Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2012

The event was hosted by the Don Bosco Institute of Technology (DBIT), giving the IT students at the school a chance to hone their professional skills in a real work environment. NetSquared , an initiative from TechSoup Global, holds similar events all around the world to connect NGOs with the resources they need.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. How do nonprofits convene groups or create content that fits with the changing online environment? February’s Net2 Think Tank sprang from an interview with Clay Shirky, the author of Here Comes Everybody. How do nonprofits participate online differently than individuals?

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Here’s some news on a now famous NetSquared alumnus project. Ushahidi was a NetSquared Mashup Challenge winner in the fabled 2008 Netsquared conference in Santa Clara, California. Ushahidi was a NetSquared Mashup Challenge winner in the fabled 2008 Netsquared conference in Santa Clara, California.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

If the changing environment of our tools and tactics are any indication, then our strategies are in for a major shift. You can assume more about shared context, you can also expect a higher investment in the outcome. Lastly, you can also expect higher collaboration over competition. Holistic Strategies.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2014

Melissa Thompson, activist filmmaker, documentarian, and senior video producer for Greenpeace USA , which ran a Vine short-video contest to inspire their activist community to tell their own short stories about the environment for Earth Day 2014. More Great Events to Come - Follow #Storymakers2014.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 21, 2009

A DV (Domestic Violence) Awareness app provided by People Against a Violent Environment , that says that the organization receives all of the profits from the sale of the application. GoPlanit.com's Pet Earth game where the earth is your virtual pet to take care of. A ConsumerReports.org app to take shopping.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

I wanted to use today to focus in on a question recently posed by my good friend Joe Solomon on Twitter : What are the nonprofit/orgs that are working 2 wire the green movement, like what @ netsquared does 4 nonprofits, @ sunfoundation for politics; which orgs are working to expose data, leverage soc media, connect the orgs together?

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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. Now here's a new term: Green Philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2007

Well, experimentation is easier, cheaper, and (perhaps) more telling in these environments. Often they have difficulty, in an uncertain environment, promising specific and verifiable results in a short period of time. Something like the NetSquared open call for projects that happened last month, but mapped to a virtual world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Ann Wizer is an artist who uses design and education to protect the environment and reduce poverty. 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. Don't give up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2009

Youtube users and environment lends to active participation. He shared some recent examples, including those from Netsquared. Connecting nonprofits to youtube users like blog brothers who have thousands of viewers. YouTube audience is a lean forward audience says. It was very specific and linked to outcome. Endless possibilities.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

But a shifting communications environment and changing donor demographics could render those best practices ineffective at best, and obsolete at worst, as early as 2012. Raising money in a micro-philanthropic environment will come naturally to these groups. Raising money in 2012 will require creativity and foresight.

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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. There's been lots written on educational technology blogs about personal learning environments that assume deep understanding of the topic. Meanwhile, Party4aPurpose launches the alpha version.

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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. relevant to the audience you are serving.

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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. The online environment is capable of supporting hundreds or thousands of playters simultaneously over the Internet. At least once a month, I jump down rabbit holes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

What should Netsquared's Facebook strategy be? The event is encouraging bloggers around the web to write a post about the environment. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Ruby found the perfect visual to explain trolls in appropriate behavior online.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 31, 2006

If you: * Have something you want to say and share with other people * Want to join an online community of like-minded people * Are looking for a new communication tool for your nonprofit or business * Enjoy learning in a supportive, low-key environment This workshop is for you! 125 if received after October 9th.

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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. What makes us write a donation check, spread the word about a campaign, or show up for a meeting or protest? Emotional connection. For more info.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

The Louisiana Bucket Brigade (LABB), for instance, has used Ushahidi to document the impacts of oil spills and other petrochemical pollution on human health and the environment. During the early days of our Netsquared project , we held big annual conferences to showcase and fund innovative tech for good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

The live video feed was being streamed from the Netsquared gathering in San Francisco happening at the same time as the virtual gatherng in Second Life. The educators are asking and researching, "What does the extra effort of working in this immersive environment get you, concretely, in learning outcomes?"

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2011

A View of the Cloud from the NetSquared Community Even among technologically inclined people, there's sometimes a reluctance to move to the cloud. Because it can save you time, money, and help spare the environment. But maybe that's not a bad thing. Why Should Nonprofits Care About Cloud Computing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

How do we create an environment where people are eager to participate or do you focus on providing a high quality resource of information? " The term information overload made me think of Marshall's fabulous interview with Robin Good on netsquared: " Mastering Information Overload." Why not just use search?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

The moderator, Patrick O'Heffernan, shared his thoughts based on his experience with The People Choose which is connected to Link TV and the first non-profit site to launch user-generated video as a community building process in a non profit environment. So, using Web video is a natural extension of the organization's work.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

In thinking about how to incorporate social issues into a game environment, it's important to remember that the game must also be interesting. He discussed the gaming for good community and gave some examples of projects he and his colleagues were working on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

This week was Blog Action Day for the Environment. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. It helps bloggers remember and use the best writing techniques. JournaMarketing tells us why it isn't important to get every blogger's attention online. And if you???re

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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." environment is definitely creating a climate for innovation and collaboration that we haven't seen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

library, and nonprofit environments is mainly due to the benefits offered. Netsquared Conference Mashup Panel. Think of it as the track changes feature in word, but on the web so that anyone who has access can contribute. Wikipedia , the online open-community encyclopedia, is the most well known. Who Is Sick? Full Stop Campaign.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

They're aware that poverty around the world is not diminishing, they're aware that environment degradation is a looming problem. For more information about TransFair USA go to www.transfairusa.org Britt Bravo also blogs at Have Fun * Do Good , NetSquared and BlogHer. Climate change is on people's minds.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2005

One of the reasons I am so excited about the work I am doing with NetSquared is because I think that these new web-based tools, especially podcasts, are an incredible way for nonprofits to get the word out about their causes, especially when they are listened to through headphones.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Elijah van der Giessen, TechSoup's Netsquared Community Organizer and Curator. The e-book was created with sponsorship from NetSquared. He describes processes by which we can become more mindful and intentional with the time we spend in technical environments." The whole guide is Creative Commons licensed.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Elijah van der Giessen, TechSoup's Netsquared Community Organizer and Curator. The e-book was created with sponsorship from NetSquared. He describes processes by which we can become more mindful and intentional with the time we spend in technical environments." The whole guide is Creative Commons licensed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

It's an ecofriendly laptop loaded with open source software and friendly to the environment. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. More information, see this write up from the Wall Street Journal , not quite a gee whiz fantastic endorsement. And if you???re

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

You don't want to write about everything, because then people won't find you in the same way as when they search on Google about "homelessness issues", or "the environment." What I do is, I write for several blogs, as she mentioned. It's best to pick a topic that's sort of a niche topic, or. And as really kind of the threads in community.

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