Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

Rapid advances in digital media and technology are changing how we connect to information and each other. 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."

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2011

From there we were inspired to scale social good through technology. Our experience in Uganda helped us see how valuable technology and fundraising is to creating change. Non-profits are on the front lines, and we want to support them through technology. “Technology is hard to use&#.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 3, 2009

Love & Devices | BlogHer - Susan Mernit has a wonderful piece on BlogHer about her "connection" (not addiction) to technology. N2Y4 Conference Volunteers | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org - Looking for a way to come to the N2Y4 Conference? As she says, "If you are dating me, you ARE dating my devices."

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2013

Flickr: chotda This week''s Member Round Up draws from all corners of the sector in both region and topic, from the energy in the streets of Brazil to Facebook contests and assistive technology used by the Bridge School--see what the nptech community''s been up to! Read about their inspiring work in a recent TechSoup Global interview.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

I’ve been involved with TechSoup/Netsquared Network since its inception back six years ago and so it is nice to be part of the narrative arc. His welcome was followed by remarks from Akhtar Badshah who reminded us that technology disruption is our friend.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

TechSoup has been working since the 1980s to help nonprofits develop their technology capacity. During the early days of our Netsquared project , we held big annual conferences to showcase and fund innovative tech for good. Ushahidi's David Kobia was named Humanitarian of the Year in 2010 by the MIT Technology Review.

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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. VozMob: Mobile Voices/Voces Moviles. About NetSquared.

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NTEN

MARCH 5, 2010

Avencia has become Azavea : same GIS technology and web and mobile geo-spatial services and software development, but with a new name ! This month's NetSquared (a project of TechSoup Global ) Think Tank topic is on effective social media policies. NPower Seattle welcomed a new Executive Director : Alison Carl White.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Communities on both platforms were clearly not part of the development and communications process, yet they were actively using the platform (for example, a grant from ideablob helped Epic Change implement a technology lab in a school in Tanzania ). The more voices the better! How can this work?

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 5, 2009

Why it matters that the patient voice is heard by the medical community. years “in business,” this is my personal challenge/resolution for 2009: I want to take the technology we already have and use it to help C3 focus our attention on our constituents and supporters as effectively as we focus on what we do to fight colorectal cancer.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

I wanted to use today to focus in on a question recently posed by my good friend Joe Solomon on Twitter : What are the nonprofit/orgs that are working 2 wire the green movement, like what @ netsquared does 4 nonprofits, @ sunfoundation for politics; which orgs are working to expose data, leverage soc media, connect the orgs together?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

This post was authored by Vanessa Rhinesmith and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. utilize technology to develop solutions to social challenges. technological solution. 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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

J-ResQ allows anyone in a disaster situation to easily record and send a voice message and email from their mobile phone, telling friends and family about their status. Visit TechSoup's Disaster Planning and Recovery page for tips on planning for and managing your technology in a disaster situation. Photo: Lee Maguire.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2013

It originally appeared on NetSquared. However the search is still on in communities around the world for legal frameworks, ethical guidelines and technology solutions that preserve data privacy. According to him, Markets For Good has a flawed understanding of beneficiaries as primarily consumers of information.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 6, 2005

As I mentioned in my November 3rd post , I am working as a Community Builder with NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup. You can hear last month's speakers, Chris Messina from Flock , CompuMentor's Marnie Webb and yours truly, on the NetSquared Channel on Odeo. I'm double blogging right now, here and on the NetSquared blog.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. Now we have technology catching up with our responses times. How can we do that?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Women Who Tech brings together talented and renowned women breaking new ground in technology who use their tech savvy skills to transform the world and inspire change. Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Also posted on the Frogloop blog for nonprofits here. The sessions are short (only 50 minutes!) Read the full case study here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

For social media and technology predictions, here's a few from the Read/Write Web. Britt Bravo at NetSquared summarized a community discussion about the "Best of the Nonprofit Social Web. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. bubble would burst. And if you???re

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Example: The Environmental Defense Fund's blog, Climate 411 , "is the voice of the experts at Environmental Defense Fund, providing plain-English explanations of climate change science, technology, policy, and news." One way to build trust is to write with an authentic and personal voice on your organization's blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

without becoming slaves to technology. Small dots is an advocate for technology in the arts. " -- the poll was done with mp3 files and so you can hear their voices. Graphing Social Patterns is a conference devoted to the business and technology of Facebook taking place next week in Silicon Valley. mean for you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

That was the conversation in the nonprofit, nonprofit technology, and social change social media space. nonprofit technology thought leader Marnie Webb created the NpTech Tag as a way for nonprofit techies to share bookmarks on del.icio.us. Should there be a nonprofit and social change category on Digg? Digg it here ). And if you???re

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

The app also has a voice-activated search. Elijah van der Giessen, NetSquared Community Manager. Their team of journalists pull together a politics and technology news feed that condenses the essential information of the day and makes easy to look at on the small screen. Yelp – for restaurant and other reviews.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

Otter uses Ambient Voice Intelligence to transcribe meetings, Zoom calls, and conversations into searchable notes that can be easily shared. Ghostery helps you browse smarter by giving you control over ads and tracking technologies to speed up page loads, eliminate clutter, and protect your data. NetSquared :: netsquared.org.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

San Francisco NetSquared (Net2) kicked off its 2012 Meetup line up with Craig Newmark , of Craigslist and craigconnects , who talked about using technology for the common good. Newmark also spoke at length about the potential for good created by technology, why it matters and how anyone can contribute.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

The Sharing Economy -- the use of networked, often mobile, information technology to share goods and services -- offers nonprofits new possibilities for innovation and efficiency along with new paradigms to move from scarcity to abundance. We, as nonprofits, have the power and the numbers to make our voices heard.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Ghostery helps you browse smarter by giving you control over ads and tracking technologies to speed up page loads, eliminate clutter, and protect your data. NetSquared :: netsquared.org. NetSquared in a group of volunteer leaders who host free #TechforGood in-person events every month in 120 cities worldwide. NTEN :: nten.org.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

You can use different technologies for these things, as easy or as difficult as you want. A blog was really perfect for me, because first of all, it was a very casual voice -- it's not very formal. So for me, I actually often pick my parents [when writing about technology], because they have dial-up, and they're not very tech-savvy.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2005

One of the reasons I am so excited about the work I am doing with NetSquared is because I think that these new web-based tools, especially podcasts, are an incredible way for nonprofits to get the word out about their causes, especially when they are listened to through headphones. You feel close to them and their cause.

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