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How Digital Democracy Empowers Marginalized Communities

Tech Soup

Many years ago, NetSquared hosted challenges and conferences to highlight and bring together fledging social entrepreneurs. Local language content and locally relevant context has facilitated the transition into local ownership. netsquared digital divide' " Digital Democracy (Dd) was a prize winner in that challenge.

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TechSoup's Netsquared Organizers Win 2015 NTENny Awards

Tech Soup

This year Netsquared's own Eli van der Giessen, Birgit Pauli-Haack, and Regina Walton won NTENny awards, as well as Lauren Girardin and our beloved colleague, Michael DeLong, who passed away this past year. " Eli van der Giessen, NetSquared Global Community Manager. Regina manages the largest NetSquared group in the network.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Tagging helps found things stay found as well as facilitate the wisdom of the group. Photography students use Flickr to post, organize, share, and critique their colleagues?????? Netsquared Conference Mashup Panel. Del.icio.us What does this mean in an educational context ? Create collaborative, student-authored resources.

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