Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. LABB created an Oil Spill Crisis Map in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Since then, it has since logged, mapped, and tracked more than 14,000 reports of petrochemical pollution. It puts one type of data on a map.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Here’s some news on a now famous NetSquared alumnus project. 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. I first heard about this from Marnie Webb, who co-founded NetSquared.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

Many years ago, NetSquared hosted challenges and conferences to highlight and bring together fledging social entrepreneurs. This work included developing a secure system to track, map, and report incidents of gender-based violence; an emergency hotline; and media training to support women in documenting and sharing their experiences.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

To get diverse perspectives from TechSoup Global staff about user-generated content, we asked Marc Manashil, Community Evangelist for NetSquared, to share how challenges like Restart Romania enable users to get engaged at all levels. Web-based challenges are not a new phenomenon at TechSoup Global. And the winners are. links in Romanian).

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Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2011

TechSoup Global had an exhibition at the Science Fair and many nonprofits in attendance were thankful for donations they received from our donor partners through TechSoup, while others asked for more information on what they needed to do to receive them. read more.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

When wildfires devastated the area around San Diego in October, 2007, citizen journalists used e-mail, text messages, and social media sites to collect and disseminate real-time information about the location of the fires, evacuation efforts, meeting places and emergency supplies.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 11, 2013

The challenges included connecting African farmers to markets, creating an online networking space for women veterans, mapping Africa's natural resources, and a few others. I sat in on the mapping group because the Peace Corps presenter said that he thought nonprofits could also take advantage of whatever solution they came up with.

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Tech Soup

MAY 15, 2013

It originally appeared on NetSquared. Data Privacy Heat Map Shows Increasing Global Momentum Towards Data Protection Standards. Forrester has developed a research and planning tool called the Data Privacy Heat Map to leverage in-depth analyses of the privacy-related laws and cultures in 54 countries. Data Privacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2009

To see Mailana live map Marshall Kirkpatrick wrote a piece called " The Inner Circles of 10 Geek Heros " using a tool developer Pete Warden's service Mailana. I don't understand by @ntenhross (Holly Ross, Director of NTEN) and @amyrsward (Netsquared community builder) aren't in my cloud. Here's a mosaic: Get your twitter mosaic here.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2016

Before they officially launched the competition, the TechSoup Europe team members mapped out Warsaw technology-for-good communities and groups — some they had already worked with and some they hadn't. This data is usually "real time," meaning the information is delivered immediately after it is collected.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

Three specific examples that are very different include: Connectipedia : a wiki-based platform that allows anyone interested in philanthropy or social impact in the Pacific Northwest (or beyond) to share research, resources, information, or data about people, places and topics. The crowd decides and creates everything that it is.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. but pack in a tremendous amount of information. A great example of using Twitter for real information exchange and for conversation. You can embed Google Earth into your website to present information to your community that really helps tell the story of your work and your issue.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. When disaster strikes, we want information as soon as possible and we want to help just as quickly. Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Be sure to visit the site and press "Play" on the map.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 16, 2012

" Apps and mobile technology are providing new ways to engage, inform, and connect with supporters this election season. app offers polling location information, sample ballots, and election. news and information. devices (an iOS version is coming soon) and the same information can be. The VoterHub. does for music.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The FEMA app includes preparation guidelines for a variety of disasters, including checklists, safety tips, and local shelter maps. Once you've downloaded the app, all this information is accessible regardless of whether you have phone service or internet access during an emergency. Shelter information is updated every 30 minutes.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2016

Like TechSoup's other community-driven tech-innovation initiatives — the NetSquared challenges , the ReStart movement , and Apps4Warsaw — Caravan Studios' work is informed first and foremost by the needs of the community itself. Range is a map-based app that shows where youth can get free summer meals.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

Think of it like this: In “Community-driven Social Impact,” the driving is up to the community; but you can act as the vehicle and event the map for those “drivers.” Events: NetSquared Camps. Community Driven Social Impact strategies for events – let’s look at the NetSquared Camps pilot. So, what is that opportunity?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Here's a remix of the approaches mapped to other types of nonprofits: Blue:  Institutional Information Blog. This is a blog that provides information about the organization's programs and services.  Netsquared. How often will you post to the blog? Life on Mars. Share Your Story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. NetSquared Community. for the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) beginning on May 29th. Like last year, conference participants are introducing themselves on their NetSquared Blog.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

Bonus: See an overview of our Local Impact Map and see how you can get it for your nonprofit. This informal discussion will include time for asking questions about favorite curation tools, platforms, organizing media, archiving, approaches to digital content curation, and relevance to the rest of your organizational story. (And

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Netsquared Net Tuesday next week in SF is about " How Nonprofits Can Use And Build Online Social Networks ," featuring speakers from Change.org and Ning. over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. public information???

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2007

Last week, at NetSquared's San Francisco Net Tuesday Meetup, Steve Miller, Product Manager, Google Earth Outreach spoke to a room of 50+ social changemakers and web innovators about how nonprofits can use Google Earth Outreach for their work. Full disclosure: I am NetSquared's Community Builder.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

It's an online collaborative mapping tool. You import mindmap maps into it and can be useful for notetaking in real time on conference calls. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. The TechSoup Blog has a list of ten cool web2.0 tools to adopt.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

By hard coded, I mean in the legal policies you've adopted, the features you've released and prioritized, your data taxonomies, your site map and information hierarchy. I'm blaming it on 4 years of awesome NetSquared conversations. I do think that there are some discoverable values that are hard coded into any online platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I need get rid of clutter, but I first need to do the redesign thinking process before getting into the details of the information design, look, and feel. Mapping Metrics to Social Media Strategy: This wiki will be retooled to go deeper in more specific metrics linked to strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

So, the meme goes something like this -- What are the five resources that you would recommend to anybody working in an NGO who wanted to know about information management and technology but didn't know where to start. Netsquared and ConsultantCommons both from CompuMentor. So here's a little Saturday night thinking out of the box.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. This will be a conversation that explores the changing media landscape and how the web can rise to the challenge of supporting our communities and their information needs.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

NetSquared Open Space (NOS): APIs and Open Data. Who : Facilitating: Amy Sample Ward | NetSquared; Billy Bicket | NetSquared. The NetSquared team will be working the room to activate and facilitate conversations so everyone can enjoy the ride. Who : NetSquared and other Community Organizers. When : 9:00 a.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Kiva launches a new feature that maps the flow of loans from lenders to borrowers. A loosely coupled group of nonprofit techies and social change activists decided to use the tag "NpTech" to identify web resources that would create an ongoing stream of information to promote and educate those working in nonprofit technology.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. This will be a conversation that explores the changing media landscape and how the web can rise to the challenge of supporting our communities and their information needs.

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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2011

If you think that a mash-up of online tools for capacity mapping and resource matching would assist nonprofits, philanthropies, and the communities that they serve, then we invite you join us at our upcoming session at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference. Dynamic information.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Why focus on that instead of content, or knowledge or information or anything else? In an organization, when someone leaves, that knowledge is lost, but with a community it is shared so constantly and knowledge sharing is built into the way communities operate, that it is harder for information to disappear. Why Community?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

As some of you know, part of my work is being the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that facilitates the adoption of social web tools by nonprofits and NGOs. NetSquared badges to put on your blog, web site or email signature. • An informational postcard to pass out at local events.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We don’t, though, have a lot of efficiency or shared information. From another perspective, there’s the side of our data that translates into APIs, maps, and info graphics. We will have maps telling the stories of our impact for us (for examples of this already in use, check out google earth’s nonprofit stories).

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

This is part two of TechSoup staff recommendations for mobile apps beyond the usual suspects : Facebook, Google Maps, Twitter, YouTube, Gmail, Pandora, iTunes, and Google Play. has a great weather map. Elijah van der Giessen, NetSquared Community Manager. Find part one here. the apps that TechSoup folks like.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. This can inform. How will you apply the information? Openness - ????A It's messy.

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