Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I first “met&# Enoch online through Netsquared in 2006 when I was putting together a presentation on nonprofits and the use of tagging. The winners included Elliot Margolies (who I also first met at Netsquared event), Mary J. Book Winners Elliot Margolies, Liz Schoeben, and Mary Colvig.

Policy 94

Policy Social Media Fund Reflection 94

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 12, 2012

In celebration of the launch of Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, Microsoft announced the Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Contest in partnership with NetSquared. Locally, help can be found at your nearest NetSquared group or NTEN 501 TechClub.

Contest 56

Contest Netsquared Social Phone 56

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process. You can also create a special reading list, locate books in your local library, and share what you're reading with friends over social media. The app was a finalist in Microsoft's 2011 Imagine Cup, a student technology competition.

Teen 65

Teen Netsquared Student Library 65

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The Make It Your Own program was a grant program in 2007 created by the Case Foundation to promote “citizen centered&# approaches to local community building. " Net2 Think Tank Round-Up: Finding Volunteers Online | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – Looking for ways to recruit volunteers online?

Web 120

Web Bookmarking Evaluation Lesson 120

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

—– Over on the NetSquared platform right now we are in the midst of the 2010 FACT Social Justice Challenge. NetSquared supports the community at the intersection of technology and social impact in a few ways, including open innovation competitions. —– What do you think?

Tips 114

Tips FAQ Howto Netsquared 114

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Netsquared Voting Deadline Extended. Due to some technical glitches , you now have 48 additional hours to figure out what 5-10 of the 150 fantastic social change and technology projects at Netsquared will receive your vote. Holden not only shared his recommendations, but gave us a detailed description of his evaluation process.

NTC 50

NTC Nptech Netsquared Summary 50

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

NTEN – Here's a great run-down from Amy Luckey of the process to use in exploring and evaluating your organization's impact. They were looking to harness the power of all the local food banks' (over 200) online communities." .’ I say everybody can be great because everybody can Twive!”"

Hunger 120

Hunger Web America Case Study 120

NTEN

AUGUST 28, 2014

We recognize NTEN’s 501 Tech Clubs (local in-person groups) and Communities of Practice (CoPs) (online affinity groups) organizers are one clever and innovative bunch! As we all know, the nonprofit tech community is loaded with smart and thoughtful organizers who give their time and efforts to help the rest of us do the good work we do.

Jing 76

Jing Tools Community Organization 76

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.

Romania 52

Romania Generation Challenge Content 52

Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

Bonus: See an overview of our Local Impact Map and see how you can get it for your nonprofit. This presentation will share tips, tools, and resources to help make your technology planning process as painless as possible, and you’ll leave with a roadmap and toolkit for creating your organization's technology plan. Susan Tenby.

Conference 44

Conference Technology San Francisco Disaster 44

Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2016

Like TechSoup's other community-driven tech-innovation initiatives — the NetSquared challenges , the ReStart movement , and Apps4Warsaw — Caravan Studios' work is informed first and foremost by the needs of the community itself. The Five-Step Process to Create an App for a Community. Images: Erica Mesker.

Develop 36

Develop Community Library Adopt 36

NTEN

JUNE 24, 2013

For a taste of nptech goings-on all around the world, NetSquared Local shares community highlights from the month of May and gets its fans excited about future projects in their recent monthly roundup. and click the SEE OUR EM button to start the process! Application deadline is June 24, 2013. Anything we missed?

Brain 79

Brain Brazil Websites Data 79

Tech Soup

JULY 9, 2015

Navigating Payment Processing for Nonprofits Techsoup / Webinar / Fee: Free. Sites NetSquared Monitors for Nonprofit/Technology Events. If you are looking for face-to-face meetings in your area, check out the list of 501Tech Clubs on NTEN and on Netsquared Local. July 23 — 1 p.m. July 23 — 2 p.m. CharityHowto.

Education 36

Education Online Netsquared NTEN 36

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

Events: NetSquared Camps. Community Driven Social Impact strategies for events – let’s look at the NetSquared Camps pilot. NetSquared had for a few years held a global conference in donated space in Silicon Valley and invited members of the community from around the world to come together offline to learn and share and build.

Case Study 117

Case Study Community Impact Studies 117

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

I think this is a hard concept for many to agree with because of the process by which the social media tools are most often adopted in organizations: for example, Jane really likes taking pictures and usually posts them to Flickr (an online photo sharing website) as a way to store them, sort them, and share them.

Roles 100

Roles Review Change Social 100

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Provide a simple process through which donors can give to your organization via text messaging or mobile payment processing. Kudos to Erin Palmer over at TechSoup's NetSquared Project for this: "The Pew Internet & American Life Project reports that, as of early 2012, 88% of American adults had a cell phone.

Mobile 61

Mobile Fundraising Phone Library 61

NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. When disaster strikes, we want information as soon as possible and we want to help just as quickly.

Haiti 82

Haiti Disaster Social Media Media 82

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. The panel picker process just opened - so you can vote yes or no for the panels you think are worthy of being on the program or not until September 4th. In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely.

Comment 95

Comment Social Media Jordan Cancer 95

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The idea for Hacker Helper was born through collaboration with partners, such as Random Hacks of Kindness who are trying to improve the hackathon process and improve results from the events. It’s still not as good a deal as your trusty local library. Hackathons are most often fast projects that last one to three days.

News 52

News Technology Cancer Map 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. The panel picker process just opened - so you can vote yes or no for the panels you think are worthy of being on the program or not until September 4th. In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely.

Social Media 79

Social Media Cancer Jordan Kiva 79

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

NetSquared Open Space (NOS): APIs and Open Data. Who : Facilitating: Amy Sample Ward | NetSquared; Billy Bicket | NetSquared. The NetSquared team will be working the room to activate and facilitate conversations so everyone can enjoy the ride. Local Community Organizers (#localco). Thursday, April 8, 2010.

NTC 126

NTC Netsquared NGO API 126

NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. The panel picker process just opened - so you can vote yes or no for the panels you think are worthy of being on the program or not until September 4th. In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely.

Social Media 67

Social Media Nonprofit Jordan Cancer 67

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

Joitske Hulsebosch, who lives and works in Netherlands, writes a blog called " Communities of practice for development " where she writes about topics related to her work of facilitating processes at different levels; teams, groups, organizations, networks, and communities of practice. And Netsquared.

Develop 50

Develop Ghana Zambia Mali 50

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Because organized efforts are based on goals and the work or process itself, it’s easy for communities to iterate or change at any time and remain flexible in the decisions and steps created towards achieving those driving goals. Leadership and decision-making come from adoption not from executive authority. Getting Started.

Library 241

Library Model Adopt Community 241

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Or purchase gift items from a socially responsible retail store like Ten Thousand Islands that helps support local artisans and Fair Trade in developing countries. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Oh, I so want a NTEN baseball cap !) And if you???re

Social Network 50

Social Network Nptech Tag Network 50

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2014

First up was Joseph Tanigawa from Code for San Francisco (our local chapter of Code for America), who presented a nifty tool for bridging the digital divide. The user can go to any bus stop and simply text the stop ID number (listed on every bus stop) to a local phone number (415-528-3226). Reporting Problems. Image 1: Caravan Studios.

San Francisco 61

San Francisco Develop Library Change 61

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I posted an announcement of the campaign on my blog and on Netsquared Posted a guest blog post at Katya's blog soliciting campaign advice in exchange to share my learnings. Tharum, who I had the pleasure of meeting via my work with Global s, has linked to the Campaign. And on the bloggers I read.

Widget 50

Widget Campaign Reflection Personal 50

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

In our analog world we are too focused on processes that aren’t scaleable or shareable – meaning we have a lot of meetings, we write things down on paper, and when someone that wasn’t in our meeting or isn’t in our town needs to collaborate with us, we have to invest in catching them up and recreating the work we have already done.

Slides 213

Slides Nptech Digital Case Study 213

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Growing and Eating Local Foods. Lessig presents this as a desirable ideal and argues, among other things, that the health, progress, and wealth creation of a culture is fundamentally tied to this participatory remix process. Netsquared Conference Mashup Panel. no need for local copies, CDs, flash drives, etc.).

Remix 50

Remix Professional Technorati Wiki 50

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

Of course, because their farms are small and because historically they've gotten a really low price from the local coffee buyers, called coyotes in Latin America, these farmers are all poor. And in those communities high school is a luxury, so the local school in the local community typically goes through sixth grade.

Nicaragua 40

Nicaragua Interview Companies Brazil 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

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. But define some terms first: Measurement is the process of determining the result of a strategy (source: J. Think Nielsen Ratings ).

Metrics 56

Metrics Social Media Media ROI 56

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

PicMonkey is an easy-to-use photo editing platform that enables users to embed text upon photos, apply watermarks, and create photo collages through a simple drag-and-drop process. NetSquared :: netsquared.org. NetSquared is a group of volunteer leaders who host free #TechforGood in-person events every month in 120 cities worldwide.

Tools 355

Tools Resource Free PDF 355

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

For small regional nonprofits, the service could be used for local events and regular meetups. NetSquared :: netsquared.org. NetSquared in a group of volunteer leaders who host free #TechforGood in-person events every month in 120 cities worldwide. MeetUp :: meetup.com. For Nonprofits Only. Dipjar :: dipjar.com. Video Editing.

Resource 279

Resource Tools Free Online 279

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2017

And that’s why we offer social media events, NetSquared meet-ups, and educational trainings – all geared towards educating organizations on how to create a powerful digital story ( Nonprofits can submit stories to our storytelling contest through October 31, 2017 ). Authentic storytelling best promotes an organization’s core mission.

Storytelling 84

Storytelling Method Contest Articulate 84

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

We went and had a victory party and then woke up the next day and realized that it didn't really matter because the company that wanted to build had gone to the state legislature to get them to pass a law to undercut the local ordinance that would protect our water. What I do is, I write for several blogs, as she mentioned.

Podcast 40

Podcast Arts Oakland St. Louis 40