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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us.

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Collaborative Models for Capturing and Sharing Conference Notes at Nonprofit Gatherings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This model can also be scaled to an entire blog community platform. Take for example, the netsquared conference. With this model, there is a "wiki moderator" who has posted notes for participants who have never used a wiki before. tools, but what happens when you have a group of people who may not be? or furl.

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Cutest Have Fun * Do Good T-shirt Models Ever

Have Fun - Do Good

I sent Beth Kanter a Have Fun * Do Good t-shirt to thank her for being such a fabulous co-editor with me on BlogHer and the NetSquared blog. Beth has started a two-headed blog shirt collection on Flickr. flickr Beth Kanter She posted the cutest photo of her children, Harry and Sara, wearing it together.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Voting Deadline at Netsquared Extended, NTC Pipe, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Netsquared Voting Deadline Extended. Due to some technical glitches , you now have 48 additional hours to figure out what 5-10 of the 150 fantastic social change and technology projects at Netsquared will receive your vote. Here's Steve Wright modeling his ). Photo from Cambodia4kids. More pointers to NTC posts here.

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Participatory Campaigns: The Hold A Sign Meme

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There was also a flickr component that I learned about this from the wonderful Heather Gardner-Madras , who like me, is a flickr fan. She posted a pointer on the NTEN Nonprofit Flickr Affinity Group list today. great example of the innovative new things we can do with Flickr in terms of.

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$100 Laptop at WSIS 2005

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's a photo from WSIS flickr stream. A comment mentions this: " A slightly embarrassed Mr Annan inadvertently broke the crank handle of the non-functioning model on display as he left" from this news story. Here's the press photo via a post on netsquared. WSIS 2005: $100 laptop Originally uploaded by BillT.

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr. Follow the links from here.

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