Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2013

It originally appeared on NetSquared. For example Edgeflip , a new initiative plans to turn the ad hoc data analysis tools developed for the campaign into software that can make nonprofits more effective at raising money and recruiting volunteers. Open Government Data. 7 Ways Companies Are Using the Government's Open Data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? Submitted by Ted Fickes Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! (There's even a panel proposal for Slacktivism ). Definitely.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? Submitted by Ted Fickes Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely. Definitely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There's a roundup of coverage on his Netsquared blog , including pointers to live blog posts like this one. More from Britt Bravo on Netsquared blog. The Mashable write up has a freudian typo and describes the Cancer Society and March of Dimes as "high-profit" organizations. It isn't dumb dumb. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

to raise money for sponsoring a college student in Cambodia via the Sharing Foundation. I'm going to be guest blogging about this effort over at Katya's Non-Profit Marketing Blog this week. I read on Netsquared about how Creative Commons is trying to raise money with its video on Revver and am trying it out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Kiva is at the intersection of money and meaning. Several themes that came out in the discussion: The line between for-profit and nonprofit. I haven't spent much time in this space, but when I walked through the door I ran into Sean Stannard-Stockton who at met at Netsquared several years ago and encouraged him to set up a blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2007

Some things just work differently (remember the money trees.) Naturally, he has some thoughts on this: Non-profits struggle with how to apply for funds in a way that is meeting the criteria of the funder without compromising on their basic mission. Or maybe GoogForceLife.). Why do this virtually? Or are they a passing fancy?

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! Definitely.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared (where Ushahidi won its first challenge!). – to raise money for your cause. Cost: It is completely free to launch a campaign and Teespring does not take a percentage of your campaign's profit margin. Bottom line: Kickstarter might be a bit of a gamble for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. Via Laura Quinn at Idealware comes a pointer to a research paper titled " Technology Motivators and Usage in Not-for-Profit Arts Organizations " that comes from the Systems Synthesis Project course at the H.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! It notes, "Maybe the answer is an intermediary b/w tech and design volunteers and the non-profits they???re Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. NpTech Conversations. So, you want to build a MashUp? re working with???something

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

This platform lets consumers promote the brands they like and SocialVibes donates money to charitable causes or as Read/Write Web defined as "is an online popularity contest that turns corporate advertising into money for charity." It was founded as a mission-based, for-profit enterprise in Dublin in 2005 by serial.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared. – to raise money for your cause. Cost: It is completely free to launch a campaign and Teespring does not take a percentage of your campaign's profit margin. where Ushahidi won its first challenge!). Bottom line: Kickstarter might be a bit of a gamble for nonprofits.

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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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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. "Nonprofits are always running close to the edge in terms of money and time. I did a little research last October, and uncovered a few. Now almost a year later, there is renewed interest in vlogging and nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

There was much speculation as to whether they mover to Jaiku (with its newly minted Google money), or Pownce, BrightKite, Tumblr, plurk or FriendFeed. " Will Boyd has a question about non-profit marketing ? Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. comprising the people most likely to give and raise additional money." For the launch, they???ve And if you???re

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

Well, it just so happens that there's a direct correlation between the quality of a cup of coffee, or the quality of a banana, or some other piece of fruit, and the amount of money that the farmer actually gets paid for that harvest. That means to go to high school you need bus money, you need uniform money, you need book money.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Show how much money is being raised! Remember the digital period, way back in time, when any tool that someone launched – be it for profit, for a lot of profit, or for compromise – was a tool we felt obligated to register for, create a profile on, and otherwise try to adopt? Is it an event to get out the vote?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2009

In the non-profit technology community, open standards of a different variety could help us all become more effective at what we urgently need to do: raise money, recruit and coordinate volunteers, promote events, create profiles on social networks, generate reports for grant-makers, and the list goes on.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

Like Mother Teresa talked about how America was rich in money, but poor in spirit. you know, as a person you can bring your values into a profit-making business. What I do is, I write for several blogs, as she mentioned. Joanna Macy talks about how we're psychically numb. So other people will respond to it as well.

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