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NetSquared Open Space (NOS): APIs and Open Data. Who : Facilitating: Amy Sample Ward | NetSquared; Billy Bicket | NetSquared. The NetSquared team will be working the room to activate and facilitate conversations so everyone can enjoy the ride. Who : NetSquared and other Community Organizers. When : 9:00 a.m.
What has NetSquared got planned for the next month? Guayaquil, Ecuador: The Guayaquil NetSquared Meetup Group Monthly Meetup. Busia, Kenya: NetSquared Kenya Monthly Meeting. Abidjan, Ivory Coast: Abidjan NetSquared Meetup Group Monthly Meetup. Washington, DC NetSquared Meetup. Washington, DC: NetSquared DC.
Every month NetSquared holds free or low cost educational events for people and organizations who want to use technology for social good. Vancouver, Canada: Community Management Inside Out: Why culture matters. Tripoli, Libya: NetSquared Tripoli Meetup. Naples, FL: Social Media Surgery- 501 TechClub SWFL Netsquared.
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Your local NetSquared group is here to help with free, in-person events being held across the U.S. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and other awesome organizations. Houston, Texas: NetSquared Houston. Feeling overwhelmed? and the globe. spanhidden.
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Outside of that, non-profits need a culture shift an they need to take leadership. Influencers and organizations like NTEN and Netsquared are prime to be the leading voice in setting vision for how technology is intended to be for nonprofits.
NetSquared believes in the power of meeting face-to-face in physical space. That's why we're thrilled that NetSquared is joining TechSoup in having a strong presence at this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference in Austin, Texas. Check out our newest groups: NetSquared Tanzania in Tanga, Tanzania. Newest Groups.
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His learnings come from experiences that span an education in electronics and telecommunications, multi-cultural professional engagements in software development and communications, a business administration student life in pretty Paris and experiments in implementing technological solutions for social challenges.
The Portland Arts and Culture Social Media Convening Workshop. I met “ichi&# virtually when he let me know about a Netsquared Japan meet up featuring the Networked Nonprofit. Flickr Photo by James Leventhal. He also kindly demonstrated on a video how to do social networking in Japan the old fashion way.
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She's our volunteer Netsquared organizer there. NetSquared is TechSoup's volunteer-driven, global network of nonprofit technology workshops and networking events. Getting Started with NetSquared. We wanted to create a culture of giving in central Florida. Find your local NetSquared group. Get (or Give!)
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maginfies the offline social networking we used to do before the Internet became a part of culture and lives? 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 ?" Is that Web2.0
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The triggers: A blog conversation on Jilliane's Smith blog that became a community blog conversation about nonprofit tagging on netsquared. The question about nonprofit adoption of these tools for conversation. My participation in an online discussion at.
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Chris Messina recently made this point at the NetSquared conference as it relates to open standards for managing one's identity online, '. Where they become difficult to achieve is at the level of organizational culture, grant-making priorities, and leadership. From a technological perspective, these are modest goals.
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And Netsquared. Sometimes I think I have an important post, but it does not get comments, so I don't know what people think (and if they even read it :)). I'm too shy to do an online poll. Communities of practice theory. Practical examples. Technology. The art of advising communities of practice. You work, you travel for work, you???
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