Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Join us for a global conversation, sharing ideas, best practice, links and resources. Check out TweetChat – it’s a great application that integrates with your Twitter account and makes chats more fun! Article: NetSquared and the new wave of online volunteering. How to join the chat. Feeling brave? Rules for #4Change chat.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Join us for a global conversation, sharing ideas, best practice, links and resources. Check out TweetChat – it’s a great application that integrates with your Twitter account and makes chats more fun! Article: NetSquared and the new wave of online volunteering. How to join the chat. Feeling brave? Rules for #4Change chat.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

The goal of the project is to not simply host a contest, but "to help nonprofits think creatively about using technology to fulfill their missions, without having a fear of technology and by learning a new skill with an element of fun," says Susan Tenby, Director, Online Community and Social Media Team, TechSoup Global.

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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. is from Michael Gibbons who used leadership, passion, and resourcefulness as his criteria. NTC 2007 Pipe.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

But more than anything, hackathons are fun events to network and meet allies interested in supporting your cause. Libraries have also been getting in on the hacking fun. " More Hackathon Resources. Here are even more hackathon resources from TechSoup and beyond: Want to host your own hackathon? NetSquared can help!

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2015

This much fun , Deborah Elizabeth Finn #15NTC = Amazing , Liza J. We ate BBQ by the pound , celebrated inspiring campaigns and community members , rode around on Segways , and did a lot of photoshopping. Of course, we learned and shared a ton too. Check out this ridiculously long list of 15NTC content. Did we miss anything?

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

7 Tips for Measuring the Success of Your Blog on Beth's Blog Create a Listening Dashboard for your Organization on NetSquared. Bay Area folks can go to the 29 Gifts book launch party in San Francisco November 14th. 19 Free Webinars for Nonprofits - November 2009 on Wild Apricot Blog. THE BIG LIST of social entrepreneurs on Twitter.

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AUGUST 28, 2014

CoP organizers Praan Misir ( CommBuild ) and Brett Ashley Crawford ( Arts Nonprofits ) and Tech Club organizers Regina Walton ( SFTech4Good ), Paula Jones ( NCTech4Good ), and Chad Leaman and Elijah van der Giessen (both from NetSquared Vancouver ) took time out to deliver the presentation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

We've compiled a list of Tools and Resources to share with participants, and thought that you might enjoy seeing it as well. 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.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Having Some Fun With Politics. Games aren't just for fun. isn't all just silly fun. registration button and links to voting resources. Head on over to NetSquared and share your election app idea. More Resources. has you covered, offering on-demand access to talk radio shows and. The Vote!!!

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 7, 2010

Whether I’m talking about my role at NetSquared , my blog , or my network of friends, I am inspired every day and find value in, and rewards for, my participation. Share resources like strategies, best practices, and examples with the community so everyone can learn and contribute at the level you do. There are no short cuts.

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Tech Soup

MAY 2, 2013

NetSquared is proud to be a sponsor of this kickstarter project. With a couple friends at Green Memes, we're trying to create a new resource for the #nptech community - a free guide for the next generation of online organizers. This should be fun. social media online community Net2 NetSquared community'

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

The room was packed with enthusiastic participants and this post is designed to be shared with others who couldn’t attend in person, as well as to all those who did and asked to have resources to share with their networks. Events: NetSquared Camps. This next part is where it gets fun. Presentation. Case Studies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There's a roundup of coverage on his Netsquared blog , including pointers to live blog posts like this one. More from Britt Bravo on Netsquared blog. Goldstein's Fundraising Success Podcast Britt Bravo, Have Fun, Do Good Blog, is hosting next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. The topic is how to do have fun and do good!

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

This post was written by Trenton DuVal, contributing editor at NetSquared, and originally appeared on their blog. collaboration and communication and resource organization. The creators hope that the result is not only simpler, but more “ fun to use.” It’s what the NetSquared team uses to stay on task.

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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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MARCH 7, 2008

Now I have a new resource to send folks to, nonprofit.alltop.com. 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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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 26, 2007

Hey Have Fun * Do Gooders, Many of you know that I work as the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of TechSoup. Part of my job is to help put together Net Tuesdays in San Francisco, monthly meetings for social changemakers and web innovators to socialize, network and share resources.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2006

" So, I'm sharing a little getting started advice, a mini-case study, and a list of resources. I've pointed to a lot of resources in my blog.). Make it fun. The Short Resource List. I've been collecting good resources on social networking tools in my del.icio.us Take advantage of that information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

While there has been some excellent conversations in the past fews months, particularly the Netsquared ThinkTank , I haven't seen a lot of nonprofit case studies that share real life experience with measuring results from social media strategies. s part of the fun.) Any specific examples, case studies, or useful resources to share?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Finally, it is important to use time and resources wisely, but there are no guarantees that social media tools will help you achieve your goals, so enter into your experiments lightly, with hopeful, but realistic expectations. These are playful tools, and they work best if you are having fun with them. Cross-posted from NetSquared.

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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. Top Rated Resources at Kikono.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2007

It will also be interesting to see how resource allocation works in a land of virtual real estate. Meanwhile, funders seek to invest their resources among a wide range of projects that hopefully will lead to larger systemic changes. To see which functions communities ???assign??? to their voluntary sector and which to a ???public

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Gaming for Good Resources. The Nonprofit Commons in Second Life hosted a discussion on whether games can be used to create peace and Carlos Bergfeld asked whether games for social change need to be fun to be effective. Net Tuesdays are events that unite technology professionals with nonprofit organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2006

Susan Tenby from TechSoup demos the virtual TechSoup Office during the Netsquared Conference while Ruby Sinreich and Deborah Finn (Cyber-Yenta) blogged about it. At the Netsquared Conference, I discovered that there are few organizations in the experimenting with metaverse games -- the early adopters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

Other then this practical reason, we also syndicate headlines from our blogs, podcast, and videocast in order to pull them into the Workshops resources and eventually to our flagship website www.newstips.org to purchase our media guide, sign up for additional training, and subscribe to our electronic newsletter. t that bad. It was as if I???ve

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Additional Resources. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Article on Netsquared : How To Track Mentions of Your Organization. And, of course, a little fun! You can also use RSS to "listen" for mentions of your organization in the news. Yahoo News Google News. Robin Good - Who is talking about me on the Web today? Will Richardson???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

If it isn't vacations, it's photos of restaurant and a fun evening out. A loosely coupled group of nonprofit techies and social change activists decided to use the tag "NpTech" to identify web resources that would create an ongoing stream of information to promote and educate those working in nonprofit technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

Additional Resources. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Article on Netsquared : How To Track Mentions of Your Organization. And, of course, a little fun! You can also use RSS to "listen" for mentions of your organization in the news. Yahoo News Google News. Robin Good - Who is talking about me on the Web today? Will Richardson???s

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 16, 2007

From the site : Built from the ground up by dedicated youth organizers, Future 5000 will evolve to meet the needs of organizers, not just as an online directory, but truly as an instrumental vehicle engineered to maximize resource and information sharing between youth organizations. Originally Posted on NetSquared.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

NetSquared Open Space (NOS): APIs and Open Data. Who : Facilitating: Amy Sample Ward | NetSquared; Billy Bicket | NetSquared. The NetSquared team will be working the room to activate and facilitate conversations so everyone can enjoy the ride. Who : NetSquared and other Community Organizers. When : 9:00 a.m.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

That's how I started my blog, by Googling, 'How to start a blog" There are also a lot of nonprofit technology resources out there where you can find more information like: NetSquared TechSoup NTEN Idealware Aspiration NPower Beth's Blog Wild Apricot Blog Four More Tips. Don't be afraid of the tech. Ask for help.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 7, 2007

Amnesty International worked with noted researchers to identify vulnerable areas based on proximity to important resources like water supplies, threats by militias or nearby attacks. This post was originally written for NetSquared. This time frame offers the potential for spotting new destruction. TOP: Angabo, Darfur.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2007

Last week, at NetSquared's San Francisco Net Tuesday Meetup, Steve Miller, Product Manager, Google Earth Outreach spoke to a room of 50+ social changemakers and web innovators about how nonprofits can use Google Earth Outreach for their work. Full disclosure: I am NetSquared's Community Builder.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 22, 2006

Many of these blogs have been mentioned on this blog before or on NetSquared. To provide resources and information to constituents Example: AARP's blog is an online resource for a variety of aging issues such as retirement security, health and volunteering. 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs 1.

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JANUARY 26, 2007

They are using RSS to stream content, including resources tagged with NpTech tag in del.icio.us. It also serves a resource leave behind! Virtual Worlds and Video Games Ian Bogost takes some of the fun out of video games -- and replaces it with opinion with his "playable editorial cartoons." Cross posted at Netsquared

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

" What percentage of the market budget pie should be allocated to Social Media? " The inspiration for that post came from Colin Delaney of ePolitics and Laura Quinn from a workshop presented at Craigslist Foundation Nonprofit Bootcamp by (Resource list and Powerpoint here ).

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