Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Submitted by Amy Sample Ward, publisher of Amy Sample Ward’s Version of NPTech Hildy Gottlieb’s new book The Pollyanna Principles is a handbook for starting a revolution in social benefit organization design and practice, but it isn’t the revolution. What’s the catch? We’ve done step 1: admitted that we have a problem.

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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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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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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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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. Learn more about the Net2 Challenge Process here.

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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

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.). Email Amy Sample Ward the link to your post! Tag your blog with “net2thinktank”.

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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

You know those bags tattooed with the sponsors' logos and filled with stickers, t-shirts, coupons, samples, and other goodies. is about building a bridge between two-way online communication and offline actions and impact. Ann Wizer, XSProject Founder. What's a conference without schwag ? He defined it as: "If Web 1.0 Don't give up.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. View more presentations from Amy Sample ward. They were able to use the platform for organizing offline events, finding and collaborating with volunteer organizers, and more. Panelists: Natalie Foster, DNC ; Rebecca Moore, Google Earth Outreach ; Laura Quinn, Idealware.

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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. Submitted by Amy Sample Ward. How do you balance online action with offline engagement? In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. We interact with our friends and colleagues in real time on and offline -- either in the office or out at coffee, on Twitter or social networks. When disaster strikes, we want information as soon as possible and we want to help just as quickly. How can we do that? More and more, now we can.

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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. Submitted by Amy Sample Ward. How do you balance online action with offline engagement? In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely.

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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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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. Submitted by Amy Sample Ward. How do you balance online action with offline engagement? In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The magical kingdom in which offline and online worked together, where strategies that were proven in one place were re-imagined in new ones. In the social paradigm, we recognize the need for both online and offline to be part of our work. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Thus, we entered the social period.

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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. Let''s be honest, social media is progressing and changing every single day and most people don''t have the time to keep up with the most effective way to do social media.

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