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. Essentially as soon as I can get it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2008

I've been following Peter's work since October 2006, when I first discovered Peter's research on group giving when he introduced himself on Netsquared. All the campaign information is included in the Sprout widget and you can click to make a donation of $20.09. He has identified nine goals for 2009. or $200.09.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared (where Ushahidi won its first challenge!). The platform also provides a lot of nice little extras, like widgets you can put on your site that link to your fundraising page as well as SEO tools. Like CauseVox, Razoo also offers widgets for your Facebook page, website, or blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

Change bloggers have some excellent tools at their disposal, like Social Actions widget which makes it possible for any wired passionate soul to highlight causes on the social web. This fall, DC will be one of 35 cities visited by NetSquared???s s Alex Steed. s touring the U.S., meeting with millennial activists about ???the

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared. The platform also provides a lot of nice little extras, like widgets you can put on your site that link to your fundraising page as well as SEO tools. Like CauseVox, Razoo also offers widgets for your Facebook page, website, or blog. where Ushahidi won its first challenge!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

When I visited his site, I noticed that he had some widgets, including a message comment line. We got into some back and forth email about widgets and he was kind of enough to give me a really useful critique of one of my videos. Britt Bravo, Netsquared Post. Additional Resources: Save the Internet. Neutraility Now!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

Developers who are more experienced can create customized scripts and widgets on their site to accommodate the needs of their users. Users can import their Flickr photos from their account and promote their profile pages and widgets on Facebook. Ning is also very flexible. You can even use your own custom URL! t that bad.

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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

JULY 20, 2007

I'm not sure if Christine obsesses about her technorati rating, but she sure does care about blog search widgets and has found something even better than the technorati widget. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Do you follow your blog's technorati? Google Aps.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2009

Amy Sample Ward of Netsquared and Amy Sample Ward's Version of NPTech. A first-of-its-kind Twitter widget that tracks tweets about nonprofits or social causes in real time. A Causes widget that points to charitable actions and donations on other sites such as Global Giving and Facebook Causes. John Haydon of johnhaydon.com.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2008

We have to spend time on the (blog, podcast, Facebook page, Twitter, wiki, fundraising widget etc.). Cross-posted from NetSquared. If your staff is saying, "Aaargh! What a pain!" You may need to pick a new tool, provide more training, or ask yourself, how can we have more fun using these tools? net2 nptech Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

Comment, Blog it, tag it NpTech, and/or start a blog over at the Netsquared site. Good article from the New York Times about widgets, " Some Bling for Your Blog " and a post on the Yahoo Blog about social media meets fundraising. Cross posted at Netsquared Have an opinion on any of these topics? Change the World!

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

As I mentioned in my post about " extra-organizational activists" , there are bloggers out there who would love to raise money for your cause: Beth Kanter raised $800 for the Sharing Foundation using the ChipIn widget plus her blog , social networks, Flickr and video in 26 days. weeks using her food blog and an online auction.

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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 " She points to an interesting web widget from SunLight Labs which adds mini-profiles with links to Member of Congress to your blog or web page when you mouseover the link.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

I originally wrote this post for the NetSquared Blog. One of the most popular tools for raising money on blogs are fundraising widgets like ChipIn , Network for Good and Global Giving. Earlier in the month I taught a Nonprofit Blogging 101 workshop at the 2008 Making Media Connections Conference. How do you increase traffic?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Steve Bridger posted a pointer over at Netsquared to his thoughts on "Buzz Director." Recently, my friends on the other side of the pond were talking about what skills sets/job roles nonprofits need in-house to take advantage of social media strategies ( here , here , and here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

" If your organization is using social media, perhaps you've been wondering how to measure or whether if you can even measure "embeds" (that cut and paste script for videos, badges, widgets, and the like). Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Q: What is the best way to acquire or create a widget for a Facebook or MySpace page? Emily : It makes sense to work with partners such as Buddy Media , ClearSpring or Gigya , who are adept marketers and makers of widgets for many advertisers for both MySpace and Facebook. Beth : See [link].

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 16, 2007

Change.org , the social network where users can find like-minded do-gooders based on shared issues that they want to change, or nonprofits that they support, has launched a fundraising widget (pictured left). The widget can be placed on a blog, MySpace, Facebook, or a website. Cross-posted from the NetSquared blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

There's also a lot of talk in the nonprofit blog space prompted by a recent Netsquared ThinkTank and some great thinking on the topic, particularly by Wendy Harmon of the Red Cross, mostly focused on ROI. The widgetization of the web will only accelerate this." This eliminates the need to click from one page to another.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Charity Badges, Widgets, Virtual World Fundraising and More. Change.org now also sports a widget. Britt Bravo asks us to encourage people we know working on a social impact technology project to nominate their project for Netsquared Innovation Fund Award. Traditional offline/online fundraising techniques still, of course, work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Marshall Kirkpatrick, longtime Netsquared blogger, is now working with Splashcast also at DEMO 07 this week. Check out this splashcast channel with a nonprofit theme created by Netsquared Blogger, Britt Bravo. Wikis, Widgets and Social Networking Do you think there are too many freaking widgets ?

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