Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

I like the microblogging tagging as I have been wanting to add a small set of tags to my 4,500+ favorites I have starred in Twitter over the last 18 months or more I have used the service. Tags are one easy option, if I can get nice mobile access as the food and travel/city relevant info does me more use from a mobile.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

NetSquared is the guest host of The Feast’s next Twitter chat about the power of social media for social good. and we’re looking for remarkable people like you to help answer them! Join NetSquared & The Feast. Tags: events alldaybuffet chat netsquared thefeast twitter. Join us for a chat! REGISTER TODAY!

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 20, 2009

Edward Harran is a blogger and nonprofit technologist I have connected with through NetSquared, this blog, and of course Twitter. Below is the blog post from him, calling for help. Every little bit helps…well, you can read that in his words, not mine. I need your help. How I need your help? So here I am.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2010

Here’s a listing of sessions and spaces hosted by NetSquared and TechSoup: Community-Driven Social Impact Session. Amy Sample Ward from NetSquared. We’d love to hear from you: @ NetSquared or @ TechSoup. Tags: events conference ncvs netsquared presentation techsoup global. Room: 1471. Room: 1374.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog. help to improve site usability for everybody thus expanding our reach and audience. Using tools like the WAVE toolbar can help raise awareness about where the barriers are." Font sizing over 40 points can also help make text more readable.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 3, 2010

It’s something that I am energized by, passionate about, and take so much pleasure in helping others do well, too. 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. It’s true!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. Change the Web Challenge is about building innovative tools to help people find and share opportunities to take action on the Web sites, blogs, and social networks that we all visit every day. “We want you to dream up a new tool to help people find and share actions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2006

Just came across this interesting example of nonprofit tagging via a blog post on netsquared by enoch choi. Dr. Choi is an individual contributor to Google Health Co-op and works on the non-profit Palo Alto Medical Foundation's tagging efforts @ Google Health Co-op as well. ve been tagging via del.icio.us

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2011

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog. "I have found it helpful to have a plan in place for how the results. This can be supported by having a policy ahead of time that helps identify in part what to do with feedback as well. the perception of our organization.

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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. Have questions about NetSquared, Net Tuesdays or innovation Challenges?

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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? " Gates Foundation also announced grants to programs aimed at helping small-scale farmers in Africa and Asia. And if you???re

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 15, 2010

In a time of tragedy, it's comforting to see organizations using technology to deepen their ability to help those in need. The Extraordinaries and Ushahidi , two past NetSquared challenge winners, are working hard to help bring relief to people affected by the recent earthquakes in Haiti. The Extraordinaries is a great idea.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

It seems that a room helps with the noise levels because people have to consciously add info to a given room. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. So it's more selective.

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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. NetSquared’s hosted Challenges for 3 years now, surfacing hundreds of innovative technologies for social impact. Please support me by voting and commenting here. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. She offers a three-step questioning process to help think through how to cut through the clutter. lolnptech.org includes photos of people, who could be tagged as "nptech." What's your guess?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2009

I remember when I was a guess blogger on Netsquared early on - it was an amazing experience. So, hope this is fun for those who have signed up to help me make it through this transition. Tags: guest blogging. Otherwise, expect to read some new voices and see some new faces. I'll be here, in the comments and on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. Don't forget to sign up the feeds on the agreed tag. Photo by SpacePotato. rethink, reinvent. Tyler Willis ) 7.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog.). Every month, the NetSquared community comes together offline in cities around the world at Net Tuesday events to mix, swap stories and ideas, build new relationships, and collaborate. If so, connect with the local organizers to find out about the next events, how to help, and spread the word!

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 15, 2009

N2Y4 Mobile Challenge: 15 Featured Projects Announced | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org - Last week, the NetSquared Community voted on the N2Y4 Mobile Challenge to determine the 15 Featured Projects who will be invited to compete for $50K in cash-prizes and additinoal in-kind resources at this year's N2Y4 Conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! the skills identified in this workshop or sessions at the upcoming NTC designed to look at change issues that technology surfaces from the viewpoint of executive directors or IT staff might help. Nate Ritter gives a brilliant example of how Twitter could help save the lives of missing children.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

Netsquared is new project in its embryonic stages from Compumentor, the folks who have brought excellent technology resources to the nonprofit field. conference, will help non-profit organizations move into that world -- byte by byte, blog by blog, RSS feed by RSS feed. What is it? This site, and the Net??

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? "We're using social media because the technology is here and it's helpful, but if it weren't here, we'd make a newsletter and Xerox it for everyone we know.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2009

I don't understand by @ntenhross (Holly Ross, Director of NTEN) and @amyrsward (Netsquared community builder) aren't in my cloud. Tags: socialmediametrics socialnetworking socialcapital twitter. Beth Dunn is a consultant and MBA candidate. Dr. Mani is an Indian entrepreneur and heart surgeon. What's your takeaway from this tool?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2006

A couple years ago, I helped compile a list of " Fifty Fabulous Free and Low Cost Nonprofit Friendly Web Resources." In a few weeks, I'm lucky to be going to the netsquared conference I signed up to go with the intent of being a sponge -- to learn more about all this stuff. It means doing the easy stuff first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Netsquared Net Tuesday next week in SF is about " How Nonprofits Can Use And Build Online Social Networks ," featuring speakers from Change.org and Ning. over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. Allan Benamer weighs in with some observations after wading through the comments over at the Netsquared site and pointing to Holden from GiveWell to be the most salient point. Where's the conference tag? NpTech Community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

They need your help to bring back Ranger Rick's profile that was recently taken down by Facebook Staff. Help bring back Ranger Rick's profile Email: appeals-comment@facebook.com and ask them to let Ranger Rick exist on Facebook! Tagged with a footnote Marnie Webb notes "What do you think of the survey O'Reilly points to?

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

The SXSW Interactive Festival wants to help more non-profit groups attend their event. To help do that they’ve launched a special scholarship program which has a entry deadline of … Sunday, October 31. Envision new technology that would help your cause reach its goals. NetSquared with Amy Sample Ward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The HSUS newest campaign is geared towards helping the 1,300 chimps still condemned to life in research labs across the country. Jason at DIA tagged it with this note: "The most universal piece of advice about using social networks for fundraising and friendraising is to start small." And if you???re

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2009

Twitter’s Ten Rules For Radical Innovators - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org - Check out this great list of 10 Rules for Radical Innovators based on the changes Twitter has helped affect on the way we communicate and innovate. " Tags: roundup bookmarks. My favorite: Ideals beat strategies. " - Joe Solomon.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

What’s your favorite example of technology helping people create positive change in the world? HP is giving away a new computer and printer bundle to the winner selected in the contest – and we all have the added bonus of learning about ways others have leveraged technology and finding case studies that can help us in our work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Edge4Dev blog aims to help. Tag your post with "net2thinktank." Policing Social Media These two items were both found in the nptech tag stream: Due to a new wiki launched by New Zealand police, members of the public can now contribute to the drafting of a new law. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. What should Netsquared's Facebook strategy be? Maybe open Social Graphs will help ? Here's a growing list.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 3, 2009

The Change the Web Challenge is open for submissions now at NetSquared. The Challenge is about building innovative tools to help people find and share opportunities to take action on the Web sites, blogs, and social networks that we all visit everyday. Tags: firefox challenge mozilla changetheweb social actions events.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2005

Today, Mark is the manager of TechSoup's NetSquared initiative, a project designed to make sure the non-for-profit sector gets involved early and actively with the newest tools and trends in internet technology. And once we got through catching up, I admitted to him that I was just a bit perplexed about the NetSquared project.

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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. Have you found any of the tips above to be helpful in your work?

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 19, 2010

Net2 Think Tank Round-up: Age Segmentation in Social Networking | NetSquared – "For this month's Net2 Think Tank, we asked you to share your thoughts and best practices for using social media with or for a particular age group. As she notes, her example has luck but it is an example of a growing model of a changing world.

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