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Win $10,000: Netsquared/Network for Good Donate Now Mashup Challenge

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How would you mashup the Network for Good donation processing service with other services to make it easier for nonprofits to raise money online? Submit your ideas to the DonateNow Mashup Challenge sponsored by the Case Foundation by May 19. For more information.

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News from NetSquared: Case Studies, Microsoft Development Challenge, and N2Y4 Registration Open!

Tech Soup

They cover all 21 Featured Projects from last year's N2Y3 Mashup Challenge. Last year's Mashup winner — Ushahidi — is the topic of the first case study. Tags: Digital Divide Grants for Technology Multimedia & Graphics Online Activism Tech Planning Telecom Services Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0

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How KaBOOM! Is Using a Networked Approach To Scale Social Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I invited Heather McLeod Grant to write a reflection base the case study of KaBOOM! By Heather McLeod Grant, Monitor Institute (and co-author of Forces for Good). Through a suite of online tools—including a social networking site, online training, do-it-yourself content, and a Google-map mashup—KaBOOM!

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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

Tech Soup

Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008. Finally, three winners were chosen by the community to receive cash grants. The NetSquared Challenges Foster Tech Innovation. We got to know Ushahidi mere months after the platform launched.

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The Future of Supporter Data (Or, Is Your Data at a Middle School Dance?)

NTEN

Over the past 10 years, the mashup of the web and our personally identifiable data (PID) has grown up. He is a frequent speaker on not-for-profit tech issues at forums, including the Google Grants Conference, NTEN, U.N. By George Weiner, CTO, DoSomething.org. During his 4.5

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NpTech Tag Summary: Penguin Day in New Orleans, Fondling the Tools, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo from LolNPtech.org (Registration is here ) Mashups, Meatballs, and New Orleans Do you look at all of the data available online, and imagine ways to combine and connect it to increase awareness about an issue? Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! Applications will be available form Feb 1 to March 14, 2008.

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The Painting Journalist: Witness To Peace

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I think of her work as a mashup between an extremely talented court room artist, journalist, social activist and philanthropist. One such person I've met is Ashely Cecil , a self-described "painting journalist" who describes the world with a paintbrush (and a scanner and a blog.)