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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

Over the past 18 months, I’ve been participating in The Network of Networked Funders , a community of practice for grantmakers facilitated by the Monitor Institute. These grantmakers are supporting and working through networks to pool their learning and increase the impact of their respective grantmaking practices.

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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. Rebbecca shared some lessons learned by “retro-fitting&# theory to their actual practice using this framework. It required more structure, planning because of the risk associated with failure.

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Online Education Events for Nonprofits in July 2015

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How to Launch a Social Media and Content Strategy for Your NGO OnGood / Webinar / Fee: Free. Community of Practice: Chat with Anne Kreamer NTEN / Community of Practice: Women in NPTECH / Fee: Free. Sites NetSquared Monitors for Nonprofit/Technology Events. July 9 — 2 p.m. July 14 — 1 p.m. CharityHowto.

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TechSoup at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference

Tech Soup

You can build applications using any language, tool or framework. We'll cover best practices for backup, security, documentation, and unified communications. Find NetSquared at NTC. And it works for nonprofits too! We’ve asked a few of our global network partners to be on hand to provide their take on the issues.

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NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There's an interesting post on the roles and behavior of online communities of practice. Alexandra Samuels has a terrific post on Best Practices for Nonprofits Using Web.2.0. So, do check out the Audio/Video Edition of the NGO-in-a-Box which includes a collection of Free and Open Source Software tools. And if you???re

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Personal Fundraising with Widgets: A Few Reflections and Campaign Update

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. What is the best practice here? What do you do?

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NpTech Tag: People Behind Tags, NpTech Timeline, Twitter, and More Widgets

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Tara Hunt's reflection describes Twitter's value, attraction, and benefits while Andy Carvin looks at the potential value from an ngo perspective. The other big story in Kikono was Best Practices in MySpace pointed to by Solidariti blog. BeaconFire Consulting asks " What Language Can Your Bulk Email Too Speak ?"

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