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How To: Create a Listening Dashboard for your Organization

Amy Sample Ward

. “Amy Sample Ward&# or “Billy Bicket&# - putting this in the search term area of the alert means that any time Billy’s name (the NetSquared Director) or my own (the NetSquared Global Community Development Manager) is mentioned online, I will get alerted. Tags: resources rss webtools howto listening net2thinktank.

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Designing Programs to Build Community: Case Study with Charity Technology Trust

Amy Sample Ward

This afternoon I had the pleasure and honor of spending a few hours with members of the Charity Technology Trust/Charity Technology Exchange team, part of the TechSoup Global network , exploring their options for creating programs or services to build and foster community throughout their network. This is both locally and globally.

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Guest Post on Frogloop: 5 Tips for Running a Competition

Amy Sample Ward

I serve as the Community Development Manager for TechSoup Global’s CDI (Community-Driven Innovation) program, which includes managing community and content strategy for NetSquared.org. Tags: case studies challenge competition frogloop guest post howto tips. Have you found any of the tips above to be helpful in your work?

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Great reads from around the web on March 30th

Amy Sample Ward

" 2012 Top 100 Best NGOs by The Global Journal | The Global Journal – "The Global Journal is proud to announce the release of its inaugural ‘Top 100 Best NGOs’ list. On the one hand, they want their material to be shared as widely as possible, on the other hand they want to have total control.

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Using Twitter to Build a Community and Recruit Volunteers

Amy Sample Ward

Using Twitter for a Global Conversation. Twitter’s 5-year numbers. Pew research on Twitter users. Twitter API wiki. Blog Posts. Twitter Lists for Nonprofits. Twitter for Nonprofits Presentation. What’s the cost of “following&# on Twitter? How can nonprofits use Twitter? How to make quality content on Twitter.

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Great reads from around the web on October 27th

Amy Sample Ward

The Complexity of Scaling Up « Aid on the Edge of Chaos – "Despite increased prominence and funding of global health initiatives, attempts to scale up health services in developing countries are failing, with serious implications for achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

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Great reads from around the web on December 15th

Amy Sample Ward

Here's just on that's got me thinking: "We're now beginning to experience a shift from a global-objective index of needs and providers to a personal-subjective one." Shareable: The Open Source Guitar – So many good pieces to think on from this post (thanks for sharing it with me, Billy!)

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