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In the book, Beth and Katie identify a number of themes. Before I worked at NTEN, I managed the NetSquared program at TechSoup Global. I am giving away a copy of Beth and Katie’s book to be sure that I do my part to spread the knowledge and share the insights. Here’s a case study of my own! To Link or Not to Link.
Today Allison Fine and I celebrated the launch of the Networked Nonprofit at TechSoup Global in the space where Netsquared Meetups take place. Finally, people really wanted to dig in and discuss the big ideas in the book! She launched a book last month, Open Leadership. Craig Newmark blurbed our book! Small world.
Social Print Studio enables users to login and download photos directly from Instagram and Facebook to create print calendars, cards, and tiny books. Flipsnack empowers users to transform PDFs into online flipping books. NetSquared :: netsquared.org. Social Print Studio :: socialprintstudio.com. Storrito :: storrito.com.
TechSoup's NetSquared initiative hosts meetups every month around the world for people who care about technology and social change. After years of hosting local events, NetSquared has amassed a considerable amount of experience planning, marketing, and hosting local events. Photo: Houston NetSquared , Schipul , CC license
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In-person Events 10/14 SFTech4Good (San Francisco, CA): Cause Funding: Indiegogo + Cause Funder: Geek Club Books, Autism Story Apps 10/15 NCTech4Good (Triangle Region, NC): Does Your Donation Page Need Work?
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Joe Lambert, creator of the Center for Digital Storytelling and literally the guy who wrote the book on digital storytelling for changemakers. Eastern), where we'll hear from the pros in the world of storytelling for change: Michael Hoffman, Founder and CEO of See3 Communications , and creator of the DoGooder Video Awards ; and.
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NetSquared. Netsquared Featured projects receive grant awards ! Congrats to Allison Fine for the Terry McAdam Book Award. GoogleEarth launches Nonprofit Outreach Program via the NTEN blog and NetSquared community blog. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning. NpTech Talk.
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In our session at NetSquared today, we used Social Actions as a case study in engaging online community participation, and shared two strategy tools that can help you make your nonprofit site more engaging. For NetSquared community members only, our engagement opportunity finder package is $500 when you book online (value: $1,000).
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