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Great reads from around the web on July 10th

Amy Sample Ward

" Ushahidi and the Long Tail of Mapping for Social Change | TechPresident – I couldn't agree more with David's post and analysis of DeadUshahidi, a directory of "dead" installations of the open source Ushahidi mapping platform.

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Nonprofits and transparency: Who’s walking the walk?

NTEN

Social media trailblazers open up. In addition to celebrating failure , Beth Kanter invites innovative social media champions to discuss their wins in detail so others can benefit. Building a movement through innovative open source tools. Tools are licensed as open source, available for anyone to use and improve.”

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. An example of an API is when you put a Bing or Google Map on your website.). Google Maps. things that it celebrated are now commonplace, and nonprofit technology and effectiveness still requires money. Citizen journalism. Podcasting.

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Vote for DataMasher in Apps for America 2

Forum One

Over the past month, I had the privilege of being the Forum One Project Manager for a fun, open-source web application development contest: the Apps for America 2: Data.gov Challenge. The result displays in table format as well as visualized on an interactive, "heat," Flash-based map of the United States. Cool right?

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NetSquared Volunteers Help Nonprofits Like You Master Technology

Tech Soup

National Volunteer Week has come and gone, but I ask you to join me every week in celebrating the amazing contributions of TechSoup's NetSquared community. Chicago, Illinois: Knowledge Mapping for Greater Social Good. Dublin, Ireland: Digital Street Mapping Workshop. You like numbers? Thursday, May 18, 2017. " puis AG.

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Need Hands-on Help? NetSquared's Free Workshops Are in Your Community

Tech Soup

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Bagels and Bytes "Open-Source Summer Fiesta" San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Seattle, Washington: Social Network Analysis: Mapping Your Nonprofit's Connections. New York, New York: Summer Solstice Success Celebration. Wednesday, June 7, 2017.

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations.

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