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Need Hands-on Help? NetSquared's Free Workshops Are in Your Community

Tech Soup

That's why TechSoup supports a global network of tech trainers called NetSquared. NetSquared groups focus on topics that address their unique local tech challenges, but once a quarter, we select a common theme. Find your closest NetSquared group. Or, apply today to start your own NetSquared group.

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7 Ways You Can Connect at #16NTC

Tech Soup

Be sure to visit our donor partners in the exhibit hall as well. TechSoup's NetSquared ( @netsquared ) community manager, Eli van der Giessen ( @elijah ), and Tech4Good SWFL organizer Birgit Pauli-Hack ( @bph ) are thrilled to offer this opportunity for online and offline community organizers to learn from each other!

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Data Digest — Maps, Trends, and a Social Progress Index

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on NetSquared. Big Data Right Now: 5 Trendy Open Source Technologies. He says that there are over 250,000 viable open-source technologies on the market today and identifies five of them that are currently trending while pointing to their advantages. Philanthropy and Open Government Data.

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Philanthropy and Social Media: New Whitepaper from The Institute for Philanthropy

Amy Sample Ward

Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan. Donors could communicate with the students, and they thanked participants directly – building lasting relationships.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Voting Deadline at Netsquared Extended, NTC Pipe, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Donor Power Blog defines fundraising 2.0, Open Source Software is Fair Trade !

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools!

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Data Digest: Moneyball Giving, Data and Philanthropy, Data for Africa

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It originally appeared on NetSquared. The rational for "seeing data as a state" rather than a donor in Africa to help answer policymakers questions is also explained. Open Source philanthropy data big data' Data philanthropy efforts are reviewed and advice for writing about data is offered.

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