Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2005

(. in which I continue to interview my former dorm-mate, Mark Liu, now the project manager for TechSoup's NetSquared initiative) [Me] What can you tell us about the April NetSquared conference? First, we hope to build a community of active participants in the NetSquared website over the coming months.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Net2 Think Tank: Online Fundraising Lessons Learned | NetSquared – "The Facebook application Causes recently announced it hit the $20 Million mark in donations. Million in donations for charities this past winter. The America's Giving Challenge from Case Foundation spurred $2.1

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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. Where's the conference tag? NpTech Community.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

This post is cross-posted on my personal blog and on the NetSquared Blog. Tags: Digital Divide Donors Fundraising Online Fundraising Online Fundraising Running Your Organization Social Networking Telecom Services Using the Web and Internet Volunteers Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

Also, for the past year, I've been summarizing resources being shared through the NpTech Tag, I've felt frustrated that you didn't always know who had contributed the resource and while one could add brief annotations, there was not a space for conversation around those shared items. Causes Raised $2.5 Can you answer it? And if you???re

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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. What do you think?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2010

Some posted to community blogs like NetSquared. NOTE: Beth was able to smash her goal of raising $530 by getting $4,540 donated to help buy school uniforms and send Cambodian children to school via the Sharing Foundation. Tags: case studies fundraising beth kanter campaign case study online campaign sharing foundation.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. People donate to a shared cause in honor of that for which they are most grateful. Tags: events interview africa epic change fundraising philanthropy tweetsgiving twitter. TweetsGiving is a global celebration of gratitude and giving on November 24-26. Where do the funds go?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. People donate to a shared cause in honor of that for which they are most grateful. Tags: events interview africa epic change fundraising philanthropy tweetsgiving twitter. TweetsGiving is a global celebration of gratitude and giving on November 24-26. Where do the funds go?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Jason at DIA tagged it with this note: "The most universal piece of advice about using social networks for fundraising and friendraising is to start small." Every time you get a question right the advertisers donate 10 grains of rice. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2010

SFS doesn't accept donations and doesn't apply for grants. Volunteers teach free classes in rooms donated by other local organizations. Jessica is also a Nonprofit Commons member and NetSquared Local organizer.) Working with a tiny staff and budget brings a litany of challenges, but it brings some amazing opportunities too.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 5, 2009

We have to figure out who is likely to engage online and who isn’t (and not just for donations). Help send me to the NetSquared Conference Okay, time for shameless begging and plugging… I’m really interested. Tags: Nonprofit. It’s almost as ridiculous as saying that every geek “works in computers.”. Convio Summit.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Within just three hours of the earthquakes hitting Haiti on January 12th, the Red Cross had set up a mobile fundraising mechanism that let people donate $10 (or any other amount they wished) from their phone by sending HAITI to 90999. 100% of donations went directly to disaster relief.

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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. Google qualified nonprofit organizations can use GoogleCheckout to accept charitable donations without any fees as first reported by the NTEN blog. Fundraising 2.0 And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

NpTech Themes Nptech Tag News: The NpTech Community site can be found at: [link]. Unthinkingly experiments with visualizing NpTech Tag data with Many Eyes. Some blog posts about the conference tagged with nptech can be found here , here , here , and here. Cross-posted at Netsquared The offline wikipedia, Moulin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

I typically donate my schwag to a good cause or if there is a schwag recycling room , I participate. I haven't spent much time in this space, but when I walked through the door I ran into Sean Stannard-Stockton who at met at Netsquared several years ago and encouraged him to set up a blog. Tags: socap09. Don't give up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

I just donated a small amount to his effort! The meme isn't necessarily limited to individuals as David Neff at Fispace mentions - corporate bloggers like Tyson Foods will donate 100 pounds of food for every comment made here. This fall, DC will be one of 35 cities visited by NetSquared???s What's that? s Alex Steed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Photo by Mr. Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. " SocialVibe's proof of concept has donated more than $100K to charities so far. and describes SocialVibe. TechSoup blog profiles Taproot Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

tags: nten 09ntc ). Last week at Netsquared Net Tuesday, Peter Campbell, IT Director at Earthjustice , created the above slideshow that offers an overview of the Day of Service. Tags: 09ntc. Day Of Service View more presentations from Peter Campbell. It's taking place this year in San Francisco from April 26-28th.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Things are slowing down during the holidays , so here's a short version of the NpTech Tag Summary. Marc's findings: Traffic increase, little donation follow through. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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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. Tags: engagement guest blogging n2y4.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

Photo by PixelFarmer - Zen Mutt (a rescue dog) - Title "Precision" The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to rethink, reinvent -- again. Conversations are getting more distributed and it is getting increasingly difficult to use tagging to discover, aggregate, and summarize them. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2009

link] shows a good example about a pop up call to action and links to url for donation #cfbc09 from charitywater that was successful. He shared some recent examples, including those from Netsquared. Tags: clbc09. YouTube audience is a lean forward audience says. Youtube users and environment lends to active participation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference.

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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. At the Netsquared Conference, I discovered that there are few organizations in the experimenting with metaverse games -- the early adopters. So I joined.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Should have set up a campaign tag to track blog posts, etc. The campaign tag is: sopharath. 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. What a dork I am! Is that possible? re doing and ask ???em

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2009

Chris Messina recently made this point at the NetSquared conference as it relates to open standards for managing one's identity online, '. Tags: guest blogging. Anyone who has fastened a Pepsi cap onto a Coco-Cola bottle and then ridden their bike home knows what I'm talking about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

Ask your organization's web site udience to upload their video clips to whatever video service you're using and tag them with your organization's tag. (I I've never donated to a cause after watching a video online, I don't think-other than political campaigns, I've ever been asked. Off to consume those now!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2009

Submitted by Ivan Boothe, publisher of the Rootwork Blog Over at the NetSquared blog, Joe Solomon provided a great roundup of reasons people might be "jaded about social media for change" and ways they overcome it. Sometimes that's all you need - making a donation, sending petitions, affecting website ratings, flooding online polls, etc.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Net2 Think Tank Round-up: Creating Awesome Video | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – "For this month's Net2 Think Tank we asked you to share your tools and tactics for creating effective video messages – regardless of budget and organization size. ."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

The program takes cash donations but it also links each hospital to an Amazon.com Wishlist where you can directly purchase games and hardware the staff at that hospital would like to provide to kids who are staying in the hospital. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Donations 2.0 : Connecting donors directly to the beneficiaries of contributions is a game-changing fundraising strategy. Tags: sxsw.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Too bad Apple isn't donating them to nonprofits! The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. here's a fundraising strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Donations 2.0 : Connecting donors directly to the beneficiaries of contributions is a game-changing fundraising strategy. Tags: sxsw.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Plan and visualize your projects and results: Where are we getting (or giving) donations? Tags: socialmedia. Panelists: Natalie Foster, DNC ; Rebecca Moore, Google Earth Outreach ; Laura Quinn, Idealware. The sessions are short (only 50 minutes!) Learn more: WomenWhoTech.org.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Donations 2.0 : Connecting donors directly to the beneficiaries of contributions is a game-changing fundraising strategy. Tags: beth kanter NPTech sxsw.

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