Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

As part of Social Media September (#SocMedSep), we've been tapping into the wisdom of our global TechSoup and NetSquared communities as well as experts in nonprofit technology. Social Networking social media NetSquared tssocialmedia World Affairs Council' TS: How does social media support your organization's mission?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

meets LinkedIn for students. The Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) has also held a few hackathons with the New York Public Library. NetSquared can help! Community Boost_r is a project that inspires, enables, and promotes tech for civil participation in transparency and accountability initiatives in the Western Balkans.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

NYC Haunts is a mobile game created by the Global Kids Online Leadership Organization in a partnership with the New York Public Library. Created by local NYC students, this game is designed to be played in and around city libraries and teaches players how to use library resources.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

With the support of the National Endowment for Democracy and the Balkan Trust for Democracy, the challenge's goal is to promote tech for civil participation in transparency and accountability initiatives in the Western Balkans. This online reporting system is both a website and mobile app. The Power of Technology Challenges.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

This post was authored by Vanessa Rhinesmith and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. story chronicled a middle school student who built an app to help him. story chronicled a middle school student who built an app to help him. stay organized in the coming year and the revelation that more and more.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared (where Ushahidi won its first challenge!). They also offer a guide for cause-based campaigns as well as customer support on the phone or online. Aid Afghanistan for Education and Peace has the lofty $10,000 goal to fund a school of 300 students for a month.

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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.” You can find previous blog posts (with great conversations in the comments) here , here and here. We’ve done step 1: admitted that we have a problem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

Many community members are avid users of and students of social media – for some it is an integral part of their profession, so this is a great place to learn about social media. This is very useful if you follow more than about 100 people (especially if they are quite active online). An incredible listening tool.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared. They also offer a guide for cause-based campaigns as well as customer support on the phone or online. Aid Afghanistan for Education and Peace has the lofty $10,000 goal to fund a school of 300 students for a month. where Ushahidi won its first challenge!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

This slide show from Common Craft uses a party as a metaphor for online community. Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. As Lifehacker notes , seems like this is a quick and dirty way to submit issues to tech support. Here's an example.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

The Christian Science Monitor, CNN, and CNET News are among the many sites that now deliver updated online content via RSS. Include outreach to bloggers as part of your online fundraising campaigns. weeks using her food blog and an online auction. By contrast, 51 percent of blog readers shopped online.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

You need to start by checking out the content that is already being created by citizen journalists and activists about the issues you care about on blogs, podcasts and online video/vlogs. Online videos/vlogs Online videos or vlogs can searched for in the iTunes Music Store as well as on YouTube , blip.tv , DoGooderTV , QuantumShift.tv

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

The live video feed was being streamed from the Netsquared gathering in San Francisco happening at the same time as the virtual gatherng in Second Life. Last night's event brought back memories for me - of what it was like 13 years ago doing demonstrations at nonprofit conferences about online communities for arts organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Mongkol, a Cambodian college student who is studying in the US on a Fullbright Scholarship and knows the importance of a college education had this to say. I wanted to start with my blog readers and nonprofit tech colleagues and Cambodian blogger colleagues. Launch Announcements I decided not to broadcast this out to everyone I know.

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