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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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Major news outlets such as NBC Politics , The New York Times , The Washington Post , CNN , and Fox News. podcasts via their mobile app for iOS and Android and via their website. Head on over to NetSquared and share your election app idea. Get the latest polls and news in the palm of your hand with these apps: Polltracker.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Once you've got some ideas about the kinds of tools that you think might help you reach your goals, ask yourself, how much time, money, and in-house staff expertise do we have to learn how to use these tools, set them up, and maintain them? I can't tell you how often people ask me if I think their supporters would listen to a podcast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

In general, they tend to wait until the kinks in the platform are worked out and there is less risk involved investing staff time. Ivan Booth is doing a meet up and live stream for the Philly Netsquared meet up on August 2nd at 6:00 PM EST about Google +. What are the potential uses for nonprofits?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 6, 2005

As I mentioned in my November 3rd post , I am working as a Community Builder with NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup. You can hear last month's speakers, Chris Messina from Flock , CompuMentor's Marnie Webb and yours truly, on the NetSquared Channel on Odeo. I'm double blogging right now, here and on the NetSquared blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2006

did not have a high-end camera (I used this camera which costs less than $200 reburbished) -didn't have any time to do any video editing and wanted to publish fairly quickly. But I did have a desire to learn more about podcasting, including microphones.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Take 'em one at a time. You need to start by checking out the content that is already being created by citizen journalists and activists about the issues you care about on blogs, podcasts and online video/vlogs. Other podcast directories to check out are Yahoo! and OurMedia. Don't be afraid of the tech.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 18, 2006

Lev Grossman, from, "Person of the Year: YOU", TIME. By now you've probably seen the announcement that TIME has named "you" the person of the year. This post was written for the NetSquared blog. nptech time you net2 We need to make sure that the "us" actually includes all of us. Photo credit: Globe uploaded by Karol M.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2006

The triggers: A blog conversation on Jilliane's Smith blog that became a community blog conversation about nonprofit tagging on netsquared. There are others, including e-mail lists, web-based discussion forums, chat rooms, call-in talk shows, and even (to a certain extent) podcasts and wikis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

Other then this practical reason, we also syndicate headlines from our blogs, podcast, and videocast in order to pull them into the Workshops resources and eventually to our flagship website www.newstips.org to purchase our media guide, sign up for additional training, and subscribe to our electronic newsletter. ve known them for a long time.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

If you collect and analyze data over time, it can tell you where you're headed, tomorrow -- and that can help you make better business decisions. . Our friends at NetSquared have a great podcast interview with Steve Williams of Business Objects that provides more good examples. Here at NTEN, we confused the two for a long time.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

As part of my preparation, it seems like a good time to update my 2006 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Us Blogs , and my 2007 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause. Example: Anyone can publish a blog post on the NetSquared Community Blog and Social Actions' social network, my.socialactions.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2006

There has been online conversation during the past couple of weeks on vlog list , Netsquared , TechSoup and Blogher. Issues: Given the amount of time, technical skills, and resources that vlogging requires, when is it appropriate for nonprofits to adopt it? Now almost a year later, there is renewed interest in vlogging and nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Fear that it will take staff time, there will be little return, and the return will not be as easily measurable as, say, a direct mail piece. I like to think about this in terms of the amount of time per week ( How much time per week does it take to do social media? ) Fear about letting the public comment back "publicly".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

I've also been inspired to experiment with video blog posts and podcasts. But that really takes up time. The only downside is the additive nature of blogging, and it does consume a lot of time. Start when you have enough time to get a good regular schedule going, think about the topics you want to blog about. Technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I finally got to meet Jayne about a year at the netsquared conference. " She isn't an advocate of online social networking for all nonprofits all the time. She gives us a reality check: Most nonprofits are struggling to keep just their simple web sites up-to-date and answering the many, many inquiries they already.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 8, 2006

A couple weeks ago, I did an interview for the NetSquared Podcast with Leda Dederich, the creator of the dotOrganize project, and co-author of the report "Online Technology For Social Change: From Struggle to Strategy." Such a waste of time; they have better things to do. Below is a transcript of the interview.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

Paul Rice, the founding president and CEO of the Oakland based nonprofit, TransFair USA , answers these questions and others in an interview for the Big Vision Podcast. You can read a transcript of the podcast below. Most consumers in the United States, most people don't really have the time to think about those problems a lot.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 28, 2010

the Netsquared community in the form of feedback on the idea, experts in understanding the footprint life cycle consumables, game designers to help design compelling social incentives, 3. I am no expert in the field of sustainable living, rather a passionate fellow citizen of this world who could use help and collaboration from.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

The free version interrupts your usage and requires you to turn it back on from time to time. Elijah van der Giessen, NetSquared Community Manager. It alerts you to police speed traps, accidents, road hazards, and traffic jams in real-time. I can tether the phone via USB cable, Bluetooth, or WiFi.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm slightly out of my comfort zone here because I've only been following this topic closely for a short time, although I have co-authored a guide for nonprofits on technology evaluation and ROI. Should we be spending our time or money on this social media strategy? I also don't want to get too deep into geeky measurement crap.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

Her additional points about the use of Chat/IRC, Videocasts, VOIPcasts, Podcasts, and Visual Facilitation spurred some additional reflections (boy I feel a writely document coming on.) Sometimes the "channel" can be a wall and other times it can be a bridge. This was done quite successfully at netsquared conference.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

I asked four of the women who I had previously interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast to share what brought them to their work, and their advice for the graduate and undergraduate women who attended the conference. I hope you'll take the time to read it, because they all have some great advice.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2005

I love listening to Barack Obama's podcasts because he gives me hope that there is at least one person in the US government who is reasonable, sane, intelligent and truly cares about people as humans, not just as voters who can keep him in or out of office. Click on one of the podcast links above and try listening to it on your computer.

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