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NetSquared Local Events in the First Half of August

Tech Soup

Their “meetings” come in diverse and innovative formats like Philadelphia’s Crowdsourcing Change , Vancouver’s Coffee Klatsch or a Happy Hour in Austin or Minneapolis. Philadelphia, PA: Crowdsourcing Change: Applying the Social Web to Some Philly Nonprofits. Don’t be afraid! Wednesday, August 7.

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An Interview with Jo Lee of CitizenSpeak

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As reported by the Executive Director of N-TEN, Katrin Verclas earlier this week, The Antonio Pizzigati Prize was awarded to George Hotelling , an open source software developer who built CitizenSpeak. I posted a message on a CivicSpace listserv about my plans to make CitizenSpeak into an open source module on Drupal.

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Green Coworking: An Interview with Chris Messina and Ivan Storck of Citizen Space

Have Fun - Do Good

Since then, we've tried to really open source our practices and our processes and the things that make it work openly on a website and a wiki. I mean it's really heavily influenced by the open source community and the ethos of sharing. So anyway, that's kind of where coworking came from. So it was really, really basic.

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