Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2007

Gavin's Digital Diner gave us a thoughtful post about the pros/cons of taxonomy versus folksonomy, and the quality (or lack of) in user-generated content. Gavin raises some good questions: What the hell is the "NPTech" tag and how would one use it anyway? The NpTech tag early discussions can be found here: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2006

There is a panel on nonprofit and tagging taking place netsquared. Some of the questions: Why some people love discovery aspect of tagging and others don't? If you've gotten past this debate in your organization and are using tagging, what have you learned? How can you use tags to organize and find content?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

NetSquared. Netsquared Featured projects receive grant awards ! Yikes, the first ever tag spam I've seen in the NpTech Tag Stream! Then, I remembered the phrase flowed through the NPtech tag stream about six months as a reference to interface design.) Some really cool events flowing through the NpTech Tag Stream!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2009

" A conceptual model of value for social media | Juice Digital - Check ou thte "4 Cs" model developed by Gaurav Mishra: Content, Collaboration, Community and Collective Intelligence, as an example of the progression of what kind of value you can create online for your organization and the larger community. " - Joe Solomon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

Also, for the past year, I've been summarizing resources being shared through the NpTech Tag, I've felt frustrated that you didn't always know who had contributed the resource and while one could add brief annotations, there was not a space for conversation around those shared items. Andrew Cohen shared How do you test our web site cheaply?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

Netsquared is new project in its embryonic stages from Compumentor, the folks who have brought excellent technology resources to the nonprofit field. The very first seeds of content and conversation have started and much more will happen along the way leading up to the April, 2006 f-2-f conference. What is it?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 30, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. Do you provide different content or appeals to your Twitter followers than to your Facebook group? We post a question or topic to the NetSquared community and participants submit responses either on their own blogs or on the NetSquared Community Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

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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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 3, 2009

N2Y4 Conference Volunteers | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org - Looking for a way to come to the N2Y4 Conference? " It’s Your Content — Take Control of It! NTEN: The Nonprofit … - "The key to a successful integrated marketing plan is to take control of your content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? Open Content, Online Privacy, and Virtual Worlds Where Most Needed points out that few US Universities jump on MIT's Free Courseware Bandwagon. nonprofit technology.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 6, 2010

We’re also seeing a range of creative proposals — for example Paul Lamb’s suggestions including stewardship by open source foundations or social entrepreneur funders, and a NetSquared-type transition campaign. Tags: community issues collaboration fundraising social actions social impact support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

I didn't see that practically a week ago, Nancy White, tagged me with the NGO/NPO Memo. that is I love the content, consume way too much, and can spend a lot of time wandering around having a wonderul time. I did an interview with Michael back in May, 2005 and it is just fascinating to learn about his content gathering process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. Tagged with a footnote Marnie Webb notes "What do you think of the survey O'Reilly points to? Found via this post tagged nptech by Meghan. " I agree.

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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?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

The tagging discussion included an action learning exercise where we shared a lot of resources about tagging as well as explored the discovery aspect of delicious. group" about tagging and social-bookmarking. What central tag to use to get an item noticed? What tags to use to describe items, who decides this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Michelle Murrain adds that she won't sign up until the content is more compelling and the social graph is open. Tag your post with "net2thinktank." The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week. And if you???re

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

—– Over on the NetSquared platform right now we are in the midst of the 2010 FACT Social Justice Challenge. NetSquared supports the community at the intersection of technology and social impact in a few ways, including open innovation competitions. We’re all learning as we go! We’d love to hear your examples!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2016

The following blog post recaps a NetSquared Toronto presentation by Sarah Lesh, a front-end web developer at hjc. HTML lays everything out by defining the content and flow (the design comes later). Closing tag: An example of this would be: Hello! Therefore, an tag would be slightly smaller and less prominent than.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Shirky specifically about the avenues of participation, content, and convening online. Because the difference isn’t in using the tools per se, we all have the same functionality to upload, tag, comment, etc. How do nonprofits convene groups or create content that fits with the changing online environment? I asked Prof.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

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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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2010

The Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) is here again and team members from NetSquared and TechSoup Global will be busy presenting, sharing, and connecting in Atlanta, and hopefully with you! Members of the NetSquared and TechSoup content and community teams will also be using Twitter and blogs during the event.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Claire Sale, NetSquared. 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. As my Grandmother became more familiar with the way that Facebook works, she's become more comfortable posting her own content. Tags: NPTech NTEN.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

This post summarizes the content I shared in my presentation and offers some reflection on the conversational keynote. I was also an early member of Netsquared Community , another one of Marnie’s brilliant ideas that rocked the field. 5: Make sure your content has a social life. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Two weeks ago , Causes, the application that lets individuals and organizations campaign and fundraise, removed itself and all Causes-related content/data from MySpace. Now that Causes removed itself, it’s content, and any related data from MySpace, organizations cannot connect with their supporters who were using Causes.

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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. You can read all the details here. ].

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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 Allison Fine writes an Op-Ed piece on the SF Chronicle entitled " A New Bargain: YouTube Politics." It includes case studies, tools, and how-tos.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

This post is cross-posted on my personal blog and on the NetSquared Blog. That is really the reason we even do face-to-face these days, as much of the content at conferences is pretty much the same conversation again and again, at least in the nonprofit tech world (Twitter or Facebook?

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FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Speaker: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. if you just want my content, follow @amysampleward. if you want me and the whole global NetSquared community, visit: [link]. - Tags: 10NTC amy sample ward Community NPTech Social Media Program. We're asking them all to share their answers to five very important questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

So, while it may very difficult to find Internet content from Burma, it is getting onto the Internet. 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. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2006

One of the breakout sessions at The Netsquared Conference was on Tagging in the Nonprofit World at that session blogher Holly Ross of N-TEN asked a question. "How can we use tagging to make social change, not just organize our own work." Recruit other tagvocates for their tag(s).

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. How do nonprofits convene groups or create content that fits with the changing online environment? Tags: role nonprofits net2thinktank. February’s Net2 Think Tank sprang from an interview with Clay Shirky, the author of Here Comes Everybody.

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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. Interact, use tools, and create and share content the way you want your community members to do so. This is a guest post I wrote for the Online Community Report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

In our session at NetSquared today, we used Social Actions as a case study in engaging online community participation, and shared two strategy tools that can help you make your nonprofit site more engaging. Each "rung" on the ladder should specify 1-3 content features, tools or activities that will appeal to the user you're targeting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2009

I could let the blog go dark for a couple of weeks or I could rehash old content, like the "Best of the Beth." I thought this would be a win/win -- I get to reduce some stress and my friends get share some of the great content about nonprofits and social media while I'm gone. Tags: guest blogging. Wish me luck!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2009

YouTube video volunteers channel - a video version of All for Good - get video volunteers to create content for nonprofits. Content management systems are lego like systems for nonprofits to publish web content - lots a software in this area for nonprofits. He shared some recent examples, including those from Netsquared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2005

Looks like Netsquared is morphing before our eyes. Case study content is beginning to appear, some of it developed by fellow Boston area nptecher, Deborah Finn. Technorati Tags: net2

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

As you will see, it has many different tabs to try to help with the information overload of juggling so many great content sources. Tags: guest blogging RSS. This is a place to find blogs or RSS feeds from research or organizational websites - all focused on the large intersection of social technologies and social benefit work.

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