Amy Sample Ward

MAY 10, 2009

Save Your Seat: N2Y4 Mobile Challenge Conference is almost here! The organizers of this year’s N2Y4 Mobile Challenge & Conference tell us there are still a few seats left for the 2-day event convening the best and brightest from an inter-disciplinary field of hackers, entrepreneurs, activists and philanthropists. REGISTER here!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The conference in Morocco was a “tri-lingual event” and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and instructional design were identical to the event in Jordan. This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 1, 2014

So, for your nonprofit’s next conference , prioritize using images. Unlike the.org domain,ngo and.ong are only available to validated NGOs and nonprofits: [link] || pic.twitter.com/Qi3JymPTfQ. — @NonprofitOrgs (@nonprofitorgs) May 29, 2014. 53 Retweets, 34 Favorites. 47 Retweets, 16 Favorites. 13 Retweets, 12 Favorites.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Members from organizations like the National Governor''s Association , Community College Research Center at Columbia University , and the National Conference of State Legislatures , served as content experts who guided the team planning using best practices from the field. VisionLink'

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Care2

JUNE 7, 2010

Couldn’t attend the conference or all the sessions you wanted? The dominant theme weaving its way through this year's PDF conference keynotes and hallway chatter was a refreshing wake up call to political campaigns and NGO's. Check out some of the key take-aways of PDF by some of our favorite nonprofit experts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2008

AppAfrica is series of international technology conferences and forums for software developers, entrepreneurs, ngo???s s and others interested in discussing how web technologies can benefit developing nations. The first event will be held July 31 at Makerere University.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

In 2007, over ten years ago, I launched a crowdfunding campaign to participate in the first ever Cambodian bloggers conference, organized by Tharu m and colleagues. In 2005, we got a chance to meet face-to-face in London at the Global Voices Blogging Summit after I transitioned from being the Cambodia bridge blogger.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

Are you headed to San Francisco this week for the Nonprofit Technology Conference ? "The Online Nonprofit Technology Conference will let you connect with. Several of us from TechSoup Global will be there, and we'd love to see you! From panels, plenaries, and presentations (oh my!) your cause - without leaving your desk."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2019

” So, Toronto made sense for the inaugural Blockchain Revolution Global ( #BRG2019 ) conference, with more than 150 speakers holding over 60 sessions focusing on ten pillars of possibility in the blockchain space: Blockchain for Good. 4 th Industrial Revolution. Asset Chains.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2016

For many years, I served as a board member for an NGO, The Sharing Foundation , that manages an orphanage and many other programs in Roteang Village, including an education program. In 2007, I was the first person to use Twitter to fundraise so I could attend and help sponsor the first Cambodia Bloggers Conference.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

day conference was split into two tracks for IT and NGO, sometimes meeting separately, sometimes coming together to collaborate. I also had the chance to provide a couple presentations to the NGO track, one focused specifically on using facebook for campaigning in Romania. The slides are below as well as some notes.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

MacArthur Foundation and Humanity United , held their second Human Rights and Technology conference at the new David Brower Center. TechSoup's NetSquared Initiative partnered with the HRC in the first conference The Soul of the New Machine in 2009 to help select a winner in their Mobile Challenge. & Catherine T.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2006

I'm trying to break out of my geographic silo and cross some boundaries as it pertains to ngo and nonprofit technology resources. Todays foray took me dipping into the NGO Learning Wiki where I discovered Capacity.org. Conference. The silo busting is my own. that name Peter Ballantyne sounds familiar. Back to the article.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

I'll not only be speaking at the conference and CSR Track, but will be leading two workshops for NGO and CSR practitioners. NF has launched BiG Tech a technology philanthropy program with the objective to provide technology support to non-profit and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). David Appasamy. Gaurav Mishra.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

In less than 24 hours, I will be boarding a plane bound for Mumbai to present at the NASSCOM conference called NASSCOM India Leadership where I'll be on a panel on NGO and Social Media as well as lead a discussion at an unconference on whether CEO/Executive Director's should use social media.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 18, 2013

I've just returned from organizing an electronics recycling conference in Cape Town, South Africa, where I met Dr. Hylton Villet, the chairman of MyDigitalBridge in Namibia. An NGO with A National Mandate. MyDigitalBridge is an NGO that started its work fairly recently. like Connect2Compete. Image: logo ( MyDigitalBridge ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2014

I also keynoted the NGO track at the Internet Festival in Pisa, Italy (more about that in separate post later). Conferences' I’m just back from a trip to Europe where I was part of the opening plenary at this year’s International Fundraising Congress outside of Amsterdam. (I Thank you #IFC!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

TechSoup Microsoft NGO Connection Day. He works for an NGO in Australia and we met on Twitter (via Eddie Harran ) prior to his visit to America to attend the Wisdom 2.0 Conference. (He even brought me some Tim-Tams.). TechSoup Microsoft NGO Connection Day View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I am here in Romania for a conference hosted by the Soros Foundation as part of their pilot advocacy through blogging program. I'm live blogging the conference sessions which are being conducted in Romanian. Social Media, NGOs, and Romania View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. They have over 3,500 registered users.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The end of the Guatemalan Civil War resulted in a flood of non-governmental organization (NGO) programs spreading across the country in the hope of helping desperately poor people gain everything from their human rights, to better health care, food and nutrition, and training in governance. Make sure you know what minimum wage laws provide.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2010

Last month, I got to attend Ashoka's Tech4Society conference in Hyderabad, India, as a guest writer for the AshokaTech blog. By coincidence, Nasscom (our partner NGO in India) was hosting its annual India Leadership Forum that same week in Mumbai, and several of our partners had staff attending the conference.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

For his day job, Robert runs Communications without Borders and the NGO Kikandwa Rural Communities Development Organization. As an unpaid volunteer, he organizes NetSquared in-person events where people from NGOs from all over the region come to talk shop and help each other. We also have individuals who are not attached to an NGO.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2011

This week in San Francisco, technologists and human rights advocates are meeting at the Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference (or RightsCon )to grapple with the realities of how we better manage the human rights implications of new technologies. Guest post by Sam Gregory. I’ll be tweeting myself at @samgregory.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2017

I have noticed that a significant percentage, I daresay a majority, of the people attending the big annual Nonprofit Technology Conferences (NTC) have been women every year. It is one of the very few tech conferences where that is the case. International NGO Leadership. There are powerful women in these organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Photo Credit: Broken Banjo Photography Last year, we tried something new at the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC): A Demo Stage. This year, the Demo Stage is back, and with a completely sold out schedule of presentations. Plus, of course, lots of amazing prizes!

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Ushahidi is an NGO headquartered in Kenya. Ushahidi was a NetSquared Mashup Challenge winner in the fabled 2008 Netsquared conference in Santa Clara, California. Here’s some news on a now famous NetSquared alumnus project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. The camp took place in Cha-am, Petchburi, Thailand.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2012

The prize will be awarded on Thursday, April 5th at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, during the awards luncheon. Recognizing the significant role of NGOs as influential agents of change on a global scale, The Global Journal has sought to move beyond outdated clichés and narrow conceptions about what an NGO is and does.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

NGO Pulse (South Africa). From funding challenges to the need for better governance, find out about the current state of NGOs in South Africa and what must be done for it to improve. David Malmborg from Dell Computers shares wisdom on how to maximize the life of your organization's IT equipment. TechSoup Sweden. Image: gabindu.

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Care2

JANUARY 14, 2010

climate change conference in Copenhagen (COP15) was the closest I've come to a good strong punch in the gut -- the type that makes you question much of what you once believed to be true. Going to the U.N. But it was also one of the best wake-up calls I could have asked for. The result of this blackout?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Many of you know that I have had the honor of working with IIE on some amazing Networked NGO and social media skills capacity building and train the trainer projects in the Middle East over the last 2-3 years. Department of State, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Office of the Middle Eastern Partnership Initiative (MEPI) and managed by IIE.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

I’m heading to Geneva later this month for the next major meeting at the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”), to hear the latest and make my three-minute oration as an accredited NGO representative (first time for me!). They all meet the definition of TI as a primary purpose of the agency or NGO.

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2012

As of late September, the online technology donation portal Stifter-helfen.at – IT for nonprofits went online with a press conference in Vienna and media coverage in various print and online titles. It gives Austrian nonprofits access to over 100 products from three software companies. Among those three: Microsoft.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Saint Paul, Minnesota: Minnesota Blogger Conference | by Get Social Events, the Social Media Breakfast Folks ($25). Monroeville, Pennsylvania: TechNow 2017 Conference. Taipei, Taiwan: NGO要怎麼搞群眾募資？- 綠盟經驗談. Chicago, Illinois: It's Never Too Late: How Your CRM Can Save End-of-Year Fundraising. Saturday, October 14, 2017.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 2, 2008

Just a quick post to say that today at 6 PM Pacific Time is the last day to register for the BlogHer Conference. I'll be facilitating a Birds of a Feather session for Green, Social Change & NPO/NGO bloggers on Friday, July 18th from 10:30-11:45 AM. They are selling out. If you've been waiting to sign up, don't delay.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 28, 2008

For the past two days I've gotten to spend time at the NetSquared Conference with my Co-Editor of BlogHer's Social Change, Nonprofit and NGO section, and fellow NetSquared blogger , Beth Kanter of Beth's Blog. blogging conference Beth Kanter I'll be teaching a "Nonprofit Blogging 101," and a "Nonprofit Podcasting 101" session.

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