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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

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The NetSquared Challenges Foster Tech Innovation. Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008. TechSoup partnered with agencies like USAID and tech companies like Microsoft and Yahoo to host these "tech for good" challenges annually via our NetSquared program.

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Great reads from around the web on October 25th

Amy Sample Ward

Net2 Think Tank Round-up: Creating Awesome Video | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – "For this month's Net2 Think Tank we asked you to share your tools and tactics for creating effective video messages – regardless of budget and organization size.

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Great reads from around the web on January 25th

Amy Sample Ward

" 3 Powerful Social Good Trends in 2010 – Ben Rattray, the founder and CEO of Change.org, has a great piece on Mashable showcasing the three trends he sees coming in 2010 for the social change sector. Stories about the impact that a nonprofit has on people’s lives can engage, recruit and solidify donors and members.

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Funneling Frustration: Building the future for technology and social change

Amy Sample Ward

At the end of 2010, I started having a weekly, 30-minute skype call with my friend Vanessa Rhinesmith. Last month, Joe Solomon shared on the NetSquared Blog what he hopes is our reflection on 2011 a year from now, focused on a year full of empowering and harnessing organizers. There is no agenda. We do not work together.

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The Networked Nonprofit Book Arrived!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I, of course, raffled it off in exchange for people filling out index cards with their planned first steps into social media. Here are a few upcoming book launch events over the next two weeks: June 17, 2010. June 21, 2010. June 21, 2010. June 22, 2010. Hosted by NetSquared. June 25, 2010. 4-5 PM/EST.

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Connect, Share, and Act at the 2010 NTC (And Show Your takeholders How To as Well)

Tech Soup

The Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) is here again and team members from NetSquared and TechSoup Global will be busy presenting, sharing, and connecting in Atlanta, and hopefully with you! Members of the NetSquared and TechSoup content and community teams will also be using Twitter and blogs during the event. Live-streamed events.

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

Tech Soup

LABB created an Oil Spill Crisis Map in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. During the early days of our Netsquared project , we held big annual conferences to showcase and fund innovative tech for good. Ushahidi's David Kobia was named Humanitarian of the Year in 2010 by the MIT Technology Review.

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