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NetSquared: In the Beginning

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In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0 Citizen journalism.

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Building the Tech Capacity of Nonprofits Everywhere with TechSoup's NetSquared Events

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Every day, American nonprofits, charities, and libraries rely on TechSoup's product donation program for the information they need to make smart decisions about technology. That's why TechSoup created NetSquared , our global network of volunteer-led Tech4Good meetups. But did you know that our work is global? Reform Copyright.

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Online Project Management Tools

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This post was written by Trenton DuVal, contributing editor at NetSquared, and originally appeared on their blog. The best part, though, is that it is open-source, so anyone can host it on their own server and have unlimited capacity and full customization. It’s what the NetSquared team uses to stay on task.

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TechSoup’s Gayle Samuelson Carpentier Joins the NTEN Board

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Of course I also worked with the executive director of NTEN, Amy Sample Ward when she helped us build the NetSquared community. It provides a chance for charities to network with IT experts. Gayle Samuelson Carpentier: Ninety percent of charities have budgets of under $1 million annually and need all the help they can get.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Netsquared Net Tuesday next week in SF is about " How Nonprofits Can Use And Build Online Social Networks ," featuring speakers from Change.org and Ning. over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. What do you think?

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

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The Hacker Helper project is closely aligned with our NetSquared vision of bringing communities together to solve social problems – including nonprofits, beneficiaries, activists, technologists, concerned citizens. Hackathons are most often fast projects that last one to three days. Hacker Helper is currently in beta.

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

from Sundance where she was busy running around asking celebs to join Six Degrees and getting them sign swag for charity. The " OpenItUp " blog shares a list of commonly used excuses for not using open source as heard during the recent LASA UK Circuit Rider Conference. Cross posted at Netsquared Need a chuckle?

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