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nonprofit technology thought leader Marnie Webb created the NpTech Tag as a way for nonprofit techies to share bookmarks on del.icio.us. 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.
Last month was a monster for NetSquared - we held 48 events during Social Media September , including 14 workshops and nine social media surgeries. October’s NetSquared Events. October’s NetSquared Events. Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. Minneapolis, MN: October #NPtech Social Club.
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Marnie has put out a call for call to talk about the NpTech Tag issues we've been blogging about the last two weeks. Proposed agenda is here in a wiki - the password is nptech. She proposed three different times on next wed, thurs, and fri - leave your preference in the comments.
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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. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. Just A Few Good Resources Plucked from the NpTech Tag Stream and Kikino.
We are deep into June already, but NetSquared Local isn’t taking a vacation! NetSquared Local believes that the best way to build a strong, self sufficient community of #nptech practitioners is for us to go outside and get face-to-face. We challenge you to join a NetSquared Local group or start your own !
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NpTech Talk. NpTech Software. An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared. Most of the links identified have flowed through the NpTech Tag stream but nice to revisit them! Good discussion in the comments too. Ruby Sinreich's Advocacy 2.0 Need some comic relief?
Every month NetSquared holds free or low cost educational events for people and organizations who want to use technology for social good. Net2Local organizers step into the role because they’re full to bustin’ with love for their fellow #nptech-ies. Tripoli, Libya: NetSquared Tripoli Meetup. Upcoming Events.
NetSquared is taking it easy this summer! We gotta keep those NetSquared organizers busy! We sent official “NetSquared , a Project of TechSoup” cards to 22 groups this summer. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN’s Tech Clubs and HandsOn Tech.
Tag your posts and news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help me find your stories online!). Join the discussion in the post's comments! Amy Sample Ward ( NetSquared ) wants you to get right with OneWebDay : learn more about the event and see ways to participate by checking out her great summary and reference list.
NetSquared’s global network of volunteers will be organizing more than 30 events this April in communities as diverse as Mukono, Uganda; Wellington, New Zealand; and Boston, USA. That’s what happens when you gather the #nptech tribe together! So join your local NetSquared group and start participating in the fun.
This feature enables a group of people to join and share items they have discovered from their FriendFeeds (or elsewhere) and have micro-discussions. Colman set up the nptech room on FriendFeed five days ago and 105 NpTechers have joined the NpTech Room. NpTech Talk and News. It doesn't just take everything from a feed.
NpTech Tag Skypecast Anyone? Marnie Webb puts out a call for a call next wed, thurs, or friday to discuss in real time the issues that have surfaced around the NpTech Tag. Comment, Blog it, tag it NpTech, and/or start a blog over at the Netsquared site. Cross posted at Netsquared Five Hot Conversations.
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.
Sometimes it’s easier to solve a problem by discussing it with a friend over beer. That’s why NetSquared Twin Cities is co-hosting a happy hour this week for nonprofits and technology folk in Minneapolis-St. We challenge you to join a NetSquared Local group or start your own ! This Week’s NetSquared Events.
Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Two nptech events were visible in the NpTech tag stream, the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life Launch Party and the Net2 meetup in Houston.
" I strongly agree with Hildy Gottleib's comment at the end of the post and urge you to read both the post and the discussion in the comments. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).
We will have a monthly theme, which will include resources, discussion questions, and more. In those days, we used listservs and online discussion software, but platform matter. Pull up chair, fill up that coffee cup, and join the discussion. It was the free and open sharing of knowledge, insights, quick tips, and how-tos.
The Net2 Secret Plan from Marnie Webb NpTech Tag New Year's Reflections, Predictions, and Best Ofs What are some of the ways that the social web marks the New Year? Britt Bravo at NetSquared summarized a community discussion about the "Best of the Nonprofit Social Web." What are the nptech social media needs for 2008?
Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 The NPTech Blog Chatter Confessions of a non-profit IT director blog rasied ruckus with his proposal for creating a closed forum and new NTEN Affinity Group : nptechhelp.
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. LolNptech commentary about a recent NTEN Discuss List thread. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Fundraising 2.0 And if you???re
Net2 Think Tank: Online Fundraising Lessons Learned | NetSquared – "The Facebook application Causes recently announced it hit the $20 Million mark in donations. The America's Giving Challenge from Case Foundation spurred $2.1 Million in donations for charities this past winter.
A Few NpTech Conversations. 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. Sandra Dickinson has started an interesting discussion thread. Sandra Dickinson has started an interesting discussion thread.
Flickr: chotda This week''s Member Round Up draws from all corners of the sector in both region and topic, from the energy in the streets of Brazil to Facebook contests and assistive technology used by the Bridge School--see what the nptech community''s been up to! We will also discuss best practices for building a thriving healthy community.
Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. How will these trends impact nptech? Found via this post tagged nptech by Meghan. Global NpTech. News from Nigeria via the Netsquared blog.
As some of you know, part of my work is being the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that facilitates the adoption of social web tools by nonprofits and NGOs. At the Conference, project teams will have an opportunity to display and discuss their mashups, and attendees will vote to select the top three.
Today, Mark is the manager of TechSoup's NetSquared initiative, a project designed to make sure the non-for-profit sector gets involved early and actively with the newest tools and trends in internet technology. And once we got through catching up, I admitted to him that I was just a bit perplexed about the NetSquared project.
NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. The notes suggest discussion around the appropriate tools to leverage transparency and how data in the social sphere is a public good. blog thought it was cool too.
LOLnptech Lot's of member news and activity online this week, so, in the order that I ran across them: NTEN member organization United Nations Foundation was mentioned in a Forbes article discussing ways nonprofits are raising money in tough times. Tags: NPTech nonprofit technology community buzz nten members.
Meetings range from happy hours, to speaker presentations, to open discussions, and other formats and covering a range of relevant subjects. Some Tech Clubs have merged with NetSquared local groups who share similar group objectives. 501 Tech Club community Community local events nptech nten Program'
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?
their nptech awesome. 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. Members are in bold. available March 4th. .
This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN’s Tech Clubs and HandsOn Tech. If you’re holding regular events gathering the #nptech community let me know and I’ll include you in the next community calendar! A version of this post originally appeared on the NetSquared blog.
Allan Benamer gave a shout that the NpTech Meta Feed was broken. The NpTech Meta Feed has been revised and move to here: [link]. Gavin raises some good questions: What the hell is the "NPTech" tag and how would one use it anyway? The NpTech tag early discussions can be found here: [link]. But is it fixed?
Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. Naples, FL: Photos Online 501 TechClub SWFL Netsquared. Washington, DC: NetSquared DC Happy Hour. Guayaquil, Ecuador: The Guayaquil NetSquared Meetup Group Monthly Meetup. San Francisco: Let’s Learn About Project Homeless Connect SF: Discussion and Brainstorming.
That's why TechSoup supports a global network of tech trainers called NetSquared. NetSquared groups focus on topics that address their unique local tech challenges, but once a quarter, we select a common theme. Find your closest NetSquared group. Or, apply today to start your own NetSquared group.
Most NpTech blogs are high school level. SMO stands for Social Media Optimization which is the process of making your site/blog more visible in social media searches and sites, more easily linked by other sites, and more frequently discussed online. NpTech Global Kabissa joins Aid for Africa for the third year running!
Every month, the NetSquared community comes together offline at Net Tuesday events to mix, swap stories and ideas, build new relationships, and collaborate. I am a proud member of the NetSquared community and have helped organize Net Tuesday events in Vancouver & Seattle. This post was originally published at NetSquared.
Check out this ridiculously long list of 15NTC content. Did we miss anything? Please let us know in the comments! This much fun , Deborah Elizabeth Finn #15NTC = Amazing , Liza J. 15NTC Community NTC press'
On Netsquared , there was a recent post about Bioneers and some thoughts about a session about online tools and mobilizing. There was a lot of discussion in the Click Here session about how the next killer app would be people meeting with each other face-to-face. Categories: net2 , nptech Now we must grow responsibly.
I was also an early member of Netsquared Community , another one of Marnie’s brilliant ideas that rocked the field. Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. He discusses a way of seeing both the big strategic picture and the smaller immediate tactics.
What are the similarities and differences between online discussion boards and blog communities? The triggers: A blog conversation on Jilliane's Smith blog that became a community blog conversation about nonprofit tagging on netsquared. My participation in an online discussion at. What do you think?
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