Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

After putting the call out to nonprofit professionals, issue experts, and programers - more than 30 individuals came together the day of the event. These career professionals serve as online mentors to guide students through challenges that allow them to acquire the skills needed to succeed in a chosen career path.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

TechHire spans the corporate, nonprofit, government, and educational sectors and has the ambitious goal to "give Americans the opportunity they deserve, and the skills they need to be competitive in a global economy." People at the event got to hear first-hand from a Year Up graduate about the impact of this national nonprofit.

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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. 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. Nonprofit Software and Hardware and Cell Phones.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. Find out more in the interview below! What is Epic Change? What is TweetsGiving?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. Find out more in the interview below! What is Epic Change? What is TweetsGiving?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

As part of Social Media September (#SocMedSep), we've been tapping into the wisdom of our global TechSoup and NetSquared communities as well as experts in nonprofit technology. TS: What are some of the challenges you face doing social media at your nonprofit? TS: How does social media support your organization's mission?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2016

NetSquared groups are holding free events all month. San Francisco, California: Nonprofits and Storytelling: How to Create Social Impact, First-Person Stories. Kenya: NetSquared Camp — Storytelling 2016. Kibiribiri, Uganda: Building Capacities of Teachers and Students in Digital Storytelling. Thursday, March 31.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

These apps have the power to help nonprofits and charities reach a whole new audience and raise awareness about their mission. As part of the App It Up 2: Transforming Communities project, we had the opportunity to explore how charities and nonprofits are using gamification.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

TechSoup, Caravan Studios , and NetSquared were on the scene to observe and participate in hackathon events all over the country. The diverse crowd, made up of students, activists, government employees, and librarians, worked on datasets presented by the U.S. San Francisco Day of Civic Hacking. Leonard Library.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Note from Beth: My colleague, Daniel Ben-Horin, from TechSoup Global has been in the nonprofit technology for decades. But when he gets excited about activity that could benefit the nonprofit technology sector, I listen. What do you think of the Campus Party model? He has seen it all. They haven’t arrived yet.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2012

Typical wiki communities are work groups within a company, educators and students, and hobbyists. The idea came from NetSquared community organizers who were eager to share their best practices and experiences and saw a wiki as the ideal platform. By far the most recognized wiki is Wikipedia.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

In actuality, hackathons are events where ideas are hatched and technology needs are met — making them excellent opportunities for nonprofits, charities, and libraries! The hackathon model is ideal for nonprofits and libraries because it brings together motivated volunteers to expedite a project on a limited budget.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

It seems like there's a new crowdfunding website out there every week, but which one is right for your nonprofit? I looked at a few popular crowdfunding sites and dissected their cost plans, nonprofit support, and special features. Special Plan for Nonprofits: No. Special Plan for Nonprofits: Yes.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

Students, professors, and deans will be able to express their opinion and report any problems in their school or university. TechSoup Global and NetSquared attended hackathons across the country—from Hawaii to Vermont—that tackled local, statewide, and national civic issues. Ttaram aims to improve education in Kosovo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

I still don't know of that many nonprofits using Friendfeed , though, whether as an overall tool or for joining the "nptech" community conversation ( "nptech" is a tag that Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, and others have been using to tag nonprofit technology resources on delicious, twitter, etc., for the last five years or so).

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

It seems like there's a new crowdfunding website out there every week, but which one is right for your nonprofit? I looked at a few popular crowdfunding sites and dissected their cost plans, nonprofit support, and special features. Special Plan for Nonprofits: No. You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2012

Laura Quinn shared her ideas at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference , in a session called More Than Apps: Affordable Program Delivery Through Mobile Phones. More mobile devices are sold worldwide than PCs, and mobile is expected to overtake PCs as the most popular way to access the Internet in the next few years. Director of Idealware.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

I'm tagging information related to discussion, examples, and comments about nonprofits using tagging (or not using tagging) to prep for upcoming session at netsquared.org with the tag del.icio.us/nptag. What would this visual look like if it was translated into a graphic of nonprofit tagging use? or something like this ?).

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

With the global financial crisis at its peak and a recession looming, many nonprofit managers are probably asking themselves, "How will my nonprofit raise money next year?" " I suspect fewer fundraisers are asking themselves, "How will my nonprofit raise the money it needs four years from now?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2006

I was also curious to see whether there were nonprofits using vlogs to promote their causes. Now almost a year later, there is renewed interest in vlogging and nonprofits. There has been online conversation during the past couple of weeks on vlog list , Netsquared , TechSoup and Blogher. Here's a synthesis. The Issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

There is so much talk both online and offline, from inside organizations and from outside, that “nonprofits are broken.” Why I’m excited about The Pollyanna Principles We have a huge opportunity before us to remodel our social benefit organization structure. We’ve done step 1: admitted that we have a problem.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

To prepare for the panel, I wrote up 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs. Next week, I will be participating in a session entitled, "Reach Out and Blog Someone" along with Steve Swenson of the Bakersfield Californian at the United Way of Kern County's Professional Development Conference for Nonprofits. So here it goes.10 Why not ask them?

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NOVEMBER 13, 2006

to raise money for sponsoring a college student in Cambodia via the Sharing Foundation. When I wrote about video blogging and nonprofits way back in September, I discovered the Have Money Will Vlog (see their video here ), and it's an excellent example of what Peter Dietz calls micro-philthranthropy. I did a campaign video.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 31, 2006

In early July, I posted about a Basic Blogging for Women Workshop I'd be teaching this fall, but after talking to some prospective students, I decided that it was important to find a space where everyone could be on a computer, so I changed the date and the venue so that we can be in a computer lab.

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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. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon, the capstone thesis project for Heinz School Masters students. He describes it as Evite-Meetup-Upcoming for nonprofits.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Be sure to search for your favorite nonprofits' names, especially on YouTube, you may be surprised to find that they have a channel. Facebook isn't just for college students anymore. You might be surprised how many nonprofits and individuals are using Facebook groups to organize. Other podcast directories to check out are Yahoo!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Emily Weinberg from the Nonprofit Blog Exchange Michelle Martin from the Bamboo Project ChipIn News Blog CrowdFunding (that is that awesome vlogger Sull) First-of-its-Kind (Peter Dietz - excellent advice on how to go about these campaigns) My Cambodian blogger colleagues have linked or posted about the campaign. What do I need to think about?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

The live video feed was being streamed from the Netsquared gathering in San Francisco happening at the same time as the virtual gatherng in Second Life. Last night's event brought back memories for me - of what it was like 13 years ago doing demonstrations at nonprofit conferences about online communities for arts organizations.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to speak at the Minnesota Council for Nonprofits annual conference; and after my presentation, I spent a couple hours speaking with folks from various nonprofits, vendors and service organizations. I want to start, first, with a story…. Community-Driven Model. Getting Started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

which was a remix of Marnie Webb 's Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Change the World. I'll be using a new online learning platform that I haven't used before and the participants are a slightly different audience than nonprofit staff or at least I think. Guide your students to conversations and resources. I'm nervous. Openness - ????

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Have Fun - Do Good

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. Students, people in churches, people in environmental groups who have embraced Fair Trade as a positive model of change. What is Starbucks relationship with Fair Trade?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 1, 2006

For the past year, I have been writing for NetSquared about nonprofits and NGOs that are using the social web to cultivate donors, advocates and activists for their organization and their cause. nonprofit internet marketing cause What makes us want to act for social change? Emotional connection. Passion for a cause.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. trusted body of knowledge and the 'why' has to do with providing a service to a busy and information-inundated nonprofit sector. with a student about the course schedule, only to realize later that the schedule you referenced was out-of-date?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

I came across her work while researching examples of nonprofits using the social web for social change for NetSquared and am looking forward to meeting her in person when she speaks at the NetSquared Conference next week. Heddy also writes for the Global Youth Fund blog. Lastly, trust your gut instinct and do what you love.

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