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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0 " The year was 2005.

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$100 Laptop at WSIS 2005

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

WSIS 2005: $100 laptop Originally uploaded by BillT. Here are some links from various listserv discussions and blog posts when the laptop was announced here in Boston last month. Here's the press photo via a post on netsquared. Here's a photo from WSIS flickr stream.

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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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What TechSoupers Are Doing to Ensure Their Online Security: Part 2

Tech Soup

Kevin Lo , NetSquared senior program manager, reports: "Since my account got compromised, I turn on two-factor authentication whenever possible. I also use LastPass Premium on both my laptop and my cellphone for easy and secure password management. In fact my bank recently enforced it on. its] online banking site.

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Mobile Innovations for Social Good

NTEN

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Recently, over 300 innovators and changemakers interested in the intersection of technology and social benefit work converged for a few days of idea-sharing, learning, and collaboration at NetSquared's annual conference. About NetSquared. To learn more about NetSquared or get involved, visit [link].

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Tools Thoughts and Things One Can Do With Little Time

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

over at the NetSquared ThinkTank and discovered an excellent blog called " Tools, Thoughts, and Things One Can Do With Little Time and Hardly Any Resources." I was reading the reactions to the Overbrook Foundation Report on Nonprofit Adoption of Web2.0 Michael's suggestion for Web2.0 and then gently moving over into Web 2.0

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What is rapid attention shifting?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Stephen Downes points to his post with the following commentary: This would be pretty funny if it weren't such a sad commentary on our media, not merely for using a photo of Brian Lamb and his laptop out of context, but in pandering to a resurgent anti-computer and anti-networking sentiment. t quite know what to do. non-profit blogs???