Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Here are even more blog posts, articles, and event recaps to get you started: Facebook uses an algorithm called EdgeRank to determine the makeup of each user's news feed. Learn how to maximize the reach of your nonprofit or library's posts to Facebook. NetSquared. TechSoup's Social Media Resources.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). " Net2 Think Tank Round-Up: Finding Volunteers Online | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – Looking for ways to recruit volunteers online?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). So, what have you learned from trying your hand at online fundraising? The America's Giving Challenge from Case Foundation spurred $2.1

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

For some staff members, content curation can be professional of learning. It is also important to understand that content curation is just about information, it is about feeding and tuning your network. Use the dashboard to manage an unlimited amount of sources (websites, RSS feeds, specific social media accounts, etc.)

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Here are even more blog posts, articles, and event recaps to get you started: Facebook uses an algorithm called EdgeRank to determine the makeup of each user's news feed. Learn how to maximize the reach of your nonprofit or library's posts to Facebook. NetSquared. TechSoup's Social Media Resources.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

Not exactly as simply as the goldfish, but one that after a few steps feeds back to the beginning. As I said earlier, often the ideas you have come from conversations or learning about the community and not from a specific recommendation (though you may get some of those, too!). Events: NetSquared Camps. Case Studies.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project. Norton Satellite from Symantec is a free app that scans your Facebook feed for malicious links, as well as your Dropbox and local files for malware. Social Media and Communication.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

John Haydon helps to clarify Facebook''s changes to their news feed and how this will affect your organization''s account. TechSoup and NetSquared have put together a month of educational opportunities, from local events all over the world to day-long Twitter parties and a free webinar. Trying to connect with folks worldwide?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

These services are powered by the RSS feeds that each network offers to its users and makes following activity across sites easier and in one spot. 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.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. Stephen Downes points to Lisa Neal's " Ten Things You Can Do In Ten Minutes To Be A More Successful E-Learning Professional." Professional. Lisa Neal ) 2.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2006

They have several different feeds for each cateogries or tags: including news/events, jobs, resumes, real estate, etc. 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. Anything to share about what they're learning about using tagging this way?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

To get the most out of Friendfeed you do have to put more into it than just feeding your stuff in and reading others' stuff. Many community members are avid users of and students of social media – for some it is an integral part of their profession, so this is a great place to learn about social media. An incredible listening tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

She includes "learning," despict that face that some feel learning makes us less productive. Mashing and burning feeds ? Netsquared featured project WiserEarth In Ode Magazine Social Media Resources. Speaking of stories, the TechSoup RSS feed has two how-to articles on the topic here , here , and here.

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Care2

MAY 1, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" I hope to see you there.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Once you've got some ideas about the kinds of tools that you think might help you reach your goals, ask yourself, how much time, money, and in-house staff expertise do we have to learn how to use these tools, set them up, and maintain them? Cross-posted from NetSquared. If it's not working, delete it. What a pain!" net2 nptech Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Government and feedback loops - how can they take the field's learnings and incorporate in theirs? I learned a new term " Hockey Stick Returns " that colleague, Nedra defined for me. Never underestimate something that is fun and has short feed back loops. She was warning against shiny object syndrome. Don't give up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and networks. " Let's also not forget that we have lots to learn about the next generation of donors and how we integrate strategies to reach them using social media.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" His firm, Avencia , is an award winning GIS consultancy. I recommend it highly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2006

In a few weeks, I'm lucky to be going to the netsquared conference I signed up to go with the intent of being a sponge -- to learn more about all this stuff. But Marshall emailed me the other day to ask me if I would be on his session at the conference on tagging and rss.

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Care2

OCTOBER 7, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" His firm, Avencia , is an award winning GIS consultancy. I recommend it highly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

The tagging discussion included an action learning exercise where we shared a lot of resources about tagging as well as explored the discovery aspect of delicious. Dorine is currently involved a pilot project for KM4DEV where a community of practice is collaborating on sharing delicious feeds.

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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

APRIL 18, 2007

I'll be using a new online learning platform that I haven't used before and the participants are a slightly different audience than nonprofit staff or at least I think. Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. What could you learn from reading these blogs and engaging in a conversation with them?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

Thom Clark, Gordon Mayer, and Demetrio Maguigad shared some of their learnings. For every online social network training we do, we actually present the ning site and demonstrate ways participants can create and customize profiles, syndicate RSS feeds, post blogs, photos and videos and more. What did set out to accomplish? t that bad.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. TechSoup has RSS feeds too! So, let's take a quick look at the most highly rated items this week - which are about money, content, software, jobs, and some geek humor. More than $100,000 is on the table for innovate projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

She's not the only one out there, the Digital Youth Research group is looking at kids informal learning with digital media and of course, Danah Boyd ). Steve Bridger posted a pointer over at Netsquared to his thoughts on "Buzz Director." Is this just a new name for a "learning organization?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

The live video feed was being streamed from the Netsquared gathering in San Francisco happening at the same time as the virtual gatherng in Second Life. The educators are asking and researching, "What does the extra effort of working in this immersive environment get you, concretely, in learning outcomes?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

Blogging an article or a book helps me to go one step further because I push myself to formulate what I really learned from it. m reading other blogs through bloglines (I try to stick to around 50), it's a different way and fast way of learning too, which is very inspiring to me. And Netsquared. s the downside?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Would love to read a summary of the campaign results and lessons learned. You can learn a lot about that more through this informative interview by The Buzz Bin with Steve Bridger on the Buzz Director. You can learn a lot about that more through this informative interview by The Buzz Bin with Steve Bridger on the Buzz Director.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

When it comes to innovation in civil society, there is nothing that can match the speed and ingenuity of communities that come together to make a change, develop a tool, or feed a need. There are a few core elements of the way communities work that we can learn from as a model for innovation as well. Libraries + Learning.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

As for tactics, well, we mostly relied on “proven” or “successful” efforts; lessons learned from other organizations working in an analog paradigm like government, unions, and churches. For example, a recent website called AdmittingFailure.com highlights the examples of those opportunities where we can learn from what didn’t work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Marshall Kirkpatrick , who was working with Netsquared , whipped up the NpTech Metafeed which allowed folks to aggregate items tagged by nonprofit techies from many distributed sources. Most recently, Marnie Webb created a Yahoo Pipe of the NpTech Feed and runing it through AideRSS to sort it by popularity. And if you???re

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

Elijah van der Giessen, NetSquared Community Manager. Duolingo – is a free language-learning app and website that is also a crowdsourced web translation service. Duolingo – this is a free language-learning app and website that is also a crowdsourced web translation service. I’m learning French from it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2005

One of the reasons I am so excited about the work I am doing with NetSquared is because I think that these new web-based tools, especially podcasts, are an incredible way for nonprofits to get the word out about their causes, especially when they are listened to through headphones. who learn my listening. Would I feel bitter?

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