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NetSquared Events for September: Featuring #Storymakers2014

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TechSoup’s digital storytelling challenge is open between now and September 26, 2014. Submit your digital video, five photographs, or a super-short story. Looking for inspiration for your digital story? Join your local NetSquared group. They are holding digital storytelling events all month! No local group?

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Tell Your Community's Story with NetSquared

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Submit your digital video, five photographs, or a super-short story now, because we have $13,000 in prizes available! Or if face-to-face is more your style, join your local NetSquared group — NetSquared groups are holding digital storytelling events all month. London, United Kingdom: Digital Storytelling.

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TechSoup Global at National Day of Civic Hacking

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TechSoup, Caravan Studios , and NetSquared were on the scene to observe and participate in hackathon events all over the country. Arthur Grau of NetSquared Honolulu reported back on the National Day of Civic Hacking/Code for Hawaii event in Honolulu. ReWrite Oakland. Image 3: ReWrite Oakland, Caravan Studios.

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Fostering Innovation and Creativity in Youth Through App Development

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This post was authored by Vanessa Rhinesmith and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. is an organization based out of Oakland, California. of the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning global. Youth Radio's mission is to connect Oakland-based young people with pro developers and entrepreneurs to.

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Hackathons for Good: Techies, Thinkers, and Activists Unite

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or Code for Oakland ). The Digital Public Library of America held a hackathon to test the prototype DPLA platform and build apps for it. NetSquared can help! There are many different types of hackathons: from company hackathons (such as Facebook's All-Night Hackathon ) to government improvement hackathons (like #HackWeTrust.

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News by the Spoonful: TechSoup's 2015 Tech Predictions

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We recently polled our TechSoup employees and NetSquared community on what they see as looming large in 2015. Data theft, cyberattacks, and government surveillance are a growing fact of digital life, and it looks like 2015 will only be more of the same. Digital Refugees. Become a digital refugee. Privacy and Security.

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Developers and Nonprofits Come Together to Make Apps for Change

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First up was Joseph Tanigawa from Code for San Francisco (our local chapter of Code for America), who presented a nifty tool for bridging the digital divide. He's currently working on an event planner module, which I can see being a huge asset for nonprofits or community organizers, such as organizers of our NetSquared groups.