Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2011

Non-profits are on the front lines, and we want to support them through technology. When we canvassed the environment and talked to small and medium non-profits, three themes kept on bubbling up. This means long, expensive setup cycles and feature overkill that were not meant for small/medium non-profits.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

NetSquared is here to help you along the way with everything from slide templates to planning checklists. Not sure if hosting a NetSquared group is for you? There’s probably a NetSquared group by you , but if there isn’t, we’ll help you start your own. Toronto, Canada: Pints Not Profits Toronto.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

TechSoup and the NetSquared meetups are here to help. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and other awesome organizations. Houston, Texas: NetSquared Houston: Storymakers 2017! Portland, Oregon: NTEN Presents: Oregon Nonprofit Tech Roundup.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2014

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN’s Tech Clubs and HandsOn Tech. Melbourne, Australia: How to move your non-profit online: Rotary Australia case study. Guayaquil, Ecuador: The Guayaquil NetSquared Meetup Group Monthly Meetup. Upcoming Events.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

Semphonic Web Analytics Consulting: The X Change Non-Profit Analytics Challenge – "The Non-Profit Analytics Challenge is a rare opportunity for the brightest analysts in the digital measurement field to collaborate & assist non-profit organizations to optimize their websites. "" Apply today!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

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? " Alan Rosenblatt, Internet Advocacy Center , has a thoughtful post on the NTEN Blog, When Campagin 2.0

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

While open datasets and Big Data are being used commercially to reap tremendous profits, the data is increasingly being used for social benefit too. NetSquared Organizers, Ambassadors, and Birds of a Feather. Our organizers and ambassadors will wear orange NetSquared buttons. NetSquared Birds of a Feather.

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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. The site was developed by Democracy in Action.

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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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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 Mashable write up has a freudian typo and describes the Cancer Society and March of Dimes as "high-profit" organizations. Fundraising 2.0 And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

NetSquared. Netsquared Featured projects receive grant awards ! It is a lament about the phrase "nonprofits should act more like for-profits" leading some reflections about long-term thinking about outcomes. GoogleEarth launches Nonprofit Outreach Program via the NTEN blog and NetSquared community blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! There's going to be a Netsquared Meetup (recommendations for restaurant or location are needed) How will your nonprofit avoid the Meatball Sundae? NTEN's monthly roundup of tech resources called " Things We Like " (and I'll add to "fondle.") And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

NpTech Conversations Wild Apricot Blog is hosting next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on the topic "How are non-profits using Web 2.0 I suspect NTEN's presence in Portland has something to do it! " Jeremy Pepper , who spoke at this month's NetSquared Net Tuesday Meetup , is the director of communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! It notes, "Maybe the answer is an intermediary b/w tech and design volunteers and the non-profits they???re For more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog. If you're coming to NTEN's NTC Conference next month, you can experience this technology first-hand.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Given the fantastic feedback we received from our NetSquared GIS presentation, I was very pleased to learn that NTEN is featuring Robert in a forthcoming webinar. The speaker, Robert Cheetham, is both concise and knowledgeable, but more importantly he has a knack for explaining GIS in a way that is very accessible to non-techies.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 7, 2007

from the Director's Statement, Black Gold Oxfam America has joined the movement to give Ethiopian coffee growers a greater percentage of coffee profits: "Oxfam is calling on coffee industry leaders to sign agreements that recognize Ethiopia’s right to control the use of its coffee ’brand names.’ Cross-posted from the NetSquared blog.

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Care2

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Given the fantastic feedback we received from our NetSquared GIS presentation, I was very pleased to learn that NTEN is featuring Robert in a forthcoming webinar. The speaker, Robert Cheetham, is both concise and knowledgeable, but more importantly he has a knack for explaining GIS in a way that is very accessible to non-techies.

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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. Doing More With Less: How Not-for-Profits Leverage Technology for Change: They've won Webby Awards. Submitted by Leif Utne. Submitted by Doug Ulman.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

You have to set it up yourself and pay for web hosting) MovableType.com: [link] (Higher Education & Non-profit license for 5 authors, $195. Update: The presentation slides are available on FivePaths. Hosting included) WordPress.org: [link] (Free software. Includes support for first year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. Via Laura Quinn at Idealware comes a pointer to a research paper titled " Technology Motivators and Usage in Not-for-Profit Arts Organizations " that comes from the Systems Synthesis Project course at the H.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

With video conferencing, broadband, and Second Life, well, we can all safely stay ensconced in our own virtual-reality-sensory-deprivation-tanks and just digitally dance the salsa at the next NTEN gathering.??? What should Netsquared's Facebook strategy be? Nonetheless, he had to write an article. What do you think?

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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. Doing More With Less: How Not-for-Profits Leverage Technology for Change: They've won Webby Awards. Submitted by Leif Utne. Submitted by Doug Ulman.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Here's one from LOLNPTECH.org and Little Dishes 2 from the Non-Profit Tech Blog. NTEN is offering a Webinar on Google Aps. NTEN posts about screencast about GoogleAps and SalesForce Integration for nonprofits. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Jonathan Coleman is the featured Changemaker at Change.org ( hat tip NTEN roundup). It was founded as a mission-based, for-profit enterprise in Dublin in 2005 by serial. Jordan Viator, YouTube on a ShoeString and ask the expert at NTEN with Ramya Raghaven from YouTube. Christine Herron suggests the Electric Company.

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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. Doing More With Less: How Not-for-Profits Leverage Technology for Change: They've won Webby Awards. Submitted by Leif Utne. Submitted by Doug Ulman.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Netsquared Net Tuesday next week in SF is about " How Nonprofits Can Use And Build Online Social Networks ," featuring speakers from Change.org and Ning. over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

A key point about how difficult it is for most non-profits to shift from message delivery to conversation and advice about being patience. Facebook The Non-Profits on Facebook Group is for those who work for, belong to, or support nonprofits on Facebook. NTEN blog reviews the Google Presentation tool and is sticking with powerpoint.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The Non-Profit Tech Blog drills down deeper on the limitations and suggests waiting before adopting. NTEN's Call for NTC Sessions - Deadline October 24th. " Last month I summarized multiple threads about how social networking sites like Facebook can be time wasters for both for-profit and nonprofits. And if you???re

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. How Google Earth & Maps can help Non-Profits : Show what is at stake – don’t just tell people. Panelists: Natalie Foster, DNC ; Rebecca Moore, Google Earth Outreach ; Laura Quinn, Idealware. The sessions are short (only 50 minutes!) but pack in a tremendous amount of information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. There's lots more to digest and lots more to come. nonprofit technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 The NPTech Blog Chatter Confessions of a non-profit IT director blog rasied ruckus with his proposal for creating a closed forum and new NTEN Affinity Group : nptechhelp.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. Oh, I so want a NTEN baseball cap !) For the launch, they???ve Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

The only difficulty I find here is that SaveGuimaras is not a non-profit org and is simply running as a webblog therefore, mobile networks might not trust us enough to collaborate with us. account and point to a few good ones I find every week for my NpTechTag Roundup over at Netsquared. The Short Resource List.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2013

Join me, Allyson Kapin, Co-founder of Rad Campaign and Blogger-in-Chief of Care2''s Frogloop blog and Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director of NTEN for this free webinar. Don''t worry though, we can help you change that. As Founding Partner of Rad Campaign she leads the firm’s client and online strategic services.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2006

Let's start with Michelle herself, who posted some comments on the NTEN-sponsored discussion of open API's last week to both the NetSquared site and her own blog. The on-line discussion brought together some of the larger software vendors in the non-profit space and a few very savvy users. Open API's.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

" Gavin's idiosyncratic timeline of circuit riders, NTEN, and other things related to the NPTech community. The post on Twitter was Kurt Voelker's twitter@nten? So, here's NTEN's response. There are Twitter critics in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. Steven Cliff's Notes - Saving Internet 1.0 technologies.

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