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FEBRUARY 3, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. Net2 Think Tank: Online Fundraising Lessons Learned | NetSquared – "The Facebook application Causes recently announced it hit the $20 Million mark in donations. The America's Giving Challenge from Case Foundation spurred $2.1

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AUGUST 3, 2011

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog. From providing accessible content for people with disabilities, to creating fully usable functionality, to support for multiple languages, we wanted to learn about the benefits people are creating using web and mobile technology.

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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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MARCH 15, 2007

One of my jobs is as the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that works to help nonprofits and NGOs use the social web for social change. If you, or someone you know, is working on a tech for social impact project, please encourage them to nominate their project for a NetSquared Innovation Fund Award.

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AUGUST 17, 2010

Jessica is also a Nonprofit Commons member and NetSquared Local organizer.) In a one-hour presentation, Jessica took on the daunting task of convincing a room full of people trying to start and grow nonprofits to consider a no-budget model. She started with a simple question: What do you need to start an organization?

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MARCH 8, 2016

Amazon Web Services. TechSoup's NetSquared ( @netsquared ) community manager, Eli van der Giessen ( @elijah ), and Tech4Good SWFL organizer Birgit Pauli-Hack ( @bph ) are thrilled to offer this opportunity for online and offline community organizers to learn from each other! Want to know if NetSquared is right for you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

But when he gets excited about activity that could benefit the nonprofit technology sector, I listen. What do you think of the Campus Party model? Futura is a private company but their model looks to barely break even on registrations and income from the Campuseros. He has seen it all. Food for a week cost another $80.

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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. Here's Steve Wright modeling his ). Photo from Cambodia4kids. t just arbitrarily demand openness.

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MARCH 26, 2013

The hackathon model is ideal for nonprofits and libraries because it brings together motivated volunteers to expedite a project on a limited budget. But more than anything, hackathons are fun events to network and meet allies interested in supporting your cause. NetSquared can help! or Code for Oakland ). The ReStart Challenges.

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MAY 24, 2010

I've kind of become an open-data geek in the past few months, largely thanks to NetSquared's unconference at NTC. In that model, O'Reilly said, "The only real citizen participation happens when something goes wrong. Tim O'Reilly painted a breathtaking picture of the future of government.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

I was also an early member of Netsquared Community , another one of Marnie’s brilliant ideas that rocked the field. When possible, I get a list of attendees at workshops or conferences, and I visit their web sites and social media outposts. I invited him to help with the research for the keynote. Example: Red Cross.

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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). I was particularly touched by my interview with Deron Beal, the Executive Director and founder of the Freecycle Network , so I thought I'd share it here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Organizations can get comfortable with implementing one channel and expand to other channels as part of their maturity of practice model. Capacity building that takes an incremental approach and is a balance of strategy and action leads to capacity building that sticks. Some have seen some early benefits of getting web site traffic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. What is it? How does it work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. NetSquared. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. What is it? How does it work?

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AUGUST 21, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. What is it? How does it work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2007

" I also wonder if Davenport would say the same thing about social networking sites in the workplace? " Productivity would be defined in the context of some sort of evaluation of the benefits of the technology - perhaps using a logic model. What is the ROI of the Social Web for Nonprofits? Less frustration perhaps.

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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. • Social media and crowdsourcing • Portable Networks. Hacker Helper is currently in beta. All Things D.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2007

And the funder usually doesn't want to be stuck with the bill forever, hoping that the non-profit has a longer term, sustainable support model. technologies and social networking applications can play a role in mitigating these misunderstandings and increasing knowledge of the other sector's perspective. Hypothetically, web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. Web Worker Daily describes five new jobs of the Web2.0 the integrated philanthropy model in honor of National Corporate Philanthropy Day. Mossberg called " Web Video Beyond YouTube." What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

My thinking: Social media conversations and online campaigns create whole new models for bringing together & powering the progressive movement. We need offline events to meet each other, bond eye-to-eye, and forge the collaborations that will make our social networks stronger, better connected, and ultimately transformative.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

We recently polled our TechSoup employees and NetSquared community on what they see as looming large in 2015. " The technology allows a single message to be shared en masse so that it rises above the noise of social networks. The project aims to clear the remaining roadblocks to transition the web from [link] to https://.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

We got the idea for doing this from Denise McMahan, Founder & Web Publisher at CausePlanet. Here's what TechSoup has to share: William Coonan, Web Producer. Tyler Benari, Principle Web Designer. Carlos Bergfeld, Lead Web Content Developer. Ross Braden, Senior Systems and Network Engineer.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

Fair Trade is this exciting new model for addressing poverty around the world. We're about trying to get as many farmers as we can into this model so that they too can get a better fair price for their products and improve their living standards as a result. PR: Check out our web site.

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DECEMBER 19, 2013

We got the idea for doing this from Denise McMahan, Founder & Web Publisher at CausePlanet. Here's what TechSoup has to share: William Coonan, Web Producer. Tyler Benari, Principle Web Designer. Carlos Bergfeld, Lead Web Content Developer. Ross Braden, Senior Systems and Network Engineer.

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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. And, the networking was good, but the best part was the opportunity to ask Jeremiah a few clarifying questions to his face! Session Learning Goals.

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