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Wiring the Green Movement for Earth Day

Amy Sample Ward

I wanted to use today to focus in on a question recently posed by my good friend Joe Solomon on Twitter : What are the nonprofit/orgs that are working 2 wire the green movement, like what @ netsquared does 4 nonprofits, @ sunfoundation for politics; which orgs are working to expose data, leverage soc media, connect the orgs together?

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Ushahidi BRCK: Bringing Internet to the Developing World

Tech Soup

It is a nonprofit tech company that develops free and open-source software for information collection, visualization, and crowdsourced interactive mapping to help mitigate disasters. Ushahidi was a NetSquared Mashup Challenge winner in the fabled 2008 Netsquared conference in Santa Clara, California. Find out more about this here.

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10 Disruptive Technologies You Need to Think About

NTEN

AND, it's the green thing to do. Disruptive Technology #3: Energy & Green IT. Disruptive Technology #9: Mashups and Enterprise Portals. Is it OK to put client home address information into a public mapping website? Virtualization helps reduce the number of servers used, decreasing power consumption.

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10NTC Science Fair Preview - Giveaways, More Giveaways and Free Apple iPads

NTEN

Oh, and just in case you want to plan your prize route, here's a map. We're a GIS software development firm, and we'd love to share with you how you can use the power of geographic information systems -- beyond just displaying dots on a map. The Science Fair doors will open at 3 pm on April 8, 2010 at the OMNI Hotel in Atlanta.

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10NTC Science Fair Preview - Giveaways, More Giveaways and Free Apple iPads

NTEN

Oh, and just in case you want to plan your prize route, here's a map. We're a GIS software development firm, and we'd love to share with you how you can use the power of geographic information systems -- beyond just displaying dots on a map. The Science Fair doors will open at 3 pm on April 8, 2010 at the OMNI Hotel in Atlanta.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's just three people/content connections on this topic that I found from Technorati search: A search on "tags" lead me directly to a YouTube channel from the Youth Health Alliance and a series of youth-created videos on nutrition, including the one above that explains why it is better to drink green tea versus software drinks.

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