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.

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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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APRIL 4, 2011

What are the different models? Several local leaders who have lived inside of networks will join me, including Annie Leonard / Story of Stuff , Marnie Webb/ TechSoup Global , and Deborah Mehan / Leadership Learning Community. What advice would you give to funders interested in supporting networks? How and when to catalyze networks?

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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. Open source champion Brian Behlendorf spoke at the event, encouraging the hackers to focus on finding an interesting problem to solve rather than worrying about building a sustainable model.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2010

Volunteers teach free classes in rooms donated by other local organizations. Jessica is also a Nonprofit Commons member and NetSquared Local organizer.) In a one-hour presentation, Jessica took on the daunting task of convincing a room full of people trying to start and grow nonprofits to consider a no-budget model.

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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

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. That’s not a believable theory of change.

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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

JANUARY 10, 2012

It is one of several projects at TSG that aims to retool our models to achieve maximum impact. We’ve also launched a NetSquared Local in Singapore, and are working to include the Philippines and Thailand in the near future. I look forward to taking this journey with you!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2016

What happens when you combine local government, open data, and creative and tech-savvy citizens? They reached to these communities through the NetSquared Warsaw groups, tech- and startup-focused meetups, and through local universities such as the Warsaw University of Technology. Apps4Warsaw. A Contest Built on City Data.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

You can model behavior all you want but if no one can tell what tools you are using to be so successful, there’s no way they can jump in and help man the ship. Events: NetSquared Camps. Community Driven Social Impact strategies for events – let’s look at the NetSquared Camps pilot. Community-Driven Social Impact – 11NTC.

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MARCH 26, 2013

The hackathon model is ideal for nonprofits and libraries because it brings together motivated volunteers to expedite a project on a limited budget. NetSquared can help! The challenges invite social activists and techies to create web-based tools to tackle local issues. or Code for Oakland ). The ReStart Challenges.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

We were especially thrilled to learn that one of TechSoup's nonprofit members, Year Up , was spotlighted as a model for employment and technology training. I first learned about Year Up's local Bay Area chapter through a Microsoft YouthSpark initiative event. The Power of a Year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

NetSquared. Net Tuesday Seattle has been in the local press too! Netsquared Featured projects receive grant awards ! AFP Blog points the Mindblizzard Blog story about how the Dutch Red Cross will begin fundraising in Second Life using Yike Strum , a top model, as their Red Cross ambassador. NpTech Talk.

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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

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. Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. What is it? How does it work?

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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. Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. What is it? How does it work?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

There are a few core elements of the way communities work that we can learn from as a model for innovation as well. Community-Driven Model. But in a community-driven model, you can’t just listen for the sake of learning. That word change supports co-design, it encourages collaboration, and it ensures engagement. Principles.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The Hacker Helper project is closely aligned with our NetSquared vision of bringing communities together to solve social problems – including nonprofits, beneficiaries, activists, technologists, concerned citizens. These services use a Netflix business model that allow subscribers to read as many books as you want for a monthly fee.

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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. Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. What is it? How does it work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

My thinking: Social media conversations and online campaigns create whole new models for bringing together & powering the progressive movement. And what real world event models can you learn from or partner with? I am a proud member of the NetSquared community and have helped organize Net Tuesday events in Vancouver & Seattle.

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APRIL 24, 2007

Fair Trade is this exciting new model for addressing poverty around the world. Of course, because their farms are small and because historically they've gotten a really low price from the local coffee buyers, called coyotes in Latin America, these farmers are all poor. You can read a transcript of the podcast below.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2014

First up was Joseph Tanigawa from Code for San Francisco (our local chapter of Code for America), who presented a nifty tool for bridging the digital divide. The user can go to any bus stop and simply text the stop ID number (listed on every bus stop) to a local phone number (415-528-3226). Reporting Problems. Image 1: Caravan Studios.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

So when I heard that one of the leading subject matter experts on social media metrics - Jeremiah Owyang - was the guest of honor at a local social media networking event , I decided to go. A logic model. (I Comparison of Old/New Web Metrics Facebook Metrics - ROI of Friendship - Dave McClure's ARRGH Model. What happens?

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 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. AirBnB will allow hosts to donate to local causes; will add smoke detectors, will work on joint campaigns with the city and improve disaster preparedness.

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