Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

The Value-add of Crowdsourcing: For me, the two biggest reasons to include crowdsourcing in your strategic design of community building or contests are: Crowdsourcing invites diversity by encouraging anyone with an idea or interest to participate. There are many ways to include social media in your work.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

And if that isn't enough, TechSoup is also running a contest with $10,000 in cash prizes. TechSoup and the NetSquared meetups are here to help. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and other awesome organizations. Houston, Texas: NetSquared Houston.

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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! Read about their inspiring work in a recent TechSoup Global interview.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 18, 2011

Here are the definitions I use in my work and when talking to groups I work with. For me, the two most prominent reason to include crowdsourcing in your engagement strategies for campaigns or contests include: Crowdsourcing invites diversity by encouraging anyone with an idea or interest to participate. Definitions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

I just discovered a new (to me anyway) blog on nonprofits called the Nonprofit Eye via a provocative post on the Netsquared Community Blog. The blog is written by Pamela Ashlund who works for the Los Angeles Conservation Corps , although this is her personal blog. Hurry the contest deadline is August 17th!

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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. NetSquared Vancouver** shares [slides and videos]([link] from their November event. * The **NetSquared Victoria** team has been investigating [tools for online collaboration]([link] Check out the storify! * Friday, May 13, 2016.

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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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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. Nonprofit Software and Hardware and Cell Phones.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2016

A Contest Built on City Data. Because of TechSoup Europe's involvement in other app challenges, such as Restart Romania and Community Boost_r , the organization has experience in this work. The contest got a total of 72 entries, which Sobieszuk said was a huge surprise and success. Apps4Warsaw. Image 1 : TechSoup Europe.

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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. What creative twist could your organization do with this technique and support your cause/work? Not sure if this includes a cash prize.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

NetSquared is partnering with UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center for a Mobile Innovation Challenge. Convio and Social Actions worked together to launch the Change the Web Challenge. Tags: contest NPTech nonprofit technology community buzz NTEN nten member. What a great team-building and healthy idea!

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

In 2012, individuals will come to your organization with the expectation of being full partners in your work, not just dollar wells to be tapped when cash is needed. Experiment with online contests, both creating them and participating in them. Another approach to the online contest phenomenon is to run your own.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

It is a story about a grasshopper who has spent the warm months singing away while the ant worked hard to store up food for winter. The story is used to teach the virtues of hard work and preparation. Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools.

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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

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 ! re working with???something There's also a profile of the Humane Society's recent $50,000 contest win from Microsoft. Twitter's CEO has learned that short is sweet, flexibility is essential, and applications shoudl work so that people don't have to be at their computer all day long.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

Comment, Blog it, tag it NpTech, and/or start a blog over at the Netsquared site. Be A Celebrity for Your Cause Katya Andresen from Network for Good has been busy working on the launch of the SixDegrees.org site with Kevin Bacon. Film Contest - " Film Your Issue " from Yahoo and other sponsors. Change the World!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

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. There is a category for Changing the World. Go vote here. Do you think these are worthwhile pursuits for nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

Nonprofit content may be attractive to companies working in this emerging field and there may be potential for some partnerships. 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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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. We talked about the work of my company Members Only Software, and how I see emerging Internet technologies impacting the non-profit arena. You can read the interview here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

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. Lee Romero has posted a nice guide to using wikis to support his Idealist group's work.

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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. (I’ll

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

We recently polled our TechSoup employees and NetSquared community on what they see as looming large in 2015. More people will be using their own devices to do their work and giving their IT teams more headaches. Every now and then, we like to predict what's on the tech horizon. What they said may surprise you. Digital Refugees.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

As you can read below, Green Mountain Coffee and JustMeans have partnered up for the Change Climate Change contest. Originally posted on the NetSquared blog.). Green Mountain Coffee will provide four grants for $200,000 each (payable over 5 years) to support the work of reducing climate change. Learn more and get started now!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

NetSquared, a project of TechSoup, is awarding a share of $100,000 in prize money, and a trip to the NetSquared Conference, to the top 20 winners of the NetSquared Mashup Challenge. Via Britt Bravo Do you have an idea for how a mashup could be a tool for social change?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

As some of you know, part of my work is being the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that facilitates the adoption of social web tools by nonprofits and NGOs. You may know the winner of the Challenge, but without your help they'll never know to enter the contest! A YouTube video about the Challenge. •

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

In the analog way of working, we have some really beautiful pieces. We thought about technology as something that took time, required a lot of maintenance and work, and was usually best kept confined to as few staff members as possible. If facebook was blocked, then start working on facebook at home. So let’s dive in!

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

We had so many that we couldn’t get to all of them during the webinar, so we’ve answered the overflow here: Q: How can we use social media tools when working with clients in an agency specifically concerning privacy or HIPPA issues? Some specific groups exist: social media club , netsquared , tweetup , etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Define something small and tangible - whether it be a flickr photo contest or exploring the content related to your organization's issue and identifying 10 friends or contacts. Thats why these social networks are working for us. account and point to a few good ones I find every week for my NpTechTag Roundup over at Netsquared.

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Care2

JANUARY 25, 2011

And we don’t have enough resources — enough help, enough money, enough technology, enough supporters, enough time — to do our work in the way we want. Innovation happens when people work within constraints — in an environment of not enough — and they figure out how to do it anyway. We don’t give up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'm having to quiet some inner Gollums while working on the presentation materials. An excellent first small step is to just identify the blogs that are hosting those conversations on the topics that interest you or inform your work. Professional development - reflect and learn about your work. the work of copyright holders.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Tools like WordPress (website and blog content) and MailChimp (email marketing) are much easier to work with if users understand the premise of HTML and can make simple edits to WordPress or MailChimp generated HTML code. ViralSweep is an sweepstakes and contest platforms that easily allows you to launch and management online contests.

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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. People work at nonprofits because they want to serve their community and the larger world. If you need inspiration or support, check out Storymakers 2017 contest.

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