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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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

Many years ago, NetSquared hosted challenges and conferences to highlight and bring together fledging social entrepreneurs. When they can give data in a report, when they can show a map that has detailed information, when they can show a photograph that produces evidence, it really changes the game for them." Want to learn more?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2012

Typical wiki communities are work groups within a company, educators and students, and hobbyists. The idea came from NetSquared community organizers who were eager to share their best practices and experiences and saw a wiki as the ideal platform. By far the most recognized wiki is Wikipedia.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

" Year Up therefore takes a holistic approach to preparing its students for the workforce. Artis told me that Year Up works with the students to help them learn professional skills, from something as simple as shaking hands to more complex issues such as workplace dress. " Changing Corporate Culture.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

This post was authored by Vanessa Rhinesmith and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. story chronicled a middle school student who built an app to help him. story chronicled a middle school student who built an app to help him. stay organized in the coming year and the revelation that more and more.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

" This project encourages citizens to make positive changes in their community. Students, professors, and deans will be able to express their opinion and report any problems in their school or university. Šta se može uraditi? translates to "What can be done?" Ttaram aims to improve education in Kosovo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Being the change we want to see” means walking the talk of our values. Each and everyone of us is creating the future, every day, whether we do so consciously or not. Everyone and everything is interconnected and interdependent, whether we acknowledge that or not. Strength build upon our stengths, not our weaknesses. are built in a bubble.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

I figured I'd share my link lists of resources with you, as well as with the students. Many of my examples are of what Allison Fine, author of Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age , calls "extra-organizational activists." Besides, it is a lot greener for me to post the links for them than to give them printed handouts!

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 31, 2006

In early July, I posted about a Basic Blogging for Women Workshop I'd be teaching this fall, but after talking to some prospective students, I decided that it was important to find a space where everyone could be on a computer, so I changed the date and the venue so that we can be in a computer lab.

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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. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon, the capstone thesis project for Heinz School Masters students. Not sure what a Game for Change is? Check this out.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

But a shifting communications environment and changing donor demographics could render those best practices ineffective at best, and obsolete at worst, as early as 2012. So how should your organization prepare for the changes that are afoot? Simplistic appeals targeted at teens and college students don't. Empower your interns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

The trainer sharing with students, the consultant sharing with clients, beyond face interaction. All of the above is about challenge of making change (see Senge sidebar in this article). Netsquared Tagging and Bookmarking Net2Learn Center and site search using word " tagging " Also here. Throwing seeds out?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Networking for Change. Here are four steps to ease you into using the social web for social change. Facebook isn't just for college students anymore. I thought I'd share some of my notes with you. Take 'em one at a time. CONSUME: Writers read, artists go to galleries, reporters watch the news. Don't be afraid of the tech.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

I write for the NetSquared blog each day (it takes me anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour depending on the topic), but it is also designed to be a community blog, so any registered user can post on it about how nonprofits are using the social web for social change. Aren't we all trying to create positive change?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2006

There has been online conversation during the past couple of weeks on vlog list , Netsquared , TechSoup and Blogher. " A nonprofit just beginning to incorporate video into their web presence notes on a recent Netsquared post , "We don't have that much capacity to do video work, so its kind of catch-as-catch-can."

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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. That word change supports co-design, it encourages collaboration, and it ensures engagement. Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

which was a remix of Marnie Webb 's Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Change the World. Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Such a culture would be, by default, permissive of efforts to improve upon, change, integrate, or otherwise remix. I'm nervous. Hiring people.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 28, 2010

His learnings come from experiences that span an education in electronics and telecommunications, multi-cultural professional engagements in software development and communications, a business administration student life in pretty Paris and experiments in implementing technological solutions for social challenges.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

Climate change is on people's minds. BB: Can you share a story of how a family's life has been changed for the better by Fair Trade? Students, people in churches, people in environmental groups who have embraced Fair Trade as a positive model of change. Beyond that, there are lots and lots of ways to get involved.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 1, 2006

What makes us want to act for social change? For the past year, I have been writing for NetSquared about nonprofits and NGOs that are using the social web to cultivate donors, advocates and activists for their organization and their cause. Emotional connection. Passion for a cause. Launch of the completed Hub is planned for 2007.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

I came across her work while researching examples of nonprofits using the social web for social change for NetSquared and am looking forward to meeting her in person when she speaks at the NetSquared Conference next week. Heddy also writes for the Global Youth Fund blog. They would rather opt for MTV.

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