Culture of Peace Initiative

What is NetSquared?

TechSoup NetSquared spurs responsible adoption of social web tools by social benefit organizations. The new generation of online tools, such as blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, and podcasting, makes it easier than ever to collaborate, share information and mobilize support. Some people describe them as "Web 2.0"; we call them the “social web,” because their power comes from the relationships they enable. Nonprofits and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) thrive on relationships – which means the social web holds tremendous potential to transform their effectiveness and impact.

 

What are the goals of NetSquared?

To help hundreds of thousands of non-profit organizations (NPOs) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) successfully utilize the community empowering capabilities of the Internet to increase their impact and achieve social change.  Net2 will help nonprofits:

• Improve/increase advocacy efforts
• Find new supporters (around the globe)
• Reengage the base
• Have greater influence on national and global policy
• Get more and better press
• Increase value for npo supporters (opportunities to be creative/engage/things to do, etc.)
• Reinvent the possibilities of collaboration on global scale
• Build more and better partnerships

To help millions of NPO and NGO constituents to become more active and accomplish more through their NPO and NGO Internet communities.

How will these goals be accomplished?

Technologists, vendors, early adopters, consultants, non-profit techies, volunteers, and other interested individuals will work together to build the Net2 Community and to accomplish these goals. Community members will invent, identify, discuss, develop, test, evaluate, document, publicize, and support best tools and practices in Internet-based community empowerment and will participate in the rapid adoption and successful utilization of these tools and practices by NPOs and NGOs. This Community will become the home of the world's best practitioners of Internet-based community empowerment.

The netsquared.org website will provide tools and infrastructure and will be the focal point for the Net2 Community's activities, and the  Net2 Conference will be a key opportunity to help the Community gel and work towards its ambitious goals.


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