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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. [Ed. There are so many blogs, news sources, and conversations happening at the same time, every day, and the chances that you’ll be able to find them all without trying is pretty unlikely. There are hundreds of millions of blogs according to Technorati, and that’s just blogs!

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MARCH 20, 2009

Edward Harran is a blogger and nonprofit technologist I have connected with through NetSquared, this blog, and of course Twitter. Below is the blog post from him, calling for help. Please click on the widget below if you can donate. I have a large network that could benefit from my knowledge. Recommended by @kanter ).

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JUNE 25, 2008

I originally wrote this post for the NetSquared Blog. Earlier in the month I taught a Nonprofit Blogging 101 workshop at the 2008 Making Media Connections Conference. How do we decide if our organization should have a blog? How do we decide if our organization should have a blog? Answer these questions: 1.

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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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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. I've blogged about his webinars about selecting person-to-person fundraising or working with group fundraising tools. He has identified nine goals for 2009. or $200.09.

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AUGUST 14, 2014

You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared (where Ushahidi won its first challenge!). For more Teespring stories, check out the TechSoup blog. 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. More Crowdfunding Resources.

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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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SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared. For more Teespring stories, check out the TechSoup blog. 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. where Ushahidi won its first challenge!). More Crowdfunding Resources.

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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.

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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? The TechSoup Blog has a list of ten cool web2.0 DIA Blog has some great advice about HTML email testing.

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JUNE 27, 2008

For every online social network training we do, we actually present the ning site and demonstrate ways participants can create and customize profiles, syndicate RSS feeds, post blogs, photos and videos and more. Developers who are more experienced can create customized scripts and widgets on their site to accommodate the needs of their users.

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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. t want to make it a big story. Neutraility Now!

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JANUARY 19, 2007

GetActive GetsAcquired - By Convio This is big news and it bounced around the nonprofit and progressive blogs, listservs, IM, and emails. Comment, Blog it, tag it NpTech, and/or start a blog over at the Netsquared site. Grassroots.org blog reports on the recent National Media Reform Conference. Change the World!

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Whatever you do, please don't abandon your out-of-date, un-updated blog, Facebook group, Twitter feed, etc. 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!" net2 nptech Web 2.0

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JULY 8, 2009

Contributors to the site (at this point at least) include: Beth Kanter of Beth's Blog. 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. Sloane Berrent of the Causemopolitan. John Haydon of johnhaydon.com.

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OCTOBER 6, 2007

Post, Post It Passion Exercise from Youth Noise, Youth Summit Blogging and New (to me) Blogs Blogging 101 Community Blogging describes how to avoid the slow hard agonizing death of a blog: Make it a team effort. This articles provides some excellent tips and strategies for a successful group approach to blogging.

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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." " Ian goes onto suggest hwo use the tools with a different approach: "To really open all the doors and windows and let your staff and constituents mix it up in social-web contexts -- blogs, video- and photo-sharing, etc.

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DECEMBER 18, 2008

Emily Riley from Forrester Research and Beth Kanter from Beth’s Blog both gave great presentations that really complimented each other. They have a blog and they moderate comments because they don't want to publish any racist comments. Here's more two round ups I did of nonprofit blogging policies: [link].

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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 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Face-to-Face Trumps Twitter, Blogs, Podcasts, Video. The other big story in Kikono was Best Practices in MySpace pointed to by Solidariti blog. Blogging Advice Tim Johnson of the I'd Rather Be Writing blog, offers some tips to Nonprofits on how to start a blog. Change.org now also sports a widget.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Some blog posts about the conference tagged with nptech can be found here , here , here , and here. 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.

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