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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." Online social networking was just being born. To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. " The year was 2005. Google Maps.

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Innovation: Clay Shirky Interview & NetSquared Challenges

Amy Sample Ward

Originally posted by me on the NetSquared blog. NetSquared currently has 3 open Challenges, calling for innovators and change makers around the world to submit ideas for Web and mobile-based technologies for social change. Through a NetSquared Community vote, 10 finalists will be chosen.

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Events Roundup: NetSquared Loves You this February

Tech Soup

Every month NetSquared holds free or low cost educational events for people and organizations who want to use technology for social good. Our events are powered by a global network of volunteers dedicated to building strong, self-sufficient local communities of nonprofit technology practitioners. What’s NetSquared Doing?

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Need Hands-on Help? NetSquared's Free Workshops Are in Your Community

Tech Soup

That's why TechSoup supports a global network of tech trainers called NetSquared. NetSquared groups focus on topics that address their unique local tech challenges, but once a quarter, we select a common theme. Find your closest NetSquared group. Or, apply today to start your own NetSquared group.

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Fundraising Meets Social Networking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What happens when fundraising meets social networking? Social Fundraising? Socially-Networked Fundraising? So, I slapped a piece of paper in the old IBM selectric and created a networking form. maginfies the offline social networking we used to do before the Internet became a part of culture and lives?

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Social Networks for Social Change: Ivan Boothe Knows What He Is Talking About!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Using Social Networks for Social Change: Facebook, MySpace and More View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: fundraising advocacy ) I was lucky enough to meet Ivan Boothe at the first (or maybe second) Netsquared Conference back in 2005 and have been following his work for years.

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Networked Nonprofit Update: November

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’d like to use this post to share some of the responses to the Networked Nonprofit at different book events and online during the past month and let you know about upcoming events in November. Networked Nonprofit in Vegas. The workshop was a discussion, tweet-festival, and social media community-building exercise.

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