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. Details: Time: 11 am - 12 pm PST.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

I'm presenting on a few panels, coordinating the Day of Service (have done this since 2002 as a paid consultant), and designing a panel on Social Media and ROI. I've been blogging and tracking conversations about social media measurement and ROI over the last few months. We're in the process of teasing the case studies out.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – "The 3rd Digital Media and Learning Competition, from the MacArthur Foundation, is now accepting applications. Design for People To Self Organize! Digital Media and Learning Competition: Applications now open! " My favorite lesson?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. Remember, it's not the level , but whether it is a match to your audience.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2011

This post originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog and was authored by Amy Sample Ward. Peter Deitz is a long-time member and contributor in the NetSquared (and TechSoup) community; he started the NetSquared Montreal group and his Social Actions project was a winner in the 2008 N2Y3 Mashup Challenge.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

This post is cross-posted on my personal blog and on the NetSquared Blog. On Thursday, I attended the unconference/open space portion of SOCAP09 (Social Capital Markets 2009). Meet these smart people whom I met, and you may not know about, but should: Jill Finlayson, Social Edge Social Media guru.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Justin Mass went as far as to say that the move was " social network redlining.". Marshall Kirkpatrick, on ReadWrite Web , wrote a post further analyzing the situation, raising the question: Or are neither MySpace or Causes any big loss for social change organizations?

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2010

I've kind of become an open-data geek in the past few months, largely thanks to NetSquared's unconference at NTC. What if instead, the government made certain data and systems available to citizens, so that we could design and build our own vending machines? You don't get what you wanted out of the machine, so you shake it."

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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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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. Re-E-Lekcija is sort of like a social network where citizens can freely express their opinions about their community without judgment or retribution. Šta se može uraditi?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

and social networking tools? It is important to think about the benefits, objectives, and audience before jumping on the social networking bandwagon. If you can't wait, read Alexandra Samuel's " Best Practices for Social Networking Nonprofits ," a guest post on Katya Andresen's Nonprofit Marketing Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

It is one of a number of "life streaming applications" where individuals and organizations who are active on the social web can port their activity across social networks into one, easy to follow, read, and comment activity stream. I've used a little social network theory to design my FriendFeed friending strategy.

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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

OCTOBER 4, 2011

It is also good to learn from experienced curators and how they hone their craft. Netsquared recently published this summary of tips from nonprofit content curators. Next, you might want to expand to using a couple of the new tools that are specifically designed for content curation. You have to be organized and know your sources.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" His firm, Avencia , is an award winning GIS consultancy.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. design: is it clean? Network for Good : $29.95/month Great template options, including custom designs for $199. Social Networks & Twitter from Natalie Foster: Two Principles: 1. If you start with a theory of change, you can then design tactics around it.

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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.

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Care2

OCTOBER 7, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" His firm, Avencia , is an award winning GIS consultancy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

We'll share big ideas for using social media for nonprofit program delivery and some good tips for crowdsourcing for social change. The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Submitted by Leif Utne.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Social Media Roundup There are places in the world where YouTube has been banned, including Turkey and Thailand. What should Netsquared's Facebook strategy be? Are you suffering from Social Networking Web Sites overload syndrome ? Maybe open Social Graphs will help ? Here's a growing list.

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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? NpTech Software.

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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. The formal experiment I designed involved asking people to pick a useful post from the list of FriendFeed bookmarks in del.icio.us Beth Dunn shared Social Media Club: Join Our FriendFeed Room and Kill A Mailing List. room, etc).

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

I happened to pop out of reader today and cruise through Marnie Webb's sidebar links from Ma.gnolia to land on an interesting article from Monday's SF Chronicle called " Social Sites Becoming Too Much of A good Thing." from Michigan State who is doing research on how younger people are using social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2005

I missed the post about flickr use by MoveOn on netsquared when I was in London earlier this month. s engagement with Flickr has had some unexpected benefits that come precisely from using a platform that is designed to push power to the users. Just tracked down the original article, The Best $24.95 Kane recalls, ???One and MySpace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2007

for real and intellectual and design property? technologies and social networking applications can play a role in mitigating these misunderstandings and increasing knowledge of the other sector's perspective. Something like the NetSquared open call for projects that happened last month, but mapped to a virtual world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I finally got to meet Jayne about a year at the netsquared conference. I'm really glad that she sent me this email because I had bookmarked one of her recent commentaries on nonprofits and online social networking. Her piece begins with a simple definition of online social networking tools and asks: What's the appeal?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Carie is a recognized nonprofit and social networking guru who was written up in the Chronicle of Philathantropy Blog for her organization's efforts on MySpace in June. Fundraising and Philanthropy There was lots of praise about Amy Luckey of Blueprint Research and Design's recent article called " Grantmaking 2.0:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Social Media and social networks allow for the quantum effects, paired elements at a distance. And another multiplier comes from Network Theory (not Einstein directly but building on physics and mathematics) which shows that a network strength is in its Weak ties / Loose connections.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. But the way we think about and turn to social media in a time of disaster is changing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

The Wall Street Journal published a very positive piece about the potential for online giving and social networks. The article profiles Networked For Good's Six Degrees of Separation. 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

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 Dave Pollard's Principles of Knowledge Management (for organizations with no KM resources) includes 16 principles to think about when designing a system.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

When I popped out of the reader to write a comment on this excellent post, I was blown away by the new site design. Another online social networking cause-related fundraising site ! Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Check it out. for his blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 There are two sets of social roles here. Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Streamline: The literal definition is to design in a form that offers the least resistance to fluid flow. I need get rid of clutter, but I first need to do the redesign thinking process before getting into the details of the information design, look, and feel. Whiteboard: Why Less is More in Design. Critique Your Design.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

As I mentioned in my post about " extra-organizational activists" , there are bloggers out there who would love to raise money for your cause: Beth Kanter raised $800 for the Sharing Foundation using the ChipIn widget plus her blog , social networks, Flickr and video in 26 days. Perhaps your staff makes a lot of international trips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

We need offline events to meet each other, bond eye-to-eye, and forge the collaborations that will make our social networks stronger, better connected, and ultimately transformative. Does your community focus on networking with learning & sharing? We need real world events to be a central part of our online organizing.

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