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That means it’s time for our monthly roundup of all the crazy goodness created by NetSquared Local in May. What is NetSquared Local? NetSquared Local is TechSoup’s volunteer-driven network of nonprofit tech meetups and salons. NetSquared’s Organizers are movers and shakers. June already?
NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – "The 3rd Digital Media and Learning Competition, from the MacArthur Foundation, is now accepting applications. But, despite the controversy in the first round of results, I think there are some positive lessons that can be learned for nonprofits of all sizes."
When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. SocialNetwork Fragmentation. Socialnetwork fragmentation? Socialnetworking burnout?
The summaries will be briefer, focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. We are in the very early stages of how nonprofits and social activists can leverage socialnetworking applications for good causes and just learning what works and what doesn't. s the secret sauce?
TechSoup is hosting a free, interactive webinar on how to harness the power of social media to drive fundraising results on September 19. Get answers to your tech challenges at a NetSquared meetup (see list below). Want a taste of a social media surgery before you commit to attending? Tuesday, September 17. Event Reports.
SocialNetworking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a socialnetworking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label socialnetwork for non-profits. Remember, it's not the level , but whether it is a match to your audience.
The process around policy - that is the discussion, buy-in, and education - is so critical for effective use of social media. You could do your organization a disservice if you think that the written policy that results from this tool is your final product. Does your nonprofit have a social media policy? Have some thoughts?
The result is Beth's Women in Nonprofit Technology Who Rock. Representing TechSoup Global are CEO Marnie Webb , community leaders Susan Tenby and Megan Keane , NetSquared community builder Amy Sample Ward , NetSquared alumna Britt Bravo , and former board member Lucy Bernholz.
Those that aren’t adopted are prime targets for iteration and evolution and great places to start involving the community in creating changes that result in adoption and use. But work hours aren’t necessarily the times that generate the most interesting networking opportunities for the community.
This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog. Using the social web to market your cause, communicate your services, and interact with your audience is an important part of the. communication function for many socially-focused organizations. Blog, or using social media.
Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for socialnetworking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. NetSquared. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a socialnetworking site on ning.
We recently polled our TechSoup employees and NetSquared community on what they see as looming large in 2015. The campaign, as a result, gets an explosion of simultaneous tweets. " The technology allows a single message to be shared en masse so that it rises above the noise of socialnetworks. Digital Refugees.
As a result, I'm publishing a briefer than usual edition of the NpTech Tag Summary because I can only get to fast loading blogs and web sites. and socialnetworking tools? It is important to think about the benefits, objectives, and audience before jumping on the socialnetworking bandwagon. I noticed Soup.io
Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! There's going to be a Netsquared Meetup (recommendations for restaurant or location are needed) How will your nonprofit avoid the Meatball Sundae? This post traces the evolution of socialnetworking sites from the 80's to present time, although missing a few major early players.
Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. SocialNetworks & Twitter from Natalie Foster: Two Principles: 1. Email still gets a good response - if it will best help you reach your desired output, don’t feel obligated to short change your capacity there to try to use socialnetworking or something else.
Win $10,000 DonateNow Mashup Challenge at NetSquared. Could a local social change site knock off Facebook for the socialnetworking webby? What are the results? Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Want to listen on Twitter? And if you???re
I've been blogging and tracking conversations about social media measurement and ROI over the last few months. The session presenters will include nonprofits using socialnetworks or other web2.0 A few bloggers like Tim Davies and Beth Dunn has shared their learnings in action and I would love to more of those visible.
This post was written by Trenton DuVal, contributing editor at NetSquared, and originally appeared on their blog. Teambox takes a socialnetworking approach to keeping your team synchronized. The creators hope that the result is not only simpler, but more “ fun to use.” popular socialnetworks.
Social Media and socialnetworks allow for the quantum effects, paired elements at a distance. And another multiplier comes from Network Theory (not Einstein directly but building on physics and mathematics) which shows that a network strength is in its Weak ties / Loose connections.
Often they have difficulty, in an uncertain environment, promising specific and verifiable results in a short period of time. They want their funding to go towards work that is likely to result in deliverable products that fulfill the funder's mission in concrete ways. Hypothetically, web2.0 More thoughts from Rik Riel here.
The app encourages users to pledge to vote and to share that pledge across their socialnetwork. for iOS devices provides up-to-the minute access to poll results for. Head on over to NetSquared and share your election app idea. Facebook and CNN have partnered to create the I'm Voting Facebook app. The VoterHub.
As a result, been behind with the online/blogging part of my life. Netsquared and ConsultantCommons both from CompuMentor. On the socialnetworking end, I would swim through the various frappr groups that are nonprofit technology related. NGO/NPTECH Web2.0 The N-TEN blog is an excellent source.
Stephen Downes points to a post by Tony Karrer with disagreeing with some points in about the value of blogging in Thomas Davenport's book Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers. " I also wonder if Davenport would say the same thing about socialnetworking sites in the workplace?
Micro-philanthropy -- that ambiguous term that refers to all things sociallynetworked, small-scale, and charitable -- will have matured. Nonprofits are spicing up their social media communications strategy with language and informalities that may turn-off older supporters and major donors. This is a flawed assumption.
frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts SocialNetwork ROI Calculator SocialNetworking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Thats what I thought. Friday, July 14, 2006 at 02:15PM | by Agata K.
Perhaps this is the result of Summer mixter at Google headquarters a few weeks back. Another online socialnetworking cause-related fundraising site ! Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. More buzz here. NTEN is offering a Webinar on Google Aps.
Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations. More than $100,000 is on the table for innovate projects. Follow the links from here. Generation. (If
Results My campaign goal is $750 by December 31, 2006. I posted an announcement of the campaign on my blog and on Netsquared Posted a guest blog post at Katya's blog soliciting campaign advice in exchange to share my learnings. use your socialnetwork to help you with the campaign. . 16 AM) over the last two days.
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. IMO, social media tools are pretty poor at changing anything that takes more than one or two mouse-clicks.
" Jayne Cravens from Coyote Communications offers advice and commentary for nonprofit organizations about online socialnetworking. So, the resulting report should be fascinating. Cross posted at Netsquared The topic is " How do Nonprofit Communicators Compete for Audience Attention? " Web 2.0,
Example: Anyone can publish a blog post on the NetSquared Community Blog and Social Actions' socialnetwork, my.socialactions.com. So as a result, we have decided to take your advice and focus on something a little more practical." There are two ways this can happen: 1. allow comments.
The idea for Hacker Helper was born through collaboration with partners, such as Random Hacks of Kindness who are trying to improve the hackathon process and improve results from the events. Hackathons are most often fast projects that last one to three days. Hacker Helper is all about not reinventing the technology wheel.
More on the study results from Marshall Kirkpatrick at Read/Write Web and here. The results differ from a study released earlier this year. According to Read/Write Web , FaberNovel Consulting has released a new research paper on socialnetworks. There's a good case study of LinkedIn. And if you???re
I wonder which one is more effective or appropriate for MySpace culture - visual design or social design ? Whatever, MySpace has over 80% of the total market of socialnetworking site users according a recent report by hitwise, but keep in mind it represents 6.5% White Label SocialNetworking Sites - Too Much?
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