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Creating Social Change with Social Media

Amy Sample Ward

And then there’s the role that Facebook and Twitter are playing. Those social media tools, along with dozens of others, have been used to help family and friends locate one another , to direct food, clothing and medical support to specific locations, and to help direct rescue workers to individuals alive and trapped under rubble.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." Facebook was just getting its first venture funding, YouTube was just starting, and Twitter was still a year away from being founded. " NetSquared Up Close and Personal.

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Tagging on Twitter? #nptech

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A few days ago, Amy Gahran and I exchanged some musings on social media tradeoffs. We agreed that it was much easier to share information on Twitter, that the immediate gratification was addicting, but that retrieval on Twitter is a not easy. Like tagging for Twitter, hashtags are terms you put after a # in a post.

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Join me for a chat with The Feast

Amy Sample Ward

NetSquared is the guest host of The Feast’s next Twitter chat about the power of social media for social good. We’ll be tweeting questions such as “how can we better leverage social media for less talk and more action?” Join NetSquared & The Feast. Look forward to a Feast on twitter!

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June #4Change Chat: Local Community Organizing

Amy Sample Ward

Social media tools work because they are powered by people, and people are social. 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. How to Participate. Feeling brave? Conversations and Presentations.

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NpTech Tag Summary: The Faces of NetSquared Champions and NpTech Power of Ten Summary

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Face (book) of NetSquared Champions. The NetSquared Conference is just days away and the NetSquared blogs are buzzing with activity! Not attending the NetSquared Conference but want to follow the tag stream? The conference tag is n2y2. Sort of like a Social Media Amish Barn Raising?

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If you missed it: Crowdsourcing Innovative Social Change

Amy Sample Ward

Beth facilitated a conversation, among the panelists as well as the standing-room-only room of participants, that focused on the power of crowdsourcing and the application of social media in nonprofit program delivery. If you missed the session, you can revisit it via twitter, or video below!

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