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

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. Meanwhile, a few scholarly articles on the topic. Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job.

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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 " Tags: roundup bookmarks. These are some links I wanted to share from June 8th. Find me on Delicious for more!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! " There's also another article on a similar theme that focuses on the describing the problem -- or why nonprofits, designers, and techies can't talk to each other. There's a good round up of links to blog posts and articles by other nonprofit techies and SEO mavens. re working with???something

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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. Also, be sure to read Sean's summary of a recent article in the Wall Street Journal about how a new generation is reinventing fundraising. young people???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

WSJ article " Will Social Features Make Email Sexy Again? The article describes some mock ups and feature under consideration at Yahoo. Social Networking Fundraising Success article describing how different nonprofit organizations are using social networking sites to tap into a whole generation of new supporters.

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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 ? An article called Free Software, Handpicked for Nonprofits by Tactical Technology Collective and iCommons just published on Techsoup. nonprofit technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. Nonetheless, he had to write an article. He suggests starting with the context here and then read his article.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today. Where's the conference tag?

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Article: NetSquared and the new wave of online volunteering. Tags: events 4change chat twitter volunteer volunteering. Blog: Brave New World for Volunteering. Blog: Sacrifice, optional and about other people (defining volunteering). Blog: The Extraordinaries: Will micro-volunteering work? Recruiting volunteers online.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Article: NetSquared and the new wave of online volunteering. Tags: events 4change chat twitter volunteer volunteering. Blog: Brave New World for Volunteering. Blog: Sacrifice, optional and about other people (defining volunteering). Blog: The Extraordinaries: Will micro-volunteering work? Recruiting volunteers online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

This articles provides some excellent tips and strategies for a successful group approach to blogging. Tag your post with "net2thinktank." The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

The tagging discussion included an action learning exercise where we shared a lot of resources about tagging as well as explored the discovery aspect of delicious. group" about tagging and social-bookmarking. What central tag to use to get an item noticed? What tags to use to describe items, who decides this?

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DECEMBER 24, 2009

UnConference and holiday discount | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – NonProfit 2.0 " Tags: roundup 2009 bookmarks casestudies conference corporations data funding list marketing nptech postalicious resources socialentrepreneurs socialmedia technology tools wiki. NonProfit 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

There are 18 articles. 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. This is a must-read.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2009

The Boston Globe published an article in September, subtitled, “Billions of dollars and a Nobel Prize later, it looks like ‘microlending’ doesn’t actually do much to fight poverty.&# " – I'm interested to hear what you all think about this issue, especially now during the 'giving season.'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2006

The triggers: A blog conversation on Jilliane's Smith blog that became a community blog conversation about nonprofit tagging on netsquared. and Communities of Practice Conference where this article/visual was shared clearly outlining the differences and predicting some hybrids of the two. What do you think?

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. [Ed. note: This article is part of NTEN's Member Appreciation Month spectacular. Here are some example searches using NetSquared as the organization. Tag your post with “net2thinktank” and email a link to us to be included. The most popular pieces will be featured in our newsletter.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. For more details from our recent work here, including video, photos and more in-depth coverage of all about the work we’ve been up to in Tanzania on the “I <3 Epic Change&# Blog created by theLacProject and in a recent article in the Huffington Post.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. For more details from our recent work here, including video, photos and more in-depth coverage of all about the work we’ve been up to in Tanzania on the “I <3 Epic Change&# Blog created by theLacProject and in a recent article in the Huffington Post.

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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 If you still think online games are entertainment only, than read this article about how video games will reshape education policy. Full report here )

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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.) . This month's NetSquared (a project of TechSoup Global ) Think Tank topic is on effective social media policies. Tags: community buzz NPTech NTEN nten members. their nptech awesome.

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JANUARY 22, 2010

Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . Allyson Kapin writes up an article for the Care2 blog about the impact of mobile fundraising for the Red Cross (txt "Haiti" to 90999 to send $10!) Members are in bold.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

Tag your posts and news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help me find your stories online!). Nancy Schwartz is helping nonprofits do it right: how long has it been since you've considered your organization's tag line? Tags: community buzz nonprofit technology NPTech NTEN nten members. Does it even have one?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

I met “ichi&# virtually when he let me know about a Netsquared Japan meet up featuring the Networked Nonprofit. Jane Wales offered a few counter arguments to the Gladwell article in the New Yorker riffing off some ideas in the Networked Nonprofit. Tags: Housekeeping. Thoughtful Posts and Reviews of the Networked Nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

As a result, I'm publishing a briefer than usual edition of the NpTech Tag Summary because I can only get to fast loading blogs and web sites. TechSoup has just published a thoughtful article from Idealware that raises the question, " Should Your Organization Use Social Networking Sites ?" in the NpTech Tag stream.

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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. NTEN's September Newsletter has tons of excellent content, in particular check out these articles about new fundraising techniques using tools like mobile phones and Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

In December, Fast Company published an article called " The Most Influential Women in Web 2.0 " featuring about a dozen amazing women who work in the Web 2.0 Amy Sample Ward writes a blog about nonprofit technology and social media and is the community builder for Netsquared. Tags: nptech. Holly Ross. Rachel Weidinger.

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JULY 7, 2009

This article was originally posted on Amy Sample Ward’s Version of NPTech at [link] by Amy Sample Ward: Amy is a communicator, collaborator and catalyst in the tech for good sector and the Global Community Builder at NetSquared. Tags: guest blogging RSS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

" and reflecting on a recent article in Wired. An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared. Travis August tags this announcement from TechSmith, makers of SnagIt and Camtasia, about Mac development. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week. NpTech Software.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

LOLnptech Lot's of member news and activity online this week, so, in the order that I ran across them: NTEN member organization United Nations Foundation was mentioned in a Forbes article discussing ways nonprofits are raising money in tough times. Tags: NPTech nonprofit technology community buzz nten members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2005

I missed the post about flickr use by MoveOn on netsquared when I was in London earlier this month. Just tracked down the original article, The Best $24.95 The article describes how MoveOn is experimenting with flickr, believed to be the first political campaign to make use of flickr. MoveOn Ever Spent: Flickr via Jon Stahl.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2006

Britt Bravo over at Netsquared found an excellent post via the net2 tag entitled " Why Nonprofits Should Blog." Technorati Tags: nten , nptech , net2 " The post was written by Whitney Smith of the nonprofit, Girls for a Change , a client of Voce Communications. More on that later.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Two nptech events were visible in the NpTech tag stream, the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life Launch Party and the Net2 meetup in Houston.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

In our session at NetSquared today, we used Social Actions as a case study in engaging online community participation, and shared two strategy tools that can help you make your nonprofit site more engaging. For NetSquared community members only, our engagement opportunity finder package is $500 when you book online (value: $1,000).

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DECEMBER 17, 2005

The photo on the left is my contribution to the netsquared iwantchange group. For more information about Sweatshop Free Cambodia: NY Times Article about Cambodia garment industry Sweatshop Free Campaign Post about Rachel Louise Snyder This American Life Radio piece by Synder Article on Salon by Rachel Louise Synder.

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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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