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Fighting for Civic Transparency with Technology in the Western Balkans

Tech Soup

And the Winners Are… After a few weeks of coding, sourcing ideas, and testing public interest, the projects were again open to the public for voting. TechSoup Global and NetSquared attended hackathons across the country—from Hawaii to Vermont—that tackled local, statewide, and national civic issues.

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Experimentation: Key to Happy Nonprofit Tech Adoption, and Life?

Have Fun - Do Good

Beth Kanter Although I've known Beth Kanter for a long time, and we write for BlogHer and NetSquared together, I've never heard her present until today when she gave the keynote at the 2008 Making Media Connections Conference. This post was originally written for the NetSquared Blog Flickr photo credit: Test Tube Flowers by Casey Yancey.

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NpTech: Summer Vacations, Who Let the NpTech Dogs Out, and IPhone Fundraising!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Geodog Speed Geeking Session at Advocacy Dev - complete flickr stream here. I keep running into NpTechers posting vacation photos and blog posts. If it isn't vacations, it's photos of restaurant and a fun evening out. DIA Blog has some great advice about HTML email testing. Marnie Webb is on a road trip.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

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. We are testing it out at hackathons this month in San Francisco and also in Sarajevo in Bosnia.

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NpTech Tag Roundup: Election Day, NPTech Blog Chatter, and Tool Talk

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 Allison Fine writes an Op-Ed piece on the SF Chronicle entitled " A New Bargain: YouTube Politics."

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The Best Productivity Tools (Part 2): Favorites Revealed

Tech Soup

Last week, we reported on a recent NetSquared London Meetup that investigated the IT tools that can be used to operate nonprofits inexpensively and effectively. The 50-plus people who attended the recent NetSquared London Meetup all had a chance to nominate and vote for their favorite productivity tools. Web Analytics.

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The Evolution of NPTech: Keynote and slides

Amy Sample Ward

In the social period, we began exploring the network – mapping it, evaluating it, testing it. In a holistic paradigm, we also recognize the tactical differences between working with our community and working beyond that. We ask for our supporters to spread our message to their communities, tapping into the network for help.

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