Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2010

Jessica is also a Nonprofit Commons member and NetSquared Local organizer.) Tags: Marketing Online Activism Online Fundraising Online Recruitment Running Your Organization Social Networking Staff Using the Web and Internet Volunteers Web 2.0

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2010

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. Billy Bicket, NetSquared's Director, will be on Twitter @ billyb and this blog. Live-streamed events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. On Thursday, I attended the unconference/open space portion of SOCAP09 (Social Capital Markets 2009). What's the best platform to use for online collaboration? Here is what you missed, so you don't have to regret not having gone.

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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. We've compiled a list of Tools and Resources to share with participants, and thought that you might enjoy seeing it as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. Remember, it's not the level , but whether it is a match to your audience.

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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. Tags: Accessible Technology Community Tech Centers Community Tech Centers Digital Divide Event Online Activism Online Recruitment Services Social Networking Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

I was also an early member of Netsquared Community , another one of Marnie’s brilliant ideas that rocked the field. Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. 1: Social media must be integrated with internet communications or program strategy.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. What is your real output?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2011

This post originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog and was authored by Amy Sample Ward. Peter Deitz is a long-time member and contributor in the NetSquared (and TechSoup) community; he started the NetSquared Montreal group and his Social Actions project was a winner in the 2008 N2Y3 Mashup Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

Last year, there was an event called "Social Media for Social Good" organized by Jeff Pulver that prompted quite a rich discussion on whether social media for fundraising and marketing can effect real on the ground change. Will new "online" groups drive their predecessors to extinction? Is one better than the other?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Hacker Helper is a free online tool that will allow volunteer developers to prepare for hackathons. The tool will allow hackers and coders to get up to speed before the hackathon by reading problem statements written from the perspective of the people who are working to solve social problems on the ground: NGOs and activists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

As Rohit Bhargava points out in this post via Robin Good , a content curator continually seeks, makes sense of, and shares the best and most relevant content on a particular topic online. Storyfy — Storify is a way to tell stories using social media such as Tweets, photos and videos. Why is Content Curation Valuable?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

We'll share big ideas for using social media for nonprofit program delivery and some good tips for crowdsourcing for social change. The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Submitted by Michael Smith.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 24, 2011

This post originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog and was authored by Claire Sale. How can the leap to 4G mobile broadband help social change organizers?". Tate Hausman and Sam Boykin recently contacted me on behalf of Mobile Citizen to ask me that question and to ask for my help in finding the answer. read more.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Micro-philanthropy -- that ambiguous term that refers to all things socially networked, small-scale, and charitable -- will have matured. Nonprofits are spicing up their social media communications strategy with language and informalities that may turn-off older supporters and major donors. This is a flawed assumption.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

Last year, there was an event called "Social Media for Social Good" organized by Jeff Pulver that prompted quite a rich discussion. on whether social media for fundraising and marketing can effect real on the ground change. Will new "online" groups drive their predecessors to extinction?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 applications have changed the rules of online community. There are two sets of social roles here. More than $100,000 is on the table for innovate projects.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

TechSoup's NetSquared Initiative partnered with the HRC in the first conference The Soul of the New Machine in 2009 to help select a winner in their Mobile Challenge. Connectivity is still an issue in most parts of the world, and we need to think of solutions that account for the lack of access to the Internet. & Catherine T.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

The TechSoup Global Contributors' Summit officially started yesterday, but over at the NetSquared Blog , you can read introductions from many of the more than 200 attendees who've introduced themselves over the past week to get an understanding of who is coming together and why. All doing great things for #socialgood & #tech4good.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Networking for Change. You need to start by checking out the content that is already being created by citizen journalists and activists about the issues you care about on blogs, podcasts and online video/vlogs. JOIN: Join a social network, or two, or three! and OurMedia. Users will choose the 10 best questions.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

About 100,000 new weblogs were created each day According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project report, "Bloggers: A Portrait of the Internet’s New Storytellers" from July 2006: 8% of Internet users, or about 12 million American adults, keep a blog. 39% of Internet users, or about 57 million American adults, read blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

Comment, Blog it, tag it NpTech, and/or start a blog over at the Netsquared site. Be A Celebrity for Your Cause Katya Andresen from Network for Good has been busy working on the launch of the SixDegrees.org site with Kevin Bacon. The 59 Smartest orgs online is a list of 59 organizations that make good use of the web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 executive summary here ) ContinuousProgress: Better Advocacy Through Evaluation is an online guide to more effective foreign policy advocacy and evaluation. Full report here )

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

There's an interesting post on the roles and behavior of online communities of practice. The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. Michelle Murrain adds that she won't sign up until the content is more compelling and the social graph is open. Edge4Dev blog aims to help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Social Media and social networks allow for the quantum effects, paired elements at a distance. And another multiplier comes from Network Theory (not Einstein directly but building on physics and mathematics) which shows that a network strength is in its Weak ties / Loose connections.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

We recently polled our TechSoup employees and NetSquared community on what they see as looming large in 2015. No Internet of Things (IoT) or big data. Amplifying Social Media. " The technology allows a single message to be shared en masse so that it rises above the noise of social networks. Digital Refugees.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2013

Amy and I will provide concrete advice from our new book Social Change Anytime Everywhere on what you need to be doing to build and mobilize your communities through multifaceted campaigns and by integrating social media into your online communications and outreach.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The company's biggest product is a log-in service that forces you to use your real identity – basically killing the privacy of the Internet. He imagines what a future will be for us in light of social networks, cloud-based data storage systems, and Web 2.0 Ross Braden, Senior Systems and Network Engineer.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

shares the Internet on my phone with a PC, Mac or tablet. Elijah van der Giessen, NetSquared Community Manager. It reduces the risk of online identity theft. Reeder – is an RSS reader or news aggregator that compiles information from several online sources into a single place. Camera ZOOM FX - photo enhancement app.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The company's biggest product is a log-in service that forces you to use your real identity – basically killing the privacy of the Internet. He imagines what a future will be for us in light of social networks, cloud-based data storage systems, and Web 2.0 Ross Braden, Senior Systems and Network Engineer.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

Knowing basic HTML is a must-have skill for online marketers. Iconfinder is an online database of almost one million icons and many of the social media icon sets are available to download for free. Internet Archive Wayback Machine :: archive.org/web. Social Media. HTML Tutorial :: w3schools.com. See also Issuu.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The internet is loaded with amazing free or low-cost tools and resources! Provided you set aside the time to explore and experiment, your nonprofit can use the tools listed below to significantly improve your web and email communications and your social media campaigns. Social Media. Buffer :: buffer.com. Loomly :: loomly.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Steven Cliff's Notes - Saving Internet 1.0 I wonder which one is more effective or appropriate for MySpace culture - visual design or social design ? Whatever, MySpace has over 80% of the total market of social networking site users according a recent report by hitwise, but keep in mind it represents 6.5%

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Marshall Kirkpatrick, longtime Netsquared blogger, is now working with Splashcast also at DEMO 07 this week. Check out this splashcast channel with a nonprofit theme created by Netsquared Blogger, Britt Bravo. Wikis, Widgets and Social Networking Do you think there are too many freaking widgets ?

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