Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

" The US will use Twitter and Facebook to issue terror alerts – "The U.S. New networks are emerging everywhere. It’s exciting—and frightening. What is this new network-centric world? What does it mean for community change?"

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

TechSoup and NetSquared have joined forces to bring you a September full of social media learning! Attend one of more than 30 NetSquared Local events happening around the world, including social media surgeries in Vancouver and Peterborough, Canada; Guatemala City; and Cambridge and Manchester, United Kingdom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The second network, Netsquared , in contrast was more loosely controlled with a lower risk in failure. The Netsquared Network which has grown to over 27,000 people world wide through its self-replicated face-to-face events has grown quite differently. Here’s some points that Marnie mentioned: -Allowed the people to be the starts.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

She's our volunteer Netsquared organizer there. NetSquared is TechSoup's volunteer-driven, global network of nonprofit technology workshops and networking events. Getting Started with NetSquared. Find your local NetSquared group. This coming year, they plan to organize more days of giving and service.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 12, 2012

In celebration of the launch of Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, Microsoft announced the Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Contest in partnership with NetSquared. One app alone will not be able to solve such big issues but a good app can address a solvable aspect of them. for background on pressing issues, valuable data, and APIs.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

TechSoup, Caravan Studios , and NetSquared were on the scene to observe and participate in hackathon events all over the country. Arthur Grau of NetSquared Honolulu reported back on the National Day of Civic Hacking/Code for Hawaii event in Honolulu. Honolulu Day of Civic Hacking. freespace], San Francisco.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2011

The Community of Practice includes diverse perspectives: community foundations and private philanthropies working across a range of issues. If you want to learn more about the networks, here’s a few blog posts: TechSoup/Netsquared. A Tale of Different Networks: Netsquared and TSG (Video interview with Marnie).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2014

Nonprofits, faith-based organizations, libraries, and networks such as the NetSquared Local should be leading this movement as they are already committed to social good. This is part of the Sharing Economy with the most transformative potential: the ability to address societal inequities and envision new ecological solutions.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

These apps encourage young people to get involved in civic and political issues. You can also create a special reading list, locate books in your local library, and share what you're reading with friends over social media. NetSquared brings nonprofits together with programmers, designers and other business professionals.

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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. Take the finger-pointing as opportunities to fix things in real time!

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2013

Using publicly-released data and code, participants will be able to swap ideas, share skills, and solve challenges that affect Americans on both local and national scales. This is a great opportunity for nonprofits to get involved in community issues and share their mission with a tech-savvy audience. NetSquared can help!

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

Through technology, data, and resource-sharing, Community Boost_r seeks to empower Balkan citizens to voice their opinions, demand solutions to everyday problems, and stay informed on accountability and transparency issues. The site will then publish responses from local officials and encourage further transparency. From Serbia.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

7 Social Media experiments we tried with the 99% Power Coalition | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – Joe Solomon does a great job sharing the tools, tactics, and mini-campaigns used in the recent 99% Power Campaign. They were looking to harness the power of all the local food banks' (over 200) online communities."

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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. Ten Tech Proposals Empowering Human Rights, Local Leadership, and Community Education is.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

As ImpactMax writes so beautifully, tying individual stories to overall contextual problems and societal issues can really change policies. " Check it out! Stories about the impact that a nonprofit has on people’s lives can engage, recruit and solidify donors and members. Why limit yourself?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2013

It was originally published on NetSquared. It harnesses locally based solutions to decrease the effects of disasters and rehabilitate communities in disaster-prone areas. This week we learn about the Resilient Africa Network (RAN), which is helping African students use open data for disaster relief.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

Microsoft's International Women's Hackathon challenged female developers to combat issues like human trafficking through new mobile apps and web programs. The hackathons are themed around a certain issue, such as education or mHealth (mobile health). NetSquared can help! The ReStart Challenges.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

To get diverse perspectives from TechSoup Global staff about user-generated content, we asked Marc Manashil, Community Evangelist for NetSquared, to share how challenges like Restart Romania enable users to get engaged at all levels. Web-based challenges are not a new phenomenon at TechSoup Global.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

After taking some pictures at the local holiday parade, she finds that many others wanted to post their pictures on Flickr and started a group to pull them all together. How to contribute: Blog your answer to the question either on your blog or the NetSquared blog. For directions on contributing to the NetSquared blog, click here.).

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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. Six years into setting up a global network of partners, TechSoup Global team members and some of our global partners will talk openly about the real issues in going global. " Local Community Organizers Affinity Group. Claire Sale.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

I first learned about Year Up's local Bay Area chapter through a Microsoft YouthSpark initiative event. Artis told me that Year Up works with the students to help them learn professional skills, from something as simple as shaking hands to more complex issues such as workplace dress. The Power of a Year.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2016

Like TechSoup's other community-driven tech-innovation initiatives — the NetSquared challenges , the ReStart movement , and Apps4Warsaw — Caravan Studios' work is informed first and foremost by the needs of the community itself. Jaeger explains that to be actionable, an idea must be concrete and address a problem or issue.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

This post originally appeared on the Netsquared blog and was authored by Bari Samad, an NGO domain expert for NetSquared. 7billionactions.org do help us gain a deeper understanding of the issues and trends behind the raw data. Last week, the world’s population reached a staggering 7 billion people.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2007

This summer I've been interviewing the innovators behind the 21 Projects that went to the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) this year (I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared). You can listen to the original interview and a live recording of Freecycle's 5-minute pitch at the NetSquared Conference on the NetSquared Podcast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

Marnie Webb puts out a call for a call next wed, thurs, or friday to discuss in real time the issues that have surfaced around the NpTech Tag. buzz at the UK National Circuit Riders Conference this week was not tool talk, but issues related to adoption of the tools. Cross posted at Netsquared Five Hot Conversations.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2007

Last week, at NetSquared's San Francisco Net Tuesday Meetup, Steve Miller, Product Manager, Google Earth Outreach spoke to a room of 50+ social changemakers and web innovators about how nonprofits can use Google Earth Outreach for their work. Suddenly everyone began to call out issues, questions, concerns that were now apparent in the plan.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Share breaking news within your field Chances are someone on your staff is already bookmarking and forwarding news stories about your issue each day. Example: Anyone can publish a blog post on the NetSquared Community Blog and Social Actions' social network, my.socialactions.com. There are two ways this can happen: 1. allow comments.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. You can embed Google Earth into your website to present information to your community that really helps tell the story of your work and your issue. Raising awareness and providing local communities a venue for sharing their story. The sessions are short (only 50 minutes!) Google Sketchup.

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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. This panel will explore various innovative and creative uses of social media and online technology to support the local food movement. Submitted by Ramya Raghavan.

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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. The NetSquared team will be working the room to activate and facilitate conversations so everyone can enjoy the ride. Local Community Organizers (#localco). Thursday, April 8, 2010.

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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. This panel will explore various innovative and creative uses of social media and online technology to support the local food movement. Submitted by Ramya Raghavan.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

We had so many that we couldn’t get to all of them during the webinar, so we’ve answered the overflow here: Q: How can we use social media tools when working with clients in an agency specifically concerning privacy or HIPPA issues? The only issue around contacting influencers is your value proposition. Beth : See [link].

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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. This panel will explore various innovative and creative uses of social media and online technology to support the local food movement. Submitted by Ramya Raghavan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication October issue is devoted to scholarly research on social networks. Or purchase gift items from a socially responsible retail store like Ten Thousand Islands that helps support local artisans and Fair Trade in developing countries. Jon Stahl has a live blog post of remarks by the speakers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I posted an announcement of the campaign on my blog and on Netsquared Posted a guest blog post at Katya's blog soliciting campaign advice in exchange to share my learnings. What internal issues does this bring up for you? I suspect in some, if not many, organizations - there may be some control issues. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

We'll soon be unveiling a full set of tools to let you manage your local event and build a strong local climate group in the lead-up to 24 October." Every month, the NetSquared community comes together offline at Net Tuesday events to mix, swap stories and ideas, build new relationships, and collaborate. Then check out.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

As some of you know, part of my work is being the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that facilitates the adoption of social web tools by nonprofits and NGOs. NetSquared badges to put on your blog, web site or email signature. • An informational postcard to pass out at local events.

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