Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2014

She recently shared her social media and community-building wisdom at an event organized by the SF Tech4Good group and the San Francisco Online Community Meetup Group. Burnout can also be a problem for those that are responsible for social media, Sarah noted: "Managing social media is exhausting in your need for exuberance."

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2017

Every month I bring you a roundup of free technology training events that will help nonprofit staffers like you build their skills. " That's why TechSoup invests in developing the best practices of our NetSquared network. Find your closest NetSquared group. Or, you can apply today to start your own NetSquared group.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

The way we engage in public dialogue, coordinate, solve problems—all of it is shifting. Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world. Rapid advances in digital media and technology are changing how we connect to information and each other. New networks are emerging everywhere.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

Donors could communicate with the students, and they thanked participants directly – building lasting relationships. Instead, we should put the problems first and invest in a project. Their Tweetsgiving campaigns were fundraisers benefiting Mama Lucy’s school in Tanzania and connected the students to their supporters through Twitter.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2016

Since the first NetSquared challenge in 2006, TechSoup has continued to offer people and organizations opportunities to connect, share ideas, and collaborate; they work on solutions online and offline through events, meetups, and hackathons. Making Everybody Part of the Process of Problem-Solving. How an Idea Becomes an App.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

The Value-add of Crowdsourcing: For me, the two biggest reasons to include crowdsourcing in your strategic design of community building or contests are: Crowdsourcing invites diversity by encouraging anyone with an idea or interest to participate. You can see the full collection, and how they were voted on by the community here: [link].

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Amy Sample Ward

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. Tip #3: Operate in public. Tip #4: Be prepared to change.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project. ClassTalk was made through Code for America , a nonprofit that connects app developers with civic leaders to solve city problems. Apps Made by Youth. Additional Resources.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2005

Today, Mark is the manager of TechSoup's NetSquared initiative, a project designed to make sure the non-for-profit sector gets involved early and actively with the newest tools and trends in internet technology. And once we got through catching up, I admitted to him that I was just a bit perplexed about the NetSquared project.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

TechSoup, Caravan Studios , and NetSquared were on the scene to observe and participate in hackathon events all over the country. Open source champion Brian Behlendorf spoke at the event, encouraging the hackers to focus on finding an interesting problem to solve rather than worrying about building a sustainable model.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2013

For a taste of nptech goings-on all around the world, NetSquared Local shares community highlights from the month of May and gets its fans excited about future projects in their recent monthly roundup. Salesforce invites you to its upcoming webinar, Innovative Solutions for Building Healthy Communities.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

No problem — our staff will help you register your organization and check your eligibility. Elijah van der Giessen, TechSoup's NetSquared community organizer, will be meeting with fellow community organizers to discuss the challenges and rewards of growing both online and offline communities. NetSquared Birds of a Feather.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

on NetSquared. He explains, however, why despite the increased amount of data that's available, problems with measuring social progress persist. How NGOs Are Using Data Maps to Communicate Problems. Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related. of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

How do we build it better? How do we enable transformative and far-reaching change that gets down to the root of solving local, regional, and global problems? How do we do more? How can we collaborate, share, and enrich each others' work to make it more effective? ". RT @ linzbilks : Ppl from 45 diff't countries gathered at #tsg2011.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2016

But what if an app could be used to help nonprofits, public libraries, and other community groups organize and solve pressing problems? Jaeger explains that to be actionable, an idea must be concrete and address a problem or issue. That is the mission of Caravan Studios , a division of TechSoup.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

This week, TechSoup Global and Microsoft Community Affairs hosted the TechSoup Global Contributors' Summit, a gathering of TechSoup Global Network partners , TechSoup product donors, foundational partners, NetSquared Local organizers , GuideStar International partners , and other members of TechSoup Global's extended family. read more.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 21, 2016

For nonprofits interested in solving a particular problem, stories can help others quickly understand and connect with the organizations' mission. March 22, 2016 — First NetSquared Storymakers 2016 meetup in DC. The Stories of Tomorrow Award is focused on youth and the next generation.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

This post was authored by Vanessa Rhinesmith and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. young people are developing their own creative solutions to problems. young people are developing their own creative solutions to problems. participants through identifying a problem and developing a. technological solution.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 21, 2016

For nonprofits interested in solving a particular problem, stories can help others quickly understand and connect with the organizations' mission. March 22, 2016 — First NetSquared Storymakers 2016 meetup in DC. The Best Story of Tomorrow Award is focused on youth and the next generation.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

Many years ago, NetSquared hosted challenges and conferences to highlight and bring together fledging social entrepreneurs. One finalist's pitch was: "We have buy-in from the community, we have rich networks on the ground, and we are building on pre-existing technologies." netsquared digital divide' spanhidden.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) is a global-wide community of hackers and social leaders with the common goal of building open technology for a better world. The Digital Public Library of America held a hackathon to test the prototype DPLA platform and build apps for it. NetSquared can help! meets LinkedIn for students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

The conference bag is one of of her "out-of-studio experiments" to involve poor communities in the development of simple solutions to problems of un-managed consumer waste. It is the trash from the buildings. And if the correction creates new problems.". If you build the platform, will spontaneous organizing happen?"

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

Building a New Source of Talent. To fine-tune its training and curriculum to specific companies or industries, Year Up's staff meets with companies and asks them about their specific business problems or openings and how Year Up graduates might help. Artis explained that unfilled jobs are an ongoing issue for many corporations.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

NetSquared DC organized a panel discussion on Engagement Strategy: Empowering Champions* and Influencers* on November 3, 2015, to delve into this question. NetSquared DC Engagement Strategies Panelists — Maddie Grant, Andrew Nachison, and Dale Pfeifer (left to right). The panelists included. Dale Pfeifer, CEO of GoodWorld.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2016

" Apps4Warsaw also teamed up with Orange Labs, the research and development arm of multinational telecommunications giant Orange , to build a platform and publish the 50 datasets. "We knew how to crowdsource and incubate applications." The platform was installed on the Warsaw City Council servers. Second Place: Curtain up!

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2013

It was originally published on NetSquared. Research has found for instance that analyzing Twitter messages can give “digital smoke signals of distress”, an early warning of a problems to come such as spikes in unemployment, price rises and disease.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

When we assume we are separate, we build systems that reinforce that separateness. When we assume we are interconnected and interdependent, we build systems that reinforce those connections." Strength build upon our stengths, not our weaknesses. We’ve done step 1: admitted that we have a problem. are built in a bubble.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Organizations can get comfortable with implementing one channel and expand to other channels as part of their maturity of practice model. Capacity building that takes an incremental approach and is a balance of strategy and action leads to capacity building that sticks. What are the potential uses for nonprofits?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

As one respondent said, "The problem, always, is time. I have about four job titles, everything from Director of Education, Development Director, Building Manager, and oh yeah, Executive Director… What matters most to me is really good writing so that I can understand the information quickly. NetSquared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

So, you want to build a MashUp? Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! " There's also another article on a similar theme that focuses on the describing the problem -- or why nonprofits, designers, and techies can't talk to each other. NpTech Conversations. re working with???something Haven't dug into Digg yet? And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2008

Now thanks to a generous Sharing Foundation donor who responded to our appeal in the holiday newsletter, local builders will build three latrines, bigger and stronger than the ???family 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 ).

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2007

This summer I've been interviewing the innovators behind the 21 Projects that went to the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) this year (I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared). You can listen to the original interview and a live recording of Freecycle's 5-minute pitch at the NetSquared Conference on the NetSquared Podcast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

He warns us about getting seduced by Shiney Object Syndrome, a common problem where one does not have a target the audience precisely or use a multi-channel strategy - and just sets up a Facebook Cause or Fan Page. Sort of a 2008 version of build it and they will come syndrome we saw in the 1990's. As Geoff points out: What???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2006

In a few weeks, I'm lucky to be going to the netsquared conference I signed up to go with the intent of being a sponge -- to learn more about all this stuff. no, not really - it shows how thinking out of the orchard is important for solving a problem on a larger scale. What needs to happen in order for that to change?What

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2007

And perhaps, good new things learned In World will be brought out, to the real world and real world problems. if they get to build from scratch. Something like the NetSquared open call for projects that happened last month, but mapped to a virtual world. What would failure look like for the Foundation? t speak for them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2007

Perhaps the biggest problem for blogging is the time it takes to read and write blogs. But, blogging can also help you be effective - building your personal expertise in a subject matter (related to your work). See Dan Mcquillan's summary over at Netsquared some pointers and good thoughts on Social Media ROI and Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2006

Last week I blogged about an Ipod/Toilet paper holder over at Netsquared. They are still building out the content on the site and there is a growing list of nonprofit recipients. The website helps networks of small-scale philanthropists develop and fund solutions to pressing social problems."

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