Tech Soup

AUGUST 12, 2013

Your NetSquared organizers are gearing up for Social Media September , a month of social media for social good -themed events. Find your local #nptech tribe and consider sharing your skills as a volunteer surgeon by joining a NetSquared Local group. August’s NetSquared Events. Washington, DC: NetSquared Meetup.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

TechSoup and NetSquared have joined forces to bring you a September full of social media learning! All month long, we're putting on events and publishing content to sharpen your social media skills. Coordinated Universal time Topic: engaging skills-based volunteers to manage social strategy. Eastern time / 8:00 p.m.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. Take a look at the posts below—many great conversation starters to get you thinking and buzzing about what 2009 will bring. Take a look at the posts below—many great conversation starters to get you thinking and buzzing about what 2009 will bring.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

This post was authored by Vanessa Rhinesmith and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. Be mindful of the benefits of bringing in a variety of experts and skills of those who are equally as invested in the challenges of a particular cause being addressed through the event. Hackathons, coding sprints, app challenges, oh my!

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of September 23rd).

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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. " That's why TechSoup invests in developing the best practices of our NetSquared network. Find your closest NetSquared group. Or, you can apply today to start your own NetSquared group.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 13, 2014

No special tech skills required! As we've said before, everyone needs basic security awareness and skills, but these skills are even more important for nonprofits, charities, and NGOs because we rely on the goodwill of donors and funders to do our good work. Continue the Conversation.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 19, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. It's about having a CONVERSATION with people who care about your work and can help you reach your goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2014

Nonprofits, faith-based organizations, libraries, and networks such as the NetSquared Local should be leading this movement as they are already committed to social good. ” That people would be freelancing and also need the skills of being to market themselves for the next gig. Some referred to it as the “gig economy.”

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

This post was authored by Trenton DuVal, a contributing editor at NetSquared, and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. That article includes links to various resources about using this network for nonprofits, including NetSquared's Think Tank on using LinkedIn for Change. NetSquared's own LinkedIn group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Content curators have integrated this skill into their daily routine. Professional development used to be about getting trained or acquiring a specific skill. You don’t need to do it for hours, but a little bit everyday will help you develop and hone the skills. Why is Content Curation Valuable?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

This post was authored by Vanessa Rhinesmith and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. awareness and skills development in children, teens, and young adults. Organizations are helping to facilitate these conversations and learnings globally. skills are taught through a practical hands-on course that guides.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

That's why TechSoup Global, NetSquared and Microsoft teamed up to launch the Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Contest last November. Find out what else NetSquared was up to this spring in this roundup. Join in on the conversation and participate in our tweet chats and webinars around digital storytelling.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

I wanted to use today to focus in on a question recently posed by my good friend Joe Solomon on Twitter : What are the nonprofit/orgs that are working 2 wire the green movement, like what @ netsquared does 4 nonprofits, @ sunfoundation for politics; which orgs are working to expose data, leverage soc media, connect the orgs together?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Netsquared has another Think-Tank coming up later this month. Before we get into the nitty gritty of learning a particular social media skill, you need to make sure that you have identified a social media strategy. This requires ongoing professional development and the skill or knowledge required should be part of the job description.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

During my conversation with Rose, she told me about a panel she was on, that had a mainly women audience, and how surprised she was by how many women had questions about blogging basics. She also produces her own Big Vision podcast and the NetSquared This Week in NetSquared News podcast. www.brittbravo.com blog women

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2008

I know for myself, it will be a challenge to add this new level of multi-tasking (watching a twitter stream in real time) while in the room - in addition reading the body language, traffic coping the conversation, listening to the panelists, keeping an eye on the watch, etc. Netsquared Meet up 5:00 PM.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

Britt Bravo at NetSquared summarized a community discussion about the "Best of the Nonprofit Social Web." How do we continue to connect and have a conversation facilitated by different social media tools? If you are in a position of teaching this skill to nonprofits, what do you show them? bubble would burst.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

There are many sparks for conversation about the points raised. Michele Martin points to a new feature in google news that can spark conversations. An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared. Ruby Sinreich's Advocacy 2.0 Presentation Slides on flickr Blog post here. NpTech Talk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

You can find previous blog posts (with great conversations in the comments) here , here and here. But, that isn’t to say it’s the complete conversation. This is truly a great starting place from which we can all move the conversation forward. are built in a bubble.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

NpTech Conversations. Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! the skills identified in this workshop or sessions at the upcoming NTC designed to look at change issues that technology surfaces from the viewpoint of executive directors or IT staff might help. So, you want to build a MashUp? And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

He said that things in the field happen in spaces between particles- the analogue is a conversation between people. The important thing is having the conversation. The key skill is pattern analysis and of course, using what you find to inform decisions or actions. It was not a success - at least not yet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2006

There has been online conversation during the past couple of weeks on vlog list , Netsquared , TechSoup and Blogher. Issues: Given the amount of time, technical skills, and resources that vlogging requires, when is it appropriate for nonprofits to adopt it? Here's a synthesis. Here are three examples: (1) (2) (3).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Ego searches can be set up very easily - no special geek skills required -- and the services, are, of course, free. Tracking Blog Conversations. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Article on Netsquared : How To Track Mentions of Your Organization. Some tools and techniques follow below. Click on the RSS button in the results page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

Ego searches can be set up very easily - no special geek skills required -- and the services, are, of course, free. Tracking Blog Conversations. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Article on Netsquared : How To Track Mentions of Your Organization. Some tools and techniques follow below. Click on the RSS button in the results page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2009

Submitted by Ivan Boothe, publisher of the Rootwork Blog Over at the NetSquared blog, Joe Solomon provided a great roundup of reasons people might be "jaded about social media for change" and ways they overcome it. Joe runs through some great responses from a whole bevy of social-media-for-change folks, including me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

There are many things in my life and work that I need to streamline, and an important skill to facilitate this is learn how to say no. Usability is a Conversation. Effective Professional Networking Skills I've written about this in the next section. Stated another way, organize and simplify. I have a confession.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

NetSquared Open Space (NOS): APIs and Open Data. Who : Facilitating: Amy Sample Ward | NetSquared; Billy Bicket | NetSquared. The NetSquared team will be working the room to activate and facilitate conversations so everyone can enjoy the ride. Who : NetSquared and other Community Organizers. When : 9:00 a.m.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Women Who Tech brings together talented and renowned women breaking new ground in technology who use their tech savvy skills to transform the world and inspire change. Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. A great example of using Twitter for real information exchange and for conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

That's when I was working with the New York Foundation for the Arts on its technology capacity building programs, including offline/online workshops for online skill building called SpiderSchool. I finally got to meet Jayne about a year at the netsquared conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

This particular Carnival raises the question of how to decide which online social media tools to use and ramp up your skills using it. In addition, have a conversation with the three people who joined you - what did you learn? account and point to a few good ones I find every week for my NpTechTag Roundup over at Netsquared.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

There were interesting conversations at every turn and I also had requests to share my notes and slides. For this conversation, we are going to start with the frame of the analog paradigm and move forward from there. Oh, we have a few key tactics: daily content, conversation starters, and highlighting community members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

Today was the last day of month-long and very intense workshop on online community and facilitation skills from Nancy White at Full Circle. I'm sad because it was a fantastic experience due to Nancy's incredible skill and energy as an online facilitator and my fellow workshop participants on who logged in from around the world.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

Knowing basic HTML is a must-have skill for online marketers. Otter uses Ambient Voice Intelligence to transcribe meetings, Zoom calls, and conversations into searchable notes that can be easily shared. NetSquared :: netsquared.org. From programmers to designers, Upwork enables you to easily hire skilled freelancers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

Then out of that class, I did a lot of work and discovered that what I wanted to do was pass on the Art and Revolution skills, the dance, and the theater and how to bring art into the streets to homeless youth, and low-income youth of color. Whatever conversation needs to happen, whatever initiative needs to birth. So we do that.

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