Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

Digital Media and Learning Competition: Applications now open! NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – "The 3rd Digital Media and Learning Competition, from the MacArthur Foundation, is now accepting applications. Submissions close January 22, 2010." Thanks for all that you are doing, ARC!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

The summaries will be briefer, focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. We are in the very early stages of how nonprofits and social activists can leverage social networking applications for good causes and just learning what works and what doesn't. And if you???re

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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. Here are my top digital storytelling platforms and tools for your nonprofit to try out in 2010." " Check it out! " Check it out! Why limit yourself?

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2012

Learn more about networking hardware solutions from Brocade and online store creation and management from Shopify. From NetSquared. NetSquared is organizing technology-for-social-good events all over the world. July is digital storytelling month Down Under. Learn how not to make three digital storytelling mistakes.

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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). These people were talking about very different topics, but there were some emerging and complementary high-level themes that I observed across conversations.

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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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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. ErikaBJune shines a spotlight on virtual world and digital games for change projects.

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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. Tags: Accessible Technology Community Tech Centers Community Tech Centers Digital Divide Event Online Activism Online Recruitment Services Social Networking Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0

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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 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 Jacob Colker.

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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 Jacob Colker.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Podcasting Hardware Olympus Digital Recorders $125-$200 on Amazon Samson Zoom H4 Handy Digital Recorder. You have to set it up yourself and pay for web hosting) MovableType.com: [link] (Higher Education & Non-profit license for 5 authors, $195. Includes support for first year. Need to set it up yourself and pay for web hosting).

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 24, 2011

This post originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog and was authored by Claire Sale. How can the leap to 4G mobile broadband help social change organizers?". Tate Hausman and Sam Boykin recently contacted me on behalf of Mobile Citizen to ask me that question and to ask for my help in finding the answer. read more.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

TechSoup's NetSquared Initiative partnered with the HRC in the first conference The Soul of the New Machine in 2009 to help select a winner in their Mobile Challenge. Unlike "digital natives," "digital immigrants" interact with technology differently and we must account for that. & Catherine T.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. Social Media Roundup There are places in the world where YouTube has been banned, including Turkey and Thailand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

In " The Social Web Ain't Rocket Science " Worldchanging blogger Jon Lebkowsky reminds us that blogs, wikis, and social networking sites may not be appropriate for all nonprofits and that hype and pressure shouldn't drive adoption decisions or they may not be successful. I wholeheartedly agree !

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The Hacker Helper project is closely aligned with our NetSquared vision of bringing communities together to solve social problems – including nonprofits, beneficiaries, activists, technologists, concerned citizens. • Social media and crowdsourcing • Portable Networks. The Best Technologies For Social Good.

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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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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 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 Ted Fickes.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

The TechSoup Global Contributors' Summit officially started yesterday, but over at the NetSquared Blog , you can read introductions from many of the more than 200 attendees who've introduced themselves over the past week to get an understanding of who is coming together and why. All doing great things for #socialgood & #tech4good.

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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

JUNE 7, 2008

FriendFeed is in a category called digital lifestyle aggregators that let you aggregate all your various feeds and share with your friends. Beth Dunn shared Social Media Club: Join Our FriendFeed Room and Kill A Mailing List. Beth Mazur shared Keep Your Eye on FriendFeed It May Be The Google of Social Networks.

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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. Lots of buzz on listservs and twitter about the MacArthur Foundation's $2 Million New Digital Media and Learning Competition. Powered by ScribeFire.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Is a email users and non-users the next digital divide? Another online social networking cause-related fundraising site ! Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Tools Here's yet another post declaring the death of email due to Facebook and Myspace.

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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

JANUARY 26, 2007

" Jayne Cravens from Coyote Communications offers advice and commentary for nonprofit organizations about online social networking. Northern California Grantmakers Briefing called From YouTube to Podcast: Digital Media, Philthanthropy, and Social Justice was live blogged by Lucy Bernholz here. " Web 2.0,

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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. " The technology allows a single message to be shared en masse so that it rises above the noise of social networks. Digital Refugees. Become a digital refugee. What they said may surprise you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Social Media Audience Research and Social Network Analysis: I've been tracking social media research snippets for a while, but not in a very well organized way. I'll be gathering them up from my various digital nooks and crannies and organizing them into this space.

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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. The app aggregates data based on your location, interests, and social networks to provide you a list of recommended events. Identifying Nearby Resources. LocalFreeWeb.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

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. Also CauseWired - which was recently published and is all about online fundraising using social networks. 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. He imagines what a future will be for us in light of social networks, cloud-based data storage systems, and Web 2.0 Ross Braden, Senior Systems and Network Engineer. Buckminster Fuller.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I’m in Austin, TX, today engaging with librarians, digital curators, and technologists working at the nexus of communities and knowledge at the Electronic Resources and Libraries annual conference. But work hours aren’t necessarily the times that generate the most interesting networking opportunities for the community.

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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. He imagines what a future will be for us in light of social networks, cloud-based data storage systems, and Web 2.0 Ross Braden, Senior Systems and Network Engineer. Buckminster Fuller.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

Elijah van der Giessen, NetSquared Community Manager. Patrick Duggan, Digital Marketing Manager. Good Reads – this is a social media for books app. Amir Shirani – Digital Marketing Specialist. Yelp – for restaurant and other reviews. Dictionary.com app – to always have the right word at hand.

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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. The buttons are fully customizable and provide social share counts and analytics. Social Media. NetSquared :: netsquared.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Provided you set aside the time to explore and experiment, your nonprofit can use the tools listed below to significantly improve your web and email communications and your social media campaigns. Social Media. Buffer enables social media managers to schedule posts on social networks throughout the day and evening.

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