Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

These challenges helped provide early publicity, support, collaboration opportunities, and funding for now-famous "tech for good" organizations such as Ushahidi , FrontlineSMS , and many others. Ushahidi got its start in early 2008. The NetSquared Challenges Foster Tech Innovation. and that year we came in second.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

And nonprofits and lots of others working to benefit the public can use its tools to be able to do their work better. The organization got started when a group of Kenyan bloggers led by Erik Hersman began doing online mapping of violence reports after the 2008 Kenyan election. These folks do astonishing work. So much innovation.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

TechSoup's NetSquared Initiative partnered with the HRC in the first conference The Soul of the New Machine in 2009 to help select a winner in their Mobile Challenge. Last week in Berkeley, California the Human Rights Center, with the support of sponsors like the John D. & Catherine T.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. You always get a bit of bad with the good, however, especially with the news and public attention of a disaster relief effort. How can we do that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007. Here are at least five reasons why: - They tend to be donor-driven; no one likes to be told to shuck and jive in public. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. It is authentic, it is caring, and it is beautiful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

Sort of a 2008 version of build it and they will come syndrome we saw in the 1990's. " Dan Schultz makes a similar observation in his recent publication " Guide To Facebook Activism " published by Digiactive , a five-month-old site devoted to digital activism. As Geoff points out: What???s s the secret sauce?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Very cool project from 2008: Twitter Vote Report. Influence decision-makers; impact public policy. Panelists: Natalie Foster, DNC ; Rebecca Moore, Google Earth Outreach ; Laura Quinn, Idealware. The sessions are short (only 50 minutes!) but pack in a tremendous amount of information.

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