Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 6, 2010

We’re also seeing a range of creative proposals — for example Paul Lamb’s suggestions including stewardship by open source foundations or social entrepreneur funders, and a NetSquared-type transition campaign. See the comment thread here and add your thoughts!

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

NetSquared’s Global Community Builder , Amy Sample Ward, will be at the NTC this year to connect and collaborate with friends, colleagues and new faces in the sector. Here’s how to find Amy and connect with NetSquared. My Twitter feed will have quotes, notes and links. NetSquared Office Hours. Net Tuesdays.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2011

How can the community at large feed in to, support and help impact the direction and future of CauseVox? Influencers and organizations like NTEN and Netsquared are prime to be the leading voice in setting vision for how technology is intended to be for nonprofits. It works similarly to your Facebook feed. Support Center.

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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. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 25, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). " Check it out! .

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Here are even more blog posts, articles, and event recaps to get you started: Facebook uses an algorithm called EdgeRank to determine the makeup of each user's news feed. NetSquared. NetSquared Local groups from around the world are using social media in a variety of ways to promote and collaborate on innovative projects.

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Care2

JUNE 21, 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!"

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 19, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. What do you think?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). " Net2 Think Tank Round-Up: Finding Volunteers Online | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – Looking for ways to recruit volunteers online?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Digital Media and Learning Competition: Applications now open!

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). UnConference and holiday discount | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – NonProfit 2.0 NonProfit 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2009

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

It is also important to understand that content curation is just about information, it is about feeding and tuning your network. 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.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). The America's Giving Challenge from Case Foundation spurred $2.1 Million in donations for charities this past winter.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Here are even more blog posts, articles, and event recaps to get you started: Facebook uses an algorithm called EdgeRank to determine the makeup of each user's news feed. NetSquared. NetSquared Local groups from around the world are using social media in a variety of ways to promote and collaborate on innovative projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

creates a chance to improve this collection of feeds by and with my community. This is a place to find blogs or RSS feeds from research or organizational websites - all focused on the large intersection of social technologies and social benefit work. is something I have wanted to do for a while because it. Check it out!

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Norton Satellite from Symantec is a free app that scans your Facebook feed for malicious links, as well as your Dropbox and local files for malware. Visit NetSquared and Microsoft for more details on the contest. Windows 8 comes with built-in security software , but there are also third-party security apps available as well.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 5, 2009

Do you want to feed the homeless or cure cancer? Help send me to the NetSquared Conference Okay, time for shameless begging and plugging… I’m really interested. We want to figure out how to do a better job letting people know who we are and why we matter in a way they’ll listen. We paint “nonprofits” in broad strokes.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

Not exactly as simply as the goldfish, but one that after a few steps feeds back to the beginning. Events: NetSquared Camps. Community Driven Social Impact strategies for events – let’s look at the NetSquared Camps pilot. The first step: Who’s your community? Community-Driven Social Impact – 11NTC. Case Studies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

Hashtags.org then aggregates all the tweets using a given tag and publishes an RSS feed. Reading a feed of short messages sent from the #sandiegofires was very interesting, for example. Though you can certainly just subscribe to a search feed through a service like Terraminds. Update: Here's the feed

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

NetSquared. Netsquared Featured projects receive grant awards ! GoogleEarth launches Nonprofit Outreach Program via the NTEN blog and NetSquared community blog. Michele Martin discovers a really useful tool called FeedCycle that lets you publish serialized RSS feeds or chunks of content. NpTech Talk. Looking for a primer?

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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. In fact, I watched Laura crowdsource some of her presentation on FriendFeed. FriendFeed also has "rooms" that can be public or private - these feeds with discussion items.

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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. Nedra Weinreich of Spare Change worked with Alltop to figure out what nonprofit news and blog feeds should be included (thanks for including Have Fun * Do Good and NetSquared !). Give the nonprofit and green sections a browse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2006

This visual is for the panel session at netsquared called " I tag the hand that feeds me: examining tagging in the nonprofit world. Playing with visuals. for the big picture look. Have a story to illustrate an organizational example - a composite of tales. My other brainstorming is here.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

John Haydon helps to clarify Facebook''s changes to their news feed and how this will affect your organization''s account. TechSoup and NetSquared have put together a month of educational opportunities, from local events all over the world to day-long Twitter parties and a free webinar. Trying to connect with folks worldwide?

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 6, 2005

As I mentioned in my November 3rd post , I am working as a Community Builder with NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup. You can hear last month's speakers, Chris Messina from Flock , CompuMentor's Marnie Webb and yours truly, on the NetSquared Channel on Odeo. I'm double blogging right now, here and on the NetSquared blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2006

They have several different feeds for each cateogries or tags: including news/events, jobs, resumes, real estate, etc. 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. via Emily of Emily's World comes another example of nonprofit tagging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. Set up a feed reader for other organizations in your "subject matter area" and comment on a few blog posts a week or the ten most influential blogs in your area.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Add the feed to your RSS Reader. Follow the feed and leave comments when mentioned. News Feeds. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Article on Netsquared : How To Track Mentions of Your Organization. s Quick Guide for RSS Feeds for Educators - has advice on setting up search terms. Click on the RSS button in the results page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

To get the most out of Friendfeed you do have to put more into it than just feeding your stuff in and reading others' stuff. On NetSquared, nonprofit tech folks are invited to blog about one question each month in the Net2 Think Tank , and Amy Sample Ward summarizes these at the end of the month. One of those venues is Twitter.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2006

As I've mentioned in previous posts, I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that is helping to bring the social web to nonprofits & NGOs by sharing stories and building tools. Last month 80+ folks showed up so come on over and join the fun. It's at Varnish Art and Wine Bar @ 77 Natoma in SF from 6-8 PM.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

Add the feed to your RSS Reader. Follow the feed and leave comments when mentioned. News Feeds. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Article on Netsquared : How To Track Mentions of Your Organization. s Quick Guide for RSS Feeds for Educators - has advice on setting up search terms. Click on the RSS button in the results page.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 10, 2007

Have an RSS feed and comments. The number one mistake I see nonprofits make is to set up a blog that doesn't have an RSS feed or comments. In my opinion, a blog without an RSS feed or comments is not a blog, it is simply someone writing regularly on a web site. This post was originally written for the NetSquared blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Mashing and burning feeds ? Netsquared featured project WiserEarth In Ode Magazine Social Media Resources. Speaking of stories, the TechSoup RSS feed has two how-to articles on the topic here , here , and here. She includes "learning," despict that face that some feel learning makes us less productive. What's next?

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