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APRIL 21, 2016

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2008

" And every year since she became a grandmother to an adopted Cambodian child, I said, "Make a donation to the Sharing Foundation." No, I asked them to contribute $10 to the Sharing Foundation (and they did) I guess you're wondering why my mom asked about the outhouse? Now Beng Krom???s family latrine???

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2011

A View of the Cloud from the NetSquared Community Even among technologically inclined people, there's sometimes a reluctance to move to the cloud. Prashant Pandit and Pooja Jayna of the NASSCOM Foundation (TechSoup's Indian partner organization ) discuss the hurdles that NGOs must overcome for cloud adoption to become a reality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

Should A Foundation's Financial Transactions Fully Support its Social Purposes? Should foundations align their grantmaking directives with their endowment investment policies? Adoption - Yes or No or Shades of Gray? Comment, Blog it, tag it NpTech, and/or start a blog over at the Netsquared site. Change the World!

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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? Social Media: Adoption, Strategy, and Measuring Success ZUP4Nonprofits has a two-part post ( pt. Wonder if smashups are eligible?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. And the user-adoption numbers are ridiculously high. In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely. Submitted by Michael Silberman.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

All part of the Twitter cycle of adoption ! Using New Technology to Enhance Grantmaker Practices " Lots of links to examples of foundation's using Web2.0 Lots of buzz on listservs and twitter about the MacArthur Foundation's $2 Million New Digital Media and Learning Competition. Powered by ScribeFire.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. And the user-adoption numbers are ridiculously high. In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely. Submitted by Michael Silberman.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2006

There has been online conversation during the past couple of weeks on vlog list , Netsquared , TechSoup and Blogher. Issues: Given the amount of time, technical skills, and resources that vlogging requires, when is it appropriate for nonprofits to adopt it? Here's a synthesis. The Issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The Knight Foundation is sponsoring The Knight News Challenge and they've got $5 million to give away. as early adopters rather than the phenomenon being linked to youth." The Case Foundation blog also has a section called " Tech4Good " TechSoup blog posts about an online tool and forum discussion about green policies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

. #1: New + Tech = Resistance New + Tech + Education = Adoption Think about what the technology adoption curve. You have early adopters, a big scary chasm, and then more mainstreamed adoption of the tools. Concerns about adopting social media will no doubt arise. This pattern is the same no matter the tools.

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AUGUST 21, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. And the user-adoption numbers are ridiculously high. In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely. Submitted by Michael Silberman.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. Specifically she speaks to why she isn't a stronger advocate and some of the issues related to " Second Wave Adoption." Last week I summarized Allison Fine's articulate rant about the Gates Foundation. Cross posted at Netsquared " Web 2.0,

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

As I mentioned in my post about " extra-organizational activists" , there are bloggers out there who would love to raise money for your cause: Beth Kanter raised $800 for the Sharing Foundation using the ChipIn widget plus her blog , social networks, Flickr and video in 26 days. Ask them to blog during conference sessions and post photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2006

Susan Tenby from TechSoup demos the virtual TechSoup Office during the Netsquared Conference while Ruby Sinreich and Deborah Finn (Cyber-Yenta) blogged about it. At the Netsquared Conference, I discovered that there are few organizations in the experimenting with metaverse games -- the early adopters.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Leadership and decision-making come from adoption not from executive authority. If there’s an idea that the community is behind, and a project or plan that’s adopted (whether it’s a new way of operating or a new tool), then it moves forward, regardless of “who” thought it up or campaigned for it. Community-Driven Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

That's when I was working with the New York Foundation for the Arts on its technology capacity building programs, including offline/online workshops for online skill building called SpiderSchool. I finally got to meet Jayne about a year at the netsquared conference.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

We recently polled our TechSoup employees and NetSquared community on what they see as looming large in 2015. Wes Holing, TechSoup's web content developer, predicts that the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation 's new program, called Let's Encrypt , will literally make the entire web more secure. We'll see.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I'm taking a deep breath to capture the learnings and roll them into the next steps for my personal fundraising campaign on behalf of the Sharing Foundation 's College Sponsorship Program and Leng Sopharath. My post over at Katya's blog generated some excellent advice and has also raised many more questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

These may work best for an online network focused on getting legislation passed - such as certain Sunlight Foundation projects , the Genocide Intervention Network , and the Energy Action Coalition. I am a proud member of the NetSquared community and have helped organize Net Tuesday events in Vancouver & Seattle. Then check out.

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