Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2013

It originally appeared on NetSquared. The Magic of Finding and Presenting Compelling Data In this Chronicle of Philanthropy post Matthew Scharpnick argues that despite the big data hype for every new piece of valuable data, a lot more useless data surrounds and obscures it making it challenging to find useful insights.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2013

It originally appeared on NetSquared. For example, France Telecom-Orange has made anonymized records of five million mobile phone users in Cote d'Ivoire available to the research community as part of the Data for Development Challenge. Seeing Like a State in Africa: Data Needed. Pundits: Stop Sounding Ignorant About Data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Ivan Booth is doing a meet up and live stream for the Philly Netsquared meet up on August 2nd at 6:00 PM EST about Google +. I think pulling people off Facebook is going to be a challenge.&# Shawn Ahmed , a free agent fundraiser, concurs, “We don’t know what the space will be for social change activists.&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

over at NetSquared failed to turn up more than a handful of nominations. despite the hype that ???everybody Philosophical points aside, technically and operationally RSS presents a series of institutional problems, challenges, and questions: How could or should I incorporate it into the enterprise? t quite know what to do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2009

Submitted by Ivan Boothe, publisher of the Rootwork Blog Over at the NetSquared blog, Joe Solomon provided a great roundup of reasons people might be "jaded about social media for change" and ways they overcome it. With that in mind, I think social media and social networking hasn't entirely matured as part of long-term social change.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 8, 2006

A couple weeks ago, I did an interview for the NetSquared Podcast with Leda Dederich, the creator of the dotOrganize project, and co-author of the report "Online Technology For Social Change: From Struggle to Strategy." So that's really challenging. Below is a transcript of the interview. There is a tremendous amount of frustration.

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