Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2016

Like TechSoup's other community-driven tech-innovation initiatives — the NetSquared challenges , the ReStart movement , and Apps4Warsaw — Caravan Studios' work is informed first and foremost by the needs of the community itself. That is the mission of Caravan Studios , a division of TechSoup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

I'm honored to be on the team of live blogging (that is, blogging about an event during an event) for the NetSquared Conference. So, our live blogging assignment is also an important reporting task because conference participants may need to refer to these notes to cast their votes. We aren't just taking notes for ourself.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

NTEN Members doing it right with Twitter: check out this NonProfit Times article about nonprofits using Twitter effectively. Amy Sample Ward ( NetSquared ) wants you to get right with OneWebDay : learn more about the event and see ways to participate by checking out her great summary and reference list.

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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? Of course, referring to the newish book by Seth Godin called Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Sync? asks Rich Reeder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2008

I wanted to get my schedule in one easy to reference place (for myself) and think about how to incorporate some new panel moderation/panel techniques into my practice. When you are moderating a face-to-face discussion, part of the job is to keep in on track - on topic and on time - while allowing for interesting conversation to flow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Lots of time for reflection and to write that end of year post. This year, I decided to create a New Year's post that looks at both format and content so I have a handy reference for my year-end post for 2009! Alex Steed offers his connective predictions for 2009 at the NetSquared blog. Flickr Photo from Bearman 2007.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

What does it mean that one blog has three times as many users as another blog in the nonprofit tech space? What should Netsquared's Facebook strategy be? Many organizations may not have capacity for one person to be the sole blogger and many times the way into an organizational blog is a team of writers. What do you think?

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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. Someone asks , "Is the presentation effective is you don't know the reference? I do this all the time with annotated screen shots to provide "just in time" answers versus typing out instructions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

Although we currently do not have statistical information specifically from our ning sight, approximately 6% of visits to our newstips site is referred by Ning, which isn???t I remember stepping into a Netsquared meet-up and meeting for the first time three people who I???ve ve known them for a long time. t that bad.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

I've never been referred to as an comic strip character. (It She acknowledges that it takes time to listen and that there is no way around it. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Article on Netsquared : How To Track Mentions of Your Organization. Sean of the Tactical Philanthropy blog called me the batman of nonprofit technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2009

Submitted by Ivan Boothe, publisher of the Rootwork Blog Over at the NetSquared blog, Joe Solomon provided a great roundup of reasons people might be "jaded about social media for change" and ways they overcome it. If that's the case we'll be managing our own expectations, given enough time." Mad props to them.)

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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. Micro-philanthropy -- that ambiguous term that refers to all things socially networked, small-scale, and charitable -- will have matured. Notice something strange about those tasks?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

At the same time, one needs to consider why you're posting the video, and who you want to look at it, and what response you want. Current offers TV time; Sunlight Foundation and moveon.org ran contests for the best ads, with Sunlight offering cash prizes. It would be interesting to see some of the projects he refers to in the clip.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

It still requires a lot of attention, staff time, management and promotion." If you're short on time, read the abtracts and dive deeper into Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. This is a must-read.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 8, 2006

A couple weeks ago, I did an interview for the NetSquared Podcast with Leda Dederich, the creator of the dotOrganize project, and co-author of the report "Online Technology For Social Change: From Struggle to Strategy." Such a waste of time; they have better things to do. Below is a transcript of the interview.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

And we will also get to start talking about the options for what’s next, or as I refer to it, a more holistic paradigm. We thought about technology as something that took time, required a lot of maintenance and work, and was usually best kept confined to as few staff members as possible. We even forgot about our own website at times.

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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. I like to refer to that as finding the sweet spot. Why Community? So, why community?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A nonprofit organization that provides support for homeless in Northern, CA found references to homeless people on restaurant blogs and used what they learn for a fundraising campaign. world, reading and commenting on blogs, it's time to start blogging. It takes time to visit those sites and find what you want to read!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm slightly out of my comfort zone here because I've only been following this topic closely for a short time, although I have co-authored a guide for nonprofits on technology evaluation and ROI. Should we be spending our time or money on this social media strategy? I also don't want to get too deep into geeky measurement crap.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

Provided you set aside the time to explore and experiment, your nonprofit can use the tools and resources listed below to significantly improve your digital marketing and fundraising campaigns. Nonprofits can use it to study past versions of their website and to monitor their progress in web design over time. Websites & Email.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2006

My friend Michelle Murraine took me to task for the presumption that all coders are male in the pronoun choice in my last post, How does a programmer spend his time? Let's start with Michelle herself, who posted some comments on the NTEN-sponsored discussion of open API's last week to both the NetSquared site and her own blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Provided you set aside the time to explore and experiment, your nonprofit can use the tools listed below to significantly improve your web and email communications and your social media campaigns. The analytics tools will also evaluate your posts to deduce the best possible times to share your content. NetSquared :: netsquared.org.

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