Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

TechSoup Global, the leading technology place for nonprofits, just announced it will kick off their annual Online Digital Storytelling Challenge January 13, 2011. Last year, over 100 organizations participated, with top submissions earning prizes from Flip Video, Adobe, Flickr, and GoldMail. Every organization has a story to tell.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

My conversations so far for February are all focused on the role of nonprofits online. Shirky specifically about the avenues of participation, content, and convening online. Shirky points out in the video that nonprofits can’t participate online in the same way that individuals can. Standford Social Innovation Review.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 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). Online Fundraiser's Checklist – "FREE DOWNLOAD: The Online Fundraiser's Checklist. " Check it out! " Check it out! ."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Flickr Photo by WiserEarth - WiserEarth's team from Around the World play Peek-A-Boo With Book. I’d like to use this post to share some of the responses to the Networked Nonprofit at different book events and online during the past month and let you know about upcoming events in November. Flickr Photo by KK.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

—– Over on the NetSquared platform right now we are in the midst of the 2010 FACT Social Justice Challenge. NetSquared supports the community at the intersection of technology and social impact in a few ways, including open innovation competitions. Has your organization run a competition online or offline?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Targeted toward 18-29 year olds, the app links Facebook users with the MyVote online service for voter registration and information. The Global Kids Online Leadership Organization partnered with the New York Public Library to create a mobile game called NYC Haunts for the iPhone. Image: App Inventor Workshop ( Flickr ).

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2011

Their suite of online fundraising applications support campaigns across multiple channels for optimal results. A few years ago, he was a blogging novice; now, he now uses Flickr, Delicious, Facebook, and Google alerts to strengthen his museum's community. Understanding the needs of your community is not always easy.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2010

Flickr: Cambodia4Kids (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . Aspiration's new online resource (can we call it "beta?")

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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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Flickr Photo by Villoks Many people around the world are supporting the Monks in Burma by wearing red t-shirts today or participating in vigils like this one in Cambodia outside the Burma embassy. There's a roundup of coverage on his Netsquared blog , including pointers to live blog posts like this one. And if you???re

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Flickr: Juushika Redgrave This past weekend saw the first offical day of fall which means we can all look forward to months of potted mums, candy corn, and annual conferences. 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.

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NTEN

MARCH 27, 2009

Flickr: bensheldon Allyson Kapin summarizes some key findings from Convio 's 2009 Online Marketing Benchmark Inex Study , and cites some analysis by Superstar NTEN member Robert Weiner. Well, it helped Charity:Water raise $10,000 in one day! You can learn more about it here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 applications have changed the rules of online community. There are two sets of social roles here. Who has time for Video?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 23, 2008

For folks who are unfamiliar with webinars, they are online classes where participants watch the speaker's presentation on the web, while listening to it via their phone. uploaded by Beth Kanter Cross-posted from NetSquared. I'm teaching my first webinar for a client in a couple weeks. Share information in short segments.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Flickr Commons Project: Smithsonian Institution I've been neglecting my Member News roundups, but it's not because I don't care -- it's a combination of you guys all being super active and NTEN being consumed by NTC prep. NetSquared is partnering with UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center for a Mobile Innovation Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

s Ning online strategy began as a way to solve a very practical solution???keeping During a social media workshop, trainers Demetrio Maguigad and Gordon Mayer covered a number of online tools with attendees. Ning also allows open API to work with other popular social networks like Flickr and Facebook. Community Media Workshop???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

Flickr Photo by Pitel. I'm honored to be on the team of live blogging (that is, blogging about an event during an event) for the NetSquared Conference. We often see disclaimers to live blog posts like this one by Nancy White of Full Circle Online Interaction Blog. ???Normal

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

You need to start by checking out the content that is already being created by citizen journalists and activists about the issues you care about on blogs, podcasts and online video/vlogs. Online videos/vlogs Online videos or vlogs can searched for in the iTunes Music Store as well as on YouTube , blip.tv , DoGooderTV , QuantumShift.tv

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Photo by Geodog Speed Geeking Session at Advocacy Dev - complete flickr stream here. First there was a flickr group for NpTech Dogs and then we started seeing NpTechers with dog profiles on their Facebook profiles. It's an online collaborative mapping tool. Another online social networking cause-related fundraising site !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Flickr photo from handsome monkey. 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. Finally an interesting question over at Netsquared from Cauzoo, " Bells and Whistles, Do They Help you Get Heard ?"

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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 executive summary here ) ContinuousProgress: Better Advocacy Through Evaluation is an online guide to more effective foreign policy advocacy and evaluation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Odeo: Free [link] Copyright Free Music Podsafe Music Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Flickr Photo from Bearman 2007. Over at change.org, Nathaniel Whittmore has an post about online social action platforms looking ahead into 2009 and for mobile platforms. Alex Steed offers his connective predictions for 2009 at the NetSquared blog. It's that quiet week between Christmas and New Years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

This slide show from Common Craft uses a party as a metaphor for online community. Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. I love that some nonprofits are sharing photos of their messy offices on Flickr!

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Experiment with online contests, both creating them and participating in them. Online contests like the Knight News Challenge , The Case Foundation's America's Giving Challenge , and the AmEx Cardmember Project can be resource draining to participate in, especially for a time- and cash-strapped nonprofit. Get an iPhone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Presentation Slides on flickr Blog post here. An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared. The nonprofitmarketing blog gives us ten things to engage constituents online. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

Please specify 'Pie Ranch/Green Oaks Fund' in the Designation field of the online donation form. She explained that she was inspired by the Mission Pie she'd had last year at Net Tuesday San Francisco , an event I produce for NetSquared. Photo Credit: All for A Good Cause by Kellan on Flickr.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

The Christian Science Monitor, CNN, and CNET News are among the many sites that now deliver updated online content via RSS. Include outreach to bloggers as part of your online fundraising campaigns. weeks using her food blog and an online auction. By contrast, 51 percent of blog readers shopped online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Set up Google Alerts to follow what's being said about your organization and cause online so that you can act on what's being said, join the conversation and build your community. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Lisa Neal ) 2. Deborah Zanke ) ( Jason Shim ) 3.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Use the Rule of Thirds : (1/3 Web + 1/3 One Way + 1/3 Social) = Online Marketing Budget The rule of thirds is not an Einstein theory, it is actually comes to us from the art world. You can also share the impact of your organization's programs through podcasts, sharing photos on Flickr, or videos on YouTube or other video sharing sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

From Flickr User Philswin2003 The above flickr photo is from the Nonprofit Software Development Summit and some flipchart notes illustrating what's going on right now: inspiration, matchmaking, and practical methods! Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2009

Submitted by Ivan Boothe, publisher of the Rootwork Blog Over at the NetSquared blog, Joe Solomon provided a great roundup of reasons people might be "jaded about social media for change" and ways they overcome it. Sometimes that's all you need - making a donation, sending petitions, affecting website ratings, flooding online polls, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

Public conversation has been happening on the Internet since it started - via listservs, newsgroups, and online forums. So, we know that there is a well documented and established lurker to poster ratio that is well established in online communities as the 5%. communities as well. You can do this a random way or a strategic way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

This particular Carnival raises the question of how to decide which online social media tools to use and ramp up your skills using it. While there are some obvious easy tools to get started with first, like Flickr, for example, you have to be ready to invest a little bit of time in some thoughtful experimentation.

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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. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. From Flickr User EJK. Flickr Farm. I'm nervous.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2014

NetSquared believes in the power of meeting face-to-face in the actual physical real world. Online learning is awesome (and TechSoup has got you covered ), but there’s a real magic when we get together in the same room and start building relationships. Abidjan, Ivory Coast: Abidjan NetSquared Meetup Group Monthly Meetup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

As a result, been behind with the online/blogging part of my life. Nonprofit Online News: This is written by Michael Gilbert and is probably the oldest blog that covers nonprofit issues. Netsquared and ConsultantCommons both from CompuMentor. I didn't see that practically a week ago, Nancy White, tagged me with the NGO/NPO Memo.

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