NetSquared Sponsors enable our initiative to make significant impact via the social benefit organizations we serve. These companies and organizations deserve tremendous appreciation as the community stands to gain immensely as a result of their sponsorship.

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HOST

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Cisco is pleased to be working with NetSquared to bring the benefits of the Internet to non-profits, to enhance their ability to provide services to their constituents. Cisco, (NASDAQ: CSCO), is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate. Today, networks are an essential part of business, education, government and home communications, and Cisco Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions are the foundation of these networks. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create Internet solutions that allow individuals, companies, and countries to increase productivity, improve customer satisfaction and strengthen competitive advantage. The Cisco name has become synonymous with the Internet, as well as with the productivity improvements that internet business solutions provide. At Cisco, our vision is to change the way people work, live, play and learn.

Sponsors

Microsoft

Microsoftis committed to being a responsible industry partner, working with businesses, nonprofits, communities, and governments to help advance social and economic well-being and to enable people around the world to realize their full potential. As part of this commitment, Microsoft is pleased to sponsor NetSquared for the third year in a row.

Microsoft and its employees have long recognized the importance of being engaged in supporting communities around the world. Last year, the company donated $110 million in cash and $322 million in software to help more than 30,000 nonprofit organizations worldwide do their important work. While a majority of the company’s community investments are made in support of the Community Technology Skills Program, a global program that supports IT skills development in community technology centers or telecenters, the company also donates its software and curriculum to improve the use of technology by nonprofit organizations worldwide. To learn more, visit www.microsoft.com/giving.

Yahoo!

Yahoo! for Good is committed to making a difference in the world by empowering our communities with products and services that inspire them to make a positive impact. We are very excited to sponsor NetSquared and are confident that the conference will be the source of many new and innovative ideas on how to use technology for good.

About Yahoo!

Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo! is focused on powering its communities of users, advertisers, publishers, and developers by creating indispensable experiences built on trust. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Business Objects

At Business Objects we are tapping into the “Power of Collective Intelligence”, inviting lovers and creators of data to come together to explore data for innovative solutions to problems. I applaud the approach to this year’s NetSquared Conference which echoes this philosophy. How exciting to have the opportunity to bring the collective intelligence of technologists in the not for profit world together to explore 21 ideas that have the greatest potential to create positive social change. We believe that intelligent information can change the way the world works. We are pleased to partner with Tech Soup and support the innovative thinking of the conference hosts and the attendees whose spirit of purpose is to use technology to make a difference in the world.

RainCity Studios

Raincity Studios is a full service new media agency offering web site building services and hosting solutions. We focus on methods which empower organizations and individuals to engage and activate constituents and create an atmosphere for participation. With this in mind, Raincity Studios is pleased to support Netsquared's mission of encouraging responsible adoption of social web tools by social benefit organizations and heartily agree that the power of the participatory web should be available to all.

Using Raincity's "Bryght" hosting products, progressive web communities - including ChangeEverything, happyfrog.ca, For Peace, ProgressiveU, and Homeless Nation - have efficiently and effectively amplified their messages to online audiences with great success. Web services clients feature Sony/BMG, Warner Brothers, Harlequin, SPIN Magazine, Mozilla Foundation, UBC, Government of Canada, BCIT, and The Grateful Dead, plus over a hundred other projects.

As a full service web agency, RCS's offerings include strategic consulting, custom code development, graphic design for print and web, and e-commerce implementations, as well as "new" marketing services like search engine optimization, blogging, podcasting, social media releases, and tactical outreach campaigns.

Enthusiastic advocates of open software and culture, Raincity Studios team members participate in development of Drupal open source software and regularly organize and speak at conferences about open technology, international entrepreneurship, and social media topics.

Follow along on our journey via blogs and podcasts produced from the Raincity Studios offices in Vancouver, Canada and Shanghai, China - http://www.raincitystudios.com/blogs-and-pods.

Mozilla Foundation

The Mozilla Foundation was established in July 2003 as a California not-for-profit corporation dedicated to the public benefit. The Mozilla Foundation's wholly-owned subsidiaries, the Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Messaging Inc, coordinate the development and marketing of Mozilla technologies and products, including the popular Firefox Web browser and the Thunderbird email client respectively.

The Mozilla Foundation is guided by the principles of the Mozilla Manifesto.

ReadyTalk

ReadyTalk is a full-service audio and web conferencing provider that enables nonprofit organizations to communicate more effectively. With our affordable and easy to use web conferencing, anyone in your organization can easily train volunteers, present new initiatives, hold webinars, and conduct virtual board meetings.

ReadyTalk is committed to making our customers shine, whether they hold an impromptu conference call or hosting a global webinar. We have all of the benefits of a large provider, but we take a personal approach to serving our customers. That's why ReadyTalk has become a favorite with nonprofit organizations of all sizes and causes.

Adobe

Adobe Systems Inc. is proud to sponsor and support TechSoup’s NetSquared event as part of its commitment to helping nonprofit organizations increase their impact through technology and innovation.

Adobe supports strategic programs and partnerships that help make our communities better, stronger, and more vibrant places in which to live, work, and do business. Adobe supports nonprofit organizations and programs that address community-specific needs, with an emphasis on the following criteria: supporting arts and culture, reducing hunger and homelessness, protecting the natural environment, and improving access to electronic information for people with disabilities.

Linden Lab

Linden Lab® was founded in 1999 by Philip Rosedale to create a revolutionary new form of shared experience known as Second Life®. Second Life is a 3D virtual world created by its Residents that's bursting with entertainment, experiences, and opportunity. The Second Life Grid™ provides the platform where the Second Life world resides and offers the tools for businesses, educators, nonprofits, and entrepreneurs to develop a virtual presence. Headquartered in San Francisco, Linden Lab has over 200 employees spread across the U.S., Europe, and Asia.

Network for Good

Network for Good is delighted to support NetSquared and to share its vision – helping nonprofits use the Internet to spread their message, get heard and turn hundreds of supporters into thousands and millions. Together, we’re leveling the digital playing field so that even the smallest nonprofits can raise money, recruit volunteers and reach out to constituents online.

Network for Good offers low-cost, high-performing tools for donation processing, email outreach and donor management. It is an independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2001 by the Time Warner Foundation and AOL, Inc.; the Cisco Foundation and Cisco Systems, Inc.; and Yahoo! Inc. Network for Good has also partnered with Salesforce to bring nonprofits sophisticated but affordable donor management capabilities.

The organizations we work with, like the Sankara Eye Foundation, Architecture for Humanity and Chernobyl Children’s Project International, show the power of harnessing technology to (as NetSquared puts it) “catalyze the catalyzers."? We thank NetSquared for its work to catalyze still more organizations through a growing community of innovative thinkers.

Wild apricot

Wild Apricot is pleased to support NetSquared in its ongoing efforts to remix the web for the social change!

Wild Apricot helps busy non–profits, clubs, associations, so that their staff, volunteers and members focus on advancing their cause, getting people involved, connected and keeping them up-to-date. We provide web-based tools that are affordable, efficient and easy to use. Wild Apricot solves daily administration headaches with an integrated set of Web 2.0 tools for:

- membership database management
- Updating web site as easily as using Microsoft Word
- Online event registration
- Automated membership renewals
- Sending targeted e-mails
- Handling credit card payments and donations