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. Much commentary and critiques about the semi-public ballotting process. The media here IS the service. AFP Blog points a story about a blackberry service outage that left millions of users without wireless e-mail access.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

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. Kim Lowery also gives us a round up the sessions she attended as well as her Day of Service experience.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

These challenges helped provide early publicity, support, collaboration opportunities, and funding for now-famous "tech for good" organizations such as Ushahidi , FrontlineSMS , and many others. The NetSquared Challenges Foster Tech Innovation. Ushahidi Harnesses Data for Social Good.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2010

The event was presented by Twilio and Open 311 , one of the organizations leading the charge to make government data public, accessible, and usable. I've kind of become an open-data geek in the past few months, largely thanks to NetSquared's unconference at NTC. Tim O'Reilly painted a breathtaking picture of the future of government.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 11, 2011

Receive ideas, products, services, or support for free/cheap (keeping in mind that your time is still a cost). Much like the NetSquared Challenges platform , it offers users the option of entering contests and searching through submissions across contests to find ideas. to people in the crowd (as in, expand beyond your community).

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

National Volunteer Week has come and gone, but I ask you to join me every week in celebrating the amazing contributions of TechSoup's NetSquared community. Well, the average NetSquared organizer spends 8.2 Find your closest NetSquared group. Or, apply today to start your own NetSquared group. You like numbers?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

All of the words probably have different meanings to each of us, but as a term, I mean programming, services, media events or campaigns that emerge from the needs, actions and involvement of the community. Maybe you provide services, and your community doesn’t want to be providing those services, but they are happy you are doing so.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

This separation came with no public announcement, either before the move or when it happened, except for a very short email sent a couple days beforehand to account administrators as a warning. That doesn’t mean NetSquared’s perfect, by any measure, but it does mean that a quick abandonment isn’t in store.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

encouraging radio stations to simultaneously air public service advertising in support of the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. Read more from blogger Kami Huyse (who lives the Houston area), Beth Dunn , Netsquared and the RedCross Blog , The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) has issued a roadblock.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

That's why TechSoup supports a global network of tech trainers called NetSquared. NetSquared groups focus on topics that address their unique local tech challenges, but once a quarter, we select a common theme. For spring 2017, we're focused on nonprofit cloud services. Find your closest NetSquared group.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

We recently polled our TechSoup employees and NetSquared community on what they see as looming large in 2015. In the sharing economy, we use apps to rent or otherwise share goods and services with each other. Joyce Hsu, communications lead at TechSoup for Canada, predicts more nonprofit interest in hybrid cloud services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2009

To see Mailana live map Marshall Kirkpatrick wrote a piece called " The Inner Circles of 10 Geek Heros " using a tool developer Pete Warden's service Mailana. I don't understand by @ntenhross (Holly Ross, Director of NTEN) and @amyrsward (Netsquared community builder) aren't in my cloud. Beth Dunn is a consultant and MBA candidate.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

To get diverse perspectives from TechSoup Global staff about user-generated content, we asked Marc Manashil, Community Evangelist for NetSquared, to share how challenges like Restart Romania enable users to get engaged at all levels. Web-based challenges are not a new phenomenon at TechSoup Global. BaniPierduti.ro (Where's my lei, man?)

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Targeted toward 18-29 year olds, the app links Facebook users with the MyVote online service for voter registration and information. Teen Book Finder (iOS), developed by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), helps teens, parents, teachers, and librarians find the best books and media for teens.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Nonprofits have needs that can be addressed using mobile technology, particularly with apps or texting services. LocalFreeWeb is an SMS service that helps people find free Internet access in San Francisco. Library staff can tell patrons to use this service when the library is closed or if all the computers are in use.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

The Sharing Economy -- the use of networked, often mobile, information technology to share goods and services -- offers nonprofits new possibilities for innovation and efficiency along with new paradigms to move from scarcity to abundance. Nonprofits should lead the sharing economy and demand more from the private sector.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

That's why TechSoup Global, NetSquared and Microsoft teamed up to launch the Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Contest last November. The contest was judged by a panel of expert judges , but the public could vote for their favorite. Find out what else NetSquared was up to this spring in this roundup. The ReStart Romania.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 5, 2012

service, Personal Democracy Plus. Balance the Personal and the Public: This tip applies to pages that represent a single individual, like a politician or a civic leader. Pages like this should strike a balance between telling that person's story and explaining their achievements in public life. from NetSquared.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

And nonprofits and lots of others working to benefit the public can use its tools to be able to do their work better. New Ushahidi Services for Nonprofits. During the early days of our Netsquared project , we held big annual conferences to showcase and fund innovative tech for good. These folks do astonishing work.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

The Digital Public Library of America held a hackathon to test the prototype DPLA platform and build apps for it. The District of Columbia Public Library has held as series of Accessibility Hackathons. The Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) has also held a few hackathons with the New York Public Library. NetSquared can help!

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2011

The Independent Television Service is beginning its multi-year public media initiative called Women and Girls Lead. Sometimes it's best just to ask your community what they think of the services you provide. During the month of August, NetSquared wants to know your tips for creating a successful survey !

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2013

It was originally published on NetSquared. Data for Public Service Delivery. Open development and social impact bonds: rethinking healthcare delivery This Guardian article by Mark Herringer explains how incentivising investment and opening information can help local entrepreneurs fill service delivery gaps.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. The Red Cross wasn't just taking in mobile donations, it was leveraging the power of the web for information distribution, as well -- between those following the news and the organizations, relief workers on the ground and the services they were delivering, and more. How can we do that?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

San Francisco NetSquared (Net2) kicked off its 2012 Meetup line up with Craig Newmark , of Craigslist and craigconnects , who talked about using technology for the common good. Working in this capacity, as Newmark sees it, is naturally aligned with his role as the creator of and currently works customer service representative of Craigslist.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2013

As Founding Partner of Rad Campaign she leads the firm’s client and online strategic services. She''s contributed to various publications about social media and online engagement, and since 2008, I has contributed to the Stanford Social Innovation Review with monthly posts on the Opinion Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

TechTalk public television show host Susan McKinnell interviewed Steven Clift about e-democracy including Issues Forums. TechTalk is produced by the University of Minnesota and appears on a number of public television stations. Netsquared featured project WiserEarth In Ode Magazine Social Media Resources. What's next?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 10, 2012

What We Found in the Numbers We made an effort to include both nonprofits and libraries by promoting the surveys in the TechSoup forums, via NetSquared and TechSoup for Libraries , and through social media. libraries' information and resources, or better engage supporters, volunteers, donors, and other members of the public.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

She's our volunteer Netsquared organizer there. NetSquared is TechSoup's volunteer-driven, global network of nonprofit technology workshops and networking events. They did this as a demonstration project by publicizing last year's #GivingTuesday together. Getting Started with NetSquared. Get (or Give!)

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 7, 2013

It was originally published on NetSquared. Public Data New marketplaces that collect public and private datasets and enable visitors to buy or freely download them are continually being created. A big collection of sites and services for accessing data The Visualising Data blog has provided a list of data providers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2009

Gave a great simple definition of open source software: access to code, users modify, anyone can redistribute, public collaborative development. He shared some recent examples, including those from Netsquared. Q/A -How can you use the tools to procrastinate from taking service in the real world, to take service. -

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

These services are powered by the RSS feeds that each network offers to its users and makes following activity across sites easier and in one spot. In fact, I watched Laura crowdsource some of her presentation on FriendFeed. FriendFeed also has "rooms" that can be public or private - these feeds with discussion items.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2016

Amazon Web Services. TechSoup's NetSquared ( @netsquared ) community manager, Eli van der Giessen ( @elijah ), and Tech4Good SWFL organizer Birgit Pauli-Hack ( @bph ) are thrilled to offer this opportunity for online and offline community organizers to learn from each other! Want to know if NetSquared is right for you?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Big Data and Open Data Reuse by Nonprofits for the Creation of Sustainable Social Services — Wednesday, March 4, 10:30 a.m. 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.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Over on the NetSquared blog , we've been running a great series of posts by Bari Samad about ways that nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries can leverage the power of human capital. The slides above are from a talk I gave last year at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service. Tell us about it in the comments.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

This time I’ll review the Nominet Trust 100 nominations for the very best technologies for social good, the big TechSoup/ Guardian Technology for Good Report, The soft launch of Hacker Helper, a new free service that sends money over email, the world’s most popular websites, and two new Netflix style subscription services for eBooks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

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. over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. public information???

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