Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2006

One of the breakout sessions at The Netsquared Conference was on Tagging in the Nonprofit World at that session blogher Holly Ross of N-TEN asked a question. The plan is to get a set of tags out there, the aggregate the content (maybe with Suprglu?), "How can we use tagging to make social change, not just organize our own work."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Marshall Kirkpatrick , who was working with Netsquared , whipped up the NpTech Metafeed which allowed folks to aggregate items tagged by nonprofit techies from many distributed sources. These early experiments were about how to crowd source, aggregate, and share nonprofit technology news using web 2.0 And if you???re

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Ushahidi , winner of the 2008 NetSquared Challenge first attracted widespread attention for their work aggregating and mapping real-time reports from victims and relief workers in the violent aftermath of the 2007 Presidential election (see Ushahidi's legacy page for an archived version of this amazing tool).

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

I wanted to use today to focus in on a question recently posed by my good friend Joe Solomon on Twitter : What are the nonprofit/orgs that are working 2 wire the green movement, like what @ netsquared does 4 nonprofits, @ sunfoundation for politics; which orgs are working to expose data, leverage soc media, connect the orgs together?

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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 19, 2008

Green: Aggregate Content Blog.   Strategy Tip:   Become an expert in news gathering and RSS and aggregate content for your niche like no one else. .   Strategy Tip:   Become an expert in news gathering and RSS and aggregate content for your niche like no one else. Netsquared. Red Cross Chat Blog.

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APRIL 22, 2009

We've discussed Ushahidi here before; the project won last year's NetSquared Mashup Challenge. In short, Ushahidi aggregates information from text messages and other media, presenting a clearer picture of a crisis situation as it emerges. read more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2006

" The idea was to create a list of tools that could be used in the areas of contact management, technology assessment, information aggregators, productivity, research, etc. In a few weeks, I'm lucky to be going to the netsquared conference I signed up to go with the intent of being a sponge -- to learn more about all this stuff.

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MARCH 5, 2010

aggregate questions and answers regarding nonprofit management. This month's NetSquared (a project of TechSoup Global ) Think Tank topic is on effective social media policies. Deborah Elizabeth Finn announced the prototype of a tool that will search and. prototype focusing on Massachusetts nonprofit organizations will be.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2006

As I've mentioned in previous posts, I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that is helping to bring the social web to nonprofits & NGOs by sharing stories and building tools. Last month 80+ folks showed up so come on over and join the fun. It's at Varnish Art and Wine Bar @ 77 Natoma in SF from 6-8 PM.

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JANUARY 22, 2010

aggregates resources in nonprofit technology topics. NetSquared (a project of TechSoup ), NTEN , and Beth Kanter (and SxSWi!) and provides important information you should know if you're considering using mobile fundraising for your organization. Aspiration's new online resource (can we call it "beta?") ") Answr.net.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

The ctc I worked with and started to write about in this place -- (going from bookmarking to social bookmarking stories ) scan netsquared case studies for others ) Like having access to my coleagues bookmark or rolodex with having to call them and interupt them. " This is an aggregation of the above. Emily's post ).

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 7, 2008

Alltop is a site that aggregates news and blog feeds by topic from “all the top” sites on the web. Nedra Weinreich of Spare Change worked with Alltop to figure out what nonprofit news and blog feeds should be included (thanks for including Have Fun * Do Good and NetSquared !). alltop blog news aggregation directory

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2014

The app aggregates data based on your location, interests, and social networks to provide you a list of recommended events. He's currently working on an event planner module, which I can see being a huge asset for nonprofits or community organizers, such as organizers of our NetSquared groups. Reporting Problems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

Hashtags.org then aggregates all the tweets using a given tag and publishes an RSS feed. Chris Heuer (who was on a tagging panel at Netsquared with Marshall and me two years ago) has some additional thoughts on tagging. Enter Hashtags. Like tagging for Twitter, hashtags are terms you put after a # in a post.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Recently, over 300 innovators and changemakers interested in the intersection of technology and social benefit work converged for a few days of idea-sharing, learning, and collaboration at NetSquared's annual conference. Of course a selection of these updates will be aggregated on the team blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

How can those notes best be aggregated in one place to be shared with all participants and perhaps with those who didn't attend the event? Take for example, the netsquared conference. I often see many people taking notes at conference, either with pen in a moleskin or typing into a laptop. or furl.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2013

It originally appeared on NetSquared. Image: NetSquared. Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. How open data is transforming democracy in Africa – and the challenges it face s.

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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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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take. When disaster strikes, we want information as soon as possible and we want to help just as quickly. How can we do that? Be sure to visit the site and press "Play" on the map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. applications have changed the rules of online community. There are two sets of social roles here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

over at NetSquared failed to turn up more than a handful of nominations. What is the institutional response to the need for some sort of reader or aggregator? With things like Blogs, Wikis, and social networking in general, institutions and organizations don???t t quite know what to do. non-profit blogs??? The simple reason ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Rather than construct your own top ten list, you can aggregate ten other top ten lists - here's Social Citizen's Top Ten Top Ten Lists for 2008. Alex Steed offers his connective predictions for 2009 at the NetSquared blog. Lucy Bernholz is the queen of of social actions predictions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

It came back earlier this week in a new format and aggregation process. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Photo by SpacePotato. The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. rethink, reinvent. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

FriendFeed is in a category called digital lifestyle aggregators that let you aggregate all your various feeds and share with your friends. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. FriendFeed has been getting a lot of buzz lately. Read this ). Want to go even deeper?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. we should add some questions to our NpTech Tag research about how people are aggregating and republishing content tagged with the NpTech Tag. Cross posted at Netsquared Need a chuckle?

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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2011

While all of this information should be available through online search and aggregation tools, not all information has the same properties. What sort of memorandum of understanding would we need with partners or others who share their assets, expertise, resources, or capacities with us?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

Elijah van der Giessen, NetSquared Community Manager. Reeder – is an RSS reader or news aggregator that compiles information from several online sources into a single place. Circa – is the news aggregation app I use. Yelp – for restaurant and other reviews. The app also has a voice-activated search.

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MARCH 21, 2016

March 22, 2016 — First NetSquared Storymakers 2016 meetup in DC. Citizen stories, aggregated and amplified by NGOs, deserve to be heard as testament to humanity's plurality and hope. The Stories of Tomorrow Award is focused on youth and the next generation. June 1, 2016 — Contest closes and judging begins.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 21, 2016

March 22, 2016 — First NetSquared Storymakers 2016 meetup in DC. Citizen stories, aggregated and amplified by NGOs, deserve to be heard as testament to humanity's plurality and hope. The Best Story of Tomorrow Award is focused on youth and the next generation. May 31, 2016 — Contest closes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

Conversations are getting more distributed and it is getting increasingly difficult to use tagging to discover, aggregate, and summarize them. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. And if you???re re enjoying this blog, please consider subscribing for free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

In an earlier post, I covered some tips for getting " conversation ready " from Alexandra Samuel's recent workshop at Netsquared. All that to say that you need to remember some realistic expectations about the quantity of comments you may actually receive. " So, maybe it looks like this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. And if you???re re enjoying this blog, please consider subscribing for free

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2016

They reached to these communities through the NetSquared Warsaw groups, tech- and startup-focused meetups, and through local universities such as the Warsaw University of Technology. aggregates and filters Warsaw cultural events. The Road to Becoming a Finalist … and Creating a Winning App. Second Place: Curtain up!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I also plan to continue blogging about these topics - focusing on writing in-depth thought pieces as well as aggregate and summarize the best thinking in the nptech field. One way I'm going to do this is to focus on reorganizing them into these thematic areas. I want to improve my writing.

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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? Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Wonder if smashups are eligible?)

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

For more information, check out the Tech Soup article, "Easy Ways to Publish Your Own RSS: Use RSS to Help Your Constituents Stay On Top of News and Announcements," and the Social Signal article, "Make Your Nonprofit More Effective with RSS Aggregation." Include outreach to bloggers as part of your online fundraising campaigns.

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