Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Here’s some news on a now famous NetSquared alumnus project. Ushahidi was a NetSquared Mashup Challenge winner in the fabled 2008 Netsquared conference in Santa Clara, California. Ushahidi was a NetSquared Mashup Challenge winner in the fabled 2008 Netsquared conference in Santa Clara, California.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2007

The SXSW 2008 Panel initial results are in and the Pimp My Non Profit Panel made the list! They include: Rachel Weidinger , Strategy for Social Entrepreneurs and on Netsquared here. I have met Rachel, Ed, and Erin through Netsquared face-to-face. Tunnel by Eschipul on Flickr. I'm stunned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2008

Hanging with Britt Bravo at NetSquared Conference Photo by Schipulites. For the past three years, I've had the pleasure of working closely with Britt Bravo at BlogHer and Netsquared. June 11-12th we will both be speaking at the 2008 Making Media Connections Conference. We rarely get any face time. in Chicago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

She remembered fondly, the netsquared t-shirt that she had selected from the donated t-shirts. I also reconnected with Louise Coventry who I met in Australia in 2008 at the Connecting Up Conference. I also got to reconnect with these Cambodia bloggers - Norbert Klein , Lux Mean , Ramana Sorn , and Kounila Keo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

So, when Lynne Johnson from Fast Company asked me to blog a list, I thought I'd create a nonprofit technology category and acknowledge the work of these awesome women: Nonprofit Technology Marnie Webb is the Co-CEO of TechSoup Global and creator of Netsquared and was voted most valuable person in the nonprofit technology field in 2008.

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2007

Copyright © 2008, Care2.com 57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2008

Congratulations to Marnie Webb for winning the 2008 NTEN Award at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in New Orleans. Britt Bravo has a write up on NetSquared. As the winner of last year's award I got to introduce her. Here's what I said: In 2001, I tried to start blogging. I set up a blog, wrote two posts and stopped.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 28, 2008

For the past two days I've gotten to spend time at the NetSquared Conference with my Co-Editor of BlogHer's Social Change, Nonprofit and NGO section, and fellow NetSquared blogger , Beth Kanter of Beth's Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! Applications will be available form Feb 1 to March 14, 2008. There's going to be a Netsquared Meetup (recommendations for restaurant or location are needed) How will your nonprofit avoid the Meatball Sundae? Wonder if smashups are eligible?) The Nonprofit Blog reviews InStedd.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2008

I've been following Peter's work since October 2006, when I first discovered Peter's research on group giving when he introduced himself on Netsquared. I've blogged about his webinars about selecting person-to-person fundraising or working with group fundraising tools.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 12, 2008

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. "Tools come and go, but a strategy based on experimentation sustains."--Beth

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Giving Guru Marnie Webb is Co-CEO of TechSoup Global where under her leadership the NetSquared initiative is in its fourth year of helping nonprofits worldwide use innovative web tools to increase their reach and impact. nonprofit sector.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 21, 2008

The theme for 2008 is poverty. Cross-posted from NetSquared blogday2008 onewebday blogactionday bloggersunite blog refugees poverty activism For more info. For more info. go to blogactionday.org. Bloggers Unite November 10 Similar to Blog Action Day, Bloggers Unite is a day for bloggers to write about one subject. For more info.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2013

She''s contributed to various publications about social media and online engagement, and since 2008, I has contributed to the Stanford Social Innovation Review with monthly posts on the Opinion Blog. A regular on the conference circuit, Amy has spoken at numerous conferences, workshops, and training days in the US, the UK and beyond.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Moderated by NTEN membership director, former NetSquared organizer, and friend of TechSoup Amy Sample Ward , "Rethinking Movement Buildling" brought together three luminaries from organizations whose stock-in-trade are movements to promote social change. Case in point: Obama for America, the 2008 Obama election campaign effort.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

Email a link to your post, a thumbnail image, your name, the country where you live, and one sentence about your pie to Vampituity by Friday, February 22, 2008 at pies (at) rachel (dot) wattlink (dot) net with "Pie Entry" as your subject line. The round-up of pie posts will be published on Vampituity on February 29, 2008.

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Care2

MAY 1, 2008

Copyright © 2008, Care2.com 57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. When disaster strikes, we want information as soon as possible and we want to help just as quickly. How can we do that?

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

TechSoup's NetSquared Initiative partnered with the HRC in the first conference The Soul of the New Machine in 2009 to help select a winner in their Mobile Challenge. Using an event such as the 2008 financial crisis as a backdrop, he hopes to be able to back-test his hypothesis against the volumes of data generated around the same time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Ed Schipu l, who grew a mustache for children with cancer last week, created a peavator. It is authentic, it is caring, and it is beautiful.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

The organization got started when a group of Kenyan bloggers led by Erik Hersman began doing online mapping of violence reports after the 2008 Kenyan election. During the early days of our Netsquared project , we held big annual conferences to showcase and fund innovative tech for good. So much innovation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. The nonprofit presence at SXSW has been growing steadily over the past couple of years.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Given the fantastic feedback we received from our NetSquared GIS presentation, I was very pleased to learn that NTEN is featuring Robert in a forthcoming webinar. October 7, 2007 | Dan Bassill Copyright © 2008, Care2.com His firm, Avencia , is an award winning GIS consultancy. Good luck with your presentation. All rights reserved.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Very cool project from 2008: Twitter Vote Report. Panelists: Natalie Foster, DNC ; Rebecca Moore, Google Earth Outreach ; Laura Quinn, Idealware. The sessions are short (only 50 minutes!) but pack in a tremendous amount of information. Here’s a run through of the Tools Galore session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

Sort of a 2008 version of build it and they will come syndrome we saw in the 1990's. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. As Geoff points out: What???s s the secret sauce? Not buying into social media/Facebook hype. And if you???re

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Care2

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Given the fantastic feedback we received from our NetSquared GIS presentation, I was very pleased to learn that NTEN is featuring Robert in a forthcoming webinar. October 7, 2007 | Dan Bassill Copyright © 2008, Care2.com His firm, Avencia , is an award winning GIS consultancy. Good luck with your presentation. All rights reserved.

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Care2

JUNE 15, 2007

Copyright © 2008, Care2.com 57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. The nonprofit presence at SXSW has been growing steadily over the past couple of years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

I suspect that the good folks at SeaChange are busy updated the 2008 the Procrastinators Guide To Year-End Fundraising. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. It probably isn't too early to start thinking about that busy year-end online fundraising season. And if you???re

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

60) Search « NetSquared DC: Beyond the Logic Puzzle | Main | Have you read your RSS feeds today? Response: thomasdc1977 by thomasdc1977 at thomasdc1977 on February 23, 2007 None Reader Comments (1) Thank you September 18, 2007 | sohbet Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Thats what I thought. food for thought. All rights reserved.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

I originally wrote this post for the NetSquared Blog. Earlier in the month I taught a Nonprofit Blogging 101 workshop at the 2008 Making Media Connections Conference. At the beginning of the session, I asked folks what their burning questions were. Below are their questions, and my quick answers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I am remember something that Ethan Zuckerman said at the first Netsquared Conference, " Don't Speak, Point " He was talking about citizen journalism and advocacy in the age of read/write web. Social Media and Nonprofits: ROI Case Study Slam NTC in 2008. Workshop Keynote for Legal Services Corporation (1/28) ROI and Technology.

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2007

60) Search « CASE STUDY: Care2 Recruits 10,000 for CHEJ Campaign | Main | NetSquared Meetup Roundup » Thursday Jun 21 2007 Online Branding Takeaways Thursday, June 21, 2007 at 12:09PM | by James OMalley Yet another fantastic Internet Advocacy Roundtable took place at the Care2/Oxfam offices! Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. The nonprofit presence at SXSW has been growing steadily over the past couple of years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

If you participate in Give One Get One today, you will receive your XO laptop(s) in early 2008. Your donated laptop will reach a child in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Haiti, Mongolia or Rwanda in the same early 2008 timeframe. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2005

One of the reasons I am so excited about the work I am doing with NetSquared is because I think that these new web-based tools, especially podcasts, are an incredible way for nonprofits to get the word out about their causes, especially when they are listened to through headphones.

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