NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Claire Sale, NetSquared. That said, she understands the power of these tools, and relishes the opportunity to learn more. So, I turned that question to my friends and the NetSquared community, and got some really great responses that I'd like to share with you. Getting Started. Getting Social. Getting Specialized.

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Tools Skype Netsquared Bookmarking 92

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2009

This is a free web-based tool that is totally customizeable and can be used both privately or publicly.To Here are some example searches using NetSquared as the organization. Using the two tools above, you should get notified whenever a blogger uses your organization’s name or projects, etc. Getting Started. Finding Feeds.

Create 234

Create Organization Netsquared RSS 234

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Who: Speakers: Amy Sample Ward | Netsquared; Debra Askanase; Ivan Boothe. The groups will use both community organizing principles and social media tools to create an online social media campaign. When: 1:30 p.m. What: What is the basis of community organizing and why is it important to online campaigns?

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Campaign Community Online Organization 140

Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2009

TechSoup Global's NetSquared project is doing some amazing work, particularly on the use of mobile technologies and social change around the world. Here's a quick snapshot of some of the projects they're working on now: Case studies: Amy Sample Ward has posted the first in a series of NetSquared case studies on their site.

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Case Study Netsquared Registration San Jose 43

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2009

But, they are struggling with the number of options available and how to differentiate between the tools they are using. How to Participate: Blog your answer to the question either on your blog or the NetSquared blog. For directions on contributing to the NetSquared blog, click here.). Won’t you join the conversation?

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Netsquared Social Media Sample Tag 100

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. More than 3.5

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Tools Tech Map Case Study 100

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

NetSquared’s Global Community Builder , Amy Sample Ward, will be at the NTC this year to connect and collaborate with friends, colleagues and new faces in the sector. Here’s how to find Amy and connect with NetSquared. NetSquared Office Hours. View more presentations from Amy Sample ward. Net Tuesdays.

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Netsquared Slides NTC Global 100

Care2

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The session was entitled Apps and Tools to Energize your Base. This session was an interesting look around the ever-evolving universe of online and mobile tools used to mobilize people online. It delivered on exactly what it said it would: the tools and apps. Here's the recap of what I learned: Test messaging.

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Tools Stats Netsquared Info 52

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

The Social Media for Social Good collection from NTEN and NetSquared calls for your case studies in leveraging social media tools in your program work. But at NTEN and NetSquared, we know that social media is good for a lot more than raising money. Tags: case studies challenge beth kanter competition netsquared nten.

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Social Media Case Study Netsquared Examples 181

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

NetSquared’s February series exploring “Online Community Organizing” includes three different interviews; I’m really excited to participate! I’ve included my interview below, but you can also read it and join the conversation on the NetSquared blog. I definitely recommend them both!

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Community Organization Online Netsquared 179

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Net2 Think Tank Round-up: Creating Awesome Video | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – "For this month's Net2 Think Tank we asked you to share your tools and tactics for creating effective video messages – regardless of budget and organization size.

Web 175

Web Romania Indiana San Francisco 175

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

Especially with the increased use of social media tools to help community building activity around causes or specific organizations. Where are they: which platforms or tools do they use and when do they use them? Don’t ever go for a new, shiny, cool social media platform or tool simply because you’ve heard others talking about.

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Case Study Community Impact Studies 117

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 3, 2010

Social media tools work because they are powered by people, and people are social. My work with NetSquared and with Social by Social has helped shape so many of my beliefs about community organizing and has offered the opportunity to meet so many others doing it well. What tools have been most unsuccessful? How to Participate.

Local 145

Local Community Organization Netsquared 145

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2010

Those social media tools, along with dozens of others, have been used to help family and friends locate one another , to direct food, clothing and medical support to specific locations, and to help direct rescue workers to individuals alive and trapped under rubble. Submit your Social Media for Social Good story today!

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Social Media Change Haiti Social 135

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 18, 2011

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Sometimes what you want to do and the tools at your disposal just don’t match, though. NetSquared Challenges (slide 27) – [link]. Community sourcing vs Crowdsourcing. Definitions. Let’s start at the beginning. What do all these words even mean? When it isn’t a fit.

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Difference Community Case Study Slides 276

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Using tools that allow reposting, sharing, emailing and so on will give anyone the options they want to push your content around the web for you. Sometimes what you want to do and the tools at your disposal just don’t match. (We’ll put up more notes after the session, too!).

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Community Case Study Haiti Social Media 207

Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2011

This post originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog and was authored by Amy Sample Ward. Peter Deitz is a long-time member and contributor in the NetSquared (and TechSoup) community; he started the NetSquared Montreal group and his Social Actions project was a winner in the 2008 N2Y3 Mashup Challenge.

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API Action Open Web 58

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.

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Summary Nptech Tag Tools 50

Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2010

The Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) is here again and team members from NetSquared and TechSoup Global will be busy presenting, sharing, and connecting in Atlanta, and hopefully with you! Members of the NetSquared and TechSoup content and community teams will also be using Twitter and blogs during the event.

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NTC Netsquared Share Atlanta 43

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2010

This panel will discuss realistic metrics and benchmarks any organization can use in their campaigns and ensure that your using the right strategies and tools to listen and engage your audiences on different social networks. Johnson of the Advertising Research Foundation and Tara Hunt, author of the Whuffie Factor.

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Blogher ROI Slideshare Free 107

NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. [Ed. This is a free web-based tool that is totally customizeable and can be used both privately or publicly.To Here are some example searches using NetSquared as the organization. note: This article is part of NTEN's Member Appreciation Month spectacular. You can read all the details here. ].

Create 72

Create Netsquared Organization Feeds 72

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

This is a guest post from Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared’s Global Community Development Manager.&#. I don’t necessarily want to call for the communities on MySpace or on ideablob to call for the return of the tools. Do you know what the plans are for the tools you are using? What’s Next. How can this work?

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Myspace Causes Philanthropy Offline 108

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. Check out the predictions for 2009 from NetSquared community members: Channing’s predictions cover a wide range of areas from cell phones saving lives to our boards going online. We had a great collection of contributions this month. Thanks to everyone who contributed this month!

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Netsquared Phone Collaboration Mobile 100

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. Second Place: $15,000. At clinics that serve about 1.2

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Mobile Malawi Netsquared San Jose 36

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. Change the Web Challenge is about building innovative tools to help people find and share opportunities to take action on the Web sites, blogs, and social networks that we all visit every day. “We want you to dream up a new tool to help people find and share actions.

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Action Challenge Web Change 100

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

I think this is a hard concept for many to agree with because of the process by which the social media tools are most often adopted in organizations: for example, Jane really likes taking pictures and usually posts them to Flickr (an online photo sharing website) as a way to store them, sort them, and share them.

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Roles Review Change Social 100

Tech Soup

JANUARY 15, 2010

This post was written by Amy Sample Ward and was originally posted on the NetSquared Blog. The third Digital Media and Learning Competition , from the MacArthur Foundation, is now accepting applications. Submissions close January 22, 2010. Learn more and apply today!

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Application Digital Open Learning 43

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Late last night (or early this morning), Amy Sample Ward reported that Causes notified 184,725 users that its MySpace app will be removed from MySpace as of today. Photo by Billie Hara. The email encouraged MySpace users of Causes to join the cause on Facebook. . One wonders what the motivation was ?

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Myspace Relationship Causes Fundraising 91

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Representing TechSoup Global are CEO Marnie Webb , community leaders Susan Tenby and Megan Keane , NetSquared community builder Amy Sample Ward , NetSquared alumna Britt Bravo , and former board member Lucy Bernholz. Tools Social Networking Using the Web and Internet. I'm proud to work with such influential, smart women.

Technology 43

Technology Netsquared Sample Social Network 43

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 30, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. With so many tools out there, and different options for individuals and other organizations to engage with you, how do you manage it all? Below are a few simple thoughts of my own: Use the social media tools that are appropriate for your work and that will connect you to your target audience.

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San Francisco Netsquared Flickr Myspace 100

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 31, 2009

Now in its fourth year, NetSquared continues to encourage dialogue among people working at the intersection of technology and progressive change initiatives. Challenges are an excellent way of spurring discussion, highlighting innovative ideas, and catalysing collaboration around new tools. How to participate: Submit an idea!

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Challenge Mobile Netsquared Project 100

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2009

How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live - TIME - There's a great article in Time about Twitter, and what the community of Twitter users has done to make the tool more than first meets the eye. "In Find me on Delicious for more! "In short, the most fascinating thing about Twitter is not what it's doing to us.

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Netsquared Web Bookmarking Delicious 100

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

In this post, we hope to voice many of the tools, resources, and tactics that have been shared, in hopes of encouraging others around the world to get involved with the digital relief efforts." In the weeks that have followed, Ichi’s e-mail provoked a series of responses from all over the world.

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Web Disaster Japan Org 114

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

In a post from Amy Sample Ward last week, we let you know that many of our team would be parading down the peninsula to Mountain View, California to Microsoft's campus for a summit of great technologists, innovators, funders, practioners, corporate partners, librarians, and leaders all to talk about technology and social change.

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Global California Netsquared Sample 60

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

Last month, Joe Solomon shared on the NetSquared Blog what he hopes is our reflection on 2011 a year from now, focused on a year full of empowering and harnessing organizers. Find and talk to others using the same tools. We can learn a whole lot from each other. But I hope we can go deeper both in what we share and how we listen.

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Change Technology Build Social 123

NTEN

MARCH 5, 2010

The March 501 Tech Club in NYC will be a panel on " Texting for Good: Trends, Tools, and Tips for Nonprofits " with Katrin Verclas (MobileActive) , Jed Alpert (MobileCommons) , and George Weiner (DoSomething.org). Deborah Elizabeth Finn announced the prototype of a tool that will search and. Full details and RSVP here.

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NTEN Massachusetts Seattle Boston 56

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

For many developers, including many of the projects we funded through NetSquared Challenges, the ultimate tool or application that was created was vastly different than the one they originally thought of or thought would work. We can’t only invest in a product. Instead, we should put the problems first and invest in a project.

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Philanthropy Social Media Media Social 244