Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

I’ve been involved with TechSoup/Netsquared Network since its inception back six years ago and so it is nice to be part of the narrative arc. I’ve been involved with TechSoup/Netsquared Network since its inception back six years ago and so it is nice to be part [.] Photo by Glenn Hirsch. Photo by Glenn Hirsch.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2016

A well-designed app can be a great way for your nonprofit to motivate people to take action, change behaviors, convey important information, and inspire real change. NetSquared is TechSoup's volunteer-driven network of in-person nonprofit technology training and peer support events. Want to know if NetSquared is right for you?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The Global Kids Online Leadership Organization partnered with the New York Public Library to create a mobile game called NYC Haunts for the iPhone. Victoria Walker, an 11-year-old from California, designed Rode Dog (coming to Android, iOs, and Windows Phone soon) at an AT&T-sponsored hackathon to stop texting and driving.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

NYC Haunts is a mobile game created by the Global Kids Online Leadership Organization in a partnership with the New York Public Library. Created by local NYC students, this game is designed to be played in and around city libraries and teaches players how to use library resources.

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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. Much commentary and critiques about the semi-public ballotting process. Refunds for Good is designed help you do that and celebrity Martin Sheen tells you why. NpTech Community. happens, I observe day laborers.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

A hackathon is an event where programmers, developers, designers, and leaders come together to collaborate on an app, website, or software projects. For example, Victoria Walker, an 11-year-old from California, designed Rode Dog , a clever app designed to stop texting and driving. NetSquared can help! Library Hackathons.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

The Value-add of Crowdsourcing: For me, the two biggest reasons to include crowdsourcing in your strategic design of community building or contests are: Crowdsourcing invites diversity by encouraging anyone with an idea or interest to participate. Public voting process. Public’s favorites put to expert judges for final selection.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki is designed to be a starting place for organizations just getting started on social media. Read a first-hand account from Jeff Dawson, director of the Lester Public Library in Wisconsin, on how this rural library built up its social media presence. NetSquared.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2013

NetSquared can help! Link up with designers, developers and other likeminded social activists to get your project off the ground. The weekend event is organized by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy , Code for America , Random Hacks of Kindness and many other organizations and companies.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

This separation came with no public announcement, either before the move or when it happened, except for a very short email sent a couple days beforehand to account administrators as a warning. That doesn’t mean NetSquared’s perfect, by any measure, but it does mean that a quick abandonment isn’t in store.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2016

But what if an app could be used to help nonprofits, public libraries, and other community groups organize and solve pressing problems? Caravan Studios also does the hands-on work of developing the apps to ensure that the ideas, designs, and ultimately, the apps themselves are adoptable by those who need them most.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

The submitted projects were shared in a project gallery on the Community Boost_r website where the public could vote on their favorite project. And the Winners Are… After a few weeks of coding, sourcing ideas, and testing public interest, the projects were again open to the public for voting. Šta se može uraditi?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

The room was packed with enthusiastic participants and this post is designed to be shared with others who couldn’t attend in person, as well as to all those who did and asked to have resources to share with their networks. Another way to not take short cutes is to operate in public. Events: NetSquared Camps. Presentation.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2013

It was originally published on NetSquared. Data for Public Service Delivery. At the launch of RAN, innovative projects designed by students to enhance resilience pointed to the tremendous importance of accessible, transparent information for increased disaster resilience and development outcomes.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki is designed to be a starting place for organizations just getting started on social media. Read a first-hand account from Jeff Dawson, director of the Lester Public Library in Wisconsin, on how this rural library built up its social media presence. NetSquared.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2013

For a taste of nptech goings-on all around the world, NetSquared Local shares community highlights from the month of May and gets its fans excited about future projects in their recent monthly roundup. The series was launched by James Howe and will explore the world of communications, from public relations to digital media.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Recently, over 300 innovators and changemakers interested in the intersection of technology and social benefit work converged for a few days of idea-sharing, learning, and collaboration at NetSquared's annual conference. About NetSquared. To learn more about NetSquared or get involved, visit [link].

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Gil Martinez designs an installation to celebrate the launch of TechSoup Canada and the history of TechSoup Global. Jim profiles a new project dedicated to informing the public about greenwashing. From TechSoup Global Labs: NetSquared. From the TechSoup Community: TechSoup Blog. Robert takes another look at mobile giving.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2010

Lesson #1: Design an action and invitation that’s doable and interesting – while focused on your goal. Some posted to community blogs like NetSquared. To recap : the methods for sharing and promoting the campaign were also designed to create easy ways of measuring participation and impact. Some tweeted.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

and for faith-based organizations that may want to designate donations between a variety of programs they're operating. Kudos to Erin Palmer over at TechSoup's NetSquared Project for this: "The Pew Internet & American Life Project reports that, as of early 2012, 88% of American adults had a cell phone.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

" Here at TechSoup, we're excited to see nonprofits and public libraries as well as our donor partners, Microsoft and Cisco, involved with TechHire. For example, Year Up designed a curriculum for JPMorgan Chase , training students to work in the company's anti-money-laundering operations.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

This post originally appeared on the Netsquared blog and was authored by Bari Samad, an NGO domain expert for NetSquared. Available to the general public at www.7billionactions.org/data Last week, the world’s population reached a staggering 7 billion people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

It isn’t unlike what a museum curator does to produce an exhibition: They identify the theme, they provide the context, they decide which paintings to hang on the wall, how they should be annotated, and how they should be displayed for the public. And you have to scan your sources regularly and thank them.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Over on the NetSquared blog , we've been running a great series of posts by Bari Samad about ways that nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries can leverage the power of human capital. He's written about limited-term volunteering , high-skills volunteers , and tips and resources for managing human capital.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2006

The organization is "a public/private partnership responsible for attracting and growing brain-based businesses in Savannah." Perhaps I can coax them to share a little bit more of what they're doing over at the discussion about nonprofit tagging for netsquared. What is the tag design? How are they using tagging?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

I've used a little social network theory to design my FriendFeed friending strategy. In fact, I watched Laura crowdsource some of her presentation on FriendFeed. FriendFeed also has "rooms" that can be public or private - these feeds with discussion items. How To Use FriendFeed To Keep Up On Nonprofits - (Netsquared).

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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? What does that mean?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. You always get a bit of bad with the good, however, especially with the news and public attention of a disaster relief effort. How can we do that?

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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. What do you think gets in the way to "best practices"?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2007

public role,??? for real and intellectual and design property? Something like the NetSquared open call for projects that happened last month, but mapped to a virtual world. To see which functions communities ???assign??? to their voluntary sector and which to a ???public if they get to build from scratch.

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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. public information???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

What should Netsquared's Facebook strategy be? Trebor Scholz wonders about Social Networks - Public, Private, or Social? Nonprofittech blog also has a new design and some big banner ads.) Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Here's a growing list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2006

Susan Tenby from TechSoup demos the virtual TechSoup Office during the Netsquared Conference while Ruby Sinreich and Deborah Finn (Cyber-Yenta) blogged about it. At the Netsquared Conference, I discovered that there are few organizations in the experimenting with metaverse games -- the early adopters.

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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. Influence decision-makers; impact public policy. If you start with a theory of change, you can then design tactics around it. The sessions are short (only 50 minutes!) Network for Good : $29.95/month

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

I write for the NetSquared blog each day (it takes me anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour depending on the topic), but it is also designed to be a community blog, so any registered user can post on it about how nonprofits are using the social web for social change. Ask them to blog during conference sessions and post photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Fear about letting the public comment back "publicly". I point out two good examples, the Hunger is Unacceptable Campaign (which uses the hold the sign meme -- the first one I ever did was in December 2005 for Netsquared ) and the Humane Society's LOL Seals.

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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 Dave Pollard's Principles of Knowledge Management (for organizations with no KM resources) includes 16 principles to think about when designing a system.

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