Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

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 Washington, DC. Find your closest NetSquared group. Upcoming Tech4Good Events. Monday, March 6, 2017.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog. help to improve site usability for everybody thus expanding our reach and audience. It would also influence the number of potential customers that access your site [.] question or topic to the NetSquared community and participants submit.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2007

Last week, at NetSquared's San Francisco Net Tuesday Meetup, Steve Miller, Product Manager, Google Earth Outreach spoke to a room of 50+ social changemakers and web innovators about how nonprofits can use Google Earth Outreach for their work. The flyover electrified the room. Videos in the balloons will only work on Windows.

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2007

Group members offered helpful suggestions for the team on ways to improve their site. If your sites emphasis is grabbing names, use alternating shades of color and prominent placement on your homepage to make sure visitors can see it and will want to give you their name. Use the "Google Universe "to your advantage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. NetSquared. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! There's going to be a Netsquared Meetup (recommendations for restaurant or location are needed) How will your nonprofit avoid the Meatball Sundae? This post traces the evolution of social networking sites from the 80's to present time, although missing a few major early players.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Google Maps & MyMaps.

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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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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

This second part of the series will explore how several TechSoupers are using two-factor authentication on the websites they use often or with online banking and e-commerce sites. (If Kevin Lo , NetSquared senior program manager, reports: "Since my account got compromised, I turn on two-factor authentication whenever possible.

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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. Google announces " Broadcast Your Cause, " a nonprofit channel on YouTube. More from Britt Bravo on Netsquared blog. He also shares the key points of his presentation here. Fundraising 2.0 It isn't dumb dumb.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. NetSquared Community. for the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) beginning on May 29th. Like last year, conference participants are introducing themselves on their NetSquared Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Michele Martin points to a new feature in google news that can spark conversations. An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared. " World Grows Wide blog talks about the Google Custom Search feature. Web Site Usability, Social Media Engagement and ROI. NpTech Software.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2015

(Please visit the site to view this video). NetSquared DC's Roshani Kothari on why she loves NetSquared. I had the chance to connect with more than 25 NetSquared organizers during the week, and that face-to-face time was a powerful reminder of the deep learning that happens when nonprofit techies get together in a room.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2017

" That's why TechSoup invests in developing the best practices of our NetSquared network. Find your closest NetSquared group. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Or, you can apply today to start your own NetSquared group.

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DECEMBER 7, 2012

" New at TechSoup: Your 501(c)(3) nonprofit, library, or foundation can now collect donations by text message — and develop your own mobile site — with discounted and donated services from Connect2Give. Benefits of a Mobile Site. Other benefits of a mobile site include: A better experience! Improved search.

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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. Allan Benamer writes about " Party 4A Purpose " a new events sites for nonprofits. blog is researching options for integrating a blog with the organization's web site. Do you have advice?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

When I popped out of the reader to write a comment on this excellent post, I was blown away by the new site design. Google Aps. Ian Wilker is happy about the Google Apps Education Education being available to. nonprofits for free, but even happier that Google is integrating jotspot , a wiki app, into Google Apps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

Plan to use eventually to share resources with clients that aren't on the official web site.). Also, tagging mashed with search - for example, healthcare information in Google by Enoch Choi. Netsquared Tagging and Bookmarking Net2Learn Center and site search using word " tagging " Also here. Emily's post ).

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2015

NetSquared is here to help you along the way with everything from slide templates to planning checklists. Not sure if hosting a NetSquared group is for you? There's probably a NetSquared group near you , but if there isn't, we'll help you start your own. Morrisville, North Carolina: Deep Dive into Google Analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

In " The Social Web Ain't Rocket Science " Worldchanging blogger Jon Lebkowsky reminds us that blogs, wikis, and social networking sites may not be appropriate for all nonprofits and that hype and pressure shouldn't drive adoption decisions or they may not be successful. Tools and Strategy Google Earth for Green Activism.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 10, 2007

In my opinion, a blog without an RSS feed or comments is not a blog, it is simply someone writing regularly on a web site. This post was originally written for the NetSquared blog. Not only will this give you a feel for the different styles of blogs, but it will also provide content for some of your first blog posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The AFP blog points to a press release from Firstgiving about the launch of a social networking site. observes, "Thus you need a strategy that combines email lists pushing your message, vision, and resources out into communities residing on sites and networks other than your own." News from Nigeria via the Netsquared blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

There's also a lot of talk in the nonprofit blog space prompted by a recent Netsquared ThinkTank and some great thinking on the topic, particularly by Wendy Harmon of the Red Cross, mostly focused on ROI. The log files captured lots of data that gave us a lot "measurable" information about what people were doing on web sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

When I visited his site, I noticed that he had some widgets, including a message comment line. on YouTube, Google Video, Podzinger and delicious. Britt Bravo, Netsquared Post. Save the Internet | Rock the Vote. I "met" Arin Crumley of Four-Eyed Monsters when he commented on a video of on mine over at YouTube.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Update: The presentation slides are available on FivePaths.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. organizations and allies through Google Reader (RSS subscription. service), as well as by getting news updates from Google Alerts, and. find these, we use a combination of SlideShare, Google Docs, and tagging to keep things connected [.]

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

There was much speculation as to whether they mover to Jaiku (with its newly minted Google money), or Pownce, BrightKite, Tumblr, plurk or FriendFeed. Some people choose one site or method to connect with others, while others are "network weaving," jumping from one site to another. Exploring FriendFeed. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

These are free and simple searches designed to monitor blogs and news sites for mentions of your organization, services, or other specific keywords. Yahoo News Google News. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Article on Netsquared : How To Track Mentions of Your Organization. How do you listen carefully? Ego searches. Additional Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

These are free and simple searches designed to monitor blogs and news sites for mentions of your organization, services, or other specific keywords. Yahoo News Google News. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Article on Netsquared : How To Track Mentions of Your Organization. How do you listen carefully? Ego searches. Additional Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

You can listen with google alerts, technorati, Twitter search, and RSS readers. You can also share the impact of your organization's programs through podcasts, sharing photos on Flickr, or videos on YouTube or other video sharing sites. But don't ignore the other two areas. I think NTEN is a terrific example of the rule of thirds.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2016

YouTube/Google. TechSoup's NetSquared ( @netsquared ) community manager, Eli van der Giessen ( @elijah ), and Tech4Good SWFL organizer Birgit Pauli-Hack ( @bph ) are thrilled to offer this opportunity for online and offline community organizers to learn from each other! Want to know if NetSquared is right for you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. Peter Campbell, who created the site, has moved the site it's new domain [link] - so stay tuned for more updates. It's always nice to discover redesigned nonprofit web sites with a web2.0 functionality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2006

These were the early or maybe even pre-Google days on the Web. I searched around the site and found some." " Before CompuMentor, she worked for a medical library at the San Francisco General Hospital where her job responsibilities included conducting Medline searches for patients and doctors.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

NPTimes " Hot Nonprofit Websites " article highlights the successful "Main" and "Micro" sites of nonprofits, with the editorial help of NTEN's own Holly Ross. NTEN members featured in the list of sites include the United Nations Foundation and The Wilderness Society.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

When you are creating your press list, be sure to search on Technorati and Google Blog Search to find bloggers who are writing about your organization's issues and send them your press release as well. The Christian Science Monitor, CNN, and CNET News are among the many sites that now deliver updated online content via RSS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Set up Google Alerts to follow what's being said about your organization and cause online so that you can act on what's being said, join the conversation and build your community. Post that video on your website, any major sharing sites, and social networks -- then encourage people to share the videos far and wide!! Lisa Neal ) 2.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

The newswires were filled with stories about Google/YouTube Marriage yesterday. 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.

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