Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

Also, for the past year, I've been summarizing resources being shared through the NpTech Tag, I've felt frustrated that you didn't always know who had contributed the resource and while one could add brief annotations, there was not a space for conversation around those shared items. Can you answer it? And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. It came back earlier this week in a new format and aggregation process. I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. Photo by SpacePotato. rethink, reinvent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I first “met&# Enoch online through Netsquared in 2006 when I was putting together a presentation on nonprofits and the use of tagging. The winners included Elliot Margolies (who I also first met at Netsquared event), Mary J. Tags: Free Agent Networked Nonprofit Organizational Culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

Netsquared is new project in its embryonic stages from Compumentor, the folks who have brought excellent technology resources to the nonprofit field. Content is also being added to the site through streams of aggregated content through the net2 tag. What is it? The community is facilitated or sparkplugged by Chris Locke.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! Here's a couple of GTD tips for processing your email and being more efficient from LifeHacker. No problem, I dug into the NpTech + Digg tag archives and pulled out this terrific Beginner's Guide To Digg. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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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. She offers a three-step questioning process to help think through how to cut through the clutter. lolnptech.org includes photos of people, who could be tagged as "nptech." What's your guess?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

Public voting process. A process like this can ensure that lots of different ideas are included but that the competition can stay true to it’s purpose or the goals of the sponsoring organization. The most important way to use social media in a crowdsourced process is to allow the community to use social media anyway they want!

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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. Much commentary and critiques about the semi-public ballotting process. Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today. Where's the conference tag? Update: Tactical Philanthropy announces the 2007COF tag!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Netsquared Net Tuesday next week in SF is about " How Nonprofits Can Use And Build Online Social Networks ," featuring speakers from Change.org and Ning. over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. What do you think?

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 6, 2010

We’re also seeing a range of creative proposals — for example Paul Lamb’s suggestions including stewardship by open source foundations or social entrepreneur funders, and a NetSquared-type transition campaign. Tags: community issues collaboration fundraising social actions social impact support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

I didn't see that practically a week ago, Nancy White, tagged me with the NGO/NPO Memo. I did an interview with Michael back in May, 2005 and it is just fascinating to learn about his content gathering process. Netsquared and ConsultantCommons both from CompuMentor. Technorati Tags: ngomeme NGO/NPTECH Web2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

—– Over on the NetSquared platform right now we are in the midst of the 2010 FACT Social Justice Challenge. NetSquared supports the community at the intersection of technology and social impact in a few ways, including open innovation competitions. —– What do you think? We’d love to hear your examples!

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

" Net2 Think Tank Round-Up: Finding Volunteers Online | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – Looking for ways to recruit volunteers online? " Tags: roundup bookmarks broadband casestudies evaluation list postalicious report research resources volunteering. Check out the Net2 Think Tank for ideas! "For

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Communities on both platforms were clearly not part of the development and communications process, yet they were actively using the platform (for example, a grant from ideablob helped Epic Change implement a technology lab in a school in Tanzania ). How can this work? Do you know what the plans are for the tools you are using?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2006

mostly about the process and mechanics of blog conversations. The triggers: A blog conversation on Jilliane's Smith blog that became a community blog conversation about nonprofit tagging on netsquared. " -- on the second post I pointed the nonprofit tagging conversation. Can blog communities be facilitated?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

I think this is a hard concept for many to agree with because of the process by which the social media tools are most often adopted in organizations: for example, Jane really likes taking pictures and usually posts them to Flickr (an online photo sharing website) as a way to store them, sort them, and share them.

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JULY 23, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Recently, over 300 innovators and changemakers interested in the intersection of technology and social benefit work converged for a few days of idea-sharing, learning, and collaboration at NetSquared's annual conference. The Process. Learn more about the Net2 Challenge Process here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Marnie Webb (who appears to be blogging a bit more these days since she switched to a MAC ) tagged an interesting article from the Wall Journal that asks " Is there a numerical cap on how many friends we can have? So, I have no idea why this page was tagged with NpTech. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2016

The following blog post recaps a NetSquared Toronto presentation by Sarah Lesh, a front-end web developer at hjc. It's the same process with a web page; instead of file:///Users/sarahlesh/mywebsite.html, the file path on a website would be something like [link]. Closing tag: An example of this would be: Hello!

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 15, 2010

The Extraordinaries and Ushahidi , two past NetSquared challenge winners, are working hard to help bring relief to people affected by the recent earthquakes in Haiti. Here's how they describe the process: OPTION A: Upload a photo of a loved one and describe the person. Tag images with keywords like male, female, child, or adult.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2010

The process around policy - that is the discussion, buy-in, and education - is so critical for effective use of social media. Netsquared is running a thinktank on this topic and you contribute your ideas here. Tags: policy. Obviously, this is a just a beginning, not an end. Does your nonprofit have a social media policy?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 8, 2010

This morning, NetSquared hosted a special unconference at NTC on open data. Tags: Clients Consultants Digital Divide E-Learning Legal Considerations Online Activism Reporting Running Your Organization Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 Where are the reams of data from funders on the cost and ROI of projects they've supported?

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. The system has three components: The Image Tagger -- Volunteers sort through news photos coming out of Haiti and categorize (tag) them with keywords like “adult, child, alive, deceased.” Tags: Collaboration Community Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications. How can we do that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

In our session at NetSquared today, we used Social Actions as a case study in engaging online community participation, and shared two strategy tools that can help you make your nonprofit site more engaging. Engagement planning worksheet Engagement is a process, not a destination. Tags: engagement guest blogging n2y4.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

Photo by PixelFarmer - Zen Mutt (a rescue dog) - Title "Precision" The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to rethink, reinvent -- again. Conversations are getting more distributed and it is getting increasingly difficult to use tagging to discover, aggregate, and summarize them. For one thing, it???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

For social benefit organizations to truly “work” we all need to be part of the design, the process, the success. Tags: Books guest blogging. When we assume we are separate, we build systems that reinforce that separateness. When we assume we are interconnected and interdependent, we build systems that reinforce those connections."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. The panel picker process just opened - so you can vote yes or no for the panels you think are worthy of being on the program or not until September 4th. Tags: sxsw. In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. The panel picker process just opened - so you can vote yes or no for the panels you think are worthy of being on the program or not until September 4th. Tags: sxsw. In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I read Chris Brogan's " Your 3 Goals for 2009 " and I loved his process. I need get rid of clutter, but I first need to do the redesign thinking process before getting into the details of the information design, look, and feel. I will look at benchmarking processes and analyzing benefits and values. Tags: goals.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

NetSquared Open Space (NOS): APIs and Open Data. Who : Facilitating: Amy Sample Ward | NetSquared; Billy Bicket | NetSquared. The NetSquared team will be working the room to activate and facilitate conversations so everyone can enjoy the ride. Who : NetSquared and other Community Organizers. When : 9:00 a.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

The moderator, Patrick O'Heffernan, shared his thoughts based on his experience with The People Choose which is connected to Link TV and the first non-profit site to launch user-generated video as a community building process in a non profit environment. One of the points is a sort of "web the media" take.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. The panel picker process just opened - so you can vote yes or no for the panels you think are worthy of being on the program or not until September 4th. Tags: beth kanter NPTech sxsw.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

Joitske Hulsebosch, who lives and works in Netherlands, writes a blog called " Communities of practice for development " where she writes about topics related to her work of facilitating processes at different levels; teams, groups, organizations, networks, and communities of practice. And Netsquared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Should have set up a campaign tag to track blog posts, etc. The campaign tag is: sopharath. 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. What a dork I am! re doing and ask ???em

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Nutrition or fill in your Extension topic/subject area in Blog posts , in tags and in the Blog Directory. It's messy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

tags: nonprofit socialmedia ). I point out two good examples, the Hunger is Unacceptable Campaign (which uses the hold the sign meme -- the first one I ever did was in December 2005 for Netsquared ) and the Humane Society's LOL Seals. How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Media Genius View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.

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