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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. Here was the Philanthropy News Network announcement of the project: "TechSoup NetSquared, the project to increase nonprofit effectiveness through Web-based social tools, has added a case study section to its website. 'Net2 TechSoup was then called CompuMentor.

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Open Source Strategic Planning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Since the concept of working in Networks is can be hard to explain to newcomers, learning from case studies, stories, and examples can be illuminating. In the morning, each of the ten case study presenters gave a 5 minute “teaser ” about their case study or what one presenter called “showing a little leg.”

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Shoulder-to-Shoulder Instructional Media: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I personally want to move away from the metaphor of making movies of the computer screen to more shoulder-to-shoulder instructional media and perhaps something that is more participatory or for lack of a better word, social. For a more detailed definition of tags, see the Wikipedia entry here. Nonprofits and Tagging: Two Case Studies.