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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NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Entries will be judged based on three criteria: Innovation, Impact, and Clarity. Develop new and more appropriate measures of impact of your organization’s efforts. NetSquared with Amy Sample Ward. Tags: Blackbaud #nptech CauseShift Non-Profit Nonprofit Confrences sxsw. Chris Brogan Talks Nonprofits and Trust Agents.

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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. Tags: community issues collaboration fundraising social actions social impact support.

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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

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. Tagged with a footnote Marnie Webb notes "What do you think of the survey O'Reilly points to? How will these trends impact nptech? " I agree.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2009

It's real time and location based social networks are also impacting advocacy. Tags: maps netaction. The call to action: Will you spread this Facebook postcard by clicking here -- and then click "Share.". Then click here to start a Vigil this weekend -- and add it to the global map of thousands (<- there may already be one!).

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JANUARY 15, 2010

NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – "The 3rd Digital Media and Learning Competition, from the MacArthur Foundation, is now accepting applications. …That means setting aside our shiny online tools and tactics long enough to ensure that we're using them to deliver real impact."

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Even with limited resources, time, or skills, your nonprofit can tell a compelling story that captures the importance and impact of your cause, and this event will show you how!" said Amy Sample Ward of NetSquared, a program of TechSoup.

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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

MAY 10, 2009

No worries, share your expertise, or get involved in a hands-on session happening in the NetSquared Garage. Learn more about the technology, business plans and social-impact of (15) Projects who will be engaging with Funders and Entrepreneurs to defend their work’s potential and compete for ~$100k in cash-prizes. Kick the tires.

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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! Photo Credit: Flickr tableatny ].

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Tech Soup

JUNE 16, 2010

This post was originally published on the NetSquared Blog and was written by Claire Sale. Here's a listing of sessions and spaces hosted by NetSquared and TechSoup: Community-Driven Social Impact Session. Amy Sample Ward from NetSquared Date: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 from 8:30 a.m. - Eastern Room: 1471.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2010

Do you know what kind of an impact social media is having on your brand, mission, or bottom line? Tags: Conferences womenwhotech. Johnson of the Advertising Research Foundation and Tara Hunt, author of the Whuffie Factor. 15th from 2-3 PM EST. Here’s the description. Social Media ROI. I have two comp tickets to give away.

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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. 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!

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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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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. Her day job is with NetSquared, an organization working at the intersection of technology and social change. Tags: NPTech NTEN.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 17, 2009

Jim wonders how new, low-cost PCs will impact the market for refurbished computers. From TechSoup Global Labs: NetSquared. Meet this year's crop of NetSquared featured projects and Change the Web finalists. Tags: Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 From TechSoup Global's grant-funded projects: MaintainIT Project.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2010

We’re trying to throw her an online surprise party by assembling a blogsquad of 53 bloggers to publish a post on Monday that shares how Beth has impacted your work and shares her birthday wish with your blog audience. Some posted to community blogs like NetSquared. Let’s send 53 Cambodian kids to school: [link] &#.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2010

Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . Allyson Kapin writes up an article for the Care2 blog about the impact of mobile fundraising for the Red Cross (txt "Haiti" to 90999 to send $10!) Members are in bold.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

You can't tag and sync notes, however. To celebrate the launch of Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, Microsoft announced a new contest to encourage developers to create apps that positively impact the world around them. Visit NetSquared and Microsoft for more details on the contest. Miss the trusty Start button?

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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. To learn more about NetSquared or get involved, visit [link].

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2010

I've kind of become an open-data geek in the past few months, largely thanks to NetSquared's unconference at NTC. Open APIs offer new possibilities for the nonprofit sector, both in how we can use governmental and institutional data to serve our beneficiaries and in how we can deepen our impact by sharing our own data within the sector.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Giving Guru Marnie Webb is Co-CEO of TechSoup Global where under her leadership the NetSquared initiative is in its fourth year of helping nonprofits worldwide use innovative web tools to increase their reach and impact. Tags: Donors Donors Fundraising Grants for Technology Online Grantseeking Running Your Organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There's a roundup of coverage on his Netsquared blog , including pointers to live blog posts like this one. More from Britt Bravo on Netsquared blog. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week. And if you???re

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

is about building a bridge between two-way online communication and offline actions and impact. There is a third access - it is not about ROI or social impact. Tags: socap09. He defined it as: "If Web 1.0 is about one-way communication, and web 2.0 is about two-way communication. Kiva is at the intersection of money and meaning.

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MAY 14, 2009

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Prioritize your ROI around the biggest impact, whether that’s raising funds, engaging people, or something else. The new map galvanized the community because they were able to really understand the impact of the plan. Impact of the campaign: 13,000+ people from every U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Collaboration is a huge focus of mine: Finding ways for organizations working in the same sector to share calls to action to amplify the impact, helping organizaitons understand where their work aligns to cross pollinate across their networks, and so forth. Tags: Books guest blogging.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

I wanted to use today to focus in on a question recently posed by my good friend Joe Solomon on Twitter : What are the nonprofit/orgs that are working 2 wire the green movement, like what @ netsquared does 4 nonprofits, @ sunfoundation for politics; which orgs are working to expose data, leverage soc media, connect the orgs together?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. I think the NpTech tag helps provides a needle and thread to sew these patches together.

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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? Tags: sxsw. Let's discuss: join us!

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

NetSquared Open Space (NOS): APIs and Open Data. Who : Facilitating: Amy Sample Ward | NetSquared; Billy Bicket | NetSquared. What : Learn how your organization could use open data and APIs to show your impact, coordinate volunteers, or inspire supporters to take action. Who : NetSquared and other Community Organizers.

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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. Tags: nptech , net2

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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.

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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? Tags: sxsw. Let's discuss: join us!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

tags: nonprofit socialmedia ). 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

Ask your organization's web site udience to upload their video clips to whatever video service you're using and tag them with your organization's tag. (I Netsquared Net Tuesday also had a session on vlogging and Britt Bravo posted some great notes. One of the points is a sort of "web the media" take.

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