Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

Check out our newest groups: * [NetSquared Abuja]([link] in Abuja, Nigeria. * [GroundWork group]([link] in Columbus, Ohio. * [NetSquared Daytona Beach ]([link] in Daytona Beach, Florida. * [Tech4good Las Vegas]([link] in Las Vegas, Nevada. --> --> What have NetSquared groups been up to recently? Friday, May 13, 2016.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2016

TechSoup's NetSquared is the world's largest volunteer-driven network of in-person nonprofit technology training and peer support events. Other bright spots include: Continued improvements to the NetSquared website , including the ability to automatically detect the location of visitors for more accurate search results.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Then check out our new online learning courses, starting with Tech Training for Nonprofits and Libraries. We hold free weekly webinars on topics like GrantStation and how to develop a tech training plan. If there isn't a group nearby, we'll help you start your own NetSquared group. Cleveland, Ohio: Measuring Results.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Here's my contribution to this month's Net2ThinkTank question posed by Amy Sample Ward, "What are the key questions nonprofit orgs should ask to help them determine how to prioritize social media training and experimentation as they do their technology and organization-strengthening planning?" Don't expect quick results. What a pain!"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2014

Nonprofits, faith-based organizations, libraries, and networks such as the NetSquared Local should be leading this movement as they are already committed to social good. One of the sessions featured the results of research of people who share, users of these services. ” Who Are Sharers?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

" In 2014, GigaOm found some interesting statistics on diversity in tech from company-provided data and survey results from the U.S. We were especially thrilled to learn that one of TechSoup's nonprofit members, Year Up , was spotlighted as a model for employment and technology training. The Power of a Year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2010

You could do your organization a disservice if you think that the written policy that results from this tool is your final product. Educate: Important to train or make employees aware of the implications. Netsquared is running a thinktank on this topic and you contribute your ideas here. How did you create an effective one?

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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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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Eli van Der Giessen , NetSquared community manager, reveals: "One feature I like is Sharing. " Dulcey Bower , senior media strategist, told me that she uses LastPass as a result of her own blog piece on security, Password Herding in Less than 10: Getting Started. What TechSoup LastPass Users Have to Say.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! Here's one of her training presentations. The presentation describes the benefits of using Digg and shares some before/after results. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. NpTech Conversations. for NGOs there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2009

Submitted by Ivan Boothe, publisher of the Rootwork Blog Over at the NetSquared blog, Joe Solomon provided a great roundup of reasons people might be "jaded about social media for change" and ways they overcome it. IMO, social media tools are pretty poor at changing anything that takes more than one or two mouse-clicks.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

As a result, your nonprofit will get a sense of how many of your supporters are following you online, and to what extent you can count on them to act on your behalf. Platforms like Genius Rocket and NetSquared provide nonprofits an opportunity to crowd-source a communications or technological need.

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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. A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations. More than $100,000 is on the table for innovate projects. Follow the links from here. Generation. (If

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

I point out two good examples, the Hunger is Unacceptable Campaign (which uses the hold the sign meme -- the first one I ever did was in December 2005 for Netsquared ) and the Humane Society's LOL Seals.

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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." Below is a transcript of the interview. To start, I asked Leda what inspired her to start dotOrganize.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

And a book that had a lot of influence on me early on was Frances Moore Lappe's book, Food First , which basically concludes that hunger and poverty around the developing world are not a function of overpopulation and not enough food production, but rather are the result of a poor distribution of resources.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Those that aren’t adopted are prime targets for iteration and evolution and great places to start involving the community in creating changes that result in adoption and use. With platforms like School of Everything and the Free School, I’m willing to sign up and put on small classes or provide training for free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Are the results different? Is anything interesting or surprising in your results? One of the top three results is going to point you to some enthusiast who is maintaining a list of useful add-ons. Netsquared Conference Mashup Panel. guru-in-training. Take a look at Technorati and try doing a keyword search for ????

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

I met Katya Andresen, a social marketing expert and well respected nonprofit leader at the Netsquared Conference. She also notes that PSI also sells abstinence and fidelity with the same results approach. Read how the NpMarketing Blog is applying this concept to marketing the LLS for its Team in Training program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

There's also a lot of talk in the nonprofit blog space prompted by a recent Netsquared ThinkTank and some great thinking on the topic, particularly by Wendy Harmon of the Red Cross, mostly focused on ROI. But define some terms first: Measurement is the process of determining the result of a strategy (source: J.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

More on the study results from Marshall Kirkpatrick at Read/Write Web and here. The results differ from a study released earlier this year. Jon notes, "Both substance-wise, and the idea of doing ultra-short "casual" screencasts like this as a training/demonstration technique." And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2017

And that’s why we offer social media events, NetSquared meet-ups, and educational trainings – all geared towards educating organizations on how to create a powerful digital story ( Nonprofits can submit stories to our storytelling contest through October 31, 2017 ). We’re glad that you asked.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

And as a result, the community was really feeling the effects of that. When Sophia contacted me and asked if I would talk here, my first thought was, "You know, I could talk here, but I just know so many amazing women who have stories that I want to share." What I do is, I write for several blogs, as she mentioned.

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