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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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Ushahidi , winner of the 2008 NetSquared Challenge first attracted widespread attention for their work aggregating and mapping real-time reports from victims and relief workers in the violent aftermath of the 2007 Presidential election (see Ushahidi's legacy page for an archived version of this amazing tool). read more.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Divided into three sections, it began with a look at the importance of text messaging by Jessica Bosanko of M+R Strategic Services , then went to apps and tools, discussed by Shana Glickfield of the Beekeeper Group and then wrapped up nicely by Amy Sample Ward of NetSquared who discussed measurement; both what and how.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

NetSquared DC organized a panel discussion on Engagement Strategy: Empowering Champions* and Influencers* on November 3, 2015, to delve into this question. NetSquared DC Engagement Strategies Panelists — Maddie Grant, Andrew Nachison, and Dale Pfeifer (left to right). Brand it and test it. The panelists included.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 12, 2008

Beth Kanter Although I've known Beth Kanter for a long time, and we write for BlogHer and NetSquared together, I've never heard her present until today when she gave the keynote at the 2008 Making Media Connections Conference. This post was originally written for the NetSquared Blog Flickr photo credit: Test Tube Flowers by Casey Yancey.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

The Digital Public Library of America held a hackathon to test the prototype DPLA platform and build apps for it. NetSquared can help! For example, Victoria Walker, an 11-year-old from California, designed Rode Dog , a clever app designed to stop texting and driving. Library Hackathons.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

And the Winners Are… After a few weeks of coding, sourcing ideas, and testing public interest, the projects were again open to the public for voting. TechSoup Global and NetSquared attended hackathons across the country—from Hawaii to Vermont—that tackled local, statewide, and national civic issues.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

TechSoup's NetSquared Initiative partnered with the HRC in the first conference The Soul of the New Machine in 2009 to help select a winner in their Mobile Challenge. Last week in Berkeley, California the Human Rights Center, with the support of sponsors like the John D. & Catherine T.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Ivan Booth is doing a meet up and live stream for the Philly Netsquared meet up on August 2nd at 6:00 PM EST about Google +. Capacity building that takes an incremental approach and is a balance of strategy and action leads to capacity building that sticks. He talks about the importance of Google implementing brand pages.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2013

It originally appeared on NetSquared. Private companies are also testing the concept by actually sharing data. Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Need some comic relief? Maybe just some prayers? Welcome to the Church of Plone from LOLNPTECH. NpTech Software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

I read on Netsquared about how Creative Commons is trying to raise money with its video on Revver and am trying it out. Chipin, the fundraising widget I'm testing for my campaign, offers video integration. One of the newer entries into the video hosting game is Revver. They take 50%. And so far, I've earn like.37

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

I'll still continue to blog here during the next two weeks, but will point you over to daily guest posts on Netsquared. So, I placed my camera on some books on a table and took test shots until it was framed appropriately. Read about it here. View the vlog post about it here. Video Blogging Learning Journal. Notes on shooting yourself.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

60) Search « NetSquared DC: Beyond the Logic Puzzle | Main | Have you read your RSS feeds today? Individual organizations still should conduct their own testing to determine which day of the week works best for them, but any test should consider Friday and Sunday as viable challengers. Thats what I thought.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2007

It would also be a great way to test out the virtual philanthropy simulator ideas I wrote about earlier; or. Something like the NetSquared open call for projects that happened last month, but mapped to a virtual world. vote with their feet,??? these folks can simply fly away. More thoughts from Rik Riel here.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2016

The following blog post recaps a NetSquared Toronto presentation by Sarah Lesh, a front-end web developer at hjc. You can also test your website's responsiveness by changing the size of your browser window (for example, drag your browser window smaller and larger with your mouse). You can watch her full, in-depth presentation.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The Hacker Helper project is closely aligned with our NetSquared vision of bringing communities together to solve social problems – including nonprofits, beneficiaries, activists, technologists, concerned citizens. We are testing it out at hackathons this month in San Francisco and also in Sarajevo in Bosnia.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

One example of gaming for good is the PETA Pokemon game, which seeks to raise awareness about lab animal testing. TechSoup Taiwan discussed a few organizations that are using gaming to raise awareness about certain issues. Michael Mo, a Hong Kong social activist, spoke about creating games for social good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

DIA Blog has some great advice about HTML email testing. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Unthinkingly blog has an interesting post about computer recyclying aptly titled " The Joy of e-waste " Online Fundraising. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

Andrew Cohen shared How do you test our web site cheaply? Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Eric Johnson shared " Is Facebook Page a Complete Social Media Strategy ?" Jonathon Coleman asked "How do you know if your web content is strategic?"

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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 Allison Fine writes an Op-Ed piece on the SF Chronicle entitled " A New Bargain: YouTube Politics."

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I spoken with various libraries who, when they learned about the NetSquared Local program asked why they couldn’t participate – and I told them that of course they could! Once you come up with a plan, and you test it, you then evaluate it and rethink it, and then iterate on the plan, test it, and come back around to evaluating it.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2017

Last week, we reported on a recent NetSquared London Meetup that investigated the IT tools that can be used to operate nonprofits inexpensively and effectively. The 50-plus people who attended the recent NetSquared London Meetup all had a chance to nominate and vote for their favorite productivity tools.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 28, 2014

This is a cross-posted with permission from NetSquared ambassador Stephen Blyth's blog, Common Knowledge. Stephen is a NetSquared ambassador from Wellington, New Zealand and attended the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in March. Making time to connect with the many inspiring people involved was my top priority. Everywhere.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

In the social period, we began exploring the network – mapping it, evaluating it, testing it. In a holistic paradigm, we also recognize the tactical differences between working with our community and working beyond that. We ask for our supporters to spread our message to their communities, tapping into the network for help.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The service provides analytics, A/B testing, and mobile compatibility. NetSquared :: netsquared.org. NetSquared in a group of volunteer leaders who host free #TechforGood in-person events every month in 120 cities worldwide. OptInMonster :: optinmonster.com. SnapWidget :: snapwidget.com.

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