Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

NetSquared. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning. Netsquared Featured projects receive grant awards ! NpTech Talk. Yikes, the first ever tag spam I've seen in the NpTech Tag Stream! Some really cool events flowing through the NpTech Tag Stream!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. Don't forget to sign up the feeds on the agreed tag. Photo by SpacePotato. And if you???re

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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? There's also the DiSo Project , an umbrella for a group of open source implementations of distributed social networking concepts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

This articles provides some excellent tips and strategies for a successful group approach to blogging. Facebook The Non-Profits on Facebook Group is for those who work for, belong to, or support nonprofits on Facebook. Tag your post with "net2thinktank." I've also added the pink ribbon to my Facebook profile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? New Blogs Yes, Tobias Eigen blogs and we've just discovered his blog in the NpTech Tag stream. Privaterra blog showed up in the tag stream.

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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. " The 1cent thoughts on NPTech blog muses , "Is technology the step child of older organizations? lolnptech.org includes photos of people, who could be tagged as "nptech."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

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. 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."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. Tagged with a footnote Marnie Webb notes "What do you think of the survey O'Reilly points to? How will these trends impact nptech? Global NpTech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

VTVigils VT Vigils VTvigils.org is a project of a diverse group of national campaigns and organizations not affiliated with Virginia Tech. Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. NpTech Community. The site was developed by Democracy in Action. " Findhabeas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. What should Netsquared's Facebook strategy be? He outlines what each group can learn from one another.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

NpTech Talk. NpTech Software. An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared. Travis August tags this announcement from TechSmith, makers of SnagIt and Camtasia, about Mac development. Most of the links identified have flowed through the NpTech Tag stream but nice to revisit them!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

As a result, I'm publishing a briefer than usual edition of the NpTech Tag Summary because I can only get to fast loading blogs and web sites. NpTech Conversations Wild Apricot Blog is hosting next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on the topic "How are non-profits using Web 2.0 in the NpTech Tag stream.

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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. Leave a comment and I'll summarize in the next NpTech Summary. 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

AUGUST 17, 2007

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. It went right into the SlideShare NpTech Group ! Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

NpTech Community Snippets Who let the (NpTech) dogs out? First there was a flickr group for NpTech Dogs and then we started seeing NpTechers with dog profiles on their Facebook profiles. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Just what we need!

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NOVEMBER 5, 2010

#1 Thing You Need to Know about This Post: 5 non-profit groups will attend the 2011 SXSW Interactive Festival for free if they submit their innovative ideas by Sunday, October 31. The SXSW Interactive Festival wants to help more non-profit groups attend their event. NetSquared with Amy Sample Ward. A More Detailed Exploration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. Michael Stein (West Coast) points to how to use a video as a thank you for donations The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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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. NpTech Software and Web Apps Here's two new networked content creation platforms, although focusing on different disciplines. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Most NpTech blogs are high school level. Marnie Webb (who appears to be blogging a bit more these days since she switched to a MAC ) tagged an interesting article from the Wall Journal that asks " Is there a numerical cap on how many friends we can have? NpTech Global Kabissa joins Aid for Africa for the third year running!

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JULY 19, 2010

Net2 Think Tank Round-up: Age Segmentation in Social Networking | NetSquared – "For this month's Net2 Think Tank, we asked you to share your thoughts and best practices for using social media with or for a particular age group. Great slides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

I'm tagging information related to discussion, examples, and comments about nonprofits using tagging (or not using tagging) to prep for upcoming session at netsquared.org with the tag del.icio.us/nptag. What would this visual look like if it was translated into a graphic of nonprofit tagging use? Emily's post ).

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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. I may be way off.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2006

It loads ten images that all share a common tag, one by one, and you guess what the tag is. After that, I discovered an interesting photo set in the Link netsquared tag stream and it was Seth Mazow, so I made him a contact. And the next thing I know he invites me to the International NGO Flickr Group.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Claire Sale, NetSquared. So, I turned that question to my friends and the NetSquared community, and got some really great responses that I'd like to share with you. They're all specialized networks targeted at an older audience: Seniors Meetup Groups - This is a list of meetup groups for seniors by seniors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

I didn't see that practically a week ago, Nancy White, tagged me with the NGO/NPO Memo. NGO/NPTECH Web2.0 NGO/NPTECH Web2.0 Netsquared and ConsultantCommons both from CompuMentor. The Nptech and Net2 tags in flickr, delicious, and technorati are also good knowledge streams to dip into. (I

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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. The America's Giving Challenge from Case Foundation spurred $2.1 That’s not a believable theory of change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2007

I set up a nptech group there and have been tagging slide shows I've discovered that might be useful others with the nptech tag. I invited folks to join the nptech group. Setting up a group to share powerpoints from a conference would be awesome. Maybe more people will share their materials.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Yesterday, I had the huge honor and pleasure to present the keynote at the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits ‘ NPTech Conference, eStrategy in an iWorld. The Evolution of NPTech: Where we came from, and [maybe] where we’re going. Many of the nodes and groups you don’t know and maybe not even share similar goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

I use FriendFeed to follow a group of people in more depth because I can see their complete social media activity in one place. About a year ago, a group of nonprofit technology social media early adopters ran a couple of experiments using FriendFeed and an NpTech room. Tags: friendfeed.

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DECEMBER 29, 2005

I'm double blogging these days, here and on the NetSquared blog. That's a photo of me above at NetSquared's last Net Tuesday. The photo is from NetSquared's "I Want Change" Flickr group where folks are posting photos with signs that say what they want to change in the world. Upload your photo and tag it with “net2”.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2009

NetSquared is partnering with UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center for a Mobile Innovation Challenge. They're breaking into groups and taking turns bringing home-cooked meals for lunch, y'all! Tags: contest NPTech nonprofit technology community buzz NTEN nten member. What a great team-building and healthy idea!

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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. Maybe we need an NPtech History Archive ? There are two sets of social roles here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2005

I missed the post about flickr use by MoveOn on netsquared when I was in London earlier this month. The article points out that adhoc groups have formed on flickr to support photo sharing and organizing around political topics, but MoveOn's use of flickr is on a larger scale. MoveOn's flickr home page and flickr tags page.

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MARCH 4, 2007

I write for the NetSquared blog each day (it takes me anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour depending on the topic), but it is also designed to be a community blog, so any registered user can post on it about how nonprofits are using the social web for social change. Depending on your organization's work and audience, you may not have to.

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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. Are older groups evolving quickly enough? Will new "online" groups drive their predecessors to extinction? Is one better than the other?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

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.

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