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: How does social media support your organization's mission? 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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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

MARCH 12, 2015

Many years ago, NetSquared hosted challenges and conferences to highlight and bring together fledging social entrepreneurs. This work included developing a secure system to track, map, and report incidents of gender-based violence; an emergency hotline; and media training to support women in documenting and sharing their experiences.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

" Year Up therefore takes a holistic approach to preparing its students for the workforce. Artis told me that Year Up works with the students to help them learn professional skills, from something as simple as shaking hands to more complex issues such as workplace dress. " How to Support TechHire in Your Community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

They commit to each other individually as well as recruit from their individual networks to train and support their nonprofit partners in the year to come and beyond. It’s a student crowd, including grad students, and it’s a first job — of the “Is this all there is?&# These folks bond indelibly in hack teams.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2012

Typical wiki communities are work groups within a company, educators and students, and hobbyists. Wikipedia would not be possible without the support of its volunteer contributors, who help keep the site's content current. By far the most recognized wiki is Wikipedia.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

But more than anything, hackathons are fun events to network and meet allies interested in supporting your cause. meets LinkedIn for students. This wiki can be a first step in providing those developers with information about the problems that can benefit from their support. NetSquared can help! The ReStart Challenges.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

I looked at a few popular crowdfunding sites and dissected their cost plans, nonprofit support, and special features. Project creators offer rewards and incentives for donations to thank backers for their support. You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared (where Ushahidi won its first challenge!).

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

A lot of nonprofit blogs have come on the scene in the year between these events and I feel like it is time to revise and update my "10 Ways" post to include not only ways that nonprofits can use blogs, but also engage bloggers to support their cause. 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause 1. From Yahoo!

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

With the support of the National Endowment for Democracy and the Balkan Trust for Democracy, the challenge's goal is to promote tech for civil participation in transparency and accountability initiatives in the Western Balkans. Ttaram aims to improve education in Kosovo. This online reporting system is both a website and mobile app.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2012

use, Quinn recommended: For a small number of messages: Mozes supports up to 250 texts per month for $10/month. If you have developers and want sophisticated functionality: Clickatell is a a development API that supports bulk messaging, and syncing texts to databases. Supporting Staff in the Field. Support services and programs.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

I looked at a few popular crowdfunding sites and dissected their cost plans, nonprofit support, and special features. Project creators offer rewards and incentives for donations to thank backers for their support. You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared. where Ushahidi won its first challenge!).

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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. Meanwhile, Party4aPurpose launches the alpha version. Here's an example.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Nonprofits are spicing up their social media communications strategy with language and informalities that may turn-off older supporters and major donors. Simplistic appeals targeted at teens and college students don't. This is a flawed assumption. In this medium, openness, responsiveness, and inquisitiveness serve your cause well.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Facebook isn't just for college students anymore. Alex Bookbinder's Support the Monks Protest in Burma Facebook group (It was started in September and as of this writing has 426,505 members!) Be sure to search for your favorite nonprofits' names, especially on YouTube, you may be surprised to find that they have a channel.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

She then went on to explain the library program she used to work with at Target and how rewarding it was for her to get to support libraries in schools around the country. That word change supports co-design, it encourages collaboration, and it ensures engagement. Which technologies support the work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Outreach for your program or to connect with potential supporters. Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. One small example of how the licensings supports remixing. Create collaborative, student-authored resources. Netsquared Conference Mashup Panel.

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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

APRIL 24, 2007

So TransFair's approach is to be patient and to be supportive of that process; to really embrace the opportunity to work with big companies in order to have a larger impact in the world. Students, people in churches, people in environmental groups who have embraced Fair Trade as a positive model of change.

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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. Supporters can: 1. 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. As Will Coley explains , "when organizations offer clarity amidst the noise, they build trust among supporters." supporters: first as audience members and then as contributors." information overload may be a problem. Why Curate?

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