The NetSquared team reads and shares lots of different blog posts, articles, reports, and surveys within our team. We have a lot of fun sharing within the team and it occurred to us that we should start sharing them with you, too! Net2 Recommends is a monthly series of news and blog posts from around the web that we found interesting or inspiring, mind-bending or opinion-changing, fun or just plain weird.

• Nonprofit Social Network By Facebook Co-Founder To Launch In 2010
  johnhaydon.com
  Facebook's co-founder, Chris Hughes, recently announced that he is building a social networking site designed to build and nurture long-term relationships between people and nonprofit organizations. Get the lowdown on Jumo and what to expect before the end of the year.
• HOW TO: Add Your Nonprofit to Facebook Places and Claim Your New Places Page
  Nonprofit Tech 2.0
  Ready to claim your Facebook Places Page? This blog post has step-by-step instructions to help your nonprofit get it's own Place.

• National Theatre's Twitter Screw-up - What we Can Learn From Other People's Mistakes
  The Nest
  Everyone makes mistakes, but what happens when an employee accidentally updates an organizational space with a comment intended for his/her personal space? See how one organization handled this situation and think about how you will handle it if it happens on your team.

• Technology Trends Among People of Color
  Pew Internet
  An interesting overview of several trends in minority technology use. Are you surprised to learn that 70% African-Americans and English-speaking Latinos use text messaging? Read on to learn more about the changing demographics of technology access and adoption.

• Pakistan Aid Groups Route Around U.S. Military for Relief Web
  Wired
  Through crowdsourcing, collaboration and harnessing technology to make things happen, groups like CrisisCommons and Ushahidi are making a real impact in the wake of major disasters worldwide. This story highlights the great work that techies all around the world are doing to help people affected by the Pakistan Floods.

• 20 Great Google Docs Templates for Non-Profits
  Wild Apricot
  Creating a presentation for your board? Wading into the end-of-project paperwork? Or maybe you’re signing up a new crop of volunteers for your non-profit... Whatever the task, odds are that there’s a time-saving template, free at Google Docs, to help you do more with less effort. Here are 20 useful Google-created templates that the Wild Apricot team put together:

• A conversation with an orchestra website
  User properdiscord on YouTube
  Does your website answer the questions that your users are asking? This video (also viewable below) is a humorous account of how to NOT engage your audience.

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