Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. TweetsGiving is a global celebration of gratitude and giving on November 24-26. What is TweetsGiving?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

NYC Haunts is a mobile game created by the Global Kids Online Leadership Organization in a partnership with the New York Public Library. Created by local NYC students, this game is designed to be played in and around city libraries and teaches players how to use library resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Note from Beth: My colleague, Daniel Ben-Horin, from TechSoup Global has been in the nonprofit technology for decades. It’s a student crowd, including grad students, and it’s a first job — of the “Is this all there is?&# Photos by Jamie Stobie and used with permission from the photographer. billion to date.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

We’ll also be referring folks to resources for more formal learning and peer connections, like NTEN , the Nonprofit Technology Network and host of the annual Nonprofit Technology Conference and Netsquared and TechSoup Global – and of course sharing resources from our colleagues in the nonprofit/social media field.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

This post was authored by Vanessa Rhinesmith and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. story chronicled a middle school student who built an app to help him. Not only did the piece showcase the uniqueness of this particular student, but also the opportunity to cultivate creativity through technical. As a 2010 winner.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

meets LinkedIn for students. Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) is a global-wide community of hackers and social leaders with the common goal of building open technology for a better world. NetSquared can help! Serbia) in partnership with TechSoup Global and Zasto ne (Bosnia and Herzegovina). The ReStart Challenges.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

TechHire spans the corporate, nonprofit, government, and educational sectors and has the ambitious goal to "give Americans the opportunity they deserve, and the skills they need to be competitive in a global economy." " Year Up therefore takes a holistic approach to preparing its students for the workforce.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

Students, professors, and deans will be able to express their opinion and report any problems in their school or university. TechSoup Global and NetSquared attended hackathons across the country—from Hawaii to Vermont—that tackled local, statewide, and national civic issues. The Power of Technology Challenges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Well, imagine that your organization said you wanted to have a public education system in your state that provided opportunities for all students to learn, fair pay for both teachers and staff, opportunities for growth for students, teachers and staff, and an entry point for all students to enter the “real world” prepared.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

With the global financial crisis at its peak and a recession looming, many nonprofit managers are probably asking themselves, "How will my nonprofit raise money next year?" Simplistic appeals targeted at teens and college students don't. Peter Deitz, Social Actions.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

I write for the NetSquared blog each day (it takes me anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour depending on the topic), but it is also designed to be a community blog, so any registered user can post on it about how nonprofits are using the social web for social change. Depending on your organization's work and audience, you may not have to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Mongkol, a Cambodian college student who is studying in the US on a Fullbright Scholarship and knows the importance of a college education had this to say. Tharum, who I had the pleasure of meeting via my work with Global s, has linked to the Campaign. I also want to thank Ken Goldstein for sharing with his network on YouTube.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

The live video feed was being streamed from the Netsquared gathering in San Francisco happening at the same time as the virtual gatherng in Second Life. The photo above was taken at last night's TechSoup Mixed Reality Event. ") I walked around the space and chatted with the avatar who was the human involved in the project.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

We are at a very interesting time – with shifts happening locally and globally, governments changing, and new paradigms emerging. I spoken with various libraries who, when they learned about the NetSquared Local program asked why they couldn’t participate – and I told them that of course they could! Getting Started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Photo Sharing around an organization's programs/mission - Global and National Youth Day. Create collaborative, student-authored resources. Netsquared Conference Mashup Panel. Hiring people. The power of Web2.0

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

At the heart of Fair Trade is the notion of direct trade, kind of like a farmer's market gone global. Students, people in churches, people in environmental groups who have embraced Fair Trade as a positive model of change. We've seen students, for example, take on the project of getting Fair Trade coffee into their dining halls.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 1, 2006

For the past year, I have been writing for NetSquared about nonprofits and NGOs that are using the social web to cultivate donors, advocates and activists for their organization and their cause. You can check out the pilot project on the Global Voices blog here. What makes us want to act for social change? Emotional connection.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

Heddy also writes for the Global Youth Fund blog. I came across her work while researching examples of nonprofits using the social web for social change for NetSquared and am looking forward to meeting her in person when she speaks at the NetSquared Conference next week.

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