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10NTC Science Fair Preview - Giveaways, More Giveaways and Free Apple iPads

NTEN

It doesn't have to be difficult or even expensive; it can even be free. and if you want to talk about how to display stuff on maps and create effective Google Map mashups, we can do that too! It's completely free to your organization, and to your members as well! Stop by the booth to learn more about this risk-free offer.

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10NTC Science Fair Preview - Giveaways, More Giveaways and Free Apple iPads

NTEN

It doesn't have to be difficult or even expensive; it can even be free. and if you want to talk about how to display stuff on maps and create effective Google Map mashups, we can do that too! It's completely free to your organization, and to your members as well! Stop by the booth to learn more about this risk-free offer.

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Ushahidi Develops Innovative Tools for Nonprofits and Others Working to Benefit the Public

Tech Soup

The Louisiana Bucket Brigade (LABB), for instance, has used Ushahidi to document the impacts of oil spills and other petrochemical pollution on human health and the environment. Mapper is a simple free data management tool available on the Ushahidi website that anyone can try out. Learn more about Responder. Ushahidi's Early Days.

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How KaBOOM! Is Using a Networked Approach To Scale Social Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

View more documents from Noah Flower. has used the Internet to disseminate its model, empowering local communities to self-organize and build their own playgrounds using free resources on its website. Case Study View more documents from Noah Flower. Monitor Institute: KaBOOM! Case Study. And the results have been impressive.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Free-wheeling. You can assign a second person to be a scribe or you can have participants use sticky notes to document their own ideas. In addition, here are a few more techniques and facilitation playbooks to explore : MashUp Brainstorm Activity. All ideas are as valid as each other. Quantity matters. Clarify ideas. Conclusion.

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Data Portability for Good

NTEN

Over 1,500 mashups later, and a first prize win in the contest, DataMasher is proving to be a great experiment in data transparency. Ensure you have good documentation. Free your data, and your mind will follow. You can create mashups like Carma.org by combining data sets or services. So what can you do?

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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

And, in some situations the existence of SaaS can inhibit open source development in the spaces in which it is popular, especially if the SaaS is cheap or free (how many good open source webmail clients are there, for instance?) And with mashups becoming more and more popular, there’s a kind of meta-collaboration at work now too.