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Shovel-Ready Online Civic Projects #5: "Global Energy Observatory" Interactive Databases and Maps

Forum One

It is intended to do all of this in an open, collaborative manner which will engage and support the work of numerous researchers, grad students, government policy wonks and others. s boot-strapping the project with graduate students and resources scrapped together from LANL, in a very entrepreneurial manner. s Los Alamos National Lab.

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Shovel-Ready Online Civic Project #5: "Global Energy Observatory" Interactive Databases and Maps

Forum One

It is intended to do all of this in an open, collaborative manner which will engage and support the work of numerous researchers, grad students, government policy wonks and others. s boot-strapping the project with graduate students and resources scrapped together from LANL, in a very entrepreneurial manner. s Los Alamos National Lab.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). I promise (!) I’ve been using it since it was called Postgres95 – before version 6.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). I promise (!) I’ve been using it since it was called Postgres95 – before version 6.

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iLaw: Cyber Strategy for a Developing Nation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He imagines a Jamaica ten years in 2008, ten years after the initial discussions about this project began. "We might imagine J amaica in 2008 that has become a remarkable leader in the world. He first has students have fun building the truck out of legos and then teachers them to make it move. Nesson gave this annecdote.

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the last year, I have had to explain how social media works to diplomats, defense officials, and academics and students focused on fields as diverse as international affairs, management and sociology. My Barack Obama leverage some aspects of Collective Intelligence during the 2008 presidential campaign. What About You?

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.