC this year to connect and collaborate with friends, colleagues and new faces in the sector. Here’s how to find Amy and connect with NetSquared. My Twitter feed will have quotes, notes and links. NetSquared Office Hours.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). What does it mean for community change?" " How do your social media channels fit in your organization's emergency communications plan?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. [Ed. Finding Feeds. Netvibes will let you track all kinds of things online, all by using RSS feeds or ready-built widgets. Here are some example searches using NetSquared as the organization. As far as the email vs feed option - we are using Netvibes so you can cut down on email!

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). " Try These Dynamic Digital Storytelling Platforms | Community Organizer 2.0 – "Nonprofit organizations can tell the best stories.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 25, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). The story in the San Francisco Chronicle says the new gift cards are available in Safeway and Vons supermarkets in California in denominations of $25 and $30."

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 19, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Marketing for Nonprofits: Want to Build Community Online? As she notes, her example has luck but it is an example of a growing model of a changing world.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). " Net2 Think Tank Round-Up: Finding Volunteers Online | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – Looking for ways to recruit volunteers online?

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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. Ten Tech Proposals Empowering Human Rights, Local Leadership, and Community Education is.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Here are even more blog posts, articles, and event recaps to get you started: Facebook uses an algorithm called EdgeRank to determine the makeup of each user's news feed. Maria Ogneva, director of community at Yammer, spoke at a San Francisco online community event about how to make your organization go social. NetSquared.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). UnConference and holiday discount | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – NonProfit 2.0 NonProfit 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Digital Media and Learning Competition: Applications now open!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). org: giving new meaning to “new organizing&# | Working Wikily – This is a great case study about community organizing from the 350.org

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Here are even more blog posts, articles, and event recaps to get you started: Facebook uses an algorithm called EdgeRank to determine the makeup of each user's news feed. Maria Ogneva, director of community at Yammer, spoke at a San Francisco online community event about how to make your organization go social. NetSquared.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

As part of the App It Up 2: Transforming Communities project, we had the opportunity to explore some of the latest desktop apps for Windows 8. Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project. Productivity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

I want to help support those just starting to investigate the options of social technologies for social change work, as well as give something back to those already invested and contributing to the community. provides an opportunity for me to offer a bit of value back to the larger tech+change community that is so valuable to me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

A content curator cherry picks the best content that is important and relevant to share with their community. It is also important to understand that content curation is just about information, it is about feeding and tuning your network. The work involves sifting, sorting, arranging, and publishing information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

and Communities of Practice Online Conference. Dorine is currently involved a pilot project for KM4DEV where a community of practice is collaborating on sharing delicious feeds. In the comments, I prodded her to share some of her experience about using tagging as a tool to share resources in a community of practice context.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

In case you haven''t already grabbed a copy of Kivi Leroux Miller ''s new book, A Communications Map for Engaging Your Community, Becoming a Favorite Cause, and Raising More Money , it will guide you through designing and implementing a content marketing strategy that will bring in supporters.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 5, 2009

Why it matters that the patient voice is heard by the medical community. Do you want to feed the homeless or cure cancer? Help send me to the NetSquared Conference Okay, time for shameless begging and plugging… I’m really interested. Why it matters that there’s federal colorectal cancer screening legislation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

NetSquared. Netsquared Featured projects receive grant awards ! Social Networking Sites, Online Communities, and Experiments. " Best Engaging Communities " a large collection of best-practices info and case studies about managing online communities found by Ian Wilker. NpTech Talk. It's a must-read.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

These services are powered by the RSS feeds that each network offers to its users and makes following activity across sites easier and in one spot. In other words, I identify connectors across different "hubs" or communities that I want to track. How To Use FriendFeed To Keep Up On Nonprofits - (Netsquared).

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 6, 2005

As I mentioned in my November 3rd post , I am working as a Community Builder with NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup. Also, we are hosting gatherings for Bay Area nonprofit and web innovators interested in connecting communities for social change the second Tuesday of every month. 18th Street) at 6 PM.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

I still don't know of that many nonprofits using Friendfeed , though, whether as an overall tool or for joining the "nptech" community conversation ( "nptech" is a tag that Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, and others have been using to tag nonprofit technology resources on delicious, twitter, etc., for the last five years or so). If not, why not?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 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 USG. Set up Google Alerts to follow what's being said about your organization and cause online so that you can act on what's being said, join the conversation and build your community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2006

As I've mentioned in previous posts, I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that is helping to bring the social web to nonprofits & NGOs by sharing stories and building tools. Last month 80+ folks showed up so come on over and join the fun. It's at Varnish Art and Wine Bar @ 77 Natoma in SF from 6-8 PM.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

" I used the technique two years ago for a presentation at the first netsquared conference called " I Tag the Hand that Feeds Me " or what I should retitle "Meet Sally." I've seen this style be copied by several users on SlideShare to explain enterprise2.0 Here's another one called " Meet Charlie."

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

Use Your Nonprofit Blog to Create Your Own Media Coverage When the men accused of murdering Gwen Araujo, a woman they beat, bound and strangled after they discovered that she was biologically male, went to trial, the Community United Against Violence decided to use a blog to document the trial. Don't be afraid of RSS feeds. From Yahoo!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

FriendFeed is in a category called digital lifestyle aggregators that let you aggregate all your various feeds and share with your friends. It doesn't just take everything from a feed. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. FriendFeed has been getting a lot of buzz lately. Read this ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

The Community Media Workshop is a media organization in Chicago that trains nonprofits to tell their stories to the media, tips sensitive journalists to the importance of these stories, and tries to create better relationships between the media and the diverse communities in Chicago. Community Media Workshop???s t that bad.

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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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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. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. I hope to go deeper on one theme rather than cover many resources superficially.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

The conference bag is one of of her "out-of-studio experiments" to involve poor communities in the development of simple solutions to problems of un-managed consumer waste. Never underestimate something that is fun and has short feed back loops. There is going to be a socially responsible investment. Don't give up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

If you are interested in community plumbing, here's rough diagram , although it might have changed since a few days ago. It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 applications have changed the rules of online community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2006

In a few weeks, I'm lucky to be going to the netsquared conference I signed up to go with the intent of being a sponge -- to learn more about all this stuff. But Marshall emailed me the other day to ask me if I would be on his session at the conference on tagging and rss. What needs to happen in order for that to change?What Is the nonprofit.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 22, 2006

Many of these blogs have been mentioned on this blog before or on NetSquared. To involve staff and take advantage of their knowledge Example: The Walker Art Center's blog contains postings from art center staff and others describing recent and future community programs and educational information about exhibits at The Walker.

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