Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 20, 2009

Edward Harran is a blogger and nonprofit technologist I have connected with through NetSquared, this blog, and of course Twitter. He is based in Australia, a far way from San Francisco. Thus, I was left with two options: one, to let the award go; or two, put my creative brain to use and launch a campaign to raise the funds.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2014

She recently shared her social media and community-building wisdom at an event organized by the SF Tech4Good group and the San Francisco Online Community Meetup Group. They also work with celebrity speakers, volunteers, and a large online community to raise awareness and support action to end human trafficking. Learn More.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2016

This year's #16NTC Nonprofit Technology Conference is in San Jose, right around the corner from TechSoup's San Francisco office. 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? 7:00 p.m.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Maria Ogneva, director of community at Yammer, spoke at a San Francisco online community event about how to make your organization go social. 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.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Six Sudsy Soapmaker Blogs And 2 interviews on The Extraordinaries blog: Chat with an Extraordinary: Lauren Bacon of Raised Eyebrow Web Studio Chat with an Extraordinary: Jimmy Santosa of Applied Materials And 6 news posts on the WE Volunteer blog: Love Making Videos? Become a YouTube Video Volunteer Is Volunteering Good for Your Health?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

Pie Ranch is a Bay Area nonprofit that teaches urban youth about food and farming: "We have planted wheat for pie crusts and berries for filling, and are raising bees for honey, goats for milk and chickens for eggs on a 14-acre parcel above the historic Steele Ranch at Green Oaks Creek.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 11, 2006

That's how much food blogger, Pim Techamuanvivit of Chez Pim , raised for UNICEF in 2005. This year she is hoping to raise $25,000 for the UN World Food Programme. They raised $2,000 for the Red Cross. In 2005, 80 food bloggers were involved in the campaign, and together they raised $17,000 for UNICEF.

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OCTOBER 16, 2007

Last week, at NetSquared's San Francisco Net Tuesday Meetup, Steve Miller, Product Manager, Google Earth Outreach spoke to a room of 50+ social changemakers and web innovators about how nonprofits can use Google Earth Outreach for their work. Full disclosure: I am NetSquared's Community Builder.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Example: When Kjerstin Erickson, Founder of FORGE, blogged about her organization's struggles on Social Edge , she received an outpouring of support, plus stories in the San Francisco Chronicle and Wall Street Journal. post office line, doctor's appt.) as examples of when you could be using their micro-volunteer iPhone application.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2006

" Before CompuMentor, she worked for a medical library at the San Francisco General Hospital where her job responsibilities included conducting Medline searches for patients and doctors. For three months, Susan Tenby and two other colleagues responsible for preparing content for the TechSoup launch, lived on candy.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2016

But first I'm going to show off on behalf of our NetSquared organizers. The NetSquared organizers' events help TechSoup deliver on our shared mission of ensuring that civil society has the tools and skills necessary to use technology effectively. But I'm not the only one singing the praises of the NetSquared organizers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 16, 2007

If you are in the Bay Area, you can hear Ben talk more about Change.org at San Francisco's Net Tuesday on April 10th. Cross-posted from the NetSquared blog. With the creation of so many new social networks and networking tools, it will be interesting to see which ones will rise to the top and which will fall away. Pretty cool.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

Nonprofits, faith-based organizations, libraries, and networks such as the NetSquared Local should be leading this movement as they are already committed to social good. A deeper look at AirBnb’s Shared City Initiative with Portland raises questions. AirBnB tells us… that.… … They Like Cities.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

I moved to San Francisco. Raise your hand if you have heard of or had at any point been inspired by Hillary Clinton. Raise your hand if you have heard of or have at any time been inspired by Lois Gibbs. Raise your hand if you have heard of or have been inspired by Vandana Shiva.

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