Tech Soup

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The guide will also be translated into 10+ languages in the coming weeks. Our NetSquared program offers live get-togethers around the world, including several security- and privacy-focused events this month. Why Safer Online Matters for Nonprofits. With an alphabet soup of acronyms (DDoS!?!

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

back then) and being the one of the visionaries behind the Netsquared project. So, when Marnie starts talking about the next big disruptive technology for the nonprofit sector, I listen. We’ve published those results and our partner network has translated the executive summary into a wide variety of languages. Or it can, anyway.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

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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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2010

First, we created an open Google Doc where we put in the introduction language, so anyone that clicked through from someone’s blog or Twitter post would have context about what was happening (and included a numbered list up to 53, so people could easily see where to add their name and blog address). Some tweeted.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 7, 2013

It was originally published on NetSquared. Jungle light speed: Tracking Epidemics with Natural Language Processing and Crowdsourcing In this post Robert Munro discusses his views on the need to use data in a way that preserves individual rights. Data Use by Citizens. Big Data and Global Development.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

During the early days of our Netsquared project , we held big annual conferences to showcase and fund innovative tech for good. We got to know Ushahidi's work when it entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May of 2008. I was there that year and the competition was intense.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

Many years ago, NetSquared hosted challenges and conferences to highlight and bring together fledging social entrepreneurs. Local language content and locally relevant context has facilitated the transition into local ownership. netsquared digital divide' " Digital Democracy (Dd) was a prize winner in that challenge.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2016

The following blog post recaps a NetSquared Toronto presentation by Sarah Lesh, a front-end web developer at hjc. Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). Semantics are defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as "the meanings of words and phrases in language." " Why Do We Need Other Languages Besides HTML?

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Tech Soup

JULY 9, 2015

Sites NetSquared Monitors for Nonprofit/Technology Events. If you are looking for face-to-face meetings in your area, check out the list of 501Tech Clubs on NTEN and on Netsquared Local. If you are provide online learning events for nonprofits and your event language is English, we want to know about you. CharityHowto.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2010

The language, of course, needs to be customized to your particular situation and the biolerplate included may not be relevant. Netsquared is running a thinktank on this topic and you contribute your ideas here. It reminded of the Postmodernism Thesis Generator could spit out a thesis for you in minutes. How did you educate people?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

You can build applications using any language, tool or framework. Find NetSquared at NTC. In addition to the TechSoup Global staff-led sessions, NetSquared has highlighted a handful of sessions where you can connect up with Net2 Local community organizers and leaders. And it works for nonprofits too! Details here.).

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

One of the best plain-language pieces I've seen on it is David Pogue's How and Why to Turn On Two-Step Verification for Your Apple, Google, and Yahoo Accounts. Kevin Lo , NetSquared senior program manager, reports: "Since my account got compromised, I turn on two-factor authentication whenever possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2008

I know for myself, it will be a challenge to add this new level of multi-tasking (watching a twitter stream in real time) while in the room - in addition reading the body language, traffic coping the conversation, listening to the panelists, keeping an eye on the watch, etc. Netsquared Meet up 5:00 PM.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2007

This summer I've been interviewing the innovators behind the 21 Projects that went to the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) this year (I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared). You can listen to the original interview and a live recording of Freecycle's 5-minute pitch at the NetSquared Conference on the NetSquared Podcast.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2007

Last week, at NetSquared's San Francisco Net Tuesday Meetup, Steve Miller, Product Manager, Google Earth Outreach spoke to a room of 50+ social changemakers and web innovators about how nonprofits can use Google Earth Outreach for their work. KML (Keyhole Markup Language), it is just a type of file format, like a PDF is a file format.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

There is something beneath the language of "what works" that can kill innovation. I haven't spent much time in this space, but when I walked through the door I ran into Sean Stannard-Stockton who at met at Netsquared several years ago and encouraged him to set up a blog. And if the correction creates new problems.". Don't give up.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Nonprofits are spicing up their social media communications strategy with language and informalities that may turn-off older supporters and major donors. Platforms like Genius Rocket and NetSquared provide nonprofits an opportunity to crowd-source a communications or technological need. This is a flawed assumption.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

The tools can be useful for in-country connections, in local languages, or north-south connections. And Netsquared. PersonallyI see a huge potential for web2.0 tools for development, because everyone can now use the web as a space to express themselves, interact and co-create. Through my blog I see what???s s possible with free tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Mobile MobileActive.org has released a new resource for mobile activists in the Spanish-language according to the AFP blog. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. It's recently been updated. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I created some template language to cut and paste into emails, skype/im pings, and thank you messaging, etc. I posted an announcement of the campaign on my blog and on Netsquared Posted a guest blog post at Katya's blog soliciting campaign advice in exchange to share my learnings. It can't be about the cause so much as the messenger.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We didn’t even really have the language to use to create documentation, or, at least we didn’t think we did. But, it was without much of the real documentation needed to help others – whether in our organization or not – navigate similar areas. We assumed the digital space was all new.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

Elijah van der Giessen, NetSquared Community Manager. Duolingo – is a free language-learning app and website that is also a crowdsourced web translation service. Duolingo – this is a free language-learning app and website that is also a crowdsourced web translation service. Authy – for security.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

It's an intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africa's talking drums all the way up to modern information theory and the information age with its deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs. Elijah van der Giessen, TechSoup's Netsquared Community Organizer and Curator.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

It's an intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africa's talking drums all the way up to modern information theory and the information age with its deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs. Elijah van der Giessen, TechSoup's Netsquared Community Organizer and Curator.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

Dulingo provides access to free online language learning tools. For nonprofit social media managers that work internationally, Dulingo’s design and gamification make it fun to learn the basics of a new language. NetSquared :: netsquared.org. Dulingo :: duolingo.com. Grammarly :: grammarly.com. Idealist.org :: idealist.org.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

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. We should also pause and note t he tech sector’s troubling tendency to turn inward while adopting the language of the public square and the commons.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

NetSquared organizer, Eli van der Giessen’s personal favorite free lightweight online image editor is PicMonkey. It’s a free download for most computer OS platforms like Mac, Linux, and Windows, and is available in several languages as well. It is available in the major European languages and also Japanese.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

NetSquared :: netsquared.org. NetSquared in a group of volunteer leaders who host free #TechforGood in-person events every month in 120 cities worldwide. Dulingo provides access to free online language learning tools. Online Fundraising for Nonprofit Organizations LinkedIn Group :: linkedin.com/groups/3694133.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

BeaconFire Consulting asks " What Language Can Your Bulk Email Too Speak ?" Britt Bravo asks us to encourage people we know working on a social impact technology project to nominate their project for Netsquared Innovation Fund Award. Extreme Email Makeover. " Another write up about Kiva.

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