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TechSoup Global at National Day of Civic Hacking

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On June 1, programmers, activists, and civic leaders participated in the first ever National Day of Civic Hacking (NDoCH) across 83 U.S. The challenges included connecting African farmers to markets, creating an online networking space for women veterans, mapping Africa’s natural resources, and a few others.

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Technology Toolbox: Learn from Occupy Wall Street to Occupy YOUR Street

Amy Sample Ward

Be as we have seen in events around the world, the revolution will be tweeted, photographed, mapped and posted to our status. And most importantly: it will be documented and shared by large numbers of people, experiencing it first hand, and sharing news and updates in real time. “The revolution will not be televised.”

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Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. obama reach vs local reach. Think like a rocket scientist, document or journal your learnings. Beth’s learning process: document on the fly. Can’t wait! success stories.

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Apps for Disaster Planning

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The Esri ArcGIS app (Windows 8) is useful for organizations that wish to build their own relief-related maps. The app lets you preview different data skews and features from Esri's mapping software. You can also text SHELTER and your zip code to 43352 (4FEMA) to find a local shelter. Government Agency Apps.

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13 Virtual Fundraising Event Takeaways From 4 Marketing Professionals

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Create a “run of show” document that you will send to each remote guest speaker. Map Out Your Email Strategy in Advance. Taking time to map out how your email marketing fits in with these other methods, such as blog posts or social media, makes for a more robust communications plan. Contact Local Media.

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Calling all Faith-Based Organizations! Think You Could Use a Free Tablet?

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The organization submitting the story with the most innovative and effective usage of a donated TechSoup product will receive the UnoBook tablet AND will be featured as the “Tech 4 Faith” story for an entire month on our Local Impact Map (LIM). Poke around the map and see for yourself. Interested? b) Void States.

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

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Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. 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. It puts one type of data on a map. Ushahidi's Early Days.

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