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Lessons From Haiti: Uses of New Media in Disaster Recovery Efforts

Tech Soup

Ushahidi , winner of the 2008 NetSquared Challenge first attracted widespread attention for their work aggregating and mapping real-time reports from victims and relief workers in the violent aftermath of the 2007 Presidential election (see Ushahidi's legacy page for an archived version of this amazing tool).

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Mobile Innovations for Social Good

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Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Recently, over 300 innovators and changemakers interested in the intersection of technology and social benefit work converged for a few days of idea-sharing, learning, and collaboration at NetSquared's annual conference. Of course a selection of these updates will be aggregated on the team blog.

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NpTech: Summer Vacations, Who Let the NpTech Dogs Out, and IPhone Fundraising!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Is a email users and non-users the next digital divide? It's an online collaborative mapping tool. You import mindmap maps into it and can be useful for notetaking in real time on conference calls. Why nothing about social aggregators ? The TechSoup Blog has a list of ten cool web2.0 tools to adopt.

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NpTech Roundup: Grasshoppers and Ants - Social Fundraising Off Season

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. Kiva launches a new feature that maps the flow of loans from lenders to borrowers.

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My Goals For 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I also plan to continue blogging about these topics - focusing on writing in-depth thought pieces as well as aggregate and summarize the best thinking in the nptech field. I'll be gathering them up from my various digital nooks and crannies and organizing them into this space. I want to improve my writing.

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App Recommendations from TechSoup Staff: Part Two

Tech Soup

This is part two of TechSoup staff recommendations for mobile apps beyond the usual suspects : Facebook, Google Maps, Twitter, YouTube, Gmail, Pandora, iTunes, and Google Play. has a great weather map. Elijah van der Giessen, NetSquared Community Manager. Patrick Duggan, Digital Marketing Manager. Find part one here.

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