Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2010

The event was presented by Twilio and Open 311 , one of the organizations leading the charge to make government data public, accessible, and usable. I've kind of become an open-data geek in the past few months, largely thanks to NetSquared's unconference at NTC.

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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

AUGUST 1, 2016

TechSoup's NetSquared is the world's largest volunteer-driven network of in-person nonprofit technology training and peer support events. Check out NetSquared's year in review , and discover what topics are most popular with our attendees and how NetSquared organizers are creating communities of practice for TechSoup members.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Kevin Lo, TechSoup's senior program manager for NetSquared, who has been TechSoup's resident security expert for many years. Keep software updated, especially the software you use every day like operating systems (Windows, Apple, iOS, Android), browsers (Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, etc.), Top Recommendations.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2010

Jessica is also a Nonprofit Commons member and NetSquared Local organizer.) We selected a handful of items from the list — publicity, computers, space, and a few others — and for each item we came up with, Jessica explained how SFS had gotten it for free or made do without it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. Much commentary and critiques about the semi-public ballotting process. on the interplay of newspapers and internet content. NpTech Community.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2016

But what if an app could be used to help nonprofits, public libraries, and other community groups organize and solve pressing problems? It also must have resources — such as an accessible dataset — available in the public domain to support the app. public libraries to the app. Caravan Studios' App Successes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2014

.” What is most exciting about the Sharing Economy is its embrace of a revitalized public square and a rejuvenated commitment to social good. Nonprofits, faith-based organizations, libraries, and networks such as the NetSquared Local should be leading this movement as they are already committed to social good.

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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. Small world.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Jim profiles a new project dedicated to informing the public about greenwashing. From TechSoup Global Labs: NetSquared. Tools Using the Web and Internet. Robert takes another look at mobile giving. From TechSoup Global's grant-funded projects: MaintainIT Project. Don't forget about the Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries. Sign up for TechSoup's email newsletters and discover great resources, ideas, and donated technology for nonprofits and public libraries. Mark your calendar!

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The project is soft launching this month, and going public in March 2014. The Hacker Helper project is closely aligned with our NetSquared vision of bringing communities together to solve social problems – including nonprofits, beneficiaries, activists, technologists, concerned citizens. billiion of us use the Internet nowadays.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Kevin Lo , NetSquared senior program manager, reports: "Since my account got compromised, I turn on two-factor authentication whenever possible. my] PC through my network or the Internet. In fact my bank recently enforced it on. its] online banking site. " Resources.

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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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

There's still time to submit your nomination before October 31, 2011 for this year's Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public interest. Each year, the Tides Foundation awards a $10,000 cash grant to an individual or group who has created an open-source software project that benefits nonprofits and movements of social change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

It isn’t unlike what a museum curator does to produce an exhibition: They identify the theme, they provide the context, they decide which paintings to hang on the wall, how they should be annotated, and how they should be displayed for the public. You have to be organized and know your sources.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Kudos to Erin Palmer over at TechSoup's NetSquared Project for this: "The Pew Internet & American Life Project reports that, as of early 2012, 88% of American adults had a cell phone. This offer is available to all nonprofits, charities, foundations, and public libraries. Benefits of a Mobile Site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

Save the Internet | Rock the Vote. Net Neutrality needs all the publicity it can get because major media companies, surprise, don?t Additional Resources: Save the Internet. Britt Bravo, Netsquared Post. Article in TechSoup by Henry Kumagai " What Will Tiered Internet Access Mean for NPOs. Neutraility Now!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

TechTalk public television show host Susan McKinnell interviewed Steven Clift about e-democracy including Issues Forums. TechTalk is produced by the University of Minnesota and appears on a number of public television stations. Netsquared featured project WiserEarth In Ode Magazine Social Media Resources. What's next?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

One thing led to another, he ended up being the star of our benefit in Filene's basement, which was aired on National Public Radio and raised $50K! So the social networking twenty years later and using the Internet, allows you to figure out who people in your network know, but also who is in their networks. Is that Web2.0

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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. GetInvolved Blog shares a summary from the Sunlight Foundation and Berkman Center all day session called "Local Political Information in an Internet Era." Cross posted at Netsquared Have an opinion on any of these topics? A Few Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2006

Susan Tenby from TechSoup demos the virtual TechSoup Office during the Netsquared Conference while Ruby Sinreich and Deborah Finn (Cyber-Yenta) blogged about it. The online environment is capable of supporting hundreds or thousands of playters simultaneously over the Internet. At least once a month, I jump down rabbit holes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

The 2007 Crunchies is its first annual competition and award ceremony to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year. Here are at least five reasons why: - They tend to be donor-driven; no one likes to be told to shuck and jive in public.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon, the capstone thesis project for Heinz School Masters students. Meanwhile, Party4aPurpose launches the alpha version. Check this out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Netsquared Net Tuesday next week in SF is about " How Nonprofits Can Use And Build Online Social Networks ," featuring speakers from Change.org and Ning. over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. public information???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

As noted by Holly Ross on the NTEN blog, having a conversation in blogs and other social media is a public conversation. Public conversation has been happening on the Internet since it started - via listservs, newsgroups, and online forums.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2006

As if you don't get enough of my holding forth here, Marshall Kirkpatrick interviewed me the other day for Techsoup's Netsquared project, and posted it here. We talked about the work of my company Members Only Software, and how I see emerging Internet technologies impacting the non-profit arena.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Helpful resources on Twitter: Pew Internet report. Influence decision-makers; impact public policy. There are many people on Facebook; but far more people have the internet and are not on Facebook than those who are. The sessions are short (only 50 minutes!)

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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 Randal Moss at fispace shares an example of the blog's role in word of mouth marketing on the Internet. Something to read before jumping into using the tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

These may include: A worry that social media is less controlled than traditional communications - and a lack of trust in letting staff put unchecked material out in public. Fear about letting the public comment back "publicly". Especially in this economy. The important thing is having the conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Compete provides information on every site on the Internet including site traffic history and competitive analytics. See also the post on TechSoup, " How to Fund and Cost ICT ," a publication from the ICTHUB. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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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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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. The New York Times also recently came out with an article on Reinventing the Internet to Make It Safer. Every now and then, we like to predict what's on the tech horizon.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2014

LocalFreeWeb is an SMS service that helps people find free Internet access in San Francisco. The user will receive a text with the three closest locations that have free Internet access. SMC Connect is currently linked on the San Mateo County Library system's website and bookmarked on branch library public access computers.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

After the Internet became more than an online super highway crowded with signposts, we moved into a much more fast-paced and interesting period: the digital paradigm. We can keep the numbers public both for how many events, but also for how many attendees; is it a fundraising event? Show how much money is being raised!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Say you want to track mentions of a particular public issue or news item. Enable public feedback on assignments. Looking at using some of the free tools on the internet? Netsquared Conference Mashup Panel. Availability from any computer with an Internet connection (i.e. That means you can subscribe. Who Is Sick?

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