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YOU Can Bring These Dreams To Life— Nonprofit Blog Carnival

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nancy Schwartz hosted this past month’s carnival and I’m happy to share her round up as a guest post. An imaginative mashup of old traditions and new vision is Marion Conway’s dream, and she sharers some concrete how-tos. The February Carnival is hosted by bow-tied fundraiser Marc Pitman. Get the details here.

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Win Up To $15,000 in Sunlight Labs Mashup Challenge

NTEN

Entries must be applications that use a host of government information APIs or datasets, including the Sunlight Labs API, OpenSecrets.org API, the FollowtheMoney.org API, the Capitol Words API, and other Sunlight APIs and datasets. The deadline to submit is March 31st; winners will be announced April 7th.

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Another Thing For Nonprofits To Think About With Ad Supported Video Hosting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For an added treat, check out Caroline's mashup video of Solution Grove ! So far, we've earned a whooping $3.00 for the Sharing Foundation! But heck, that could feed a family of four for a week in the rural area of Cambodia.

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Open Social != Open Data

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

If a social mashup starts making money from ads, how would that be split up between the host site, the app developer, and all the other applications or social networks from which that mashup pulls data? O’Reilly doesn’t really have an answer for that one.

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Fundraising Ideas

Tech Soup

Host an educational seminar or webinar and charge attendees admission. Think battle of the bands, a concert, a DJ mashup, or a party that people will pay to attend or have a karaoke night where attendees not only pay to participate but can donate to see your staff sing! Host a dinner or breakfast. General Fundraising Ideas.

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6 Governments Who Set Their Data Free

Forum One

MassDOT's Developers Page : The Massachusetts Department of Transportation hosted a competition for users to create useful applications and visualizations of the state's transportation data. Independent programmers have used the data to develop a range of innovative mashups an mobile apps, which the city lists in its App Showcase.

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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. You can track all of the posts by using this link for the N2Y3 case studies here. This year's "Featured Projects" are here.