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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. And in each of these we will talk a bit about tools, tactics and strategies.
That’s what NetSquared Local is for! We’ve a global network of 50 #nptech meetups with chapters in 50 countries. This Week’s NetSquared Events. Minneapolis, MN: NPTech Social Club - NetSquared TC July Meetup. Don’t have a local NetSquared Local group? Tuesday, July 9. Event Reports.
Netsquared Voting Deadline Extended. Due to some technical glitches , you now have 48 additional hours to figure out what 5-10 of the 150 fantastic social change and technology projects at Netsquared will receive your vote. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. Just A Few Good Resources Plucked from the NpTech Tag Stream and Kikino.
NetSquared holds free or low cost educational events for people and organizations who want to learn more about using technology for social good. They’re the new Santa Claus, offering #nptech gifts year-round! Check out our newest groups: NetSquared Chepe in San Jose, Costa Rica. NetSquared Manila in the Philippines.
NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – "The 3rd Digital Media and Learning Competition, from the MacArthur Foundation, is now accepting applications. Digital Media and Learning Competition: Applications now open! " My favorite lesson? Design for People To Self Organize!
NetSquared Local is growing! NetSquared believes that the best way to build a strong, self- sufficient community of #nptech practitioners is for us to go outside and get face-to-face. We challenge you to join a NetSquared Local group or start your own ! What have NetSquared Local groups been up to recently?
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 by you , but if there isn’t, we’ll help you start your own. NetSquared Cambridge: A social in Chester.
Engagement Strategie s. A Few NpTech Conversations. What are the engagement strategies - how to move from monologue to dialogue? 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. Social Network Fragmentation.
Every month NetSquared holds free or low cost educational events for people and organizations who want to use technology for social good. Net2Local organizers step into the role because they’re full to bustin’ with love for their fellow #nptech-ies. Washington, DC Developing a Holistic Mobile Strategy.
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. In the meantime, this post from Marc Sirkin sharing his YouTube Nonprofit Channel experience is worth reading as people contemplate a YouTube strategy.
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. I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and networks.
NetSquared’s global network of volunteers will be organizing more than 30 events this April in communities as diverse as Mukono, Uganda; Wellington, New Zealand; and Boston, USA. That’s what happens when you gather the #nptech tribe together! So join your local NetSquared group and start participating in the fun.
NpTech Themes Nptech Tag News: The NpTech Community site can be found at: [link]. Unthinkingly experiments with visualizing NpTech Tag data with Many Eyes. DEMO 07 NpTech Bytes: DEMO 07 is a conference focused on cutting edge and emerging technology, mostly for the business sector. Cross-posted at Netsquared
Your local NetSquared group is here to help with free, in-person events being held across the U.S. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and other awesome organizations. Orlando, Florida: Tech4Good Orlando October: Search Engine Optimization and Strategy.
That’s why NetSquared Twin Cities is co-hosting a happy hour this week for nonprofits and technology folk in Minneapolis-St. NetSquared Local believes that the best way to build a strong, self sufficient community of #nptech practitioners is for us to go outside and get face-to-face. This Week’s NetSquared Events.
Colman set up the nptech room on FriendFeed five days ago and 105 NpTechers have joined the NpTech Room. Here's a summary of some of the topics and discussions that took place in the NpTech FriendFeed Room. NpTech Talk and News. Eric Johnson shared " Is Facebook Page a Complete Social Media Strategy ?"
"This contest was the culmination of a two-part "vote for me" cause marketing strategy that started in November and has been rife with controversy. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).
The Net2 Secret Plan from Marnie Webb NpTech Tag New Year's Reflections, Predictions, and Best Ofs What are some of the ways that the social web marks the New Year? Britt Bravo at NetSquared summarized a community discussion about the "Best of the Nonprofit Social Web." What are the nptech social media needs for 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. " Peter Deitz does a nonprofit riff on a report called " Strategy of Giving " originally written for business people to invest their businesses.
Net2 Think Tank: Online Fundraising Lessons Learned | NetSquared – "The Facebook application Causes recently announced it hit the $20 Million mark in donations. IDEO, Mountain Equipment Co-op, salesforce.com, 2degrees, the Outdoor Industry Association, and nGenera, a corporate strategy think tank."
Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. How will these trends impact nptech? Found via this post tagged nptech by Meghan. Global NpTech. News from Nigeria via the Netsquared blog.
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. Tools and Strategy Google Earth for Green Activism. A few more good links about strategy for social news sites. blog thought it was cool too. And if you???re
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 notes with a trace of sarcasm, "???With What do you think?
Flickr: chotda This week''s Member Round Up draws from all corners of the sector in both region and topic, from the energy in the streets of Brazil to Facebook contests and assistive technology used by the Bridge School--see what the nptech community''s been up to! Member Round Up member update nptech Social Media' Anything we missed?
I was also an early member of Netsquared Community , another one of Marnie’s brilliant ideas that rocked the field. Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. The principles cover strategy, learning, capacity, and organizational culture.
While the rest of you have been enjoying the summer partying on the beach, TechSoup’s NetSquared organizers have been plotting and scheming in front of their computers. During our month of social media for social good -themed events being held in cities across the globe NetSquared organizers are offering free workshops and events.
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. Guayaquil, Ecuador: The Guayaquil NetSquared Monthly Meetup.
Your local NetSquared group is here to help with free, in-person events being held across the U.S. NetSquared organizers are also offering hands-on Office 365 workshops this fall to help small nonprofits set up email with their own domain name. Or you can apply today to start your own NetSquared group. Feeling overwhelmed?
Most NpTech blogs are high school level. One hopes that nonprofits deciding to roll their own social networks, aren't creating their own social silos and have gone into it with a solid strategy, clear objectives and measurable metrics , and can evaluate the ROI. Don't have your strategy and plans in place yet??? No worries.
So, when Lynne Johnson from Fast Company asked me to blog a list, I thought I'd create a nonprofit technology category and acknowledge the work of these awesome women: Nonprofit Technology Marnie Webb is the Co-CEO of TechSoup Global and creator of Netsquared and was voted most valuable person in the nonprofit technology field in 2008.
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.
Speaker: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. The idea of collaboration in this sense can manifest in many ways: adapting strategies to work collaboratively, leveraging platforms that allow for collaboration across organizational lines, creating new and larger demand for open products and services.
That's why TechSoup created NetSquared , our global network of volunteer-led Tech4Good meetups. We believe that NGOs learn best from each other, so NetSquared provides a platform where we can come together face to face to share technology tips and create a community of practice around tech for good. Upcoming Tech4Good Events.
Every month, the NetSquared community comes together offline at Net Tuesday events to mix, swap stories and ideas, build new relationships, and collaborate. I am a proud member of the NetSquared community and have helped organize Net Tuesday events in Vancouver & Seattle. This post was originally published at NetSquared.
Some Tech Clubs have merged with NetSquared local groups who share similar group objectives. As Vancouver NetSquared/501 Tech Club organizer, Eli van der Giesson puts it, "Vancouver''s Net Squared group is all about connecting nonprofits, activists and technology folk.
Britt Bravo over at Netsquared found an excellent post via the net2 tag entitled " Why Nonprofits Should Blog." " As much as I'm a blogging evangelist, one of things we should respect is that blogging may not be an appropriate strategy for all nonprofits. Technorati Tags: nten , nptech , net2 More on that later.
To facilitate nonprofit blogging, she recently laid out an awesome strategy for getting started. The Pierce Family Foundation noticed the change in nonprofit IT needs, and has a great article on their strategies for funding technology. Her first suggestion: define your blogging goals. Check it out ! Funding I.T.
Net2Local, TechSoup Global’s grassroots #nptech community-building initiative has almost reached the end of 2013. Net2Local has adopted the core strategies of theme months to increase network cohesion and regional hubs to scale our ability to support local organizers. NetSquared Camps and Travel Bursaries. What did we do?
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. Houston, Texas: NetSquared Houston: Storymakers 2017! Storytelling and Content Strategy Best Practices. Washington, D.C.:
I still don't know of that many nonprofits using Friendfeed , though, whether as an overall tool or for joining the "nptech" community conversation ( "nptech" is a tag that Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, and others have been using to tag nonprofit technology resources on delicious, twitter, etc., for the last five years or so).
" 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.
Steve Heye explains why he's still stuck on IT Alignement -- aligning your organization's IT strategy with your organization's mission -- even though he feels it's not "cool enough" to talk about. Tags: community buzz nonprofit technology NPTech NTEN nten members. You can learn more about it here.
In case you haven''t already grabbed a copy of Kivi Leroux Miller ''s new book, A Communications Map for Engaging Your Community, Becoming a Favorite Cause, and Raising More Money , it will guide you through designing and implementing a content marketing strategy that will bring in supporters. nptech member news Member Round Up Web Sites'
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