Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

The last few years, though, have been dramatically impacted by the real-time web. This focus on collective participation and 24/7 connectivity has impacted more than just our social lives. Impacts to Society. They don’t necessarily think they need an organization in order to make an impact. Impacts to Philanthropy.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2014

But there are millions of nonprofit staffers who aren't yet confident enough with digital tools and services to increase the impact of their work. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN’s Tech Clubs and HandsOn Tech. Photo by Geeking Chen.' Upcoming Events.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2013

A lot of helpful and insightful digital storytelling advice was shared; below are some of the highlights: India: NASSCOM Foundation, TechSoup Global partner, led the way with How to Create High Impact Stories. Participants advised understanding your audience and sharing the stories behind your program stats to make an impact.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2016

NetSquared groups are holding free events all month. San Francisco, California: Nonprofits and Storytelling: How to Create Social Impact, First-Person Stories. Kenya: NetSquared Camp — Storytelling 2016. Mukono, Uganda: How to Create a Digital Photo Story to Fundraise for a Community Cause. Thursday, March 31.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

I’ve been involved with TechSoup/Netsquared Network since its inception back six years ago and so it is nice to be part of the narrative arc. This participatory event is offering two days of focused discussion about—how these networks, and the capabilities that power them, can be effectively leveraged to create greater impact.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

TechSoup and NetSquared have joined forces to bring you a September full of social media learning! Coordinated Universal time Topic: Instagram photo contests. Coordinated Universal time Topic: measuring impact on social media. All month long, we're putting on events and publishing content to sharpen your social media skills.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

Three specific examples that are very different include: Connectipedia : a wiki-based platform that allows anyone interested in philanthropy or social impact in the Pacific Northwest (or beyond) to share research, resources, information, or data about people, places and topics. The basics include: Show impact in real time.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

See Your Impact (Windows Phone) is another microdonation app that lets you directly see the impact you're making on real peoples' lives. A few weeks after you donate, you'll get a notification with a photo and report of how your money helped.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2016

Since 2013, she has also been a Techsoup NetSquared organizer for Tech4Good SWFL. Ben Williams is a data services analyst with Tech Impact, where he creates training plans for tech adoption. Image : Startup Stock Photos / CC0. In her spare time, she supports the WordPress community as deputy and local meetup organizer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Photo from Cambodia4kids. 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. A favorite photo from Jon Stahl, but there are 496 more to browse.

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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. Photo Credit: Flickr tableatny ].

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Claire Sale, NetSquared. So, I turned that question to my friends and the NetSquared community, and got some really great responses that I'd like to share with you. AARP Community - The brand new AARP community tool allows users to share photos, publish a blog, join groups, subscribe to e-newsletters and network with other members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Photo by Idea Constructor. The second network, Netsquared , in contrast was more loosely controlled with a lower risk in failure. Some of the lessons learned include: -Could have provided the Netsquared community with more tools to do their work like listserves, web sites, etc. The presentation is here.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

Stories about the impact that a nonprofit has on people’s lives can engage, recruit and solidify donors and members. Anecdotely, I see a lot of blogs and Flickr photo streams, some YouTube and Vimeo use. " Check it out! ."

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Try YouCam , a video and photo capture app with a built-in editor. The Box cloud storage app comes with 5GB of free storage to help you backup and manage your photos, documents, videos, and other files. Visit NetSquared and Microsoft for more details on the contest. Social Media and Communication. File Management.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2015

Please let us know in the comments! 15NTC Community NTC press'

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2012

This post originally appeared on the NetSquared blog, which is an initiative of TechSoup Global's, and was written by Causecast. volunteering efforts, photos must be at the forefront of the initiative. take photos while they volunteer; use pictures in company handbooks to. For instance, seeing Dan next to a photo of.

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Tech Soup

JULY 9, 2015

Make It Rain: Using Google AdWords to Drive Impact Techsoup / Webinar / Fee: Free. Sites NetSquared Monitors for Nonprofit/Technology Events. If you are looking for face-to-face meetings in your area, check out the list of 501Tech Clubs on NTEN and on Netsquared Local. Image : Startup Stock Photos / Public Domain.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Photos and video can also be included. For more innovative and engaging ways to use technology for disaster relief, check out NetSquared's tips on Mobilizing Online Communities in the Face of Disaster and the value of crowdsourcing for nonprofits. Photo: Lee Maguire. A GPS-based location is also included with the message.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. The disaster in Haiti is a perfect example of these changes: the impact of the Real-Time Web and the power of our phones. The system has three components: The Image Tagger -- Volunteers sort through news photos coming out of Haiti and categorize (tag) them with keywords like “adult, child, alive, deceased.”

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 7, 2009

I have also written for The Extraordinaries , NetSquared , the Stanford Social Innovation Review Opinion blog , WorldChanging , and The Huffington Post. I've been a creative career coach for 10+ yrs, and am the host of Echoing Green's Be Bold Podcast: Create a Career with Impact. I'd love to add a third blogging gig to my schedule.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. NetSquared Community. for the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) beginning on May 29th. Like last year, conference participants are introducing themselves on their NetSquared Blog.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

Bonus: See an overview of our Local Impact Map and see how you can get it for your nonprofit. Working remotely is becoming more and more common in nonprofits, whether for time-efficiency, greater focus, increased travel, environmental impact, or hiring far-flung talent. Find NetSquared at NTC. Lynn Van Housen. No PowerPoint.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Flickr Photo by Villoks Many people around the world are supporting the Monks in Burma by wearing red t-shirts today or participating in vigils like this one in Cambodia outside the Burma embassy. There's a roundup of coverage on his Netsquared blog , including pointers to live blog posts like this one. And if you???re

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared (where Ushahidi won its first challenge!). Depending on what you donate, you'll receive notes, photos, or a calendar from the students. Through TechSoup, the a one-year subscription to the Impact Plan costs $71 while a one-year subscription to the Pro Plan costs $186.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

It is used to take photographs so they have more visual interest and impact. You can also share the impact of your organization's programs through podcasts, sharing photos on Flickr, or videos on YouTube or other video sharing sites. I think NTEN is a terrific example of the rule of thirds.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared. Depending on what you donate, you'll receive notes, photos, or a calendar from the students. Razoo provides a toolbox to get your campaign up-and-running, from customizable thank-you videos to donation tiers that outline the impact of each donation amount.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2006

As if you don't get enough of my holding forth here, Marshall Kirkpatrick interviewed me the other day for Techsoup's Netsquared project, and posted it here. We talked about the work of my company Members Only Software, and how I see emerging Internet technologies impacting the non-profit arena.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. How do we—innovators, entrepreneurs—know what's going to make real-world impact and where do we start? In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Before I worked at NTEN, I managed the NetSquared program at TechSoup Global. At that time, most of NetSquared’s content came from the community blog, where anyone working at the intersection of technology and social impact could create a profile and contribute to the blog with stories, case studies, and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2006

Susan Tenby from TechSoup demos the virtual TechSoup Office during the Netsquared Conference while Ruby Sinreich and Deborah Finn (Cyber-Yenta) blogged about it. At the Netsquared Conference, I discovered that there are few organizations in the experimenting with metaverse games -- the early adopters. (If

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

YouTube, the popular online video-sharing site, and Flickr, an online photo-sharing site, for instance, include social networking. Steve Bridger posted a pointer over at Netsquared to his thoughts on "Buzz Director." "I think it's been both overhyped and underestimated," Dogster's Rheingold said.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. Blog is here ) There are some excellent questions raised about the impact of technology on the way people do their. Cross posted at Netsquared Need a chuckle?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Flickr Photo from SteveTookIt. Photo by RedRaspus. Photo by Buddhassit Weaving: This goal is more conceptual and may not make sense to anyone but me. I've had a post in draft for a couple of weeks now about some personal/professional goals or my New Year's resolutions for 2009. Think of how you want to be successful in 2009.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. How do we—innovators, entrepreneurs—know what's going to make real-world impact and where do we start? In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. How do we—innovators, entrepreneurs—know what's going to make real-world impact and where do we start? In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

I realized that I only thought about this in the context of project - for example capturing video (plus text, photos, etc) from a conference.). Youtube style video uploads would add a whole new level of storytelling and emotional impact to the personal fundraising pages that are supported by companies like Justgiving, Artez and GiveMeaning.

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