Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 3, 2009

Social Actions , a nonprofit organizaiton designed to make it easy for you to make a difference by connecting you with actions and opportunities from across the world and across the web. The Change the Web Challenge is open for submissions now at NetSquared.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Created by local NYC students, this game is designed to be played in and around city libraries and teaches players how to use library resources. Players can choose from a variety of games, such as a match games, solitaire, or puzzle games, and pick a charity to play for, like the Animal Rescue Site or the Ronald McDonald House Charities.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2016

A well-designed app can be a great way for your nonprofit to motivate people to take action, change behaviors, convey important information, and inspire real change. Daria Garina ( @darialg33 ), who will be presenting on LGBT MD , a site that helps make sure everyone can find a trustworthy doctor. Learn from TechSoup Leaders.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2012

Wikipedia would not be possible without the support of its volunteer contributors, who help keep the site's content current. To manage the site and volunteer contributors, Wikipedia also enlists the help of volunteer administrators. Another example of a wiki created by volunteers is the Community Organizers Handbook.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I can’t speak for others working in the “innovation sector,&# but at NetSquared we can’t emphasize enough that our Community is what drives us – whether’s it’s online or offline. How can this work? Community feedback shapes everything from our goals to our website and everything in between.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

I looked at a few popular crowdfunding sites and dissected their cost plans, nonprofit support, and special features. You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared (where Ushahidi won its first challenge!). The Scoop: Indiegogo stakes the claim of being the first "perks-based" crowdfunding site.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

The project is designed to be available to citizens 24 hours a day and aims to increase the government's communication efficiency. The site will then publish responses from local officials and encourage further transparency. Better Community is a reference site for citizens who wish to apply for a government document.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

" New at TechSoup: Your 501(c)(3) nonprofit, library, or foundation can now collect donations by text message — and develop your own mobile site — with discounted and donated services from Connect2Give. and for faith-based organizations that may want to designate donations between a variety of programs they're operating.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2016

The following blog post recaps a NetSquared Toronto presentation by Sarah Lesh, a front-end web developer at hjc. Just like how you keep your files in folder structures on your computer, websites keep pages of their site in folders too; the main difference is that with websites, the folders live on the Internet (saved to a remote server).

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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. nptech member news Member Round Up Web Sites'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2008

& Ed is also a very good session designer too.& & He got us together on the phone to discuss and design the panel in a month in advance, reviewed slides, help get us organized on-site and gave us some great last minute tips in the green room.& & & Rachel and Erin spoke about advocacy applications.&

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2016

Like TechSoup's other community-driven tech-innovation initiatives — the NetSquared challenges , the ReStart movement , and Apps4Warsaw — Caravan Studios' work is informed first and foremost by the needs of the community itself. Participants also provide feedback about features, functionality, and use.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

I looked at a few popular crowdfunding sites and dissected their cost plans, nonprofit support, and special features. You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared. The Scoop: Indiegogo stakes the claim of being the first "perks-based" crowdfunding site. where Ushahidi won its first challenge!).

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2012

Building a separate site specifically for mobile devices, using a subset of your most important content and functionality. Employing responsive design. Responsive design is a way to dynamically adjust the layout of a website so it looks good on any device, regardless of how big or how small the device's screen is.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2012

This post originally appeared on the NetSquared blog, which is an initiative of TechSoup Global's, and was written by Causecast. The hottest new social media site has become a go-to source for the. latest shopping tips, design advice, and funny dog pictures. latest shopping tips, design advice, and funny dog pictures.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. NetSquared. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 7, 2008

Alltop is a site that aggregates news and blog feeds by topic from “all the top” sites on the web. The site is the brainchild of Nononina (Will Mayall, Kathryn Henkens and Guy Kawasaki ). I usually direct people to places like Emily Weinberg's Nonprofit Blog Exchange , or BlogHer's Social Change and Nonprofit blog list.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

As a result, I'm publishing a briefer than usual edition of the NpTech Tag Summary because I can only get to fast loading blogs and web sites. TechSoup has just published a thoughtful article from Idealware that raises the question, " Should Your Organization Use Social Networking Sites ?" In addition, no visuals either.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2006

space on the web dedicated to exploring museums, objects, design. Britt Bravo at Netsquared posted on the community blog about museums and podcasting. And in the spirit of full disclosure -- I recently did a small project for Netsquared, a Net Tuesday toolkit. Mode is a new. and exhibitions. of its authors and contributors.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

This post originally appeared on the Netsquared blog and was authored by Bari Samad, an NGO domain expert for NetSquared. Please visit the site to view this video). Last week, the world’s population reached a staggering 7 billion people. Available to the general public at www.7billionactions.org/data

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared. a leading provider of software and related services designed specifically for nonprofit organizations, has announced that it has acquired privately-owned eTapestry, based in Indianapolis, Indiana. Need some comic relief? Maybe just some prayers?

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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. I've used a little social network theory to design my FriendFeed friending strategy. How To Use FriendFeed To Keep Up On Nonprofits - (Netsquared).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2006

to organize resources to be published on their site. Perhaps I can coax them to share a little bit more of what they're doing over at the discussion about nonprofit tagging for netsquared. What is the tag design? What was the ED's view about the use of tagging to publish to the web site? How are they using tagging?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! It notes, "Maybe the answer is an intermediary b/w tech and design volunteers and the non-profits they???re " There's also another article on a similar theme that focuses on the describing the problem -- or why nonprofits, designers, and techies can't talk to each other.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

For example, Year Up designed a curriculum for JPMorgan Chase , training students to work in the company's anti-money-laundering operations. The White House's TechHire site lists a few ways you can participate, and we've added our own ideas: Find out where your local tech community is emerging.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Tomorrow, October 18th, Eric Leland of Leland Design , and I will be presenting about, "Internet Strategy on the Cheap" at the San Francisco Bay Area Nonprofit Boot Camp. We've compiled a list of Tools and Resources to share with participants, and thought that you might enjoy seeing it as well.

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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

The MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Competition includes a "Knowledge-networking" category designed to take good ideas and circulates them widely, taking full advantage of the Web's potential for collaborative thinking. News from Nigeria via the Netsquared blog. " I agree. Global NpTech. What's Hiafux

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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." Groups, on the other hand, are designed for people to come together around areas of common interest, so you could set up a group about your org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

He also describes some issues with the interaction design of Causes: In addition, the Social Cause app does not let non-profits a) access the contact information of members b) update members on the cause or c) even send them a receipt for donations, and of course, market again. You will have to stretch what's there in order to be effective.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 1, 2006

The last week has been all about getting ready for, and going to, the NetSquared Conference (thus no new blog posts since last Thursday), but I'm back home now and getting back into a normal schedule. Design plays a big factor in what makes a web site attractive to women. Now I'm really excited to go to the Blogher Conference !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2006

Last week I blogged about an Ipod/Toilet paper holder over at Netsquared. I learned about it from the site Changing the Present , a donation portal that also lets you set up a wish list of causes to support in lieu of gifts for the holidays or other occassions. So, somehow I'm stuck on the theme of toilet paper holders as gifts.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2007

This summer I've been interviewing the innovators behind the 21 Projects that went to the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) this year (I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared). You can listen to the original interview and a live recording of Freecycle's 5-minute pitch at the NetSquared Conference on the NetSquared Podcast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2007

On Tuesday, I facilitated an introductory workshop on how nonprofits can use social media in Boston at the nonprofit technology conference and yet another remix of the curriculum wiki , presentation , and game designed by David Wilcox. SlideShare is a social networking site that lets you share Powerpoint presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

Some participated in the formal experiment I designed which involved a quick knowledge sharing task. Some people choose one site or method to connect with others, while others are "network weaving," jumping from one site to another. Andrew Cohen shared How do you test our web site cheaply? room, etc).

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