Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2010

How Women Use the Web [REPORT] – "In the “Women on the Web: How Women are Shaping the Internet (Internet)&# report, comScore concludes that women are the digital mainstream, a group of savvy Internet explorers who are more engaged than their male counterparts, and are the primary drivers of online and group buying."

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2009

Kevin reports from RSA 2009 on security awareness in schools and security concerns around cloud computing. Kevin thinks about McKinsey's latest report on cloud computing. Tags: Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 TechSoup Blog.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Kevin considers a recent report on Web 2.0 Tools Using the Web and Internet. Tags: Web 2.0 Elliot wonders what the recent changes at Google.org mean for the future of private philanthropy. adoption in the for-profit sector. Donate Your Brain. This TechSoup.org user needs help evaluating the e-learning application MyiCourse.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

But for the second largest Internet company in the world with 2010 profit estimates to be between $1-2 billion, is that enough? Time to start thinking of us as partners in your quest for global domination of the Internet, not just puppets. 4) Facebook frequently makes shady decisions when it comes to Internet ethics.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Global Voices Online is reporting how social media is playing a role in the latest parliamentary and council elections in Botswana. Tags: Connecting to the Internet Social Networking Telecom Services Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 One blogger in particular, Patricia Maganu, notes that: read more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There is also a groundswell of support all over the Internet, from bloggers ( one blog at a time ) Facebook , Flickr , Online Petitions , mobile phones , and Second Life. So, while it may very difficult to find Internet content from Burma, it is getting onto the Internet. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites. Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. Thousands of reports were placed via SMS.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

This week, TechSoup Global/Guidestar International's Keisha Taylor has been participating in the Internet Governance Forum in Vilnius, Lithuania. Read all of Keisha's blog posts and follow other coverage on the IGF social reporting aggregator. Tags: Event.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 3, 2009

"we20 meetings will create people plans, policy plans, business plans and other plans on local, national and global issues. " Tags: roundup bookmarks. Facebook | we20 - the best reason to get your friends together this year - Do you know about the we20 project? A great example of organizing on the social web. "we20

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

Philanthropy News Digest reports that the Mobile Giving Foundation (MGF) has announced a new initiative with several prominent charities like the American Red Cross, the U.S. They are working on ways to harness these microbes to power Internet of Things type sensors. Help for Charities to Develop a Mobile Giving Campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

As FrogLoop blog concludes in its recent analysis of MySpace, "Social networking sites are essentially a microcosm of the internet, and hosting a profile on either is akin to managing a website. NpTech Global Kabissa joins Aid for Africa for the third year running! So, I have no idea why this page was tagged with NpTech.

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 5 Good Nonprofit Infographics Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on April 12th, 2011 Who doesn’t love a good infographic? Read the entire report to learn more about global trends.

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Tech Soup

MAY 29, 2009

Today's Financial Times' Digital Business bureau had an excellent special report, A Global Conversation: How Connectivity and Collaboration Are Changing Business, Individuals, and the World. Tags: Digital Divide Services Telecom Services Using the Web and Internet.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

TechSoup Global donation partner, Cisco , is starting to talk about an alternative to cloud computing, the paradigm that relies on huge data centers to do all our processing. Our Right to Be Forgotten on the Internet. Up to now our digital selves have been pretty indelible on the Internet. They’re calling it The Fog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Ed Granger-Happ, Nethope; Claire Bonilla, Disaster Response Microsoft; Daniel Ben-Horin, TechSoup Global, Vida Durant, CARE USA. Microsoft’s technology capacity work in the nonprofit technology sector includes partnerships with Tech Soup Global , NetHope in disaster relief as well as others.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 27, 2009

If you're in San Francisco for the event, be sure to stop by TechSoup Global's booth (#2) in the Grand Ballroom and check out the five TechSoup Global-led sessions taking place today and tomorrow (some of our regular TechSoup bloggers will be presenting!) How do you plan them, market them, and staff them?

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Sure, the average price of a computer has been falling for years, but that doesn't take into account the recurring cost of Internet access. The "voices" of the Internet that you get are biased by the people who are in the places that you hang out. Tags: digital divide Newsletter NPTech NTEN. But do you know this?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Well, webinars can cover any topic you want — from training your board of directors on how to be great advocates for your mission, to hosting an online press conference about a new report for media contacts, to learning the ins and outs of an important piece of legislation that's important to your supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

But it's also easier to disseminate information than ever before, since the internet, web and mobile technologies allow for more connectivity and access. In the two frameworks I've been co-creating, Transmedia Activism Modeling Global Change, we've based the frameworks on the core value of putting the social change issue first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Frogloop has a brief report from this week's Internet Advocacy Roundtable. You might find more if you monitor this tag: 2007cof or also look in the foundation's IT departments. Global Action Network reports on a session about how to create a global conversation about issues like water and aids.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

The fact-finding public hearing and request for comments seemed to have two purposes: both to understand how Chafee is working and to report back to WIPO about the U.S. The hot topic was the proposal made by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay, for a global treaty (a treaty for which I was part of the expert drafting team).

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

With cloud computing, you access your software applications over the Internet using a web browser. The work of the CrisisCamps was indeed both global and local -- and the cloud infrastructure made it possible. Tags: cloud computing Collaboration Infrastructure lucy bernholz Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN Web Sites Program.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

With cloud computing, you access your software applications over the Internet using a web browser. The work of the CrisisCamps was indeed both global and local -- and the cloud infrastructure made it possible. Tags: cloud computing Collaboration Infrastructure lucy bernholz Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN Web Sites Program.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Actions and messages were contextualized based on the issues and discussions taking place at both the global and local level. Yes we have an accessible and attention span limited world thanks in great deal to the internet. Regional and local leaders were supported and given the opportunity to shine. We need to be listening for action.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

This resulted in us creating a “sneaker-net” approach to providing basic asynchronous ICT services to rural villages: a complete offline Wikipedia that fit on a CD-ROM, and severely restricted bandwidth throttling to allow community radios to access the Internet (via prepaid RBGAN) for $2-3 a day. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

Tag Partners and Corporate Sponsors. Partners and corporate sponsors are notified if they are tagged in your posts. For example, Helping Rhinos links to registration information for their 2021 Global Gala for Rhinos in their bio and asks people to register by visiting “the link in their bio.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

We connected through the "cambodia" tag on flickr because I was tracking it for Global Voices back in 2005. The other term that has been used to describe these individuals is " Wired Fundraisers " by Network For Good in a recent report. Michaela is now director of online strategy for World Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

Change: Examining Competitions For Social Change: Organizations, foundations, even individuals are creating social innovation competitions, hoping to drive social change projects and solutions into the global marketplace. One of these is "community funded reporting" which is being pioneered by Spot.us Tags: sxsw. What is it?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I just had to take that chance." - Jensine Larsen Jensine Larsen is the Founder and CEO of World Pulse , a global media and communication network devoted to bringing women a global voice. Jensine Larsen: World Pulse is a global media enterprise fully devoted to bringing women a global voice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2005

Link to Women Bloggers - I've done quite a bit of that in my live reports, but I need to add the blogher blogroll. Continue my Typing To Learn Khmer Blog A suggestion from the Globalization panel was to practice learning another language - so I got validation for my khmer studies. Technorati Tags: blogher bloghercon

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Change: Examining Competitions For Social Change: Organizations, foundations, even individuals are creating social innovation competitions, hoping to drive social change projects and solutions into the global marketplace. One of these is "community funded reporting" which is being pioneered by Spot.us Tags: sxsw. What is it?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

About 100,000 new weblogs were created each day According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project report, "Bloggers: A Portrait of the Internet’s New Storytellers" from July 2006: 8% of Internet users, or about 12 million American adults, keep a blog. By contrast, 51 percent of blog readers shopped online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

Open spaces like the Internet are always going to be about empowerment and you need to have tolerance. A report about the event from Hastac. The flickr stream - photos tagged with macfoundsl and snapzilla stream. Teen Listening Party and Global Kids coverage. Can you talk about security and pornography issues?

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

Change: Examining Competitions For Social Change: Organizations, foundations, even individuals are creating social innovation competitions, hoping to drive social change projects and solutions into the global marketplace. One of these is "community funded reporting" which is being pioneered by Spot.us What is it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2014

” A social media meme is an activity, concept, catchphrase or piece of media which spreads, often as mimicry, from person to person via the Internet. Some reports say it started to make the rounds in early summer, but not dedicated to any specific charity. Phase 3: Water Morphs Into Vodka and Chocolate.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

Regardless of having this internet portal that was built to be a database and the first thing that people know about the partnership—and that is the way you first find it (GMSP)—we keep many of our programs small and intimate as they build so we can spend time with them one-on-one. We tell them: here’s a global forum for you.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

After the Internet became more than an online super highway crowded with signposts, we moved into a much more fast-paced and interesting period: the digital paradigm. For example, why track how many events are taking place for our own reporting only? Global campaigns may be ignited by an individual.

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