Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2006

Today, over at Netsquared I summarized some of the live blog posts coming from the Web of Change Conference. Did I forget anyone?). I did some searches on the conference tag, woc2006 and noticed that the tag is the same for the World Orienteering Championship. It made me think that you have to think a little about choosing an event tag.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2016

Since the first NetSquared challenge in 2006, TechSoup has continued to offer people and organizations opportunities to connect, share ideas, and collaborate; they work on solutions online and offline through events, meetups, and hackathons. It motivates and engages citizens across central and eastern Europe, the Balkans, and Turkey.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2016

TechSoup's NetSquared ( @netsquared ) community manager, Eli van der Giessen ( @elijah ), and Tech4Good SWFL organizer Birgit Pauli-Hack ( @bph ) are thrilled to offer this opportunity for online and offline community organizers to learn from each other! Want to know if NetSquared is right for you? – 12:00 p.m.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

The approach is focused on organic collaboration and growth for the entire community. You can model behavior all you want but if no one can tell what tools you are using to be so successful, there’s no way they can jump in and help man the ship. Events: NetSquared Camps. No Short Cuts. Case Studies.

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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. Here's Steve Wright modeling his ). Photo from Cambodia4kids. t just arbitrarily demand openness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

But when he gets excited about activity that could benefit the nonprofit technology sector, I listen. What do you think of the Campus Party model? Futura is a private company but their model looks to barely break even on registrations and income from the Campuseros. He has seen it all. And like Bar Camps , people hack.

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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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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

A hackathon is an event where programmers, developers, designers, and leaders come together to collaborate on an app, website, or software projects. The hackathon model is ideal for nonprofits and libraries because it brings together motivated volunteers to expedite a project on a limited budget. NetSquared can help!

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 7, 2010

Whether I’m talking about my role at NetSquared , my blog , or my network of friends, I am inspired every day and find value in, and rewards for, my participation. you are interested in collaborating (not dictating). This is a guest post I wrote for the Online Community Report. You can find the original post and the community there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

NetSquared. Netsquared Featured projects receive grant awards ! AFP Blog points the Mindblizzard Blog story about how the Dutch Red Cross will begin fundraising in Second Life using Yike Strum , a top model, as their Red Cross ambassador. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

That word change supports co-design, it encourages collaboration, and it ensures engagement. There are a few core elements of the way communities work that we can learn from as a model for innovation as well. Community-Driven Model. But in a community-driven model, you can’t just listen for the sake of learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

I was also an early member of Netsquared Community , another one of Marnie’s brilliant ideas that rocked the field. I started my talk with a story about why I liked Twitter: It allows me to connect with people in my professional field and have a great conversations or ad hoc collaborations that improve practice.

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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. Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. What is it? How does it work?

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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). You can listen to the original interview and a live recording of Freecycle's 5-minute pitch at the NetSquared Conference on the NetSquared Podcast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2007

" Productivity would be defined in the context of some sort of evaluation of the benefits of the technology - perhaps using a logic model. See Dan Mcquillan's summary over at Netsquared some pointers and good thoughts on Social Media ROI and Nonprofits. This is the thing: who defines productivity?" Less frustration perhaps.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The idea for Hacker Helper was born through collaboration with partners, such as Random Hacks of Kindness who are trying to improve the hackathon process and improve results from the events. These services use a Netflix business model that allow subscribers to read as many books as you want for a monthly fee. All Things D.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Our friends at NetSquared have a great podcast interview with Steve Williams of Business Objects that provides more good examples. Collaboration. You need IT folks who understand how data is structured, what queries are possible, how data modeling works. Close collaboration is always easier said than done. What about you?

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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. Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. What is it? How does it work?

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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. Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. What is it? How does it work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

My thinking: Social media conversations and online campaigns create whole new models for bringing together & powering the progressive movement. We need offline events to meet each other, bond eye-to-eye, and forge the collaborations that will make our social networks stronger, better connected, and ultimately transformative.

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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. Forrester is forecasting that public cloud vendors will begin offering more of a hybrid model that includes some on-premise implementations to meet growing demand. " Collaboration Tools. Mobile Payments. spanhidden.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

There's also a lot of talk in the nonprofit blog space prompted by a recent Netsquared ThinkTank and some great thinking on the topic, particularly by Wendy Harmon of the Red Cross, mostly focused on ROI. The emphasis is on collaboration, sharing, and conversation. (If A logic model. (I Think Nielsen Ratings ). What happens?

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

Nonprofits, faith-based organizations, libraries, and networks such as the NetSquared Local should be leading this movement as they are already committed to social good. But Botsman overlooks some of the tensions found in the collaborative economy. Botsman highlights the common element in all these segments: distributed power.

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