Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

National Volunteer Week has come and gone, but I ask you to join me every week in celebrating the amazing contributions of TechSoup's NetSquared community. Well, the average NetSquared organizer spends 8.2 Find your closest NetSquared group. Or, apply today to start your own NetSquared group. You like numbers?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2016

If there isn't a group nearby, we'll help you start your own NetSquared group. Check out our newest groups: * [NetSquared Abuja]([link] in Abuja, Nigeria --> --> What have NetSquared groups been up to recently? Kitchener, Ontario: Promoting Open Source. Find your local #Tech4Good group. Europe and the UK.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In collaboration with the TechSoup Global Network , our trusted partners give organizations worldwide access to the solutions they need. That's why TechSoup created NetSquared , our global network of volunteer-led Tech4Good meetups. If there isn't a group nearby, we'll help you start your own NetSquared group.

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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. The result of these ad hoc collaborations was a folksonomy of terms of nonprofit technology related news and a community of taggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

I've been reading Dave Cohn's blogs or " DigiDave " for sometime now and even got a chance to meet him last June at Netsquared where we interviewed each other. He is also the founder of Spot.Us, an open source project, to pioneer “community funded reporting," funded by the Knight Foundation News Challenge.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

This post was written by Trenton DuVal, contributing editor at NetSquared, and originally appeared on their blog. collaboration and communication and resource organization. The best part, though, is that it is open-source, so anyone can host it on their own server and have unlimited capacity and full customization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

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. Connexions is an environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web. It's an open source free web meeting service.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Each year, the Tides Foundation awards a $10,000 cash grant to an individual or group who has created an open-source software project that benefits nonprofits and movements of social change. The Pizzigati Prize is named for Antonio Pizzigati, an MIT graduate, early web author, and leading advocate for open-source computing.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2017

Last week, we reported on a recent NetSquared London Meetup that investigated the IT tools that can be used to operate nonprofits inexpensively and effectively. The 50-plus people who attended the recent NetSquared London Meetup all had a chance to nominate and vote for their favorite productivity tools. Open-Source Tools.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

12 Nonprofit Technology Conference - An Outsider's Perspective from Alicja Peszkowska out of TechSoup Global's Warsaw office, writing on the NetSquared Blog. 12NTC: Open-Source Mobile Apps for Social Change from Ariel Gilbert-Knight. Virtual Teams and Online Collaboration. Tips and Tools for Technology Planning.

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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. About NetSquared. Third Place: $10,000.

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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. Last week in Berkeley, California the Human Rights Center, with the support of sponsors like the John D. & Catherine T.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. Tags: Collaboration Community Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2016

TechSoup's NetSquared ( @netsquared ) community manager, Eli van der Giessen ( @elijah ), and Tech4Good SWFL organizer Birgit Pauli-Hack ( @bph ) are thrilled to offer this opportunity for online and offline community organizers to learn from each other! Want to know if NetSquared is right for you? – 12:00 p.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2009

Gave a great simple definition of open source software: access to code, users modify, anyone can redistribute, public collaborative development. He shared some recent examples, including those from Netsquared. To create the call to action overlay - join the nonprofit program on YouTube and directions. David Greenberg.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 18, 2006

It's a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. The you that writes blogs, creates podcasts, shares open source applications, creates entries on Wikipedia, posts videos on YouTube, meets friends on MySpace and chats with avatars on Second Life. This post was written for the NetSquared blog.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2013

It originally appeared on NetSquared. Open Source philanthropy data big data' 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. Seeing Like a State in Africa: Data Needed.

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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. Random Thoughts on Life and Work blog shares some planning questions about " Project SharePoint or how the organization will use Microsoft's SharePoint for internal collaboration and communication.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

NetSquared is partnering with UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center for a Mobile Innovation Challenge. Check out all the members, former and current, collaborating in this discussion about prioritorizing technology at nonprofits. This Challenge encourages innovations with mobile technologies in human rights investigations and advocacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! New (to me) Blogs Building Foss for Society Blog is the blog for the Humanitarian FOSS Project a collaborative, community-building project that was started by a group of computing faculty and open source proponents at Trinity College, Wesleyan University, and Connecticut College.

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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. News from Nigeria via the Netsquared blog. Wanna check out more tech tools?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The idea for Hacker Helper was born through collaboration with partners, such as Random Hacks of Kindness who are trying to improve the hackathon process and improve results from the events. They can go straight to work to create useful apps and other tools for solving social problems. Hacker Helper is currently in beta.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

The NOSI Choosing and Using Free and Open Source primer is on the ICT Hub Knowledgebase! Michael Hoffman from See3 points us to the 1 Second Film , a collaborative art project, micro video blogging example, and micro fundraising campaign. " You read an excerpt here. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0 Text messaging.

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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? I Collaborate blog has a post about how to lobby for skype in your organization, if you're working internationally. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

non-IT professionals understand web applications for collaboration. So, do check out the Audio/Video Edition of the NGO-in-a-Box which includes a collection of Free and Open Source Software tools. PicNet reviews MyQuire , a collaboration tool for nonprofits. Edge4Dev blog aims to help. It's recently been updated.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. They were able to use the platform for organizing offline events, finding and collaborating with volunteer organizers, and more. The sessions are short (only 50 minutes!) Email is a critical channel.

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