Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2013

It originally appeared on NetSquared. The Magic of Finding and Presenting Compelling Data In this Chronicle of Philanthropy post Matthew Scharpnick argues that despite the big data hype for every new piece of valuable data, a lot more useless data surrounds and obscures it making it challenging to find useful insights.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

I'm still trying to better understand what it all means for nonprofits and maybe we just say to hell with the technology hype & buzzwords and focus on the value of collaborative outcomes that the Web 2.0 (for On Netsquared , there was a recent post about Bioneers and some thoughts about a session about online tools and mobilizing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Ivan Booth is doing a meet up and live stream for the Philly Netsquared meet up on August 2nd at 6:00 PM EST about Google +. Moderate Approach: Understand the argument for an early investment but will also insist on a sound cost/benefit analysis when new ways of doing things are not yet fully proven.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

over at NetSquared failed to turn up more than a handful of nominations. despite the hype that ???everybody With things like Blogs, Wikis, and social networking in general, institutions and organizations don???t t quite know what to do. Even a recent call for organizational examples of ???non-profit non-profit blogs???

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2013

It originally appeared on NetSquared. Challenging some of the predictable backlash against big data hype Andrew McAfee describes some of the errors people make when writing about data and gives a short list of things to consider when writing about it in his Harvard Business Review blog post. Pundits: Stop Sounding Ignorant About Data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

Not buying into social media/Facebook hype. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Sort of a 2008 version of build it and they will come syndrome we saw in the 1990's. As Geoff points out: What???s s the secret sauce? And if you???re

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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.

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