Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. What is TweetsGiving? TweetsGiving is a global celebration of gratitude and giving on November 24-26.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

As part of Social Media September (#SocMedSep), we've been tapping into the wisdom of our global TechSoup and NetSquared communities as well as experts in nonprofit technology. Social Networking social media NetSquared tssocialmedia World Affairs Council' TS: How does social media support your organization's mission?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

We’ll also be referring folks to resources for more formal learning and peer connections, like NTEN , the Nonprofit Technology Network and host of the annual Nonprofit Technology Conference and Netsquared and TechSoup Global – and of course sharing resources from our colleagues in the nonprofit/social media field.

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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. The diverse crowd, made up of students, activists, government employees, and librarians, worked on datasets presented by the U.S. This hackathon took place at San Francisco State University's Paul J.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2016

NetSquared groups are holding free events all month. Kenya: NetSquared Camp — Storytelling 2016. Kibiribiri, Uganda: Building Capacities of Teachers and Students in Digital Storytelling. SF Online Community Meetup. Busia, Kenya: NetSquared Camp — Storytelling 2016. Storymakers Community Events.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

NYC Haunts is a mobile game created by the Global Kids Online Leadership Organization in a partnership with the New York Public Library. Created by local NYC students, this game is designed to be played in and around city libraries and teaches players how to use library resources.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

This post was authored by Vanessa Rhinesmith and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. story chronicled a middle school student who built an app to help him. story chronicled a middle school student who built an app to help him. stay organized in the coming year and the revelation that more and more.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

meets LinkedIn for students. The Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) has also held a few hackathons with the New York Public Library. NetSquared can help! One of the projects, GoodGym , is a group fitness app where participants get fit by doing physical tasks that benefit their communities.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

This online reporting system is both a website and mobile app. Students, professors, and deans will be able to express their opinion and report any problems in their school or university. From Kosovo: Bordi Studimor is a project that seeks to improve the communication between high schools and universities in Kosovo.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared (where Ushahidi won its first challenge!). They also offer a guide for cause-based campaigns as well as customer support on the phone or online. Aid Afghanistan for Education and Peace has the lofty $10,000 goal to fund a school of 300 students for a month.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared. They also offer a guide for cause-based campaigns as well as customer support on the phone or online. Aid Afghanistan for Education and Peace has the lofty $10,000 goal to fund a school of 300 students for a month. where Ushahidi won its first challenge!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

There is so much talk both online and offline, from inside organizations and from outside, that “nonprofits are broken.” You can find previous blog posts (with great conversations in the comments) here , here and here. We’ve done step 1: admitted that we have a problem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

This slide show from Common Craft uses a party as a metaphor for online community. Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. No topic is too controversial for this online resource. Meanwhile, Party4aPurpose launches the alpha version.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Simplistic appeals targeted at teens and college students don't. Experiment with online contests, both creating them and participating in them. As a result, your nonprofit will get a sense of how many of your supporters are following you online, and to what extent you can count on them to act on your behalf. Get an iPhone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

Many community members are avid users of and students of social media – for some it is an integral part of their profession, so this is a great place to learn about social media. This is very useful if you follow more than about 100 people (especially if they are quite active online). An incredible listening tool.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 31, 2006

In early July, I posted about a Basic Blogging for Women Workshop I'd be teaching this fall, but after talking to some prospective students, I decided that it was important to find a space where everyone could be on a computer, so I changed the date and the venue so that we can be in a computer lab.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

The trainer sharing with students, the consultant sharing with clients, beyond face interaction. Netsquared Tagging and Bookmarking Net2Learn Center and site search using word " tagging " Also here. Online Event (oct. Throwing seeds out? Is this how Npower Michigan is using delicious ? Emily's post ). TechSoup Web 2.0

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

The Christian Science Monitor, CNN, and CNET News are among the many sites that now deliver updated online content via RSS. Include outreach to bloggers as part of your online fundraising campaigns. weeks using her food blog and an online auction. By contrast, 51 percent of blog readers shopped online.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

You need to start by checking out the content that is already being created by citizen journalists and activists about the issues you care about on blogs, podcasts and online video/vlogs. Online videos/vlogs Online videos or vlogs can searched for in the iTunes Music Store as well as on YouTube , blip.tv , DoGooderTV , QuantumShift.tv

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2006

There has been online conversation during the past couple of weeks on vlog list , Netsquared , TechSoup and Blogher. " A nonprofit just beginning to incorporate video into their web presence notes on a recent Netsquared post , "We don't have that much capacity to do video work, so its kind of catch-as-catch-can."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Mongkol, a Cambodian college student who is studying in the US on a Fullbright Scholarship and knows the importance of a college education had this to say. I posted an announcement of the campaign on my blog and on Netsquared Posted a guest blog post at Katya's blog soliciting campaign advice in exchange to share my learnings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

The live video feed was being streamed from the Netsquared gathering in San Francisco happening at the same time as the virtual gatherng in Second Life. Last night's event brought back memories for me - of what it was like 13 years ago doing demonstrations at nonprofit conferences about online communities for arts organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'll be using a new online learning platform that I haven't used before and the participants are a slightly different audience than nonprofit staff or at least I think. Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Create collaborative, student-authored resources.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

After mapping the community and identifying shared goals you can focus on, you can start identifying the online tools and technologies that the community (especially when you break it down into segments) already uses, for what, why, and how. I’ve love for my library to be both a physical and an online learning community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 1, 2006

For the past year, I have been writing for NetSquared about nonprofits and NGOs that are using the social web to cultivate donors, advocates and activists for their organization and their cause. What makes us write a donation check, spread the word about a campaign, or show up for a meeting or protest? Emotional connection. For more info.

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