Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

While the rest of you have been enjoying the summer partying on the beach, TechSoup’s NetSquared organizers have been plotting and scheming in front of their computers. During our month of social media for social good -themed events being held in cities across the globe NetSquared organizers are offering free workshops and events.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Social media and new technology are changing the way we recruit and manage volunteers. They’re also changing how we define the concept of volunteering. Our next #4change chat, on Thursday 12 November, will look at how the volunteering landscape is changing. How social media’s changing volunteering. Virtual volunteering.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Social media and new technology are changing the way we recruit and manage volunteers. They’re also changing how we define the concept of volunteering. Our next #4change chat, on Thursday 12 November, will look at how the volunteering landscape is changing. How social media’s changing volunteering. Virtual volunteering.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2007

Lucy Bernholz has been thinking deeply about virtual worlds and philanthropy over the past few months. see her post about the virtual philanthropy simulator ) She shares some thoughts about what she thinks may happen after June 22, 2007 when The John D. Why do this virtually? and Catherine T. It would be called SecondGoogForce.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Netsquared Voting Deadline Extended. Due to some technical glitches , you now have 48 additional hours to figure out what 5-10 of the 150 fantastic social change and technology projects at Netsquared will receive your vote. ErikaBJune shines a spotlight on virtual world and digital games for change projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. Allan Benamer weighs in with some observations after wading through the comments over at the Netsquared site and pointing to Holden from GiveWell to be the most salient point. Christine.Net attended the Web 2.0 Expo Ignite!

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Chris discusses virtualization with Monique Sendze of Johnson County Library. From TechSoup Global Labs: NetSquared. Amy reports on Green Mountain Coffee's new grants to reduce climate change. Tools Using the Web and Internet. Tags: Web 2.0 Don't forget about the Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Tobias Eigen from Kabissa presented at the Web2fordev: Remixing the Web for International Development. There's a roundup of coverage on his Netsquared blog , including pointers to live blog posts like this one. More from Britt Bravo on Netsquared blog. Virtual drinks are very much needed on this Facebook profile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

NetSquared. Netsquared Featured projects receive grant awards ! " (At first, I thought the title might refer to Electric Sheep Company , a big player in virtual worlds, and that it would lead to some more reflections on the MacArthur Foundation's recent Philanthropy Event in Second Life. NpTech Talk. Looking for a primer?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 21, 2009

GoPlanit.com's Pet Earth game where the earth is your virtual pet to take care of. This month's Net2ThinkTank question on NetSquared is, “What do you think will be the big changes, new technologies, hot applications, or successful campaigns of 2009?” I predict that one of them will be iPhone apps for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2006

Susan Tenby from TechSoup demos the virtual TechSoup Office during the Netsquared Conference while Ruby Sinreich and Deborah Finn (Cyber-Yenta) blogged about it. The TechSoup Virtual Office at Second Life take by Jeska Linden. This month I'm exploring the topic of digital games for social change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Competition includes a "Knowledge-networking" category designed to take good ideas and circulates them widely, taking full advantage of the Web's potential for collaborative thinking. is a free web application that lets you brainstorm online. What's Hiafux ?

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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. For me, the web and 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

With video conferencing, broadband, and Second Life, well, we can all safely stay ensconced in our own virtual-reality-sensory-deprivation-tanks and just digitally dance the salsa at the next NTEN gathering.??? Allan Benamer and Holly Ross debate transparency and publishing web stats numbers. He notes with a trace of sarcasm, "???With

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. MacArthur Foundation announces a Virtual Philanthropy event in Second Life next week. blog is researching options for integrating a blog with the organization's web site. Not sure what a Game for Change is?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Open Content, Online Privacy, and Virtual Worlds Where Most Needed points out that few US Universities jump on MIT's Free Courseware Bandwagon. Here's ten steps towards Association 2.0 , a remix of Marnie Webb's Ten Ways to Use Web 2.0 Tools To Change the World. " and offers some advice to tool makers, teachers, and users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Finding a cure for breast cancer takes more than virtual pink ribbons. non-IT professionals understand web applications for collaboration. Alexandra Samuels has a terrific post on Best Practices for Nonprofits Using Web.2.0. Alexandra Samuel has a great idea for using twitter - provide updates on how you've changed the world!

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2007

Last week, at NetSquared's San Francisco Net Tuesday Meetup, Steve Miller, Product Manager, Google Earth Outreach spoke to a room of 50+ social changemakers and web innovators about how nonprofits can use Google Earth Outreach for their work. Full disclosure: I am NetSquared's Community Builder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

In " The Social Web Ain't Rocket Science " Worldchanging blogger Jon Lebkowsky reminds us that blogs, wikis, and social networking sites may not be appropriate for all nonprofits and that hype and pressure shouldn't drive adoption decisions or they may not be successful. And if Web 2.0 generators. Social Bookmarking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 " She points to an interesting web widget from SunLight Labs which adds mini-profiles with links to Member of Congress to your blog or web page when you mouseover the link.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I finally got to meet Jayne about a year at the netsquared conference. She worked in with UNDP's Volunteer Programme from 2001-2004 and is a subject matter in virtual volunteering, among other topics). " What Jayne is describing is an example of the change of thinking that is required in using Web2.0,

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

We got the idea for doing this from Denise McMahan, Founder & Web Publisher at CausePlanet. Here's what TechSoup has to share: William Coonan, Web Producer. Tyler Benari, Principle Web Designer. The story combines a resource depleted Earth surviving by the international community's use of virtual worlds.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

We got the idea for doing this from Denise McMahan, Founder & Web Publisher at CausePlanet. Here's what TechSoup has to share: William Coonan, Web Producer. Tyler Benari, Principle Web Designer. The story combines a resource depleted Earth surviving by the international community's use of virtual worlds.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 1, 2006

What makes us want to act for social change? For the past year, I have been writing for NetSquared about nonprofits and NGOs that are using the social web to cultivate donors, advocates and activists for their organization and their cause. You can watch a 16-minute documentary about Kiva on the FRONTLINE World web site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Papilia Online Tax Receipts enables nonprofits to provide donors with a secure web page that allows them to view their giving history and print personalized tax receipts. CrowdFunder is another web site that lets you set up a page and collect donations for a personal fundraising effort or nonprofit organization.

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