Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Moderated by NTEN membership director, former NetSquared organizer, and friend of TechSoup Amy Sample Ward , "Rethinking Movement Buildling" brought together three luminaries from organizations whose stock-in-trade are movements to promote social change. Movement Building and Elections. The difficult part is keeping it going.

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MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. NetSquared Community. for the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) beginning on May 29th. Like last year, conference participants are introducing themselves on their NetSquared Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

View more presentations from lnorvig. Laura Norvig gave me a sneak peak at her ingite presentation for NTC Ignite called the Many Uses of FriendFeed. It is intended as a rapid and engaging way to present information. How To Use FriendFeed To Keep Up On Nonprofits - (Netsquared). Many Uses Of Friendfeed.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

What should Netsquared's Facebook strategy be? These are events where a group of bloggers write about a particularly topic on a particular day. Blog Carnivals tend to be topic driven with a smaller number of participants compared to blog action projects that are advocacy or marketing driven and may include larger groups of bloggers.

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JANUARY 8, 2008

I'm presenting on a few panels, coordinating the Day of Service (have done this since 2002 as a paid consultant), and designing a panel on Social Media and ROI. A few bloggers like Tim Davies and Beth Dunn has shared their learnings in action and I would love to more of those visible. " I can't believe NTC is two months away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2009

Presenters: Peter Deitz , David Greenberg , Ramya Raghavan , and Marnie Webb. Cultural shift afoot - technology companies, media, and bloggers using their influence to meaningful action. He shared some recent examples, including those from Netsquared. The past, present, and future of nonprofits is community. Marnie Webb.

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AUGUST 17, 2007

Twitter and Facebook, but with Skype Out, Email Rules A few nptech bloggers are experimenting with Twitter and seeing some of the benefits. NpTech Blogging, Tagging, and Wikis An excellent presentation on social media and nonprofits by Jocelyn Harmon and Qui Diaz is being discussed by Dave B. and Katya A. Follow her trail here.

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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? This post traces the evolution of social networking sites from the 80's to present time, although missing a few major early players.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 9, 2006

My March post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs , seems to have been helpful to folks (it even got translated into spanish by a blogger in Spain, so I thought I'd share my list, originally posted on NetSquared , of 7 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Podcasts. Example: This Week in NetSquared News. Use recordings from presentations.

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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? See below).

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FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! Here's one of her training presentations. Ethan Zuckerman gives a summary of Pros/Cons of facebook Activism , a presentation by Imran Jamal and the Burma Global Action Network. NpTech Slide Decks SlideShare is like YouTube for powerpoint presentations. NpTech Conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Presentation Slides on flickr Blog post here. An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared. is coming " Bloggers go to the SF Symphony! Some New (to me) NpTech Bloggers - Welcome! Ruby Sinreich's Advocacy 2.0 NpTech Talk. The Socialmarkets Manifesto is here. NpTech Software.

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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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MARCH 29, 2008

I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. Visit SlideShare and read through great presentations on just about any topic. It came back earlier this week in a new format and aggregation process. Jonathon Coleman ).

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JUNE 25, 2008

I originally wrote this post for the NetSquared Blog. Present your ED with the goal a blog will achieve, how you will measure its impact, who will set it up, who will write and maintain it, how much time it will take, and how much it will cost. The interns can be contributing bloggers, but they shouldn't be the lead blogger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

As bloggers and others give it closer scrutiny, we're hearing a debate about which Facebook App is better? Kevin j points to a pretty amazing movie from the presentation at last week's Net Tuesday. It helps bloggers remember and use the best writing techniques. Convio or Causes? This week was Blog Action Day for the Environment.

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JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. Check out this presentation from Slide Share that uses the Wizard of Oz to explain Web2.0. Someone asks , "Is the presentation effective is you don't know the reference? There's no place like Web2.0,

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AUGUST 25, 2006

A team of "live bloggers" from the ranks of participants are recruited to post ramping up to the conference, assigned to take notes at sessions, and post after the event reflections or roundups. Take for example, the netsquared conference. This model can also be scaled to an entire blog community platform. or furl.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Over the past couple of years, one way that I synthesize blog content has been to do presentations. I want to create presentation formats of this materials as well as experiment with e-books. Please leave a comment if you're one of the bloggers I should be reading and pointing to) . score out of 5.0).

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JULY 19, 2006

The live video feed was being streamed from the Netsquared gathering in San Francisco happening at the same time as the virtual gatherng in Second Life. Pathfinder gave a presentation to a small group in Cambridge , while his audio (some of the time) was streamed into Second Life along with his Powerpoint Slides.

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JANUARY 26, 2007

" Last week Ethan Zuckerman was the invited speaker at the Ethos Roundtable and also presented this talk " Looking beyond the US for activist inspiration " at the Berkman Center/Sunlight Foundation meeting. A WikiTation is a presentation delivered in a wiki. Cross posted at Netsquared Live Blogging Conferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Many blogs, like the Razoo blog , went red on Thursday as part of Free Burma: International Bloggers Day. Deborah Finn isn't crazy about Facebook, although she likes giving virtual gifts and especially using the applications of her clients, like Changing the Present. and color schemes for your blog. Early detection is important.

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OCTOBER 20, 2007

--Ivan Boothe, Organizing Rather Than Mobilizing: Using Social Networks for Constituency Building I'm filling in for a panelist on Sunday at the Bioneers Conference for the session , Alternet Presents: Social Media Activism/Web 2.0 Networking for Change. I thought I'd share some of my notes with you. Don't be afraid of the tech.

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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. I gave a presentation about Healthcare, Nonprofits, and Social Media. Beth : Here's some step-by-steps for finding influential bloggers. A middle ground needs to be reached.

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APRIL 18, 2007

I'm having to quiet some inner Gollums while working on the presentation materials. Overview slides of what is Web2.0 ( remix from Social Media and Nonprofits Presentation) Core theme Listening - Responding to what people are saying about the topic or the program. I'm nervous. The session outline is as follows: Introduction.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2013

Join me, Allyson Kapin, Co-founder of Rad Campaign and Blogger-in-Chief of Care2''s Frogloop blog and Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director of NTEN for this free webinar. and serves as the Blogger-In-Chief for Care2''s top-ranked nonprofit communications blog, Frogloop. Don''t worry though, we can help you change that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2006

This is a summary of what women bloggers have been talking about in the nonprofit technology space this past month or what I'm dubbing the nptechersphere. Kivi Leroux Miller's Blog on Freelance Writing for the Nonprofit Community is chocked full of posts that are useful for any writer, including nonprofit bloggers.

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DECEMBER 1, 2006

For the past year, I have been writing for NetSquared about nonprofits and NGOs that are using the social web to cultivate donors, advocates and activists for their organization and their cause. What makes us write a donation check, spread the word about a campaign, or show up for a meeting or protest? Emotional connection. People connecting."

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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. A new blog platform for fair-minded bloggers. Perhaps this article will inspire more nonprofit bloggers?

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MARCH 16, 2007

This is one of several powerpoint presentations now archived in SlideShare and also included in a NpTech History wiki (anyone can join and contribute.). 9 Lessons for Would-be Bloggers. " It goes to provide strong encouraging words for new bloggers to jump in there. Today I Cried resigns !

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DECEMBER 3, 2005

One of the reasons I am so excited about the work I am doing with NetSquared is because I think that these new web-based tools, especially podcasts, are an incredible way for nonprofits to get the word out about their causes, especially when they are listened to through headphones. It is about the world in which our children will live.

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