Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

When wildfires devastated the area around San Diego in October, 2007, citizen journalists used e-mail, text messages, and social media sites to collect and disseminate real-time information about the location of the fires, evacuation efforts, meeting places and emergency supplies.

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NTEN

AUGUST 28, 2014

CoP organizers Praan Misir ( CommBuild ) and Brett Ashley Crawford ( Arts Nonprofits ) and Tech Club organizers Regina Walton ( SFTech4Good ), Paula Jones ( NCTech4Good ), and Chad Leaman and Elijah van der Giessen (both from NetSquared Vancouver ) took time out to deliver the presentation.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Promise to read the rest of this before you send me hate mail, though. " Net2 Think Tank Round-Up: Best of 2009 | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – Check out the diverse submissions to the December Net2 Think Tank that simply asked for the best blog posts of 2009!

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

60) Search « NetSquared DC: Beyond the Logic Puzzle | Main | Have you read your RSS feeds today? 60) Search « NetSquared DC: Beyond the Logic Puzzle | Main | Have you read your RSS feeds today? » Friday Jul 14 2006 Best day to send an e-mail - is there a seasonality factor? Thats what I thought.

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Tech Soup

JULY 9, 2015

Writing Successful Direct Mail Appeal Letters In-House, Part 1 with Tom Ahern Nonprofit Marketing Guide / Webinar / Fee: $99, free w/ All-Access-Pass. Sites NetSquared Monitors for Nonprofit/Technology Events. If you are looking for face-to-face meetings in your area, check out the list of 501Tech Clubs on NTEN and on Netsquared Local.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2010

If you’re a nonprofit with a mailing address, you may have already received the card in the mail from Facebook: An invitation to claim your organization’s Facebook Places page. He co-organizes the Philadelphia NetSquared meetup , and is a board member of the Peace and Justice Studies Association.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2016

Since the first NetSquared challenge in 2006, TechSoup has continued to offer people and organizations opportunities to connect, share ideas, and collaborate; they work on solutions online and offline through events, meetups, and hackathons. Every evening, the man would write a letter to the mayor and drop it in the mail.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

This post was written by Trenton DuVal, contributing editor at NetSquared, and originally appeared on their blog. It integrates across Google Apps , a nice bonus for users who are already using Google Mail, Documents. It’s what the NetSquared team uses to stay on task. complex projects that require careful management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

The summary: most big charities are based on direct mail. fundraising, and direct mail is dying. " Jeremy Pepper , who spoke at this month's NetSquared Net Tuesday Meetup , is the director of communications. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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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? Network-Centric Advocacy blogs points to a new feature at Alex's Lemonade Stand called "From the Mail Bag." And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Win $10,000 DonateNow Mashup Challenge at NetSquared. It's promotional literature says it fills the gap between one-on-one messaging and large e-mail marketing newsletters and it works on IM networks and Facebook. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Given the fantastic feedback we received from our NetSquared GIS presentation, I was very pleased to learn that NTEN is featuring Robert in a forthcoming webinar. The speaker, Robert Cheetham, is both concise and knowledgeable, but more importantly he has a knack for explaining GIS in a way that is very accessible to non-techies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

As she says, it combines social bookmarking, feed reading, and the casual interactions of Twitter into something that works somewhat like mailing list, but doesn't add to your email overload. Beth Dunn shared Social Media Club: Join Our FriendFeed Room and Kill A Mailing List. I like what Marnie Webb likes about FriendFeed Rooms.

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Care2

MAY 1, 2008

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) I hope to see you there.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

[link] Design Logoworks [link] 99designs [link] Flickr photos with Creative Commons Licenses (free): [link] iStockPhoto: [link] Online Donations Network for Good [link] ChipIn [link] PayPal https://www.paypal-portal.com/charity/ E-newsletters Feedblitz [link] Emma [link] Constant Contact [link] Donations and mailing lists Democracy in Action [link] (..)

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Have Fun - Do Good

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). You can listen to the original interview and a live recording of Freecycle's 5-minute pitch at the NetSquared Conference on the NetSquared Podcast.

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Care2

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Given the fantastic feedback we received from our NetSquared GIS presentation, I was very pleased to learn that NTEN is featuring Robert in a forthcoming webinar. The speaker, Robert Cheetham, is both concise and knowledgeable, but more importantly he has a knack for explaining GIS in a way that is very accessible to non-techies.

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Map Social Media Advocacy Case Study 28

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Beaconfire Blog, " The Twilight of Direct Mail " provides an analysis of the role of direct mail in Obama Campaign. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Amy Sample Ward writes about the new plugin launched by Social Actions that will place ???possibly

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

And note how he has incorporated the use of his mail comment line into his content). Britt Bravo, Netsquared Post. on YouTube, Google Video, Podzinger and delicious. The project wiki is here and he has a del.icio.us feed where he is tagging resources here. " Mike Meiser from Meedfeedia has set up a collection of these videos here.

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Care2

JUNE 15, 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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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 31, 2006

Britt Bravo writes for three blogs: her personal blog, Have Fun • Do Good , NetSquared , and for BlogHer , where she is a Nonprofit and NGO Contributing Editor. Each student will create a Blogger blog during class. She also produces her own Big Vision Podcast. I cannot accept or acknowledge notifications sent by email or phone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2006

The triggers: A blog conversation on Jilliane's Smith blog that became a community blog conversation about nonprofit tagging on netsquared. There are others, including e-mail lists, web-based discussion forums, chat rooms, call-in talk shows, and even (to a certain extent) podcasts and wikis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Fundraising Success Magazine covers The Great Debate: Direct Mail vs Online Acquisition. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Unthinkingly blog has an interesting post about computer recyclying aptly titled " The Joy of e-waste " Online Fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Email Newsletters So, What's an E-mail Address Worth is the title of this week's Tip Sheet Tuesday from the Democracy in Action Blog. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. nonprofit technology. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Between email solicitation, direct mail, major donors, and grant-writing, the vast majority of nonprofits will weather the economic hard times. Platforms like Genius Rocket and NetSquared provide nonprofits an opportunity to crowd-source a communications or technological need.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Before I worked at NTEN, I managed the NetSquared program at TechSoup Global. At that time, most of NetSquared’s content came from the community blog, where anyone working at the intersection of technology and social impact could create a profile and contribute to the blog with stories, case studies, and more. Get your copy!

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2007

60) Search « CASE STUDY: Care2 Recruits 10,000 for CHEJ Campaign | Main | NetSquared Meetup Roundup » Thursday Jun 21 2007 Online Branding Takeaways Thursday, June 21, 2007 at 12:09PM | by James OMalley Yet another fantastic Internet Advocacy Roundtable took place at the Care2/Oxfam offices!

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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 Deborah Finn's thoughts about limiting the membership to nonprofit tech workers whose e-mail addresses are originating from a.org and whose organization is a 501c3.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

I remember being shocked when I got slides of artwork in the mail to scan. At the netsquared conference , I spoke with someone from a small nonprofit about Second Life. Tech Soup has just started to bring the non-profits within Second Life together and has a mailing list and weekly meetings. Second Life isn???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Fear that it will take staff time, there will be little return, and the return will not be as easily measurable as, say, a direct mail piece. Fear about letting the public comment back "publicly". Especially in this economy. The key to crossing the chasm to adoption is education, awareness, and discussion internally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

So what I have been doing is sending out mails one by one! account and point to a few good ones I find every week for my NpTechTag Roundup over at Netsquared. Myspace avoids spamming so the members usually blocks people from adding them directly unless you know them personally or their email. Its pure luck too. The Short Resource List.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

Elijah van der Giessen, NetSquared Community Manager. Mail+ – is an app that let's me get my work Outlook email on my phone in a fully featured way. Yelp – for restaurant and other reviews. Dictionary.com app – to always have the right word at hand. The app also has a voice-activated search.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

Postable allows users to easily send cards and postcards through snail mail. NetSquared :: netsquared.org. NetSquared is a group of volunteer leaders who host free #TechforGood in-person events every month in 120 cities worldwide. Flipsnack empowers users to transform PDFs into online flipping books. See also Issuu.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

NetSquared :: netsquared.org. NetSquared in a group of volunteer leaders who host free #TechforGood in-person events every month in 120 cities worldwide. Postable allows users to easily send Thank You cards through snail mail. Online Fundraising for Nonprofit Organizations LinkedIn Group :: linkedin.com/groups/3694133.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2009

The first full session I was able to catch was “Tools Galore in Online Communications” moderated by Netsquared’s Amy Sample Ward with speakers Natalie Foster , Director of New Media for the Democratic National Committee , Rebecca Moore, Google Earth Outreach and Laura Quinn, Executive Director of Idealware.

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