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Great reads from around the web on April 8th

Amy Sample Ward

In the weeks that have followed, Ichi’s e-mail provoked a series of responses from all over the world.

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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. The Netsquared Network which has grown to over 27,000 people world wide through its self-replicated face-to-face events has grown quite differently. Here’s some points that Marnie mentioned: -Allowed the people to be the starts.

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The Zoetica Salon: A Peer Learning Community for Nonprofits and Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We’ll also be referring folks to resources for more formal learning and peer connections, like NTEN , the Nonprofit Technology Network and host of the annual Nonprofit Technology Conference and Netsquared and TechSoup Global – and of course sharing resources from our colleagues in the nonprofit/social media field.

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$100 Laptop at WSIS 2005

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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 the google news stream that captures the news articles mostly from the mainstream media about this product.

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Social Networks for Social Change: Ivan Boothe Knows What He Is Talking About!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

tags: fundraising advocacy ) I was lucky enough to meet Ivan Boothe at the first (or maybe second) Netsquared Conference back in 2005 and have been following his work for years. So he cautioned me that some of the information might not be entirely up to date that he shared on listserv including a pointer to his awesome slide show with audio.

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NPTech Summary: Happy Holidays!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Commentary here ) Maybe that's why we've heard rumblings in the blogosphere and on listservs that the YouTube Nonprofit Channel was backlogged on accepting applications. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. What are the benefits of a YouTube Nonprofit Channel?

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: This Week in NPTech

NTEN

And we can't forget to highlight the fact that TechSoup 's NetSquared Mashup Challenge helps encourage, spread the news about, and fund this type of work each year. I'm also picking up on the buzz I hear on listservs, Twitter, and directly from you! If you're an NTEN member with some news, let me know!

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