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Need Hands-on Help? NetSquared's Free Workshops Are in Your Community

Tech Soup

That's why TechSoup supports a global network of tech trainers called NetSquared. NetSquared groups focus on topics that address their unique local tech challenges, but once a quarter, we select a common theme. Find your closest NetSquared group. Or, apply today to start your own NetSquared group.

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Interview: Avi Kaplan, Epic Change for TweetsGiving

Amy Sample Ward

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. People donate to a shared cause in honor of that for which they are most grateful. Where do the funds go?

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Interview: Avi Kaplan, Epic Change for TweetsGiving

Amy Sample Ward

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. People donate to a shared cause in honor of that for which they are most grateful. Where do the funds go?

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Philanthropy and Social Media: New Whitepaper from The Institute for Philanthropy

Amy Sample Ward

Their Tweetsgiving campaigns were fundraisers benefiting Mama Lucy’s school in Tanzania and connected the students to their supporters through Twitter. Philanthropy has been able to move into the real time web, too. Another great example is Epic Change. Impacts to Society. What does all this really mean for us now?

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Technology for Change Contest: Win a new computer from HP!

Amy Sample Ward

For example, simply review the hundreds of ideas listed in NetSquared ’s Project Gallery and you’ll quickly see that people from around the world are hard at work leveraging all kinds of technologies to create positive change for communities tackling many different issues. I think there are too many to count, really.

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Best Internet Marketing for a Cause 2006

Have Fun - Do Good

What makes us write a donation check, spread the word about a campaign, or show up for a meeting or protest? For the past year, I have been writing for NetSquared about nonprofits and NGOs that are using the social web to cultivate donors, advocates and activists for their organization and their cause. Emotional connection.