Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2010

Today Allison Fine and I celebrated the launch of the Networked Nonprofit at TechSoup Global in the space where Netsquared Meetups take place. I got to snap this photo of two women, Marnie Webb and Charlene Li , who have greatly influenced my work over the past 5-10 years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

I was also an early member of Netsquared Community , another one of Marnie’s brilliant ideas that rocked the field. 4: Identify influencers on social media spaces and cultivate them. Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2010

Hosted by NetSquared. Influencer of the Month from Traackr Blog. Free Webinar with Care2. Details here. June 21, 2010. 1-2 PM/PST. 4-5 PM/EST. Virtual Book Launch. Details here. June 22, 2010. 12-2 PM PST. San Francisco Book Party. Brown Bag Lunch. Details here. June 25, 2010. The Nonprofit 2.0 Conference. Washington, DC. Details here.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog. It would also influence the number of potential customers that access your site [.] question or topic to the NetSquared community and participants submit. responses either on their own blogs, the NetSquared Community Blog, or.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Every month TechSoup's NetSquared community organizers volunteer to bring free and low-cost nonprofit technology events and workshops to more than 50 cities. If you want to network with your peers or love to learn at live, in-person events, NetSquared is the place for you! Or, apply today to start your own NetSquared group.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The tools in an analog world fulfilled a specific function but did not influence our planning or programs. Analog Tools. What this means for tools, specifically, is that we don’t actually like technology. There is no reason we should, as an entire sector, have to change the way we operate in order to use a database.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2014

Nonprofits, faith-based organizations, libraries, and networks such as the NetSquared Local should be leading this movement as they are already committed to social good. This is part of the Sharing Economy with the most transformative potential: the ability to address societal inequities and envision new ecological solutions.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

It’s that distance from financial consequences that let communities put best interest and opportunity ahead of other influencers. I spoken with various libraries who, when they learned about the NetSquared Local program asked why they couldn’t participate – and I told them that of course they could!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

.&# Bruce’s individual participation and organizational presence on social media is part of an integrated strategy that has brought value, particularly in reaching influencers. 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 +.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2013

For a taste of nptech goings-on all around the world, NetSquared Local shares community highlights from the month of May and gets its fans excited about future projects in their recent monthly roundup. The series was launched by James Howe and will explore the world of communications, from public relations to digital media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2007

For those colleagues who deeply influenced my thinking, I give them a credit with screencapture or photo at the front of my presentation, include the blog url. video from June's NetSquared event, "Creating Web-Based Presentations for Your Nonprofit," featuring two of my favorite drugs err I mean tools, Scrapblog and SlideShare.

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

She was selected four times, including this year, to The NonProfit Times’ Power & Influence Top 50 of sector leaders. Webb built the founding team of TechSoup’s NetSquared initiative and led a team of employees in launching and growing Caravan Studios, a subsidiary of TechSoup, which she led as CEO for the past decade.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2009

Cultural shift afoot - technology companies, media, and bloggers using their influence to meaningful action. He shared some recent examples, including those from Netsquared. Two trends: Technical side increasing openness in API, RSS, etc. Endless possibilities. Very exciting. You can find them here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Netsquared featured project WiserEarth In Ode Magazine Social Media Resources. John Bell of the 360 Digital Influence Blog says " It's Time for Measurement of Social Media " which looks at the ROI and identifies some success metrics. What's next? Mashing and burning feeds ?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

NetSquared DC organized a panel discussion on Engagement Strategy: Empowering Champions* and Influencers* on November 3, 2015, to delve into this question. NetSquared DC Engagement Strategies Panelists — Maddie Grant, Andrew Nachison, and Dale Pfeifer (left to right). The panelists included. Break Through the Noise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

What should Netsquared's Facebook strategy be? Trends in the Living Networks blog gives an analysis of the structure of influence and social opinion which offers some insights into leveraging a network effect. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Influence decision-makers; impact public policy. Panelists: Natalie Foster, DNC ; Rebecca Moore, Google Earth Outreach ; Laura Quinn, Idealware. The sessions are short (only 50 minutes!) but pack in a tremendous amount of information. Here’s a run through of the Tools Galore session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

BK: I wonder how the "network" feature or "private groups" feature of delicious influences this?). " The term information overload made me think of Marshall's fabulous interview with Robin Good on netsquared: " Mastering Information Overload." What tags to use to describe items, who decides this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

" This post from a few months back from Search England Land titled " How To Win Friends and Influence People in Social News Networks " offers some tips for leveraging sites like Digg, and Stumbleupon. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. And if you???re

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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 categories were audience, engagement, loyalty, influence, and action. Audience: Who is coming? What is the trend?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

4 The Right Six People It’s about finding the right six or seven people – the key influencers in your topic area or discipline. I point out two good examples, the Hunger is Unacceptable Campaign (which uses the hold the sign meme -- the first one I ever did was in December 2005 for Netsquared ) and the Humane Society's LOL Seals.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

I came across her work while researching examples of nonprofits using the social web for social change for NetSquared and am looking forward to meeting her in person when she speaks at the NetSquared Conference next week. Heddy also writes for the Global Youth Fund blog. After you have done your research, don’t keep it to yourself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I am remember something that Ethan Zuckerman said at the first Netsquared Conference, " Don't Speak, Point " He was talking about citizen journalism and advocacy in the age of read/write web. I will look at benchmarking processes and analyzing benefits and values. I will explore in more depth the analytics tools.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Q: Also, what are techniques for finding social influencers and what are the ethical concerns/issues about contacting them for research purposes? Emily : The first place to work for influencers is within your own constituency, such as the most active volunteers or the most active readers of email messages. Beth : See [link].

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

And a book that had a lot of influence on me early on was Frances Moore Lappe's book, Food First , which basically concludes that hunger and poverty around the developing world are not a function of overpopulation and not enough food production, but rather are the result of a poor distribution of resources.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

San Francisco NetSquared (Net2) kicked off its 2012 Meetup line up with Craig Newmark , of Craigslist and craigconnects , who talked about using technology for the common good. While it would’ve been very easy to use his influence and remain in the world of technology, Newmark went in a slightly different direction.

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