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Data Digest: African Students Using Open Data, Social Impact Bonds, Digital Smoke Signals, and the Data Dilemma

Tech Soup

It was originally published on NetSquared. This week we learn about the Resilient Africa Network (RAN), which is helping African students use open data for disaster relief. There is also some interesting insight into the link between open development and social impact bonds, while the data dilemma is brought to the fore.

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NetSquared's Tips for Creating a Successful App-for-Good Event

Tech Soup

This post was authored by Vanessa Rhinesmith and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. A diverse audience can help to generate even more innovation and depth of ideas or solutions. Hackathons, coding sprints, app challenges, oh my!

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Fostering Innovation and Creativity in Youth Through App Development

Tech Soup

This post was authored by Vanessa Rhinesmith and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. A couple of weeks ago NPR ran a segment entitled, A New Generation of App Developers , discussing the emergence of creative and youthful app developers. story chronicled a middle school student who built an app to help him.

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10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause

Have Fun - Do Good

I write for the NetSquared blog each day (it takes me anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour depending on the topic), but it is also designed to be a community blog, so any registered user can post on it about how nonprofits are using the social web for social change. Depending on your organization's work and audience, you may not have to.

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Personal Fundraising with Widgets: A Few Reflections and Campaign Update

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My post over at Katya's blog generated some excellent advice and has also raised many more questions. Mongkol, a Cambodian college student who is studying in the US on a Fullbright Scholarship and knows the importance of a college education had this to say. Results My campaign goal is $750 by December 31, 2006.

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Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation

Amy Sample Ward

The organic conversation often highlights new ideas or examples that I otherwise would never know about, and can even generate new collaborations and projects by finding ways to team up. But work hours aren’t necessarily the times that generate the most interesting networking opportunities for the community. Libraries + Learning.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Most blog software can generate a RSS feed with the click of a button - you don??????t Step 8: Understand The Power Remix Culture and User-Generated Content. My experiment with user-generated content is here.

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