Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

The Face (book) of NetSquared Champions. The NetSquared Conference is just days away and the NetSquared blogs are buzzing with activity! Not attending the NetSquared Conference but want to follow the tag stream? They are posting their introductions and photos here. If you're on Facebook , search for the n2y2 group!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

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. Andy Carvin and Jonnie Goldstein interviewed a person from one of two projects based in Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

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. Christine.Net attended the Web 2.0 Expo Ignite!

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Last night, I had the great opportunity to interview Clay Shirky , the author of Here Comes Everybody. What’s really great and exciting to see happen more and more across the web is organizations creating opportunities to connect members to members, and not just to the organization. Tag your blog with “net2thinktank”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

TechSoup publishes Soha El-Borno excellent post " Promote Your Cause on Facebook in Six Easy Steps " and do check out her interview with Carie Lewis from the Human Society about their work on Facebook. He did a video interview with Dirk Slater , too! Check out the nonprofitmanagement wiki ! What could that lead to?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The second network, Netsquared , in contrast was more loosely controlled with a lower risk in failure. The Netsquared Network which has grown to over 27,000 people world wide through its self-replicated face-to-face events has grown quite differently. Here’s some points that Marnie mentioned: -Allowed the people to be the starts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Marshall Kirkpatrick, on ReadWrite Web , wrote a post further analyzing the situation, raising the question: Or are neither MySpace or Causes any big loss for social change organizations? Justin Mass went as far as to say that the move was " social network redlining.".

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AUGUST 1, 2007

This summer I've been interviewing the innovators behind the 21 Projects that went to the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) this year (I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared). I was particularly touched by my interview with Deron Beal, the Executive Director and founder of the Freecycle Network , so I thought I'd share it here.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

From TechSoup Global Labs: NetSquared. Alex considers an interview with Paul Levinson on the future of media and human interaction. Tools Using the Web and Internet. Tags: Web 2.0 Chris discusses virtualization with Monique Sendze of Johnson County Library. Don't forget about the Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

In a brief interview with Ann, she shared some of her philosophy and passion. "I After the session, after waiting an hour for Premal Shah to be available for a quick interview, he graciously shared his thoughts on what Web 3.0 I also interviewed Shara Karasic who was in the audience. He defined it as: "If Web 1.0

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MARCH 5, 2010

Avencia has become Azavea : same GIS technology and web and mobile geo-spatial services and software development, but with a new name ! This month's NetSquared (a project of TechSoup Global ) Think Tank topic is on effective social media policies. NPower Seattle welcomed a new Executive Director : Alison Carl White.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

on July 18th and subsequently had a chance to interview her at her fabulous virtual office in Second Life. I fell into the wonderful world of web site creation. We created and ran the web site for the Liberal Arts College in an atmosphere which, upon reflection is a lot like Linden Lab. Mixed Reality Event ??? Second Life isn???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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OCTOBER 30, 2009

In the first edition of this partnership, I interviewed Erin O'Connor Jones , the Director of Candidate Services and Managing Associate at Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group. 7 Tips for Measuring the Success of Your Blog on Beth's Blog Create a Listening Dashboard for your Organization on NetSquared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Right now Google + is still in the very early stages of development and has potential to add a social layer to the Web as David Armano points out. The early adopter love fest has given way to some rants about the platform and what isn’t working. Some have seen some early benefits of getting web site traffic.

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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. Example: Senator Barack Obama's podcast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared. Social Web. and Associations thoughts from Acronym: Experience Web 2.0 at Annual Meeting posted on the blog inviting people to participate in the social web. Web Site Usability, Social Media Engagement and ROI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Her recent post at Netsquared called " How To Green Your Tech Conference " has some good advice. Britt interviewed Green Mary who was an Event Waste Reduction Consultant to Aspiration Tech for their recent Nonprofit Software Development Summit. Note that one way to go green is to encourage room and ride shares.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2006

See resources below) He also shared an interview from the 501c3Cast for Nonprofits. See YouTube interview for more). At the conference, Brad was recording interviews with the important (not me) and those will also be posted on the camt blog. Brad Stephenson gave a very good overview of the process and the tools. (My

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. The disaster in Haiti is a perfect example of these changes: the impact of the Real-Time Web and the power of our phones. Reports of violence and of peace efforts could be placed via the web or mobile phone. How can we do that? By the morning of the 14th, donations had already hit $3 Million. .

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MARCH 7, 2008

Interview with Guy Kawasaki on Lifehack.org As a nonprofit consultant, I am often asked, "Where can I find nonprofit-related blogs ?" Alltop is a site that aggregates news and blog feeds by topic from “all the top” sites on the web. " Nonprofit.alltop.com has the potential to change the world the most."--Interview

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

Alex Steed is a self-described millennial activist and he has just announced his Millennials Changing America: The Next Generation of Organizing where he will visit over 30 cities across the United States to meet, interview and report how young people are using the Internet to leverage their social and political power. s Alex Steed.

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DECEMBER 8, 2006

A couple weeks ago, I did an interview for the NetSquared Podcast with Leda Dederich, the creator of the dotOrganize project, and co-author of the report "Online Technology For Social Change: From Struggle to Strategy." Below is a transcript of the interview. We talk a lot about Web 2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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DECEMBER 21, 2006

You can watch the video from Day 1 here, which includes an interview with Ann Maymann, Senior Officer of the UN High Commission for Refugees. You can also post this badge on your blog or web site: The code is available here. Written for the NetSquared blog Image credit: Camp Kids I by Mark Knobil. via Beth's blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

Comment, Blog it, tag it NpTech, and/or start a blog over at the Netsquared site. tools in their web sites. New (to me) Blogs Blau Exchange is posting interviews with interesting ict-minded folks and occasional research and presentations. Check out the interview with Alexandra Samuels. Cross posted at Netsquared

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MAY 25, 2006

On Tuesday, May 30th at 4pm PDT, Micki Krimmel , the Director of Internet Outreach for Participant Productions , will be speaking about, "Media that Mobilizes: An Inconvenient Truth , ClimateCrisis and More Tales from Participate.net " as part of NetSquared's remote conference.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2006

As if you don't get enough of my holding forth here, Marshall Kirkpatrick interviewed me the other day for Techsoup's Netsquared project, and posted it here. Around the same time, Marshall also posted an interview with Beth Kanter. You can read the interview here. It was a really enjoyable, rambling conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! Gavin Clabaugh tells us how to embed "Skype Presence" in a SharePoint Web Part. Check this recent interview to learn more about Jonathan's secrets to using social media tools for success. NpTech Conversations. So, you want to build a MashUp? for NGOs there.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

To learn more about Twitter scaling issues read this interview by Jesse Stay. Clay Newton shared What CEOs need to know about the social web? Andrew Cohen shared How do you test our web site cheaply? Jonathon Coleman asked "How do you know if your web content is strategic?" " Marnie Webb answered.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Michael Stein has an interview with Jonathan Coleman about his success building a donor base on Facebook. Lucy Bernholz reports that embedded giving - in which a charitable transaction becomes part of any other financial transaction, such as checking out of the grocery store and making a donation to diabetes care - has gone web 2.0

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APRIL 24, 2007

Paul Rice, the founding president and CEO of the Oakland based nonprofit, TransFair USA , answers these questions and others in an interview for the Big Vision Podcast. PR: Check out our web site. For more information about TransFair USA go to www.transfairusa.org Britt Bravo also blogs at Have Fun * Do Good , NetSquared and BlogHer.

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OCTOBER 7, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Read/Write web has the top ten Facebook Apps. Britt Bravo has a terrific interview with Chris Messina and Ivan Storck of Citizen Space about Green Coworking. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. And don't forget, if you're going to adopt Web2.0 Green Technology.

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MAY 7, 2007

Going Within is a 10-minute web short about Donnelle Malnik who teaches yoga and meditation in the San Francisco County Jail No.7 Two of the creators of Not Just a Number will be speaking at NetSquared's Net Tuesday in San Francisco tomorrow, May 8th. They have programs in Northern Ireland, South Africa, the Middle East and Cyprus.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

There's an interesting idea for "emergency NGO in a box" in the notes about Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance Tools and an interview with Gregg Swanson of HumiNet by Britt Bravo from the Summit. Here's ten steps towards Association 2.0 , a remix of Marnie Webb's Ten Ways to Use Web 2.0 Tools To Change the World.

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