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

Tech Soup

For example, during a severe snowstorm on the East Coast of the U.S., During the early days of our Netsquared project , we held big annual conferences to showcase and fund innovative tech for good. Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now.

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Pimp My Nonprofit Panel at SXSW

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

& Rachel shared some great examples of social media advocacy campaigns. Long Station blog has great notes here ) Erin talked about the NetSquared Mashup (deadline on March 14th).& & The rest of the panelists included Rachel Weidinger, Erin Denny, and Michaela Hackner.&

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Wiring the Green Movement for Earth Day

Amy Sample Ward

I wanted to use today to focus in on a question recently posed by my good friend Joe Solomon on Twitter : What are the nonprofit/orgs that are working 2 wire the green movement, like what @ netsquared does 4 nonprofits, @ sunfoundation for politics; which orgs are working to expose data, leverage soc media, connect the orgs together?

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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, you want to build a MashUp? Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! Nate Ritter gives a brilliant example of how Twitter could help save the lives of missing children. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. NpTech Conversations. And if you???re

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Mashups with Social Impact for the NetSquared Mashup Challenge

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Via Britt Bravo Do you have an idea for how a mashup could be a tool for social change? NetSquared, a project of TechSoup, is awarding a share of $100,000 in prize money, and a trip to the NetSquared Conference, to the top 20 winners of the NetSquared Mashup Challenge.

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Making Smarter Decisions: Five Business Intelligence Myths

NTEN

Mashups make me want to sing! Here's a very simple example: You may have a goal of distributing 10,000 copies of a report via your web site. Our friends at NetSquared have a great podcast interview with Steve Williams of Business Objects that provides more good examples. I want to eat statistics for dinner.

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NetSquared Mashup Challenge: How Do You Combine Data for Social Change?

Have Fun - Do Good

As some of you know, part of my work is being the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that facilitates the adoption of social web tools by nonprofits and NGOs. You don't need to have tech expertise to submit a project to the Challenge, just an idea for a change you want to make that could be facilitated by a mashup.

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