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Become a Storymaker with NetSquared

Tech Soup

Every month TechSoup’s NetSquared community organizers volunteer to bring free (or low cost) nonprofit technology events and workshops to over 50 cities. If you want to network with your peers or love to learn at live, in-person events NetSquared is the place for you! Photo by [Geeking Chen]([link] -->.

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Online Community Organizing: Start small, think big!

Amy Sample Ward

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. Photo credit: Flickr jakubsteiner ).

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Crowdsourcing: Community vs Crowd

Amy Sample Ward

Three specific examples that are very different include: Connectipedia : a wiki-based platform that allows anyone interested in philanthropy or social impact in the Pacific Northwest (or beyond) to share research, resources, information, or data about people, places and topics. The crowd decides and creates everything that it is.

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Senior-Friendly Tools To Get Grandma Wired

NTEN

Claire Sale, NetSquared. So, I turned that question to my friends and the NetSquared community, and got some really great responses that I'd like to share with you. It's a bit hard for some folks to feel comfortable posting, but getting them started reading posts and adding "friends" is a good place to start.

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Let’s Talk About Networked Nonprofits: TechSoupGlobal Book Party

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today Allison Fine and I celebrated the launch of the Networked Nonprofit at TechSoup Global in the space where Netsquared Meetups take place. I got to snap this photo of two women, Marnie Webb and Charlene Li , who have greatly influenced my work over the past 5-10 years. Craig Newmark blurbed our book!

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See You at the 2015 Nonprofit Technology Conference!

Tech Soup

Elijah van der Giessen, TechSoup's NetSquared community organizer, will be meeting with fellow community organizers to discuss the challenges and rewards of growing both online and offline communities. NetSquared Organizers, Ambassadors, and Birds of a Feather. Our organizers and ambassadors will wear orange NetSquared buttons.

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The Social Media Response to Disaster in Haiti

NTEN

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Reports of violence and of peace efforts could be placed via the web or mobile phone. It eventually garnered 45,000 users who took advantage of the easy-to-access tool to place reports. At the time of writing, nearly 1300 reports had been placed via SMS, and reports are still coming in.

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