Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

National Volunteer Week has come and gone, but I ask you to join me every week in celebrating the amazing contributions of TechSoup's NetSquared community. Well, the average NetSquared organizer spends 8.2 Find your closest NetSquared group. Or, apply today to start your own NetSquared group. You like numbers?

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FEBRUARY 29, 2012

NetSquared’s February series exploring “Online Community Organizing” includes three different interviews; I’m really excited to participate! I’ve included my interview below, but you can also read it and join the conversation on the NetSquared blog. I definitely recommend them both!

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 12, 2013

Your NetSquared organizers are gearing up for Social Media September , a month of social media for social good -themed events. We’ll be hosting social media surgeries for local nonprofits and community activists. August’s NetSquared Events. Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. Event Reports.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

NetSquared’s Global Community Builder , Amy Sample Ward, will be at the NTC this year to connect and collaborate with friends, colleagues and new faces in the sector. Here’s how to find Amy and connect with NetSquared. A chance for local organizers to come together, network, ask questions, etc. Sessions and Events.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2016

But don't be afraid — huddle up for warmth and knowledge with your nonprofit tech friends at a local Tech4Good meetup. Find your local #Tech4Good group. If there isn't a group nearby, we'll help you start your own NetSquared group. Los Angeles, California: Can We Measure Social Impact?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 13, 2013

We've compiled some of the best articles, blogs, and webinars from our partners in Canada, Australia, and the global NetSquared Local groups. Engaging Your Email List and Measuring Results. NetSquared. NetSquared Local groups from all over the world meet up to tackle fundraising strategies and tools for nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Here are three tools to measure audience engagement on social media. Additionally, representatives from local nonprofits shared their experiences with social media at the various forums. Find out how to gauge your success with Social Media Measurement: Where to Get Started? NetSquared. So you mastered social media?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 3, 2017

TechSoup's NetSquared community is hosting free monthly technology meetups in 74 cities globally, but with more than 39,000 members, it can be hard to get a sense of the community's needs. Why Are You a NetSquared Member? We asked NetSquared members why they attend our meetup events. Find your closest NetSquared group.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Find your local #Tech4Good group. 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. * Or, apply today to start your own NetSquared group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

back then) and being the one of the visionaries behind the Netsquared project. So, when Marnie starts talking about the next big disruptive technology for the nonprofit sector, I listen. ” That’s when you use software on the Internet versus your local hard drive or local computer network. Or it can, anyway.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2011

Measuring the strength of our networks, how they change over time, what theory of change to develop, what longer term outcomes might be achieved through networks, etc. If you want to learn more about the networks, here’s a few blog posts: TechSoup/Netsquared. How to overcome obstacles, like strict communications protocol?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

As part of Social Media September (#SocMedSep), we've been tapping into the wisdom of our global TechSoup and NetSquared communities as well as experts in nonprofit technology. We also want to make sure we're measuring the right things, so data collection and analysis has been an interesting challenge to tackle.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Here are three tools to measure audience engagement on social media. Additionally, representatives from local nonprofits shared their experiences with social media at the various forums. Find out how to gauge your success with Social Media Measurement: Where to Get Started? NetSquared. So you mastered social media?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

Semphonic Web Analytics Consulting: The X Change Non-Profit Analytics Challenge – "The Non-Profit Analytics Challenge is a rare opportunity for the brightest analysts in the digital measurement field to collaborate & assist non-profit organizations to optimize their websites.

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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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MAY 14, 2009

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Examples: Neighborhoods Against Irresponsible Logging (NAIL): When planners distributed a confusing and hard-to-understand map, many people in Rebecca’s local community didn’t “get&# what kind of logging plan was really in store. Link to things that can be measured.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2007

This summer I've been interviewing the innovators behind the 21 Projects that went to the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) this year (I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared). You can listen to the original interview and a live recording of Freecycle's 5-minute pitch at the NetSquared Conference on the NetSquared Podcast.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2007

Last week, at NetSquared's San Francisco Net Tuesday Meetup, Steve Miller, Product Manager, Google Earth Outreach spoke to a room of 50+ social changemakers and web innovators about how nonprofits can use Google Earth Outreach for their work. Full disclosure: I am NetSquared's Community Builder. The flyover electrified the room.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

One hopes that nonprofits deciding to roll their own social networks, aren't creating their own social silos and have gone into it with a solid strategy, clear objectives and measurable metrics , and can evaluate the ROI. I'd love to see more detail, like an overview the strategies or how they measure success. What do you think?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 28, 2010

I recently had the opportunity to connect with Kedar to learn about a new project to help users measure and manage their consumption, in effect encouraging them to control their environmental impact. It is meant to work it’s way from the conscious measurement of people’s behavior. What’s your goal for the new tool?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

As such, adoption can be used as a currency , measuring the worth of your programs, services and opportunities. We are at a very interesting time – with shifts happening locally and globally, governments changing, and new paradigms emerging. Communities use adoption as collective decision making and prioritization. Getting Started.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

This means that the data-driven approach emerging in the social period is strengthened – we don’t just monitor and measure data, but now we let our community do so, too. This means not only do we monitor and measure data as we started doing in the social period, but we also listen to our community, and listen for action.

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OCTOBER 19, 2007

I also don't want to get too deep into geeky measurement crap. So when I heard that one of the leading subject matter experts on social media metrics - Jeremiah Owyang - was the guest of honor at a local social media networking event , I decided to go. So, here's the session description: Social Media Metrics/ROI Game. Owyang ).

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

San Francisco NetSquared (Net2) kicked off its 2012 Meetup line up with Craig Newmark , of Craigslist and craigconnects , who talked about using technology for the common good. The organization has worked on projects such as helping a local Veterans Affairs hospital improve its technological infrastructure to serve veterans more efficiently.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2009

The first full session I was able to catch was “Tools Galore in Online Communications” moderated by Netsquared’s Amy Sample Ward with speakers Natalie Foster , Director of New Media for the Democratic National Committee , Rebecca Moore, Google Earth Outreach and Laura Quinn, Executive Director of Idealware.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2005

One of the reasons I am so excited about the work I am doing with NetSquared is because I think that these new web-based tools, especially podcasts, are an incredible way for nonprofits to get the word out about their causes, especially when they are listened to through headphones. resources and time it will take to make them more prepared.

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