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Majora Carter’s Eco-Entrepreneurship

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Her success fighting against a plan to build a waste transfer station in Hunts Point and then spearheading the South Bronx’s first open-waterfront park in more than 60 years was a turning point. open source design or DIY manufacturing) to create customized products in small batches and the global reach of the Internet to sell them.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Free Ranger Rick, Green Geekery, and Blog Day is Next Week!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Read more about it from Green Miles blog and a summary of reactions from other nonprofits here. If your nonprofit is based in the DC area, NpowerDC reminds us that the deadline for their annual Technology Innovation Award is two weeks away. The winners get $65,000 in-kind contributions of consulting, hardware, and software.

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An Interview with Jo Lee of CitizenSpeak

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As reported by the Executive Director of N-TEN, Katrin Verclas earlier this week, The Antonio Pizzigati Prize was awarded to George Hotelling , an open source software developer who built CitizenSpeak. By day I'm a principal at Green Machine PR , a marketing and public relations firm that specializes in high tech and green tech.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up

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Shannon Turlingtion blogs about wikis , Open Source, and changing the way we "manage" participation. Video submissions are being accepted for the 3rd Annual DoGooderTV Nonprofit Video Awards, co-sponsored by See3 Communications and NTEN. You can read more from Green America here.

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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

Have Fun - Do Good

She is the co-founder and co-director of Women's Global Green Action Network , a nonprofit that cultivates global partnerships of grassroots women environmental leaders by providing access to communication tools, support services and networking capabilities. Below is a transcript of an interview with her from the Big Vision Podcast.

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Top 10 Panels at Nonprofit Technology Conference - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Thanks to the Internet, open data efforts, and open source software projects, a variety of free and low-cost tools are now available that allow NPO/community group staff to dive into mapping. Until recently, these tools were too complicated and expensive for most nonprofit staff to use.