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What Makes an Ideal Submission for the Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Contest?

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In celebration of the launch of Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, Microsoft announced the Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Contest in partnership with NetSquared. for background on pressing issues, valuable data, and APIs. A good app idea will not only solve a problem your audience has - it will be easily accessible to them.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Chimp Personality, Convio Open API, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Convio or Causes? And if Web 2.0 generators. And if you???re

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Open311: What Nonprofits and Public Libraries Can Gain from Open Government

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The event was presented by Twilio and Open 311 , one of the organizations leading the charge to make government data public, accessible, and usable. I've kind of become an open-data geek in the past few months, largely thanks to NetSquared's unconference at NTC.

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More than Apps: Mobile Tips from 12NTC

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More mobile devices are sold worldwide than PCs, and mobile is expected to overtake PCs as the most popular way to access the Internet in the next few years. If you have developers and want sophisticated functionality: Clickatell is a a development API that supports bulk messaging, and syncing texts to databases. Director of Idealware.

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Future Tech Panel at Craigslist Nonprofit Bootcamp

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Gave a great simple definition of open source software: access to code, users modify, anyone can redistribute, public collaborative development. Two trends: Technical side increasing openness in API, RSS, etc. He shared some recent examples, including those from Netsquared. grab attention quickly. psa don't work. Very exciting.

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Let’s Connect at the NTC!

Amy Sample Ward

NetSquared Open Space (NOS): APIs and Open Data. Who : Facilitating: Amy Sample Ward | NetSquared; Billy Bicket | NetSquared. What : Learn how your organization could use open data and APIs to show your impact, coordinate volunteers, or inspire supporters to take action. Thursday, April 8, 2010. When : 9:00 a.m.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You can think of it as having 24/7 access to another users filing cabinet, but each user's collection of bookmarks helps to build an rich knowledge network. Think of it as the track changes feature in word, but on the web so that anyone who has access can contribute. API stands for Application Programming Interface, but don???

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