Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2014

Nonprofits, faith-based organizations, libraries, and networks such as the NetSquared Local should be leading this movement as they are already committed to social good. On the one hand you have examples of s hare economy services for wealthy people and on the other a whole group of people who do not have access to the share economy.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2017

Below are some common issues I've seen in my 20-year career in IT. Get Access to Your Documentation. What's your access to your computer and network documentation? An MSP can help you with issues if you report your network is slow, but do they make recommendations to prevent your network from getting slow?

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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

MARCH 26, 2013

Microsoft's International Women's Hackathon challenged female developers to combat issues like human trafficking through new mobile apps and web programs. The hackathons are themed around a certain issue, such as education or mHealth (mobile health). NetSquared can help! The ReStart Challenges.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

Through technology, data, and resource-sharing, Community Boost_r seeks to empower Balkan citizens to voice their opinions, demand solutions to everyday problems, and stay informed on accountability and transparency issues. This past spring, FTS was on the ground in the Western Balkans, helping organize the Community Boost_r Challenge.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

It's not enough to just share stories about your impact — how do you mobilize and engage people who are passionate about issues you're working on? NetSquared DC organized a panel discussion on Engagement Strategy: Empowering Champions* and Influencers* on November 3, 2015, to delve into this question. spanhidden.

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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. Jaeger explains that to be actionable, an idea must be concrete and address a problem or issue.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

Earlier this year, President Obama announced a bold initiative to expand access to technology jobs in the United States. 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. Building a New Source of Talent.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

I wanted to use today to focus in on a question recently posed by my good friend Joe Solomon on Twitter : What are the nonprofit/orgs that are working 2 wire the green movement, like what @ netsquared does 4 nonprofits, @ sunfoundation for politics; which orgs are working to expose data, leverage soc media, connect the orgs together?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Since 2005, nonprofits have downloaded it more than 13,000 times to send news, communicate information on critical issues, and serve as an emergency help line.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

This post was written by Trenton DuVal, contributing editor at NetSquared, and originally appeared on their blog. Like any organization working on big issues, nonprofits take on. them, makes files accessible from anywhere, and it is fully integrated with Google Apps. It’s what the NetSquared team uses to stay on task.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

This post originally appeared on the Netsquared blog and was authored by Bari Samad, an NGO domain expert for NetSquared. 7billionactions.org do help us gain a deeper understanding of the issues and trends behind the raw data. Last week, the world’s population reached a staggering 7 billion people.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

Jordan writes a great summary of the debate this kicked off, and her own thoughts about the issue. Marnie Webb ( TechSoup Global ) wants you to do Access right: read her summary of the 3 things you need to do as an organization to help your constituents stay connected -- as well as understand what they're connecting to and why.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2013

It was originally published on NetSquared. At the launch of RAN, innovative projects designed by students to enhance resilience pointed to the tremendous importance of accessible, transparent information for increased disaster resilience and development outcomes. data foundations big data foundation center tsfoundations'

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

Six years into setting up a global network of partners, TechSoup Global team members and some of our global partners will talk openly about the real issues in going global. We’ve asked a few of our global network partners to be on hand to provide their take on the issues. Find NetSquared at NTC. Wednesday, April 4.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

TechSoup's NetSquared Initiative partnered with the HRC in the first conference The Soul of the New Machine in 2009 to help select a winner in their Mobile Challenge. Connectivity is still an issue in most parts of the world, and we need to think of solutions that account for the lack of access to the Internet.

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NTEN

MARCH 6, 2015

The prize will help the Mifos X community towards their goal of a world where each person has access to the financial resources needed to create a better life for themselves and their family. Eli van der Giessen , NetSquared Global Community Manager, TechSoup Global. Regina Walton , Marketing Manager, Pole 2 Win International.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

I'm blaming it on 4 years of awesome NetSquared conversations. I want us to give nonprofits a basic framework of things to consider including identity and anonymity, digital inclusion and access, community management, taxonomy, content ownership, and your data ecosystem. It's the first software I've ever fallen in love with.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

It is so easy for people who care about an issue - it is easy to connect. There is a third access - it is not about ROI or social impact. I haven't spent much time in this space, but when I walked through the door I ran into Sean Stannard-Stockton who at met at Netsquared several years ago and encouraged him to set up a blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

He also describes some issues with the interaction design of Causes: In addition, the Social Cause app does not let non-profits a) access the contact information of members b) update members on the cause or c) even send them a receipt for donations, and of course, market again. And if you???re

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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 19, 2007

Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. NTEN's Call for NTC Sessions - Deadline October 24th. And if Web 2.0 generators. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Specifically she speaks to why she isn't a stronger advocate and some of the issues related to " Second Wave Adoption." socially and technically accessible in emerging knowledge societies? Cross posted at Netsquared " Web 2.0, BlogWikiWeb is the "wikitation" from the Web2.0 Need a chuckle?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

You can find out what other people are saying or thinking about your topic, community, organization, program or issue area. When you find the people and you find the issues, participate. Say you want to track mentions of a particular public issue or news item. Eating Fabulous Step 2: Thinking Outloud. This can inform.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

In the holistic paradigm, we recognize the value we create for ourselves by putting our data into an API so that we can use and reuse it all we want, and recognize that doing it in an open way like this means we create value for the rest of the network by giving them access to our hard work. But we need new resources, too.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The NetSquared Auckland group launched the event and shared four valuable insights into digital storytelling: Always have a hero. Important issues emerged in the conversation: data access, data literacy, design of platform, dissemination strategy, and impact measurement. On September 4, 2014, beginning at 3 p.m.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

PR: I got interested in issues of hunger and poverty when I was in college, and was particularly interested in rural poverty in the developing world, and started studying ways to approach that, alternative ways to approach that. And what we're finding is, we're reaching consumers, just not as fast as we would like.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. of great technology and access to crowd wisdom. had EVER been accessed externally. though it easily solves the above mentioned issues and more." Here's a quick working definition to get us started: Content curation focuses.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

San Francisco NetSquared (Net2) kicked off its 2012 Meetup line up with Craig Newmark , of Craigslist and craigconnects , who talked about using technology for the common good. Newmark believes in harnessing the power of technology to amplify voices not otherwise heard and redistributing access to power equitably.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

Nonprofits, faith-based organizations, libraries, and networks such as the NetSquared Local should be leading this movement as they are already committed to social good. This is part of the Sharing Economy with the most transformative potential: the ability to address societal inequities and envision new ecological solutions.

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NTEN

JUNE 11, 2014

As the founder of Social Signal , one of the world''s first social media agencies, Alexandra helped to create some of the web''s most ambitious online communities, including NetSquared and Tyze. We see that kind of sharing across a whole range of categories: goods, services, space, transportation, and money.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2009

The first full session I was able to catch was “Tools Galore in Online Communications” moderated by Netsquared’s Amy Sample Ward with speakers Natalie Foster , Director of New Media for the Democratic National Committee , Rebecca Moore, Google Earth Outreach and Laura Quinn, Executive Director of Idealware.

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