Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

India Social Entrepreneurship Journey, February 2010 Contest - Please support me! Part of my role as the Global Community Development Manager at NetSquared is to support and grow our offline organizers from around the world. Please support me by voting and commenting here.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

You can easily track your favorite Twitter friends by creating tiles for them on the Windows 8 Start screen. Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Contest. To celebrate the launch of Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, Microsoft announced a new contest to encourage developers to create apps that positively impact the world around them.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

TechSoup Global has had a busy year so far with new ventures, exciting contests, and global recognition. Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Contest. That's why TechSoup Global, NetSquared and Microsoft teamed up to launch the Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Contest last November. TechSoup Digital Storytelling.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

We also have a contest in which we're giving away $7,000 in cash prizes and a new camera. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Research Triangle, North Carolina: How to Create Digital Stories to Raise Money and More. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Wednesday, May 11. Saturday, May 14.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2013

If you don't already have a NetSquared account (you should! go to [link] and create a user account. Be sure to share the contest with your community - we need your expertise to make sure the right application wins. you should. feature your projects and participate in our community blog!)

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 18, 2011

Creating specific definitions for these terms which are often used in an overlapping way will help you and your organization ensure you’re all really on the same page. NetSquared Challenges (slide 27) – [link]. Here are the definitions I use in my work and when talking to groups I work with. org (slide 28) – [link].

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

SF Heroes is a disaster preparedness iPhone app for the San Francisco area created for the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management. NYC Haunts is a mobile game created by the Global Kids Online Leadership Organization in a partnership with the New York Public Library.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2016

We also have a contest in which we're giving away US$7,000 in cash prizes and a new camera (but don't be afraid to start with the cell phone in your pocket!). NetSquared groups are holding free events all month. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Kenya: NetSquared Camp — Storytelling 2016.

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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. Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. NpTech Community.

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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. Congrats to Avaaz.org for the winning video in the NTC Video Contest. Photo from Cambodia4kids.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2016

Led by TechSoup Europe , Apps4Warsaw challenged Warsaw's tech-for-good community members to create useful technology for their neighbors using city open datasets. A Contest Built on City Data. The Road to Becoming a Finalist … and Creating a Winning App. Apps4Warsaw. Second Place: Curtain up!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

Just last week, Lee Romeo, posted something over a Netsquared about a similar use of flickr - people holding signs. This has also been done by NTEN and Netsquared. It describes various sub-groups of consumer co-created content. Compensated consumer-generated media (CCGM): That's where people get paid to create the content.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 21, 2009

"Someone should create an iPhone app that allows you to donate $1.99 What if a group of nonprofits got together and created an application where you could donate to one, or all of the groups, each month through your iTunes account?" An iPhone app created by a company called Melodeo that streamed Christmas music for $2.99. $1

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Experiment with online contests, both creating them and participating in them. Online contests like the Knight News Challenge , The Case Foundation's America's Giving Challenge , and the AmEx Cardmember Project can be resource draining to participate in, especially for a time- and cash-strapped nonprofit. Empower your interns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. Amy Sample Ward , filling in for Britt Bravo, writes about several awards and competitions including the UK Catalyst Awards and Simon Fairway's pointer to the digital makeover contest. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Ed Schipu l, who grew a mustache for children with cancer last week, created a peavator. Do contests and competitions help build social capital and nonprofit fund raising or inspire burnout? Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Go vote here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

They are hosting a contest to win $10,000K to celebrate their launch. Sixdegrees.org is running a contest with Hanes T-shirts to win $10,000K. News from Nigeria via the Netsquared blog. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Wanna check out more tech tools?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! There's also a profile of the Humane Society's recent $50,000 contest win from Microsoft. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. NpTech Conversations. So, you want to build a MashUp? And if you???

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2006

As if you don't get enough of my holding forth here, Marshall Kirkpatrick interviewed me the other day for Techsoup's Netsquared project, and posted it here. But the posting is most noteworthy for the accompanying photo of me playing my fiddle at the Speedy Tolliver fiddle contest in Arlington VA a couple years back.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

If you're trying to encourage your audience to create and upload video content, the most important thing is giving people a reason to do it. Contests can work too, the Crooks and Liars was mentioned. Current offers TV time; Sunlight Foundation and moveon.org ran contests for the best ads, with Sunlight offering cash prizes.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Before I worked at NTEN, I managed the NetSquared program at TechSoup Global. At that time, most of NetSquared’s content came from the community blog, where anyone working at the intersection of technology and social impact could create a profile and contribute to the blog with stories, case studies, and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We didn’t even really have the language to use to create documentation, or, at least we didn’t think we did. And when our attempts at engaging communities online or creating profiles on various new media platforms didn’t work the way we wanted, we excused that failure with newness. We assumed the digital space was all new.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'm creating a powerpiont for the Webinar and an accompanying wikispace, but wanted to put out this blog post for any feedback. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together. The news feeds are created by some behind-the-scenes code called ???? t have to know how to create the code.).

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

It makes sense to work with your legal team as well as with colleagues to combine efforts at creating different norms for the web. BTW, I get offered a lot of free copies of books from different publishers and always ask for an addition one to giveaway in a contest on my blog for my readers - so keep an eye out for upcoming book giveaways.

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Care2

JANUARY 25, 2011

Because we have the will to create change. And that will is what creates innovation. We put our communities and tools together to create new solutions. We see it in the broad range of projects that responded to our NetSquared Challenges. We see it in the stories that people have shared in our S how Your Impact contests.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Chatfuel is platform that enables users to create Facebook Messenger bots without any coding experience. MobileMonkey is a platform for marketers to create, manage, and promote their brands with Facebook Messenger bots. Snaptag Editor is a super easy tool for creating a Snapchat Snapcode with a custom background color and logo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2017

For many nonprofits, taking the “right” photograph or creating the “perfect” video to represent an organization’s mission and work can be an intimidating prospect. This fear-factor can be even greater for a nonprofit creating its first video. Here are four reasons to consider an Authentic Storytelling approach when creating your story.

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