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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Mobile Innovations for Social Good

NTEN

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. About NetSquared. To learn more about NetSquared or get involved, visit [link].

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Deadline Approaching for $10,000 Pizzigati Prize

Tech Soup

Previous winners have developed open-source applications and systems that are free, shareable, and benefit organizations that work to benefit others. The Pizzigati Prize works in the spirit that collaboration, rather than competition, and moves us forward by honoring those who work for social good.

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What TechSoupers Are Doing to Ensure Their Online Security: Part 1

Tech Soup

Eli van Der Giessen , NetSquared community manager, reveals: "One feature I like is Sharing. " "I also use some free browser add-on applications on my laptop. You only need to remember one password — your LastPass master password. What TechSoup LastPass Users Have to Say.

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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! Twitter's CEO has learned that short is sweet, flexibility is essential, and applications shoudl work so that people don't have to be at their computer all day long. This post shows you how to jury rig a DIY periscope for your webcam if it is built into your laptop screen. And if you???re

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

applications have changed the rules of online community. Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. He notes they were all taken with a Sony Picturebook mini-laptop with built-in camera. There are two sets of social roles here. Follow the links from here.

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10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause

Have Fun - Do Good

I write for the NetSquared blog each day (it takes me anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour depending on the topic), but it is also designed to be a community blog, so any registered user can post on it about how nonprofits are using the social web for social change. Depending on your organization's work and audience, you may not have to.

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