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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

NTEN

A wealth of data sources are becoming available online, allowing data from around the world to be mingled, mixed, and mashed up -- and where data does not yet exist, communities are using these new tools to gather it themselves! Collecting and Disseminating Information - Ushahidi. In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya.

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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

NTEN

A wealth of data sources are becoming available online, allowing data from around the world to be mingled, mixed, and mashed up -- and where data does not yet exist, communities are using these new tools to gather it themselves! Collecting and Disseminating Information - Ushahidi. In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya.

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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

Tech Soup

" Ushahidi has since supported critical information gathering to provide a picture of human needs for many natural disasters, political violence, and human rights violations. Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008. The NetSquared Challenges Foster Tech Innovation.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Penguin Day in New Orleans, Fondling the Tools, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo from LolNPtech.org (Registration is here ) Mashups, Meatballs, and New Orleans Do you look at all of the data available online, and imagine ways to combine and connect it to increase awareness about an issue? Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Last Chance to Vote for Nonprofit SXSW Panels: Closes September 4th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. you'll hear case studies of social media disasters and how they could have been prevented, as well as how brands have dealt with potential PR nightmares. One of these is "community funded reporting" which is being pioneered by Spot.us

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10NTC Science Fair Preview - Giveaways, More Giveaways and Free Apple iPads

NTEN

Interested in knowing how to prioritize resources, analyze a donor database, create mobile applications or visualize community indicators? and if you want to talk about how to display stuff on maps and create effective Google Map mashups, we can do that too! Tags: #10NTC Community NPTech NTEN science fair. VisionLink, Inc.

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10NTC Science Fair Preview - Giveaways, More Giveaways and Free Apple iPads

NTEN

Interested in knowing how to prioritize resources, analyze a donor database, create mobile applications or visualize community indicators? and if you want to talk about how to display stuff on maps and create effective Google Map mashups, we can do that too! Tags: #10NTC Community NPTech NTEN science fair. VisionLink, Inc.

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