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: Do multiple people at your organization participate in social media? Social Networking social media NetSquared tssocialmedia World Affairs Council'

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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. The site was developed by Democracy in Action.

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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. The concept is that people can tweet the @bicyclerack Twitter account.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

Many years ago, NetSquared hosted challenges and conferences to highlight and bring together fledging social entrepreneurs. In January 2013, Dd also hosted a hackathon mainly comprised of local students and programmers, further cultivating ownership and sustainability in the process. netsquared digital divide' spanhidden.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Created by local NYC students, this game is designed to be played in and around city libraries and teaches players how to use library resources. These Facebook games, however, can help give disadvantaged children hot meals, save zebras, and provide people worldwide with clean drinking water.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Like Burning Man , people camp. Like Maker’s Faires , people…create. And like Bar Camps , people hack. It’s a student crowd, including grad students, and it’s a first job — of the “Is this all there is?&# Every Campusero gets to hook up to the mother of all servers for a week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

We’ll also be referring folks to resources for more formal learning and peer connections, like NTEN , the Nonprofit Technology Network and host of the annual Nonprofit Technology Conference and Netsquared and TechSoup Global – and of course sharing resources from our colleagues in the nonprofit/social media field.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

This post was authored by Vanessa Rhinesmith and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. story chronicled a middle school student who built an app to help him. young people are developing their own creative solutions to problems. story chronicled a middle school student who built an app to help him. As a 2010 winner.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2012

Have you ever thought about building an online space where different people can easily share their expertise on a subject or project? Typical wiki communities are work groups within a company, educators and students, and hobbyists. If creating such a resource seems out of your league, you might want to consider building a wiki.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

People at the event got to hear first-hand from a Year Up graduate about the impact of this national nonprofit. " Year Up therefore takes a holistic approach to preparing its students for the workforce. Students also learn about teamwork, time management, conflict resolution, and work/life balance. The Power of a Year.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

How can people fight back? From fixing wrecked park benches to cleaning up litter, the platform enables people to take action by submitting photos or videos of the problem and forwarding it to the correct authorities. Through technology! Community Boost_r , an initiative from Fundacja TechSoup. translates to "What can be done?"

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared (where Ushahidi won its first challenge!). Indiegogo also measures how much social engagement is happening with your campaign, meaning how many people are looking at it and sharing it on various networks. Bottom line: Kickstarter might be a bit of a gamble for nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2012

Some SMS providers allow you to set up automated responses, with branching decision points based on how people respond to your message. For example, The Reach School educates children on the autism spectrum, and they use iPads to show videos, provide students with hands-on learning games, and as a reward for good behavior. Proimos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Well, imagine that your organization said you wanted to have a public education system in your state that provided opportunities for all students to learn, fair pay for both teachers and staff, opportunities for growth for students, teachers and staff, and an entry point for all students to enter the “real world” prepared.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared. Indiegogo also measures how much social engagement is happening with your campaign, meaning how many people are looking at it and sharing it on various networks. Aid Afghanistan for Education and Peace has the lofty $10,000 goal to fund a school of 300 students for a month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

A few people in the chat were saying, “I tried Friendfeed. I really don’t think Friendfeed is any different than Twitter in the sense that it is difficult to see the value until you have the right amount and type of followers and are following the right amount and type of people. An incredible listening tool.

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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

MAY 13, 2006

The trainer sharing with students, the consultant sharing with clients, beyond face interaction. Note from Andy - 3 people on his team are starting to use it because they got sick of getting emails w/url or resource links. Netsquared Tagging and Bookmarking Net2Learn Center and site search using word " tagging " Also here.

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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. lolnptech.org includes photos of people, who could be tagged as "nptech."

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

They are a tool that allows for a conversation between the reader and the writer, and for information to reach people quickly all over the world. There are a lot of people out there reading and writing blogs. For example, here is a post that I wrote from Aspiration Tech's Nonprofit Developer's Summit for NetSquared blog readers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Mongkol, a Cambodian college student who is studying in the US on a Fullbright Scholarship and knows the importance of a college education had this to say. I posted an announcement of the campaign on my blog and on Netsquared Posted a guest blog post at Katya's blog soliciting campaign advice in exchange to share my learnings.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

There's an unfortunate consensus emerging in the nonprofit sector that social media is only helpful for communicating with young people. Simplistic appeals targeted at teens and college students don't. Platforms like Genius Rocket and NetSquared provide nonprofits an opportunity to crowd-source a communications or technological need.

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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. Here's a few reflections from people in the room. I've been able to connect with well-known people in the educational tech field and have a conversation with them.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Facebook isn't just for college students anymore. Some other do-good social networks you might want to try out are: Care2 , Change.org , Flickr (photos), Future5000 (youth), Meetup (events), Just Cause , myBLOC.net (young people of color), Razoo , TakingITGlobal (youth), Upcoming (events) and WiserEarth. PARTICIPATE: "Web 2.0"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Overview slides of what is Web2.0 ( remix from Social Media and Nonprofits Presentation) Core theme Listening - Responding to what people are saying about the topic or the program. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together. Step 1: Find People. Collaboration on student projects or other ways.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

That conversation is a perfect example of both the kinds of conversations I have had countless times when talking to people (whether they work for a library or not) about the future of libraries as well as the frame I’m using for this talk. For libraries to truly be the heart of a community, they need people coming in, all the time.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

Britt Bravo: Why should people buy Fair Trade products like coffee and chocolate? People are trading up, as it were. People are looking for higher quality food, they're looking for healthier food, and they're looking for a more pleasurable experience around food. Climate change is on people's minds.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 28, 2010

His learnings come from experiences that span an education in electronics and telecommunications, multi-cultural professional engagements in software development and communications, a business administration student life in pretty Paris and experiments in implementing technological solutions for social challenges.

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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. People connecting." What makes us write a donation check, spread the word about a campaign, or show up for a meeting or protest?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. I always remind people to document their live events with photos or video. with a student about the course schedule, only to realize later that the schedule you referenced was out-of-date? information overload may be a problem. I've also.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

This week's Solutionary Woman is 24-year-old Heddy Nam, the Associate to the Chief Operating Officer of Amnesty International USA and co-founder of Never Again , an international network of young people working for peace. The outcome will hopefully improve Amnesty’s effectiveness, helping more people in the long run.

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