Tech Soup

JUNE 13, 2014

But there’s a special magic that happens when we get face-to-face, which is why each month NetSquared organizers in 50 cities across the globe host workshops and socials for the nonprofit tech community. Abidjan, Ivory Coast: Abidjan NetSquared Meetup Group Monthly Meetup. NetSquared Cambridge: Inclusion Unstuck.

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2015

TechSoup's NetSquared is the world's largest volunteer-driven network of in-person nonprofit technology training and peer support events. We have groups in 20 countries, and last year we held 600+ events helping 17,000+ nonprofit employees, board members, volunteers, and community leaders. Well, there are! Upcoming Events.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2016

Luckily for you, NetSquared is here to keep you on track. NetSquared holds free or low-cost educational events for people who want to use technology for good. Our live, in-person events are hosted by a global network of volunteers dedicated to building strong, self-sufficient local communities of nonprofit technology practitioners.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Here are some example searches using NetSquared as the organization. “netsquared&# or “net squared&# - putting this in the search term area of the alert would mean that any time “NetSquared&# is mentioned or “Net Squared&# is mentioned, I will get alerted. Twitter Search.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2016

TechSoup's NetSquared is the world's largest volunteer-driven network of in-person nonprofit technology training and peer support events. We have groups in 24 countries, and last year, we held 835 events helping more than 12,000 nonprofit employees, board members, volunteers, and community leaders. Well, there are!

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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. Search for your city on NetSquared.org to find your closest event. NetSquared Vancouver** shares [slides and videos]([link] from their November event. * Want to learn about PCI compliance?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

TechSoup's NetSquared community of Tech4Good meetups is growing! Keep reading for a roundup of upcoming events or search the directory. Keep reading for a roundup of upcoming events or search the directory. Find your closest NetSquared group. Start a NetSquared group. --> Upcoming Tech4Good Events.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

Just search at NetSquared.org and start leveraging tech to do more good. We know that good stories power fundraising and marketing, so join one of our events to discover powerful case studies and connect with digital storytelling experts in your community. Abidjan, Ivory Coast: Abidjan NetSquared Monthly Meetup. Storymakers.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

We know that good stories power fundraising and marketing, so join one of our free events to discover powerful case studies and connect with digital storytelling experts in your community. TechSoup and the NetSquared meetups are here to help. Orlando, Florida: Microsoft Gives Back: Community, Education, and Philanthropy.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Claire Sale, NetSquared. She now uses Google Search, reads her news online, sends and receives email, and even uses Facebook to check-in with family and friends. So, I turned that question to my friends and the NetSquared community, and got some really great responses that I'd like to share with you. Getting Started.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Net2 Think Tank Round-up: Creating Awesome Video | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – "For this month's Net2 Think Tank we asked you to share your tools and tactics for creating effective video messages – regardless of budget and organization size. " The Web Is Dead.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. [Ed. Here are some example searches using NetSquared as the organization. netsquared” or “net squared” - putting this in the search term area of the alert would mean that any time “NetSquared” is mentioned or “Net Squared” is mentioned, I will get alerted. Twitter Search.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

The Face (book) of NetSquared Champions. The NetSquared Conference is just days away and the NetSquared blogs are buzzing with activity! If you're on Facebook , search for the n2y2 group! If you're on Facebook , search for the n2y2 group! Not attending the NetSquared Conference but want to follow the tag stream?

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 17, 2009

The initiative is an extension of Resolve to be Ready in 2009, a nationwide effort designed to encourage individuals, families, businesses and communities to take action and prepare for emergencies in 2009. Here's a great post from Ivan Booth who picked up on a question Joe Solomon posed on the NetSquared blog recently.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 11, 2011

—– Have you thought about running a contest or crowdsourcing ideas for your organization or community group? to people in the crowd (as in, expand beyond your community). It also gives you options for saving searches and getting alerts when there are new proposals that match your criteria.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

As part of the Transforming Communities project, we had the opportunity to explore apps targeted toward youth as well as apps developed by youth. Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

New forms of participation such as micro-volunteering, and web-generated events such as Twestival, are changing the way people are coming together to raise funds, donate their time and make a difference in their local and global community. Article: NetSquared and the new wave of online volunteering. Feeling brave? Volunteer Match.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

New forms of participation such as micro-volunteering, and web-generated events such as Twestival, are changing the way people are coming together to raise funds, donate their time and make a difference in their local and global community. Article: NetSquared and the new wave of online volunteering. Feeling brave? Volunteer Match.

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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. Ten Tech Proposals Empowering Human Rights, Local Leadership, and Community Education is. NTC 2007 Pipe.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

As part of the App It Up 2: Transforming Communities project, we had the opportunity to explore some of the latest mobile fundraising apps. Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2009

to learn more about the methodology) of your twitter friends with search. I don't understand by @ntenhross (Holly Ross, Director of NTEN) and @amyrsward (Netsquared community builder) aren't in my cloud. What's interesting to me is looking at my map and identifying sub-communities or spokes and hubs. jasonfalls.

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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. An accomplished web researcher, Tenby notes, "not everyone could search the Web in 1999.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. Organizing a community and serving it well has a lot of dimensions poorly reflected in webstats alone. What do you think?

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NTEN

MARCH 5, 2010

Deborah Elizabeth Finn announced the prototype of a tool that will search and. This month's NetSquared (a project of TechSoup Global ) Think Tank topic is on effective social media policies. Tags: community buzz NPTech NTEN nten members. aggregate questions and answers regarding nonprofit management. available March 4th. .

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Care2

APRIL 7, 2010

Architecting Your Site For Search Engine Performance: And We Ain't Talkin' Just Keywords Time: 10:30 AM. Bringing Community Organizing Into Online Campaigns. Panelists: Debra Askanase, Community Organizer 2.0, Ivan Boothe, Rootwork.org, and Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Click here to RSVP. April 9th Sessions.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The Red Cross has a simple shelter search web app , accessible via any web browser. Concerned parties can then search for information and updates using the message sender's email address. Engaging the Community in Innovative Ways. Shelter information is updated every 30 minutes. Notifying Family and Friends.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2010

Some posted to community blogs like NetSquared. We could follow the hashtag on Twitter using Twitter Search ( [link] ) and could use the tracking built into Bit.ly to track clicks on the links ( [link] ) (or try doing a search using Tweetmeme ). We even said that they could do something else entirely! Some tweeted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

and Communities of Practice Online Conference. Dorine is currently involved a pilot project for KM4DEV where a community of practice is collaborating on sharing delicious feeds. In the comments, I prodded her to share some of her experience about using tagging as a tool to share resources in a community of practice context.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Don't forget to add the search tool. Win $10,000 DonateNow Mashup Challenge at NetSquared. Go do a search on Tweetscan and find out. (I And, be sure to add the search toolbar to your browser. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Want to listen on Twitter?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

A content curator cherry picks the best content that is important and relevant to share with their community. It is also good to learn from experienced curators and how they hone their craft. Netsquared recently published this summary of tips from nonprofit content curators. You have to be organized and know your sources.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2013

It was originally published on NetSquared. African Students Leverage Open Data to Aid Communities Vulnerable to Disaster Lindsay Read an AidData Summer Fellow talks about Resilient Africa Network (RAN) which is run by Makerere University and 19 other African universities in partnership with USAID’s Higher Education Solutions Network.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 21, 2008

OneWebDay September 22nd A day to celebrate what the Web means to us as individuals, organizations, and communities. Bloggers Unite has partnered with Refugees United for the event, a search engine that allows refugees to search anonymously for their friends and family, as well as to register themselves so that they can be found.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. This proved to the Ushahidi team that their tool would be valuable to communities around the world. For example, if a family is looking for their missing mother, they can use the search engine to find images that volunteers have tagged with “adult” and “female.” How can we do that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

I still don't know of that many nonprofits using Friendfeed , though, whether as an overall tool or for joining the "nptech" community conversation ( "nptech" is a tag that Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, and others have been using to tag nonprofit technology resources on delicious, twitter, etc., for the last five years or so). If not, why not?

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2013

It originally appeared on NetSquared. For example, France Telecom-Orange has made anonymized records of five million mobile phone users in Cote d'Ivoire available to the research community as part of the Data for Development Challenge. Seeing Like a State in Africa: Data Needed.

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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. Changing the Present has launched a Facebook application adding to the virtual gift community. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Kudos to Erin Palmer over at TechSoup's NetSquared Project for this: "The Pew Internet & American Life Project reports that, as of early 2012, 88% of American adults had a cell phone. Improved search. A mobile website provides improved rankings on mobile-friendly search engines such as Google and Bing.

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