Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 27, 2007

The widget is funded by the $25,000 first prize NetSquared Innovation Award that MAPLight.org received at the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) , and by the Sunlight Foundation. You can take a 20 question quiz where you rate how strongly you support or oppose issues, and it matches you with a presidential candidate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

At this rate, we???ll 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. Inviting bloggers to Davos is a good thing as it means those not attending in person can participate in the discussion and it makes the whole thing a bit more informal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

While there has been some excellent conversations in the past fews months, particularly the Netsquared ThinkTank , I haven't seen a lot of nonprofit case studies that share real life experience with measuring results from social media strategies. So for my panel, I thought why not a case study slam, a play on the poetry slam format.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

This post originally appeared on the Netsquared blog and was authored by Bari Samad, an NGO domain expert for NetSquared. While girls' primary school enrollment rates are high worldwide, getting closer to those of boys, their completion rates are below 50 percent in most developing countries.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

This post was written by Trenton DuVal, contributing editor at NetSquared, and originally appeared on their blog. In the eleventh hour, they announced that Cohuman would continue full operations , assuaging the fears of the users who rate it. It’s what the NetSquared team uses to stay on task. Luckily there are a.

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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. Top Rated Resources at Kikono.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2017

Last week, we reported on a recent NetSquared London Meetup that investigated the IT tools that can be used to operate nonprofits inexpensively and effectively. The 50-plus people who attended the recent NetSquared London Meetup all had a chance to nominate and vote for their favorite productivity tools. Web Outreach.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Kudos to Erin Palmer over at TechSoup's NetSquared Project for this: "The Pew Internet & American Life Project reports that, as of early 2012, 88% of American adults had a cell phone. The annual discounted subscription rate is $576.00. The annual discounted subscription rate is $1,176.00. Benefits of a Mobile Site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Rayt allows users to rate the content of web sites by making a comment and also to rate other people's comments. News from Nigeria via the Netsquared blog. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Peter Gulka had plenty to say about the lab. Global NpTech.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2007

This summer I've been interviewing the innovators behind the 21 Projects that went to the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) this year (I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared). You can listen to the original interview and a live recording of Freecycle's 5-minute pitch at the NetSquared Conference on the NetSquared Podcast.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

TechSoup's NetSquared Initiative partnered with the HRC in the first conference The Soul of the New Machine in 2009 to help select a winner in their Mobile Challenge. Last week in Berkeley, California the Human Rights Center, with the support of sponsors like the John D. & Catherine T.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

" The individual product pages were considered most useful, followed by webinars, then articles (70-80% of respondents rated these resources a 4 or a 5). NetSquared. " We also asked how useful each resource was, with 1 being "not at all useful" and 5 being "extremely useful." TechSoup Forums.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Most notably, it has been used by nonprofit D-Tree International to reduce rates of serious illness and preventable and treatable diseases in Tanzania. Past Winners.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

We'll cover the back-to-basics of successful email marketing including audience surveys and demographics, improving CTR, benchmarking yourself, open rates, and list "churn." Find NetSquared at NTC. " Local Community Organizers Affinity Group. Claire Sale. Details here.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

So, let's take a quick look at the most highly rated items this week - which are about money, content, software, jobs, and some geek humor. Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. One suggestion is vikono.org, Swahili plural for insect antennae.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 7, 2007

Last year Oakland's homicide rate reached a five-year high of 148 people. Two of the creators of Not Just a Number will be speaking at NetSquared's Net Tuesday in San Francisco tomorrow, May 8th. NJN was created to give Oakland a place to share stories and to connect and develop solutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

You can imagine that by operating under that vision (instead of focusing on drop-out rates, teacher pay scales, or job skill training) that partnerships with the community, new opportunities for learning exchanges and career paths, and much more start to take shape organically, naturally.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Morgan, and Target; the ongoing NSA spying scandal; and increasing rates of identity theft, who wouldn't get a little concerned? Eli van Der Giessen , NetSquared community manager, reveals: "One feature I like is Sharing. Online security and privacy is a theme for TechSoup this month. What TechSoup LastPass Users Have to Say.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2009

Submitted by Ivan Boothe, publisher of the Rootwork Blog Over at the NetSquared blog, Joe Solomon provided a great roundup of reasons people might be "jaded about social media for change" and ways they overcome it. Sometimes that's all you need - making a donation, sending petitions, affecting website ratings, flooding online polls, etc.

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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. "Most of our apps actually get used, which is unusual," said Worman.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

60) Search « NetSquared DC: Beyond the Logic Puzzle | Main | Have you read your RSS feeds today? Perhaps its worth revisiting the topic: which day of the week results in highest e-mail click through rates? Thats what I thought. » Friday Jul 14 2006 Best day to send an e-mail - is there a seasonality factor?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I am remember something that Ethan Zuckerman said at the first Netsquared Conference, " Don't Speak, Point " He was talking about citizen journalism and advocacy in the age of read/write web. This is the year I get back into tiptop physical shape - with a heart rate lower than my age. I've also got to get rid of those extra pounds.

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2012

Also check out the special rates on Adobe Connect web conferencing from TechSoup donation partner, BetterWorld Telecom. From NetSquared. NetSquared is organizing technology-for-social-good events all over the world. This July, we’re celebrating web conferencing. See how technology is enabling Indian NGOs , a U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

There's also a lot of talk in the nonprofit blog space prompted by a recent Netsquared ThinkTank and some great thinking on the topic, particularly by Wendy Harmon of the Red Cross, mostly focused on ROI. Think Nielsen Ratings ). Metrics are the attributes or factors that are important to understand (source: J.Owyang ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

I'm not sure if Christine obsesses about her technorati rating, but she sure does care about blog search widgets and has found something even better than the technorati widget. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Michael Stein has reclaimed his technorati profile.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

The homicide rate, as people are probably aware of, has just really increased in the last few years in Oakland, where I live. When Sophia contacted me and asked if I would talk here, my first thought was, "You know, I could talk here, but I just know so many amazing women who have stories that I want to share." We have four initiatives.

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