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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

I hope you'll add to the list: Change/Wire Dining for Women Ella Baker Center Echoing Green Genocide Intervention Network Global Fund for Women Global Voices' Rising Voices Google.org Idealist NetSquared NTEN People's Grocery Save Darfur Social Actions Spot.us Flickr photo credit: Photo of question mark in flowers uploaded by Michelle.

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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. That's why we asked you to help us write the book about it ! The party happens next Tuesday, so don't forget to sign up soon!

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 23, 2008

NTEN, Idealware, and TechSoup host webinars that will answer many of your burning nonprofit and technology questions! Keep the session interactive by providing places for people to ask and answer questions throughout the presentation whether by virtually raising their hands, chatting online, or having a discussion over the phone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. The question is "When is video a good. Flickr/Photo Sharing, Video, and Games for Change An interesting comparision between photos on flickr and Getty images.

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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. Seb Chan, of the Fresh + New Blog, raises an interesting question about web site stickness in a web2.0 Engagement Strategie s.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2007

For attribution for flickr photos, I include the url either on the photo itself or at the end. video from June's NetSquared event, "Creating Web-Based Presentations for Your Nonprofit," featuring two of my favorite drugs err I mean tools, Scrapblog and SlideShare. I also include their blog urls in the accompanying wiki.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Some other do-good social networks you might want to try out are: Care2 , Change.org , Flickr (photos), Future5000 (youth), Meetup (events), Just Cause , myBLOC.net (young people of color), Razoo , TakingITGlobal (youth), Upcoming (events) and WiserEarth. You can still add your own red photo to the Burma Free - Birmania Libera Flickr pool.

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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

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Photo in Flickr - CC "by/nc" license - Mr.GluSniffer. If you read down the comments on the flickr post, Darcy Norman says. over at NetSquared failed to turn up more than a handful of nominations. s get back to the question at hand. Read the post from Brian Lamb. blame the internet! :-). t quite know what to do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Presentation Slides on flickr Blog post here. Michelle Murrain is curbing her time on "walled gardens " like LinkedIn and Facebook while pondering the question, " How Open Is Facebook, Really? An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared. Ruby Sinreich's Advocacy 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. Random Thoughts on Life and Work blog shares some planning questions about " Project SharePoint or how the organization will use Microsoft's SharePoint for internal collaboration and communication.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

In an earlier post, I covered some tips for getting " conversation ready " from Alexandra Samuel's recent workshop at Netsquared. Reply to every (rational) question. But, the real question is how do you facilitate conversation? Answer questions. Respond quickly. How do you facilitate cross-blog conversation ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

The summaries will be briefer, focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. Search YouTube and Flickr for descriptive keywords that are part of your mission statement to see what your target audiences might find compelling and inspirational. Jonathon Coleman ). Want inspiration? Jonathon Coleman ).

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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 blog shares an interview with entitled " Camera Rwanda: Storytelling using Flickr." " Here's the wiki , blog , and flickr compilations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. That was a question posed on a listserv with little response except for this observation: Micro-campaign 'competitions' are not going to last as an effective means of NPO fundraising. 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

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! ZdNet post raises the question "Salesforce.com pulls back on releasing subscriber totals; is that worrisome?"

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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. Instead, it appears everyone took your question about being jaded to mean "How can I get un-jaded," and not, "Should I be jaded?"

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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

DECEMBER 16, 2008

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. 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.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

" The second question is the more important of the two, and the more difficult to answer. Platforms like Genius Rocket and NetSquared provide nonprofits an opportunity to crowd-source a communications or technological need. Ask questions, and you'll be surprised who's on top of the technological changes and who's not.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

As I mentioned in my post about " extra-organizational activists" , there are bloggers out there who would love to raise money for your cause: Beth Kanter raised $800 for the Sharing Foundation using the ChipIn widget plus her blog , social networks, Flickr and video in 26 days. Ask them to blog during conference sessions and post photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. Unplugged Research an action research project which will explore the question: How do telecentres make 'web 2.0'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

My post over at Katya's blog generated some excellent advice and has also raised many more questions. Have a question: I want to publically acknowledge the names of the donors here on this blog and what I don't know is whether donors opted to be anonymous or not? Results My campaign goal is $750 by December 31, 2006.

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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. At the Netsquared Conference, I discovered that there are few organizations in the experimenting with metaverse games -- the early adopters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

YouTube, the popular online video-sharing site, and Flickr, an online photo-sharing site, for instance, include social networking. Steve Bridger posted a pointer over at Netsquared to his thoughts on "Buzz Director." This leaves me some questions. sorry Steve) and skill sets. What's need to make a shift towards that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

Photo by Jeska Linden in flickr Jeska Linden (Jeska Dzwigalski) is the Community Manager for Linden Lab , the creators of the virtual world Second Life , where she has worked since the summer of 2004. At the netsquared conference , I spoke with someone from a small nonprofit about Second Life. Mixed Reality Event ??? Second Life isn???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2009

Source: Robotson on Flickr I don't know about you, but I am a big fan of open standards, particularly when my bladder Direct Messages me with the hashtag #urgent. Chris Messina recently made this point at the NetSquared conference as it relates to open standards for managing one's identity online, '.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Flickr Photo by whatchamakallit. And, the networking was good, but the best part was the opportunity to ask Jeremiah a few clarifying questions to his face! " Question: Why does a Star Fish Have Five Rays? Answers Business Questions Related To Goals: (examples) Here's a simple framework for thinking through these.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

The website has a support page where you can ask questions. NetSquared organizer, Eli van der Giessen’s personal favorite free lightweight online image editor is PicMonkey. At TechSoup we’re big fans of the Flickr's Creative Commons page to find photos and videos we can use. Image three: Scribus.

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