NetSquared, a project of TechSoup.org - interviews

Changing the Present - Interview with Robert Tolmach

jedsundwall — Sat, 5 Jul 2008 20:11:50 -0400

Robert Tolmach talks to us about how Changing the Present hopes to give non-profits a chunk of the $250 billion US gift market, and why giving charitable gifts on Facebook is much more rewarding than throwing sheep.

Making Technology Available to Everyone - Interview with John Lyman from Google.org

jedsundwall — Thu, 3 Jul 2008 01:54:47 -0400

John Lyman from Google.org talks to us about how social benefit organizations are using Google Apps to enhance their operations and collaborate.

Our goal is really for non-profits to have access to the same technologies that Fortune 500 companies have… And the way that you do that, basically, is you make the same technology available to everyone, which is what Google has done.

Jed Sundwall: What are you working on with Google.org?

Turning Online Activism into Results - Interview with Josh Levy from Change.org

jedsundwall — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:29:51 -0400

Josh Levy, who is awesome, and I talk about his new job as managing editor at Change.org, what he's learned at techPresident, and why he believes that just writing blogs won't change the world.

What is your role at Change.org?

Making People Powerful - Interview with Scott Heiferman from Meetup

jedsundwall — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:25:23 -0400

Scott Heiferman, founder and CEO of Meetup, talks to us about how he learned to value communities, why he wants to make people powerful, and what we have to look forward to expect in the 21st century.

Jed Sundwall: Can you talk about the genesis of Meetup? What motivated you to create it?

Fighting Taxation Without Information: Interview with Eric Odom

jedsundwall — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:47:45 -0400

Eric Odom talks to us about how the Sam Adams Alliance is using open source software to bring transparency to the corners of American democracy that often go overlooked.

Jed Sundwall: What is the stated mission of the Sam Adams Alliance?

Eric Odom: The Sam Adams Alliance has existed for a year and a half. It's a 501(c)3 that focuses and education and information and it also has 501(c)4 because of our work across the country with activists and leadership training.

Conversation is the Agent of Change - Interview with Alexandra Samuel

jedsundwall — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:52:11 -0400

Alexandra Samuel, longtime friend of NetSquared, talks to us about aligning the interests of businesses and NGOs, designing for participation, and how learning to have meaningful conversations online will save the world.

Jed Sundwall: What does Social Signal do?

Business Intelligence for Nonprofits: An Interview with Steve Williams of Business Objects

Britt Bravo — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:02:29 -0400

Last month I interviewed Steve Williams, the Community Program Manager of Environment and Technology Programs for Business Objects, for the NetSquared Podcast.

Business Objects is a sponsor of the third annual NetSquared Conference (N2Y3), and is a business intelligence company. To start out, Steve explained what business intelligence means, and how it applies to nonprofits and social enterprise. You can read the edited transcript below, or listen to the podcast:

Demanding to be Heard - Interview with Brian Dear from Eventful

jedsundwall — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:07:21 -0400

Brian Dear, founder of Eventful, talks to us about how structuring event data is helping people find the events that matter to them and their communities.

What does Eventful do?

Eventful's mission is to help people discover, track, create, and share events. Basically, we want to provide worldwide comprehensive service to help people find events everywhere. We're trying to address a major need that the Internet hasn't met until now, which is basically a search engine dedicated to event discovery.

We're trying to exploit technology to the fullest to help people with one particular niche, albeit a very large niche. On any given day, probably 50 million events go on throughout the world.

Open Philanthropy - Interview with Mark Surman from the Shuttleworth Foundation

jedsundwall — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:00:49 -0400

Mark Surman, expert on collaboration, community building and social technology talks to us about how the Shuttleworth Foundation is kick starting South Africa's knowledge economy by using the principles that have made open source so successful.

Interview with Micah Sifry + Special Net2 Discount to Personal Democracy Forum

Britt Bravo — Fri, 6 Jun 2008 17:24:07 -0400

"If you are a political hack who is dealing with life in a networked age, or a hacker who is into politics and wants to drive change forward, this is the place to be."--Micah Sifry

This year's 5th Annual Personal Democracy Forum (PdF) has been expanded to two days, June 23-24, and will be held in New York City at Rose Hall, the new home of Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Keynoters include: Elizabeth Edwards, Michael Arrington, Vint Cerf, and Craig Newmark. Presenters Include: Arianna Huffington, Lawrence Lessig, Mayhill Fowler, Ana Marie Cox, Robert Scoble, Josh Marshall, Douglas Rushkoff, Joe Trippi, Gilberto Gil and many more...

Sounds awesome, doesn't it? Well, guess what? PdF is offering a special discount to the NetSquared Community.