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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

Facebook was just getting its first venture funding, YouTube was just starting, and Twitter was still a year away from being founded. Net Tuesdays became a series of national and international face-to-face meetings connecting industry and nonprofit techies. Pope John Paul II died, and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Direct Content. What’s so important or interesting about this?

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Shovel-Ready Online Civic Projects #5: "Global Energy Observatory" Interactive Databases and Maps

Forum One

As part of Federal stimulus spending, we think the government should expand funding for a very innovative online database project that will help with this transition, a project started at Los Alamos National Laboratory and called the ? We think GEO should be funded because: it?s s Los Alamos National Lab. We think it?s

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Shovel-Ready Online Civic Project #5: "Global Energy Observatory" Interactive Databases and Maps

Forum One

As part of Federal stimulus spending, we think the government should expand funding for a very innovative online database project that will help with this transition, a project started at Los Alamos National Laboratory and called the ? We think GEO should be funded because: it?s s Los Alamos National Lab. We think it?s

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Stevie Wonder at the Marrakesh Conference At that time, the National Federation of the Blind was running a campaign against the leaders of these big corporations, with billboards on I-95 saying things like “The CEO of GE wants to keep the blind in the dark!”

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Wearable Computing: Sussing Out the Frontiers of Nonprofit Technology

Tech Soup

He estimated that half the developers were hobbyists, and half were people with start-up ventures who came to San Francisco looking for seed funding. The National Institutes of Health is the primary funder of the project. Wikipedia article on smartglasses. The conference attracted 1,200 attendees.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Free Ranger Rick, Green Geekery, and Blog Day is Next Week!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ranger Rick, the persona of the National Wildlife Federation , has been banished from Facebook! Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. Kabissa.org wants to know how you are using "Web 2.0"

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