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Around the TechSoup Global Blogosphere

Tech Soup

From NetSquared. NetSquared is organizing technology-for-social-good events all over the world. NetSquared is organizing technology-for-social-good events all over the world. Get inspired with these digital storytelling examples: raising awareness of homelessness and sharing indigenous stories online.

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Looking forward to 2009

Judi Sohn

Do you want to feed the homeless or cure cancer? Who needs a lot of data and background information and who needs us to cut to the chase. Help send me to the NetSquared Conference Okay, time for shameless begging and plugging… I’m really interested. Give books to needy children or build a performing arts center?

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Crafting Sticky, Emotional Stories That Reach Your Audience

Tech Soup

For instance, take this long, amazing story, Invisible Child: Girl in the Shadows: Dasani's Homeless Life by Andrea Elliott, published in The New York Times. Your background information will come in handy. As a co-coordinator for NetSquared DC, I recently helped organize a storytelling event in DC.

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Change.org is Hiring Bloggers for Social Action Blog Network

Have Fun - Do Good

Each blogger will lead an online community focusing on a different social, political, or environmental issue, maintain a daily blog covering news and offering commentary, convene leading nonprofits and activists working on the issue, and help people translate their interests and passions into concrete action. blogging job activism

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NpTech Summary: Advocacy 2.0, Sketchcastes, and NpTech in Different Languages

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As both a lesson and as a metric, failure is potentially productive at every level of socialmarkets - from the repeated return of one homeless person to shelter, to the repeated attempts to attach a value like SROI to such a story." An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. This can inform. How will you apply the information? Openness - ????A It's messy.

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Mark Liu from NetSquared: Part 2

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

(. in which I continue to interview my former dorm-mate, Mark Liu, now the project manager for TechSoup's NetSquared initiative) [Me] What can you tell us about the April NetSquared conference? First, we hope to build a community of active participants in the NetSquared website over the coming months.