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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools! Much commentary and critiques about the semi-public ballotting process. Freecharity.org.uk

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A Few Reflections from SXSW Crowdsourcing Panel

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, we decided to " eat our own dog food " that is model the use of crowd sourcing to design and implement the panel. Amy Sample Ward and Holly Ross came up with the " Social Media for Social Good Case Study Contest " and did all the heavy lifting to make it happen. The maps are made by community members.

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Forum One Staff Share OpenGov Ideas

Forum One

The Department of State should develop a Young Diplomats Program which would provide students with the opportunity to advance their understanding of the core topics and issues relevant to the foreign service. The program would run for the entire academic school year and rely on long-term engagement with students. Vote for this Idea].

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Seven reasons I think "Datamasher" is so cool (and deserves your vote!)

Forum One

I'm very excited that our Datamasher web site is one of the three finalists in the Sunlight Foundation's " Apps for America 2 " Contest! For example, see the comments back and forth about " $$ Spent per student and SAT Score ", or " How Likely Are Your Gun Owners to Shoot Somebody ". Datamasher is full of lots of open-source goodness.