Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

NetSquared Local Reaches 70 Groups Worldwide! NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – "In the last two months, we've had 5 new NetSquared Local groups join the scene, bringing the new official number to 70 groups worldwide! At 4:00 p.m. EDT/1:00 p.m. " The trend is up 12.1%!

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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! A Resource for Community Organizers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

" I used the technique two years ago for a presentation at the first netsquared conference called " I Tag the Hand that Feeds Me " or what I should retitle "Meet Sally." re becoming popular on Digg and a number of the other big social news networks regularly because of the strength of our content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

What happens when fundraising meets social networking? Social Fundraising? Socially-Networked Fundraising? So, I slapped a piece of paper in the old IBM selectric and created a networking form. maginfies the offline social networking we used to do before the Internet became a part of culture and lives?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2011

Each month, the NetSquared community (a project of TechSoup Global) meets up offline at NetSquared Local events around the world to discuss ideas, meet new people, and work together to make social change. Recently, many of these NetSquared Local meetings are being streamed live on the Internet via livestream or online recording.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2010

This guest post comes from NetSquared community development manager Amy Sample Ward. An initiative of TechSoup Global, NetSquared is a global community of organizations and individuals leading the way in social change through technology. Read on and learn how to get involved. Offline, we take things local!

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Get answers to your tech challenges at a NetSquared meetup (see list below). Want a taste of a social media surgery before you commit to attending? Check out this video from NetSquared Northern Michigan’s recent meeting. ” September’s NetSquared Events. Don’t have a local NetSquared Local group?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

This post was authored by Trenton DuVal, a contributing editor at NetSquared, and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. spoke with Bryan about the changes for nonprofits coming to the social network for a post on SocialBrite. This will strengthen the connections that your organization has on the social network.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 16, 2007

Thirty-year-old matin is helping to develop a new social networking site for youth activists, MyBLOC.Net. Five years later, the Generational Alliance has created a searchable online directory and networking site called the Future 5000. Originally Posted on NetSquared. activism youth social networking

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and networks. The summaries will be briefer, focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. s the same thing when it comes to social networks.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2009

Do you provide different content or appeals to your Twitter followers than to your Facebook group? How do you decide what kind of information or campaigns are delivered to your various community members on different social networks? How to Participate: Blog your answer to the question either on your blog or the NetSquared blog.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

While the rest of you have been enjoying the summer partying on the beach, TechSoup’s NetSquared organizers have been plotting and scheming in front of their computers. Now, we’re now ready to launch our biggest event series yet: Social Media September. Find your local #nptech tribe by joining a NetSquared Local group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." I've been experimenting quite a bit over the last 18 months way too many social networking tools. Take advantage of that information.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 19, 2010

Blood and Milk » Blog Archive » Ushahidi, Twitter, and the future of foreign aid – Alanna's post is a great example of the power of networks, social media, and open systems. As she notes, her example has luck but it is an example of a growing model of a changing world. What do you think? Great slides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. Remember, it's not the level , but whether it is a match to your audience.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog. And, what online networks are supporting people with disabilities and what efforts are being made to make the web more accessible overall? For the social networking world to get behind this and support it would be very far-reaching."

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2011

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog. Using the social web to market your cause, communicate your services, and interact with your audience is an important part of the. communication function for many socially-focused organizations. Blog, or using social media. Once I knew.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Claire Sale, NetSquared. My Grandmother also has a whole network of friends who are at various stages of computer use/online adoption. Recently, she asked me if I could share any resources for her and her friends to be able to network, learn and socialize on the internet. Thanks for sharing this resource, Sarah Marston!

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

It could be checking in with people on a location-based social network. This focus on collective participation and 24/7 connectivity has impacted more than just our social lives. For many start ups and even nonprofit groups doing something truly innovative, they totally blow it the first time around.

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NTEN

AUGUST 28, 2014

We recognize NTEN’s 501 Tech Clubs (local in-person groups) and Communities of Practice (CoPs) (online affinity groups) organizers are one clever and innovative bunch! We learn new community organizing tips and tools from them all the time. The presentation slides have been uploaded to Slideshare.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 30, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. NTEN’s 09NTC just wrapped up in San Francisco and many conversations at the conference focused on social media use by nonprofits. Do you provide different content or appeals to your Twitter followers than to your Facebook group? Do you track how people find your organization?

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Group members offered helpful suggestions for the team on ways to improve their site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Amy's post spoke about the implications for individuals and communities , raising the question - " In abandoning MySpace, is Causes abandoning nonprofit groups organizing online with poorer users and people of color?" Justin Mass went as far as to say that the move was " social network redlining.".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Net2 Think Tank: Online Fundraising Lessons Learned | NetSquared – "The Facebook application Causes recently announced it hit the $20 Million mark in donations. The America's Giving Challenge from Case Foundation spurred $2.1 Million in donations for charities this past winter. ."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

It will be a gamechanger in the US, with 10,000 of the smartest, most motivated young hackers and other young technoids being exposed to the best of web development, artificial intelligence, robotics, social networking, gaming and social engagement. These folks bond indelibly in hack teams. billion to date.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2011

This post originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog and was authored by Amy Sample Ward. Peter Deitz is a long-time member and contributor in the NetSquared (and TechSoup) community; he started the NetSquared Montreal group and his Social Actions project was a winner in the 2008 N2Y3 Mashup Challenge.

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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? Network-Centric Advocacy blogs points to a new feature at Alex's Lemonade Stand called "From the Mail Bag."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2010

The social media policy tool helps you with part of the of step 1. . Altimeter Group has a good collection (although mostly corporate) on its wiki. Does your nonprofit have a social media policy? Netsquared is running a thinktank on this topic and you contribute your ideas here. ASHA (nonprofit) social media guidelines.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

and social networking tools? It is important to think about the benefits, objectives, and audience before jumping on the social networking bandwagon. If you can't wait, read Alexandra Samuel's " Best Practices for Social Networking Nonprofits ," a guest post on Katya Andresen's Nonprofit Marketing Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2008

The organization's goal is to makes it easy for people to find and share opportunities to give or volunteer for social causes using social networking strategies. I've been following Peter's work since October 2006, when I first discovered Peter's research on group giving when he introduced himself on Netsquared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

It is one of a number of "life streaming applications" where individuals and organizations who are active on the social web can port their activity across social networks into one, easy to follow, read, and comment activity stream. I've used a little social network theory to design my FriendFeed friending strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. NetSquared. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Win $10,000 DonateNow Mashup Challenge at NetSquared. Could a local social change site knock off Facebook for the social networking webby? Nonprofit Tech Blog points to a new report from United Nations Foundation and The Vodafone Group Foundation, " Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in NGO Mobile Use."

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

Re-E-Lekcija is sort of like a social network where citizens can freely express their opinions about their community without judgment or retribution. TechSoup Global and NetSquared attended hackathons across the country—from Hawaii to Vermont—that tackled local, statewide, and national civic issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

We'll share big ideas for using social media for nonprofit program delivery and some good tips for crowdsourcing for social change. The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Submitted by Leif Utne.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

We provide a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights. Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Network for Good : $29.95/month Or, you may need to get one that can work for many kinds of groups.

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