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

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Photo by Teddy Llovet. Photo by Dkurpaptwa. In those days, we used listservs and online discussion software, but platform matter. Our intent is to provide a space for just-in-time answers and share best practices at no charge. It’s our way of embracing and spreading the abundance that working a networked way offers.

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TechSoup Global: A Tale of Two Dramatically Different Networks and Their Development

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Photo by Idea Constructor. The second network, Netsquared , in contrast was more loosely controlled with a lower risk in failure. Some of the lessons learned include: -Could have provided the Netsquared community with more tools to do their work like listserves, web sites, etc. The presentation is here.

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$100 Laptop at WSIS 2005

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Here's a photo from WSIS flickr stream. 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. WSIS 2005: $100 laptop Originally uploaded by BillT.

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

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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!

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See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. 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.

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NpTechTag Summary: NpTech Events, Twitters, and Green Web Hosting

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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. Maybe next week we'll see photos from BarCampBlock ? Maybe next week we'll see photos from BarCampBlock ?

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NpTech Tag Summary: Five Hot Conversations!

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GetActive GetsAcquired - By Convio This is big news and it bounced around the nonprofit and progressive blogs, listservs, IM, and emails. Comment, Blog it, tag it NpTech, and/or start a blog over at the Netsquared site. Cross posted at Netsquared Have an opinion on any of these topics? Change the World!

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