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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." The Iraq War was raging. To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0

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Mother's Day for Peace

Have Fun - Do Good

Campaign supporters are asked to bring pies to their local Congressional offices and let their Congresspeople know that "Peace wants a Piece of the Pie" (the federal budget). Two of the creators of Not Just a Number will be speaking at NetSquared's Net Tuesday in San Francisco tomorrow, May 8th. Department of Peace.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

We went and had a victory party and then woke up the next day and realized that it didn't really matter because the company that wanted to build had gone to the state legislature to get them to pass a law to undercut the local ordinance that would protect our water. What I do is, I write for several blogs, as she mentioned.

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Must Hear Speech from Barack Obama and the Power of Podcasting

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Most weeks his podcast is a direct chat with his listeners, but this week he posted a recent speech, "Moving Forward in Iraq" that he gave at the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. Moving Forward in Iraq Tuesday, November 22, 2005 Senator Barack Obama Chicago Council on Foreign Relations Chicago, IL Good afternoon.

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