Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

As I mentioned last week, I am talking with a marketing class at New College's Green MBA program on Sunday about how nonprofits can use social media for marketing. Many of my examples are of what Allison Fine, author of Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age , calls "extra-organizational activists."

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AUGUST 16, 2006

I just discovered a new (to me anyway) blog on nonprofits called the Nonprofit Eye via a provocative post on the Netsquared Community Blog. She recently introduced her blog on the Netsquared site: Don't know where I fit in the scheme of things here, but I have to start somewhere. Hurry the contest deadline is August 17th!

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OCTOBER 11, 2006

I was up too late editing a screencast to do a content analysis yesterday, instead I found a great thread on Nonprofits and Vlogging over at Social Edge facilitated by Patrick O'Heffernan. It's called Web Video for the Social Benefit Sector. I might also add an understanding of " Social Media Optimization."

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

We also have a contest in which we're giving away $7,000 in cash prizes and a new camera. Birmingham, United Kingdom: Video Skills + Telling Social Stories. NetSquared Vancouver** shares [slides and videos]([link] from their November event. * Los Angeles, California: Startups for Social Impact: The Pains and Rewards.

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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. Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. Christine.Net attended the Web 2.0 NpTech Community.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

One of the biggest trends in mobile giving right now is gamification: the integration of game dynamics, like points, badges, or levels, into a fundraising or social good campaign. The company currently has three mobile and web-based games available: Fantasy Kingdoms, Music Festivals, and Parallel Kingdom.

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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. Congrats to Avaaz.org for the winning video in the NTC Video Contest. Photo from Cambodia4kids.

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AUGUST 4, 2008

Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. The summaries are more focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. Which one worked best? possibly related classroom projects???

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MARCH 23, 2007

Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout? Will this lead to niche social networks that are more relevant to people's interests? over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Lots of members, including Charles Lenchner and Laura Quinn , were talking about the recent Pew research report on the use of social network by US adults over at M+R 's Progressive Exchange online community. NetSquared is partnering with UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center for a Mobile Innovation Challenge.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 21, 2009

This month's Net2ThinkTank question on NetSquared is, “What do you think will be the big changes, new technologies, hot applications, or successful campaigns of 2009?” They have a CRM (customer relationship management) software donation program for nonprofits. MJRovner recommended the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Guide I mentioned above.

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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. They are hosting a contest to win $10,000K to celebrate their launch. Sixdegrees.org is running a contest with Hanes T-shirts to win $10,000K. young people???

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Peter Deitz, Social Actions. Micro-philanthropy -- that ambiguous term that refers to all things socially networked, small-scale, and charitable -- will have matured. Get accustomed to using social media to communicate with all of your potential donors. Another approach to the online contest phenomenon is to run your own.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

The PeaFund Friday Campaign PeaFund Friday is an amazing example of the power of social media for social change. It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer. Go vote here.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! Gavin Clabaugh tells us how to embed "Skype Presence" in a SharePoint Web Part. Social Media A couple of really useful posts on Facebook and Nonprofits. There's also a profile of the Humane Society's recent $50,000 contest win from Microsoft. NpTech Conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

Should A Foundation's Financial Transactions Fully Support its Social Purposes? Comment, Blog it, tag it NpTech, and/or start a blog over at the Netsquared site. Film Contest - " Film Your Issue " from Yahoo and other sponsors. tools in their web sites. tools in their web sites. Change the World!

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

I hope you all had a chance to join us yesterday for our webinar called Social Media for Social Good. It makes sense to work with your legal team as well as with colleagues to combine efforts at creating different norms for the web. I gave a presentation about Healthcare, Nonprofits, and Social Media. Beth : See [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 There are two sets of social roles here. Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. Who has time for Video?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." I've been experimenting quite a bit over the last 18 months way too many social networking tools. Katya Andresen has written a fantastic five minute guide to social networking tools.

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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. Amplifying Social Media. TechSoup's senior online community manager, Lewis Haidt, predicts that charities will use more sophisticated group social media tools like Thunderclap that amplify messaging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Overview slides of what is Web2.0 ( remix from Social Media and Nonprofits Presentation) Core theme Listening - Responding to what people are saying about the topic or the program. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together. Business Opportunities Web Blog Network. Hiring people.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

As some of you know, part of my work is being the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that facilitates the adoption of social web tools by nonprofits and NGOs. Wikipedia defines a mashup as, "a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Via Britt Bravo Do you have an idea for how a mashup could be a tool for social change? NetSquared, a project of TechSoup, is awarding a share of $100,000 in prize money, and a trip to the NetSquared Conference, to the top 20 winners of the NetSquared Mashup Challenge.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

For perspective, I imagine you immediately ask where are we on this roadmap right now: We are in the social space. We went from technology belonging to the IT staff, to new media belonging to the young intern, web savvy communications officer, and so on. Social Paradigm. Thus, we entered the social period. Social Tools.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Provided you set aside the time to explore and experiment, your nonprofit can use the tools listed below to significantly improve your web and email communications and your social media campaigns. Social Media. Buffer enables social media managers to schedule posts on social networks throughout the day and evening.

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