Tech Soup

OCTOBER 24, 2011

This is a communiqué on the current state of cloud adoption in TechSoup's NetSquared international community from Marc Manashil, community evangelist for NetSquared. Marc has been conducting a survey this month of NetSquared members that includes some questions about cloud computing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

Netsquared is new project in its embryonic stages from Compumentor, the folks who have brought excellent technology resources to the nonprofit field. What we do know is that both the online and offline work of every non-profit can be enhanced by a dynamic online community in which organizations and users support one another.

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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. Offline, we take things local! Read on and learn how to get involved.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

There are many who approach the online landscape with very different views than their offline business decisions. I can’t speak for others working in the “innovation sector,&# but at NetSquared we can’t emphasize enough that our Community is what drives us – whether’s it’s online or offline.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

For example, simply review the hundreds of ideas listed in NetSquared ’s Project Gallery and you’ll quickly see that people from around the world are hard at work leveraging all kinds of technologies to create positive change for communities tackling many different issues. I think there are too many to count, really.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

These fall into two types: crises that originate in social media, and crises that originate offline. In the weeks that have followed, Ichi’s e-mail provoked a series of responses from all over the world. ." In the era of Twitter, YouTube and Facebook, both types of crisis require a rapid, social media response.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

—– Over on the NetSquared platform right now we are in the midst of the 2010 FACT Social Justice Challenge. NetSquared supports the community at the intersection of technology and social impact in a few ways, including open innovation competitions. Has your organization run a competition online or offline?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

This week, I shared with Vanessa that during my time offline for the holidays, I found myself reflecting on just how many different frustrations I feel people in this sector have voiced over 2010 – to the point that I, honestly, feel really overwhelmed by the “sick and tired&# state of nptechers world wide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. Allan Benamer weighs in with some observations after wading through the comments over at the Netsquared site and pointing to Holden from GiveWell to be the most salient point. The site was developed by Democracy in Action.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The magical kingdom in which offline and online worked together, where strategies that were proven in one place were re-imagined in new ones. In the social paradigm, we recognize the need for both online and offline to be part of our work. We had run at the digital space in a panic and forgot a major component: the community.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

Positive reinforcement is one of the best leadership development practices you can build into your work across the board, whether it’s online or offline, on your facebook page, newsletter, annual fundraiser or neighborhood events. Events: NetSquared Camps. Striving to be replaced also means rewarding and spotlighting leaders.

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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. 6: Use social media to close the loop between online and offline action. Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

How to contribute: Blog your answer to the question either on your blog or the NetSquared blog. For directions on contributing to the NetSquared blog, click here.). Tag your blog with “net2thinktank”. Email Amy Sample Ward the link to your post! Be sure to get your submission in on time to be in the running for the free book!

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AFP Blog

JUNE 30, 2009

What's the Right Offline Event for Your Organization's Online Community? NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org: "This month's Net2 Think Tank question is: How do real-world (offline) events fit into social media conversations and campaigns?"

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Speaker: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Both of my sessions focus on best practices, lessons learned, and the things organizations need to know to be community organizers and community builders, on and offline. if you want me and the whole global NetSquared community, visit: [link]. -

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

On Netsquared , there was a recent post about Bioneers and some thoughts about a session about online tools and mobilizing. Maybe it's a generational thing, and my daughter will see online/offline the way I see phone/f2f. Leroy's point: In order for our brave new Web 2.0 The technology is there now to foster this growth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

I'm honored to be on the team of live blogging (that is, blogging about an event during an event) for the NetSquared Conference. see example below) The NetSquared conference tag is n2y2. Flickr Photo by Pitel. The team is being coordinated by Britt Bravo , who must be the most organized person on the planet!

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Recently, over 300 innovators and changemakers interested in the intersection of technology and social benefit work converged for a few days of idea-sharing, learning, and collaboration at NetSquared's annual conference. About NetSquared. To learn more about NetSquared or get involved, visit [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

At Netsquared last May Ethan Zuckerman spoke on a panel and blogged brilliantly at the same time - so he did have time for a chat in the corridor. I think it is how do we use our social media tools to extend the conversation and bring in other s both online and offline. I noticed this first at TED. last March.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2016

Bridging the Divide: Online and Offline Community Managers — Thursday, March 24 — 10:30 a.m. NetSquared is TechSoup's volunteer-driven network of in-person nonprofit technology training and peer support events. Want to know if NetSquared is right for you? Want to know if NetSquared is right for you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2006

WHen do the online/offline experience converge or blend as Alexandra Samuel reflects over at netsquared. I've gotten comments from other people in the room that have told me they found the notes of use, but I wonder how valuable it is for people not in the room?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

Qui Diaz at LivingstonBuzz has kicked off a Change Blogging Meme which includes an offline/online integrated event to support Alex Steed as well as a blogging meme. This fall, DC will be one of 35 cities visited by NetSquared???s s Alex Steed. s touring the U.S., meeting with millennial activists about ???the

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

I wanted to use today to focus in on a question recently posed by my good friend Joe Solomon on Twitter : What are the nonprofit/orgs that are working 2 wire the green movement, like what @ netsquared does 4 nonprofits, @ sunfoundation for politics; which orgs are working to expose data, leverage soc media, connect the orgs together?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

is about building a bridge between two-way online communication and offline actions and impact. I haven't spent much time in this space, but when I walked through the door I ran into Sean Stannard-Stockton who at met at Netsquared several years ago and encouraged him to set up a blog. He defined it as: "If Web 1.0 Don't give up.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2013

In addition to Social Change Anytime Everywhere , Amy is co-author of Social by Social : A handbook in using social technologies for social impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

maginfies the offline social networking we used to do before the Internet became a part of culture and lives? There was a post over at Netsquared speaking to the data silos and walls that exist within nonprofits, sparked by the question, " Which division in your association owns the web ?" Is that Web2.0

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Tech Soup

JULY 19, 2016

Editors' note: NetSquared organizers and TechSoup staff submitted sessions, and we would LOVE it if you weighed in and voted!]. TechSoup and NetSquared NTC Session Proposals. Bridging the Divide: Online and Offline Community Managers s ubmitted by Elijah van der Giessen @elijah. How to Vote for NTC Sessions. spanhidden

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

" I used the technique two years ago for a presentation at the first netsquared conference called " I Tag the Hand that Feeds Me " or what I should retitle "Meet Sally." re doing offline. I've seen this style be copied by several users on SlideShare to explain enterprise2.0

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Elijah van der Giessen, TechSoup's NetSquared community organizer, will be meeting with fellow community organizers to discuss the challenges and rewards of growing both online and offline communities. NetSquared Organizers, Ambassadors, and Birds of a Feather. NetSquared Birds of a Feather. This session is for you.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. We interact with our friends and colleagues in real time on and offline -- either in the office or out at coffee, on Twitter or social networks. When disaster strikes, we want information as soon as possible and we want to help just as quickly. How can we do that? More and more, now we can.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. Online/Offline and Open/Closed Content A story in CIO talks about how the Internet has boosted employee productivity and points to Pew Research that shows that the boundary that existed in people??? Follow the links from here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

That's when I was working with the New York Foundation for the Arts on its technology capacity building programs, including offline/online workshops for online skill building called SpiderSchool. I finally got to meet Jayne about a year at the netsquared conference.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2014

Not For Sale wants to empower people to engage with their own online and offline communities. Many thanks to the San Francisco Online Community Meetup Group and SF Tech4Good/NetSquared for organizing such a great event. They have found Twitter and Facebook quite effective for doing this. Learn More.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. How do you balance online action with offline engagement? In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely. Come to this session and find out!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

Many years ago, NetSquared hosted challenges and conferences to highlight and bring together fledging social entrepreneurs. This is best done in a participatory fashion, making sure that data is available offline. netsquared digital divide' " Digital Democracy (Dd) was a prize winner in that challenge. Want to learn more?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2016

Since the first NetSquared challenge in 2006, TechSoup has continued to offer people and organizations opportunities to connect, share ideas, and collaborate; they work on solutions online and offline through events, meetups, and hackathons. " Spreading the Word about the Open Challenges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

There is so much talk both online and offline, from inside organizations and from outside, that “nonprofits are broken.” Why I’m excited about The Pollyanna Principles We have a huge opportunity before us to remodel our social benefit organization structure. We’ve done step 1: admitted that we have a problem.

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