Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 30, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. For example, you don’t need to spend an abundance of time on MySpace if the service doesn’t match the demographic you’re wanting to reach. Develop a unique strategy and voice for each service, based on your research into the strengths and limitations of each tool.

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JULY 5, 2011

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog. Using the social web to market your cause, communicate your services, and interact with your audience is an important part of the. post a question or topic to the NetSquared community and participants. the perception of our organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Day Of Service View more presentations from Peter Campbell. tags: nten 09ntc ). There is always a full menu of networking sessions, affinity group meetings, conference panels, activities, and of course, The Day of Service. I participated in my first Day of Service in 2001 as a volunteer. Tags: 09ntc.

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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? The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

When a service goes down, users will complain. Also, for the past year, I've been summarizing resources being shared through the NpTech Tag, I've felt frustrated that you didn't always know who had contributed the resource and while one could add brief annotations, there was not a space for conversation around those shared items.

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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.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. Allan Benamer weighs in with some observations after wading through the comments over at the Netsquared site and pointing to Holden from GiveWell to be the most salient point. The media here IS the service. Freecharity.org.uk

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2009

Donate yours to a medical clinic in a developing country today - "HopePhones, a new campaign, launched today that enables anyone to provide health services to those in the developing world – by donating your old cell phones! " Tags: roundup bookmarks. HopePhones.org | Old phones save lives. " - Joe Solomon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! No problem, I dug into the NpTech + Digg tag archives and pulled out this terrific Beginner's Guide To Digg. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week. NpTech Conversations. And if you???re

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Tech Soup

JUNE 16, 2010

This post was originally published on the NetSquared Blog and was written by Claire Sale. The 2010 National Conference on Volunteering and Service (NCVS) is June 28-30 in New York City. The NCVS conference is an opportunity for volunteer and service leaders to get together for in-person networking and learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? New Blogs Yes, Tobias Eigen blogs and we've just discovered his blog in the NpTech Tag stream. Privaterra blog showed up in the tag stream. nonprofit technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Netsquared Net Tuesday next week in SF is about " How Nonprofits Can Use And Build Online Social Networks ," featuring speakers from Change.org and Ning. over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. Tagged with a footnote Marnie Webb notes "What do you think of the survey O'Reilly points to? Found via this post tagged nptech by Meghan. " I agree.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

" NYC Startup CatchAFire.org Launches Site To Match Skilled Volunteers And Charities – "Catchafire.org, a service to find and match volunteers with professional skills and charitable organizations in need of their help, will open its website to the public today after about a year in private beta testing."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Jason at DIA tagged it with this note: "The most universal piece of advice about using social networks for fundraising and friendraising is to start small." It's created a line of hardware (ultra low-power computers) and open source software turnkey solutions and installation and support services. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Tag your post with "net2thinktank." Policing Social Media These two items were both found in the nptech tag stream: Due to a new wiki launched by New Zealand police, members of the public can now contribute to the drafting of a new law. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

UnConference and holiday discount | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – NonProfit 2.0 MyBlogLog is a service that shows blog writers and readers the faces and profile information of other MyBlogLog users that visit their sites." NonProfit 2.0 Unconference is coming to Washington, D.C.,

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NOVEMBER 2, 2005

Today, Mark is the manager of TechSoup's NetSquared initiative, a project designed to make sure the non-for-profit sector gets involved early and actively with the newest tools and trends in internet technology. And once we got through catching up, I admitted to him that I was just a bit perplexed about the NetSquared project.

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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. If members ask a question on Twitter, respond on Twitter, and so on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

In response to this post by Seth Godin on nonprofits and social media, I repeat what I said three years ago over at the Netsquared Community. It's what I wrote in 2006, when Godin slammed nonprofits for not using his Web service, Squidoo. Tags: change management.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

I still think this is one of the most dynamic opportunities that nonprofit organizations have now, providing a way to be more than a source, a service, or a membership. Because the difference isn’t in using the tools per se, we all have the same functionality to upload, tag, comment, etc. Tag your blog with “net2thinktank”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2010

Hosted by NetSquared. The 2010 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. Tags: Networked Nonprofit Promotions book santa cruz workshop. Free Webinar with Care2. Details here. June 21, 2010. 1-2 PM/PST. 4-5 PM/EST. Virtual Book Launch. Details here. June 22, 2010. 12-2 PM PST. San Francisco Book Party. Brown Bag Lunch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Marshall goes on to quote an interview he did with Peter Cashmore from Mashable on Netsquared who questioned whether MySpace was a place for "social media for social good.". These services are useful, and can help your organization advance its mission, but it's not accountable to you — and you need to have other options.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

This post is cross-posted on my personal blog and on the NetSquared Blog. Tags: Digital Divide Donors Fundraising Online Fundraising Online Fundraising Running Your Organization Social Networking Telecom Services Using the Web and Internet Volunteers Web 2.0

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Claire Sale, NetSquared. 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. Start with a simple service - my Grandmother likes AOL, but I'd also recommend gmail - and focus on the bare necessities (subject line, body, send button).

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. [Ed. This free service from Google let’s you identify key words, phrases, or URLs that you want to track. Here are some example searches using NetSquared as the organization. Tag your post with “net2thinktank” and email a link to us to be included. You can read all the details here. ].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 A new service called Qunu that uses IM to match people who have software or tech-related questions with experts who are passionate and willing to help.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2010

I've kind of become an open-data geek in the past few months, largely thanks to NetSquared's unconference at NTC. He compared the traditional idea of government to a vending machine: you pay your taxes into the machine, and various services come out of it. Tim O'Reilly painted a breathtaking picture of the future of government.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Microsoft acquired Skype last year so the voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service has a brand new look for Windows 8. You can't tag and sync notes, however. The app version of SkyDrive , Microsoft's cloud storage service lets you store and view any file from your PC via a Start screen tile.

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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. I am also a big supporter of Edurelief, NetSquared, SocialActions, ConnectingUp- organisations tthat are are showing how social action and technology converge. Tags: fundraising longtail 09ntc.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Speaker: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. The idea of collaboration in this sense can manifest in many ways: adapting strategies to work collaboratively, leveraging platforms that allow for collaboration across organizational lines, creating new and larger demand for open products and services.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

The message explained that Causes would be focusing on only providing service to the Facebook platform, encouraging any MySpace users that wanted to continue using the application to migrate, too. That doesn’t mean NetSquared’s perfect, by any measure, but it does mean that a quick abandonment isn’t in store.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Marnie Webb (who appears to be blogging a bit more these days since she switched to a MAC ) tagged an interesting article from the Wall Journal that asks " Is there a numerical cap on how many friends we can have? So, I have no idea why this page was tagged with NpTech. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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NTEN

MARCH 5, 2010

Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . Avencia has become Azavea : same GIS technology and web and mobile geo-spatial services and software development, but with a new name ! Members are in bold. available March 4th. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2006

One of the breakout sessions at The Netsquared Conference was on Tagging in the Nonprofit World at that session blogher Holly Ross of N-TEN asked a question. "How can we use tagging to make social change, not just organize our own work." Recruit other tagvocates for their tag(s).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There's a roundup of coverage on his Netsquared blog , including pointers to live blog posts like this one. More from Britt Bravo on Netsquared blog. It's an open source free web meeting service. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. It isn't dumb dumb. And if you???re

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