Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

You might be able to find help from NetSquared , an initiative from TechSoup Global. NetSquared brings nonprofits together with programmers, designers and other business professionals. Simply join NetSquared, post your idea in the project gallery, and see what sort of feedback you get.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2009

Geek Mommy In five days, I will be making a major change in my life. I've been both excited beyond words.I'm starting a new chapter in my life. I will be active in the comments. I remember when I was a guess blogger on Netsquared early on - it was an amazing experience. I'll be here, in the comments and on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. NetSquared Community. for the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) beginning on May 29th. Like last year, conference participants are introducing themselves on their NetSquared Blog.

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Care2

APRIL 7, 2010

Let us know in the comments section. Panelists: Jacob Colker, The Extraordinaries, Wendy Harman, American Red Cross Nancy Lublin, DoSomething.org, Aaron Smith, Pew Internet & American Life Project, and Marcia Stepanek, Cause Global. Ivan Boothe, Rootwork.org, and Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Click here to RSVP.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Over on the NetSquared blog , we've been running a great series of posts by Bari Samad about ways that nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries can leverage the power of human capital. Be sensitive to the volunteer life cycle. Tell us about it in the comments. What makes a technology volunteering project work well?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

Nancy White shares some insights in the comments. Pixelanthropy takes hold in Second Life! via the AFP Blog summarizes this news story from msnbc about nonprofits in Second Life inspired by Kiva in Second Life's Grand Opening Party at the Nonprofit Commons. Looks like the NpTech community in Portland, Oregon is thriving.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

NetSquared DC organized a panel discussion on Engagement Strategy: Empowering Champions* and Influencers* on November 3, 2015, to delve into this question. NetSquared DC Engagement Strategies Panelists — Maddie Grant, Andrew Nachison, and Dale Pfeifer (left to right). The panelists included. Dale Pfeifer, CEO of GoodWorld.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Netsquared. Life on Mars. Relay for Life Blog.   If so, share the URL and a lesson learned in the comments below. These are blogs communities or group blogging sites created by a nonprofit that lets their stakeholders blog on their site.  Share Your Story. Live from the Ice by HSUS. AVA Opera Blog.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The system is used by hospitals around the world to better diagnose patients, like a hospital in Rwanda that was able to identify HIV-positive children who had not been picked up by the pediatric program to get them on life-saving treatment. Past Winners. Is there open-source software that your organization is fond of?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

Students also learn about teamwork, time management, conflict resolution, and work/life balance. We suggest also finding your nearest NetSquared group , where nonprofits and technologists come together for social impact! Share with us in the comments. Building a New Source of Talent. Got other ideas on how to support TechHire?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

It is one of a number of "life streaming applications" where individuals and organizations who are active on the social web can port their activity across social networks into one, easy to follow, read, and comment activity stream. How To Use FriendFeed To Keep Up On Nonprofits - (Netsquared).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

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? See below).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

With video conferencing, broadband, and Second Life, well, we can all safely stay ensconced in our own virtual-reality-sensory-deprivation-tanks and just digitally dance the salsa at the next NTEN gathering.??? But he does point out that technology is not substitute for face-to-face meetings and the chorus of comments agrees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared. Opening Event for Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is on Tuesday, August 14 at 5:30 PST. Ruby has compiled a Progressive/Nonprofit Guide to Second Life. Good discussion in the comments too. Need some comic relief? NpTech Software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Lucy Bernholz summarizes what NY Times Columnist, David Pogue has shared about his experience in Second Life and suggests his comments are revealing regarding the development of an independent sector in the virtual world. There's a thoughtful comment from Givewell that points out the work flow involved. nonprofit technology.

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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. MacArthur Foundation announces a Virtual Philanthropy event in Second Life next week. In the comments, blog readers share their experiences. Meanwhile, Party4aPurpose launches the alpha version.

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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 To see another work in progress, go over to MIchael Gilbert's The Authentic Organization blog where he has turned the comments feature on and is writing his next book in a fishbowl!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Help bring back Ranger Rick's profile Email: appeals-comment@facebook.com and ask them to let Ranger Rick exist on Facebook! Rayt allows users to rate the content of web sites by making a comment and also to rate other people's comments. News from Nigeria via the Netsquared blog. Wanna check out more tech tools?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

About 100,000 new weblogs were created each day According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project report, "Bloggers: A Portrait of the Internet’s New Storytellers" from July 2006: 8% of Internet users, or about 12 million American adults, keep a blog. Today, the blogosphere is doubling in size approximately every 230 days.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

" And finally, are cat lovers only to be found in Second Life ? When I popped out of the reader to write a comment on this excellent post, I was blown away by the new site design. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. I really need a vacation. Check it out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

As a result, been behind with the online/blogging part of my life. Nonprofit Technology Pillars: I'll admit these resources are North Americancentric and I apologize (hopefully my global nonprofit colleagues can name the pillars of other continents and leave referrals in the comments.). NGO/NPTECH Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

But even as the phenomenon continues to swell, the effort to maintain an active social life on the Web is taking its toll. Steve Bridger posted a pointer over at Netsquared to his thoughts on "Buzz Director." " His post sparked some comments about social media burnout and reflections from the US perspective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

More on the GetActive and Convio Merger Jason has a post commenting on the recent release of a benchmarks study from Convio observing that findings like "Email addresses are valuable" won't surprise many people, although he notes there are few worthwhile nuggets. See this one-page parody of Second Life. " Web 2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

There are many things in my life and work that I need to streamline, and an important skill to facilitate this is learn how to say no. I will also try, for the first time in my life, to have a blogging schedule for topics and to give more attention to proofing or at least reading my posts out loud before publishing.

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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. Data theft, cyberattacks, and government surveillance are a growing fact of digital life, and it looks like 2015 will only be more of the same. Please comment below. What they said may surprise you. Privacy and Security.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2014

He's currently working on an event planner module, which I can see being a huge asset for nonprofits or community organizers, such as organizers of our NetSquared groups. This organization runs programs and conducts research to help nurture leadership and life skills for young people affected by violence. Reporting Problems.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

It's an adventure of a teenager thrown, by chance, into a life and death treasure hunt that becomes a real life and death survival challenge where all the clues have to do with life and pop culture of the 1980s." Elijah van der Giessen, TechSoup's Netsquared Community Organizer and Curator. What about me?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

It's an adventure of a teenager thrown, by chance, into a life and death treasure hunt that becomes a real life and death survival challenge where all the clues have to do with life and pop culture of the 1980s." Elijah van der Giessen, TechSoup's Netsquared Community Organizer and Curator. What about me?

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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. Life was good. How many people comment on posts? What is your post to comment ratio? What do they click on?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

One wonders where virtual words like Second Life fit on the interaction and communications axis. I particularly like the advice about how to use the comments for refining your point, a sort of thinking outloud and "Correct English be-damned" point. The graphic. 9 Lessons for Would-be Bloggers. ICT in the Developing World.

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