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NetSquared: In the Beginning

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In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." 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 Citizen journalism.

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NetSquared Conference

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I'm at the NetSquared Conference yesterday and today. There was a lot of interesting stuff in the plenaries, but I especially enjoyed Ethan Zuckerman's talk about advocacy and citizen journalism. Pretty exciting: this sort of thing would have been hard to imagine not so long ago!

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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

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The rise of mobile, social media, crowdsourcing, blogging, and citizen journalism in the mid-2000s created extraordinary new communication and information-sharing opportunities. The NetSquared Challenges Foster Tech Innovation. Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008.

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TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge Global Tweet Chat Recap

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Paris, France & Manchester, United Kingdom: Camilla Burg of Wiser.org , an online platform to connect those working on sustainability issues, and Steven Flower of Manchester NetSquared. Beirut, Lebanon: NetSquared Beirut. organizers then took over for a chat with Marc Malhoun of Completure , an iPhone journalism app.

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Keeping an Eye on the Nonprofit Sector and other great finds via Netsquared

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I just discovered a new (to me anyway) blog on nonprofits called the Nonprofit Eye via a provocative post on the Netsquared Community Blog. She recently introduced her blog on the Netsquared site: Don't know where I fit in the scheme of things here, but I have to start somewhere. Join in, viva la revolution!

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Video Blogging Learning Journal: I have some exciting news!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'll still continue to blog here during the next two weeks, but will point you over to daily guest posts on Netsquared. Video Blogging Learning Journal. Read about it here. View the vlog post about it here. Notes on shooting yourself. At blogher, I attended a workshop on video blogging lead by Ryanne Hodson and Zadi Diaz.

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Spring Is Here! Get Outside and Meet Your NPTech Community

Tech Soup

Check out our newest groups: * [NetSquared Abuja]([link] in Abuja, Nigeria. * [GroundWork group]([link] in Columbus, Ohio. * [NetSquared Daytona Beach ]([link] in Daytona Beach, Florida. * [Tech4good Las Vegas]([link] in Las Vegas, Nevada. --> --> What have NetSquared groups been up to recently? John Kaama Primary.