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Is There a Community of #Tech4Good Activists Waiting for You?

Tech Soup

TechSoup's NetSquared community of Tech4Good meetups is growing! Find your closest NetSquared group. As a NetSquared organizer, you will become known as someone who's a leader in the Tech4Good community. Start a NetSquared group. --> Upcoming Tech4Good Events. and have a reason to hang out with other cool people!

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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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Joitske Hulsebosch: Blogs, NGOs, and Developing Countries

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After studying irrigation and soil and water conservation, which pays attention to the interface between social systems and irrigation technology in developing countries, she worked for ten years in Africa. In Ethiopia, she did organizational capacity building work for a local network of NGOs. And Netsquared.

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Interview: Kedar Iyer, PickyPolly

Amy Sample Ward

Community production: Encouraging entrepreneurs to find community solutions to meet the localized needs. These are just some ways, that come my mind, Picky Polly can assist the different parties mentioned from its measurements of local lifestyle patterns. What help could you use at this stage?

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nature Conservancy. Growing and Eating Local Foods. Netsquared Conference Mashup Panel. no need for local copies, CDs, flash drives, etc.). Ability to save local copies if desired. Some examples of flickr groups found in flickr that relate to Extension themes. Can you find more? Recipe Swamp Group. Flickr Farm.

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Fair Trade Certified: An Interview with Paul Rice of TransFair USA

Have Fun - Do Good

Of course, because their farms are small and because historically they've gotten a really low price from the local coffee buyers, called coyotes in Latin America, these farmers are all poor. And in those communities high school is a luxury, so the local school in the local community typically goes through sixth grade.