Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

" New at TechSoup: Your 501(c)(3) nonprofit, library, or foundation can now collect donations by text message — and develop your own mobile site — with discounted and donated services from Connect2Give. Provide a simple process through which donors can give to your organization via text messaging or mobile payment processing.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

To get diverse perspectives from TechSoup Global staff about user-generated content, we asked Marc Manashil, Community Evangelist for NetSquared, to share how challenges like Restart Romania enable users to get engaged at all levels. Web-based challenges are not a new phenomenon at TechSoup Global. It was also our first non-English challenge.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Our Online Safety for Nonprofits and Libraries: Paranoid or Are They Really Out to Get You? Kevin Lo, TechSoup's senior program manager for NetSquared, who has been TechSoup's resident security expert for many years. He authored our recently released 12 Tips to Being Safer Online Guide for nonprofits and libraries.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

The best advice is to take a tip from libraries and museums and curate all that information. Audience matters, and being mindful of what your community is interested in should inform the curation process. NetSquared Think Tank: Curating Content. What Is Content Curation? Building Thought Leadership through Content Curation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2010

The process around policy - that is the discussion, buy-in, and education - is so critical for effective use of social media. Netsquared is running a thinktank on this topic and you contribute your ideas here. Obviously, this is a just a beginning, not an end. Does your nonprofit have a social media policy? How did you educate people?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Photo by Topeka Library. Netsquared has another Think-Tank coming up later this month. Use the tools as part of your learning process: A blog can be an excellent professional development journal - a place to record and share learnings.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The idea for Hacker Helper was born through collaboration with partners, such as Random Hacks of Kindness who are trying to improve the hackathon process and improve results from the events. also reports some news that effect libraries. It’s still not as good a deal as your trusty local library. See the map here.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2014

This project is a great resource for libraries to share with patrons. San Francisco libraries have varying hours and might not always be open. Library staff can tell patrons to use this service when the library is closed or if all the computers are in use. Bond & Me. Reporting Problems. Image 1: Caravan Studios.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Unlike library subject cataloging, which follows a strict set of guidelines, tagging is completely unstructured and freeform, allowing users to create connections between data anyway they want. Nonprofit organizations, libraries, and educational institutions are experimenting with "user-generated" or community-powered campaigns.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The San Francisco Public Library also did an amazing One City One Book program around it, with events ranging from how-to sessions on protecting your privacy online to encryption basics." Elijah van der Giessen, TechSoup's Netsquared Community Organizer and Curator. The e-book was created with sponsorship from NetSquared.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The San Francisco Public Library also did an amazing One City One Book program around it, with events ranging from how-to sessions on protecting your privacy online to encryption basics." Elijah van der Giessen, TechSoup's Netsquared Community Organizer and Curator. The e-book was created with sponsorship from NetSquared.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is an online library of almost 500 billion screenshots of websites since 1996. PicMonkey is an easy-to-use photo editing platform that enables users to embed text upon photos, apply watermarks, and create photo collages through a simple drag-and-drop process. NetSquared :: netsquared.org.

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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. If you want a document to look professional with images, multi-column layout, sidebars and other design elements it’s worth moving beyond word processing to page layout. It does professional color management.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is an online library of almost 500 billion screenshots of websites since 1996. NetSquared :: netsquared.org. NetSquared in a group of volunteer leaders who host free #TechforGood in-person events every month in 120 cities worldwide. Internet Archive Wayback Machine :: archive.org/web.

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