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OCTOBER 13, 2014

As we've said before, everyone needs basic security awareness and skills, but these skills are even more important for nonprofits, charities, and NGOs because we rely on the goodwill of donors and funders to do our good work. October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month (TechSoup is a proud NCSAM Champion!).

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DECEMBER 14, 2012

Read an account of how Canteen , an Australian nonprofit dedicated to supporting teenagers with cancer, used social media to raise awareness for an online and offline campaign. NetSquared. NetSquared Local groups from around the world are using social media in a variety of ways to promote and collaborate on innovative projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I keep hearing from the “older generation&# how aware they were of the importance of social media, but how difficult it was to change mindsets. I first “met&# Enoch online through Netsquared in 2006 when I was putting together a presentation on nonprofits and the use of tagging.

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2012

From NetSquared. NetSquared is organizing technology-for-social-good events all over the world. Get inspired with these digital storytelling examples: raising awareness of homelessness and sharing indigenous stories online. Get practical advice on live-streaming an activist event and making an all-star meme for your nonprofit.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

Over on the NetSquared platform right now we are in the midst of the 2010 FACT Social Justice Challenge. NetSquared supports the community at the intersection of technology and social impact in a few ways, including open innovation competitions.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

These apps have the power to help nonprofits and charities reach a whole new audience and raise awareness about their mission. You might be able to find help from NetSquared , an initiative from TechSoup Global. NetSquared brings nonprofits together with programmers, designers and other business professionals.

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DECEMBER 14, 2012

Read an account of how Canteen , an Australian nonprofit dedicated to supporting teenagers with cancer, used social media to raise awareness for an online and offline campaign. NetSquared. NetSquared Local groups from around the world are using social media in a variety of ways to promote and collaborate on innovative projects.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

She also directs National Cyber Security Awareness Month each October. CONNECT is a global cybersecurity awareness campaign to help all of us stay safer and more secure online. Kevin Lo, TechSoup's senior program manager for NetSquared, who has been TechSoup's resident security expert for many years.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

This post originally appeared on the Netsquared blog and was authored by Bari Samad, an NGO domain expert for NetSquared. Utilizing SAP (the official campaign analytics partner) business analytics technology, the dashboards create greater transparency and awareness around population data and trends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2010

Educate: Important to train or make employees aware of the implications. Netsquared is running a thinktank on this topic and you contribute your ideas here. Creating a social media policy or any other organizational policy requires three steps: Establish the policy: Determine the policy and what you want to accomplish.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2014

They also work with celebrity speakers, volunteers, and a large online community to raise awareness and support action to end human trafficking. Not For Sale believes that "Awareness is the first step towards engagement, and engagement can lead to changes in action, and changes in action can lead to changes in the world."

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 7, 2008

Nedra Weinreich of Spare Change worked with Alltop to figure out what nonprofit news and blog feeds should be included (thanks for including Have Fun * Do Good and NetSquared !). However, I discovered a few I wasn't aware of or hadn't visited in a while. Give the nonprofit and green sections a browse.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Moderated by NTEN membership director, former NetSquared organizer, and friend of TechSoup Amy Sample Ward , "Rethinking Movement Buildling" brought together three luminaries from organizations whose stock-in-trade are movements to promote social change. Movement Building and Elections. The moment of opportunity had passed.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

This post was authored by Vanessa Rhinesmith and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. awareness and skills development in children, teens, and young adults. A couple of weeks ago NPR ran a segment entitled, A New Generation of App Developers , discussing the emergence of creative and youthful app developers.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

Quite a few survey respondents also mentioned that they weren't aware of some of the learning resources included in the survey. NetSquared. If you didn't have a chance to respond to the survey, or you have additional thoughts or suggestions, please share them in the comments below. Help us make TechSoup a better place!

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 21, 2009

A DV (Domestic Violence) Awareness app provided by People Against a Violent Environment , that says that the organization receives all of the profits from the sale of the application. GoPlanit.com's Pet Earth game where the earth is your virtual pet to take care of. A ConsumerReports.org app to take shopping.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Photo from LolNPtech.org (Registration is here ) Mashups, Meatballs, and New Orleans Do you look at all of the data available online, and imagine ways to combine and connect it to increase awareness about an issue? Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! Applications will be available form Feb 1 to March 14, 2008. And if you???re

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NOVEMBER 27, 2012

TechSoup Taiwan discussed a few organizations that are using gaming to raise awareness about certain issues. One example of gaming for good is the PETA Pokemon game, which seeks to raise awareness about lab animal testing. Want to learn more about how gaming is changing social issue awareness and fundraising?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

Britt Bravo wrote a post several months back defining the term: people who are using their blog, podcast or vlog to raise awareness, build community, and/or facilitate readers/listeners/viewers' taking action to make the world a better place. This fall, DC will be one of 35 cities visited by NetSquared???s What's that? s Alex Steed.

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JUNE 2, 2015

We suggest also finding your nearest NetSquared group , where nonprofits and technologists come together for social impact! You can raise awareness by sharing the news using the hashtag #TechHire on social media and following @WhiteHouseOSTP on Twitter. Volunteer as a mentor, instructor, or support for a nonprofit (such as Year Up!)

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 29, 2006

Answers, "Raise awareness for your cause." So why not choose one that raises awareness for your favorite cause?" Examples: For World AIDS Day, avatars wore shirts with red ribbons and for Breast Cancer Awareness month they wore shirts with pink ribbons. This post was originally written for NetSquared.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2006

Beth Kanter posted an incredible photo today on blogher and netsquared (click on one of them to see it) taken from the camera_rwanda blog. Camera_Rwanda is using photography to raise awareness and money to send Rwandan orphans to college. You must visit this blog and see the photos.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 21, 2006

As part of this awareness-raising campaign, they have issued a 14-Day Challenge. Written for the NetSquared blog Image credit: Camp Kids I by Mark Knobil. Starting today, December 21st, they will share stories through daily blog entries and videos. You can also post this badge on your blog or web site: The code is available here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2007

Last week, at NetSquared's San Francisco Net Tuesday Meetup, Steve Miller, Product Manager, Google Earth Outreach spoke to a room of 50+ social changemakers and web innovators about how nonprofits can use Google Earth Outreach for their work. Full disclosure: I am NetSquared's Community Builder.

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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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SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

What should Netsquared's Facebook strategy be? The latter may help boost awareness of the topic or cause and in some cases get picked up by news and other sites that collectively increases traffic. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. What do you think?

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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. Today’s online communities go beyond posting photos or finding dates—they are building social capital, increasing awareness and raising millions of charitable dollars.

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JULY 25, 2006

" She didn't become aware any "serious" uses until six months later when she mentioned Second Life to good friend in LA, Tom Maroney (???Frank " Susan sees many possibilities for nonprofits, including building awareness, fundraising, and networking. t able to conceive of Second Life as anything more than a game.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Raising awareness and providing local communities a venue for sharing their story. Raise awareness for your cause and projects. Panelists: Natalie Foster, DNC ; Rebecca Moore, Google Earth Outreach ; Laura Quinn, Idealware. The sessions are short (only 50 minutes!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2006

The triggers: A blog conversation on Jilliane's Smith blog that became a community blog conversation about nonprofit tagging on netsquared. The question about nonprofit adoption of these tools for conversation. My participation in an online discussion at.

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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. Today’s online communities go beyond posting photos or finding dates—they are building social capital, increasing awareness and raising millions of charitable dollars.

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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. Today’s online communities go beyond posting photos or finding dates—they are building social capital, increasing awareness and raising millions of charitable dollars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Can you imagine a way to combine data that would increase awareness around an issue? NetSquared, a project of TechSoup, is awarding a share of $100,000 in prize money, and a trip to the NetSquared Conference, to the top 20 winners of the NetSquared Mashup Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Transparency and Digital Identity Marnie Webb has a live blog post from the Online Community Summit from a session called " Holding Power Accountable: Transparency, Data, and Community " which was how a community can form and activate around the concept of data - raise awareness achieve social change. And if you???re

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

As some of you know, part of my work is being the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that facilitates the adoption of social web tools by nonprofits and NGOs. NetSquared badges to put on your blog, web site or email signature. • Another example is ilovemountains' new mashup for their "What's My Connection?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

" Susan also distinguishes between "fundraising video" which is about the organization and its programs and an awareness raising video, one that is about the issue, not the organization. Netsquared Net Tuesday also had a session on vlogging and Britt Bravo posted some great notes. Off to consume those now!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Laura's Notebook has turned pink for the month of October to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month and so has Michelle Martin. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. This articles provides some excellent tips and strategies for a successful group approach to blogging.

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