Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Every month TechSoup's NetSquared community organizers volunteer to bring free and low-cost nonprofit technology events and workshops to more than 50 cities. If you want to network with your peers or love to learn at live, in-person events, NetSquared is the place for you! Or, apply today to start your own NetSquared group.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Our volunteer community leaders are holding free events across the US (and the globe). Highlights this month include website accessibility in Portland, Oregon; project management in Boston, Massachusetts; and data visualization in Las Vegas, Nevada. If there isn't a group nearby, we'll help you start your own NetSquared group.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

We hold free weekly webinars on topics like GrantStation and how to develop a tech training plan. If there isn't a group nearby, we'll help you start your own NetSquared group. What have NetSquared groups been up to recently? What have NetSquared groups been up to recently? Need a live instructor?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 3, 2009

N2Y4 Conference Volunteers | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org - Looking for a way to come to the N2Y4 Conference? It'll bring together the 14 Mobile Challenge Project teams selected in a community vote next week, along with funders, innovators, developers, nonprofits and more.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

There are lots of examples of projects that use crowdsourcing, even this one! Their hesitancy may come from not knowing what crowdsourcing means or how it works: so show them examples, but also show how the project you are working on could benefit from crowdsourcing and how the elements of crowdsourcing align with your project goals.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2016

That's why each month NetSquared organizers in 60 cities across the globe host networking events for the nonprofit tech community. NetSquared Vancouver** shares [slides and videos]([link] from their November event. * Saint Paul, Minnesota: Free and Inexpensive Communications Tools | MCN (free). Thursday, June 9, 2016.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

To get diverse perspectives from TechSoup Global staff about user-generated content, we asked Marc Manashil, Community Evangelist for NetSquared, to share how challenges like Restart Romania enable users to get engaged at all levels. Civil society actors across Romania submitted 144 projects on a wide range of topics.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2016

What if there was a place for your nonprofit to get free technology support from local experts? TechSoup's NetSquared is the world's largest volunteer-driven network of in-person nonprofit technology training and peer support events. Most NetSquared organizers now have a peer mentor. Well, there are!

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

There are free workshops and networking events happening in cities across the globe this month. And if you need some help with your video, you can take our short, free online course or sign up for help from one of our experts. NetSquared Vancouver** shares [slides and videos]([link] from their November event. * Storymakers.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

TechSoup's NetSquared community of Tech4Good meetups is growing! As of January 25, there are 40,000 nonprofit members attending free tech networking events and workshops in 75 cities. Find your closest NetSquared group. As a NetSquared organizer, you will become known as someone who's a leader in the Tech4Good community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Netsquared Voting Deadline Extended. Due to some technical glitches , you now have 48 additional hours to figure out what 5-10 of the 150 fantastic social change and technology projects at Netsquared will receive your vote. An extension is actually good thing, gives us more time to look at all those projects!

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Tech Soup

MAY 2, 2013

NetSquared is proud to be a sponsor of this kickstarter project. Help complete this project by pledging today ! With a couple friends at Green Memes, we're trying to create a new resource for the #nptech community - a free guide for the next generation of online organizers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

We’ll also be referring folks to resources for more formal learning and peer connections, like NTEN , the Nonprofit Technology Network and host of the annual Nonprofit Technology Conference and Netsquared and TechSoup Global – and of course sharing resources from our colleagues in the nonprofit/social media field.

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JULY 23, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Recently, over 300 innovators and changemakers interested in the intersection of technology and social benefit work converged for a few days of idea-sharing, learning, and collaboration at NetSquared's annual conference. There were many excellent ideas (check out the Project Gallery !)

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2010

There are also projects you can participate in online, to put your nptech skills to work for earthquake-devastated Haiti. NetSquared (a project of TechSoup ), NTEN , and Beth Kanter (and SxSWi!) Thanks, Wild Apricot , for the tip about free tools for creating and working with PDF's in a collaborative way!

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

The approach is focused on organic collaboration and growth for the entire community. Events: NetSquared Camps. Community Driven Social Impact strategies for events – let’s look at the NetSquared Camps pilot. I created this game in collaboration with my Social by Social co-authors, David Wilcox and Andy Gibson.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

This time I’ll review the Nominet Trust 100 nominations for the very best technologies for social good, the big TechSoup/ Guardian Technology for Good Report, The soft launch of Hacker Helper, a new free service that sends money over email, the world’s most popular websites, and two new Netflix style subscription services for eBooks.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2016

Like TechSoup's other community-driven tech-innovation initiatives — the NetSquared challenges , the ReStart movement , and Apps4Warsaw — Caravan Studios' work is informed first and foremost by the needs of the community itself. Range is a map-based app that shows where youth can get free summer meals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Competition includes a "Knowledge-networking" category designed to take good ideas and circulates them widely, taking full advantage of the Web's potential for collaborative thinking. is a free web application that lets you brainstorm online. Global NpTech. What's Hiafux

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

Virtual Teams and Online Collaboration. At TechSoup, the Online Community and Social Media team has made geographic distance less of a barrier in collaboration across different cities or even countries. Find NetSquared at NTC. Susan Tenby. Content Curation Across Teams and Organizations. Evonne Heyning and Susan Tenby.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Win $10,000 DonateNow Mashup Challenge at NetSquared. Lauren-Glenn Davitian's " Be the Media -- Free Speech Unfurled " guest post on NTEN blog. Circleup is a social messaging application that allows nonprofits to communicate and collaborate with groups. re enjoying this blog, please consider subscribing for free

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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. More from Britt Bravo on Netsquared blog. Connexions is an environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web. It's an open source free web meeting service.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Each year, the Tides Foundation awards a $10,000 cash grant to an individual or group who has created an open-source software project that benefits nonprofits and movements of social change. The Pizzigati Prize works in the spirit that collaboration, rather than competition, and moves us forward by honoring those who work for social good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

NetSquared. Netsquared Featured projects receive grant awards ! For an added bonus, read Allan Benamer's terrific coverage of Facebook and Project Agape and Micah Sifry's piece on the political and social implications of Project Agape. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! There's going to be a Netsquared Meetup (recommendations for restaurant or location are needed) How will your nonprofit avoid the Meatball Sundae? I Collaborate blog has a post about how to lobby for skype in your organization, if you're working internationally. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! Beth Dunn's " Money for Nothing, IT for Free " has a post about the importance of considering the total cost of a technology investment even if it is free and some advice for getting started. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? An article called Free Software, Handpicked for Nonprofits by Tactical Technology Collective and iCommons just published on Techsoup. Deadline is March 2n.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

What should Netsquared's Facebook strategy be? Blog Days, Blog Actions, and GTD for Blogs Perhaps inspired by Blog Day and Blog Carnivals , lately, I've been seeing coordinated "blog action" projects crop up in and around the nptech space. Adopt a classroom project from DonorsChoose and lead a blog fundraising campaign.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Two tools include: Vertical Response : 10,000 emails per month free for 501c3s. Very cool project from 2008: Twitter Vote Report. Raise awareness for your cause and projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2006

Currently the Online Community Manager for TechSoup , she was part of the original launch team for the Techsoup, a one-stop resource for nonprofit technology needs including free information, resources, and support. "I knew that we could be a provider of a network of organizations to meet and collaborate in SL.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Many blogs, like the Razoo blog , went red on Thursday as part of Free Burma: International Bloggers Day. non-IT professionals understand web applications for collaboration. Why not join, upload your logo in the photo pool, and write a wall post promoting your latest your Facebook project! Early detection is important.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2007

This summer I've been interviewing the innovators behind the 21 Projects that went to the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) this year (I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared). Freecycle is a nonprofit that facilitates people giving and getting stuff for free in their own towns. Deron Beal: My name is Deron Beal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

nonprofits for free, but even happier that Google is integrating jotspot , a wiki app, into Google Apps. It's an online collaborative mapping tool. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

That word change supports co-design, it encourages collaboration, and it ensures engagement. If there’s an idea that the community is behind, and a project or plan that’s adopted (whether it’s a new way of operating or a new tool), then it moves forward, regardless of “who” thought it up or campaigned for it. Communities are flexible.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

We recently polled our TechSoup employees and NetSquared community on what they see as looming large in 2015. Let's Encrypt is a project in cooperation with the University of Michigan, the nonprofit Mozilla, and TechSoup donor partner Cisco. " Collaboration Tools. What they said may surprise you. Hybrid Cloud Computing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 The Knowledge-at-Work blog writes about when learning and knowledge collide -- and the importance of collaborative learning networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

The NOSI Choosing and Using Free and Open Source primer is on the ICT Hub Knowledgebase! Michael Hoffman from See3 points us to the 1 Second Film , a collaborative art project, micro video blogging example, and micro fundraising campaign. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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