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Machinima Festival and NTC Video Contest

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Combining aspects of animation, game development, puppetry, graffiti, fan fiction, and improvisational theater into a moving image art form, machinima represents the latest frontier of digital popular culture. Chris Burke is winner of Save the Net viral video contest - check out the video here. Machinima, derived from the words ???machine???

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Win Up To $15,000 in Sunlight Labs Mashup Challenge

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When I heard about this contest, I asked myself, "Who would I know with API coding skills and a passion for government transparency -- and who likes winning money?" > Learn more about the contest at [link]. Tags: contest NPTech nonprofit technology community buzz APIs. " Duh: the NTEN community!

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Change The Web Challenge from Social Actions

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My conclusion was that we're still in the early stages of Facebook Apps for good and that we'll see better results through effective collaborations between nonprofit fundraisers and application developers. The key here is that collaboration between nonprofit needs and application developers that's for all applications not just Facebook.

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Data Portability for Good

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Along with 3 colleagues, we volunteered to develop an entry for the Apps for America 2 contest , sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation. Over 1,500 mashups later, and a first prize win in the contest, DataMasher is proving to be a great experiment in data transparency. Our entry was not only fun, but useful -- a bonus!

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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In co-creative projects, the public develops the test questions, and scientists co-produce scientific regimens to address the community interest. Hosted projects are ones in which an organization turns over a portion of its facilities and/or resources to present programs developed and implemented entirely by users.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

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The themes science, environmental, nutrition, economic development, children, youth, parenting, and leadership are very much appropriate as this conference agenda from the NACDEP and ACE/NETC shows. Professional development - reflect and learn about your work. So, now is the fun part. A nonprofit organized named Creative Commons.

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Crowdsourcing: Measuring the Impact of the Crowd in Funding and Doing

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The focus has been to develop practice and share insights on networked effectiveness. Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&# I’ve had the pleasure working with Diana Scearce , from Monitor Institute, who has been facilitating and weaving this network. 2) Crowd Creation.

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