Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Participants can earn points and badges for "checking in" at certain events or locations, taking quizzes, and keeping track of emergency contacts. You might be able to find help from NetSquared , an initiative from TechSoup Global. Hackathons are also a great way to connect with designers and developers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2006

After that, I discovered an interesting photo set in the Link netsquared tag stream and it was Seth Mazow, so I made him a contact. It loads ten images that all share a common tag, one by one, and you guess what the tag is. What a nice tool to use in a training session.).

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NTEN

MARCH 5, 2010

Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . This month's NetSquared (a project of TechSoup Global ) Think Tank topic is on effective social media policies. (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2010

Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . NetSquared (a project of TechSoup ), NTEN , and Beth Kanter (and SxSWi!) Flickr: Cambodia4Kids (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Whether you're looking for your online visitors to contribute photos, forward your issue alerts, make a donation, or contact policy-makers, social media can be a powerful way of engaging your audience and driving them towards action. Contact us to schedule a call to review your completed worksheets.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

It's also a good way for your organization to attract new donors, and an incentive to keep contact information up to date. Kudos to Erin Palmer over at TechSoup's NetSquared Project for this: "The Pew Internet & American Life Project reports that, as of early 2012, 88% of American adults had a cell phone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

He describes what hopes to do: I intend to examine the methodology of various politically and socially energized young people, contacted through various activist networks, and to listen to, record, and share their stories with present and future doers. This fall, DC will be one of 35 cities visited by NetSquared???s s Alex Steed.

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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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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Moderated by NTEN membership director, former NetSquared organizer, and friend of TechSoup Amy Sample Ward , "Rethinking Movement Buildling" brought together three luminaries from organizations whose stock-in-trade are movements to promote social change. The moment of opportunity had passed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Asking questions about who people knew and for contact information. There was a post over at Netsquared speaking to the data silos and walls that exist within nonprofits, sparked by the question, " Which division in your association owns the web ?" We wanted a well-known celebrity as a draw.

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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.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 16, 2012

polling place, review voting rules, and contact Election Protection if. Head on over to NetSquared and share your election app idea. The app is available on Android and Windows Phone. devices (an iOS version is coming soon) and the same information can be. accessed via a mobile web browser at voterhub.us. If so, please tell.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

So blog about it, call your local newspaper, if you work in media get your editor to let you do something huge about it and feel free to contact us at anytime for our input or to get quote on why net neutrality is important to us as independent filmmakers who use the internet to distribute our work." Britt Bravo, Netsquared Post.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2007

This summer I've been interviewing the innovators behind the 21 Projects that went to the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) this year (I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared). You can listen to the original interview and a live recording of Freecycle's 5-minute pitch at the NetSquared Conference on the NetSquared Podcast.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Thousands of volunteers donated a time from their phones and computer screens to help reconnect families; 76,584 images were tagged, 8,137 news images collected, 746 possible matches found, and 24 matches close enough to contact families. How can we do that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2007

See Dan Mcquillan's summary over at Netsquared some pointers and good thoughts on Social Media ROI and Nonprofits. s brought me so many friends, so many contacts, it would be silly to measure. But, blogging can also help you be effective - building your personal expertise in a subject matter (related to your work).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

saying about your organization as well as to find new marketing leads to contact with your messages and stories of hope. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Want to know buzz? Use tools like Technorati, Bloglines, and Forum Tracker to monitor what people are.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Given the fantastic feedback we received from our NetSquared GIS presentation, I was very pleased to learn that NTEN is featuring Robert in a forthcoming webinar. The speaker, Robert Cheetham, is both concise and knowledgeable, but more importantly he has a knack for explaining GIS in a way that is very accessible to non-techies.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2014

Of course I also worked with the executive director of NTEN, Amy Sample Ward when she helped us build the NetSquared community. Gayle Samuelson Carpentier: First, I have to say that I haven’t yet been to a board meeting, but I am interested in trying to assist NTEN with my many contacts with corporations and nonprofit organizations.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

[link] Design Logoworks [link] 99designs [link] Flickr photos with Creative Commons Licenses (free): [link] iStockPhoto: [link] Online Donations Network for Good [link] ChipIn [link] PayPal https://www.paypal-portal.com/charity/ E-newsletters Feedblitz [link] Emma [link] Constant Contact [link] Donations and mailing lists Democracy in Action [link] (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I posted an announcement of the campaign on my blog and on Netsquared Posted a guest blog post at Katya's blog soliciting campaign advice in exchange to share my learnings. Send your contacts in LinkedIn a note about what you???re Launch Announcements I decided not to broadcast this out to everyone I know. re doing and ask ???em

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Care2

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Given the fantastic feedback we received from our NetSquared GIS presentation, I was very pleased to learn that NTEN is featuring Robert in a forthcoming webinar. The speaker, Robert Cheetham, is both concise and knowledgeable, but more importantly he has a knack for explaining GIS in a way that is very accessible to non-techies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

He also describes some issues with the interaction design of Causes: In addition, the Social Cause app does not let non-profits a) access the contact information of members b) update members on the cause or c) even send them a receipt for donations, and of course, market again. Instead a third party handles all touches. And if you???re

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Care2

MAY 1, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) I hope to see you there.

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Care2

JUNE 15, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 1, 2006

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. When Oxfam contacted Rowse they said that Blogging for Chickens was, "one of the more interesting fundraisers that they’ve seen."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

m delighted with the positive feedback, the growing readership and the contacts I made. And Netsquared. s a wonderful archive for myself, I use the ???search search this blog??? button a lot on my own blog. I've also been inspired to experiment with video blog posts and podcasts. But that really takes up time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Define something small and tangible - whether it be a flickr photo contest or exploring the content related to your organization's issue and identifying 10 friends or contacts. ve contacted us but we??ve For example, Chromatic Experiment , a Filipino band contacted us thru our blog. There's lots of examples in this blog.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

60) Search « NetSquared DC: Beyond the Logic Puzzle | Main | Have you read your RSS feeds today? 60) Search « NetSquared DC: Beyond the Logic Puzzle | Main | Have you read your RSS feeds today? Thats what I thought. » Friday Jul 14 2006 Best day to send an e-mail - is there a seasonality factor?

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2007

60) Search « CASE STUDY: Care2 Recruits 10,000 for CHEJ Campaign | Main | NetSquared Meetup Roundup » Thursday Jun 21 2007 Online Branding Takeaways Thursday, June 21, 2007 at 12:09PM | by James OMalley Yet another fantastic Internet Advocacy Roundtable took place at the Care2/Oxfam offices!

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

I came across her work while researching examples of nonprofits using the social web for social change for NetSquared and am looking forward to meeting her in person when she speaks at the NetSquared Conference next week. Heddy also writes for the Global Youth Fund blog. Heddy Nam Never Again amnesty women human rights

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 8, 2006

A couple weeks ago, I did an interview for the NetSquared Podcast with Leda Dederich, the creator of the dotOrganize project, and co-author of the report "Online Technology For Social Change: From Struggle to Strategy." Right now, when we asked folks, for example, "How long would it take you to generate a list of clean contacts?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

" The article refers to the Dunbar number - 150 - the ceiling on the number of personal contacts a human has the capacity to maintain. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Last word from Prof. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week. And if you???re

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Q: Also, what are techniques for finding social influencers and what are the ethical concerns/issues about contacting them for research purposes? The only issue around contacting influencers is your value proposition. Some specific groups exist: social media club , netsquared , tweetup , etc. Beth : See [link].

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

I write for the NetSquared blog each day (it takes me anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour depending on the topic), but it is also designed to be a community blog, so any registered user can post on it about how nonprofits are using the social web for social change. Depending on your organization's work and audience, you may not have to.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

When Sophia contacted me and asked if I would talk here, my first thought was, "You know, I could talk here, but I just know so many amazing women who have stories that I want to share." Britt Bravo: Thanks, you guys, for coming out for the last panel. I know, we're the last panel, it's the end of the day, and you're probably a little tired.

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