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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 year was 2005. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging.

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How do you define Creative Commons Attribution?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Lucy Bernholz , on her Philanthropy 2173 Blog , wrote a post called " Foundations Set Your Content Free where she shares an interesting historical perspective of open sourcing your work. She describes several different systems and share economies. Also, it is great to close the loop and have the opportunity to remix a remix.

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NpTech Summary: Red T-Shirt Day - Supporting Monks, YouTube Nonprofit Channel, and Web2forDev Conference Reports

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Tobias Eigen from Kabissa presented at the Web2fordev: Remixing the Web for International Development. Fundraising 2.0 NTEN's September Newsletter has tons of excellent content, in particular check out these articles about new fundraising techniques using tools like mobile phones and Facebook. Hurry the deadline is today!

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NpTech Tag: Socially Responsible Idol, Nptech Meebo Chat at PDF Conference, and Personal Fundraising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Peter Dietz has started a personal fundraising campaign. The Daily Rebellion blog gives nonprofits some tips for using MySpace for members and money. Peter Dietz has an article explaining why we need group fundraising RSS feeds. to raise an extra $500 for each of the 21 Netsquared Featured Projects.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Party Metaphors, Conversations, and A Few Good Links

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. Inspired by the NTEN blog post about whether online engagement leads to more money, Gavin's Digital Dinner gives a brilliant counter point essay on the topic filled with facts and nice pie charts.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations.

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Nonprofit SXSW Goodness – Conference List Toppers, To-Dos and Topics of Interest

Connection Cafe

Crowd Sourcing Innovative Social Change panel Sunday, March 14 at 03:30 PM – “Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? In fact, Karaoke is a core part of our reMix culture and this panel will show you how. But it wasn't here to enterain, no.