Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2013

Each tweet chat covered a different facet of digital storytelling and featured storytelling experts and nonprofit and library participants. The most famous example of the 6-word exercise is Hemingway's "For sale: baby shoes, never worn" – a tale of loss. Beirut, Lebanon: NetSquared Beirut.

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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. On the one hand you have examples of s hare economy services for wealthy people and on the other a whole group of people who do not have access to the share economy.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

We surveyed the TechSoup community to learn more about the TechSoup resources they're currently using, the topics they'd like to learn about, and how TechSoup can best help them learn about nonprofit and library technology. Your feedback and ideas will help us improve and expand our learning resources for nonprofits and libraries.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

To get diverse perspectives from TechSoup Global staff about user-generated content, we asked Marc Manashil, Community Evangelist for NetSquared, to share how challenges like Restart Romania enable users to get engaged at all levels. Web-based challenges are not a new phenomenon at TechSoup Global. It was also our first non-English challenge.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Our Online Safety for Nonprofits and Libraries: Paranoid or Are They Really Out to Get You? Kevin Lo, TechSoup's senior program manager for NetSquared, who has been TechSoup's resident security expert for many years. He authored our recently released 12 Tips to Being Safer Online Guide for nonprofits and libraries.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

The best advice is to take a tip from libraries and museums and curate all that information. For example, Summify measures sentiment and a user’s reading history to highlight content. NetSquared Think Tank: Curating Content. What Is Content Curation? The Human Element. Building Thought Leadership through Content Curation.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2013

It was originally published on NetSquared. RAN is establishing Resilience Innovation Labs within participating universities throughout Africa, coupled with online laboratories and a new online science library to help with its work.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

" New at TechSoup: Your 501(c)(3) nonprofit, library, or foundation can now collect donations by text message — and develop your own mobile site — with discounted and donated services from Connect2Give. This offer is available to all nonprofits, charities, foundations, and public libraries. Benefits of a Mobile Site.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

One example of gaming for good is the PETA Pokemon game, which seeks to raise awareness about lab animal testing. In a conventional game, like Monopoly for example, players earn money for themselves. He discussed the gaming for good community and gave some examples of projects he and his colleagues were working on.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 11, 2013

I found that I could be of help by looking up information about various mapping tools or examples of other programs while the programmers were coding. My group started out by considering Crowdmap (from NetSquared alumnus Ushahidi ), but ended up going with Google Fusion and Google Maps to create the project. "Keep it simple!"

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

For more innovative and engaging ways to use technology for disaster relief, check out NetSquared's tips on Mobilizing Online Communities in the Face of Disaster and the value of crowdsourcing for nonprofits. The San Ramon Valley Fire Department has recently launched an initative to extend the reach of the app beyond San Ramon.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 22, 2006

Many of these blogs have been mentioned on this blog before or on NetSquared. To report back from an event or conference Example: Patricia Jones, manager of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee's Environmental Justice Program, is blogging from the Fourth World Water Forum on the UUSC blog, Hotwire 2.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The Hacker Helper project is closely aligned with our NetSquared vision of bringing communities together to solve social problems – including nonprofits, beneficiaries, activists, technologists, concerned citizens. also reports some news that effect libraries. It’s still not as good a deal as your trusty local library.

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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. " A nonprofit just beginning to incorporate video into their web presence notes on a recent Netsquared post , "We don't have that much capacity to do video work, so its kind of catch-as-catch-can."

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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. Depending on your organization's work and audience, you may not have to.

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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 Yet another great example of using Web2.0 Randal Moss at fispace shares an example of the blog's role in word of mouth marketing on the Internet. tools into your PR messaging?

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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. A few organizations in the nonprofit sector are exploring the power of the this type of gaming medium for social justice - take Camp Darfur for example.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2014

This project is a great resource for libraries to share with patrons. San Francisco libraries have varying hours and might not always be open. Library staff can tell patrons to use this service when the library is closed or if all the computers are in use. Reporting Problems. Log in and share in our comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

My initial remix thought (wrong) was to look for examples that were related to agriculture, but the extension is so much more. looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! An example? Another example. Here's an example from the Red Cross. So, now is the fun part. This can inform.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

If you review the links and examples, you'll find some general answers to that question. For example “Starbucks sucks” will show a lot of issues around free trade and other image problems. Beth : Here's my little library - the second row has my picks for social media and networking.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The Lean Startup Owners Manual , in particular, says it applies to 'intrapraneurs' within existing organizations (not just startup founders) and gives specific examples of philanthropy-related programs where the framework could be applied. Elijah van der Giessen, TechSoup's Netsquared Community Organizer and Curator.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, in particular, says it applies to 'intrapraneurs' within existing organizations (not just startup founders) and gives specific examples of philanthropy-related programs where the framework could be applied. Elijah van der Giessen, TechSoup's Netsquared Community Organizer and Curator.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 1, 2006

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. What are your favorite examples of the Best Internet Marketing for a Cause? What makes us want to act for social change? Emotional connection.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is an online library of almost 500 billion screenshots of websites since 1996. NetSquared :: netsquared.org. NetSquared is a group of volunteer leaders who host free #TechforGood in-person events every month in 120 cities worldwide. See also the Noun Project. Idealist.org :: idealist.org.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

Whether it’s AirBnB , the Sharing Cities Network or Car2Go , the range of sharing economy examples is reaching a tidal flood. 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.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

They have some great examples on the Pixlr blog as well. NetSquared organizer, Eli van der Giessen’s personal favorite free lightweight online image editor is PicMonkey. " These are fine for noncommercial use by charities or libraries with attribution to the author. Word It Out is another one of these.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is an online library of almost 500 billion screenshots of websites since 1996. NetSquared :: netsquared.org. NetSquared in a group of volunteer leaders who host free #TechforGood in-person events every month in 120 cities worldwide. Internet Archive Wayback Machine :: archive.org/web.

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