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Online Community Organizing: Start small, think big!

Amy Sample Ward

NetSquared’s February series exploring “Online Community Organizing” includes three different interviews; I’m really excited to participate! I’ve included my interview below, but you can also read it and join the conversation on the NetSquared blog. I definitely recommend them both!

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Net2Local: Year-End Revelations

Tech Soup

But if you’re impatient and hate history here’s a sneak peek at what’s planned for 2014. Net2Local has adopted the core strategies of theme months to increase network cohesion and regional hubs to scale our ability to support local organizers. NetSquared Camps and Travel Bursaries. Stats Time! Theme Months.

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Apps for Youth, By Youth

Tech Soup

The iPad app provides free videos to K-12 students on various topics, including math, science, finance, and history. You can also create a special reading list, locate books in your local library, and share what you're reading with friends over social media. This app was developed as a Coding4Fun Community Project.

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Great reads from around the web on February 3rd

Amy Sample Ward

Net2 Think Tank: Online Fundraising Lessons Learned | NetSquared – "The Facebook application Causes recently announced it hit the $20 Million mark in donations. org to achieve the most widespread day of political action in history back on October 24th. The America's Giving Challenge from Case Foundation spurred $2.1

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NpTech Tag: Change.org To Launch White-Label Social Network for Nonprofits, GeekToys that Give Geekbumps, and Blog Readability

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you're short on time, read the abtracts and dive deeper into Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship. Or purchase gift items from a socially responsible retail store like Ten Thousand Islands that helps support local artisans and Fair Trade in developing countries. There are 18 articles. And if you???re

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Growing and Eating Local Foods. Tornado History Project The Tornado History Project is a searchable, sortable database of tornado statistics based on official National Weather Service (NWS) tornado records from 1950-2005 and googlemaps. Netsquared Conference Mashup Panel. Ability to save local copies if desired.

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Fair Trade Certified: An Interview with Paul Rice of TransFair USA

Have Fun - Do Good

People want to be on the right side of history. Of course, because their farms are small and because historically they've gotten a really low price from the local coffee buyers, called coyotes in Latin America, these farmers are all poor. She's the first person in the history of this entire area to go on to college.