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Innovation: Clay Shirky Interview & NetSquared Challenges

Amy Sample Ward

Originally posted by me on the NetSquared blog. NetSquared currently has 3 open Challenges, calling for innovators and change makers around the world to submit ideas for Web and mobile-based technologies for social change. Through a NetSquared Community vote, 10 finalists will be chosen.

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Networked Nonprofit Update: November

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Stay tuned for a video interview I did with him while in Vegas. But even more fun was this video interview with the good folks at the Gifts In Kind International who I ran into in the lobby and they pulled out their copy of the book and shared a few thoughts about they’re applying the ideas. . >&#

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Crafting Sticky, Emotional Stories That Reach Your Audience (Part 2)

Tech Soup

This was also something that was agreed on by all of our speakers at the recent NetSquared DC event I mentioned in my earlier post. Melissa Rogers, supervising producer at Stone Soup Films, echoed the same thought at our NetSquared DC event. And catching people's attention has a lot to do with drawing them in with emotion.

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Mother's Day for Peace

Have Fun - Do Good

PeacePlayers International is a nonprofit organization that uses basketball to unite and educate children and their communities in conflict and post-conflict areas. Two of the creators of Not Just a Number will be speaking at NetSquared's Net Tuesday in San Francisco tomorrow, May 8th. Beth Kanter posted about this a couple weeks ago.

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How Will Your Nonprofit Raise Money in 2012?

NTEN

Platforms like Genius Rocket and NetSquared provide nonprofits an opportunity to crowd-source a communications or technological need. When interviewing for any position at your organization, make sure to ask about the applicant's familiarity with social media. Empower your interns.

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Making Smarter Decisions: Five Business Intelligence Myths

NTEN

Our friends at NetSquared have a great podcast interview with Steve Williams of Business Objects that provides more good examples. BI requires a level of internal transparency that many managers may find uncomfortable in a paradigm where she who controls the spreadsheet controls the perception. Myth #2: BI is Expensive.

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NpTech Roundup: Grasshoppers and Ants - Social Fundraising Off Season

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Michael Stein has an interview with Jonathan Coleman about his success building a donor base on Facebook. WeWorkForFree is a design community that allows it's members to upload and share their portfolios in order to raise money for international programs that benefit developing nations around the globe. Which one worked best?

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