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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: September 4th 2009

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Michaela Hackner and an amazing team from ForumOne worked to create a mashup tool for the Sunlight Foundation 's Sunlight Labs Apps for America 2 contest. You should try out their handy DataMasher and, if you like it, vote for it in the contest. Voting's open till Monday! The Rhode Island 501 Tech Club is launching!

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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. The team conceived "DataMasher" -- a web app that allows users to "mash up" two sets of state data. Everyone on the team -- and at Forum One -- is committed to data transparency.

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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How can you describe user participation in a shared language that helps your team make the right decision for your project? After a broad survey, Rick’s team defined three broad categories of public participation in scientific research: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. Science has an answer.

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NetSquared Mashup Challenge: How Do You Combine Data for Social Change?

Have Fun - Do Good

We're hosting a contest called the NetSquared Mashup Challenge that I wanted to let you know about, and am hoping that you'll pass on to social changemakers and web innovators in your community. Wikipedia defines a mashup as, "a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool."

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