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Join a Nonprofit Tech User Group This August

Tech Soup

Your NetSquared organizers are gearing up for Social Media September , a month of social media for social good -themed events. We’ll be hosting social media surgeries for local nonprofits and community activists. August’s NetSquared Events. Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. Event Reports.

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Great reads from around the web on April 8th

Amy Sample Ward

Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world. Rapid advances in digital media and technology are changing how we connect to information and each other. The way we engage in public dialogue, coordinate, solve problems—all of it is shifting.

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DIY Online Collaboration: Wikis

Tech Soup

If desired, different users can have different levels of control over sharing, editing, and removing information. By far the most recognized wiki is Wikipedia. Wikipedia would not be possible without the support of its volunteer contributors, who help keep the site's content current. Building a Wiki.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Putting the U in YouTube, Some Cool Events, and Electronic Sheep Dreams

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NetSquared. Net Tuesday Seattle has been in the local press too! Netsquared Featured projects receive grant awards ! GoogleEarth launches Nonprofit Outreach Program via the NTEN blog and NetSquared community blog. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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NetSquared Mashup Challenge: How Do You Combine Data for Social Change?

Have Fun - Do Good

As some of you know, part of my work is being the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that facilitates the adoption of social web tools by nonprofits and NGOs. Wikipedia defines a mashup as, "a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool."

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. This can inform. How will you apply the information? Openness - ????A It's messy.

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Nonprofits Imagine a Better Sharing Economy

Tech Soup

The Sharing Economy -- the use of networked, often mobile, information technology to share goods and services -- offers nonprofits new possibilities for innovation and efficiency along with new paradigms to move from scarcity to abundance. Nonprofits should lead the sharing economy and demand more from the private sector.

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