Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. NetSquared Community. for the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) beginning on May 29th. Like last year, conference participants are introducing themselves on their NetSquared Blog.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2006

Beth Kanter posted an incredible photo today on blogher and netsquared (click on one of them to see it) taken from the camera_rwanda blog. You must visit this blog and see the photos. The photo above is from another beautiful photo blog called, Lives in Focus. The photos are incredible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. I love that some nonprofits are sharing photos of their messy offices on Flickr! lolnptech.org includes photos of people, who could be tagged as "nptech."

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

I think this is a hard concept for many to agree with because of the process by which the social media tools are most often adopted in organizations: for example, Jane really likes taking pictures and usually posts them to Flickr (an online photo sharing website) as a way to store them, sort them, and share them.

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JANUARY 25, 2010

Anecdotely, I see a lot of blogs and Flickr photo streams, some YouTube and Vimeo use. " Tags: roundup 2010 4change applications bookmarks causemarketing challenge community competition competitions facebook free fundraising guide list lists nonprofits nptech postalicious resources socialchange storytelling tools trends volunteering.

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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. Tags: Networked Nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Photo by SpacePotato. The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. Don't forget to sign up the feeds on the agreed tag. rethink, reinvent. Johannes).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

From Flickr User Philswin2003 The above flickr photo is from the Nonprofit Software Development Summit and some flipchart notes illustrating what's going on right now: inspiration, matchmaking, and practical methods! New Blogs Yes, Tobias Eigen blogs and we've just discovered his blog in the NpTech Tag stream. nonprofit technology.

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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. Photo Credit: Flickr tableatny ]. We’re all learning as we go!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Photo by Billie Hara. Marshall goes on to quote an interview he did with Peter Cashmore from Mashable on Netsquared who questioned whether MySpace was a place for "social media for social good.". Tags: facebook. The email encouraged MySpace users of Causes to join the cause on Facebook. .

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Claire Sale, NetSquared. So, I turned that question to my friends and the NetSquared community, and got some really great responses that I'd like to share with you. AARP Community - The brand new AARP community tool allows users to share photos, publish a blog, join groups, subscribe to e-newsletters and network with other members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Flickr Photo by WiserEarth - WiserEarth's team from Around the World play Peek-A-Boo With Book. The photo above shows WiserEarth ’s team from around the world in the Bay Area during break from a staff retreat reading the Networked Nonprofit. Photo by KK. Flickr Photo by KK. Flickr Photo by James Leventhal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Photo credit: [link] / CC BY 2.0 In response to this post by Seth Godin on nonprofits and social media, I repeat what I said three years ago over at the Netsquared Community. Tags: change management. Note from Beth: Celeste Wroblewski writes the studio 501c blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Flickr photo from handsome monkey. 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. Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. For more details from our recent work here, including video, photos and more in-depth coverage of all about the work we’ve been up to in Tanzania on the “I <3 Epic Change&# Blog created by theLacProject and in a recent article in the Huffington Post.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. For more details from our recent work here, including video, photos and more in-depth coverage of all about the work we’ve been up to in Tanzania on the “I <3 Epic Change&# Blog created by theLacProject and in a recent article in the Huffington Post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2006

It loads ten images that all share a common tag, one by one, and you guess what the tag is. After that, I discovered an interesting photo set in the Link netsquared tag stream and it was Seth Mazow, so I made him a contact. I love this one: Technorati Tags: ngo , nonprofit , non-profit , nptech , flickr

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 Allison Fine writes an Op-Ed piece on the SF Chronicle entitled " A New Bargain: YouTube Politics."

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. The system has three components: The Image Tagger -- Volunteers sort through news photos coming out of Haiti and categorize (tag) them with keywords like “adult, child, alive, deceased.” Volunteers look at a photo of a missing person, compare it to a news image, and see if they can find a match.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Whether they are vendors like CauseVox , openly asking for what the community needs in a fundraising tool and building towards the response, or they are individuals that take a photo or shoot a short video that they share with the world changing the conversation about an issue or an event. But we need new resources, too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2005

I missed the post about flickr use by MoveOn on netsquared when I was in London earlier this month. The article points out that adhoc groups have formed on flickr to support photo sharing and organizing around political topics, but MoveOn's use of flickr is on a larger scale. MoveOn's flickr home page and flickr tags page.

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DECEMBER 29, 2005

I'm double blogging these days, here and on the NetSquared blog. That's a photo of me above at NetSquared's last Net Tuesday. The photo is from NetSquared's "I Want Change" Flickr group where folks are posting photos with signs that say what they want to change in the world. Here's info.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

Take for example, the netsquared conference. Another example of using a wiki to organize captured notes was Amy Gahran's wiki of all the blog posts and notes from the recent Blogher conference, compiled post-event and facilitated by the use a conference tag. This model can also be scaled to an entire blog community platform.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 6, 2005

As I mentioned in my November 3rd post , I am working as a Community Builder with NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup. You can hear last month's speakers, Chris Messina from Flock , CompuMentor's Marnie Webb and yours truly, on the NetSquared Channel on Odeo. I'm double blogging right now, here and on the NetSquared blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

Flickr Photo by Pitel. I'm honored to be on the team of live blogging (that is, blogging about an event during an event) for the NetSquared Conference. I also add in the conference technorati tag at the bottom. see example below) The NetSquared conference tag is n2y2. Tag: n2y2 I hate when the that happens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Flickr Photo by Villoks Many people around the world are supporting the Monks in Burma by wearing red t-shirts today or participating in vigils like this one in Cambodia outside the Burma embassy. There's a roundup of coverage on his Netsquared blog , including pointers to live blog posts like this one. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

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. Crime Fighting Team Photo by ittiebittiesforyou.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 15, 2010

The Extraordinaries and Ushahidi , two past NetSquared challenge winners, are working hard to help bring relief to people affected by the recent earthquakes in Haiti. The Extraordinaries has set up a Haiti Earthquake Support Center for identifying photos of missing people in Haiti. The Extraordinaries is a great idea.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Maybe next week we'll see photos from BarCampBlock ? Maybe next week we'll see photos from BarCampBlock ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2005

The photo on the left is my contribution to the netsquared iwantchange group. Technorati Tags: net2 , cambodia , sweatshopfree To find out how you can participate, check out. Marnie Webb's post about it. Why are we holding a sign that says "Buy Made in Cambodia Clothes?"

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Try YouCam , a video and photo capture app with a built-in editor. You can't tag and sync notes, however. The Box cloud storage app comes with 5GB of free storage to help you backup and manage your photos, documents, videos, and other files. Visit NetSquared and Microsoft for more details on the contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2006

Marshall Kirkpatrick interviewed me as part of his gig at Netsquared. Seeing the photo of Michael Stein made me remember I had an old photo (almost 30 years old) of me and my flute. Technorati Tags: music flute marcelmoyse classicalmusic Great work Marshall! So, thought I'd get it into flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

tags: fundraising advocacy ) I was lucky enough to meet Ivan Boothe at the first (or maybe second) Netsquared Conference back in 2005 and have been following his work for years. Using Social Networks for Social Change: Facebook, MySpace and More View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

I hope you'll add to the list: Change/Wire Dining for Women Ella Baker Center Echoing Green Genocide Intervention Network Global Fund for Women Global Voices' Rising Voices Google.org Idealist NetSquared NTEN People's Grocery Save Darfur Social Actions Spot.us Flickr photo credit: Photo of question mark in flowers uploaded by Michelle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Whether you're looking for your online visitors to contribute photos, forward your issue alerts, make a donation, or contact policy-makers, social media can be a powerful way of engaging your audience and driving them towards action. Kim, a grandmother living in Oregon, posts photos of the pothole in front of her house.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. Hence, they're pretty lousy photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Things are slowing down during the holidays , so here's a short version of the NpTech Tag Summary. See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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