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. conference, will help non-profit organizations move into that world -- byte by byte, blog by blog, RSS feed by RSS feed. What is it? This site, and the Net??

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2005

Today, Mark is the manager of TechSoup's NetSquared initiative, a project designed to make sure the non-for-profit sector gets involved early and actively with the newest tools and trends in internet technology. And once we got through catching up, I admitted to him that I was just a bit perplexed about the NetSquared project.

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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. The site was developed by Democracy in Action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2008

Photo from Ed Schipul, taken by Eloy Zuniga Yesterday's panel Pimp Non Profits at SXSW was brilliantly moderated by Ed Schipul.& & Ed is also a very good session designer too.& Long Station blog has great notes here ) Erin talked about the NetSquared Mashup (deadline on March 14th).&

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AUGUST 14, 2014

You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared (where Ushahidi won its first challenge!). You can design your own t-shirt with Teespring's online tool or you can work with one of the company's consultants. Using CauseVox's design tools, the nonprofit launched a branded campaign called Do It In A Dress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Ann Wizer is an artist who uses design and education to protect the environment and reduce poverty. I want to design well made recycled bags. The shoppers won't go to the landfill, so I needed to get the designers there." Several themes that came out in the discussion: The line between for-profit and nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

NetSquared. Netsquared Featured projects receive grant awards ! Then, I remembered the phrase flowed through the NPtech tag stream about six months as a reference to interface design.) The essay has nothing to do with virtual worlds or interface design. Net Tuesday Seattle has been in the local press too! NpTech Talk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. NetSquared Community. for the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) beginning on May 29th. Like last year, conference participants are introducing themselves on their NetSquared Blog.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared. You can design your own t-shirt with Teespring's online tool or you can work with one of the company's consultants. Cost: It is completely free to launch a campaign and Teespring does not take a percentage of your campaign's profit margin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

NpTech Conversations Wild Apricot Blog is hosting next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on the topic "How are non-profits using Web 2.0 Laura Whitehead is the session designer for a workshop on Social Media and Nonprofits and she's asking for input from the NpTech community on the session. In addition, no visuals either.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Given the fantastic feedback we received from our NetSquared GIS presentation, I was very pleased to learn that NTEN is featuring Robert in a forthcoming webinar. The speaker, Robert Cheetham, is both concise and knowledgeable, but more importantly he has a knack for explaining GIS in a way that is very accessible to non-techies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! It notes, "Maybe the answer is an intermediary b/w tech and design volunteers and the non-profits they???re " There's also another article on a similar theme that focuses on the describing the problem -- or why nonprofits, designers, and techies can't talk to each other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2007

for real and intellectual and design property? Naturally, he has some thoughts on this: Non-profits struggle with how to apply for funds in a way that is meeting the criteria of the funder without compromising on their basic mission. Or are they a passing fancy? Hypothetically, web2.0

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Tomorrow, October 18th, Eric Leland of Leland Design , and I will be presenting about, "Internet Strategy on the Cheap" at the San Francisco Bay Area Nonprofit Boot Camp. You have to set it up yourself and pay for web hosting) MovableType.com: [link] (Higher Education & Non-profit license for 5 authors, $195.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Doing More With Less: How Not-for-Profits Leverage Technology for Change: They've won Webby Awards. Design and Development Powers for the Social Good.

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Care2

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Given the fantastic feedback we received from our NetSquared GIS presentation, I was very pleased to learn that NTEN is featuring Robert in a forthcoming webinar. The speaker, Robert Cheetham, is both concise and knowledgeable, but more importantly he has a knack for explaining GIS in a way that is very accessible to non-techies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Submitted by Amy Sample Ward, publisher of Amy Sample Ward’s Version of NPTech Hildy Gottlieb’s new book The Pollyanna Principles is a handbook for starting a revolution in social benefit organization design and practice, but it isn’t the revolution. What’s the catch?

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2007

This summer I've been interviewing the innovators behind the 21 Projects that went to the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) this year (I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared). You can listen to the original interview and a live recording of Freecycle's 5-minute pitch at the NetSquared Conference on the NetSquared Podcast.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. design: is it clean? Great template options, including custom designs for $199. How Google Earth & Maps can help Non-Profits : Show what is at stake – don’t just tell people. If you start with a theory of change, you can then design tactics around it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

He also describes some issues with the interaction design of Causes: In addition, the Social Cause app does not let non-profits a) access the contact information of members b) update members on the cause or c) even send them a receipt for donations, and of course, market again. Is it only shiny object syndrome? What do you think?

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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

AUGUST 17, 2007

Non-Profit Tech Blog lets us know that project agape (Facebook causes) now at 2.5 Fundraising and Philanthropy There was lots of praise about Amy Luckey of Blueprint Research and Design's recent article called " Grantmaking 2.0: Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

What should Netsquared's Facebook strategy be? Recent studies are finding that for-profit workplaces believe that desktop applications and office documents should not have a social life. Nonprofittech blog also has a new design and some big banner ads.) What do you think? Here's a growing list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

WeWorkForFree is a design community that allows it's members to upload and share their portfolios in order to raise money for international programs that benefit developing nations around the globe. I'd two more issues with how the interaction design meshes with fundraising here and here. TechSoup blog profiles Taproot Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

Some participated in the formal experiment I designed which involved a quick knowledge sharing task. The formal experiment I designed involved asking people to pick a useful post from the list of FriendFeed bookmarks in del.icio.us " Will Boyd has a question about non-profit marketing ? room, etc). Jonathon D. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Here's one from LOLNPTECH.org and Little Dishes 2 from the Non-Profit Tech Blog. When I popped out of the reader to write a comment on this excellent post, I was blown away by the new site design. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Check it out. for his blog.

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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 The NPTech Blog Chatter Confessions of a non-profit IT director blog rasied ruckus with his proposal for creating a closed forum and new NTEN Affinity Group : nptechhelp.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. This beautifully designed and well written concise guide is a must-read. For the launch, they???ve And if you???re

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

That word change supports co-design, it encourages collaboration, and it ensures engagement. Instead of grant deliverables or profit, passion and impact are the bottom line motivators for change. Obviously “profit” is a slippery slope, but in most scenarios, it isn’t the community at large that would financially benefit off of change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

"Every month, the NetSquared community comes together offline at Net Tuesday events to mix, swap stories and ideas, build new relationships, and collaborate. I am a proud member of the NetSquared community and have helped organize Net Tuesday events in Vancouver & Seattle. This post was originally published at NetSquared.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2013

For over a decade Allyson has helped non-profit organizations and political campaigns create dynamic and award-winning websites and online marketing and recruitment campaigns. She has also been a featured speaker on web design, Internet marketing and social media at national conferences.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2006

Let's start with Michelle herself, who posted some comments on the NTEN-sponsored discussion of open API's last week to both the NetSquared site and her own blog. The on-line discussion brought together some of the larger software vendors in the non-profit space and a few very savvy users. And there you have it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Michael Stein (East Coast) reflects on striving for simplicity in design. There are Twitter critics in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. I wonder which one is more effective or appropriate for MySpace culture - visual design or social design ? Today I Cried resigns ! Kikono - Digg for NpTech. technologies.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

The envisioned and imagined space where disparate fabrics and colors and designs can come together and tell one story. you know, as a person you can bring your values into a profit-making business. What I do is, I write for several blogs, as she mentioned. And I really think that's what it's about right now.

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