Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

tools successfully. I think it is a pretty critical marketing practice despite what technology tools you are using. Allison Fine in her book Momentum notes: "Listening requires genuine interest in what that person is saying and a willingness to change as a result of what was said. Some tools and techniques follow below.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2009

" Net2 Think Tank Round-Up: Best of 2009 | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – Check out the diverse submissions to the December Net2 Think Tank that simply asked for the best blog posts of 2009! I'm sure there are some resources, conversations and pointers in here that are new to everyone.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Read a recap of TechSoup and TechSoup Romania's Tweet Chat , which explored content curation and discussed the best tools for it. Here are three tools to measure audience engagement on social media. In addition to its social media resources, TechSoup Canada covers a variety of tech tools pertinent to nonprofits and libraries.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. This month, we also have a book giveaway of a free copy of Skiry’s paperback edition of Here Comes Everybody for one of the contributors. Which organizations are charting the way, navigating the new tools well? What about the book giveaway?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 It includes case studies, tools, and how-tos. tools to capture and share knowledge from nonprofit gatherings. tools into your PR messaging?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

I was also an early member of Netsquared Community , another one of Marnie’s brilliant ideas that rocked the field. Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. I urge people to think of the chunks and then the tools. Connecting With New Colleagues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

In our session at NetSquared today, we used Social Actions as a case study in engaging online community participation, and shared two strategy tools that can help you make your nonprofit site more engaging. Today, we're releasing those tools to the nonprofit community under a Creative Commons attribution/noncommercial license.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Hacker Helper is a free online tool that will allow volunteer developers to prepare for hackathons. The tool will allow hackers and coders to get up to speed before the hackathon by reading problem statements written from the perspective of the people who are working to solve social problems on the ground: NGOs and activists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

NetSquared. Netsquared Featured projects receive grant awards ! Congrats to Allison Fine for the Terry McAdam Book Award. More about social media tools for philanthropy from Tactical Philanthropy. Robin Good has a nice roundup of affordable Web Conferencing Tools and a useful comparison chart in a google spreadsheet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2009

Learn about both community-driven and corporate tech initiatives that help you make a difference in your own communities, and hear about the opportunities and challenges of taking on cutting edge technology tools. Book sprint for " Understanding CivicCRM " sat together for five days and wrote a 300 page book - download for free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." I've been experimenting quite a bit over the last 18 months way too many social networking tools. Katya Andresen has written a fantastic five minute guide to social networking tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Don't forget to add the search tool. Win $10,000 DonateNow Mashup Challenge at NetSquared. Ben Rigby of Mobile Voter, and the folks from Rock the Vote have just written a new book, Mobilizing Generation 2.0: Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

Examples of rewards could be the actual project (if it is something like a book) or a free pass to a screening of a movie or production of a play. You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared (where Ushahidi won its first challenge!). Project creators offer rewards and incentives for donations to thank backers for their support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

and social networking tools? The intent is to leverage the networked effect or the Tipping Point (the title of a book by Malcolm Gladwell that means the given moment in an epidemic when a virus reaches critical mass.) " Jeremy Pepper , who spoke at this month's NetSquared Net Tuesday Meetup , is the director of communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2007

One barrier to adoption of social media tools (and other technologies) is a concern from management or your boss about the value or benefits. at the moment it's a tool for individuals to express their somewhat random musings. If anything this tool has detracted from productivity, not increased it. What's the roi?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The Case Foundation blog also has a section called " Tech4Good " TechSoup blog posts about an online tool and forum discussion about green policies. 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.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Examples of rewards could be the actual project (if it is something like a book) or a free pass to a screening of a movie or production of a play. You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared. You can design your own t-shirt with Teespring's online tool or you can work with one of the company's consultants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

tools successfully. I think it is a pretty critical marketing practice despite what technology tools you are using. Allison Fine in her book Momentum notes: "Listening requires genuine interest in what that person is saying and a willingness to change as a result of what was said. Some tools and techniques follow below.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 11, 2006

Feasts for the eyes: books and more. Cooks' tools. Bay Area readers: You can hear Pim and the co-founder of Kiva, Matt Flannery, talk about Fundraising for Nonprofits with the Social Web tomorrow, December 12th, at NetSquared's Net Tuesday. Here's how it works: "The more you give, the better your chance to win." Tasty treats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

The list can be general, looking at strategy, tools, and developments like this one from Paul Gillin or go narrow like Mashable's " The Year in Tweets." Britt Bravo has an annual list of favorite books. Alex Steed offers his connective predictions for 2009 at the NetSquared blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

Or you head someone speak at a panel at a conference, and you ask for the three best books or articles to read. Community of Practice: The people might already know each other and be collaborating on a topic of professional interest in other ways and have added the use of tagging to their tool box. Emily's post ). TechSoup Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Steve Bridger posted a pointer over at Netsquared to his thoughts on "Buzz Director." " Ian goes onto suggest hwo use the tools with a different approach: "To really open all the doors and windows and let your staff and constituents mix it up in social-web contexts -- blogs, video- and photo-sharing, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

You have early adopters, a big scary chasm, and then more mainstreamed adoption of the tools. This pattern is the same no matter the tools. There are many different tools to support this - from leaving comments on blogs or using twitter. The simple fact is that “ Technology Changes, Humans Don’t."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. Gobuki Blog identifies the steps from migrating nonprofits from stand-alone email tool to Salesforce. bleeding edge tool, twitter. This was a topic for an entire book called " Crazy Busy. Also announced 2.0

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

They are a tool that allows for a conversation between the reader and the writer, and for information to reach people quickly all over the world. Beth Kanter raised $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation using a Network for Good Badge and similar tools to the ChipIn campaign, in three weeks. weeks using her food blog and an online auction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Some of the topical themes I will work in more depth: Listening: I have focused on the free tools and have some great step-by-steps. Smart Social Media Tips, Tactics, and Tools Most of the resource organizing will be taking place over at the WeAreMedia wiki in preparation for the workshops taking place in 2009. score out of 5.0).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

What is your sense of how these social networking tools, tagging, blogs and the like ??? tools for development, because everyone can now use the web as a space to express themselves, interact and co-create. s possible with free tools. And Netsquared. are they relevant to the people you work with in developing countries?

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2017

Last week, we reported on a recent NetSquared London Meetup that investigated the IT tools that can be used to operate nonprofits inexpensively and effectively. In part 2, we look at people's favorite tools. Open-Source Tools. It's sometimes hard to explain why Slack is such a valuable tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

In the comments, I prodded her to share some of her experience about using tagging as a tool to share resources in a community of practice context. " The term information overload made me think of Marshall's fabulous interview with Robin Good on netsquared: " Mastering Information Overload." e-collaboration???

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

We recently polled our TechSoup employees and NetSquared community on what they see as looming large in 2015. There are now lots of laptops available that are less than $200 — like HP Streams, Acer Aspires, and too many Chrome books to count. " Collaboration Tools. What they said may surprise you. Digital Refugees.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

When it comes to innovation in civil society, there is nothing that can match the speed and ingenuity of communities that come together to make a change, develop a tool, or feed a need. Don’t ever go for a new, shiny, cool social media platform or tool simply because you’ve heard others talking about it. What roles are needed?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2005

(. in which I continue to interview my former dorm-mate, Mark Liu, now the project manager for TechSoup's NetSquared initiative) [Me] What can you tell us about the April NetSquared conference? First, we hope to build a community of active participants in the NetSquared website over the coming months. All can play a role.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

We had so many that we couldn’t get to all of them during the webinar, so we’ve answered the overflow here: Q: How can we use social media tools when working with clients in an agency specifically concerning privacy or HIPPA issues? Q: What books do you recommend to help us get acquainted and use social media?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

" We just thought you'd like to meet some of our great people here at TechSoup, through the books we're excited about. Because December has been "Read a New Book Month" they invited submissions on their Facebook page to encourage the people of nonprofitlandia to share book titles with each other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. tools can provide quick and dirty market research tools or the ability to do an environmental scans for strategic planning. Step 5: RSS As Information Coping Tool. Eating Fabulous Step 2: Thinking Outloud. An example?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

Provided you set aside the time to explore and experiment, your nonprofit can use the tools and resources listed below to significantly improve your digital marketing and fundraising campaigns. The tool also ensures that your website is compliant with WCAG 2.1 Flipsnack empowers users to transform PDFs into online flipping books.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

" We just thought you'd like to meet some of our great people here at TechSoup, through the books we're excited about. Because December has been "Read a New Book Month" they invited submissions on their Facebook page to encourage the people of nonprofitlandia to share book titles with each other.

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