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Great reads from around the web on August 24th

Amy Sample Ward

Google Doubles Its Cartographers As Maps Continues To Go Wiki-Style - “As an online free mapping service, Google Maps is a great product. And this week, Google has added a couple important areas to the list: Mexico and Eastern Europe.&#. Tags: roundup bookmarks. Check out the great examples/case studies!

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: April 30

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Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . Rock on open data and mapping! This tweetschat group has recently been talking about the net neutrality issues being debated in the US, and how Europe should be paying attention. .

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Things We Like (October 2010)

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China, India, and most of Europe combined -- but another thing entirely to show it. XKCD has finally updated its Map of Online Communities , showing the size of Facebook relative to its smaller brethren. " Artist Jenny Odell used digital cutouts from Google Maps to create some striking images. "Farmville is so huge!

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Is “Ambient Data” from Social Media Channels Useful for Funders?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They also tag and analyze responses. The group also mentioned an example in Europe where a neighborhood council was cross referencing social media data with location to find out what topics were trending in those neighborhoods as part of a planning process.

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The Social Sector Cloud

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In cities across America, Canada, Europe, the UK and South America, local networks of techies, marketers, project managers, storytellers, and others got together, identified problems and projects, shared those ideas across the network with other camps, assigned teams, built prototypes, shared and tested and launched several applications.

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What can we learn from movement builders who built movements before there was Facebook?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Hitler was gaining in Europe. We  create “small movements’ around “hunks of oppression”  that are mapped onto the larger social and health trends and issues.  " Tags: movement building. Other fascist leaders were rising to power. Though one dominant force that moved us to action was the race issue. 

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The Social Sector Cloud

NTEN

In cities across America, Canada, Europe, the UK and South America, local networks of techies, marketers, project managers, storytellers, and others got together, identified problems and projects, shared those ideas across the network with other camps, assigned teams, built prototypes, shared and tested and launched several applications.

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