Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Here’s some news on a now famous NetSquared alumnus project. Ushahidi was a NetSquared Mashup Challenge winner in the fabled 2008 Netsquared conference in Santa Clara, California. Ushahidi was a NetSquared Mashup Challenge winner in the fabled 2008 Netsquared conference in Santa Clara, California.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

While the rest of you have been enjoying the summer partying on the beach, TechSoup’s NetSquared organizers have been plotting and scheming in front of their computers. During our month of social media for social good -themed events being held in cities across the globe NetSquared organizers are offering free workshops and events.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. Naples, FL: Photos Online 501 TechClub SWFL Netsquared. Singapore: Clean & Green Hacakathon 2013. Washington, DC: NetSquared DC Happy Hour. Guayaquil, Ecuador: The Guayaquil NetSquared Meetup Group Monthly Meetup. NetSquared events tsevents'

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

NEWS This week, Echoing Green partnered with Jobs for Change on a new Be Bold Podcast. Green Blogger Convention To Kick Off In Los Angeles Next Month on Eco razzi. 7 Tips for Measuring the Success of Your Blog on Beth's Blog Create a Listening Dashboard for your Organization on NetSquared. It's been a been a busy few weeks!

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 3, 2017

TechSoup's NetSquared community is hosting free monthly technology meetups in 74 cities globally, but with more than 39,000 members, it can be hard to get a sense of the community's needs. Why Are You a NetSquared Member? We asked NetSquared members why they attend our meetup events. Find your closest NetSquared group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Read more about it from Green Miles blog and a summary of reactions from other nonprofits here. " Geeks for Good and Green Geekery Ruby Sinreich facilitated a session at BarCampRDU on how geeks can use their powers for the forces of good and has a wiki with resources. News from Nigeria via the Netsquared blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

And a friendly reminder to recycle your old mobile phone if you happened to pick up a Iphone and think about green web host ! Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Maybe it's the IPhone/SalesForce app that Steve Anderson created? What could that lead to?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

TechSoup's NetSquared community of Tech4Good meetups is growing! Find your closest NetSquared group. As a NetSquared organizer, you will become known as someone who's a leader in the Tech4Good community. Start a NetSquared group. --> Upcoming Tech4Good Events. and have a reason to hang out with other cool people!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

The session, "Turning E-Waste into Green," focused on how policy decisions handling e-waste can improve the economy. That's why TechSoup Global, NetSquared and Microsoft teamed up to launch the Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Contest last November. Find out what else NetSquared was up to this spring in this roundup.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. [Ed. Here are some example searches using NetSquared as the organization. netsquared” or “net squared” - putting this in the search term area of the alert would mean that any time “NetSquared” is mentioned or “Net Squared” is mentioned, I will get alerted. You can read all the details here. ].

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 28, 2008

For the past two days I've gotten to spend time at the NetSquared Conference with my Co-Editor of BlogHer's Social Change, Nonprofit and NGO section, and fellow NetSquared blogger , Beth Kanter of Beth's Blog. I'll be teaching a "Nonprofit Blogging 101," and a "Nonprofit Podcasting 101" session. blogging conference Beth Kanter

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2008

Hanging with Britt Bravo at NetSquared Conference Photo by Schipulites. For the past three years, I've had the pleasure of working closely with Britt Bravo at BlogHer and Netsquared. We rarely get any face time. So, it was a welcomed an opportunity to see Britt again earlier this week.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Speaker: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Green is my favorite color, I grew up in the country (like frogs), and I think I'm pretty good at being a wrangler of characters. :). if you want me and the whole global NetSquared community, visit: [link]. - We're asking them all to share their answers to five very important questions.

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Tech Soup

MAY 2, 2013

NetSquared is proud to be a sponsor of this kickstarter project. With a couple friends at Green Memes, we're trying to create a new resource for the #nptech community - a free guide for the next generation of online organizers. social media online community Net2 NetSquared community' This should be fun.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 22, 2008

Did you know that reuse groups, like last year's 3rd place NetSquared Innovation Award winner, Freecycle , are the most trafficked on Yahoo! This post originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog. green reuse Yahoo! Yesterday, Yahoo! launched its " Free Is Good" campaign to help promote reuse. From April 20 -May 4 Yahoo!

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

From TechSoup Global Labs: NetSquared. Amy reports on Green Mountain Coffee's new grants to reduce climate change. Kelly Czarnecki of ImaginOn uses technology to challenge and inspire children. Chris discusses virtualization with Monique Sendze of Johnson County Library. Don't forget about the Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge!

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 7, 2009

I have also written for The Extraordinaries , NetSquared , the Stanford Social Innovation Review Opinion blog , WorldChanging , and The Huffington Post. I've been a creative career coach for 10+ yrs, and am the host of Echoing Green's Be Bold Podcast: Create a Career with Impact. I'd love to add a third blogging gig to my schedule.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2008

& He got us together on the phone to discuss and design the panel in a month in advance, reviewed slides, help get us organized on-site and gave us some great last minute tips in the green room.& Long Station blog has great notes here ) Erin talked about the NetSquared Mashup (deadline on March 14th).

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Green: Aggregate Content Blog. Lime Green:  Community Blog. Netsquared. .    Strategy Tip: Get multiple authors to write the blog posts aren't dependent on one person. Examples:  C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition Un Dispatch Easter Seals Autism Blog Indiana Art Museum. WXPN Music Blog. Life on Mars.

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MARCH 7, 2008

Topics include: autos, career, celebrities, cute, design, egos, fashion, food, gadgets, gaming, green , health, humor, journalism, mac, moms, music, news, nonprofit , oddities, photography, politics, popurls, religion, science, small business, social media, sports, twitterati, venture capital and windows.

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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 Below is a list of blogs that I read written by nonprofits and NGOs.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 10, 2012

What We Found in the Numbers We made an effort to include both nonprofits and libraries by promoting the surveys in the TechSoup forums, via NetSquared and TechSoup for Libraries , and through social media. And the Green Action Centre is working on an app to help with data-gathering for a school travel planning initiative.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2009

NetSquared is partnering with UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center for a Mobile Innovation Challenge. Oh, and while this isn't tech-oriented, I was happy to see NTEN member organization Green America (formerly Co-Op America) featured in the January issue of ASAE's magazine for their "lunch cooporeratives" initiative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There's a roundup of coverage on his Netsquared blog , including pointers to live blog posts like this one. More from Britt Bravo on Netsquared blog. Now here's a new term: Green Philanthropy. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. And if you???re

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Example: Echoing Green's Spark Blog , which usually covers news about social entrepreneurship and their Fellowship program, posted last spring how it took, "Three Echoing Green staffers, two good Samaritan cheerleaders, and one brave man," to rescue a cat hiding under a van outside their offices. post office line, doctor's appt.)

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FEBRUARY 8, 2008

Pie Ranch is a Bay Area nonprofit that teaches urban youth about food and farming: "We have planted wheat for pie crusts and berries for filling, and are raising bees for honey, goats for milk and chickens for eggs on a 14-acre parcel above the historic Steele Ranch at Green Oaks Creek.

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MARCH 7, 2007

For more information about Ethiopia's efforts to trademark its coffee names, check out Green LA Girl's posts about Ethiopia vs. Starbucks. Cross-posted from the NetSquared blog. To find out when the documentary Black Gold is playing at a theater near you, click here. Hat tip to the NTEN Flickr Affinity Group for the story.

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OCTOBER 7, 2008

Netsquared has another Think-Tank coming up later this month. So, let's say that as part of your social media strategy - you've hashed out those questions and you've been green lighted for a social media training. Photo by Topeka Library. What's the most effective way to do it?

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JULY 20, 2007

Green Technology. Britt Bravo has a terrific interview with Chris Messina and Ivan Storck of Citizen Space about Green Coworking. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. What is mobile content and to create it - found out here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2007

Last week, at NetSquared's San Francisco Net Tuesday Meetup, Steve Miller, Product Manager, Google Earth Outreach spoke to a room of 50+ social changemakers and web innovators about how nonprofits can use Google Earth Outreach for their work. Full disclosure: I am NetSquared's Community Builder.

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OCTOBER 19, 2007

Tools and Strategy Google Earth for Green Activism. Here's a set of best practices for Green Activism with Google Earth. Technovist tells us how to be a green blogger and Emily's World gives a great list of environmental blogs. To keep up with what the arts community is doing in technology and the social web, follow the blog.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

NetSquared Open Space (NOS): APIs and Open Data. Who : Facilitating: Amy Sample Ward | NetSquared; Billy Bicket | NetSquared. The NetSquared team will be working the room to activate and facilitate conversations so everyone can enjoy the ride. Who : NetSquared and other Community Organizers. When : 9:00 a.m.

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OCTOBER 20, 2007

CREATE Now that you've consumed, joined and participated, you're ready to create your own citizen media (like you consumed in Step 1) and/or your own campaign like: • Green LA Girl's Starbuck's Challenge. Even if you never go beyond this step, at least you'll have a list of new media to send event announcements to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

What should Netsquared's Facebook strategy be? The Tools, Thoughts and Things one can Do with a little Time and Hardly any Resources blog lengthy post entitled, Village Green vs Walled Garden , talks about the challenges of getting desktop office applications users to switch. What do you think? Here's a growing list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Global Giving's " Giving Made Green " launched last week and was written up in the New York Times. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. It probably isn't too early to start thinking about that busy year-end online fundraising season. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

The Best and Worst Cities for Nonprofit Efficiency (posted by Sarah Conner Smith ) Social Media and Web Strategy and Marketing Jonathon Coleman shared The (Lil) Green Patch Facebook app has donated $33,600 to The Nature Conservatory's Facebook Cause (I screenshotted and summarized the discussion thread here ). Causes Raised $2.5 And if you???re

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

As you can read below, Green Mountain Coffee and JustMeans have partnered up for the Change Climate Change contest. Originally posted on the NetSquared blog.). Green Mountain Coffee will provide four grants for $200,000 each (payable over 5 years) to support the work of reducing climate change. Learn more and get started now!

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