Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

As part of the Transforming Communities project, we had the opportunity to explore apps targeted toward youth as well as apps developed by youth. Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project. Apps Made by Youth.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Learn how to maximize the reach of your nonprofit or library's posts to Facebook. In addition to its social media resources, TechSoup Canada covers a variety of tech tools pertinent to nonprofits and libraries. TechSoup for Libraries. Social media is a powerful tool for libraries as well. NetSquared.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

For example, simply review the hundreds of ideas listed in NetSquared ’s Project Gallery and you’ll quickly see that people from around the world are hard at work leveraging all kinds of technologies to create positive change for communities tackling many different issues.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I’m in Austin, TX, today engaging with librarians, digital curators, and technologists working at the nexus of communities and knowledge at the Electronic Resources and Libraries annual conference. Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation. You can follow along with the sessions today through Wednesday using #ERL11.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 17, 2012

From NetSquared. From TechSoup for Libraries. Sarah reports on the Public Access Technology Benchmarks project. From Our Other Projects. App It Up highlights library apps and apps by and for nonprofits , and shares their nonprofit and library app survey results. From the Nonprofit Commons.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Then check out our new online learning courses, starting with Tech Training for Nonprofits and Libraries. If there isn't a group nearby, we'll help you start your own NetSquared group. What have NetSquared groups been up to recently? NetSquared Vancouver** shares [slides and videos]([link] from their November event. *

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

TechSoup, Caravan Studios , and NetSquared were on the scene to observe and participate in hackathon events all over the country. Leonard Library. Arthur Grau of NetSquared Honolulu reported back on the National Day of Civic Hacking/Code for Hawaii event in Honolulu. San Francisco Day of Civic Hacking. freespace], San Francisco.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Learn how to maximize the reach of your nonprofit or library's posts to Facebook. In addition to its social media resources, TechSoup Canada covers a variety of tech tools pertinent to nonprofits and libraries. TechSoup for Libraries. Social media is a powerful tool for libraries as well. NetSquared.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2016

This event is part of our Tech Training for Nonprofit and Library Staff online course. She has founded the nonprofit NPTechProjects, assisting nonprofits with IT strategy, project management, and online learning spaces. Since 2013, she has also been a Techsoup NetSquared organizer for Tech4Good SWFL. Pacific time (2 p.m.

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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. Civil society actors across Romania submitted 144 projects on a wide range of topics.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2016

But what if an app could be used to help nonprofits, public libraries, and other community groups organize and solve pressing problems? At tightly facilitated events called Generators, leaders with a range of expertise from the nonprofit and library communities discuss their daily work. public libraries to the app.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 17, 2009

Here's a great post from Ivan Booth who picked up on a question Joe Solomon posed on the NetSquared blog recently. " Viral Video for Nonprofits - A Rethinking - Thinking about creating a "viral video" for your organization's project or campaign? ." " Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 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. His projects address unemployment, food waste, and health. ” My colleague, Robert Egger , is one of the early pioneers in the Share economy and food.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 17, 2009

From TechSoup Global's grant-funded projects: MaintainIT Project. Chris notes that buying PCs for your library is harder than it looks. From TechSoup Global Labs: NetSquared. Meet this year's crop of NetSquared featured projects and Change the Web finalists. The wait is over.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 11, 2013

My group started out by considering Crowdmap (from NetSquared alumnus Ushahidi ), but ended up going with Google Fusion and Google Maps to create the project. After my jaunt into the civic hacking world, I came away with a few lessons: Your project will change rapidly over the course of the weekend. Lessons Learned.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Jim profiles a new project dedicated to informing the public about greenwashing. From TechSoup Global's grant-funded projects: MaintainIT Project. Chris discusses virtualization with Monique Sendze of Johnson County Library. From TechSoup Global Labs: NetSquared. From TechSoup Global Labs: NetSquared.

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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. This offer is available to all nonprofits, charities, foundations, and public libraries. Benefits of a Mobile Site.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Over on the NetSquared blog , we've been running a great series of posts by Bari Samad about ways that nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries can leverage the power of human capital. Assigning volunteers to well-defined, time-bound projects helps keep both you and the volunteers on track. For more, check out the manual.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. It was originally published on NetSquared. Data for Public Service Delivery.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The project is soft launching this month, and going public in March 2014. The project was originally funded by Microsoft for the Transforming Communities of Practice grant. Hackathons are most often fast projects that last one to three days. Hackathons are most often fast projects that last one to three days.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

He discussed the gaming for good community and gave some examples of projects he and his colleagues were working on. The events are designed to be a forum for ideas, discussion, and action to execute technology-based projects or campaigns. Gaming for Good Resources. Check out TechSoup's recap of Nonprofits Live: Gaming.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

" Here at TechSoup, we're excited to see nonprofits and public libraries as well as our donor partners, Microsoft and Cisco, involved with TechHire. How do we take this on as a real project?" We suggest also finding your nearest NetSquared group , where nonprofits and technologists come together for social impact!

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

This edition of the App It Up project "Cool App Roundup" highlights different ways apps can be used in disaster, crisis, and emergency situations. WISER , the Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders from the National Library of Medicine is a free resource for first responders to hazardous material incidents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2006

There has been online conversation during the past couple of weeks on vlog list , Netsquared , TechSoup and Blogher. " A nonprofit just beginning to incorporate video into their web presence notes on a recent Netsquared post , "We don't have that much capacity to do video work, so its kind of catch-as-catch-can."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2006

" Before CompuMentor, she worked for a medical library at the San Francisco General Hospital where her job responsibilities included conducting Medline searches for patients and doctors. The Library Alliance on Information Island offered Susan a parcel of land for TechSoup to get started. s not an unconventional idea at all.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

About 100,000 new weblogs were created each day According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project report, "Bloggers: A Portrait of the Internet’s New Storytellers" from July 2006: 8% of Internet users, or about 12 million American adults, keep a blog. The Ann Arbor District Library System uses a blog for the front page of their site.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2006

As if you don't get enough of my holding forth here, Marshall Kirkpatrick interviewed me the other day for Techsoup's Netsquared project, and posted it here. Dave King is the acting director of IT at the Kansas City public library. His blog explores technology, web, and usability issues as they apply to libraries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 Here's an interview about How NOT to teach in Second Life with the founder of the Second Life ICT Library Ross Perkins from Kevin Lim. Full report here )

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

The live video feed was being streamed from the Netsquared gathering in San Francisco happening at the same time as the virtual gatherng in Second Life. The next event I attended was a poster session at the New Media Consortium where you view project posters in the virtual world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2006

Susan Tenby from TechSoup demos the virtual TechSoup Office during the Netsquared Conference while Ruby Sinreich and Deborah Finn (Cyber-Yenta) blogged about it. At the Netsquared Conference, I discovered that there are few organizations in the experimenting with metaverse games -- the early adopters.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Do this before before a classroom blogging project or external organizational blog which is more visible. Nonprofit organizations, libraries, and educational institutions are experimenting with "user-generated" or community-powered campaigns. Hiring people.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

See also the Noun Project. The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is an online library of almost 500 billion screenshots of websites since 1996. Slack is a cloud-based tool for teams of staff and volunteers to collaborate on projects and communicate through focused messaging. NetSquared :: netsquared.org. See also Asana.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 1, 2006

For the past year, I have been writing for NetSquared about nonprofits and NGOs that are using the social web to cultivate donors, advocates and activists for their organization and their cause. You can check out the pilot project on the Global Voices blog here. What makes us want to act for social change? Emotional connection.

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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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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

NetSquared organizer, Eli van der Giessen’s personal favorite free lightweight online image editor is PicMonkey. It’s also a nonprofit project. " These are fine for noncommercial use by charities or libraries with attribution to the author. TechSoup: Free Infographic Tools for Nonprofits and Libraries.

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