Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

This post was authored by Vanessa Rhinesmith and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. The weekend brings together people with different skillsets to build applications and develop a commercial case around them. Hackathons, coding sprints, app challenges, oh my!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

The site was developed by Democracy in Action. Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. Allan Benamer weighs in with some observations after wading through the comments over at the Netsquared site and pointing to Holden from GiveWell to be the most salient point.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

TechSoup, Caravan Studios , and NetSquared were on the scene to observe and participate in hackathon events all over the country. The diverse crowd, made up of students, activists, government employees, and librarians, worked on datasets presented by the U.S. San Francisco Day of Civic Hacking. Leonard Library.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

Many years ago, NetSquared hosted challenges and conferences to highlight and bring together fledging social entrepreneurs. This work included developing a secure system to track, map, and report incidents of gender-based violence; an emergency hotline; and media training to support women in documenting and sharing their experiences.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Created by local NYC students, this game is designed to be played in and around city libraries and teaches players how to use library resources. Depending on your resources and budget, adding a gaming element to your organization's campaigns could be as simple as a social media contest or as elaborate as developing your own game-like app.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

A hackathon is an event where programmers, developers, designers, and leaders come together to collaborate on an app, website, or software projects. meets LinkedIn for students. A number of exciting projects have come out of these events including apps made by aspiring young app developers. NetSquared can help!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2012

Typical wiki communities are work groups within a company, educators and students, and hobbyists. The idea came from NetSquared community organizers who were eager to share their best practices and experiences and saw a wiki as the ideal platform. By far the most recognized wiki is Wikipedia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Bay Area, in the summer of 2012. It will be a gamechanger in the US, with 10,000 of the smartest, most motivated young hackers and other young technoids being exposed to the best of web development, artificial intelligence, robotics, social networking, gaming and social engagement. They haven’t arrived yet. billion to date.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

The finalists were paired up with technologists to develop a platform that could be worked on in a series of code sprints. Students, professors, and deans will be able to express their opinion and report any problems in their school or university. Based on the number of votes, seven projects from each country were chosen.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2012

If you have developers and want sophisticated functionality: Clickatell is a a development API that supports bulk messaging, and syncing texts to databases. For more sophisticated functionality, such as two-way conversations and mobile giving: Mobile Commons and Mobile Accord start at around $400/month. Supporting Staff in the Field.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

It is open to creators from all backgrounds – from charities to video game developers to artists. You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared (where Ushahidi won its first challenge!). Aid Afghanistan for Education and Peace has the lofty $10,000 goal to fund a school of 300 students for a month.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

It is open to creators from all backgrounds – from charities to video game developers to artists. You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared. Aid Afghanistan for Education and Peace has the lofty $10,000 goal to fund a school of 300 students for a month. Special Plan for Nonprofits: No.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2006

There has been online conversation during the past couple of weeks on vlog list , Netsquared , TechSoup and Blogher. What is a more effective strategy - "viral video" a la YouTube or developing an ongoing relationship with audience via a "vlog."? For this kind of video development I like services like blip.tv

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

Next week, I will be participating in a session entitled, "Reach Out and Blog Someone" along with Steve Swenson of the Bakersfield Californian at the United Way of Kern County's Professional Development Conference for Nonprofits. When we publish the NetSquared e-newsletter, we often draw from the NetSquared blog for material.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Simplistic appeals targeted at teens and college students don't. Platforms like Genius Rocket and NetSquared provide nonprofits an opportunity to crowd-source a communications or technological need. These are important traits to develop, and will make fundraising easier as micro-philanthropy matures. Four years ago, web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Mongkol, a Cambodian college student who is studying in the US on a Fullbright Scholarship and knows the importance of a college education had this to say. I posted an announcement of the campaign on my blog and on Netsquared Posted a guest blog post at Katya's blog soliciting campaign advice in exchange to share my learnings.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

When it comes to innovation in civil society, there is nothing that can match the speed and ingenuity of communities that come together to make a change, develop a tool, or feed a need. Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation. Getting Started. Share the spotlight : Remember, you’re not driving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

The themes science, environmental, nutrition, economic development, children, youth, parenting, and leadership are very much appropriate as this conference agenda from the NACDEP and ACE/NETC shows. Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. So, now is the fun part.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 28, 2010

His learnings come from experiences that span an education in electronics and telecommunications, multi-cultural professional engagements in software development and communications, a business administration student life in pretty Paris and experiments in implementing technological solutions for social challenges.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

Three hundred dollars a year is a huge barrier for kids in this community, and kids all over the developing world. PR: I got interested in issues of hunger and poverty when I was in college, and was particularly interested in rural poverty in the developing world, and started studying ways to approach that, alternative ways to approach that.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. templates, or other development documents? with a student about the course schedule, only to realize later that the schedule you referenced was out-of-date? Here's a quick working definition to get us started: Content curation focuses.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

I came across her work while researching examples of nonprofits using the social web for social change for NetSquared and am looking forward to meeting her in person when she speaks at the NetSquared Conference next week. Heddy also writes for the Global Youth Fund blog.

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