Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Here’s a bit of John Brennan ’s story (an ideablob member who was competition in the competition) from his comment on my original blog post : “It’s upsetting that companies like this aren’t actually thinking or caring about the real people and ideas they are effecting. How can this work?

Myspace 108

Myspace Causes Philanthropy Offline 108

Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

Many years ago, NetSquared hosted challenges and conferences to highlight and bring together fledging social entrepreneurs. In her talk, Jacobi noted: "Traditionally marginalized groups like indigenous populations or the grassroots women in Haiti, when they are just telling their own stories, often they are not listened to.

Digital 36

Digital Community Haiti Netsquared 36

Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

based projects, pledges are processed by Amazon Payments. There are payment processing fees attached to this which work out to roughly 3-5%. Nonprofit Success Story: Ushahidi, a nonprofit headquartered in Kenya, used Kickstarter to launch production of BRCK, a Wi-Fi router and mobile modem built to withstand the elements.

Platform 79

Platform Organization Childhood Badge 79

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

To get diverse perspectives from TechSoup Global staff about user-generated content, we asked Marc Manashil, Community Evangelist for NetSquared, to share how challenges like Restart Romania enable users to get engaged at all levels. Web-based challenges are not a new phenomenon at TechSoup Global.

Romania 52

Romania Generation Challenge Content 52

Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

Tweet chat participants were in near agreement in their definition of content curation: judicious selection of information to tell a story. Curating content requires deciding what to gather, filtering and organizing information, and finding the common threads to present a story. NetSquared Think Tank: Curating Content.

Content 60

Content Romania Pennsylvania Newsletter 60

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Content curation is the process of sorting through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a meaningful and organized way around a specific theme. It is also good to learn from experienced curators and how they hone their craft. Netsquared recently published this summary of tips from nonprofit content curators.

Content 139

Content Skills Feeds Tutorial 139

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. The Process. Learn more about the Net2 Challenge Process here.

Mobile 36

Mobile Malawi Netsquared San Jose 36

NTEN

JUNE 24, 2013

For a taste of nptech goings-on all around the world, NetSquared Local shares community highlights from the month of May and gets its fans excited about future projects in their recent monthly roundup. At their best, communities are places where we make connections and share knowledge, stories, and support. Anything we missed?

Brain 79

Brain Brazil Websites Data 79

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

based projects, pledges are processed by Amazon Payments. There are payment processing fees attached to this which work out to roughly 3-5%. Nonprofit Success Story: Ushahidi, a nonprofit headquartered in Kenya, used Kickstarter to launch production of BRCK, a Wi-Fi router and mobile modem built to withstand the elements.

Platform 65

Platform Organization Childhood Badge 65

Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

This presentation will share tips, tools, and resources to help make your technology planning process as painless as possible, and you’ll leave with a roadmap and toolkit for creating your organization's technology plan. We'll also discuss the post-disaster operations analysis and triage processes. Find NetSquared at NTC.

Conference 44

Conference Technology San Francisco Disaster 44

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

What are they like: what are the demographics, the data, the stories? Events: NetSquared Camps. Community Driven Social Impact strategies for events – let’s look at the NetSquared Camps pilot. From listening, to creating to evaluating and then back to the listening again so that you can modify and then evaluate, and so on.

Case Study 117

Case Study Community Impact Studies 117

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.

Nptech 50

Nptech PDF Conference Tag 50

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. Not only are participants enhancing their own self confidence, but also shaping their communities for the better in the process. development and creativity.

Develop 59

Develop Oakland Teen Empowerment 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

While there has been some excellent conversations in the past fews months, particularly the Netsquared ThinkTank , I haven't seen a lot of nonprofit case studies that share real life experience with measuring results from social media strategies. We're in the process of teasing the case studies out. I'll include on a handout or wiki).

NTC 50

NTC Design Case Study ROI 50

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? KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools. Applications will be available form Feb 1 to March 14, 2008.

Summary 50

Summary Nptech Tag Tools 50

NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. " They've used their website, blog, Twitter and Facebook, Youtube and more to keep telling the stories of those in need, those they're serving, and how people watching the relief effort unfold can continue to contribute. How can we do that? Missing Persons.

Haiti 82

Haiti Disaster Social Media Media 82

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

It came back earlier this week in a new format and aggregation process. saying about your organization as well as to find new marketing leads to contact with your messages and stories of hope. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Photo by SpacePotato.

Summary 50

Summary Nptech Tag Web 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. Heather from Aspiration shares her process for securing a venue for Penguin Day. He also shares some process maps for donor management. (If More than $100,000 is on the table for innovate projects. Also announced 2.0

Summary 50

Summary Wiki Flickr NTC 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Even better is getting your constituents to share their stories about your organization with others or “user generated content.”. Share Your Story: You share the impact of your organization's programs through blogging, podcasting, sharing photos on Flickr, or YouTube or other video sharing site. Now it is your turn.

Marketing 70

Marketing Blackboard Social Social Media 70

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. The panel picker process just opened - so you can vote yes or no for the panels you think are worthy of being on the program or not until September 4th. In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely. Submitted by Sarah Davies.

Social Media 79

Social Media Cancer Jordan Kiva 79

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

NetSquared Open Space (NOS): APIs and Open Data. Who : Facilitating: Amy Sample Ward | NetSquared; Billy Bicket | NetSquared. The NetSquared team will be working the room to activate and facilitate conversations so everyone can enjoy the ride. Who : NetSquared and other Community Organizers. When : 9:00 a.m.

NTC 126

NTC Netsquared NGO API 126

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. The panel picker process just opened - so you can vote yes or no for the panels you think are worthy of being on the program or not until September 4th. In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely. Submitted by Sarah Davies.

Comment 95

Comment Social Media Jordan Cancer 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

The newswires were filled with stories about Google/YouTube Marriage yesterday. The moderator, Patrick O'Heffernan, shared his thoughts based on his experience with The People Choose which is connected to Link TV and the first non-profit site to launch user-generated video as a community building process in a non profit environment.

Video 50

Video Benefit Web Vlog 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Video The AFP Nonprofit Technology blog points to a story by Jennifer Gilomen from BAVC about digital storytelling techniques and tools for nonprofits in the NPTimes. If you have a subscription to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, there is another related story called "Telling Moving Stories." And if you???re

Social Network 50

Social Network Nptech Tag Network 50

NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. The panel picker process just opened - so you can vote yes or no for the panels you think are worthy of being on the program or not until September 4th. In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely. Submitted by Sarah Davies.

Social Media 67

Social Media Nonprofit Jordan Cancer 67

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

Joitske Hulsebosch, who lives and works in Netherlands, writes a blog called " Communities of practice for development " where she writes about topics related to her work of facilitating processes at different levels; teams, groups, organizations, networks, and communities of practice. And Netsquared.

Develop 50

Develop Ghana Zambia Mali 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

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. Another thing you can try is to get people to Digg the story as they read it. I also want to thank Ken Goldstein for sharing with his network on YouTube.

Widget 50

Widget Campaign Reflection Personal 50

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I want to start, first, with a story…. Because organized efforts are based on goals and the work or process itself, it’s easy for communities to iterate or change at any time and remain flexible in the decisions and steps created towards achieving those driving goals. The first step: Identifying your community.

Library 241

Library Model Adopt Community 241

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

In our analog world we are too focused on processes that aren’t scaleable or shareable – meaning we have a lot of meetings, we write things down on paper, and when someone that wasn’t in our meeting or isn’t in our town needs to collaborate with us, we have to invest in catching them up and recreating the work we have already done.

Slides 213

Slides Nptech Digital Case Study 213

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The story combines a resource depleted Earth surviving by the international community's use of virtual worlds. The story focuses on a bright and eager 20-something-year-old who gets a job at this highly coveted place to work that offers luxuries such as free concerts, volleyball courts, and a spa. What could be better?

Ideas 77

Ideas San Francisco Asia WordPress 77

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The story combines a resource depleted Earth surviving by the international community's use of virtual worlds. The story focuses on a bright and eager 20-something-year-old who gets a job at this highly coveted place to work that offers luxuries such as free concerts, volleyball courts, and a spa. What could be better?

Ideas 47

Ideas San Francisco Asia WordPress 47

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

BB: Can you share a story of how a family's life has been changed for the better by Fair Trade? So TransFair's approach is to be patient and to be supportive of that process; to really embrace the opportunity to work with big companies in order to have a larger impact in the world. That's the flip side of it.

Nicaragua 40

Nicaragua Interview Companies Brazil 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Many organizations are keeping tabs of what is being said about their organization or programs on blogs and responding directly, telling their side of the story. Netsquared Conference Mashup Panel. Networking Insight Blog. Here's an example from the Red Cross. Discovery Exercise. Full Stop Campaign. Further Reading. Michelle Murrain.

Remix 50

Remix Professional Technorati Wiki 50

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

Storrito enables users to create Instagram and Facebook Stories on desktop/laptop computers. For mobile, see the Zoomerang app and Story Swag App. PicMonkey is an easy-to-use photo editing platform that enables users to embed text upon photos, apply watermarks, and create photo collages through a simple drag-and-drop process.

Tools 345

Tools Resource Free PDF 345

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. further reading on the process and tools you can use for curation. Use various media types to tell a single story : "Mix up the type of content you curate on your blog. information overload may be a problem. This tool includes.

Content 59

Content Linkedin Conference Netsquared 59

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

NetSquared :: netsquared.org. NetSquared in a group of volunteer leaders who host free #TechforGood in-person events every month in 120 cities worldwide. A Facebook Group for for nonprofit professionals to share ideas and advice about the best ways to use social media to share their stories. News & Stories.

Resource 279

Resource Tools Free Online 279

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

NetSquared organizer, Eli van der Giessen’s personal favorite free lightweight online image editor is PicMonkey. If you want a document to look professional with images, multi-column layout, sidebars and other design elements it’s worth moving beyond word processing to page layout. It does professional color management.

Images 56

Images Software Free Adobe 56