Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared (where Ushahidi won its first challenge!). Unless you have a very compelling project that already has a lot of interest, you might not want to invest in a Kickstarter campaign (especially since you won't be able to keep the funds you raise!). – to raise money for your cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. Submitted by Michael Smith.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared. Unless you have a very compelling project that already has a lot of interest, you might not want to invest in a Kickstarter campaign (especially since you won't be able to keep the funds you raise!). – to raise money for your cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. Submitted by Michael Smith.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. NetSquared Community. for the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) beginning on May 29th. Like last year, conference participants are introducing themselves on their NetSquared Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There's a roundup of coverage on his Netsquared blog , including pointers to live blog posts like this one. More from Britt Bravo on Netsquared blog. The Mashable write up has a freudian typo and describes the Cancer Society and March of Dimes as "high-profit" organizations. It isn't dumb dumb. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

to raise money for sponsoring a college student in Cambodia via the Sharing Foundation. I'm going to be guest blogging about this effort over at Katya's Non-Profit Marketing Blog this week. They raised $1,500 in two weeks from $10, $20, and $50 donations. (I I did a campaign video. I don't know what I mean yet. I contributed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

NpTech Conversations Wild Apricot Blog is hosting next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on the topic "How are non-profits using Web 2.0 TechSoup has just published a thoughtful article from Idealware that raises the question, " Should Your Organization Use Social Networking Sites ?" and social networking tools?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! There's going to be a Netsquared Meetup (recommendations for restaurant or location are needed) How will your nonprofit avoid the Meatball Sundae? New(to me) Blogs Good Works Grapvine covers social media and strategies for Non-Profits. Wonder if smashups are eligible?) And if you???re

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. (There's even a panel proposal for Slacktivism ). Submitted by Michael Smith.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Prioritize your ROI around the biggest impact, whether that’s raising funds, engaging people, or something else. They were active and dedicated to making it work and raised 90,000+ friends. Raising awareness and providing local communities a venue for sharing their story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Netsquared Net Tuesday next week in SF is about " How Nonprofits Can Use And Build Online Social Networks ," featuring speakers from Change.org and Ning. over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

I raised a question about that last point in the FriendFeed NpTech Room. " Geoff Livingston makes a good point about why some efforts using Facebook have not raised huge dollar amounts. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. I may be way off. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. Via Laura Quinn at Idealware comes a pointer to a research paper titled " Technology Motivators and Usage in Not-for-Profit Arts Organizations " that comes from the Systems Synthesis Project course at the H.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

The moderator, Patrick O'Heffernan, shared his thoughts based on his experience with The People Choose which is connected to Link TV and the first non-profit site to launch user-generated video as a community building process in a non profit environment. Check out this beautifully produced video here.) Off to consume those now!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The Non-Profit Tech Blog drills down deeper on the limitations and suggests waiting before adopting. " Last month I summarized multiple threads about how social networking sites like Facebook can be time wasters for both for-profit and nonprofits. More from the Convio Summit this week. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

While I was in grad school at U-Denver, I worked with C-SPAN, the non-profit cable channel, in a very cool long-distance education program. I also worked closely with a non-profit rape abuse hotline in Denver, as part of a class I had, where we would work closely with a non-profit and build them a technology plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? ZdNet post raises the question "Salesforce.com pulls back on releasing subscriber totals; is that worrisome?" There's lots more to digest and lots more to come.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

WeWorkForFree is a design community that allows it's members to upload and share their portfolios in order to raise money for international programs that benefit developing nations around the globe. It was founded as a mission-based, for-profit enterprise in Dublin in 2005 by serial. Shiny Object Syndrome. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

Causes Raised $2.5 " Will Boyd has a question about non-profit marketing ? Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Million in First Year of Operation Allan Benamer asks "What's the average for nonprofit websites and their e-mail lists?" And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. comprising the people most likely to give and raise additional money." For the launch, they???ve And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

A key point about how difficult it is for most non-profits to shift from message delivery to conversation and advice about being patience. Facebook The Non-Profits on Facebook Group is for those who work for, belong to, or support nonprofits on Facebook. " Nonprofits and Web2.0 mean for you? hard to use ?" And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

This particular Carnival raises the question of how to decide which online social media tools to use and ramp up your skills using it. SaveGuimaras is a group of individuals who are dedicated to raising awareness on the recent oil-spill tragedy in Guimaras, Philippines. The Short Resource List.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

Since all actions are focused on a shared agenda, and will occur on the same day, their cumulative affect is well-positioned to have a much bigger impact in gaining attention and raising awareness. I am a proud member of the NetSquared community and have helped organize Net Tuesday events in Vancouver & Seattle. Then check out.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

We're bombarded by messages in this country and so for a small, non-profit organization like ours. A way of doing business that allows a company to be profitable, while they do good in the world. BB: What advice do you have for someone who wants to start their own non-profit, or is a budding social entrepreneur?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Show how much money is being raised! Remember the digital period, way back in time, when any tool that someone launched – be it for profit, for a lot of profit, or for compromise – was a tool we felt obligated to register for, create a profile on, and otherwise try to adopt? Is it an event to get out the vote?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2009

In the non-profit technology community, open standards of a different variety could help us all become more effective at what we urgently need to do: raise money, recruit and coordinate volunteers, promote events, create profiles on social networks, generate reports for grant-makers, and the list goes on.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2006

Let's start with Michelle herself, who posted some comments on the NTEN-sponsored discussion of open API's last week to both the NetSquared site and her own blog. The on-line discussion brought together some of the larger software vendors in the non-profit space and a few very savvy users. Code Like A Girl.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

Raise your hand if you have heard of or had at any point been inspired by Hillary Clinton. Raise your hand if you have heard of or have at any time been inspired by Lois Gibbs. Raise your hand if you have heard of or have been inspired by Vandana Shiva. What I do is, I write for several blogs, as she mentioned.

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