Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

The organization got started when a group of Kenyan bloggers led by Erik Hersman began doing online mapping of violence reports after the 2008 Kenyan election. It can inform members of a community of critical information as it happens, and tell an event's story visually with maps, interactive charts, and other visualizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

He describes what hopes to do: I intend to examine the methodology of various politically and socially energized young people, contacted through various activist networks, and to listen to, record, and share their stories with present and future doers. Alex is a great example of a change blogger. I guess I'm a change blogger too.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Here’s a bit of John Brennan ’s story (an ideablob member who was competition in the competition) from his comment on my original blog post : “It’s upsetting that companies like this aren’t actually thinking or caring about the real people and ideas they are effecting. How can this work?

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 7, 2009

I have also written for The Extraordinaries , NetSquared , the Stanford Social Innovation Review Opinion blog , WorldChanging , and The Huffington Post. Many of my coaching clients are artists, I worked for six years in arts education at Streetside Stories , and I produce the Arts and Healing Podcast. blog blogging blogger fun

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

TechSoup and NetSquared have put together a month of educational opportunities, from local events all over the world to day-long Twitter parties and a free webinar. The Case Foundation crunched some numbers on impact investing, read the full story and see what they found. Register now! Have a funny cultural practice at your office?

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Because blogs written by nonprofits don't always have a specific blogging personality associated with them, they can sometimes be overshadowed in the nonprofit blogosphere by individual bloggers, so, let's shine a light on some nonprofit blogs that are written by organizations! Stone Circles Streetside Stories Sustainable Table TechSoup U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. NetSquared Community. for the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) beginning on May 29th. Like last year, conference participants are introducing themselves on their NetSquared Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

NetSquared. Netsquared Featured projects receive grant awards ! AFP Blog points the Mindblizzard Blog story about how the Dutch Red Cross will begin fundraising in Second Life using Yike Strum , a top model, as their Red Cross ambassador. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

What should Netsquared's Facebook strategy be? These are events where a group of bloggers write about a particularly topic on a particular day. Blog Carnivals tend to be topic driven with a smaller number of participants compared to blog action projects that are advocacy or marketing driven and may include larger groups of bloggers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

As part of my preparation, it seems like a good time to update my 2006 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Us Blogs , and my 2007 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause. Example: The Case Foundation's Blog includes posts from multiple staff members , including Jean Case , and guest bloggers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 9, 2006

My March post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs , seems to have been helpful to folks (it even got translated into spanish by a blogger in Spain, so I thought I'd share my list, originally posted on NetSquared , of 7 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Podcasts. Example: UNICEF's podcast, "Pakistan's Earthquake: A fifteen-year-old tells her story."

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 10, 2007

Being an organization's blogger involves not only writing for the blog, but also building relationships with other bloggers by reading them, linking to them, commenting on their blogs and inviting them to comment on your blog. A natural person to be the staff blogger is whoever writes the organization's newsletter or e-newsletter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2009

Cultural shift afoot - technology companies, media, and bloggers using their influence to meaningful action. He shared some recent examples, including those from Netsquared. How do we access the YouTube the celebrities to make us better story tellers? Two trends: Technical side increasing openness in API, RSS, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Twitter and Facebook, but with Skype Out, Email Rules A few nptech bloggers are experimenting with Twitter and seeing some of the benefits. Global NpTech: African Civil Society to Colombia Saidia.Org Blog is gathering stories about Web2.0 Global NpTech: African Civil Society to Colombia Saidia.Org Blog is gathering stories about Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

While there has been some excellent conversations in the past fews months, particularly the Netsquared ThinkTank , I haven't seen a lot of nonprofit case studies that share real life experience with measuring results from social media strategies. Since there is lots of time before this panel, I would love hear your thoughts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

via the AFP Blog summarizes this news story from msnbc about nonprofits in Second Life inspired by Kiva in Second Life's Grand Opening Party at the Nonprofit Commons. " Jeremy Pepper , who spoke at this month's NetSquared Net Tuesday Meetup , is the director of communications. Pixelanthropy takes hold in Second Life! And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

As both a lesson and as a metric, failure is potentially productive at every level of socialmarkets - from the repeated return of one homeless person to shelter, to the repeated attempts to attach a value like SROI to such a story." An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared.

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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? Share Your Stories and Change the World " is accepting submissions until February 7th. Wonder if smashups are eligible?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. saying about your organization as well as to find new marketing leads to contact with your messages and stories of hope. Jonathon Coleman ). Want inspiration? Jonathon Coleman ).

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 7, 2007

My only criticism of the campaign is that very few of the photos have a Creative Commons license that allows bloggers and other supporters to share the photos and spread the word. Cross-posted from the NetSquared blog. Hat tip to the NTEN Flickr Affinity Group for the story. So far, 186 photos have been posted.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

I originally wrote this post for the NetSquared Blog. Ask them for success stories that you can share with your boss. Provide rss feeds to the whole blog, and to individual bloggers' feeds so readers have a choice of how they want to subscribe. The interns can be contributing bloggers, but they shouldn't be the lead blogger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. The story is used to teach the virtues of hard work and preparation. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Thank Yous So far, other bloggers have added the badge to their site or linked to the campaign and I want say a big thanks and in Khmer too ! I wanted to start with my blog readers and nonprofit tech colleagues and Cambodian blogger colleagues. I am technology trainer, evaluator, curriculum developer, and blogger.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2006

As if you don't get enough of my holding forth here, Marshall Kirkpatrick interviewed me the other day for Techsoup's Netsquared project, and posted it here. Beth is a Cambridge, MA blogger and techy who has done a lot of work with arts and educational organizations. It was a really enjoyable, rambling conversation.

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MARCH 22, 2006

Many of these blogs have been mentioned on this blog before or on NetSquared. Example: NetSquared's blog is a community blog that anyone can post to about resources, events and information related to how nonprofits and NGOs can use the social web for social change. 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2006

She caught my attention when she announced her blog over at Netsquared. s a funny story. There I found links to other nonprofit bloggers including yours! In January, 2006, she started a blog, the Nonprofit Eye , to write about professional topics of interest related to her work as a nonprofit finance professional.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Video The AFP Nonprofit Technology blog points to a story by Jennifer Gilomen from BAVC about digital storytelling techniques and tools for nonprofits in the NPTimes. If you have a subscription to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, there is another related story called "Telling Moving Stories." And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

in Ghana here and a story about the use of a wiki in Zambia by my colleague Saskia here. It is good to have some experienced bloggers around who can help you out with simple questions you may have. And Netsquared. An offline newsletter or meeting is very important in Ghana for instance for reaching people as they don???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation. Many organizations are keeping tabs of what is being said about their organization or programs on blogs and responding directly, telling their side of the story. Netsquared Conference Mashup Panel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Marshall Kirkpatrick , who was working with Netsquared , whipped up the NpTech Metafeed which allowed folks to aggregate items tagged by nonprofit techies from many distributed sources. Don't just submit your own content: submit stories from all around the web. Back in the early days of Web 2.0, And if you???re

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 1, 2006

For the past year, I have been writing for NetSquared about nonprofits and NGOs that are using the social web to cultivate donors, advocates and activists for their organization and their cause. I find that the campaigns I respond the most to are the ones with heart, whimsy and oftentimes, a story. Passion for a cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

The other big story in Kikono was Best Practices in MySpace pointed to by Solidariti blog. These stories are summarized and aggregated with some previous articles, posts, and resources about Nonprofits and MySpace here. 9 Lessons for Would-be Bloggers. The graphic. FOSS, Audio and Video for Activism and Advocacy.

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JUNE 30, 2007

When Sophia contacted me and asked if I would talk here, my first thought was, "You know, I could talk here, but I just know so many amazing women who have stories that I want to share." So when I was asked to do this panel and learned what this conference was about, I thought, "Well, I should have them come and tell their stories to you."

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DECEMBER 3, 2005

One of the reasons I am so excited about the work I am doing with NetSquared is because I think that these new web-based tools, especially podcasts, are an incredible way for nonprofits to get the word out about their causes, especially when they are listened to through headphones.

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