Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2016

NetSquared groups are holding free events all month. Naples, Florida: "And the Winner for Best Film by a Not-for-Profit Organization Is …" Wednesday, April 6. Kenya: NetSquared Camp — Storytelling 2016. Mukono, Uganda: How to Create a Digital Photo Story to Fundraise for a Community Cause.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Net2 Think Tank: Online Fundraising Lessons Learned | NetSquared – "The Facebook application Causes recently announced it hit the $20 Million mark in donations. The America's Giving Challenge from Case Foundation spurred $2.1 Million in donations for charities this past winter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. Allan Benamer weighs in with some observations after wading through the comments over at the Netsquared site and pointing to Holden from GiveWell to be the most salient point. The site was developed by Democracy in Action.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. So what could be the role of the professional non-profit development organisations? February’s Net2 Think Tank sprang from an interview with Clay Shirky, the author of Here Comes Everybody. Are not connected and are not sustainable.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2013

It originally appeared on NetSquared. He says however that a lack of data scientists wanting to work for such social causes may stands in the way of his vision. This Mashable post looks at some of the ways that commercial and non-profit organisations are using U.S. Open Government Data.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

Kickstarter makes it clear that it isn't for direct charity or cause funding, but about project creation. You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared (where Ushahidi won its first challenge!). They also offer a guide for cause-based campaigns as well as customer support on the phone or online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

I typically donate my schwag to a good cause or if there is a schwag recycling room , I participate. Several themes that came out in the discussion: The line between for-profit and nonprofit. I typically donate my schwag to a good cause or if there. What's a conference without schwag ? Are there too many social entrepreneurs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There's a roundup of coverage on his Netsquared blog , including pointers to live blog posts like this one. Google announces " Broadcast Your Cause, " a nonprofit channel on YouTube. More from Britt Bravo on Netsquared blog. He also shares the key points of his presentation here. It isn't dumb dumb. And if you???re

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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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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Kickstarter makes it clear that it isn't for direct charity or cause funding, but about project creation. You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared. They also offer a guide for cause-based campaigns as well as customer support on the phone or online. – to raise money for your cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

We are in the very early stages of how nonprofits and social activists can leverage social networking applications for good causes and just learning what works and what doesn't. This is a disaster for cause marketers who simply can???t Causes doesn???t As Geoff points out: What???s s the secret sauce? For one thing, it???s

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Given the fantastic feedback we received from our NetSquared GIS presentation, I was very pleased to learn that NTEN is featuring Robert in a forthcoming webinar. The speaker, Robert Cheetham, is both concise and knowledgeable, but more importantly he has a knack for explaining GIS in a way that is very accessible to non-techies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. Submitted by Leif Utne. Submitted by Doug Ulman.

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Care2

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Given the fantastic feedback we received from our NetSquared GIS presentation, I was very pleased to learn that NTEN is featuring Robert in a forthcoming webinar. The speaker, Robert Cheetham, is both concise and knowledgeable, but more importantly he has a knack for explaining GIS in a way that is very accessible to non-techies.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

You have to set it up yourself and pay for web hosting) MovableType.com: [link] (Higher Education & Non-profit license for 5 authors, $195. Hosting included) WordPress.org: [link] (Free software. Includes support for first year. Need to set it up yourself and pay for web hosting).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

TechSoup publishes Soha El-Borno excellent post " Promote Your Cause on Facebook in Six Easy Steps " and do check out her interview with Carie Lewis from the Human Society about their work on Facebook. Non-Profit Tech Blog lets us know that project agape (Facebook causes) now at 2.5 million users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. Submitted by Leif Utne. Submitted by Doug Ulman.

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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. We talked about the work of my company Members Only Software, and how I see emerging Internet technologies impacting the non-profit arena.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Find out what kind of monkey you are for a good cause. Convio or Causes? The Non-Profit Tech Blog drills down deeper on the limitations and suggests waiting before adopting. " Last month I summarized multiple threads about how social networking sites like Facebook can be time wasters for both for-profit and nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

The Best and Worst Cities for Nonprofit Efficiency (posted by Sarah Conner Smith ) Social Media and Web Strategy and Marketing Jonathon Coleman shared The (Lil) Green Patch Facebook app has donated $33,600 to The Nature Conservatory's Facebook Cause (I screenshotted and summarized the discussion thread here ). Causes Raised $2.5

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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. Via Laura Quinn at Idealware comes a pointer to a research paper titled " Technology Motivators and Usage in Not-for-Profit Arts Organizations " that comes from the Systems Synthesis Project course at the H.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

What should Netsquared's Facebook strategy be? The latter may help boost awareness of the topic or cause and in some cases get picked up by news and other sites that collectively increases traffic. Recent studies are finding that for-profit workplaces believe that desktop applications and office documents should not have a social life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

The moderator, Patrick O'Heffernan, shared his thoughts based on his experience with The People Choose which is connected to Link TV and the first non-profit site to launch user-generated video as a community building process in a non profit environment. Check out this beautifully produced video here.) Off to consume those now!

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Care2

JUNE 15, 2007

Getting Attention Nancy Schwartz Im In Love.with Google Analytics Katyas Non-Profit Marketing Blog: Getting to the Point Katya Andresen Why Me? In no particular order. e.politics Colin Delany How Nonprofits Can Benefit from the Google/Salesforce Partnership Donor Power Blog Jeff Brooks Children or Professionals: Who Communicates Better?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

This platform lets consumers promote the brands they like and SocialVibes donates money to charitable causes or as Read/Write Web defined as "is an online popularity contest that turns corporate advertising into money for charity." " He describes some of the work flow issues related to nonprofit using Facebook causes.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Here's one from LOLNPTECH.org and Little Dishes 2 from the Non-Profit Tech Blog. Another online social networking cause-related fundraising site ! Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Marnie Webb is on a road trip. What are your summer vacation plans?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2006

I was also curious to see whether there were nonprofits using vlogs to promote their causes. There has been online conversation during the past couple of weeks on vlog list , Netsquared , TechSoup and Blogher. I did a little research last October, and uncovered a few. Here's a synthesis.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. How Google Earth & Maps can help Non-Profits : Show what is at stake – don’t just tell people. Raise awareness for your cause and projects. Panelists: Natalie Foster, DNC ; Rebecca Moore, Google Earth Outreach ; Laura Quinn, Idealware. The sessions are short (only 50 minutes!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

A key point about how difficult it is for most non-profits to shift from message delivery to conversation and advice about being patience. Facebook The Non-Profits on Facebook Group is for those who work for, belong to, or support nonprofits on Facebook. " Nonprofits and Web2.0 mean for you? hard to use ?" And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. Be sure to check out Beginner's Guide to Facebook and How to promote your Cause on Facebook articles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

How have social networking tools helped spread the word about your cause? YouTube would have been more helpful for my cause if people in the Philippines have home videocameras and if they have a fast broadbandwidth. How has your blog connected you with people to help with your cause? Through this blog we??ve

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The realization that another organization was using a tool, seeing another group’s profile on any given platform, or hearing a colleague at another organization mention something we hadn’t heard before were all causes enough to compel us to register, download, or log in. Digital Tactics. Social Tactics. That was a silly time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

Whatever your cause -- How would you help your online community socialize in the real world? Every month, the NetSquared community comes together offline at Net Tuesday events to mix, swap stories and ideas, build new relationships, and collaborate. This post was originally published at NetSquared. Then check out.

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