Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. During the early days of our Netsquared project , we held big annual conferences to showcase and fund innovative tech for good. These folks do astonishing work. For example, during a severe snowstorm on the East Coast of the U.S.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There is also a groundswell of support all over the Internet, from bloggers ( one blog at a time ) Facebook , Flickr , Online Petitions , mobile phones , and Second Life. There's a roundup of coverage on his Netsquared blog , including pointers to live blog posts like this one. More from Britt Bravo on Netsquared blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

So, when Lynne Johnson from Fast Company asked me to blog a list, I thought I'd create a nonprofit technology category and acknowledge the work of these awesome women: Nonprofit Technology Marnie Webb is the Co-CEO of TechSoup Global and creator of Netsquared and was voted most valuable person in the nonprofit technology field in 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. NetSquared Community. for the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) beginning on May 29th. Like last year, conference participants are introducing themselves on their NetSquared Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! There's going to be a Netsquared Meetup (recommendations for restaurant or location are needed) How will your nonprofit avoid the Meatball Sundae? Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools. Wonder if smashups are eligible?) And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Arts NpTech The Goat at Large shouts about Open Source CMS for arts organizations from the Center for Arts Management and Technology.

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MARCH 6, 2015

Also announced was the winner of this year''s Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest , an annual award of a $10,000 cash grant to one individual who has created or led an effort to create an open source software product of significant value to the nonprofit sector and movements for social change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Netsquared Net Tuesday next week in SF is about " How Nonprofits Can Use And Build Online Social Networks ," featuring speakers from Change.org and Ning. over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. What do you think?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 18, 2006

The you that writes blogs, creates podcasts, shares open source applications, creates entries on Wikipedia, posts videos on YouTube, meets friends on MySpace and chats with avatars on Second Life. This post was written for the NetSquared blog. We need to make sure that the "us" actually includes all of us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The HSUS newest campaign is geared towards helping the 1,300 chimps still condemned to life in research labs across the country. NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. New (To Me) Nonprofit Tech Blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. MacArthur Foundation announces a Virtual Philanthropy event in Second Life next week. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! New (to me) Blogs Building Foss for Society Blog is the blog for the Humanitarian FOSS Project a collaborative, community-building project that was started by a group of computing faculty and open source proponents at Trinity College, Wesleyan University, and Connecticut College.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The Hacker Helper project is closely aligned with our NetSquared vision of bringing communities together to solve social problems – including nonprofits, beneficiaries, activists, technologists, concerned citizens. Free on iOS) app breathes new life into the stale concept of a mobile calendar. Hacker Helper is currently in beta.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

News from Nigeria via the Netsquared blog. And if you're looking for some fabulous manuals for open source software, check out the Floss Manuals. The Second Life Community Convention is taking place this weekend in Chicago. Wanna check out more tech tools? See 1,010 Favorite Tools on the TechSoup Blog. Global NpTech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Politics, and Activism If you can't be in DC this weekend to remind Congress that you voted against this war , Ruby Sinreich suggests that you head to the Progressive Island on Second Life for the Avatars Against the War sponsored by RootsCampSl.org Hillary Clinton is using Drupal. See this one-page parody of Second Life. " Web 2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

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. Second Life Ruby has an update on the demonstrations occurring in Second Life in support of Burma. And, if not, you can always sign up for the FlipVideo Spotlight Program camera giveaway.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Marshall Kirkpatrick, longtime Netsquared blogger, is now working with Splashcast also at DEMO 07 this week. Check out this splashcast channel with a nonprofit theme created by Netsquared Blogger, Britt Bravo. Declaring Open Source - a one-line patch to the US Code would make open source software a charitable deduction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Child's Play Charity targets gamers as a donor community, by Penny Arcade , raising millions mostly to provide games and equipment to child life programs at leading hospitals around the world. It's an ecofriendly laptop loaded with open source software and friendly to the environment. Zonbu has announced a laptop version.

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