Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2014

Every month NetSquared holds free or low cost educational events for people and organizations who want to use technology for social good. Our events are powered by a global network of volunteers dedicated to building strong, self-sufficient local communities of nonprofit technology practitioners. What’s NetSquared Doing?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 8, 2015

NetSquared holds free or low-cost educational events for people and organizations who want to learn more about using technology for social good. Our events are powered by a global network of volunteers dedicated to building strong, self-sufficient, local communities of nonprofit technology practitioners. Newest NetSquared Groups.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 13, 2014

Webinars are awesome, and so are blog posts. But there’s a special magic that happens when we get face-to-face, which is why each month NetSquared organizers in 50 cities across the globe host workshops and socials for the nonprofit tech community. Abidjan, Ivory Coast: Abidjan NetSquared Meetup Group Monthly Meetup.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

Here’s your monthly update from the world of NetSquared Local. What Is NetSquared Local? NetSquared Local is TechSoup's volunteer-driven network of nonprofit tech meetups and salons. NetSquared Local groups hold monthly in-person events for anyone interested in the connection of technology and social impact.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 17, 2013

We are deep into June already, but NetSquared Local isn’t taking a vacation! NetSquared Local believes that the best way to build a strong, self sufficient community of #nptech practitioners is for us to go outside and get face-to-face. We challenge you to join a NetSquared Local group or start your own ! Event Reports.

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

National Volunteer Week has come and gone, but I ask you to join me every week in celebrating the amazing contributions of TechSoup's NetSquared community. Well, the average NetSquared organizer spends 8.2 Find your closest NetSquared group. Or, apply today to start your own NetSquared group. You like numbers?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2013

NetSquared Local members meet monthly in 50 cities around the world with the goal of helping each other solve their tech challenges and finding a tribe of people who shares our passions. Find your closest NetSquared group and join the conversation today! What have NetSquared Local groups been up to recently? Event NetSquared'

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

That's why TechSoup supports a global network of tech trainers called NetSquared. NetSquared groups focus on topics that address their unique local tech challenges, but once a quarter, we select a common theme. Find your closest NetSquared group. Or, apply today to start your own NetSquared group.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2015

If you're a regular reader of this blog, you've probably encountered one of my twice-monthly roundups of nonprofit tech meetups. Describing NetSquared events is difficult, because each one focuses on a different topic and has a unique flavor set by the organizing team. Abidjan, Ivory Coast: NetSquared Monthly Meetup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2007

I'm reposting this invitation to join the Netsquared Innovation Support Network. I'll also be blogging about how supporters will be assisting the Featured Projects over the Netsquared site in the coming weeks. You can do both by joining the NetSquared Innovator Support Network. Your name.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

I spent today at day 1 of the TechSoup Global Summit in Mountain View with two hundred and forty people who work in the TechSoup Global Network around the world, plus other stakeholders. I’ve been involved with TechSoup/Netsquared Network since its inception back six years ago and so it is nice to be part of the narrative arc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2014

Earlier this week, a mixed crowd of entrepreneurs, investors, start ups, nonprofits, social activists, and others came together for the inaugural conference on Catalyzing the Sharing Economy defined as the use of networked, mobile, information technology to share goods and services. Think AirBNB and Uber, but it is much more than that.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In collaboration with the TechSoup Global Network , our trusted partners give organizations worldwide access to the solutions they need. That's why TechSoup created NetSquared , our global network of volunteer-led Tech4Good meetups. If there isn't a group nearby, we'll help you start your own NetSquared group.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 24, 2011

During the month of October, join TechSoup.org and the TechSoup Global Network for our Cloud Computing Worldwide campaign. Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2010

Yesterday, an advanced copy of our book, The Networked Nonprofit , arrived. Hosted by NetSquared. I also want to thank everyone who has written about the ideas in the book: Social Action Learning: Touching the Hand of Those in Need Coolcat Teacher Blog, Vicky Davis. The Networked Nonprofit by Gibran Rivera. 1-2 PM/PST.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 13, 2013

You're probably already familiar with TechSoup's great blog posts on fundraising, like Fundraising: The Tech Tools You Need and 19 Effective Fundraising Ideas from Nonprofit Pros. The TechSoup Global Network is a treasure trove of fundraising wisdom. NetSquared. TechSoup Canada. Five secrets to crowdfunding success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2010

Today Allison Fine and I celebrated the launch of the Networked Nonprofit at TechSoup Global in the space where Netsquared Meetups take place. Most importantly, the vision that Marnie Webb had over five years ago called Netsquared inspired me to keep blogging and explore social media and nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

I’d like to use this post to share some of the responses to the Networked Nonprofit at different book events and online during the past month and let you know about upcoming events in November. Networked Nonprofit in Vegas. And, they all got copies of Networked Nonprofit (thank you James!) Steve Heye is blogging the book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Last week, I got to BoardSource at 8 am just so I could hear Marnie Webb and Rebecca Masisak, CO-CEOs of TechSoup Global share their lessons learned in developing, weaving, and stewarding two very different types of networks. The second network, Netsquared , in contrast was more loosely controlled with a lower risk in failure.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

NetSquared’s February series exploring “Online Community Organizing” includes three different interviews; I’m really excited to participate! I’ve included my interview below, but you can also read it and join the conversation on the NetSquared blog. I definitely recommend them both!

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 20, 2010

This post was originally posted on the NetSquared Blog and was written by Amy Sample Ward. Over the last few years, the NetSquared Local network (a project of TechSoup Global's) has grown from just a few groups in only a couple countries, to 70+ groups in 21+ countries! A Resource for Community Organizers.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

We've compiled a list of resources including articles, blog posts, webinars, and case studies on best social media practices from our global network. Here are even more blog posts, articles, and event recaps to get you started: Facebook uses an algorithm called EdgeRank to determine the makeup of each user's news feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2011

Over the past 18 months, I’ve been participating in The Network of Networked Funders , a community of practice for grantmakers facilitated by the Monitor Institute. These grantmakers are supporting and working through networks to pool their learning and increase the impact of their respective grantmaking practices.

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2011

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog. And you can also buy The Networked Nonprofit by Beth Kanter and Alison Fine , and Social by Social , by Amy Sample Ward and others, put out by OpenMute press." post a question or topic to the NetSquared community and participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

How would you mashup the Network for Good donation processing service with other services to make it easier for nonprofits to raise money online? Winners in each category will be awarded a $10,000 prize by a panel of judges present at the NetSquared Conference (N2Y3). For more information.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2010

This guest post comes from NetSquared community development manager Amy Sample Ward. An initiative of TechSoup Global, NetSquared is a global community of organizations and individuals leading the way in social change through technology. The website and Community Blog are your online spaces to connect, share ideas, and collaborate.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2010

This announcement was also published on the NetSquared Blog. The French American Charitable Trust (FACT) and NetSquared are pleased to announce the second annual FACT Social Justice Awards. Learn more about the challenge and how to participate below. Learn more about the challenge and how to participate below.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). NetSquared Local Reaches 70 Groups Worldwide! Join us on the 21st at 4 eastern/1 pacific for questions and answers about the book The Networked Nonprofit.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog. And, what online networks are supporting people with disabilities and what efforts are being made to make the web more accessible overall? For the social networking world to get behind this and support it would be very far-reaching."

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

We've compiled a list of resources including articles, blog posts, webinars, and case studies on best social media practices from our global network. Here are even more blog posts, articles, and event recaps to get you started: Facebook uses an algorithm called EdgeRank to determine the makeup of each user's news feed.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 3, 2010

This post is reposted from the #4Change blog. And when we get connected, and can connect our networks with other networks, we get even more social and have huge potential to make great things happen. Tags: community events 4change community building community organizing netsquared social by social twitter.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2008

Want to blog on an issue you are passionate about for an audience of hundreds of thousands of activists and nonprofit leaders? Change.org is launching a social action blog network this summer and is currently hiring a team of blogger/editors to help create a movement for change around the major causes of our time.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2015

TechSoup's NetSquared is a global volunteer-run network of nonprofit technology meetups. This is just a taste of the events being held every month by NetSquared groups. We're Currently Looking for People to Join Our NetSquared Community as Co-organizers. There are already 20 NetSquared groups across the U.S.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Get answers to your tech challenges at a NetSquared meetup (see list below). Check out this video from NetSquared Northern Michigan’s recent meeting. ” September’s NetSquared Events. Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. Don’t have a local NetSquared Local group?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2009

How do you decide what kind of information or campaigns are delivered to your various community members on different social networks? How to Participate: Blog your answer to the question either on your blog or the NetSquared blog. For directions on contributing to the NetSquared blog, click here.). (For

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2011

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog. " - Sarah Janczak on the NTEN blog. " - Sarah Janczak on the NTEN blog. " - Sarah Janczak on the NTEN blog. About Net2 Think Tank: Net2 Think Tank is a monthly blogging/social networking event open to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

The Featured Projects will be going on to the NetSquared Conference and have an opportunity to receive cash, tech and consulting resources. A Global Neighbour Network: NABUUR.com [link]. s Problems Through Social Networking Sites [link]. Global Women's Leadership Network [link]. Congrats to the list of 21! Maps 2.0 ???

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