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Blog Action Day 2009 Climate Change: Technology in the Climate Movement

NTEN

Today's Blog Action Day 2009 ! The debate about what impact the online world has on offline action gets smashed when you look at these numbers and think about the over 12 million people around the world who are raising their consciousness by reading more about climate change and how they can get involved with their local communities. .

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Online Extension of Conference: Global Development Network Meeting in Kuwait

Forum One

We're doing this by setting up a social network for attendees, by blogging and twittering about the event, and by aggregating news and video and photo feeds from the event. Suzanne Rainey wrote about this in another blog post on Getting More Out of Online & Offline Events ). Watch video of actual conference sessions.

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Connect2Compete: The Biggest Digital Inclusion Project in the U.S.

Tech Soup

Connect2Compete (C2C) is a project to supply low-cost broadband Internet, low-cost computers, and free training to as many as 100 million "offline" Americans. Department of Commerce (NTIA) stimulus grants in 2008 and 2009 and so it has had no government funding and has been struggling to successfully get off the ground.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. In co-creation, the value lies as much in the curated aggregate as in the individual contributions. The Second C: Collaboration. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation.

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Mobile Innovations for Social Good

NTEN

The 2009 N2Y4 Conference showcased the Featured Projects from NetSquared's Global Challenge focused on mobile technology. Of course a selection of these updates will be aggregated on the team blog. There were 14 great teams pitching their Projects at the Conference, but only 3 voted as prize winners.

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Tweet Locally, Reach Broadly - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

60) Search « 3rd Annual DoGooderTV Nonprofit Video Awards | Main | 10 Best Web Content Practices » Friday Feb 27 2009 Tweet Locally, Reach Broadly Friday, February 27, 2009 at 06:43PM | by Daniel Bennett Daniel Bennett To Tweet or not to Tweet is not the question. March 3, 2009 | Anne Dougherty Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

In 2009, for example, 2 trapped girls in Australia chose to post to facebook for help rather than dialing directly. Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take. Another example of indirect content is that of social networks. Thousands of reports were placed via SMS.

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