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Spotlight on Social Media, Crowdsourced Translation, Egyptian Protests and Diplomacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The New York Times reported on the use of social media and protests suggesting that Egypt’s government was afraid of the power of social networking tools. What is needed, perhaps, is a Twitter Annotation project to facilitate translation of languages.

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Metro4All — Making All Metro Systems Accessible

Tech Soup

Metro4All was founded by Maxim Dubinin in Moscow a few years ago as a social good project of his interactive mapping company, NextGIS. The Metro4All project creates web and mobile apps that give people with limited mobility point-to-point directions on using their subway system. Sustainability of the Project. What Is Metro4All?