Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2013

It originally appeared on NetSquared. Challenging some of the predictable backlash against big data hype Andrew McAfee describes some of the errors people make when writing about data and gives a short list of things to consider when writing about it in his Harvard Business Review blog post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

I'm still trying to better understand what it all means for nonprofits and maybe we just say to hell with the technology hype & buzzwords and focus on the value of collaborative outcomes that the Web 2.0 (for world to embrace integration it is necessary to focus on our goals and not on the technology. Now we must grow responsibly.

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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. Too many nonprofits orchestrate "petition drives" that aren't about advocating for anything other than larger membership rolls.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 8, 2006

A couple weeks ago, I did an interview for the NetSquared Podcast with Leda Dederich, the creator of the dotOrganize project, and co-author of the report "Online Technology For Social Change: From Struggle to Strategy." So that was one of the main goals of this report, was, "What's really going on? People are kind of stuck.

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