Tech Soup

AUGUST 4, 2014

NetSquared is taking it easy this summer! This September we’re holding our annual digital storytelling campaign (called Storymakers ) and in October we’ll be partnering with Microsoft on the Safer Internet data security and privacy project. We gotta keep those NetSquared organizers busy! Upcoming Events.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

Here’s your monthly update from the world of NetSquared Local. What Is NetSquared Local? NetSquared Local is TechSoup's volunteer-driven network of nonprofit tech meetups and salons. How big is the NetSquared Local community? Number of NetSquared meetup members: 17,590. New Groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2010

Today Allison Fine and I celebrated the launch of the Networked Nonprofit at TechSoup Global in the space where Netsquared Meetups take place. Most importantly, the vision that Marnie Webb had over five years ago called Netsquared inspired me to keep blogging and explore social media and nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Here’s some news on a now famous NetSquared alumnus project. It is a nonprofit tech company that develops free and open-source software for information collection, visualization, and crowdsourced interactive mapping to help mitigate disasters. I first heard about this from Marnie Webb, who co-founded NetSquared.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2011

Each month, the NetSquared community (a project of TechSoup Global) meets up offline at NetSquared Local events around the world to discuss ideas, meet new people, and work together to make social change. Recently, many of these NetSquared Local meetings are being streamed live on the Internet via livestream or online recording.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2014

At first blush, it might appear that crowdfunding is most relevant to nonprofits, but it goes deeper as Lewis Haidt from TechSoup describes in his piece, “ Nonprofits Imagine a Better Share Economy.” . — Meal Sharing (@MealSharing) May 13, 2014. Trust systems and platforms are becoming critical.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 24, 2011

During the month of October, join TechSoup.org and the TechSoup Global Network for our Cloud Computing Worldwide campaign. Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

NetSquared’s February series exploring “Online Community Organizing” includes three different interviews; I’m really excited to participate! I work in and support nonprofit organizations, and my focus on communities isn’t to suggest that organizations are “bad” or aren’t making a difference.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2010

This guest post comes from NetSquared community development manager Amy Sample Ward. An initiative of TechSoup Global, NetSquared is a global community of organizations and individuals leading the way in social change through technology. Read on and learn how to get involved. Offline, we take things local!

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

The world is better when nonprofits can better tell their story. TechSoup and the NetSquared meetups are here to help. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and other awesome organizations. Columbus, Ohio: Nonprofit IT Forum.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2016

What if there was a place for your nonprofit to get free technology support from local experts? What if there were regular gatherings where nonprofit techies could come together to learn, laugh, and network with their peers? Most NetSquared organizers now have a peer mentor. Well, there are!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2015

NetSquared DC's Roshani Kothari on why she loves NetSquared. I've just returned from the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Austin and I'm pumped! There are NetSquared groups in 50 cities who are dedicated to holding events for their local nonprofit technology communities. Thursday, March 19, 2015.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Note from Beth: Back in 2003 when most people in the nonprofit sector were asking, “What the heck is a blog?,” ” Marnie Webb, Co-CEO of TechSoup Global was not only writing one, but evangelizing to nonprofit techies about social media (called Web 2.0 No internet! &mdash Or it can, anyway.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

The internet is not new. It could be checking in with people on a location-based social network. People believe in the internet. The internet is an endless stage and platform, and when we are up there speaking, we expect you are all listening. Why be in just one place when we can be in many? Impacts to Philanthropy.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 30, 2017

NetSquared organizers bring together the nonprofit technology community for face-to-face meetings. Luckily for you, our NetSquared leaders are super creative when planning their #Tech4Good events. Find your closest NetSquared group. Or, apply today to start your own NetSquared group. Join us at your local group.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

NetSquared is TechSoup's answer to providing local tech support and learning opportunities. Uganda is no different except for one thing: its amazing NetSquared Regional Ambassador for East Africa, Robert Kibaya. What Is NetSquared? Our dream is to provide peer-led, in-person tech support for nonprofits in every community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be co-hosting The Zoetica Salon on my Facebook Page with my Zoetica colleagues, Geoff Livingston , Kami Huyse , and Julie Pippert (the newest Zoetican ) where almost 7,000 nonprofit leaders have been engaging in informal peer learning about nonprofits and social media.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog. And, what online networks are supporting people with disabilities and what efforts are being made to make the web more accessible overall? For the social networking world to get behind this and support it would be very far-reaching."

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

TechSoup's NetSquared community of Tech4Good meetups is growing! As of January 25, there are 40,000 nonprofit members attending free tech networking events and workshops in 75 cities. Find your closest NetSquared group. Start a NetSquared group. --> Upcoming Tech4Good Events. San Diego: 7,000 potential members.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. Change the Web Challenge is about building innovative tools to help people find and share opportunities to take action on the Web sites, blogs, and social networks that we all visit every day. Through a NetSquared Community vote, 20 finalists will be chosen.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

If you weren't able to join us in San Francisco last week for the Nonprofit Technology Conference , we've got a recap of some of the happenings here on our blog. Several of us from TechSoup Global were there to present, participate, and network, and we don't want you to have missed out on a thing!

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Fast Company recently approached our friend Beth Kanter to compile a list of influential women in nonprofit technology. The result is Beth's Women in Nonprofit Technology Who Rock. Most of the women on this list blog or write in other media, and they're all at the cutting edge of what matters in nonprofit technology.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

NetSquared’s Global Community Builder , Amy Sample Ward, will be at the NTC this year to connect and collaborate with friends, colleagues and new faces in the sector. Here’s how to find Amy and connect with NetSquared. A chance for local organizers to come together, network, ask questions, etc. Sessions and Events.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. The topic asked: What do you think the role of nonprofit organizations is in the changing world of social media? This month, we asked: What do you think the role of nonprofit organizations is in the changing world of social media? You can watch the video interview with Skirky below.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2007

What happens when fundraising meets social networking? Socially-Networked Fundraising? So, I slapped a piece of paper in the old IBM selectric and created a networking form. While analyzing our orchestra's "social network," I discovered that someone attended high school with Garrison Keilor. We Philanthropy?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 5, 2010

Unconference: NetSquared Open Space (NOS): APIs and Open Data. Tags: Social Networking Staff Training Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 Folks from TechSoup Global will be presenting at several breakout sessions and activities during # 10NTC. Below is the best way to keep up with them on day one of the conference.

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Tech Soup

JULY 7, 2011

Just recently NetSquared , part of the TechSoup network, has opened a discussion on Internet accessibility as their think tank theme this month. What we want to know is: How do you increase, promote, and advance Internet accessibility on your site?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Tomorrow, October 18th, Eric Leland of Leland Design , and I will be presenting about, "Internet Strategy on the Cheap" at the San Francisco Bay Area Nonprofit Boot Camp. All of the Nonprofit Boot Camp sessions will be recorded and available on the Craigslist Foundation's Nonprofit Boot Camp Podcast.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2010

"… technology is helping nonprofits tap into and build communities to create social change. The Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) is here again and team members from NetSquared and TechSoup Global will be busy presenting, sharing, and connecting in Atlanta, and hopefully with you! Follow in social media.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2010

A lot of people stopped by our booth and told us about the challenges their one-or-two-person nonprofits are facing. Jessica is also a Nonprofit Commons member and NetSquared Local organizer.) One thing I always enjoy about Craigslist Foundation Boot Camp is getting to know very small organizations.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

As we hurtle toward the end of 2013, it’s time for an update of nonprofit technology trends and news! If you’re a nonprofit news junkie, have a look at all our Nonprofit Technology News pieces from this past year. • Social media and crowdsourcing • Portable Networks. TechSoup Technologies for Good.

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MAY 20, 2010

One of the reasons I made a commitment to blogging about professional topics regularly was because I was inspired by Marnie’s nonprofit technology blog, ext. I was also an early member of Netsquared Community , another one of Marnie’s brilliant ideas that rocked the field. These ideas are illustrated in the slides below.

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MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

This post is cross-posted on my personal blog and on the NetSquared Blog. That is really the reason we even do face-to-face these days, as much of the content at conferences is pretty much the same conversation again and again, at least in the nonprofit tech world (Twitter or Facebook?

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2010

I've kind of become an open-data geek in the past few months, largely thanks to NetSquared's unconference at NTC. Open APIs offer new possibilities for the nonprofit sector, both in how we can use governmental and institutional data to serve our beneficiaries and in how we can deepen our impact by sharing our own data within the sector. "The

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There is also a groundswell of support all over the Internet, from bloggers ( one blog at a time ) Facebook , Flickr , Online Petitions , mobile phones , and Second Life. So, while it may very difficult to find Internet content from Burma, it is getting onto the Internet. More from Britt Bravo on Netsquared blog.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

As part of our Safer Online for Nonprofits campaign, TechSoup has tried to simplify the privacy and security minefield we all face these days. Our Online Safety for Nonprofits and Libraries: Paranoid or Are They Really Out to Get You? Our Online Safety for Nonprofits and Libraries: Paranoid or Are They Really Out to Get You?

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