Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2014

Earlier this week, a mixed crowd of entrepreneurs, investors, start ups, nonprofits, social activists, and others came together for the inaugural conference on Catalyzing the Sharing Economy defined as the use of networked, mobile, information technology to share goods and services. Think AirBNB and Uber, but it is much more than that.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 24, 2011

During the month of October, join TechSoup.org and the TechSoup Global Network for our Cloud Computing Worldwide campaign. This is a communiqué on the current state of cloud adoption in TechSoup's NetSquared international community from Marc Manashil, community evangelist for NetSquared.

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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. She launched a book last month, Open Leadership.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

NetSquared’s February series exploring “Online Community Organizing” includes three different interviews; I’m really excited to participate! I work in and support nonprofit organizations, and my focus on communities isn’t to suggest that organizations are “bad” or aren’t making a difference.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2010

This guest post comes from NetSquared community development manager Amy Sample Ward. An initiative of TechSoup Global, NetSquared is a global community of organizations and individuals leading the way in social change through technology. Read on and learn how to get involved. Offline, we take things local!

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

The internet is not new. It could be checking in with people on a location-based social network. People believe in the internet. The internet is an endless stage and platform, and when we are up there speaking, we expect you are all listening. Why be in just one place when we can be in many? Impacts to Philanthropy.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

NetSquared is TechSoup's answer to providing local tech support and learning opportunities. Uganda is no different except for one thing: its amazing NetSquared Regional Ambassador for East Africa, Robert Kibaya. What Is NetSquared? Most of our NetSquared members need IT equipment like computers, digital cameras, etc.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog. And, what online networks are supporting people with disabilities and what efforts are being made to make the web more accessible overall? For the social networking world to get behind this and support it would be very far-reaching."

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. Change the Web Challenge is about building innovative tools to help people find and share opportunities to take action on the Web sites, blogs, and social networks that we all visit every day. How Change the Web Challenge Works. Learn more about the Challenge & participate!

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Claire Sale, NetSquared. Over the years my family and I have worked together to help my Grandmother get wired. Using the internet isn't a new concept to my Grandmother, though it's not really something she finds very intuitive either. Getting Started. Just make sure you explain the difference between a URL and a search term.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

back then) and being the one of the visionaries behind the Netsquared project. So, when Marnie starts talking about the next big disruptive technology for the nonprofit sector, I listen. ” That’s when you use software on the Internet versus your local hard drive or local computer network. No internet! &mdash

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

NetSquared’s Global Community Builder , Amy Sample Ward, will be at the NTC this year to connect and collaborate with friends, colleagues and new faces in the sector. Here’s how to find Amy and connect with NetSquared. A chance for local organizers to come together, network, ask questions, etc. Sessions and Events.

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2011

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog. thing that many of these groups have found is that the internet allows. If we are working towards ultimate. opportunity to start prioritizing your work flow. post a question or topic to the NetSquared community and participants.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

TechSoup and the NetSquared meetups are here to help. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and other awesome organizations. Boston, Massachusetts: Tech Networks of Boston: Creating a 90-Day Online Marketing Plan for Your Nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

We’ll also be referring folks to resources for more formal learning and peer connections, like NTEN , the Nonprofit Technology Network and host of the annual Nonprofit Technology Conference and Netsquared and TechSoup Global – and of course sharing resources from our colleagues in the nonprofit/social media field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

What happens when fundraising meets social networking? Socially-Networked Fundraising? So, I slapped a piece of paper in the old IBM selectric and created a networking form. While analyzing our orchestra's "social network," I discovered that someone attended high school with Garrison Keilor. We Philanthropy?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2010

Working with a tiny staff and budget brings a litany of challenges, but it brings some amazing opportunities too. Jessica is also a Nonprofit Commons member and NetSquared Local organizer.) A lot of people stopped by our booth and told us about the challenges their one-or-two-person nonprofits are facing.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Representing TechSoup Global are CEO Marnie Webb , community leaders Susan Tenby and Megan Keane , NetSquared community builder Amy Sample Ward , NetSquared alumna Britt Bravo , and former board member Lucy Bernholz. I'm proud to work with such influential, smart women. Tools Social Networking Using the Web and Internet.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

This post is cross-posted on my personal blog and on the NetSquared Blog. I found a few tech sessions that were relevant to the purposes of TechSoup, and as is always the case, I collected the business cards of some intelligent people doing good work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

It will be a gamechanger in the US, with 10,000 of the smartest, most motivated young hackers and other young technoids being exposed to the best of web development, artificial intelligence, robotics, social networking, gaming and social engagement. But in the meantime, they work at the bank. Where will they work?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

Several of us from TechSoup Global were there to present, participate, and network, and we don't want you to have missed out on a thing! 12NTC is the go-to event every year for nonprofit professionals who work on technology, communications, or guide their organizations in tech decisions. Tips and Tools for Technology Planning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

The work involves sifting, sorting, arranging, and publishing information. What does that mean for nonprofits and the people who work for them? In today’s world of content abundance, the skill of how to find, make sense, and share content that we need to be effective in our work is critical. What is Content Curation?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. The Internet allows us to see patterns that were once hidden.&# February’s Net2 Think Tank sprang from an interview with Clay Shirky, the author of Here Comes Everybody. The topic asked: What do you think the role of nonprofit organizations is in the changing world of social media?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There is also a groundswell of support all over the Internet, from bloggers ( one blog at a time ) Facebook , Flickr , Online Petitions , mobile phones , and Second Life. So, while it may very difficult to find Internet content from Burma, it is getting onto the Internet. More from Britt Bravo on Netsquared blog.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2011

All this month, join TechSoup.org and the TechSoup Global Network for our Cloud Computing Worldwide campaign. A View of the Cloud from the NetSquared Community Even among technologically inclined people, there's sometimes a reluctance to move to the cloud. But maybe that's not a bad thing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

There is always a full menu of networking sessions, affinity group meetings, conference panels, activities, and of course, The Day of Service. I got to work with a colleague and provided on-site training for a local environmental group on how to use excel, word, and powerpoint! And, I've been doing it every year ever since.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The Pizzigati Prize works in the spirit that collaboration, rather than competition, and moves us forward by honoring those who work for social good. Previous winners have developed open-source applications and systems that are free, shareable, and benefit organizations that work to benefit others. About the Prize.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. Do we know enough about the differences between users and non-users of social networking sites ?

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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. He works for an NGO in Australia and we met on Twitter (via Eddie Harran ) prior to his visit to America to attend the Wisdom 2.0 I used David Hood as an example. Effective Social Media.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Kevin Lo , NetSquared senior program manager, reports: "Since my account got compromised, I turn on two-factor authentication whenever possible. I tried the others, but this one works best for me." my] PC through my network or the Internet. In fact my bank recently enforced it on. its] online banking site.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The tool will allow hackers and coders to get up to speed before the hackathon by reading problem statements written from the perspective of the people who are working to solve social problems on the ground: NGOs and activists. They can go straight to work to create useful apps and other tools for solving social problems.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

We provide a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights. Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Network for Good : $29.95/month Or, you may need to get one that can work for many kinds of groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

Alex Steed is a self-described millennial activist and he has just announced his Millennials Changing America: The Next Generation of Organizing where he will visit over 30 cities across the United States to meet, interview and report how young people are using the Internet to leverage their social and political power. s Alex Steed.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

How can we collaborate, share, and enrich each others' work to make it more effective? ". RT @ linzbilks : Ppl from 45 diff't countries gathered at #tsg2011. All doing great things for #socialgood & #tech4good. What can we achieve?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals about or by folks who work with nonprofits and voting. What are these new competitions about—are they working? How does it work? Let's discuss: join us!

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

About 100,000 new weblogs were created each day According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project report, "Bloggers: A Portrait of the Internet’s New Storytellers" from July 2006: 8% of Internet users, or about 12 million American adults, keep a blog. 39% of Internet users, or about 57 million American adults, read blogs.

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