Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

Rapid advances in digital media and technology are changing how we connect to information and each other. The way we engage in public dialogue, coordinate, solve problems—all of it is shifting. Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world. New networks are emerging everywhere.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

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

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2013

It was originally published on NetSquared. Other articles speak to the use of ‘Digital Smoke Signals’ generated from big data for improved development projects and policies, as well as the need to look at not just big data but small data too. Big Data for Development.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

hosted our first NetSquared Camp in China. The amazing Charity:Water shared their digital campaigning best practices with nonprofits in Melbourne. NetSquared (soft) launched our latest project, the Hacker Helper , a wiki that connects social good hackathons with problems that need to be solved. Event NetSquared tsevent'

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

" Try These Dynamic Digital Storytelling Platforms | Community Organizer 2.0 – "Nonprofit organizations can tell the best stories. As ImpactMax writes so beautifully, tying individual stories to overall contextual problems and societal issues can really change policies. " Check it out! Why limit yourself?

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 24, 2009

When a user surfs to a website and registers for an event, donates money, becomes a member or writes a blog, this information has become digitized. There are two problems with that. We post a question or topic to the NetSquared community and participants submit responses either on their own blogs or on the NetSquared Community Blog.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

No problem — our staff will help you register your organization and check your eligibility. Elijah van der Giessen, TechSoup's NetSquared community organizer, will be meeting with fellow community organizers to discuss the challenges and rewards of growing both online and offline communities. NetSquared Birds of a Feather.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

TechSoup, Caravan Studios , and NetSquared were on the scene to observe and participate in hackathon events all over the country. Open source champion Brian Behlendorf spoke at the event, encouraging the hackers to focus on finding an interesting problem to solve rather than worrying about building a sustainable model.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

During the early days of our Netsquared project , we held big annual conferences to showcase and fund innovative tech for good. We got to know Ushahidi's work when it entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May of 2008. Creative Digital Inclusion Work.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2013

For a taste of nptech goings-on all around the world, NetSquared Local shares community highlights from the month of May and gets its fans excited about future projects in their recent monthly roundup. The series was launched by James Howe and will explore the world of communications, from public relations to digital media.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The tool will allow hackers and coders to get up to speed before the hackathon by reading problem statements written from the perspective of the people who are working to solve social problems on the ground: NGOs and activists. They can go straight to work to create useful apps and other tools for solving social problems.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

This post was authored by Vanessa Rhinesmith and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. young people are developing their own creative solutions to problems. young people are developing their own creative solutions to problems. participants through identifying a problem and developing a. technological solution.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

The Digital Public Library of America held a hackathon to test the prototype DPLA platform and build apps for it. This wiki can be a first step in providing those developers with information about the problems that can benefit from their support. NetSquared can help! Library Hackathons.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

How do we enable transformative and far-reaching change that gets down to the root of solving local, regional, and global problems? How can we collaborate, share, and enrich each others' work to make it more effective? ". RT @ linzbilks : Ppl from 45 diff't countries gathered at #tsg2011. What can we achieve?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

NetSquared DC organized a panel discussion on Engagement Strategy: Empowering Champions* and Influencers* on November 3, 2015, to delve into this question. NetSquared DC Engagement Strategies Panelists — Maddie Grant, Andrew Nachison, and Dale Pfeifer (left to right). The panelists included. Dale Pfeifer, CEO of GoodWorld.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

To fine-tune its training and curriculum to specific companies or industries, Year Up's staff meets with companies and asks them about their specific business problems or openings and how Year Up graduates might help. "[Year Up] is another tool in your chest to help you solve a problem in your company."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2007

Gavin's Digital Diner gave us a thoughtful post about the pros/cons of taxonomy versus folksonomy, and the quality (or lack of) in user-generated content. Some philosophical problems with Folksonomy." Allan Benamer gave a shout that the NpTech Meta Feed was broken. The NpTech Meta Feed has been revised and move to here: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! " 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. No problem, I dug into the NpTech + Digg tag archives and pulled out this terrific Beginner's Guide To Digg. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

He warns us about getting seduced by Shiney Object Syndrome, a common problem where one does not have a target the audience precisely or use a multi-channel strategy - and just sets up a Facebook Cause or Fan Page. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

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. Geoff Livingston mentions it here and points to examples and blog posts about the problem in the corporate PR sector. Hurry voting ends August 5th.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

In 2001, I started at the Digital Media Studies Masters program at the University of Denver. I hadn't realized they were still using non-digital methods to transfer information in that world! Time management becomes quite the problem when you have 2 different worlds to keep track of. t enough hours in the day. Second Life isn???t

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2014

First up was Joseph Tanigawa from Code for San Francisco (our local chapter of Code for America), who presented a nifty tool for bridging the digital divide. He's currently working on an event planner module, which I can see being a huge asset for nonprofits or community organizers, such as organizers of our NetSquared groups.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

In his best selling book he offers a provocative critique of how digital design is shaping society, for better and for worse. It's a dystopian vision of the not-too-distant future where the government monitors all digital communications and your every movement is tracked. The e-book was created with sponsorship from NetSquared.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

For example “Starbucks sucks” will show a lot of issues around free trade and other image problems. One of the best sites on digital activism advice is Mary Joyce's Digitactive - look through her archives to find her advice or email her. Some specific groups exist: social media club , netsquared , tweetup , etc.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

In his best selling book he offers a provocative critique of how digital design is shaping society, for better and for worse. It's a dystopian vision of the not-too-distant future where the government monitors all digital communications and your every movement is tracked. The e-book was created with sponsorship from NetSquared.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

List compiled by Heather Mansfield , Editor-in-chief of Nonprofit Tech for Good and creator of the 101 Digital Marketing and Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits blog and webinar series. Ideal for small nonprofits with limited funds for digital marketing. NetSquared :: netsquared.org. Websites & Email.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Ideal for small nonprofits with limited funds for digital marketing. Ideal for small nonprofits with limited funds for digital marketing. If you discover that you are blacklisted, call your web and email host immediately to fix the problem. NetSquared :: netsquared.org. Squarespace :: squarespace.com. Wix :: wix.com.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

I knew that was going to be me very soon -- and a blog, in many ways, is like a digital version of that envelope. What I witnessed was time and time again women really coming to the forefront around those issues, women at the forefront of the problems and the helm of the solutions. Because you're just sending links.

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