Tech Soup

AUGUST 20, 2010

This post was originally posted on the NetSquared Blog and was written by Amy Sample Ward. Over the last few years, the NetSquared Local network (a project of TechSoup Global's) has grown from just a few groups in only a couple countries, to 70+ groups in 21+ countries!

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

In a post from Amy Sample Ward last week, we let you know that many of our team would be parading down the peninsula to Mountain View, California to Microsoft's campus for a summit of great technologists, innovators, funders, practioners, corporate partners, librarians, and leaders all to talk about technology and social change.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

This post originally appeared on TechSoup's NetSquared Blog and was authored by Amy Sample Ward. read more.

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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. NetSquared Office Hours. 09NTC Ignite - Local is the new Global. Net Tuesdays.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Here are some example searches using NetSquared as the organization. “netsquared&# or “net squared&# - putting this in the search term area of the alert would mean that any time “NetSquared&# is mentioned or “Net Squared&# is mentioned, I will get alerted. Simply visit [link] to get started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Earlier this week the Storytelling & Social Media series from NTEN and TechSoup Global launched with Amy Sample Ward , who is the community builder at Netsquared , as the first speaker. Social Media Building Blocks View more presentations or upload your own. tags: nonprofit nptech ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Submitted by Amy Sample Ward, publisher of Amy Sample Ward’s Version of NPTech When it comes to “nptech” or nonprofit technology, there are more blogs and organizations and resources than any one person can find, let alone keep track of! Amy Sample Ward’s Version of RSS Why? I’m no exception. What’s in my brain, can be in yours!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2009

TechSoup Global's NetSquared project is doing some amazing work, particularly on the use of mobile technologies and social change around the world. Here's a quick snapshot of some of the projects they're working on now: Case studies: Amy Sample Ward has posted the first in a series of NetSquared case studies on their site.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Net2 Think Tank Round-up: Creating Awesome Video | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – "For this month's Net2 Think Tank we asked you to share your tools and tactics for creating effective video messages – regardless of budget and organization size. ."

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I am completely overwhelmed by the positive, kind, touching things that so many community members have shared about the work we have all done together during my time with NetSquared and TechSoup Global over the last two and a half years. I will also continue hosting the monthly Community Builder chats and hope you’ll join!

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

TechSoup Global, the leading technology place for nonprofits, just announced it will kick off their annual Online Digital Storytelling Challenge January 13, 2011. said Amy Sample Ward of NetSquared, a program of TechSoup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Submitted by Amy Sample Ward, publisher of Amy Sample Ward’s Version of NPTech Hildy Gottlieb’s new book The Pollyanna Principles is a handbook for starting a revolution in social benefit organization design and practice, but it isn’t the revolution. What’s the catch?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Part of my role as the Global Community Development Manager at NetSquared is to support and grow our offline organizers from around the world. We now have over 50 cities globally hosting monthly events with many more getting started.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 3, 2010

My work with NetSquared and with Social by Social has helped shape so many of my beliefs about community organizing and has offered the opportunity to meet so many others doing it well. What’s the point in using “global&# tools (social media) for local organizing?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Events: NetSquared Camps. Community Driven Social Impact strategies for events – let’s look at the NetSquared Camps pilot. View more documents from Amy Sample Ward. View more documents from Amy Sample Ward. View more documents from Amy Sample Ward. Case Studies.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Speaker: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. if you want me and the whole global NetSquared community, visit: [link]. - Tags: 10NTC amy sample ward Community NPTech Social Media Program. We're asking them all to share their answers to five very important questions. Web: - if you want me and my blog, visit: [link]. -

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2010

The Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) is here again and team members from NetSquared and TechSoup Global will be busy presenting, sharing, and connecting in Atlanta, and hopefully with you! Members of the NetSquared and TechSoup content and community teams will also be using Twitter and blogs during the event.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Recently, over 300 innovators and changemakers interested in the intersection of technology and social benefit work converged for a few days of idea-sharing, learning, and collaboration at NetSquared's annual conference. About NetSquared. At clinics that serve about 1.2

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2013

For a taste of nptech goings-on all around the world, NetSquared Local shares community highlights from the month of May and gets its fans excited about future projects in their recent monthly roundup. Read about their inspiring work in a recent TechSoup Global interview. Do Good Data 2013 is in Chicago, Illinois this August.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

This is a guest post from Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared’s Global Community Development Manager.&#. I can’t speak for others working in the “innovation sector,&# but at NetSquared we can’t emphasize enough that our Community is what drives us – whether’s it’s online or offline.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 31, 2009

Now in its fourth year, NetSquared continues to encourage dialogue among people working at the intersection of technology and progressive change initiatives. Whether you’ve participated in a NetSquared Challenge in the past or you’re new to the process, there are multiple ways you can get involved in the N2Y4 Mobile Challenge.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. [Ed. Here are some example searches using NetSquared as the organization. netsquared” or “net squared” - putting this in the search term area of the alert would mean that any time “NetSquared” is mentioned or “Net Squared” is mentioned, I will get alerted.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2010

Aside from Elliot's big honor, TechSoup's Global Community Development Manager of NetSquared , Amy Sample-Ward , was among the six finalists. Our very own Elliot Harmon , talented writer , blogger , forum host , poet , and all-around-good-guy was notified last week that he's won Ashoka's "Blog Your Way to Hyderabad" contest.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 11, 2009

Tags: events issues 09ntc innovation net2 netsquared nten.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Representing TechSoup Global are CEO Marnie Webb , community leaders Susan Tenby and Megan Keane , NetSquared community builder Amy Sample Ward , NetSquared alumna Britt Bravo , and former board member Lucy Bernholz. The result is Beth's Women in Nonprofit Technology Who Rock.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2014

Gayle Samuelson Carpentier,TechSoup Global’s Chief Business Development Officer, is a newly minted member of the Nonprofit Technology Network's (NTEN) board of directors. Of course I also worked with the executive director of NTEN, Amy Sample Ward when she helped us build the NetSquared community.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

New forms of participation such as micro-volunteering, and web-generated events such as Twestival, are changing the way people are coming together to raise funds, donate their time and make a difference in their local and global community. Join us for a global conversation, sharing ideas, best practice, links and resources.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

New forms of participation such as micro-volunteering, and web-generated events such as Twestival, are changing the way people are coming together to raise funds, donate their time and make a difference in their local and global community. Join us for a global conversation, sharing ideas, best practice, links and resources.

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Care2

APRIL 7, 2010

Panelists: Jacob Colker, The Extraordinaries, Wendy Harman, American Red Cross Nancy Lublin, DoSomething.org, Aaron Smith, Pew Internet & American Life Project, and Marcia Stepanek, Cause Global. Ivan Boothe, Rootwork.org, and Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Bringing Community Organizing Into Online Campaigns. Time: 1:30 PM.

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NTEN

MARCH 5, 2010

This month's NetSquared (a project of TechSoup Global ) Think Tank topic is on effective social media policies. Amy Sample Ward live-blogged from an event in London last week on the topic " Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights? help from Third Sector New England , Social Actions , and the Boston Foundation, a first.

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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. new sources that are specifically focused on global development-related causes.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

—– Over on the NetSquared platform right now we are in the midst of the 2010 FACT Social Justice Challenge. NetSquared supports the community at the intersection of technology and social impact in a few ways, including open innovation competitions. We’re all learning as we go!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

So, when Lynne Johnson from Fast Company asked me to blog a list, I thought I'd create a nonprofit technology category and acknowledge the work of these awesome women: Nonprofit Technology Marnie Webb is the Co-CEO of TechSoup Global and creator of Netsquared and was voted most valuable person in the nonprofit technology field in 2008.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Beth''s Blog recently featured a guest post by Christian Arno, Using Social Media Internationally: How Not to Get Lost in Translation , full of useful tips for anyone with a global audience. No matter where you are, there''s still a week left for you to hone your social media skills during Social Media September.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

Marnie Webb ( TechSoup Global ) wants you to do Access right: read her summary of the 3 things you need to do as an organization to help your constituents stay connected -- as well as understand what they're connecting to and why.

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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! " Try These Dynamic Digital Storytelling Platforms | Community Organizer 2.0 – "Nonprofit organizations can tell the best stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! There's going to be a Netsquared Meetup (recommendations for restaurant or location are needed) How will your nonprofit avoid the Meatball Sundae? Intel unveiled its support for the Global Education Alliance's pilot program to create an education framework in Rwanda. And if you???re

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