Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2010

We were in Washington, DC on Thursday and Friday for our book tour for The Networked Nonprofit to celebrate with live and virtual events hosted by the Case Foundation and Chronicle of Philanthropy. Wendy and I facilitated an unconference session on listening later in the day and I’ll share what we learned in a second post.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 3, 2017

TechSoup's NetSquared community is hosting free monthly technology meetups in 74 cities globally, but with more than 39,000 members, it can be hard to get a sense of the community's needs. We asked NetSquared members why they attend our meetup events. To be a part of a larger nonprofit community/networking.

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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. Keep reading for a roundup of upcoming events or search the directory. Start a NetSquared group. --> Upcoming Tech4Good Events.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2013

If you aren’t a hacker but still want an in-depth experience, join North Carolina’s Tech4Good group for their annual conference June 6–7 or visit lovely Vancouver, Canada for their NetSquared Camp unconference on June 1. Event Reports. This Week’s NetSquared Events. Event NetSquared'

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NTEN

AUGUST 29, 2011

We were excited to have our first 2012 NTC Community Call last Tuesday! This year, we’re going to include a mix of educational and community programming to Day 1, starting off with a Welcome Reception. Community Brainstorm We asked for your input on a couple of key issues surrounding the conference, and we loved the feedback.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2011

Voices from the Community is an ongoing series of blog posts culling. popular topics of interest from the TechSoup Community Forums and other. online community channels. As our community discusses the topic of building a culture of accessibility, an important distinction arises. Opening Hearts and Minds. and Ottowa.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 24, 2010

.&# People around the world are sharing stories about women in technology and science via blogs, Twitter and other social media, as well as coming together offline for events in various countries (you can find events on the FindingAda.com site ). Tags: events networking adalovelaceday technology women womenwhotech.

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Care2

JUNE 27, 2014

Unconference we explored how to disrupt social change in the nonprofit sector. Often people who are part of the community that is being served are NOT called upon to identify problems and develop solutions. The community that''s being served are considered partners but not necessarily the major decision-makers.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2009

The Online Community Report MeetUp is back this month, fresh from the Online Community Unconference and ready to discuss online community tools and techniques. This month our guest speaker is Brad Selby from Flixster , an online community for movie lovers. Event Details: When: Wednesday, June 24 at 7:00 p.m.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

My slides covered the tools and apps for the back stage side of energizing your community. Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. Community Mapping.

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NTEN

JULY 17, 2009

Yesterday, NTEN Community Members joined us for the beginning of the planning for 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference. Community Site: Some folks didn't find NTConnect very intuitive and experienced a hard time with the site. We hoped to give you a way to connect prior to the conference to form groups and create social events.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2017

Every month I bring you a roundup of free technology training events that will help nonprofit staffers like you build their skills. But maybe you're skeptical and you're wondering: "How can a free event organized by a volunteer be any good?" Upcoming Tech4Good Events. Find your closest NetSquared group.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

If you work in the labor or the community organizing world, your mission is to meet your constituents when and where they need you. Unconference. Unconference in DC will lead a series of sessions and conversations about using social media to create networked communities and movements. Tags: Nonprofit Events.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Net2Local, TechSoup Global’s grassroots #nptech community-building initiative has almost reached the end of 2013. Our volunteer network has accomplished the following: 232 events. ” Community Highlights. Wordle of event titles from Net2Local groups. What did we do? Stats Time! Approximately 5,000 attendees.

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Forum One

MAY 5, 2010

As a relative newbie here at Forum One, I wasn't sure what to expect when as I headed to my very first "unconference." " The event, Participation Camp , was organized by volunteers recently and sponsored, in part, by Forum One. billion in Recovery Act grants and loans to improve internet access in American communities.).

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

NetSquared Local believes that the best way to build a strong, self sufficient community of #nptech practitioners is for us to go outside and get face-to-face. Event Reports. NetSquared Camp, an unconference for hackers and activists, was held on June 1 in Vancouver. in the event’s Storify summary. Monday, June 10.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2015

Every month we hold free training and networking events in cities across the United States (and the globe!). From WordPress to Google AdWords to big data, we're planning events dedicated to making you the fastest and most powerful nonprofit techie you can possibly be. Upcoming Events. The link need to be like so: Africa.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

With the new year in full swing, we're looking forward to all the great events that are coming up this year by refreshing our own 2012 Conferences calendar. Here you'll find a list of upcoming events that are sure to be buzzing with cause-minded folks. Will you be attending any of these events? What are we missing? Eric Rardin.

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

National Volunteer Week has come and gone, but I ask you to join me every week in celebrating the amazing contributions of TechSoup's NetSquared community. hours planning each event, so more than 4,000 volunteer hours were contributed in 2016. And while you're there, be sure to give your event organizer a hug for me!

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NTEN

JULY 2, 2010

Beth Kanter actually attended an event -- and learned something! Unconference where Beth did some learning at, see the summary Allyson Kapin provides over on the Care2 Frogloop blog. We're looking forward to many more events in DC in the fall, and leading up to the 2011 NTC ! usually doing the teaching ;). Wendy's Keynote. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

I'm thrilled that Peggy Duvette, Executive Director, agreed to share a post about their new capacity to speak many languages and its offline events. . WiserEarth has also been connecting communities on the ground. WiserTuesdays have spread to London, UK and Monrovia, Liberia.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Don't worry, there are NetSquared groups in 75 cities who are dedicated to holding events for their local nonprofit technology communities. Attending our events is like going to NTC in DC — except without the cost of a hotel and flight! Upcoming Tech4Good Events. Durham, North Carolina: Spring Networking Event.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2010

The event was presented by Twilio and Open 311 , one of the organizations leading the charge to make government data public, accessible, and usable. I've kind of become an open-data geek in the past few months, largely thanks to NetSquared's unconference at NTC. A few weeks ago, I attended a panel discussion on open government data.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 13, 2009

The event will be an unconference format - leveraging users' interests to drive the sessions, and ensuring plenty of time for interactions. Forum One's Chief Community Officer Bill Johnston will be there and has also blogged about essential reading on the topic of the real-time web. REGISTRATION.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

TechSoup will be hosting a pre-conference workshop on Office 365; exhibiting at the NTC Science Fair; speaking at plenary events, breakout sessions, and a "Birds of a Feather" lunch; and facilitating networking opportunities. This event will be hosted by TechSoup an d our partner, TechImpact. Stop By Our Science Fair Booth.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

I've long believed that museums have a special opportunity to support the community spirit of Web 2.0 as physical analogs to virtual community platforms. People who engage deeply in any online community, whether a bulletin board or social networking site, want to meet in person. meetup for Elite Yelp! Before they held the Yelp!

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NTEN

APRIL 22, 2011

Peter Dietz and Christine Egger officially started the process this week of transitioning Social Actions – the community creating APIs and collaborations to make finding actionable opportunities easier across the web – over to its new home at GuideStar. unconference. Are you looking to get Facebook engagement up in your community?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Organizing a community and serving it well has a lot of dimensions poorly reflected in webstats alone. These are events where a group of bloggers write about a particularly topic on a particular day. The event is encouraging bloggers around the web to write a post about the environment. I think it means nothing.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 17, 2017

Each summer, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History hosts MuseumCamp , a professional development experience that is part retreat, part unconference, part adult summer camp. We will host 100 diverse people who are making change in the world, our communities, and our institutions for 2.5 MuseumCamp will be August 9-11, 2017.

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2008

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Fundraising during Covid has been disruptive for everyone – every single sector has been impacted but particularly those that work in event fundraising. Due to social isolation policies, many nonprofits have had to cancel or reimagine their future fundraising events (depending on their location). Crowdfunding.

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Forum One

MARCH 1, 2009

And the " bar camp " format, or unconference or "open space" approach, really leads to meaningful topics and peer to peer discussions. Chatting with web strategy blogger Jon Udell about the challenges in his work to promote adoption by content producers and aggregators of the very valuable local community calendars. *

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Each summer, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History hosts MuseumCamp , a professional development experience that is part retreat, part unconference, part adult summer camp. We will host 100 diverse people who are making change in the world, our communities, and our institutions for 2.5 This year's theme is CHANGEMAKERS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2006

While poking around Allison's Blogs, I came across her 100 Women blog which she describes as " a community of women who are interested and willing to share ideas, gadgets, how-tos. I've also found that events that use the "unconference" approach and informal learning and sharing like Boston Podcamp have also helped me learn.

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Forum One

AUGUST 25, 2008

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2009

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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