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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0 " The year was 2005.

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Guest Post on Tactical Philanthropy: Causes, MySpace and ideablob

Amy Sample Ward

Sean Stannard-Stockton has just posted my guest post on the Tactical Philanthropy blog. Two weeks ago , Causes, the application that lets individuals and organizations campaign and fundraise, removed itself and all Causes-related content/data from MySpace. You can read it and the comments on the blog here , it’s copied below.

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Get Help in Telling the Story of Your Nonprofit's Impact

Tech Soup

TechSoup and the NetSquared meetups are here to help. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and other awesome organizations. Decatur, Illinois: Storytelling, Planning, and Scheduling Content for Your Nonprofit #Storymakers2017. Upcoming Tech4Good Events.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. Allan Benamer weighs in with some observations after wading through the comments over at the Netsquared site and pointing to Holden from GiveWell to be the most salient point. on the interplay of newspapers and internet content.

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Vote Now for Your Favorite 17NTC Sessions

Tech Soup

By voting for the sessions you want to see at the conference, you're helping build a lineup that delivers the most relevant and practical educational content. Editors' note: NetSquared organizers and TechSoup staff submitted sessions, and we would LOVE it if you weighed in and voted!]. How to Vote for NTC Sessions. spanhidden

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Crowdsourcing: Community vs Crowd

Amy Sample Ward

Using tools that allow reposting, sharing, emailing and so on will give anyone the options they want to push your content around the web for you. The value of the tool grows as people value the tool and add more content. Tags: challenge community presentation beth kanter crowds crowdsourcing netsquared nten sxsw.

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Deep in the Heart of #NPTech: It's time for our #15NTC Round-up

NTEN

Check out this ridiculously long list of 15NTC content. We ate BBQ by the pound , celebrated inspiring campaigns and community members , rode around on Segways , and did a lot of photoshopping. Of course, we learned and shared a ton too. Did we miss anything? Please let us know in the comments! 15NTC Community NTC press'

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