Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2012

Blackbaud guest bloggers share expert fundraising tips and simple steps for creating a Facebook page that rocks. From NetSquared. NetSquared is organizing technology-for-social-good events all over the world. Pacific time. TechSoup is keeping busy this July. Here's a roundup of what we've been doing.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. [Ed. There are so many blogs, news sources, and conversations happening at the same time, every day, and the chances that you’ll be able to find them all without trying is pretty unlikely. Here are some example searches using NetSquared as the organization. You can read all the details here. ].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

So, when Lynne Johnson from Fast Company asked me to blog a list, I thought I'd create a nonprofit technology category and acknowledge the work of these awesome women: Nonprofit Technology Marnie Webb is the Co-CEO of TechSoup Global and creator of Netsquared and was voted most valuable person in the nonprofit technology field in 2008.

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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. During the early days of our Netsquared project , we held big annual conferences to showcase and fund innovative tech for good. Since then, there have been more than 6.5

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

to which New York Times reporter Stephanie Strom tweeted back “No kidding.”. This is a guest post from Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared’s Global Community Development Manager.&#. That doesn’t mean NetSquared’s perfect, by any measure, but it does mean that a quick abandonment isn’t in store. How can this work?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 20, 2009

Edward Harran is a blogger and nonprofit technologist I have connected with through NetSquared, this blog, and of course Twitter. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Below is the blog post from him, calling for help. He is based in Australia, a far way from San Francisco. So here I am. I need your help.

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Care2

APRIL 7, 2010

With so many informative panels to choose from (such as Diversifying Your Tech and Online Communications Teams by Frogloop bloggers Jocelyn Harmon and myself as well as Ivan Booth and Shireen Mitchell) on topics ranging from online fundraising, recruitment, and social media - it was a real challenge to come up with my top 12 picks.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 28, 2008

For the past two days I've gotten to spend time at the NetSquared Conference with my Co-Editor of BlogHer's Social Change, Nonprofit and NGO section, and fellow NetSquared blogger , Beth Kanter of Beth's Blog.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 5, 2009

Here are some other bloggers that are writing their nonprofit resolutions at Convio’s invitation: Beaconfire Wire. Help send me to the NetSquared Conference Okay, time for shameless begging and plugging… I’m really interested. That’s my resolution. Nope, just coincidence. Beth Kanter. Connection Café.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

Everyone is blogging about what is going on in Davos to the point that no one has time to talk face-to-face anymore because they need to rush off and record the last great thought. But by the time I arrived on Wednesday, there were already one million blog hits for ??? I noticed this first at TED. last March.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There is also a groundswell of support all over the Internet, from bloggers ( one blog at a time ) Facebook , Flickr , Online Petitions , mobile phones , and Second Life. There's a roundup of coverage on his Netsquared blog , including pointers to live blog posts like this one. More from Britt Bravo on Netsquared blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

What does it mean that one blog has three times as many users as another blog in the nonprofit tech space? What should Netsquared's Facebook strategy be? These are events where a group of bloggers write about a particularly topic on a particular day. I don't think that side-by-side number counts are all that useful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Michelle Murrain is curbing her time on "walled gardens " like LinkedIn and Facebook while pondering the question, " How Open Is Facebook, Really? An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared. Nonprofit Times covers it here. Some New (to me) NpTech Bloggers - Welcome!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2008

Unfortunately they don't have credit cards (that's a problem for some of the potential donors like the bloggers I met in Cambodia - take for example Denith ). Also on the Google Alert, I discovered that Britt Bravo has posted on the Netsquared Blog too. My birthday isn't until Jan 11th, so there is still time to contribute $10 !

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NTEN

MARCH 6, 2015

NTEN gives out its own community awards every year that recognize Members who have offered their time, talents, and wisdom to help NTEN staff and community members, and thank them for their amazing contributions to the nonprofit technology sector. Eli van der Giessen , NetSquared Global Community Manager, TechSoup Global.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

I originally wrote this post for the NetSquared Blog. How much time, staff and money do you have to put into setting up your blog, writing your blog, answering comments, reading other blogs, and leaving comments on other blogs? 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

JANUARY 12, 2008

" Jeremy Pepper , who spoke at this month's NetSquared Net Tuesday Meetup , is the director of communications. See Social Media Is A Waste of Time, Part 1 and Part 2. ( Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. I noticed Soup.io in the NpTech Tag stream.

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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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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

MARCH 23, 2007

Netsquared Net Tuesday next week in SF is about " How Nonprofits Can Use And Build Online Social Networks ," featuring speakers from Change.org and Ning. over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. What do you think? See below).

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 11, 2007

The nonprofit, TransFair USA , is one of twenty members of Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International , the only third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in the United States, and a three-time winner of Fast Company Magazine’s Social Capitalist awards. It looks like their main blogger will be Dave Rochlin, COO of TransFair USA.

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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? This post traces the evolution of social networking sites from the 80's to present time, although missing a few major early players.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

As bloggers and others give it closer scrutiny, we're hearing a debate about which Facebook App is better? See3 Blog writes about the advantages of the Convio Face App (integration with organization's Convio database) and the limitations (can only run one Facebook app at time). Convio or Causes? blog thought it was cool too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

" Lucy Bernholz points to an NY Times editorial on embedded giving with a prediction about what will continue to work best with giving to charity. Britt Bravo at NetSquared summarized a community discussion about the "Best of the Nonprofit Social Web." bubble would burst. " Emily offers her thoughts here.

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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

JANUARY 27, 2006

Shouldn't people be spending a little more time outside? Things are rolling along nicely at NetSquared and I'll have some new ways for folks to get involved with that to share soon. If you are nonprofit woman blogger, please send us your URL so we can include you in our blogroll. Lots of great stuff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

NpTech Tools Sounds like Gavin of Gavin's Digital Diner had a great time sipping Burgundy wines in France, but even better wrote a detailed description of his damn DAM system. News from Nigeria via the Netsquared blog. The Cambodia Bloggers Summit and the Boliva Blogosphere will have their first ever bloggers conferences on Blog Day !

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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. Do you remember the Grasshopper and the Ant Fable ? And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

I started blogging in 2003 about nonprofits and social media and started second blog about Cambodia, “Cambodia for Kids” after the arrival of my daughter, Sara and discovering that there was a vibrant community of bloggers in Cambodia. It was terrific to see Tharum who was one of the first Cambodia bloggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. I do this all the time with annotated screen shots to provide "just in time" answers versus typing out instructions. Meanwhile, Party4aPurpose launches the alpha version. Here's an example.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

In an earlier post, I covered some tips for getting " conversation ready " from Alexandra Samuel's recent workshop at Netsquared. If you're a blogger, there are also ways that you can craft your posts to encourage more commenting and conversation. What is your technique for responding to comments? Some excellent tips: 1.)

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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. Around the same time, Marshall also posted an interview with Beth Kanter. I'm very eager to see the results, and very grateful to everyone who took time to fill out the survey.

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Have Fun - Do Good

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. I added the bold.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

You import mindmap maps into it and can be useful for notetaking in real time on conference calls. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Here's one that isn't on the list: Mindmeister. has been around for a while. It's an online collaborative mapping tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

that is I love the content, consume way too much, and can spend a lot of time wandering around having a wonderul time. Also, educational technology bloggers are great resources to read if you are interested in technology for learning. Netsquared and ConsultantCommons both from CompuMentor. NGO/NPTECH Web2.0

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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. Blogger Wagner James Au who reports on Second Life is seated next to Susan.) There's a lot of to explore, but my first life is very busy and it takes time.

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