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What is working wikily? How can funders catalyze and support networks? Join the conversation #netfunders on April 5-6th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Community of Practice includes diverse perspectives: community foundations and private philanthropies working across a range of issues. How to support NGO leaders who want to work with a network mindset but run into obstacles, like their board? A Tale of Different Networks: Netsquared and TSG (Video interview with Marnie).

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NGO/NPO Meme - tagged by Nancy White

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been behind on my reading and blogging due to craziness at work and issues that needed to be attended to with children (don't ask). I didn't see that practically a week ago, Nancy White, tagged me with the NGO/NPO Memo. NGO/NPTECH Web2.0 NGO/NPTECH Web2.0 NGO/NPTECH Web2.0 and no particular order of priority.

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TechSoup Global: A Tale of Two Dramatically Different Networks and Their Development

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The second network, Netsquared , in contrast was more loosely controlled with a lower risk in failure. The Netsquared Network which has grown to over 27,000 people world wide through its self-replicated face-to-face events has grown quite differently. Here’s some points that Marnie mentioned: -Allowed the people to be the starts.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. Allan Benamer weighs in with some observations after wading through the comments over at the Netsquared site and pointing to Holden from GiveWell to be the most salient point. The site was developed by Democracy in Action.

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9 Ways Nonprofits Can Excel Using Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

TechSoup Microsoft NGO Connection Day. I was also an early member of Netsquared Community , another one of Marnie’s brilliant ideas that rocked the field. He works for an NGO in Australia and we met on Twitter (via Eddie Harran ) prior to his visit to America to attend the Wisdom 2.0 Connecting With Colleagues.

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TechSoup at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference

Tech Soup

Six years into setting up a global network of partners, TechSoup Global team members and some of our global partners will talk openly about the real issues in going global. We’ve asked a few of our global network partners to be on hand to provide their take on the issues. Find NetSquared at NTC. Wednesday, April 4.

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Visualizing the World's Seven Billion

Tech Soup

This post originally appeared on the Netsquared blog and was authored by Bari Samad, an NGO domain expert for NetSquared. 7billionactions.org do help us gain a deeper understanding of the issues and trends behind the raw data. Last week, the world’s population reached a staggering 7 billion people.