Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2016

TechSoup's NetSquared is the world's largest volunteer-driven network of in-person nonprofit technology training and peer support events. Check out NetSquared's year in review , and discover what topics are most popular with our attendees and how NetSquared organizers are creating communities of practice for TechSoup members.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Claire Sale, NetSquared. She now uses Google Search, reads her news online, sends and receives email, and even uses Facebook to check-in with family and friends. 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. Getting Started.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2016

Webinars are awesome, and so are blog posts. That's why each month NetSquared organizers in 60 cities across the globe host networking events for the nonprofit tech community. Search for your city on NetSquared.org to find your closest event. Austin, Texas: Google Analytics for Dummies. Toronto, Ontario: TBD.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

Just search at NetSquared.org and start leveraging tech to do more good. Toronto, Canada: Professional Blogging: Finding Your Niche in a Digital World. Check out the [blog]([link] to get a taste of our grassroots community. * **Katharine Bierce** recorded her recent [tech and philanthropy panel]([link]. Storymakers.

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2007

Move the site search up to the top right of the page, freeing up your main content area. Our good friend Alan Rosenblatt suggested having members, or donors, do a video blog of why they feel your nonprofit is important. Use the "Google Universe "to your advantage. Tailor your site to best serve this population.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Netsquared Voting Deadline Extended. Due to some technical glitches , you now have 48 additional hours to figure out what 5-10 of the 150 fantastic social change and technology projects at Netsquared will receive your vote. Allen Benamer of the Nonprofit Tech Blog says " Support Idealware !" Google Blog Search.

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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. What does it mean that one blog has three times as many users as another blog in the nonprofit tech space?

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Next week I'll be teaching a session about blogging during a nonprofit social media webinar, We Are Media, presented by NTEN. As part of my preparation, it seems like a good time to update my 2006 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Us Blogs , and my 2007 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 10, 2007

I am often asked for advice from nonprofits that want to start a blog. Read blogs. I can’t tell you how many amazing, visionary nonprofit leaders I talk to who when I ask them if they read blogs say, “I read email.” The best person to write an organization's blog is the person who is the most excited to write it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2006

Just came across this interesting example of nonprofit tagging via a blog post on netsquared by enoch choi. Dr. Choi is an individual contributor to Google Health Co-op and works on the non-profit Palo Alto Medical Foundation's tagging efforts @ Google Health Co-op as well. ve been tagging via del.icio.us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There is also a groundswell of support all over the Internet, from bloggers ( one blog at a time ) Facebook , Flickr , Online Petitions , mobile phones , and Second Life. 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.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

Last March I was on a blogging panel for an event put on by the Alliance of Technology and Women. To prepare for the panel, I wrote up 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs. You can read Steve's blog at the Eye of Bakersfield. Blogs fall under the category of "social media" because they are, well, social. So here it goes.10

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 21, 2009

Seemed like a good idea to me so I started searching around for nonprofit-related iPhone apps. meshugavi recommended the Google Mobile app for nonprofit staff to help them follow news and blogs using Google Reader. I was surprised by how few there were. I predict that one of them will be iPhone apps for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Emily, of the World Grows Wide blog in Australia, responds. Flickr photo from handsome monkey. era websites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Sean of the Tactical Philanthropy blog called me the batman of nonprofit technology. Okay, so let me answer the question by posed by The Tactical Philanthropy blog. Does anyone know of any other audio or video programming that has mentioned philanthropy blogs? Ego searches. Tracking Blog Conversations. Once you???ve

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Presentation Slides on flickr Blog post here. Phillip Smith has a thoughtful post called " Social tech meets the Social Innovation Generation " The Nonprofit Eye blog writes about leadership challenges in the nonprofit sector. Michele Martin points to a new feature in google news that can spark conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

I keep running into NpTechers posting vacation photos and blog posts. Here's one from LOLNPTECH.org and Little Dishes 2 from the Non-Profit Tech Blog. for his blog. Do you follow your blog's technorati? Google Aps. Ian Wilker is happy about the Google Apps Education Education being available to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

In article about ego searching, Robin Good adds If you can track what the rest of the world is saying about you or your products and services, you have a great deal of valuable information at your disposal. Ego searches. Ego searches can be set up very easily - no special geek skills required -- and the services, are, of course, free.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

You need to start by checking out the content that is already being created by citizen journalists and activists about the issues you care about on blogs, podcasts and online video/vlogs. Blogs You can find blogs by searching on Google Blog Search and Technorati. and OurMedia. PARTICIPATE: "Web 2.0"

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Care2

JUNE 15, 2007

e.politics Colin Delany How Nonprofits Can Benefit from the Google/Salesforce Partnership Donor Power Blog Jeff Brooks Children or Professionals: Who Communicates Better? Getting Attention Nancy Schwartz Im In Love.with Google Analytics Katyas Non-Profit Marketing Blog: Getting to the Point Katya Andresen Why Me?

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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. Google dominates most of North America, Europe, south Asia and the south Pacific. The YouTube of Data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Use your blog or twitter or whatever tool to solicit practical ideas on how to use social media to make connections. Set up Google Alerts to follow what's being said about your organization and cause online so that you can act on what's being said, join the conversation and build your community. Set up a twitter account. Lisa Neal ) 2.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

The idea is that you need to think about your organization's web presence, one-way communication like email marketing and search engine optimization and finally the social. My own feeling is that social media is not a either/or to email or search engine optimization. There is some debate about how to order these components.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

See3 Blog writes about the advantages of the Convio Face App (integration with organization's Convio database) and the limitations (can only run one Facebook app at time). The Non-Profit Tech Blog drills down deeper on the limitations and suggests waiting before adopting. Tools and Strategy Google Earth for Green Activism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. Inspired by the NTEN blog post about whether online engagement leads to more money, Gavin's Digital Dinner gives a brilliant counter point essay on the topic filled with facts and nice pie charts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! I'm creating a powerpiont for the Webinar and an accompanying wikispace, but wanted to put out this blog post for any feedback. Extension programs track blog conversations and respond. Use Technorati , a blog search engine. milllion blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

All of the video clips came from searching ???net on YouTube, Google Video, Podzinger and delicious. Click To Play "Spread the word by copy this code and paste to a blog, bulletin, your profile or comment. Britt Bravo, Netsquared Post. He is encouraging people to download and remix it or spread it. net neutrality???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

The ctc I worked with and started to write about in this place -- (going from bookmarking to social bookmarking stories ) scan netsquared case studies for others ) Like having access to my coleagues bookmark or rolodex with having to call them and interupt them. Not having to start from scratch on a presentation, report, or resouce referral.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Odeo: Free [link] Copyright Free Music Podsafe Music Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2006

" Before CompuMentor, she worked for a medical library at the San Francisco General Hospital where her job responsibilities included conducting Medline searches for patients and doctors. An accomplished web researcher, Tenby notes, "not everyone could search the Web in 1999. I searched around the site and found some."

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Emily Riley from Forrester Research and Beth Kanter from Beth’s Blog both gave great presentations that really complimented each other. Emily : I have one word of advice, go Google something right now and add the word “sucks” with it. Here's more two round ups I did of nonprofit blogging policies: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. I just scanned the list to SXSW in search of nonprofit oriented panels (in addition the two I submitted) and found a number of them for your consideration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

At that point, even a nicely formatted " tag cloud " would only serve up quantity, not quality of links - and from there I'd have to sift through perhaps tens or thousands of links in a much less efficient way than by just using Google from the start. Why not just use search?" Doesn't tagging create information overload?

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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. We all miss Sunrise!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

List compiled by Heather Mansfield , Editor-in-chief of Nonprofit Tech for Good and creator of the 101 Digital Marketing and Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits blog and webinar series. Google Analytics :: analytics.google.com. wpbeginner is an online beginners guide for using WordPress for websites and blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

There is a lot of discussion on the topic on web strategy blogs and from social media strategy gurus like Owyang. 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.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2006

Let's start with Michelle herself, who posted some comments on the NTEN-sponsored discussion of open API's last week to both the NetSquared site and her own blog. Speaking of programming and women, how could I not point in this post to by Kathy Sierra in her remarkable Creating Passionate Users blog? Open API's.

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