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Restart Romania Social Justice Challenge Spotlights User-Generated Content

Tech Soup

To get diverse perspectives from TechSoup Global staff about user-generated content, we asked Marc Manashil, Community Evangelist for NetSquared, to share how challenges like Restart Romania enable users to get engaged at all levels. Web-based challenges are not a new phenomenon at TechSoup Global.

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Great reads from around the web on April 15th

Amy Sample Ward

N2Y4 Mobile Challenge: 15 Featured Projects Announced | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org - Last week, the NetSquared Community voted on the N2Y4 Mobile Challenge to determine the 15 Featured Projects who will be invited to compete for $50K in cash-prizes and additinoal in-kind resources at this year's N2Y4 Conference.

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Guest Post on Frogloop: 5 Tips for Running a Competition

Amy Sample Ward

—– Over on the NetSquared platform right now we are in the midst of the 2010 FACT Social Justice Challenge. NetSquared supports the community at the intersection of technology and social impact in a few ways, including open innovation competitions. What tips would you share from your experience?

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TechSoup Hosts Saturday Hackathon 4 Good

Tech Soup

The day started with demonstrations by two projects that have moved past the initial idea phase. These career professionals serve as online mentors to guide students through challenges that allow them to acquire the skills needed to succeed in a chosen career path. Users can get in shape by completing group or individual projects.

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Data Digest: Open Data for Africa Platform, Silent Data Revolution in MENA and Data Strategies

Tech Soup

It originally appeared on NetSquared. The Magic of Finding and Presenting Compelling Data In this Chronicle of Philanthropy post Matthew Scharpnick argues that despite the big data hype for every new piece of valuable data, a lot more useless data surrounds and obscures it making it challenging to find useful insights.

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Changing the World One Gift at a Time: An Interview with Deron Beal of the Freecycle Network

Have Fun - Do Good

This summer I've been interviewing the innovators behind the 21 Projects that went to the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) this year (I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared). You can listen to the original interview and a live recording of Freecycle's 5-minute pitch at the NetSquared Conference on the NetSquared Podcast.

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An Interview with Jeska Linden about Nonprofits in Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's what led me on the next phase of my adventure. My biggest challenge is that there isn???t At the netsquared conference , I spoke with someone from a small nonprofit about Second Life. We were hired by a startup outside of Detroit, a build-your-own computer company, sort of like Gateway. It's amazing. Second Life isn???t