Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

This week, I shared with Vanessa that during my time offline for the holidays, I found myself reflecting on just how many different frustrations I feel people in this sector have voiced over 2010 – to the point that I, honestly, feel really overwhelmed by the “sick and tired&# state of nptechers world wide.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2011

I’ve been following the work of Rob and his team closely as they have shown not just interest, but passion and intent for engaging with the community at large to create a tool that meets the needs of nonprofit organizations and keeps us involved in making the tool better and better.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2012

NetSquared , an initiative from TechSoup Global, holds similar events all around the world to connect NGOs with the resources they need. NetSquared brings nonprofits together with programmers, designers, and other business professionals in their area. BiGTech will be tracking the projects' progress and reporting back on its blog.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

But to many people active in online social action communities, these events had deeper meaning. This is a guest post from Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared’s Global Community Development Manager.&#. But, transparency is even more than this, and really is a part of the Data and Community, too. Well, it means a lot.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 3, 2009

N2Y4 Conference Volunteers | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org - Looking for a way to come to the N2Y4 Conference? It'll bring together the 14 Mobile Challenge Project teams selected in a community vote next week, along with funders, innovators, developers, nonprofits and more. " It's a great read.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2013

Flickr: chotda This week''s Member Round Up draws from all corners of the sector in both region and topic, from the energy in the streets of Brazil to Facebook contests and assistive technology used by the Bridge School--see what the nptech community''s been up to! We will also discuss best practices for building a thriving healthy community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

I’ve been involved with TechSoup/Netsquared Network since its inception back six years ago and so it is nice to be part of the narrative arc. The next point he made was “Networks are about trust.&# He then walked into the audience and asked people not to turn around to look at him, but listen to his voice.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

Community Boost_r , an initiative from Fundacja TechSoup. Through technology, data, and resource-sharing, Community Boost_r seeks to empower Balkan citizens to voice their opinions, demand solutions to everyday problems, and stay informed on accountability and transparency issues. How can people fight back? Through technology!

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Recently, over 300 innovators and changemakers interested in the intersection of technology and social benefit work converged for a few days of idea-sharing, learning, and collaboration at NetSquared's annual conference. VozMob: Mobile Voices/Voces Moviles. About 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.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

It can inform members of a community of critical information as it happens, and tell an event's story visually with maps, interactive charts, and other visualizations. During the early days of our Netsquared project , we held big annual conferences to showcase and fund innovative tech for good. Check out Ushahidi Surveyor.

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NTEN

MARCH 5, 2010

This month's NetSquared (a project of TechSoup Global ) Think Tank topic is on effective social media policies. Paul Lamb ( ZeroDivide ) has an article in the Christian Science Monitor about today's activists: how they marry old school and new school (read: social web and mobile technologies) tactics to have their voices heard.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

This post was authored by Vanessa Rhinesmith and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. Two such organizations are Apps for Good and Youth Radio's Mobile Action Lab , which are teaching youth to learn, create, and improve their communities through the development of apps. technological solution. Youth-Created Apps.

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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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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 5, 2009

Why it matters that the patient voice is heard by the medical community. 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. 2009 is going to be an interesting year. Weiner Blog.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

NetSquared DC organized a panel discussion on Engagement Strategy: Empowering Champions* and Influencers* on November 3, 2015, to delve into this question. NetSquared DC Engagement Strategies Panelists — Maddie Grant, Andrew Nachison, and Dale Pfeifer (left to right). The panelists included. Dale Pfeifer, CEO of GoodWorld.

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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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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

J-ResQ allows anyone in a disaster situation to easily record and send a voice message and email from their mobile phone, telling friends and family about their status. Engaging the Community in Innovative Ways. The app was developed on the Windows Azure platform, a cloud-based platform for building and hosting web applications.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2013

It originally appeared on NetSquared. For example, France Telecom-Orange has made anonymized records of five million mobile phone users in Cote d'Ivoire available to the research community as part of the Data for Development Challenge. Seeing Like a State in Africa: Data Needed.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2008

Want to create the premier online space for your issue and become a leading voice for social action? Change.org is launching a social action blog network this summer and is currently hiring a team of blogger/editors to help create a movement for change around the major causes of our time. Positions are part-time and paid.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2010

It seems a default landing tab has never been available on things categorized as Community Pages initially auto-generated from interests listed on profiles. I’d also be surprised if some of the companies that have discovered this aren’t voicing their displeasure to Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

What is the voice of the blog? Lime Green:  Community Blog. These are blogs communities or group blogging sites created by a nonprofit that lets their stakeholders blog on their site.    Strategy Tip :  You need a community manager and an engagement plan. Netsquared. WXPN Music Blog.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

Rose Aguilar from Bay Area Business Woman interviewed me recently for an article entitled, "Women's Voices Boom in the Blogosphere." You want to start, or find a community of like-minded people. * You are looking for a new communication tool for your organization or business. New date and location to be announced soon!

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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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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Moderated by NTEN membership director, former NetSquared organizer, and friend of TechSoup Amy Sample Ward , "Rethinking Movement Buildling" brought together three luminaries from organizations whose stock-in-trade are movements to promote social change. The moment of opportunity had passed.

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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." I am wondering how all relates to the NpTech tag community and what it means. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. bubble would burst. And if you???re

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

We provide a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights. Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. The new map galvanized the community because they were able to really understand the impact of the plan.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. This proved to the Ushahidi team that their tool would be valuable to communities around the world. Anyone in or outside of Haiti could use the tool via the web or on a mobile phone to make reports with voice, text or video; the reports were then mapped and sources verified. How can we do that?

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Example: The Environmental Defense Fund's blog, Climate 411 , "is the voice of the experts at Environmental Defense Fund, providing plain-English explanations of climate change science, technology, policy, and news." One way to build trust is to write with an authentic and personal voice on your organization's blog. allow comments.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2007

Last week, at NetSquared's San Francisco Net Tuesday Meetup, Steve Miller, Product Manager, Google Earth Outreach spoke to a room of 50+ social changemakers and web innovators about how nonprofits can use Google Earth Outreach for their work. Steve also highlighted the work of Appalacian Voices' End Mountaintop Removal layer.

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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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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 19, 2011

This post was authored by NetSquared Community Evangelist Marc Manashil and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. NetSquared needs your brain! We're conducting a survey of the community, and sharing your experience will help shape. the future of NetSquared. No, we're not zombies. the better.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Post, Post It Passion Exercise from Youth Noise, Youth Summit Blogging and New (to me) Blogs Blogging 101 Community Blogging describes how to avoid the slow hard agonizing death of a blog: Make it a team effort. There's an interesting post on the roles and behavior of online communities of practice. Edge4Dev blog aims to help.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Before you feel like it is necessary to host a community or answer the posts, take some time to really understand what people are saying and who they are. Beth : Most of the time, if you've built your community, they will correct negatives or incorrect information. Rather, it makes sense to start with listening. comment bombing")?

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

And in those communities high school is a luxury, so the local school in the local community typically goes through sixth grade. Three hundred dollars a year is a huge barrier for kids in this community, and kids all over the developing world. So, this community got organized. It sounds pretty cheap to you and me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

This post is about the social media community in Cambodia. 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 started blogging [.]

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

The app also has a voice-activated search. Elijah van der Giessen, NetSquared Community Manager. It is for iOS or Android and is the world's largest online community for readers and book lovers to share recommendations. The app lets me request a ride and also pay for it with my phone. Authy – for security.

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