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Unconference: NetSquared Open Space (NOS): APIs and Open Data

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List five ways your organization can use APIs and open data to show your impact, coordinate volunteers, and inspire supporters to take action. Attend the Unconference: Netsquared Open Space (NOS): APIs and Open Data at the Nonprofit Technology Conference (# 10NTC ) to learn how. No problem.

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Philanthropy and Social Media: New Whitepaper from The Institute for Philanthropy

Amy Sample Ward

Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan. They don’t necessarily think they need an organization in order to make an impact. People believe in the internet.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Organizing a community and serving it well has a lot of dimensions poorly reflected in webstats alone. What should Netsquared's Facebook strategy be? Maybe open Social Graphs will help ? Recent studies are finding that for-profit workplaces believe that desktop applications and office documents should not have a social life.

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7 Ways You Can Connect at #16NTC

Tech Soup

Our exhibit hall booth staff will help you register your organization and check your eligibility. Meet and learn from your fellow community organizers, managers, and advocates. Discuss the struggles, challenges, and rewards of community organizing. Want to know if NetSquared is right for you? Learn from TechSoup Leaders.

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TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge Global Tweet Chat Recap

Tech Soup

As a nonprofit example, Ilie offered the 6-word story of an organization that helps the visually impaired: "Blind graduate works for National Bank." " Conceptualizing your organization's story in six words is a great way to distill what you do into powerful digital stories. Beirut, Lebanon: NetSquared Beirut.

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July NetSquared Think Tank Round-Up: Building a Culture of Accessibility

Tech Soup

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog. It almost seems like a more open source approach - allowing a key community to provide guidance and insight into tech development to allow them to better access software and hardware tools. from Palak Timbadiya via Linkedin. using social media.

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Deadline Approaching for $10,000 Pizzigati Prize

Tech Soup

Each year, the Tides Foundation awards a $10,000 cash grant to an individual or group who has created an open-source software project that benefits nonprofits and movements of social change. The Pizzigati Prize is named for Antonio Pizzigati, an MIT graduate, early web author, and leading advocate for open-source computing.