Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 3, 2010

I’ve had experience organizing communities offline in local communities, and organizing community online – but the kind of organizing that inspires me the most is combining online and offline. Tags: community events 4change community building community organizing netsquared social by social twitter.

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AFP Blog

JUNE 30, 2009

What's the Right Offline Event for Your Organization's Online Community? NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org: "This month's Net2 Think Tank question is: How do real-world (offline) events fit into social media conversations and campaigns?"

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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. This offline network, called Net Tuesdays, balances the work we do online to connect all those working at the intersection of technology and social impact.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog.). Every month, the NetSquared community comes together offline in cities around the world at Net Tuesday events to mix, swap stories and ideas, build new relationships, and collaborate. I’m so excited about these new groups! Learn about Net Tuesdays and get local!

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Get answers to your tech challenges at a NetSquared meetup (see list below). Check out this video from NetSquared Northern Michigan’s recent meeting. ” September’s NetSquared Events. Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. Don’t have a local NetSquared Local group?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

There are many who approach the online landscape with very different views than their offline business decisions. I can’t speak for others working in the “innovation sector,&# but at NetSquared we can’t emphasize enough that our Community is what drives us – whether’s it’s online or offline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

Netsquared is new project in its embryonic stages from Compumentor, the folks who have brought excellent technology resources to the nonprofit field. What we do know is that both the online and offline work of every non-profit can be enhanced by a dynamic online community in which organizations and users support one another.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2016

Bridging the Divide: Online and Offline Community Managers — Thursday, March 24 — 10:30 a.m. NetSquared is TechSoup's volunteer-driven network of in-person nonprofit technology training and peer support events. Want to know if NetSquared is right for you? Want to know if NetSquared is right for you?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

These fall into two types: crises that originate in social media, and crises that originate offline. In the weeks that have followed, Ichi’s e-mail provoked a series of responses from all over the world. ." In the era of Twitter, YouTube and Facebook, both types of crisis require a rapid, social media response.

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Tech Soup

JULY 19, 2016

Editors' note: NetSquared organizers and TechSoup staff submitted sessions, and we would LOVE it if you weighed in and voted!]. TechSoup and NetSquared NTC Session Proposals. Bridging the Divide: Online and Offline Community Managers s ubmitted by Elijah van der Giessen @elijah. How to Vote for NTC Sessions. spanhidden

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

For example, simply review the hundreds of ideas listed in NetSquared ’s Project Gallery and you’ll quickly see that people from around the world are hard at work leveraging all kinds of technologies to create positive change for communities tackling many different issues. I think there are too many to count, really.

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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. Has your organization run a competition online or offline?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Read an account of how Canteen , an Australian nonprofit dedicated to supporting teenagers with cancer, used social media to raise awareness for an online and offline campaign. NetSquared. NetSquared Local groups from around the world are using social media in a variety of ways to promote and collaborate on innovative projects.

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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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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Elijah van der Giessen, TechSoup's NetSquared community organizer, will be meeting with fellow community organizers to discuss the challenges and rewards of growing both online and offline communities. NetSquared Organizers, Ambassadors, and Birds of a Feather. NetSquared Birds of a Feather. This session is for you.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

This week, I shared with Vanessa that during my time offline for the holidays, I found myself reflecting on just how many different frustrations I feel people in this sector have voiced over 2010 – to the point that I, honestly, feel really overwhelmed by the “sick and tired&# state of nptechers world wide.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Charity Fundraising Agent (Android, iPhone) helps you keep track of your fundraising campaigns by monitoring both online and offline donations. If you have a great idea for a fundraising app, but don't know where to start, you might be able to find help from NetSquared , an initiative from TechSoup Global. to your phone or tablet.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

Positive reinforcement is one of the best leadership development practices you can build into your work across the board, whether it’s online or offline, on your facebook page, newsletter, annual fundraiser or neighborhood events. Events: NetSquared Camps. Striving to be replaced also means rewarding and spotlighting leaders.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2016

Since the first NetSquared challenge in 2006, TechSoup has continued to offer people and organizations opportunities to connect, share ideas, and collaborate; they work on solutions online and offline through events, meetups, and hackathons. " Spreading the Word about the Open Challenges.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Speaker: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Both of my sessions focus on best practices, lessons learned, and the things organizations need to know to be community organizers and community builders, on and offline. if you want me and the whole global NetSquared community, visit: [link]. -

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

Many years ago, NetSquared hosted challenges and conferences to highlight and bring together fledging social entrepreneurs. This is best done in a participatory fashion, making sure that data is available offline. netsquared digital divide' " Digital Democracy (Dd) was a prize winner in that challenge. Want to learn more?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Read an account of how Canteen , an Australian nonprofit dedicated to supporting teenagers with cancer, used social media to raise awareness for an online and offline campaign. NetSquared. NetSquared Local groups from around the world are using social media in a variety of ways to promote and collaborate on innovative projects.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

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.). Tag your blog with “net2thinktank”. Email Amy Sample Ward the link to your post! Be sure to get your submission in on time to be in the running for the free book!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

I was also an early member of Netsquared Community , another one of Marnie’s brilliant ideas that rocked the field. 6: Use social media to close the loop between online and offline action. Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

NetSquared DC organized a panel discussion on Engagement Strategy: Empowering Champions* and Influencers* on November 3, 2015, to delve into this question. NetSquared DC Engagement Strategies Panelists — Maddie Grant, Andrew Nachison, and Dale Pfeifer (left to right). Engage Offline. The panelists included. spanhidden.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2014

Not For Sale wants to empower people to engage with their own online and offline communities. Many thanks to the San Francisco Online Community Meetup Group and SF Tech4Good/NetSquared for organizing such a great event. They have found Twitter and Facebook quite effective for doing this. Learn More.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

Qui Diaz at LivingstonBuzz has kicked off a Change Blogging Meme which includes an offline/online integrated event to support Alex Steed as well as a blogging meme. This fall, DC will be one of 35 cities visited by NetSquared???s s Alex Steed. s touring the U.S., meeting with millennial activists about ???the

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

I'm honored to be on the team of live blogging (that is, blogging about an event during an event) for the NetSquared Conference. see example below) The NetSquared conference tag is n2y2. Flickr Photo by Pitel. The team is being coordinated by Britt Bravo , who must be the most organized person on the planet!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

At Netsquared last May Ethan Zuckerman spoke on a panel and blogged brilliantly at the same time - so he did have time for a chat in the corridor. I think it is how do we use our social media tools to extend the conversation and bring in other s both online and offline. I noticed this first at TED. last March.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

This month's Net2 Think Tank question is: How do real-world (offline) events fit into social media conversations and campaigns ? We need offline events to meet each other, bond eye-to-eye, and forge the collaborations that will make our social networks stronger, better connected, and ultimately transformative. Courtesy of Joe Solomon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

" I used the technique two years ago for a presentation at the first netsquared conference called " I Tag the Hand that Feeds Me " or what I should retitle "Meet Sally." re doing offline. I've seen this style be copied by several users on SlideShare to explain enterprise2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

maginfies the offline social networking we used to do before the Internet became a part of culture and lives? There was a post over at Netsquared speaking to the data silos and walls that exist within nonprofits, sparked by the question, " Which division in your association owns the web ?" Is that Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2006

WHen do the online/offline experience converge or blend as Alexandra Samuel reflects over at netsquared. I've gotten comments from other people in the room that have told me they found the notes of use, but I wonder how valuable it is for people not in the room?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

On Netsquared , there was a recent post about Bioneers and some thoughts about a session about online tools and mobilizing. Maybe it's a generational thing, and my daughter will see online/offline the way I see phone/f2f. Leroy's point: In order for our brave new Web 2.0 The technology is there now to foster this growth.

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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. I haven't spent much time in this space, but when I walked through the door I ran into Sean Stannard-Stockton who at met at Netsquared several years ago and encouraged him to set up a blog. He defined it as: "If Web 1.0 Don't give up.

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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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